Chapter 274 - 273: This Makes Things Convenient
Chapter 274: Chapter 273: This Makes Things Convenient
SWISH! SWISH!—
Two figures flitted past the foot of the mountain, heading straight for the waist.
"This outpost is located in a pretty big area."
"Could it be we’ve found a big fish?"
As he moved, Wu Chen scanned the surrounding rocks and trees. Seeing how the dense forest was even deeper and more secluded than the previous Blood Palace outposts, he sensed that the people stationed here must be extraordinary.
’Don’t tell me this is a place personally overseen by the Blood Palace’s Palace Master?’
Wu Chen’s eyes burned with excitement, his heart pounding.
If he could capture the king in one fell swoop, not only would this Cold Rain City mission come to an end.
Bumping the agreed-upon price from one Dragon Transformation Realm Martial Arts manual to two shouldn’t be a problem.
Besides...
Wu Chen glanced sideways at the girl keeping pace with him, her delicate little face taut as she stared straight ahead.
’With this little rich girl’s personality, she probably wouldn’t refuse me.’
’But that’s assuming the Great Yun Dynasty even has two Dragon Transformation Realm Martial Arts manuals...’
After all, they were talking about something at the Dragon Transformation Realm. Given the Great Yun Dynasty’s national power, Wu Chen felt one manual was probably their limit.
Besides, an ordinary person wouldn’t need that many Martial Arts and Cultivation Techniques for their current realm anyway!
"Hm? Is it getting foggy?"
They had been winding their way through the mountains, and after about half an hour of running, a fog had begun to rise without them noticing.
Cold Rain City had many mountains and abundant rainfall. With so much moisture in the air, it was normal for mist to suddenly appear.
They continued toward the summit for a while longer. The fog around them grew thicker. Wu Chen’s nostrils flared; he sensed something was off. A glint flashed in his eyes.
"This is—!"
His eyelid twitched slightly. He could see that the pale white fog before him was filled with red, blood-like threads, tangled and intertwined like a spider’s web.
"Blood Qi?"
’Has there been a fight in these mountains?’
Wu Chen recognized at a glance that the faint red mist mixed into the fog was chaotic Qi and Blood!
And something was wrong with this Qi and Blood; every strand of Blood Qi was mixed with a black aura.
’It’s poisonous!’
"Hold on, something’s not right!"
Wu Chen placed a hand on Sun Yuting’s shoulder. The moment they entered the mountains, they had both mobilized their origin energy to protect their hearts and lungs, so they weren’t worried about poison.
But the presence of Qi and Blood and a poisonous fog was just too unusual.
Hearing this, Sun Yuting immediately halted.
Her fingers tightened around her saber’s hilt as she peered warily into the thick fog. "An ambush? Don’t worry about me! I definitely won’t slow you down!"
Wu Chen shook his head. "I can only see faint Qi and Blood and a poisonous fog. It’s unclear what exactly happened here."
"But just like before, I’ll go into the mountains alone. You wait here for me."
Sun Yuting knew she wouldn’t be much help from this point on, so she could only nod. "Then you be careful."
Wu Chen nodded in acknowledgment and took a step toward the summit.
Just then, something unexpected happened.
RIIIP!—
The Blood Qi hidden in the dense fog, which had been indistinguishable to the naked eye, suddenly solidified, transforming into threads of blood-red silk.
These threads were incredibly sharp. As they coalesced, the air filled with the jarring shriek of a sharp weapon tearing through silk.
"Blood Net! Seize and kill!"
Then, a roar erupted from the fog. The threads of the Blood Net instantly linked together, forming a dense web.
Wu Chen’s eyes narrowed. He looked through the gaps in the Blood Net toward the source of the voice, knowing he had fallen into an ambush.
The fog, saturated with Blood Qi, had clouded his senses, preventing him from immediately noticing that something was wrong.
Following the roar from within the fog, thousands upon thousands of strands of Qi and Blood around him instantly intertwined, forming a gigantic spider web that enveloped him and Sun Yuting from all sides.
The Blood Net formed with extreme speed, blocking their path in the blink of an eye. Before they could react, the web descended upon them with a piercing shriek.
