Chapter 197: Fierce Insects Surge
Yang Lechuan recognized Nangong Hong Yue’s strength, and a bad premonition arose in his heart.
He continuously slashed his Black Crystal Saber at Nangong Hong Yue, attempting to use the sharpness of the spirit tool to defeat her quickly.
Nangong Hong Yue was no pushover either, even though the weapon in her hand was only an upper second-order Insect Bell.
But this thing, when used in conjunction with witchcraft, could often confuse one’s spirit.
Yang Lechuan had to be extremely vigilant, resisting the mental attack.
In addition, what troubled him the most was Nangong Hong Yue’s four gu worms.
Five Worms Casting Heart not only compensated for Nangong Hong Yue’s bone structure, but also linked the qi mechanisms of the five gu worms to a certain extent.
The Black Gold Silkworm’s ferocity, eating anything, the Yin Cicada’s elusive form, ambushing like a shadow.
The Blood Scorpion’s toxic blood like fire, domineeringly invasive, and the Soul Hooking Insect’s direct mental attack method.
The four coordinated with each other; even if they couldn’t confront head-on, their methods were still terrifying and required utmost caution.
In a short time, the two had exchanged twenty or thirty moves. The inner armor on Yang Lechuan’s body was torn open by the Black Gold Silkworm, nearly poisoning him.
Nangong Hong Yue gained the upper hand, actually suppressing Yang Lechuan so he couldn’t spare any attention.
Dongfang Mu cursed Yang Lechuan as useless under his breath, but he wasn’t faring well either at this moment.
Even with the help of a talisman spirit like the Silver-Red Eagle, there was no way to suppress the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust.
“What the hell is this feral beast? Controlling such malevolent energy like this—if it continues, the Silver-Red Eagle won’t hold out.”
Although the Spirit Sealing Talisman was powerful, adding a combat power out of thin air, each activation required consuming the vast energy within the Spirit Sealing Talisman.
His Spirit Sealing Talisman was also a treasure, usable at least twenty or thirty times, but now it was different.
In the depths of the Silver-Red Eagle’s ethereal body, the Spirit Sealing Talisman gradually became covered with crimson fine patterns, like countless crevices.
Malevolent energy condensed, corroding the talisman.
Malevolent energy was inherently filthy, bloody qi, dealing the most damage to such an object.
In just twenty or thirty exchanges of entangled combat, the Spirit Sealing Talisman’s consumption speed was already equivalent to four or five uses in the past.
This was a treasure bought for tens of thousands of origin stones.
Damn it!
Dongfang Mu’s True Intent Beast Spirit black mink behind him rapidly expanded, instantly growing to dozens of meters tall. Body and form united, his aura surged.
“Spirit Mink Suppressing Heaven Strike”
The giant black mink pressed down like dark heavens, the mountain peak shook, cries of alarm like thunder.
Su Yan slightly raised his gaze, revealing a surprised expression, thinking to himself: “As expected of a workshop master, he still has some foundation.”
From this strike, Su Yan sensed a threat.
If ignored, even the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust would suffer heavy injuries from this blow.
Insect Consciousness Seed
Su Yan slightly closed his eyes, his spiritual power surging out like his divine soul wandering, instantly landing on the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust.
Heaven and earth one color, dark red like blood.
The malevolent energy on this battlefield swirled around him, blood bees in layers, fiend bees in swarms.
“Gather malevolent energy!”
Terrifying spiritual power spread out directly. In an instant, the vast spiritual power of the Insect Consciousness Seed combined with the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust’s power, momentarily reaching half-step Dan Qiao level.
What?!
Dongfang Mu’s face showed shock. The next moment, countless fiend bees spiraled in, blood bees as armor, fiend bees as body, transforming into rolling malevolent energy and blood qi, condensing around the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust.
Its front tibial scythes crossed left and right, slashing out two earth-shattering malevolent energy slashes.
Boom
The two collided, the attack earth-shattering.
The malevolent energy slash, with its unique sharp blade, broke through the Spirit Mink Suppressing Heaven Strike, residual force turning into a blade aura rushing straight at Dongfang Mu.
Dongfang Mu immediately dodged, but his form was still a bit slow, struck on the shoulder by this malevolent energy blade.
His upper second-order inner armor was torn open, corroded and dimmed. Even the flesh on his shoulder was continuously corroded by malevolent energy, showing signs of decay and withering.
Dongfang Mu’s figure retreated explosively, not daring to fight the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust to the death.
The martial artists from Tian Yuan Pill Workshop and Da Chuan Pill Workshop immediately pounced toward Su Yan, led by the remaining fourteen True Intent Realm Martial Artists, with over a hundred guards like hyenas, swarming to siege.
The Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust had drawn away a large number of fiend bees and blood bees; the remaining swarm was substantial but impossible to block these martial artists.
The two workshop masters were both suppressed. To break the situation, they could only kill the one controlling everything.
They moved extremely fast, arriving before Su Yan in almost an instant.
“Die, thief!”
