Chapter 276 - 275: When Things Are Amiss, Arm for Battle
Chapter 276: Chapter 275: When Things Are Amiss, Arm for Battle
Under Wu Chen’s expectant gaze, Sun Yuting picked up the jade bead from the box.
The thing seemed to be elastic. As Sun Yuting picked it up, the surface of the jade bead dented slightly.
She parted her red lips, tilted her head back, and swallowed it.
GULP!
Wu Chen felt like he was choking just watching her and swallowed on her behalf. But the young woman swallowed the jade bead smoothly, showing no signs of difficulty. A slight ripple passed along her fair neck before it returned to normal.
She didn’t seem to have any trouble swallowing it.
THUMP!—
THUMP!—
As the mysterious jade bead settled in her stomach, a powerful heartbeat emanated from her body, like the beating of a war drum.
Then, a turbulent aura began to spread.
Wu Chen noticed that after she swallowed the bead, Sun Yuting’s aura began to climb rapidly.
Already at the Perfection stage of the Blood Coagulation Realm, she easily broke through to the Leakless Realm and continued climbing all the way to the Mid Stage of the Leakless Realm.
’Is this the bead’s limit?’
’I just wonder how long she can maintain this realm?’
He saw blue veins bulge on her fair neck, writhing like worms up to the edge of her pretty face, making her delicate features look somewhat ferocious.
Wu Chen knew they couldn’t delay any longer.
This kind of power boost, relying on an external object, could never last long. Perhaps fifteen minutes was the limit. Forcing it would overdraw her body’s potential and damage her Martial Arts foundation.
He looked ahead and said softly,
"I’ll handle the three old geezers."
"You just need to hold on for fifteen minutes."
"Once I’ve killed them, we’ll retreat."
Facing three experts at the Perfection stage of the Leakless Realm, Wu Chen didn’t dare to boast that he could obliterate them in an instant.
After all, they weren’t young; they had lived for seventy or eighty years.
Beings like them were bound to have a host of techniques and killing moves. He couldn’t afford to underestimate them; in fact, he had to be vigilant at every turn.
Moreover, Wu Chen guessed that the three Upper Envoys probably had similar methods for temporarily raising their realms, just like Sun Yuting.
After all, they came from the Blood Palace. How could they be considered demonic villains without a few tricks up their sleeves?
’The realm above the Perfection stage of the Leakless Realm is the Armor Forging Realm...’
’So I’ll be fighting three Grandmasters!’
Looking at the three black-robed figures in the distance, a fervent fire ignited in Wu Chen’s eyes, devoid of any fear.
He, too, wanted to find out where his own limits truly lay!
"Okay."
Hearing this, Sun Yuting gave a simple reply. She didn’t make any grand claims about taking on one of the Upper Envoys by herself just because her strength had increased.
She knew full well that even after using a trick to raise her realm to a first-rate level, she was no match for the Blood Palace Upper Envoys in the distance, who had been in the Leakless Realm for a long time.
If she really were to face one, she would likely be decapitated and killed on the spot within three moves.
"Arrogant!"
Watching the two figures chat back and forth, completely ignoring his group, was infuriating.
Zhou Shi, who had just eaten a mouthful of dirt after being smashed by the Blood Evil True Gang, was seething!
It was as if his several hundred men weren’t surrounding them, but rather that his entire mountain stronghold was being surrounded by these two!
He spat on the ground and roared in anger,
"A reckless brat who doesn’t know his place, and a little wench who’s only boosted her realm with an external object, dare to act so wildly here!"
With that, he turned to the oldest of them, He Chen, who had dodged aside when the Gang Qi struck. "Old He," he said, "you deal with that little girl!"
"Fine." He Chen nodded coolly.
Seeing him agree, Zhou Shi turned to the old man with the salt-and-pepper goatee. "Brother Chen," he said, "you and I will team up to take down this—"
WHOOSH!—
Before he could finish, the sound of wind suddenly erupted, arriving right in front of him!
The fierce gust that rushed past his face made Zhou Shi’s cheeks sting and forced him to swallow the rest of his words.
Accompanying the whistling wind was a grim, cold face.
Wu Chen had made his move.
’So fast!’
Seeing the figure appear before him from a distance in the blink of an eye, Zhou Shi’s pupils constricted. ’This is bad,’ he thought.
But the whistling wind was just the beginning.
The young man who had charged forward now had arms, from shoulders to fingertips, that had transformed into terrifying and ferocious black dragon claws.
