Chapter 270: Chapter 269: Size is Nothing, Hardness is Everything.

But it had to be said, two people made for a quick slaughter.

Wu Chen just had to sweep across the battlefield and back, with the Blood Palace Upper Envoy following right behind him and doing the same.

With one in the lead and the other in pursuit, it took them less than a moment to cut down half of the fiends on the field.

"Dammit, this idiot!"

Although the Upper Envoy was "helping" him kill the enemy, Wu Chen, who rarely ever cursed, couldn’t help but let one slip.

His original plan had been the same as before: to use the Upper Envoy’s tyrannical presence to force the horde of fiends to fight him to the death.

He would save the Upper Envoy himself for last.

But now, the Upper Envoy was slaughtering everyone indiscriminately, friend or foe, and had already cut down half of the fiends.

Never mind the significant amount of Qi and Blood that was being wasted.

The surviving fiends were now keeping their distance, terrified of being cut down by one of their own.

This meant that it now took Wu Chen more time and effort to kill a single fiend.

Some fiends even deliberately pulled away and stopped fighting him altogether. If it weren’t for the Blood Palace’s sigil, they would have already turned tail and fled.

"Has the Upper Envoy gone mad?!"

"He’s even killing his own people!"

"..."

A group of fiends watched from afar on an intact rooftop. While they only voiced a few complaints, in their hearts, they were already cursing the Upper Envoy and his entire lineage.

It wasn’t that they were unwilling to fight the young man. But after barely escaping the youth’s clutches with their lives, they were liable to have them reaped by their own superior a moment later.

Anyone in their position would keep their distance!

"..."

Wu Chen was rendered utterly speechless. He glanced sideways at the figure pursuing him and said helplessly,

"Why don’t you take a little break?"

"You son of a bitch! If you have any guts, stop running with that Body Technique of yours!"

He already couldn’t catch up, and now, hearing Wu Chen’s taunt, the Upper Envoy’s voice came cursing and swearing from within the flesh armor.

He didn’t know how this youth was so fast, his movements so slippery that every time he got close enough to unleash a killing blow, he would miss.

’A Body Technique...?’

Wu Chen fell silent at the Upper Envoy’s words.

He could swear on his life that he wasn’t using any kind of Body Technique or Martial Arts.

As a master in the Armor Forging Realm, the changes to his physique, inside and out, were far beyond what those in the Leakless Realm and Blood Coagulation Realm could compare to.

His every casual step, every sudden dodge and leap, was executed at a speed that utterly crushed theirs.

That’s why it appeared to them that he possessed a masterful Martial Arts Body Technique.

’Sigh, why waste my breath on them? I’ll just have to speed up the killing...’

Shaking his head, Wu Chen looked around and sighed softly. He decided to put in another burst of effort and finish clearing out this garrison posthaste.

Then he would absorb their Qi and Blood, collect his spoils, and move on to raid the next garrison.

In fact, not even a full moment had passed since his arrival in town.

Yet, over a hundred men had already died by his longspear.

A killing pace like this could hardly be called slow.

It was only slow from Wu Chen’s perspective.

For one, the absurdly demanding progress bar for his Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body was making him anxious.

For another, this affair involved the Blood Palace, and he worried that delays would breed new problems. He had to annihilate several more of the garrisons that were creating the Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body before the Blood Palace’s masterminds could react.

As long as he could destroy half of them, the rest would become useless. Wu Chen believed the Blood Palace’s plot would then collapse on its own.

That was why he couldn’t stand to waste even a single moment.

BOOM!—

Having decided to end things quickly, an invisible shockwave erupted from Wu Chen. His figure accelerated again out of nowhere as he charged toward the nearest fiend.

"Damn you! Stop running!"

"If you’re a man, come and fight me!"

Seeing the distance between them instantly stretch to over thirty yards, the Upper Envoy, who already couldn’t keep up, was so frantic that his flesh armor nearly collapsed. He could only scream curses at Wu Chen’s back.

He then resorted to goading him, hoping to make him stop and turn back.

Unfortunately, Wu Chen completely ignored him, continuing to charge left and right, slaughtering fiends and leaving the Upper Envoy far behind.

The Upper Envoy couldn’t even use a fraction of his skills, which was an unbearable frustration.

In truth, his Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body, at the Leakless Realm, didn’t just enhance his offensive and defensive capabilities; it also provided a huge boost to his speed.

Among those in the same realm, he had few opponents who could match him while he wore the Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body.

But unfortunately for him, he had run into Wu Chen today. He could only be left far behind, unable to use any of his skills.

