When Fang Shuwen said this, the crowd could only look at each other in dismay.

On one hand, they felt Fang Shuwen couldn’t be trusted. On the other, the hearts of these people from the Northern Domain were beginning to waver.

From the city gates to this very spot, Fang Shuwen had steamrolled his way here.

Everyone who died was from the Northern Domain. Fang Shuwen, accompanied only by a black-and-white beast and Long Qingzhi, who knew no Martial Arts, had left them utterly helpless.

If the fighting continued like this, no one knew how many more lives would have to be sacrificed.

Under these circumstances, it was no longer worth it—not for the sake of the Northern Domain Martial World, nor for Long Qingzhi.

Some had even begun to consider retreating.

However, if Fang Shuwen was now going to stand here and accept challenges...

’Couldn’t we use a war of attrition to wear him down and kill him right here?’

Of course, this plan wasn’t without its problems.

The problem was... who would be the first to stick their neck out?

Given Fang Shuwen’s current state, anyone who dared to make a move would likely die instantly!

Fang Shuwen’s brow furrowed slightly.

"Has it really come to this? In this entire, vast Anyue City, is there truly no one who can step forward?"

"If that’s the case, why have you all gathered here?"

"To stage... a grand joke?"

His words were a fatal, psychological blow, just as potent as his earlier cry of "Where are the masters?"

The people of the Northern Domain knew Fang Shuwen was deliberately provoking them, but they were helpless.

To not act would mean the Northern Domain had no one.

To act meant death.

It was a choice not everyone could make.

Suddenly, someone leaped into the air.

"Insolent whelp from the Eastern Domain, don’t get too arrogant! I will fight you!"

"Azure Heaven Divine Claw!!"

As this man stepped forward, some from the Northern Domain immediately cheered loudly.

"It’s ’Iron Claw Mighty Dragon’ Zheng Taishan!"

"Elder Zheng is mighty!"

"What an Azure Heaven Divine Claw!"

Amid the cheers, Fang Shuwen suddenly took a step forward. He hooked and grabbed with his five fingers, weaving them through the gaps between Zheng Taishan’s own fingers.

The two interlocked their fingers in mid-air, their bodies spinning like a top.

The crowd was about to cheer again when they saw blood and severed limbs begin to fly through the air. The two rapidly spinning figures came to an abrupt halt.

The two figures separated. Fang Shuwen shot out a kick, and Zheng Taishan was sent flying like a cannonball.

He had stopped breathing before he even hit the ground.

Everyone’s eyes followed his body, and their pupils couldn’t help but contract in shock.

Zheng Taishan was known as the ’Iron Claw Mighty Dragon’ because all his Martial Arts were concentrated in his hands.

Yet now, both of his arms were gone, the wounds on his shoulders a gruesome, tangled mess. They had been forcibly twisted off.

That final kick had shown no mercy, killing Zheng Taishan on the spot.

"S-Such vicious methods!"

"Fang Shuwen, you... you... you’re not even human!"

Hearing this, Fang Shuwen roared with laughter.

"Even if I’m not human, I’m still a thousand times better than you beasts who eat raw flesh and drink blood."

As soon as he said this, everyone’s face darkened again.

This was a veiled reference to Long Qingzhi.

Long Qingzhi possessed the Glazed Saint Body, and all of them wanted her blood.

So, the insult of "eating raw flesh and drinking blood" wasn’t misdirected at all.

Just then, without any warning, a figure suddenly appeared above Fang Shuwen’s head.

WHOOSH—a flash of a blade streaked down viciously.

This was a challenge without declaration; to be precise, it was a sneak attack.

But Fang Shuwen didn’t even lift his head. He simply threw a casual punch.

Sea-Shaking Divine Fist, Fourth Form: Eight-direction Burst!

The "Burst" here didn’t refer to an explosion, but to a violent storm.

The meaning of this move was that even if a ship at sea was caught in a tempest, this one punch could pacify all eight directions, causing the wind to cease and the rain to stop.

Therefore, this move was different from Four Shocks and Waves Splitting. Four Shocks and Waves Splitting had four layers of force, spreading out like successive waves.

Eight-direction Burst, however, was a single, explosive effort, condensing eight streams of power into one point to shatter a surface.

Thus, the moment the person above him met this punch, he felt a massive tremor run through the blade in his hand.

Immediately followed by a series of CRACKS, his attack’s momentum and his weapon shattered at the same time.

The next moment, the terrifying Fist Force kneaded its way into his body.

The eight streams of power instantly rampaged through his entire body, shredding his organs, tearing at his meridians, and finally, with a sound like ripping silk, he was torn limb from limb.

Severed limbs flew through the air.

But from beginning to end, Fang Shuwen never even gave the man a second glance.

"Next."

"I’ll go!"

Although Fang Shuwen’s Martial Arts were peerless, and most people were already scared out of their wits by his killing spree—like Xu Guangzhan, who had boasted in the inn but was nowhere to be seen when the fighting started—

there were still those who, facing Fang Shuwen, summoned their courage to step forward and test his mettle.

The crowd naturally parted to reveal a burly figure walking out, his eyes burning like torches.

"No matter what you’ve come here for, the Northern Domain is not a place where you can run wild!"

When the people saw this man, they seemed to be in disbelief.

"It’s actually Mad Demon Shi Li!"

"I heard he suffered a Qi deviation while training in his youth and killed his entire family, old and young! He’s been like a walking corpse ever since!"

"That’s because the Vertical Demon Hundred Kills Fist he practices can muddle the mind. He couldn’t maintain his sanity and ended up wiping out his own family!"

Fang Shuwen looked at the man before him.

He wasn’t young, appearing to be in his fifties.

Of course, his actual age might be younger than he looked.

As the man strode forward, he covertly circulated his Inner Strength. A dark red True Qi began to flow and hover around his body.