In the grip of those sharp fingers was a jet-black spear, over seven feet long.
This spear, forged from his Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body, swung with Wu Chen’s advance. It carved an arc through the air, trailing a dark glint, as it executed a Thousand-Man Sweep right at Zhou Shi’s chest!
WHOOOOSH!—
The great spear bore down, its shaft stirring the surrounding air until it seemed to stagnate. The demonic cultivators within a radius of several dozen feet felt as if a weight of thousands of pounds was pressing on their chests.
It was suffocating.
But Zhou Shi was, after all, an expert at the Perfection stage of the Leakless Realm. Even as the spear’s turbulent aura washed over him, it had no effect on him whatsoever.
Before the black spear could land, he reacted quickly, raising his arms to block.
Then, a scarlet Blood Qi billowed out from his arms. In an instant, it solidified into a pair of crimson gauntlets that looked as if they were forged from fine Scale Armor.
BANG!
The black spear slammed down onto the exquisitely armored gauntlets, sending sparks flying.
A force of ten thousand catties descended, and with Wu Chen’s current realm, the power of this strike was incalculable.
Yet not only did the crimson gauntlets not shatter, but they didn’t even show a single crack!
’As expected, these old geezers have some real substance to them!’
Wu Chen’s eyes narrowed as he clicked his tongue in amazement.
Looking at the layered, fine Scale Armor gauntlets on his opponent’s arms, he could see they had clearly dissipated a significant amount of the spear’s force.
His opponent’s Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body was clearly refined from a much purer Blood Qi, unlike the crude refinement of flesh and blood used by the others.
The gauntlets were fine, but Zhou Shi’s body couldn’t withstand such immense force. He was sent flying sideways into the dense fog, from which the continuous sound of snapping trees could be heard.
He looked like a mess, but Wu Chen knew he wasn’t actually injured.
At the same time, the oldest Upper Envoy on the other side, He Chen, made his move.
His body moved like a phantom, darting at high speed toward the graceful figure in the distance.
He Chen knew in his heart that no matter how strong the young man was, as long as he captured the much weaker girl, his opponent would have no choice but to surrender obediently.
...
Wu Chen looked up, watching as He Chen and nearly a hundred demonic cultivators swarmed toward Sun Yuting.
His eyes were as still as an old well. He simply raised his black-scaled dragon claw and clenched it into a fist.
WENG! WENG! WENG!—
A turbulent aura spread across the battlefield.
He Chen, who was just about to strike with his saber, suddenly felt a prickling on his back. Amidst the low hum, the hairs on his body stood on end.
’Not good!’
He glanced sideways, saw the dazzling light condensing around the young man, and felt the astonishing pulsation within it. He immediately chose to retreat.
With such a bone-chilling sensation, he felt that he wouldn’t gain any advantage even if he fully deployed his flesh armor body!
And just as he turned back, a white radiance struck like a thunderbolt all around the spot he had just occupied!
PFFT! PFFT! PFFT!—
The Gang Qi crashed down, precisely blanketing the area several feet around Sun Yuting.
He Chen reacted quickly and dodged the disaster, but the demonic cultivators at the Blood Coagulation Realm didn’t have his speed.
Caught in the annihilating Gang Qi, they were turned into a crimson mist of blood before they could even scream.
...
Wisps of warm Blood Qi drifted onto her face. Sun Yuting stared blankly at the area around her, which had been instantly cleared, then glanced at the young man in the distance.
’This is the Armor Forging Realm?!’
’This is the might of a Grandmaster?!’
"Brat, where are you looking!"
Just as Wu Chen’s attention was focused on Sun Yuting’s position, the man with the goatee had silently closed in on him.
Seeing that the young man’s armor only covered his shoulders, he curled his lip into a disdainful sneer.
"At most, it’s just an armor body at the Great Success stage. Nothing special!"
"Now, die!"
Hearing this, Wu Chen looked back.
He saw the chilling glint of a saber slashing toward his unprotected waist.
When faced with peril, one must be armed and armored!
Abruptly, the Qi and Blood in Wu Chen’s body surged, and his entire form was enveloped in a jet-black fog.
Within the black fog, his line of sight began to rise. He felt a constricting sensation on the surface of his body, as if he were being tightly wrapped and bound by something.
The process seemed slow, but was in fact instantaneous.
The moment the black fog erupted, it abruptly retracted, clinging tightly to Wu Chen’s body.
Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body—Perfection!
Activate!