Curved saber like the moon, Tian Yuan Pill Workshop’s Second Steward’s gaze ferocious, Condensing Momentum Stage aura fully pressing on Su Yan. Azure spirit wolf possessed the blade, heading straight for Su Yan’s heart.
Su Yan opened his eyes, raised his hand and gripped. Blood Slaughter Hand instantly formed, held in his grasp.
“Die!”
A low voice rang out. Blood Slaughter Hand’s power erupted, bones cracking audibly. The next moment, that Second Steward was already dead.
Behind him, two guard commanders from Da Chuan Pill Workshop appeared.
Sword-wielding martial artist on the left, saber-wielding on the right, striking together, blade aura ten zhang long.
Su Yan pointed with his hand, Gold-Eating Demon Insect revealed Gengjin Blade, whooshing into a white ribbon, charging over.
Clanging rang out, blade aura shattered. The two were forced back by the Gold-Eating Demon Insect and immediately slashed down.
But the attacks landed on the Gold-Eating Demon Insect, only rippling up pale patterns. Insect patterns blocked the attack and rebounded part of the strength.
The two men’s arms went numb, not yet able to counterattack.
The Gold-Eating Demon Insect’s mouth opened wide, biting through the sharp weapons in their hands.
Without weapons, the two were shocked and hurriedly retreated to dodge.
But behind them, the ground rumbled at some point. A blood-colored centipede burst out, biting off half their bodies in one bite.
The Gold-Eating Demon Insect turned and shot toward a nearby True Intent Realm Martial Artist, piercing his brow in his stunned expression.
The suddenly appearing Six-Winged Blood Centipede and the cold, ruthless Gold-Eating Demon Insect scared the remaining ten True Intent Realm Martial Artists, along with those guard martial artists, their hearts filled with dread.
Su Yan just smiled faintly, with no intention of letting them go.
Countless shadow silks pierced through the ground, penetrating many guards’ insteps, blood flowing along the shadow silks.
The quick-reacting ones dodged, still wanting to swing their weapons to cut the shadow silks on their companions.
But the next moment, a pitch-black giant spider leaped into the battlefield.
Giant maw opened, hissing loudly.
Thousands upon thousands of shadow silks spread across the battlefield, entangling and binding the bodies of the vast majority of martial artists.
A wheel of bewitching flames spread continuously. Flame Armored Scorpion charged into the crowd, scorpion tail sweeping, blocking three tributing elders trying to flee.
“Mister, let us go. We will never work for Tian Yuan Pill Workshop again.”
The three were merely tributing elders. Under this life-and-death crisis, they finally made their choice.
They didn’t want to become corpses.
Su Yan didn’t even glance at them, merely ordering in his mind:
Kill them.
Flame Armored Scorpion strode forward. The three instantly realized Su Yan had no intention of sparing them and immediately possessed true intent, unleashing their strongest strike.
Three rays of light tore the ground, comparable to a general fourth realm attack.
However, Flame Armored Scorpion merely blocked with its claws, a muffled sound as all attacks were intercepted outside.
Those claws looked like scissors but were clearly an indestructible shield.
The three’s strike exhausted, unable to organize a new attack in time.
Flame Armored Scorpion’s tail hook suddenly thrust from the front, piercing their bodies.
More and more true intent ones died; no one could stop Su Yan’s several fierce insects.
The situation had long reversed.
Suddenly, at that moment, an unremarkable Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist abruptly severed the shadow silk, true intent emerging as a ghost wolf, pouncing fiercely before Su Yan.
A corpse, revived from death, also surged up, transforming into ghost wolf form, charging to assault Su Yan’s left side.
A Spirit Nurturing Realm Martial Artist on the right erupted with True Intent Realm aura, charging like a wolf.
Three sword lights, exceptionally sharp, sealing all of Su Yan’s escape routes.
Spirit Merging Stage assassins!
Clang
“I thought you could hold out longer.”
The three sword lights stopped less than a foot before Su Yan.
A white jade-like protective layer blocked before Su Yan. Heavenly Python Dharma Body emerged, Black Gold Ancient Python’s spirit blocking the sword edge.
Beneath these two layers of protection, azure gold scale patterns covered Su Yan’s body, Insect Bone Armor Body already enveloping him.
Four layers of defense completely protected Su Yan.
The entire battlefield fell silent.
A combined strike sufficient to kill a half-step Dan Qiao martial artist seemed so insignificant at this moment, like a light scratch.
“Shadowless Tower’s dogs?”
Su Yan raised his gaze, eyes full of cold light. Speaking of which, he had a small grudge with Shadowless Tower.
The previous ambush was by Shadowless Tower’s Death Sword Slave; now it was fierce-grade killers.
Kill!
The three killers wasted no words, immediately slashing out countless sword lights, forming a sealing net aimed at eyes, throat, heart, and other vitals.
The jade armor protective layer cast by the Gold-Eating Demon Insect on Su Yan cracked like shattering jade, emitting bursts of fracturing sounds.
A combined strike by Spirit Merging Stage killers had non-trivial attack intensity.
Dang!