SHHNK! SHHNK! SHHNK!—

As he watched the figure ahead cut an unstoppable path, the Upper Envoy’s eyes looked ready to split from fury. With every thrust of the longspear, a spray of blood would erupt from the chests of his subordinates.

’I can kill them, but no one else can!’

"Come at me if you have the guts! Come at me!"

He roared as he charged toward the young man, leaving a trail of toppled walls and collapsed houses in his wake.

He madly chased after the young man. After a few more back-and-forth passes, large swathes of the town’s buildings had been smashed into ruins, kicking up clouds of dust.

It looked like a chase, with Wu Chen seemingly at a disadvantage, not daring to confront the Upper Envoy directly.

In reality, it was a completely one-sided massacre orchestrated by Wu Chen.

"HUFF... HUFF..."

The Upper Envoy was panting with rage. He simply couldn’t catch up to the shadow in front of him and could only watch as the man slaughtered his subordinates.

His heart bled as he watched his men’s numbers dwindle.

Seeing his subordinates being harvested like this, the scale of the losses had broken his spirit.

Even as an Upper Envoy holding a key position in the Blood Palace, he wouldn’t be able to easily report such losses to the Palace Master.

Not unless he could kill the scoundrel before him.

But clearly, that was something he was incapable of doing.

Moreover, his very presence meant that the sixty or seventy fiends who remained, though terrified by Wu Chen, still didn’t dare to escape.

The fiends could only do their best to hold on, hoping their Upper Envoy would finally display his might and take the man down.

All they could do was dodge, with Wu Chen chasing them, and the Upper Envoy chasing Wu Chen.

It created an utterly ridiculous scene in the small town.

But this comical scene didn’t last long.

When Wu Chen had killed them down to just thirty men, they finally realized the truth: the Upper Envoy was completely powerless against their opponent!

It wasn’t a question of winning or losing—he couldn’t even catch up to him. What hope was there?

’If I stay here, I’ll just become another corpse on the pile!’

Should they be killed by Wu Chen, killed by the Upper Envoy, or killed later by the Blood Palace...? After a moment’s deliberation, the fiends decided to flee first and worry about the rest later.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!—

Nearly thirty men scattered like startled birds, fleeing in all directions.

Though Wu Chen was fast, he was alone. After he cut down ten or so more, the rest had vanished without a trace.

"Don’t you dare run! Get back here, all of you!"

Watching his subordinates flee, the Upper Envoy bellowed with all his might, but to no avail.

But then he noticed that the young man in the center of the field had finally stopped moving.

’Is he tired? Can he finally not run anymore?!’

"It’s all because of you!"

The Upper Envoy’s massive figure seemed tireless as he stomped toward the young man.

He knew his situation was dire. With so many subordinates dead, he had no way of reporting back.

Unless he could kill the young man in the distance, there was no hope of salvaging the situation.

With this in mind, the Upper Envoy began to forcibly wring out every last shred of his internal Source, intending to overdraft his potential to kill the young man.

The Qi and Blood in his body crashed like violent waves against a shore, battering his physique. He drew upon his Source to its very limit, causing it to appear somewhat dim.

But the immense, stabbing pain from this act made the Upper Envoy’s face twist into a grimace inside his flesh armor.

The results, however, were also clear. His Blood and Flesh Cast Armor Body grew taller still.

Stimulated by his Qi and Blood and Source, the armor easily broke through twenty feet in height, and his speed increased explosively.

As he leaped, he left a faint afterimage behind him.

WHOOSH!

The sound of rushing wind came from behind him.

Wu Chen was still feeling a pang of disappointment that some of the fiends had escaped when a shadow suddenly fell over him.

Even without turning around, he knew it was the Upper Envoy’s enormous flesh armor.

’It’s time to end this.’

Wu Chen let out a long sigh. His posture didn’t change as he twisted, stomped the ground, and shot upward, all while pushing his longspear forward in a simple, unadorned thrust.

SCHRRIIIP!—

As if he had predicted it, the tip of Wu Chen’s black spear pierced precisely through the flesh armor, sinking unerringly into the position of the Upper Envoy’s heart within.

The next moment, Wu Chen twisted his wrist, and a violent aura surged from the spear’s tip.

BANG!

With a muffled boom, the frenzied aura burst through the armor from within, blasting a hole a foot in diameter clean through the back of the Upper Envoy’s flesh armor.

’What’s the use of being big?’

Wu Chen watched as, after his single spear thrust, the twin crescent-moon blades drooped limply and the flesh armor began to crumble and dissipate, revealing the Upper Envoy’s true form. He couldn’t help but scoff inwardly,

’Being tough is what really counts!’

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