Chapter 215: Brutal
Silence!
Astonishment!
Incredulity!
As Steel Bone, whose body was close to four meters tall like a small hill, was blasted away, whether it was Mans and the other rogues watching from the high slope, or Lin Yan and the others in the flying transport vehicle above, each one of them seemed to have been hit with a body-freezing spell, stunned in place, motionless.
“How is this possible?”
“She took Steel Bone’s palm head-on and is fine, and then sent him flying with one palm. Who on earth is she?”
Looking at Luo Wu Shang, wearing a silver-gray long-sleeved windbreaker, her figure only about one meter eighty or so, they all wondered if they were hallucinating.
The force behind Steel Bone’s palm just now would have seriously injured even a mid-level monster, yet Luo Wu Shang had used only her flesh, or rather her arm, to block it without the slightest harm.
No matter how they looked at it, this was something that should not be possible.
Even for an expert as strong as one in the Bone Forging Realm, their body could not possibly block a strike from Steel Bone without injury.
Let alone that Luo Wu Shang had followed up by sending Steel Bone flying with a single palm, without him even reacting before he was blasted away.
“Steel Bone?”
Sharp Tooth turned his head to look at Steel Bone, who had fallen to the distant ground, and was a bit dumbfounded, not understanding what had just happened.
Clearly it should have been Steel Bone charging into the crowd to slaughter in all directions, yet now, far from that, Steel Bone had been slapped away by a petite woman of the human race. He seriously suspected Steel Bone was putting on a show to mock him.
A dignified top tier expert of the City of Light Chasing Defense Group’s garrison competition, ranked in the top twenty, had been sent flying by a woman of the human race no one had ever heard of, who was not even wearing battle armor. Who would believe that if it got out?
Steel Bone, who had rolled a few times in the mud before stopping, slowly stood up and looked in disbelief at the faint palm print on his B6-grade battle armor.
This palm print was very, very shallow. For the B6-grade battle armor, there was no damage at all. Even though Luo Wu Shang’s palm had looked extremely powerful, he himself only felt his internal organs shaken and a bit uncomfortable.
But even so, Steel Bone still felt like he had seen a ghost.
He could not understand what kind of monster Luo Wu Shang was. Her body was even tougher than that of mid-level monsters, and her attack speed was so fast that he could not even block in time.
If he had not been wearing the B6-grade battle armor, that strike just now would have cost him his life.
“Steel Bone, are you alright?” Sharp Tooth could not help asking as he looked at Steel Bone, who had just stood up and was still in a daze. “What on earth happened with you just now?”
“I’m fine.” Steel Bone shook his head slightly, then could not help but look toward Luo Wu Shang, who was walking out of the small crater in the distance. His gaze was full of wariness as he said, “Be careful of that woman. She is not human at all. The toughness of her body is probably comparable to those high-level monsters.”
“Her body comparable to high-level monsters?” Sharp Tooth looked at Steel Bone, feeling sure Steel Bone had been punched stupid.
How could a human body be comparable to advanced monsters? Even experts in the Bone Forging Realm could not compare their bodies to high-level monsters. The woman of the human race in front of him, although her qi and blood were powerful, at best was only an advanced martial artist. Let alone her body being comparable to high-level monsters, even matching mid-level monsters was impossible.
While Sharp Tooth and Steel Bone were speaking, Luo Wu Shang, who had walked out of the small crater, took one step forward, and her whole figure seemed to turn into a stream of light. In an instant she arrived before Sharp Tooth, her speed actually completely not inferior to Sharp Tooth and Steel Bone.
“So fast!”
Sharp Tooth was shocked as he looked at Luo Wu Shang, who was already in front of him.
He and Steel Bone, in both speed and strength, had already surpassed the limits of advanced martial artists. Using advanced martial skill footwork, they had just barely exceeded one hundred meters per second, yet a woman from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall that no one had even heard of had a speed not inferior to theirs.
Luo Wu Shang reached Sharp Tooth and directly threw another punch.
Ghostly Light Finger!
Under a punch that instantly tripled in speed, Sharp Tooth did not react in time and was struck head-on. Just like Steel Bone earlier, his entire body was blasted a hundred meters away, rolling several times on the ground before finally stopping.
Sharp Tooth got up without serious injury, but he was completely stunned.
If Steel Bone was the one whose strength was unmatched in the Defense Group, then he was the one whose reaction speed was unmatched in the Defense Group. Yet facing Luo Wu Shang’s sudden punch, he had failed to keep up with her speed and was directly hit. It was simply inconceivable.
On the forest road, as Sharp Tooth was also blasted away by Luo Wu Shang’s punch, whether it was the rogues preparing to attack Obsidian Martial Arts Hall or Lin Yan and the others providing support from the flying transport vehicle above, everyone was stunned at this scene.
“Who on earth is she?”
“How could Obsidian Martial Arts Hall have such an expert?”
