Chapter 327: With One Hand He Pushes Mountains And Fills The Vast Sea, A Hurricane Tears The Waves And Dragons Soar
“Blocked it?”
Rexa looked at Ye Qinglu in midair, stepping on a long sword with her robes fluttering, completely uninjured, and his heart was full of shock and confusion.
Judging purely from Ye Qinglu’s qi and blood, she was only at the Bone Forging Realm Advanced Level Limit, but with just that level, she had forcibly blocked Twilight Shadow Michalu’s signature technique.
She had not only blocked Twilight Shadow Michalu’s signature technique, but vaguely even gained the upper hand.
At this moment, the massive phantom formed by Twilight Shadow Michalu had been pierced through in several places by a few streaks of lightning, while Ye Qinglu’s condensed phantom was completely intact. This was enough to prove that in their direct clash of strength, Ye Qinglu held a slight advantage.
Twilight Shadow Michalu, ranked fifth among the Half-Step Heavenly Human experts active in the Forbidden Zone, had the Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill Sky-Scraping Hand as her signature technique, cultivated to the Third Level Perfection.
With over four hundred tons of strength at the Half-step Heavenly Human Realm, even those of the same realm would suffer badly in a head-on clash with her. Yet Ye Qinglu, a Martial Artist not even at the Blood Condensation Realm, actually held the advantage. Such a result was simply unbelievable.
“No wonder the Red Moon Merchant Guild is so cautious. Even Smiling Skull had no solution. I didn’t expect the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to still be hiding such an expert.”
At the side, Twilight Shadow Michalu’s gaze on Ye Qinglu was also filled with a certain shock.
In the Forbidden Zone, there were many Half-Step Heavenly Human experts who could block her Sky-Scraping Hand, but this was the first time since she had reached the Half-step Heavenly Human Realm that a Bone Forging Realm Advanced Level Limit Martial Artist could block it and even slightly take the upper hand.
“Miss Michalu, do you need help?” Rexa could not help but ask in a low voice.
As a Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist, Ye Qinglu’s current performance was truly strange, and the Red Moon Merchant Guild’s commission was to have them quickly clear out the Bone Forging Realm experts of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. If they wanted to kill Ye Qinglu quickly, then the two of them joining forces was undoubtedly the fastest method.
“No need.” Twilight Shadow Michalu gently shook her head. The six eyes with which she looked at Ye Qinglu were full of soaring fighting spirit, and she refused Rexa’s goodwill without hesitation. “I can handle her alone.”
After hearing this, Rexa said nothing more. His entire body shot down from midair like a cannonball, directly charging toward the other Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
Twilight Shadow Michalu, acknowledged across the Forbidden Zone as ranked fifth among Half-Step Heavenly Human experts, was unquestionably stronger than him in terms of strength, and he knew very well that her true terror did not lie in martial skills, but in her level of combat.
As a member of the Sub-demon Race, Twilight Shadow Michalu’s six eyes were not simple. It was rumored that they could see through all of an enemy’s movements. Whether it was the activity of muscles, or the flow of energy and internal force, everything was laid bare, allowing her to easily foresee the enemy’s actions in advance and respond with the best possible counter.
Even among the Half-Step Heavenly Human experts, those whose strength and qi and blood surpassed Twilight Shadow Michalu were beaten into submission by her, let alone a Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist.
While Rexa charged at the other Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist players, Twilight Shadow Michalu merely shifted her footwork. In an instant she appeared less than a hundred meters from Ye Qinglu, and the enormous phantom arm she had formed began a frenzied barrage of slaps at Ye Qinglu, no longer competing in raw power, only in technique and reaction.
However, Ye Qinglu was not afraid at all. She likewise controlled her Qi and Blood Phantom, throwing punch after punch at the descending giant palm. Every punch carried crackling lightning, and her sword blade always arrived a step ahead, placed precisely along the trajectory of her fist.
For a time, in midair, palm shadows filled the sky and lightning bolts shot everywhere. The impacts from their collisions shook Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists within several hundred meters so badly that they coughed blood in discomfort, leaving them completely unable to join such a clash.
On the other side, Rexa, who had intended to massacre through the crowd, was suddenly blocked by a man and a woman. Although the two were not at the Bone Forging Realm High-level Limit, they were still at the Bone Forging Realm Advanced Level. They were Yi Ye Fu Yun and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang from the strategy group. After entering the Transcendent State, while inferior to Ye Qinglu, their strength still exceeded two hundred and forty tons.
Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang tangled with him head-on, while Yi Ye Fu Yun used the Super Electromagnetic Cannon Type 2 Modified from the side to provide support. One could say that whenever they found an opening, they were ready to take Rexa away together with Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang.
