Chapter 269: Chapter 268: Transformation, Great Spear, Crushing Dominance

’So much chatter...’

Gazing at the shadowy figures all around, Wu Chen figured the enemy had finally gathered all their forces.

Then, he raised his hand, made a fist, and opened it.

In an instant, the Blood Evil True Gang coalesced around him and blasted toward the densest group of enemies.

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!—

Caught completely off guard, nearly a dozen fiends were struck squarely by the Gang Qi and erupted into a mist of blood.

Wu Chen had no time to check his status panel, for in the wake of his attack, the Upper Envoy from across the Blood Pool was already charging toward him.

"You damn bastard! You refused the easy way, so now you’ll get the hard way!"

The Upper Envoy’s furious voice roared.

He never imagined that the young man, despite being so heavily outnumbered, would show not a shred of fear. He had even dared to strike first, killing the Upper Envoy’s subordinates right in front of him.

’Is he just killing my subordinates? This is a slap in the face!’

In the face of the young man’s actions, the Upper Envoy’s killing intent could no longer be restrained. He stomped fiercely on the ground, vaulted over the massive Blood Pool, and charged toward the young man.

Recalling the power of Wu Chen’s initial attack, he knew his opponent was no weakling, so he too unleashed his strongest killing technique.

Leakless Realm: Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body—Perfection!

As he leaped into the air, dark red flesh oozed from his skin, and scarlet Blood Qi enveloped him in a swirling mass.

Halfway across the Blood Pool, the red mist of flesh and blood around him had condensed into armor a foot thick. His entire figure swelled to a monstrous height of nearly twenty feet.

Clad in dark red flesh-armor, his hands transformed into crescent blades six to seven feet long.

He looked utterly imposing, like a god of slaughter incarnate.

SWOOSH!—

The Upper Envoy’s massive form descended from the sky, its shadow completely engulfing the young man, the sense of pressure immense.

The blood-red crescent blades slashed down in a cross, aiming to leave the young man no chance of survival.

’So this is the armored body of someone in the Leakless Realm...’

Wu Chen marveled at the form before him, far more solid and defined now, as if forged from Profound Iron.

Compared to the Blood Coagulation Realm, where the flesh just looked like a lump of mud plastered onto the body, this armored form from the Leakless Realm was much more impressive.

Thinking about how he himself was in the Armor Forging Realm, he grew even more excited about the armored body he would eventually create!

’In the future, whenever I’m in danger...’

’Transform!’

But Wu Chen also knew that, however much he looked forward to it, that was a concern for after his armored body reached Perfection.

What he needed to do now was:

Dodge!

Wu Chen did not choose to clash head-on with the Upper Envoy.

As he dodged, his long, slender fingers gripped the scabbard at his waist.

A pitch-black mist then swirled around his right arm, spreading to envelop the blade in his hand.

Following that, his entire right arm, starting from mid-shoulder, transformed into pitch-black armor.

His hand and fingers also morphed into the shape of sharp dragon claws.

Meanwhile, the straight, ink-black blade in his hand began to lengthen inch by inch, coated in the same inky Qi and Blood.

Finally, it solidified, transforming into an entirely ink-black, seven-foot-long spear!

"No wonder you’re so audacious! So you’ve also learned a Martial Art that can forge an armored body!"

The Upper Envoy’s attack missed, but he wasn’t dismayed. He chuckled as he watched the transformation of the young man’s arm.

"A pity. It seems your armored body is only at Minor Achievement, covering just half of you. You are destined to die here today!"

At this, he suddenly bellowed in a voice like thunder:

"Seize him!"

As the command rang out, Wu Chen, who was dodging backward to create distance, noticed the space above him suddenly darken.

It was as if dark clouds had blotted out the sun.

He glanced up and saw nearly a dozen fiends leaping down from the eaves on both sides, blocking all his paths of retreat.

Some held chains, others wielded iron hooks that glinted coldly; it looked as though they intended to capture him alive.

’They actually saw through my evasive maneuver. Truly worthy of being the minions of a Leakless Realm expert!’

Wu Chen praised them internally. Though his path was blocked, he showed no panic. The seven-foot, ink-black spear, held tightly in his dragon-claw hand, swept out horizontally toward the circle of figures above.

WHOOSH!—

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!—

Wu Chen’s Qi Power already surpassed that of an ordinary Martial Artist, and the Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body amplified the strength in his right arm by an unknown magnitude.

Though it seemed like a simple, unadorned sweep, the spear shaft carried an incredibly violent aura.