A huge question was echoing constantly in everyone’s minds.
Sending Steel Bone flying with one punch earlier could still be called a fluke, but now sending Sharp Tooth flying with one punch as well was no fluke. It was proof of strength.
It could be said that if Sharp Tooth and Steel Bone did not have the protection of B6-grade battle armor, they would not be Luo Wu Shang’s match at all.
Sharp Tooth and Steel Bone were already top tier among the captains of the City of Light Chasing Defense Group. Experts who could defeat the two of them were few and far between in the entire City of Light Chasing, yet they had never heard of or seen Luo Wu Shang before.
While both sides were shocked and shaken, Yi Ye Fu Yun, Fang Zhen, Lu Fanchen, and the others standing in front of the medium transport vehicle were speechless.
“We have not even decided who would go first, and they already started fighting.” Yi Ye Fu Yun looked at the dazed Steel Bone and Sharp Tooth with deep regret. “Great, now these two sets of B6-grade battle armor are just gone like that.”
“Indeed, if I had known, we should have all gone together. Maybe we could have snatched a set,” Fang Zhen nodded in agreement.
“These two elites are indeed a bit weak. If they had used weapons, the battle would probably be over already,” Lu Fanchen said blandly as he looked at Steel Bone and Sharp Tooth.
Although Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others spoke softly, to advanced martial artists with extremely sharp senses, it was no different from speaking right in front of them.
“You’re courting death!”
Sharp Tooth glared at Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others. He was truly enraged.
He was a dignified captain of the city guard, ranked within the top twenty in strength, respected and feared by other martial artists wherever he went, yet he was now being looked down on by a group of disciples from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
Such humiliation was absolutely the first time in his life.
Sharp Tooth suddenly unleashed advanced martial skill footwork, charging straight toward Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others, ignoring Luo Wu Shang. He drew the B6-grade spear from his back and thrust it directly at Yi Ye Fu Yun, intending to take the life of the one who talked the most.
He did not even plan to conserve qi and blood for fighting Wu Zhuoqun afterward, directly using the move that had made his name in the garrison competition.
Advanced martial skill Flying Flowers!
With a sudden thrust, a total of twenty-one spear shadows appeared. Each spear shadow’s strength value was doubled, and with the support of the B6-grade battle armor, each shadow had over 12 tons of power. Killing an ordinary advanced martial artist posed no problem at all.
“Damn! I just commented on his armor, why did this elite get mad?” Yi Ye Fu Yun looked at the sky full of spear shadows, clicking his tongue, not understanding what kind of crazy Sharp Tooth was on.
The other two had both said that Sharp Tooth and Steel Bone were very weak and not worth attacking; he had only lamented that the armor was wasted on Luo Wu Shang. Yet Sharp Tooth was charging at him with a thrust. It was outrageous.
Just as the twenty-one spear shadows were about to pierce Yi Ye Fu Yun, a crisp voice suddenly rang out.
“Go!”
Immediately, everyone saw twenty-one arrows fly out from the sword box on the back of a slender woman. These arrows seemed alive, each one precisely smashing into the incoming spear shadows.
Bang bang bang…
For a moment, a series of metal clashes echoed throughout the forest.
“Blocked?”
Sharp Tooth stared, stunned, at Yi Ye Fu Yun, who was perfectly fine and had not even moved.
Twenty-one spear shadows, already beyond the reaction limit of advanced martial artists, had all been blocked.
Those incoming arrows, though not very powerful, each deflected the trajectory of a spear shadow, so that not a single thrust landed on Yi Ye Fu Yun. It was simply unbelievable.
“B6-grade weapons are indeed troublesome.”
While Sharp Tooth was astonished, Ye Qinglu, who was controlling the arrows, walked to stand in front of Yi Ye Fu Yun. Looking at the B2-grade arrows scattered on the ground, damaged beyond recognition, she frowned slightly.
“Who are you? Were you the one who blocked my attack just now?” Sharp Tooth stared fixedly at Ye Qinglu, utterly confused as to how Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had produced yet another expert.
His full-strength strike was one that few in the Defense Group could completely block. Most would evade or partially block, or use advanced defensive martial skills; but very few learned advanced defensive martial skills, as those might work against human attacks but were of little use against monsters of the same level, so few people studied them.
Yet the Ye Qinglu before him, though she had expended all her arrows, had still solidly defended against his full-strength blow.
In the face of Sharp Tooth’s questioning and confusion, Ye Qinglu did not answer. She only slightly raised her hand.
In that instant, both Sharp Tooth and everyone watching from both sides in the distance drew in a sharp breath.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Ye Qinglu, dressed in a silver-gray long-sleeved coat, was surrounded by thirty-six arrows. All of these arrows were pointed straight at Sharp Tooth.
And these arrows were not the previous B2-grade ones; they were B4-grade arrows seized by Fang Zhen from Death Valley.