“So desperate to die?”
Rexa activated the Sequence Transcendent Level footwork Phantom Nine Bodies, along with a massive phantom, narrowly dodging the lightning blasts fired from afar at the last moment, and could not help feeling a headache.
He had originally thought he could easily toy with the two of them, given the vast gap in their strength. But Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang had no intention of defending at all, using a completely life-for-life playstyle. Combined with Yi Ye Fu Yun’s occasional sneak attacks, he actually found himself helpless to do anything to them for a time.
Whether Blood Condensation Realm or Half-Step Heavenly Human, they still wore only Tier 2 Battle Armor. Their defense was not much stronger than that of Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists. If they were hit by an Initial Stage Blood Coagulation Martial Artist, even a Half-Step Heavenly Human with Tier 2 Battle Armor would be injured, not to mention being struck by the Super Electromagnetic Cannon Type 2 Modified that could pierce Tier 2 Battle Armor.
Any Half-step Heavenly Human Realm expert struck by it would surely die.
After being dragged out for one or two minutes by Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang and Yi Ye Fu Yun, Rexa also felt things becoming tricky and directly contacted the butler through his smart watch.
“What’s your situation over there now? I need a Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artist to come create an opening here,” Rexa said with some displeasure.
If he had been facing two High-level Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artists right now, even at the Peak High-level Blood Condensation Realm, he was confident he could finish them off quickly.
But at the moment, if he dared to use Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills against Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang, he would be instantly locked onto by Yi Ye Fu Yun on the other side, who would fire a Super Electromagnetic Cannon Type 2 Modified at the same time. This forced Rexa to only use his Qi and Blood Phantom for basic attacks. Though he could completely suppress Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang, he could not land a killing blow, which was unbearably frustrating.
If someone could hold off either of the two for just a few seconds, he could end the battle quickly.
“Young Master Rexa, this stronghold is too tough. I don’t know why, but every Bone Forging Realm disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall has mastered Sequence Transcendent Level Supernatural Martial Skills. We have more people on our side, but we’re locked in bitter fights everywhere. I’m tied down here as well and cannot break away.” The Half-Beast Race old man described the general situation through the smart watch while trading blows with a Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level player, without gaining any advantage at all.
The Half-Beast Race old man paused and looked at the gray-robed human youth before him, who was under twenty-five, and could not help but sigh.
He, a dignified High-level Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artist of a Domain City, was actually fighting to a draw with a Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level youngster. If word of this got out, his old face would be utterly disgraced in Tianhe Domain City.
Across the battlefield of the second stronghold, both sides had already fallen into full-scale chaos.
The Red Moon Merchant Guild, Smiling Skull, and Earth Star Pharmaceuticals leveraged their numerical superiority to make the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall suffer crazy losses. However, the martial skills mastered by the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples were all quite extraordinary. Among their Bone Forging Realm members, not a single one lacked Sequence Transcendent Level Supernatural Martial Skills, which made many Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artists of the three organizations feel ashamed.
Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills were extremely profound. Even Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artists did not command many of them. In the Domain Cities, even most City Lords had not mastered Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills, having only a few Supernatural Martial Skills.
Among the Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artists of the three factions, the proportion who had mastered Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills was higher, second only to the Domain Cities themselves, but still limited. Perhaps only one among three Blood Condensation Realm experts had done so.
Out of 180 Blood Condensation Realm experts, at most sixty had mastered them. Compared to the more than one hundred Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, each of whom had such skills, their overall superiority was not significant.
As for the Bone Forging Realm combat situation, that went without saying. Many Martial Artist level players of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall wielded C6-level Superconducting Electromagnetic Guns, which had longer range and greater power after Transformation. Their triple-shot mode left the Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists of the three factions almost no chance to fight back within two to three hundred meters, and they were quickly eliminated. This made the losses among the three factions’ Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists particularly severe.
“The Red Moon Merchant Guild really let us outsiders deal with the toughest stronghold,” Rexa said helplessly after hearing this. “Seems we can only wait for them to finish with the third and fourth strongholds and come support us.”
As hired hands, they had expected the Red Moon Merchant Guild to assign them the hardest tasks, but he had not expected that even with him and Twilight Shadow Michalu working together, they still could not take it down quickly.
Fortunately, the four strongholds were not far apart. At full speed, Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artists could arrive within at most half an hour.
But this was not the situation he wanted to see. After all, if this battle’s story spread, it would only make outsiders think that they were weaker than the Half-Step Heavenly Human experts of the Red Moon Merchant Guild and the other two organizations, unable to quickly wipe out the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall strongholds and forced to wait for those three’s Half-Step Heavenly Human experts to resolve things.
While both sides at the second stronghold were locked in bitter struggle, the players inside the stronghold were frantically calling for reinforcements.