"Get over here!"
Wu Chen looked at the cold glint on the countless blood threads. The Blood Net’s sharpness was likely no less than that of a low-grade bladed weapon. A black light also swirled within it, suggesting it was highly toxic.
Even if a physique at the Perfection stage of the Blood Coagulation Realm wasn’t crushed to pieces by the Blood Net, a single injury would be enough to damage their future Martial Arts foundation.
Wu Chen didn’t dare be careless. With no time to ask the girl for her consent, he pulled her into his arms.
"Huh?—"
Still bewildered, Sun Yuting felt an arm wrap tightly around her waist. Before she could react, her vision spun, and her head was buried in a thick, warm chest.
She finally understood what was happening:
"Pervert, scoundrel, shameless... so comfortable!"
Sun Yuting cursed under her breath, but the powerful aura radiating from his body...
Mmm, this is actually really nice!
"..."
But Wu Chen had no time to pay attention to the reaction of the girl in his arms. His gaze was fixed on the Blood Net closing in around them.
Facing an unknown technique and this sudden situation, he naturally had to be on high alert, not daring to be the least bit careless.
BOOM!—
Faced with the incoming killing move, the aura around him erupted violently.
The closing Blood Net, which was now less than five feet away, visibly slowed down.
But it only slowed.
Against his aura, which was as thick as a wall, the Blood Net pressed down inch by inch, emitting the sound of twisting, breaking metal.
SCREEE!—
The Blood Net was not only sturdy and poisonous, but even the grating noise it made was painful to the ears.
In just two breaths’ time, the Blood Net had closed in another two feet on the pair.
And as it drew closer, the Blood Net’s threads thickened from the width of silk to the width of a finger, looking increasingly solid and tough.
"A little interesting!"
Faced with this situation, Wu Chen wasn’t anxious at all. Instead, his interest was piqued.
After wiping out several outposts that cultivated the Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body, he thought the Blood Palace’s ace-in-the-hole techniques were just Blood Evil True Gang, Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body, and Blood Wind Palm.
Now, it seemed there was one more!
The Blood Net!
’This Martial Arts technique is great! I have to learn it!’
Curious to test the Blood Net’s effectiveness, Wu Chen’s aura surged once more, a vast power erupting from him.
BOOM!
Amidst his powerful aura, the inescapable net surrounding him finally seemed to have been stopped in its tracks.
"Not bad!"
Wu Chen looked at the Blood Net, its threads now as thick as his thumb, and clicked his tongue in approval.
"It’s a lot weaker than the Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body, about on par with the Blood Evil True Gang, but far superior to the Blood Wind Palm."
"This will be a good tool for future missions that require capturing people alive!"
Wu Chen was very satisfied with this Martial Arts technique.
What he lacked most right now was a method for capturing people alive. Whenever he made a move, he tended to kill them too easily!
He had to admit, if he mastered this Martial Arts technique, he could trim... his own strengths!
It couldn’t be helped. That’s just how it was when you were too strong.
Other people learn Martial Arts to make up for their weaknesses.
He had to do the opposite.
This was to avoid the day when, on a mission that required a live capture, he would accidentally land one punch and have to beg his opponent not to die.
But with this Martial Arts technique, he would naturally no longer have to worry about that.
"Hahaha, and I thought he was supposed to be so tough! He’s nothing special after all!"
Just as Wu Chen finished assessing the Blood Net and was about to break out, footsteps approached from within the vision- and sound-obscuring fog, accompanied by a burst of gleeful laughter.
"This Blood Net is woven from the Origin Essence Blood of more than a hundred Blood Coagulation Realm experts. Even a villain like him will be captured without a fight today!"
Wu Chen looked up toward the sound and saw three powerful auras slowly emerge from the fog ahead.
Surrounding them, the auras of nearly three hundred more experts from the Blood Coagulation Realm and Organ Refining Realm, all brandishing blades, were slowly closing in on him.
"Three in the Leakless Realm?"
Wu Chen paid no mind to the other figures. He stared at the three powerful ones, his eyes narrowing slightly before a grin he couldn’t suppress spread across his face.
’This just makes things easier for me!’