Thus, amid the whistling roar of the sweeping spear, the circle of fiends exploded on the spot before they even hit the ground!

[Proficiency for Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body (Great Success) +800]

[Proficiency for Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body (Great Success) +800]

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The pitch-black spear was fundamentally a part of Wu Chen, formed from his Qi and Blood.

As the spear swept past, the potent, essential Blood Qi from the fiends’ bodies was completely absorbed by the spear and channeled into Wu Chen’s body, with none of it going to waste.

"Not bad at all!"

The massive increase in proficiency points put Wu Chen in an excellent mood.

But the Blood Palace’s Upper Envoy, witnessing this scene, found his mood souring to the extreme.

He had thought Wu Chen would be captured and was about to deactivate his ’Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body’ to go and mock him properly.

Seeing this, his body swayed violently.

"How is this possible!" The Upper Envoy’s enormous head craned forward, as if he suspected he was seeing things.

He had personally trained the very fiends who had just cornered Wu Chen; that was the source of their insight and skill, the very reason they were qualified to stop him.

Even he would have to tread carefully to avoid injury in such a predicament.

Yet in the young man’s hands, a single, simple sweep of his spear had resulted in their deaths?!

But the blood mist still drifting in the air and the limbs scattered across the ground were all telling him that it was all real.

In the brief moment the Upper Envoy was stunned, Wu Chen, having finished his sweep, charged relentlessly toward the largest concentration of fiends.

"Don’t run! Stop him!"

Seeing the young man employing hit-and-run tactics, the Upper Envoy assumed he was trying to escape and shouted loudly.

’Are you blind? Who’s running?!’

Wu Chen cursed internally and, with a light leap, crossed a distance of over a hundred feet.

The great spear in his hand moved like a striking viper, impossibly nimble, just like a part of his own body, as he unleashed a series of thrusts.

The fiends in his path were no match for him, their chests easily pierced by the tip of the black spear.

A Grandmaster’s attack has no frills—just a simple, ferocious buildup and explosive release of power, yet no one could defend against it.

Even if Wu Chen were holding a simple wooden stick, the result would be the same.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

Just as Wu Chen was getting into the swing of the slaughter, a world-shaking commotion erupted behind him.

He glanced sideways and saw the Upper Envoy, in his enormous flesh-armored form, crashing his way toward his position.

Countless houses and courtyard walls were like paper before this massive body, exploding into clouds of dust and collapsing as he charged through.

"Die! Die! Die!"

The Upper Envoy charged recklessly forward, closing in on the young man and slashing viciously with his crescent arms.

Even with a dozen of his own men surrounding Wu Chen, he had no intention of holding back, his movements broad and wild.

SCHLICK!—

The red-glowing crescent blades fell in a cross-slash, cleaving seven or eight fiends in half at the waist. Their eyes were wide with disbelief as they stared at the Upper Envoy.

But to the Upper Envoy, these subordinates were just getting in the way. As long as he could kill the young man before him, a few of their deaths were of no consequence.

The plan to refine flesh and blood to forge armored bodies inherently involved huge losses.

In the end, it was unlikely that even half the participants would succeed.

So, even if he killed his own people, he could just report them to the Palace Master as normal attrition later!

’Tsk! What a complete waste!’

Looking at the bodies on the ground, sliced into several pieces by the sharp blades, Wu Chen felt a pang of heartache.

All that bright red Blood Qi, just dissipating into the air.

’Such a crime!’

’No helping it. This guy’s gone crazy. I have to kill them faster!’

Dodging a strike from the Upper Envoy’s hand-blade, Wu Chen shook his head in exasperation.

He guessed that this Leakless Realm expert must hold a fairly high rank in the Blood Palace.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t dare to slaughter his own subordinates so wantonly.

But Wu Chen couldn’t be bothered to dwell on it.

Because in his eyes,

everyone here had to die!

To avoid wasting any Blood Qi, he pushed his Body Technique to the absolute limit. His spear struck like a dragon, and as he pierced the fiends’ vital points, he didn’t forget to frantically refine their pure Qi and Blood.

Behind him, the Upper Envoy pressed ever closer, his blades rising and falling as he slaughtered with wild abandon.

Never mind that he was only killing his own people.

And so, a very strange scene began to unfold.

Wu Chen was killing the fiends.

The Upper Envoy was also killing the fiends.

For a moment, a world in which only the Blood Palace fiends got hurt was created!

The remaining fiends on the scene were completely dumbfounded, unable to tell who the real enemy was!

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