“Have the ones who logged off still not notified players at the other three strongholds to come over? We’ve got over a hundred boss-level Plot Battles here. Are they not interested? This is all merit and money!”
“I just logged off for a bit. It seems it’s not only our stronghold under attack. The other three strongholds have also been assaulted, and their numbers don’t seem fewer than ours.”
“This Plot Battle in the Mountain of the Dead is too brutal. We just built a few Beginner mental secret towers, and they’re already attacking all strongholds. The difficulty for unlocking the new map is way too high.”
“I think it’s great. With so many bosses, the major teams can’t cover everything. Without those teams stealing kills, we’ll definitely be able to take down plenty of bosses this time. If a Tier 3 Weapon drops, we’re rich. Right now, the martial arts halls don’t offer Tier 3 Weapons for redeeming. Only Blood Condensation Realm bosses can drop them. A single one is worth over a hundred million points. Even if we don’t sell it, using it ourselves would greatly improve our strength.”
The players inside the stronghold had mixed feelings about this sudden attack. Some were worried, some ecstatic. Many players who had been killed ran to the forums during Resurrection, posting about this unprecedented large-scale war, making many players who had not yet entered the game boil with excitement.
“This combat engine is insane! Players can actually cause this level of destructive power? They’re basically humanoid Godzilla. One move wipes out a whole mountain. When is this damn game going to let me in!”
“The Azure Fortress battle is nothing. You didn’t see the Heavenly Might Fortress fight someone posted just now. That NPC turned into a giant beast phantom over two hundred meters tall. With one swipe of its claw, a crater with a radius over five hundred meters appeared on the ground, and all NPCs and players in the area were instantly killed. Luckily Vice President Luo was there. With one person and one sword, relying on her physical body, she tanked it head-on. In less than a minute, the fifty-kilometer radius around them turned into craters. If that were real life, even a starfleet would probably be wiped out. And the scenery was insanely spectacular.”
“The Machine God Fortress battle is also super exciting. I’ll send you the video later. Brother Zhen and Sister Chen’s strength is absurd. Brother Zhen alone could withstand the big boss’s full-strength strike. A whole mountain vanished and he only lost an arm, then in just a few seconds he snapped his bent arm back into place and recovered, leaving the big boss stunned. Sister Chen was even more insane. Against another big boss, she split into over a hundred clones. Every clone unleashed crisscrossing blade lights, and hundreds of blade lights chopped at one spot, cutting a mountain clean in half. Even that big boss was completely suppressed, barely able to defend.”
For a time, players on the forum frantically discussed this sudden war, and many were curious about which top experts of the major teams were the strongest.
Whether it was Ye Qinglu, who fought like a Sword Immortal, or Luo Wu Shang with her One Sword Splits the Heavens, or Fang Zhen, who was unharmed even by a big boss’s full-force blow, or Chen Ya with her hundreds of clones, it was obvious that they were no longer comparable to ordinary Bone Forging Realm players. Anyone who could join these players’ teams would surely get the best possible growth after entering the game.
“Strange. Why is there no detailed news from the Mythical Paradise stronghold?” Can Dao Ru Xue, who had already been killed, looked at various posts on the forum, feeling very puzzled.
Within the Mountain of the Dead there were four strongholds established by the current four major teams. The situations at the other three strongholds were practically being broadcast live, with one player after another posting the latest updates on the forum.
But for the Mythical Paradise stronghold, apart from the initial word that it had also been attacked by an NPC army and then locked in stalemate, there had been no further news. It was truly strange.
Once players died, they needed time to resurrect. With nothing to do, they would naturally go to the forum to talk and brag. After all, the High Martial Arts Descend forum had long become a prime place for players to exchange insights and conduct trades.
Whether it was cultivation methods or martial skills, or other in-game intel, players would put their exclusive information up for trade. Many High Martial Arts Descend analysts had even emerged, specializing in gathering and analyzing various intelligence. In particular, the training and learning methods for cultivation methods and martial skills had been optimized again and again, making them increasingly easier to learn.
Although many of these people had not yet entered the game, their research on cultivation methods and martial skills based on their Test Space experiences was even better than that of many in-game experts. Many players who had entered the game were eager to buy their materials. However, these analysts were strange; they did not want money. They only wanted in-game intel, trading materials for intel or other information.
Because of this, anyone with first-hand in-game intel either sold it directly for a fee or traded with those analysts.
But now, with no news at all from the Mythical Paradise stronghold, she, who loved collecting intel and materials, was truly confused.
“No need to check. It’s already over,” Qian Ren E Gui suddenly said in the communication channel.
