by <unknown>
That was why they were dumbfounded for a moment when the five Hellfire-Lightnings detonated in brilliant sparks.
The five Hellfire-Lightnings were not enough to deal too much damage to them. The best the bombs could do was to buy Li Yao one second.
One second was enough.
The noise of growling wind roared beside the ears of all the five demons.
All their hair and scales were erect in alarm.
The lizard that they'd been chasing seemed to have turned into a barbarous dinosaur in a moment!
The spiritual gas around Li Yao was condensed to the extreme; its color turned from bright gold into dense, deep gold, while Li Yao's speed broke its limit.
It was not entirely the power rune arrays' credit. Black Wing played its part, too.
Black Wing had been sealed by mysterious barriers which disabled it from attacking. After prolonged consideration, Li Yao finally figured out how he should make best use of Black Wing's crazy speed.
He had modified the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit and added a fixed alloy sheath on its back with air paths and stabilizer fins on both sides. Then, he put Black Wing inside the sheath.
With his telepathic thought, Black Wing would be fully activated and sped up, which would push the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit forward like a powerful booster, making the crystal suit much faster than any ordinary MP crystal suit, or rather, any ordinary crystal suit!
"Swoosh!"
It was not until a gold laser passed by each and every of the five demons and hundreds of overlapped blurred shadows consolidated into the entity of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit that earsplitting noises ripped apart the air and rippled to the around.
The eyes of the five demons were dull, their tusks trembling. They attempted to activate their demonic equipment but failed no matter how hard they tried.
Half a second later, five heads flew up to the sky. Blood was spurting out of their necks like fountains.
Five dead bodies fell into the large pit resulting from the explosion of the Hellfire-Lightnings.
Before Li Yao was able to take a breath to relive himself, his heart started palpitating.
Pressure hundreds of times heavier than that in the bottom of the Billowing Star Sea wreathed him. Invisible tongs bit his limbs and his neck.
The only thing that he was free to move was Neltharion in the sky.
By his telepathic thought in Neltharion, Li Yao discovered that the moment when he killed the five demons, a red brightness rushed out from the mushroom cloud created by the previous attack of the Taiyi Lightning Railgun and reached him in no time.
He wanted to drive Black Wing and the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit to run away, but the invisible force in the air jammed his magical equipment and his spiritual gas, making him unable to wield them fluently as he could.
He had been locked onto by the enemy.
'The expert demon still made his way here!
'What's this weird force?'
Li Yao was shocked and observed the new enemy through Neltharion.
Most parts of his body were enveloped in a thick mist of blood. His left hand was even made of the blood mist.
The head which was exposed to the air looked like a hybrid of a human head and a lion's. Yet there were several deep cracks on it. There was no nose on his face, but a black, enormous hole.
The shining gold hair had all stood up like needles. His face was twisted to such an extent that there was no telling if it was agony or fury.
'So this is the case! The teleportation was disrupted before his body was completely sent over.
'His left hand has not been teleported at all, which amounted to that I slashed it off!
'His internal organs can't have been all teleported successfully, either, which means that he is in the state of seriously injuries. His strength must be at the minimum!
'I still have a chance!'
The new findings immediately refreshed Li Yao.
The expert demon was seething with anger. He pointed his bloody saber at Li Yao and roared, "Never has anyone injured me, Wang Ji, like this! You will die, after I cut off the flesh on your body one piece after another!"
The name of the expert demon startled Li Yao.
'Wang Ji?
'Sounds very familiar!'
Li Yao didn't know many strong demons. After thinking for a moment, his eyes glittered.
He realized who his enemy was.
Back when he was in the Thunderous Sound Mountain more than one year ago, he had been engaged with an infiltration squad of the demon clan, which was mostly demolished by the explosion of the demon core of a mutant lion dragon that he set off. Not only did he make a great fortune thereafter, he also retrieved such an invaluable treasure, a Cosmos Ring.
It had been his first bucket of gold.
At that time, a dying demon general cursed him and told him that 'Young Master Wang Ji' would avenge him one day.
All things considered, the two Wang Jis might be the same person.
Li Yao smiled.
'Excellent. Let's conclude the unfinished hunting in the Thunderous Sound Mountain here!
'However, what's with his saber? It seems so ferocious!'
The blood saber in Wang Ji's hands seemed to be made of countless clean, transparent red crystals, yet it had a vibe of a living creature which was likely to lunge out at any moment, unleashing evil scents nonstop.
'This blood saber is definitely a piece of top-tier demonic equipment!'
Li Yao licked his lips.
There were many secret arts inside the Heavenly Refining Tower on how to identify magical equipment. Through staying in the Super Perception Cabin, Li Yao had extended his time spent in the Heavenly Refining Tower, to the extent that it would be many years in reality.
The classics on the ground floor had all been turned over and over by him. Naturally, his observation was keen and sharp.
This Wang Ji should've been a high-level demon general and very close to a demon king.
However, part of his body was left in the Blood Demon Sector. His strength had dropped significantly because of the serious injuries. The gap between them was not unacceptable.