The fierce-grade killer on the left thrust his sword. Su Yan directly blocked with his palm, sword tip halted by insect armor.
“Too light.”
Su Yan moved, speed surging greatly. Poison Star Ape true intent emerged behind him, possessing and empowering. One punch struck above his head.
The fierce-grade killer raised his sword to block.
Sword and head both shattered by one punch, turning into a headless corpse.
“Run!”
Su Yan’s move directly scared the fierce-grade killers into retreating explosively, scattering in different directions to flee.
Dongfang Mu and Yang Lechuan trembled in fear as well.
Even they, at half-step Dan Qiao, couldn’t hard-counter attacks like this while shattering a Spirit Merging Stage martial artist’s head with one punch.
What kind of monster was this exactly?
Su Yan gave them no time to react. Under Insect Bone Armor Body state, his body’s overall strength amplification was at least three times greater.
The more Insect Yuan absorbed, the stronger it became—this trait from Insect Master Level would only grow more powerful.
And now he had both Insect Bone Armor Body and Insect Consciousness Seed active.
In one step, he was instantly before the second fierce-grade killer.
That person still tried to swing his sword to block, blade aura slicing through the wind.
Su Yan pointed with his finger, sword finger becoming a spear light, instantly piercing his brow.
The last killer had fled three hundred meters away. Su Yan glanced at him and chased.
In just one breath, the distance was closed.
The killer threw his sharp sword, turning to flee from the other side.
Su Yan reached out directly, grasping the sword edge while stepping behind the killer.
Big hand grabbed, entire spine seized in his grasp.
Extracted bone, severed head, all in one smooth motion.
Cleanly killed the three killers.
Su Yan strode across the battlefield, ignoring the remaining martial artists, letting Six-Winged Blood Centipede, Shadow Horn Spider, Flame Armored Scorpion, and Gold-Eating Demon Insect slaughter them.
Dongfang Mu and Yang Lechuan were completely panicked, using every trick to escape this Nanyang Mountain.
But the more anxious, the more mistakes.
Yang Lechuan traded injury for opportunity, Black Crystal Saber striking straight at Nangong Hong Yue to force this woman back.
He slashed, but unexpectedly Nangong Hong Yue no longer dodged.
True Intent Beast Spirit merged into the Insect Bell, sacrificed to envelop the slash.
Nangong Hong Yue’s fair fingers formed hand seals. The four gu worms seized the moment, pouncing onto Yang Lechuan’s hand, severing his saber-holding arm.
At the severed hand, blood flowed like a gush.
Yet Yang Lechuan felt no pain. Toxin spread from the wound, turning into thread-like black marks, continuously eroding toward his heart.
He fought desperately for another seven or eight exchanges, finally spitting foul blood and collapsing to the ground.
Dongfang Mu also wanted to flee, ruthlessly self-detonating the Silver-Red Eagle Spirit Sealing Talisman.
Residual energy burst into a hundred-zhang light, instantly killing over ten thousand fiend bees and blood bees.
Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust was also forced back by this sudden attack, its carapace and appendages full of crevices.
Dongfang Mu was right beside the explosion. Though prepared, to heavily injure the Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust, he couldn’t pull too far away.
Now also affected by the blast, he suffered minor injuries and was in dire straits.
He didn’t dare linger, turning to flee toward Southern Sky City.
However, just as he turned, his figure stiffened.
Su Yan had already cut off his retreat, smiling faintly: “Workshop Master Dongfang, where are you headed?”
“Three hundred thousand. I’ll trade three hundred thousand first-order origin stones for a way out. Tian Yuan Pill Workshop is yours; I’ll leave Southern Sky City forever.”
Begging for mercy was the only way to survive.
Su Yan walked toward him step by step. Though only an arm’s length apart, Dongfang Mu’s trembling body didn’t dare circulate even a bit of true essence.
He was utterly terrified.
Even if a Dan Qiao Realm expert acted personally, he wouldn’t end up this wretched.
But solely this one True Intent Realm Martial Artist, demonic like a god, utterly fearless of same-realm foes, casually slaughtering martial artists—this scene chilled the heart.
Having dominated for decades, how had he ever seen such a vicious fiend?
“No need. Farewell.”
Su Yan reached out and gripped his head, gently crushing it, killing him.
Over a hundred martial artists on the field had long been pierced by shadow silks, either turned into corpse chunks or scorched earth under demonic fire.
Heavenly Fiend Mother Locust flew to Su Yan’s side. He retracted Insect Bone Armor Body, merely slightly raising his gaze to issue the command:
Devour.
Countless blood bees and fiend bees flew out, devouring all the corpses on the field.
Nangong Hong Yue stood respectfully behind Su Yan, handing over Yang Lechuan’s storage ring and Black Crystal Saber.
“Yang Lechuan defeated”
“I order you few tributing elders to bring men and seize Tian Yuan Pill Workshop and Da Chuan Pill Workshop’s beast farm and medicine mountain. From today on, in Southern Sky City, Red Moon Pill Workshop is second only to Danxiang Pavilion.”
