Unstoppable

"What are you waiting for then? Don't tell me you are all bark and no bite," Jiang Hao said while smiling, and seeing his smiling face made the guy furious.

"You asked for it!" While saying this, he moved toward Jiang Hao with all his strength.

He wasn't just nobody in the sect but one of the top 10 strongest guys in the Qi Refinement Realm. He was ranked 4th, so he had his own pride, and he wouldn't accept someone saying he was all bark but no bite. He would show them how strong he was.

It didn't take him long to arrive in front of Jiang Hao and see that he still had that smile on his handsome face. He detested it and vowed to disfigure that face.

Now that he was in front of Jiang Hao, he was quite confident that Jiang Hao wouldn't be able to dodge him. He shaped his right palm into a claw and attacked Jiang Hao's face.

As his claw was about to touch Jiang Hao's face, a smile started to form on his lips. He was already imagining the pathetic look on Jiang Hao face with bloody gashes after his attack landed.

Just as he was fantasizing about this, his whole arm stopped moving. When he looked toward it, he was shocked because Jiang Hao was holding it.

The reason for his shock was that he hadn't seen when Jiang Hao moved his hand. He was too close to Jiang Hao, so him being unable to see it meant it was just too fast for him to perceive. But how was that possible?

Even Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators who cultivated both body and Qi might not be able to move that fast.

He wasn't the only one who was shocked. All the disciples present were stunned as well, as even they had missed the movement of Jiang Hao's arm. The only disciples who had seen it clearly were Core Formation Realm cultivators, but they were even more stunned than the others.

Since Jiang Hao had attacked, they were able to see his cultivation realm. It was the Early Stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm. But that wasn't the most shocking part—it was the speed at which his arm had moved.

They knew one thing from that movement: even peak Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators wouldn't be able to dodge if Jiang Hao attacked at that speed.

They had grim expressions and looked at each other solemnly. They knew that the title of supreme genius wasn't just for show. They had been skeptical about Jiang Hao before, but now they wanted to back off and didn't want to get on his bad side.

With Jiang Hao's speed of cultivation, it wouldn't take much time for him to reach the Core Formation Realm. Would any one of them be his match then? They doubted it.

Even the current strongest core formation disciple might not be Jiang Hao's match at that time, much less them. They all looked toward Zi Xuan, and as expected, his face was also grim. Zi Xuan looked at Jiang Hao solemnly. No one knew what he was thinking.

The person who had attacked Jiang Hao was already regretting internally.

He reacted swiftly and tried to pull his hand back, but Jiang Hao's grip was so strong that he couldn't even vibrate his hand, much less pull it back.

He knew he had messed up big time by attacking Jiang Hao. This guy was too strong. It was already too late for regrets, so he didn't beg for mercy. Since he wouldn't die or get crippled, it was better to endure than to lose his image by begging.

He steeled his heart and looked at Jiang Hao, who still had the same smiling face as before. He knew now that Jiang Hao had deliberately provoked him into a challenge, and he had fallen for it.

Jiang Hao looked at his opponent calmly. When he had seen that claw attack, he had already seen through this guy, and how could he not reciprocate?

He made his right hand, which was free, into a claw slowly so that it was clearly visible to his opponent. As expected, the guy's face darkened when he saw it.

Jiang Hao didn't give him time to think, though, and slashed his face with his claw. Blood spurted from four deep gashes, and a loud scream was heard. It was so loud and filled with agony that many disciples felt their spines go cold.

Jiang Hao still didn't let go of his hand, as he wasn't done with him yet. He put some strength into his left hand, pulled him closer, made a punching stance, and struck an uppercut to his jaw. The guy's face was almost unrecognizable now due to the blood and gashes.

Jiang Hao let go of his grip the moment his uppercut landed. The impact was powerful enough to send his opponent flying, knocking him out.

After dealing with him, Jiang Hao looked toward all the Qi Refinement cultivators and asked,

"Does anyone else among you want to challenge me?"

The Qi Refinement cultivators who had come here to challenge Jiang Hao trembled internally. They already knew that Jiang Hao had broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, and challenging him was asking for a beating.

After seeing what had just happened, most of them had already gotten cold feet. So when he asked, they all retreated immediately.

Now, only Foundation Establishment and Core Formation Realm cultivators were left around Jiang Hao, and that was what he wanted. Core Formation cultivators couldn't attack him unless he attacked them first, so he would just ignore them. But it was a different story for the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators.

He really did want to stay peacefully in the sect, but it looked like that wouldn't be possible. These kinds of incidents might occur again in the future if he didn't establish his dominance here, so he wasn't going to hold back.

He was going to beat all the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators here. He didn't care if his strength was revealed now.

After binding the ring, he didn't need to actively activate its protection function. It could activate on its own if he willed it, and with his instincts, if he ever faced fatal danger, he could easily protect himself and leave the sect.

And if the Mountain Sword Sect didn't treat him badly after seeing his true strength, and if the mighty figures of the sect weren't afraid of his potential or tried to eliminate him out of jealousy, then he would reciprocate their goodwill and stay here unless it was necessary to leave.

Jiang Hao looked at all the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators present and focused his attention on the early-stage ones. He would increase his strength slowly so that the others wouldn't run away in fear.

The nearest early-stage disciple was about 10 meters away, which was very close. So when Jiang Hao moved toward him, he arrived in the blink of an eye, not even giving him a chance to react.

Before the disciple could even think about what had happened, his eyes were filled with a fist that was already in front of him.

Piakkkkk!

A crisp sound echoed as blood and a broken tooth flew through the air from the point of contact. A single punch was enough to knock out the disciple. Since Jiang Hao had attacked from the front, it wasn't even an ambush.

Before anybody could process what had just happened, Jiang Hao moved again. This made the other early-stage cultivators tense up. Their instinct was to run away, but they didn't. This was the Mountain Sword Sect, where running away from someone in the same realm was looked down upon.

Strength reigned supreme here, and there was no place for cowards. It wouldn't have been a problem if the opponent was of a higher cultivation realm, but Jiang Hao had just entered the early stage and hadn't even stabilized his realm.

If they ran away from him, they could never show their faces in public again. So it was better to take the beatings. After all, there was no shame in getting beaten by a supreme genius. Although they didn't like him and were jealous of him, that wouldn't change the truth.

As they were thinking this, Jiang Hao arrived in front of another disciple. The disciple tensed up and instinctively crossed his arms to protect his face, but the punch he was expecting never came.

Confused, he opened his eyes, which he had closed in fear of pain. When he looked around, there was no sign of Jiang Hao in front of him.

Just as he thought he had survived, a voice whispered in his ear from behind.

"Looking for me?"

This simple sentence sent chills down his spine. Before he could react, a strong fist struck the right side of his face.

Thump!

His vision blurred, and he passed out, collapsing to the ground.

When the other early-stage cultivators saw this, they gave up resisting and accepted the inevitable. Jiang Hao was just too strong. Forget challenging him, they just wanted to get away from here.