But with this weird blood saber, Wang Ji had suppressed him overwhelmingly and locked onto him so precisely that he wasn't even able to run away.
'I want this blood saber!'
Li Yao was roaring crazily in his mind.
Ever since he'd become a Cultivator, he had always been using sabers as his weapon. In the recent half a year, he had fully grasped the saber art that Long Wenhui, a Core Formation Stage Cultivator, taught him previously. He had also selected a few courses in saber arts in the Grand Desolate War Institution. His own Thunderous Tornado Saber Art perceived in the dust storms was more than proficient right now.
The only thing that he lacked was a good saber.
Although he had embedded all kinds of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures into his battle saber, he always felt that it was missing something.
It was the shortage that kept his battle saber in the tier of ordinary magical equipment and stopped it from being first-rate magical equipment.
If he could make a Boiled Blood Wind Slashing Saber out of the blood saber and his battle saber, his understanding of saber arts would be able to be best performed!
'Come on!'
Li Yao's brain seemed to have been filled with magma which was burning furiously. Without bothering with anything else, he charged aggressively at Wang Ji from below!
"Ant in the Refinement Stage, you don't know what you are doing!"
Young Master Wang Ji was grinning hideously. The nose of the Lion Clan had been large in the first place. Now that it was gone, the only thing that remained in the middle of his face was a deep hole, making him uglier than anything Li Yao had ever seen.
The blood saber was slashed down. A crimson brightness went at him rapidly.
The blood all over Li Yao's body seemed to turn into thousands of small bugs which wer
e nibbling on his veins, making him unable to move at all.
"The blood saber can actually manipulate blood?"
Chapter 346: Dangerous Blood Saber Stealing |
Two sabers turned into a red brightness and a blue one, which collided in the midair at a high speed, weirdly, without any sound.
Yet, the blood aura on Wang Ji's saber penetrated through the tornadoes and lightning caused by Li Yao's and continued slashing at him. The vague mist of blood was like a mirage which was utterly unpredictable. But its speed was higher than anyone could imagine.
The moment Li Yao lifted up his spiritual shield, he had been hit!
"Pa!"
The blood saber which seemed to be unreal bashed him to the ground like a giant hand swatting a moth that was darting into the fire.
Thousands of tiny holes appeared on the surface of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, where dirty bubbles were popping up as the crystal suit was being corroded by the blood mist.
Every drop of blood seemed to grow thorns. Every capillary seemed to have turned into the sharpest knife. Li Yao was in such agony that he was tempted to tear his chest apart and squeeze all his blood out.
"BOOM!"
He fell into the giant pit of the previous Hellfire-Lightning explosion heavily. More than half of his body was buried in the ground. He gritted his teeth and vomited, only to come up with nothing but sharp pain because a large cluster of burning bushes seemed to have stuffed his throat.
"Invisible and indefensible, attacking the blood directly. What a weird blood saber!"
The outcome of a fight between an expert Cultivator and an expert demon could be decided within one second.
Streams of extremely exotic force surged from the blood saber and looked for the gaps on the crystal suit like vipers.
Li Yao's heart shrank to the size of a date pit. For the first time, he felt that death was drawing near. The cracked land around him was as thick and dense as a moor, trying to swallow him into the abyss of hell.
The threat of death made his brain clearer than ever. His computational ability was activated to a new, unprecedented height.
With a telepathic thought, four Vulcan Machine Guns appeared and floated to the middle of Wang Ji and himself, before they fired at Wang Ji brutally. Twelve lines of bullets interweaved into a dense net of fire and went at Wang Ji's head.
Disdain beamed out from Wang Ji's bright yellow eyes.
"You want to stop me by bullets? Hilarious!"
The blood mist that enveloped him suddenly expanded, which devoured the twelve bullet lines and corrupted them rapidly.
Most of the bullets strengthened by spiritual energy exploded three to four meters away from him, their blaze entirely absorbed by the blood mist.
Some bullets made their way to the front of Wang Ji, but they were blown into pieces by Wang Ji's dense demonic shield before their rune arrays were able to function.
Taking the storm of bullets the hard away, Wang Ji stomped in the air, leaving a large area of cracks of the void. Then he lunged at Li Yao from above with the ferocious blood mist like a tiger attacking a sheep and a falcon snatching a rabbit.
Almost at the same time—
The last trap that Li Yao deployed in the ruins was fully triggered!
The Taiyi Lightning Railgun carried thirty super-compressed crystal cells with it. He used ten of them just now to blow up the teleportation array of the demon clan.
Li Yao was too thrifty to simply throw away the remaining twenty crystal cells.
The explosion of the five Hellfire-Lightnings was just a cover for the twenty crystal cells.
No one had anticipated that Li Yao would set up a second bomb trap below an existent one. This was actually his real deadly move!
When he was preparing for the serial bomb trap, Li Yao didn't foresee that Wang Ji was coming.
However, in this battleground which was full of perils, large batches of demon generals or demon kings could appear at any time. He couldn't be more careful.
For the vulture who had grown up in a magical equipment graveyard, setting up a trap was as natural as breathing and drinking water were for him.