“Over? What do you mean?” Can Dao Ru Xue looked at Qian Ren E Gui, who had just logged off not long ago, full of confusion.
Although both she and Qian Ren E Gui had joined Ye Qinglu’s team, they were used to moving alone. After becoming martial artists, they each went into the Mountain of the Dead to grind resources and levels. Her area was near the Azure Fortress, while Qian Ren E Gui was over by the Mythical Paradise stronghold.
“Just what it sounds like. The battle there is already finished,” Qian Ren E Gui said with a sigh. “Before, I thought the current number one player in this game was either Qinglu or Vice President Luo Wu Shang of Heavenly Might. Now it seems I underestimated the experts in this game.”
“Brother Qian Ren, what exactly happened at the Mythical Paradise stronghold?” Can Dao Ru Xue grew even more curious at Qian Ren E Gui’s sudden sigh.
“I recorded it. See for yourself,” Qian Ren E Gui said and sent Can Dao Ru Xue a video recorded from the game pod.
The video was very short, barely one minute from start to finish.
In it, within the Mythical Paradise stronghold, large numbers of NPCs were fighting the players. The number of Blood Condensation Realm NPCs alone exceeded one hundred and eighty, clearly holding a huge advantage over Mythical Paradise’s fewer than one hundred Bone Forging Realm players.
In less than thirty seconds, the Mythical Paradise players were completely at a disadvantage. Many Bone Forging Realm players were killed by a Blood Pattern Clan old man over four meters tall, wearing a jet-black helmet.
Especially the Beginner Level Bone Forging Realm players, who, even after entering the Transcendent State, were killed in one punch by the Qi and Blood Phantom that old man condensed. Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level Martial Artists also could not block him, all felled in a single punch.
In less than twenty seconds of action, he had already killed over ten Bone Forging Realm players with utterly overwhelming power.
Just as the players were about to be routed, a figure shot in from the distant edge of the stronghold like a meteor, landing in the center of the battlefield. The area within several hundred meters instantly turned into a crater. Several Blood Condensation Realm NPCs died on the spot, and dozens of Bone Forging Realm NPCs were reduced to dust, leaving only shattered Tier 2 Battle Armor.
Can Dao Ru Xue recognized that figure who had landed.
The Vice President of Mythical Paradise.
Lu Fanchen!
In Pilgrimage, he was a genius on par with Luo Wu Shang.
With Lu Fanchen’s appearance, the Blood Pattern Clan old man immediately charged at him. His Qi and Blood Phantom, nearly two hundred meters high, threw a punch straight down, the pressure of the fist wind whipping up a storm around them. Its power far surpassed his previous attacks.
Facing that punch, Lu Fanchen did not dodge. He merely entered the Transcendent State.
“What’s going on with this Transcendent State?” Can Dao Ru Xue stared at Lu Fanchen’s Transcendent State in shock.
As a player who had just learned the Transcendent State, she knew better than anyone what it should be like.
Normally, after a martial artist player entered the Transcendent State, the energy surrounding their body would be at most twenty centimeters thick. Even at the Bone Forging Realm Advanced Level Limit, it would not exceed thirty centimeters.
Yet the energy around Lu Fanchen in the video was over one meter thick, and it burned like flames. It was a Transcendent State she had never seen before.
When the Blood Pattern Clan old man’s phantom fist slammed down on Lu Fanchen’s head, it was as if a person had swatted a fly. That punch, which could normally shatter a Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level player and had already crushed the ground into a crater over a hundred meters in radius, only broke Lu Fanchen’s skin and drew a single drop of blood from his forehead.
Before the Blood Pattern Clan old man could even be surprised, Lu Fanchen patted the dust off his body. At some point, the wound on his forehead had already healed. Then he raised a hand.
In an instant, numerous massive spheres over two hundred meters in size appeared, revolving rapidly around his hand as the center, overlapping and twisting space, while the spheres’ cores shone and shrank until they were only a little over ten meters in radius.
All of this happened in less than one second.
Then Lu Fanchen struck with his palm toward the Blood Pattern Clan old man.
Can Dao Ru Xue recognized this move as well. It was a martial skill created by Lu Fanchen himself.
Star Burst!
In martial skill tiers, it belonged to an Extreme Super-Class Martial Skill, one level higher than Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills.
The Blood Pattern Clan old man threw another punch in response, clearly consuming even more qi and blood than before.
Boom!
The glowing sphere collided with the phantom iron fist. The powerful impact could be felt within several kilometers, but it only lasted an instant before the glowing sphere shattered the phantom fist and smashed into the Blood Pattern Clan old man.
The Blood Pattern Clan old man shot away like a meteor, leveling a mountain five kilometers behind him. Only some broken armor and a heavily damaged weapon remained, leaving nothing else behind.
