Chapter 436 - 239: Descent
Chapter 436: Chapter 239: Descent
BOOM!
A torrential aura erupted from Xu Yang. The tyrannical pressure was too much for the ground beneath his feet, which shattered and exploded outward as if a Fierce Dragon had awakened from its slumber.
Facing the relentlessly advancing long spear, his expression was grim and his gaze sharp as lightning as he suddenly shot his hand out.
BANG!
The spear tip, as elusive and unpredictable as a flood dragon, was caught firmly in his hand. The Red Tassel Spear Head was stopped dead, unable to advance another inch.
"How is this possible!"
Zhang Bei’s eyes nearly popped out of his head. His spear thrust was powerful and its movements endlessly varied. Whenever he’d used it in past duels, his opponents had either been forced to evade its edge or counter with an attack of their own. This was the first time anyone had seen through it at a glance and caught the spear head with their bare hands.
To do that required not only terrifying eyesight and a tyrannical physical body, but also the ability to instantly see through all the hidden variations within his technique.
BANG! BANG...
The long spear vibrated as their forces clashed. A visible shockwave swept out in all directions, kicking up a massive cloud of dust and uprooting several nearby trees.
Xu Yang’s muscles bulged and his veins popped. His skin took on a jade-like sheen. No matter how hard Zhang Bei shook the spear, it wouldn’t escape his palm.
The Unmoving Bright King Body, immovable as a mountain!
By now, he was considerably stronger than when he had slain Yan Guiyun. Although Zhang Bei had some skill, he was still no match for the Yan Guiyun of the past.
"The Minor Achievement Unmoving Bright King Body!" Zhang Bei’s expression changed.
Back when the Purple Sun Sect razed Qiushui Manor, they had seized the Unmoving Bright King Body technique. He never imagined that in just half a year, Xu Yang would have already reached the Minor Achievement stage.
He felt as if Xu Yang was a great mountain barring his path, completely immovable. He could neither advance nor retreat with his spear.
BANG!
The next moment, he felt a tyrannical and razor-sharp Gang Qi surge from Xu Yang’s hand into the spear. It crushed his own Gang Qi with overwhelming force and seized control of the weapon from him.
That tyrannical, razor-sharp Gang Qi even began to spread along the spear’s shaft toward his body.
"You..."
Zhang Bei’s face went pale. He felt a tremor run up his arm as his grip was violently shaken loose. Just like that, Xu Yang had snatched the Half-Spirit Soldier Level spear away from him.
BOOM!
Xu Yang gripped the spear in one arm, unleashing the full might of his Barbaric Dragon-like strength. The spear tore through the air with a deafening roar as he swung it violently at Zhang Bei’s chest.
The astonishing momentum was like that of a landslide.
Zhang Bei’s scalp went numb with fear. He retreated rapidly as the long spear swept past, just grazing his body.
Even so, the powerful gust from the attack shattered his Protective Gang Qi, making him tremble as if he had been struck by lightning.
"You!" he couldn’t help but gasp in horror.
’If I hadn’t retreated in time, that one strike would have been enough to kill me outright.’ He finally understood that Xu Yang hadn’t been running because he was outmatched, but because he feared the Lotus Envoy.
"Die!"
Xu Yang cracked the earth with a single step, lunging forward and thrusting the spear.
Although it was only the butt of the spear, empowered by his Barbaric Dragon-like strength, it still tore through the air with a piercing shriek, the sound of its passage like a clap of thunder.
The spear butt carried a suffocating pressure. Zhang Bei felt as if a colossal boulder was pressing down on his heart, making it impossible to dodge.
A flash of silver light, and the spear butt was upon him, striking his Protective Gang Qi like a bolt of lightning.
CRACK!
The spear butt was unstoppable. The black Protective Gang Qi shattered on impact, and the dark energy burst outward, sweeping in all directions like blades.
In that instant of life and death, Zhang Bei broke free from the immense pressure and shot his hands out, desperately grabbing the spear butt.
But he couldn’t hold on!
Empowered by the tyrannical, sharp Golden Gang Qi, the spear butt felt like a red-hot branding iron, instantly flinging his fingers away.
THUD!
The spear butt continued its unstoppable advance and slammed heavily into Zhang Bei’s chest.
SQUELCH!
There was no earth-shattering sound. The spear butt, acting like a sharp spearhead, easily pierced Zhang Bei’s chest, ran straight through his body, and emerged from his back.
"I..."
All his struggles and resistance froze in that moment. Zhang Bei looked down in disbelief at his own long spear piercing through his chest.
The black energy shrouding his body, as if it had lost its restraint, burst apart, revealing a face that bore some resemblance to Zhang Sai.
Gouts of blood poured from his mouth. The tyrannical Golden Gang Qi had already pulverized his internal organs.
"The Blood Lotus Sect will not let you go. Sooner or later, you’ll join me down here," Zhang Bei said, his face a mask of venom and resentment.
The Blood Lotus Sect?
’Sooner or later, I’ll wipe them out!’
Xu Yang let out a cold snort. With a shake of the spear, he blasted Zhang Bei’s body to pieces.
Shaking the blood from the spear, he moved like a phantom, silently vanishing into the night and covering his tracks.
He extended his five senses, doing his best to avoid the Exotic Beasts in the mountains.
Half an hour later, he was hiding in the branches of a large, leafy tree.
He didn’t know how many people the Blood Lotus Sect had sent. He couldn’t just run around blindly. If he accidentally ran into that Celestial Essence Strong Person, he wouldn’t even know how he died.
’I wonder how Senior Brother Gao and the others are doing...’
He had a feeling that at most, only one or two might have survived. Or perhaps they were all dead.
’If I hadn’t always been so cautious and had followed the others in pursuit, I’d probably be dead by now.’
’I’m still too weak!’ A chill ran through Xu Yang’s heart.
Even though he could now easily kill most at the Marrow Cleansing Great Success stage, to a Celestial Essence Strong Person, he was still no more than an ant. One wrong step meant a death with no burial.
...
In a part of the forest where the ground looked as if it had been overturned, several mangled corpses were scattered about. Some were nothing more than severed limbs.