With thirty-six arrows deployed at once, it was as if thirty-six archers were simultaneously aiming at Sharp Tooth. Even wearing B6-grade battle armor, he felt enormous pressure.
“What… what is going on?”
“How can she control so many arrows?”
“Is she a monster?”
The members of both Defense Groups stared at the thirty-six arrows suspended in the air. Lin Yan, who had already reached the extreme of an advanced martial artist, felt the greatest shock of all.
The feat of using internal force outside the body to control objects was something martial artists above the intermediate level could easily accomplish; it was nothing rare. Often, weapons that left the hand were retrieved with internal force.
But to split one’s internal force into thirty-six strands at once, each capable of such vivid and precise control, was something they would not even dare to imagine.
Yet Ye Qinglu had done it. Her control over internal force was simply godlike.
“Since you came over yourself, let me test the effect of the fourth form of Lightning Strike Three Forms,” Ye Qinglu said as she looked at Sharp Tooth, lightly leaping as one arrow appeared beneath her foot.
As Ye Qinglu stood in midair five to six meters above the ground, the other thirty-five arrows orbited around her like satellites.
At the same time Ye Qinglu leapt into the air, Sharp Tooth felt alarm bells blaring.
He did not know what Ye Qinglu intended to do, but his sixth sense was frantically warning him of danger.
Run!
“Run? Why should I run?!”
“Even if your control of internal force is divine, the gap in strength between us is not something you can easily make up!”
Sharp Tooth looked up at Ye Qinglu standing beneath the bright moon with instinctive defiance, lifting his B6-grade spear as his fighting spirit surged higher and higher.
For him, a dignified captain of the Defense Group, ranked in the top twenty, to turn and flee from a woman who was merely an intermediate martial artist, his pride would not allow it.
As he finished speaking, Sharp Tooth leapt up and once again used Flying Flowers toward Ye Qinglu.
This time, under pressure, Sharp Tooth seemed to break through his own limit. The original twenty-one spear shadows became twenty-two, all thrusting toward Ye Qinglu.
Facing this strike, Ye Qinglu’s expression remained calm. Lightning arcs danced around her hand as she lightly tapped six arrows. Those six arrows flashed out, slamming into six other arrows.
“Lightning Strike Three Forms, fourth form: Thunder Fang!”
As Ye Qinglu’s voice fell, the six blazing white beams of light in front of her merged into one point and struck precisely onto Sharp Tooth’s B6-grade spear.
Boom!
At the moment of contact, the B6-grade spear shattered instantly. The blazing white beam illuminated half the sky. From afar, it looked like a massive sun-like beam descending from midair, bombarding the ground, turning everything it touched into nothingness.
When the beam finally dissipated, Lin Yan, in the flying transport vehicle high above, saw that a one-meter-wide deep pit had appeared on the muddy road, its edges scorched red.
Sharp Tooth’s three-meter-tall body had lost everything above his waist. The hard B6-grade battle armor was left only half intact, all falling to the ground.
“Dead?”
“Sharp Tooth died just like that?”
Whether it was the rogues planning to attack Obsidian Martial Arts Hall or the members of both Defense Groups, everyone stared in shock at the half-body remaining of Sharp Tooth, completely dumbfounded.
No one had expected that a high-level martial artist like Sharp Tooth would be killed in one move, without even a chance to resist.
Before they could recover from Sharp Tooth’s death, on the other side, Luo Wu Shang, who was fighting Steel Bone, faced Steel Bone’s advanced martial skill Sky Turning Three Strikes, whose power had tripled to nearly 24 tons with a single axe.
Luo Wu Shang raised her hand and grabbed the falling battle axe’s shaft with sheer force, her body sinking more than a meter into the ground. With her other hand, holding a B6-grade long sword, she slashed toward Steel Bone.
Sword Light Slash!
A blade of sword qi pierced directly through Steel Bone’s body, carving a sword mark several meters deep into the ground for more than a hundred meters ahead.
Although this sword qi piercing through his body did not take Steel Bone’s life, it left a clearly visible sword mark on his B6-grade battle armor and severely damaged his internal organs.
After grabbing Steel Bone’s battle axe, before he could break free, Luo Wu Shang raised her hand again and slashed at Steel Bone.
Sword Light Slash!
Sword Light Slash!
Sword Light Slash!
…
By the time Luo Wu Shang swung her sword for the eighth time, Steel Bone’s nearly four-meter-tall body had completely stopped breathing, collapsing at Luo Wu Shang’s feet.
After Steel Bone fell, the entire field fell into dead silence.
Everyone looked at Ye Qinglu and Luo Wu Shang as if they were monsters. Lin Yan and the others did not even know what to say.
Ye Qinglu and Luo Wu Shang were simply too ruthless. Sharp Tooth and Steel Bone, experts they themselves had considered troublesome to deal with, had ended with one reduced to half a body and the other hacked to death.
Did Obsidian Martial Arts Hall really need them to come provide support?
