They possessed the strength to fight back.
Under the mental control of the Flaming Blade, they unleashed their respective profound techniques!
A punch.
A palm.
A spear.
Fang Ming faced three different killing moves, each imbued with full power.
Among the onlookers from the collateral branches, their faces turned pale upon witnessing these three profound techniques.
The profound techniques displayed by these three could be considered mid-grade mortal tier, coupled with their own fourth-level Condensing Pulse cultivation. If they joined forces...
Not a single collateral branch disciple present dared to claim they could withstand such an assault!
"Lin Xuan... as a good-for-nothing, can he withstand these three profound techniques?"
Someone mused aloud, voicing this question.
The collateral branch disciples watching fell into silence.
If it were before, the Lin Xuan, who hadn't even reached the first level of Condensing Pulse, would naturally be incapable of resisting.
But now...
Lin Xuan had, in an instant, repelled five duty officers at the third level of Condensing Pulse.
To instantly repel five third-level Condensing Pulse officers without even reaching the first level of Condensing Pulse... who wouldn't believe he was hiding his cultivation?
Who knew how much of his body-refining cultivation he had concealed.
This was completely different from the Lin Xuan of the past.
The current Lin Xuan was not the Lin Xuan of yesterday.
Considering this situation.
These collateral branch disciples found the matter truly uncertain, and perhaps, Lin Xuan had a chance to defeat these duty officers.
While the collateral branches watched.
Fang Ming quickly assessed the power of the unleashed profound techniques.
"These profound techniques are futile..."
"You wish to contend with the Flaming Blade... even if I'm not using my full strength, a mere warm-up is not something you can resist."
Deep within Fang Ming's eyes, he didn't take these three individuals seriously.
He was merely warming up, showcasing a few moves, but by no means using his full power.
If he were to use his full strength, the flying sword would have to be unleashed then and there.
Currently, he had merely casually selected a non-immortal-demon-tier martial art from the martial world, so Fang Ming was naturally just warming up.
However, even as a warm-up, Fang Ming didn't believe that these three, by unleashing mid-grade mortal tier profound techniques, could turn the tide.
The opportunity had been lost. Under the pressure of the Flaming Blade's aura, how much resistance could they still muster?
Even if they escaped the interference of the mental blade, the material blade technique was no joke!
How could these individuals possibly contend with it?
The outcome was as Fang Ming had predicted.
Within Fang Ming's body, numerous spiritual apertures, located in various places, connected, emitting a wondrous power.
Under the augmentation of this wondrous power and the aperture technique, the material blade—the Flaming Blade—unleashed a surging torrent of power like an ocean, flames encircling the divine blade, and brilliant radiance sliced through these three individuals.
Bang!
A colossal sound echoed.
Blinding light erupted, and immense energy surged forth, faintly manifesting as brilliant golden radiance.
Under the flickering of this golden light.
The three duty officers who had charged forward, whether it was the traceless Iron Crane Palm Force, the golden, radiant Golden Rainbow Fist Force, or the Prairie Fire Spear exuding a spark-like aura.
None of them could withstand the Flaming Blade.
Under the cutting of this material blade, all profound techniques, those supported by spiritual energy, seemed to dissipate.
What mid-grade mortal tier profound techniques, what fourth-level Condensing Pulse cultivation, were so powerless before the Flaming Blade.
They were utterly incapable of blocking Fang Ming's Flaming Blade, not even for a moment!
Amidst the raging flames, screams arose, and duty officers, in pain, fainted one after another. They couldn't fathom how the former good-for-nothing could defeat them so quickly!
This was an outcome they could never have imagined before the battle began!
"A top-grade mortal tier profound technique! This must be a top-grade mortal tier profound technique!"
"Only such a profound technique could allow you to defeat us so easily!"
"Impossible! Lin Xuan, how could you, at such a young age, merely fourteen years old, master a top-grade mortal tier profound technique? How could you unleash such a profound technique?"
"To master a top-grade mortal tier profound technique at the age of fourteen... such a monstrous talent should not exist! Unheard of, unseen!"
"In the history of the Lin family's generations, no one like this has ever appeared, no one like this!"
The speaker was the duty officer at the fourth level of Condensing Pulse. His face was filled with disbelief. Even though he had temporarily lost his combat ability, he refused to accept what he had witnessed.
He even tried to hypnotize himself, to convince himself that he was dreaming, that this was not reality, that it couldn't possibly be reality!
It was no wonder this duty officer was so astonished.
What was the concept of a top-grade mortal tier profound technique?
Dao Foundation realm experts controlled spirit-tier profound techniques, wielding these techniques that completely surpassed the mortal tier.
Spirit-tier profound techniques could only be mastered by Dao Foundation realm experts; this was a rule, an ironclad law!
Upon seeing a cultivator capable of unleashing a spirit-tier profound technique, one knew they were not a mere Condensing Pulse realm cultivator, but a great cultivator of the Dao Foundation realm!
This was the meaning represented by spirit-tier profound techniques.
And top-grade mortal tier profound techniques, although still mortal tier and not spirit tier, had already far surpassed high-grade mortal tier profound techniques, reigning above them.
This was an existence second only to spirit-tier profound techniques, incomparable to any other mortal tier profound technique.
Top-grade mortal tier profound techniques, just one step below spirit-tier profound techniques, were something that even experts at the seventh or eighth level of Condensing Pulse might not be able to master!
After all, the more powerful a profound technique, the harder it was to learn. Those legendary spirit-tier profound techniques even required Dao Foundation realm experts to spend decades to master just one!
As top-grade mortal tier profound techniques, second only to spirit-tier profound techniques, they were naturally not easy to learn.
At the very least, among ordinary seventh or eighth-level Condensing Pulse experts, perhaps only one out of four or five could master a top-grade mortal tier profound technique.
And for cultivators below the seventh or eighth level of Condensing Pulse?
The probability became extremely low. Far from one in four or five, it was one in ten thousand! One in a hundred million!
Top-grade mortal tier profound techniques were inherently difficult to learn, and even seventh or eighth-level Condensing Pulse experts found it very challenging to master one.
For cultivators below the seventh or eighth level of Condensing Pulse, those with insufficient spiritual energy, the difficulty of mastering them became sky-high.
Without sufficient spiritual energy, forcefully executing a top-grade mortal tier profound technique was a thousand times, ten thousand times more difficult.
It was a probability of one in ten thousand, one in a hundred million!
It could be said that surpassing one's level to control such a technique was essentially impossible.
This was completely unrealistic in the cultivation world.
However, now... this unrealistic scene had erupted within the Lin family.
It was no wonder these duty officers from the Feng Lu Hall were so astonished.
Because it was unreasonable, it was unrealistic!
When did a fourteen-year-old boy become capable of mastering a top-grade mortal tier profound technique?