The angle of the twenty interconnected super-compressed crystal cells had been carefully adjusted, so that 90% of the spiritual energy contained inside would burst out to the sky when triggered.
This was also the reason why Li Yao charged at the enemy in the sky aggressively.
He was well aware that his strength was not enough to take the blow of Wang Ji and he would likely be smashed to the ground. After that, it was possible that his enemy would attack him from a high stance.
Everything was within his expectations, except for the toughness of the blood saber.
Twenty glaring brilliances darted up and slashed the sky like twenty sabers made of lightning, whose blue electric arcs mingled into a deadly net of blades.
Although most of the spiritual energy escaped in the air, the attack assembled by the remaining spiritual energy was still as powerful as an attack of a Core Formation Cultivator.
Never had Wang Ji expected that such a sordid, dirty trap was buried under exactly the same place where an explosion just took place.
He was fully focused on his attack and wasn't prepared for defense. Caught off guard, he had to condense the blood mist to protect himself.
"Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!"
For a moment, the electric arcs were dancing merrily in the air more brightly than ever, which immediately ripped the blood mist apart!
"Swoosh!"
At exactly the same time, Neltharion, which had been lurking for a long time, sneaked to Wang Ji's back and revealed itself while it crashed at the back of his head brutally.
Wang Ji was from the Kingdom of Lion Butchers in the Blood Demon Sector. His bloodline could be traced back to the ancient lion demons. But, just like human beings, the back of his head was a vulnerable spot.
The acute pricking pain spread from the back of his head all the way to his spine. For the first time, Wang Ji felt that the situation was not under his control.
Gritting his teeth and risking his body being torn apart, Wang Ji broke the limit of speed and dodged the attack at the back of head closely.
For Cultivators and demons who were all made of flesh and blood, sometimes their strength was enough to allow them to reach a higher speed, but it was often too much for their body which was not sturdy enough.
Wang Ji suddenly activated and forced his body which was sprinting downwards to move to the left horizontally. As a result, a cluster of vaguely silver blood burst out from his body with cracking noises. Countless bones, veins and nerves had fractured in the super high-speed dodging movement!
Wang Ji grunted. He gritted his teeth and, holding back his pain, groped his back, trying to clutch the weapon that had just attacked him.
But Neltharion simply released clusters of tiny electric arcs which stung his hand like needles before it ran away and vanished into thin air.
Wang Ji's full attention was fixed on the fleeing assassin. He didn't bother with the storm of bullets which were fired at his face for a second time.
Bullets were too slow and weak to deal much damage to an expert demon such as himself.
He was wrong.
"Swoosh!"
In the middle of the storm of bullets, a silver bullet which was more than five times faster than the ordinary ones beside it pierced into his chest without him even recognizing what was going on.
"What's this?!"
Wang Ji's pupils constricted violently. A strange flower of blood blossomed where his heart was. More than half of his heart was nearly blown to pieces by the blast!
It was a special bullet refined entirely out of marrow crystals. It had been divided into four layers. The three layers in the back could boost the head of the bullet three times after they exploded one by one, so that the speed of the bullet would be maximized!
Marrow crystals were the essence of crystals.
Afte
r billions of years of tectonic movement under high temperature and pressure, thousands of crystals might be able to be condensed into one small marrow crystal. The spiritual energy stored inside of it was immeasurable.
Li Yao had refined nine bullets out of marrow crystals, before he carved 137 attack rune arrays on each bullet in the most delicate refining arts of the ancient times.
After that, he cleansed the bullets by melding the blood from his fingertip, the tip of his tongue, and that of his heart with them through Blood Baptism. Finally, they were deeply connected to him like the 'aura balls' in the ancient Cultivation world and were at his disposal like his own arms.
This was Li Yao's real killing move!
He was too smart not to know ordinary bullets would be far from enough to break Wang Ji's defense.
The reason why he was firing randomly was partly to reduce his enemy's vigilance, and partly to cover the existence of the marrow crystal bullet.
To hide a tree, the best place would be a forest.
To hide a bullet, the best place would be the storm of bullets incurred by four Triple-headed Heavy Six-barrel Vulcan Machine Guns!
The two explosion traps made by Hellfire-Lightnings and super-compressed crystal cells, the bullet storm from the Vulcan Machine Guns, the abrupt assault of Neltharion…
All was meant to distract Wang Ji's attention for a moment so that he wouldn't notice that the marrow crystal bullet was coming at him!
His heart was not the only part that had been mostly blown up. Many of his other internal organs had been seriously wrecked, too. After a moment, Wang Ji's back boomed like a volcano eruption, where blood together with the flames resulting from the marrow crystal's explosion spurted out magnificently.
Such serious injuries were too much for him, although he was an expert demon of the Blood Demon Sector. Wang Ji's face was pale, where silver blood was flowing out from all holes.
A dead enemy is always better than a wounded enemy!
Li Yao roared. The ballistic trajectories of the four Vulcan Machine Guns were adjusted and focused on one point, before bullets raged out from them and slashed at Wang Ji's right hand like four heated lancets.
