Chapter 138: Chapter 138: Do You Have a Death Wish?

"THUD!"

A slight, muffled sound echoed out. The Black Profound Bone-Piercing Awl struck solidly against the Combat Suit on Ding Yan’s left shoulder!

The embedded Spiritual Crystal Stones instantly flickered violently before rapidly dimming! Fortunately, her Protective True Essence reacted in time, keeping the attack from completely piercing through. However, the sharp and tyrannical piercing power still bypassed her defenses and viciously smashed into her shoulder blade! A wave of agonizing pain washed over her. Her entire left arm went numb and limp, and her forward momentum was abruptly halted, sending her staggering backward uncontrollably!

"Now!"

A cold light glinted fiercely in Fang Chen’s eyes! He blocked the saber strike from Xu Xiao, forcefully twisted his body, and redirected all his pent-up power and speed toward the unsteady Ding Yan behind him! At this moment, Fang Chen had completely abandoned his defense against Xu Xiao, leaving his back utterly exposed!

How could Xu Xiao miss such a perfect opportunity? With an angry shout, he delivered a palm strike brimming with True Essence squarely onto the center of Fang Chen’s back!

"BANG!"

A muffled collision echoed out. The Spiritual Crystal Stones on Fang Chen’s Combat Suit flickered frantically, desperately trying to neutralize the impact, but they still couldn’t completely offset a full-force palm strike delivered from point-blank range. He felt as if his back had been smashed by a giant hammer. His Qi and Blood churned wildly, a sweet metallic taste rose in his throat, and his internal organs were already damaged!

Agonizing pain tore through him, but the sheer resolve in his eyes didn’t diminish in the slightest! Borrowing part of the forward momentum from Xu Xiao’s palm strike, his advancing speed actually increased by another thirty percent! The Cyan Blade in his hand let out a shrill hum. No longer concealing its cyan and yellow light, it enveloped the staggering Ding Yan from above!

"Junior Sister Ding, watch out!"

Xu Xiao’s palm strike had landed perfectly, yet seeing Fang Chen actually borrow the force to launch a counterattack, his expression changed drastically as he hurriedly raised his saber to pursue.

However, Fang Chen’s momentary burst of speed—exchanged at the cost of his own injury—was simply too fast!

Ding Yan looked up, only to see that lethal, intertwining cyan and yellow sword light rapidly enlarging before her eyes! Gritting her teeth, a trace of ruthlessness flashed in her eyes. "Don’t look down on me!"

Atop the short blade in her right hand, pale blue True Essence instantly boiled up like raging flames!

Dragon and Phoenix Dual Blades - Reverse Scale!

She slashed upward, pouring all her strength into meeting the intertwining Dual-Color Sword Aura head-on!

"BOOM!!!"

An energy explosion even more violent than before detonated across the battlefield! The shockwaves pushed outward in all directions like a physical wall!

Ding Yan let out a muffled groan as the bluestone beneath her feet shattered. She slid backward for several meters, a trail of blood seeping from the corner of her mouth. Her right arm, which held the blade, trembled uncontrollably, the webbing between her thumb and index finger torn open. However, she was ultimately a Yellow Rank One Qi Martial Artist with a profound foundation. Her slash had actually caused Fang Chen far more trouble.

And yet, before she could even catch her breath, she was horrified to see that Fang Chen—who had just been repelled by her blade and should have been suffering from turbulent True Essence and needing time to recover—had already retracted his hands to his chest with lightning speed. His ten fingers were rapidly shifting like a blooming lotus! At his fingertips, a terrifying, highly compressed, and razor-sharp radiance of True Essence visibly coalesced!

Ding Yan thought in shock, "This isn’t right. Didn’t I hold the advantage in that clash of True Essence? This guy... doesn’t he need to regulate his breath and recover his True Essence?! Every single move is an all-out ultimate attack? Is he even human?!"

What she didn’t know was that, just a moment ago, Fang Chen had secretly activated Time Stop four times!

Clashing head-on in a frontal assault against Xu Xiao? What a joke! By using his High Martial Realm cultivation to forcefully contend against a Yellow Rank’s True Essence, his internal organs would have long been stacked with hidden injuries from the shockwaves! He had merely used the Time Stop Domain to repeatedly freeze time, consume medicine to heal his injuries, and meditate to regulate his breathing.

For the strike Xu Xiao had just landed on his back, Fang Chen had even spent an entire month resting and recuperating from it. At this moment, his Aura remained towering and stable. This was the unique endurance advantage granted to him by Time Stop, and he had to utilize this advantage to its absolute limit!

"[Heaven-Cutting Finger Sword]—Ten Directions Extermination!"

Fang Chen’s eyes were ice-cold as he aimed his ten fingers at the barely steady Ding Yan and violently flicked them!

"SWISH SWISH SWISH SWISH!!!"

An ear-piercing screech tore through the air! Ten fiercely condensed, almost invisible streams of Finger Sword energy, resembling a torrential downpour, blanketed all the vital points on Ding Yan’s body. There was nowhere to hide!

Ding Yan’s expression changed drastically. "Oh no!"

She only had time to swing the short blade in her still-mobile right arm into a screen of light while frantically channeling the remaining True Essence in her body to protect herself.

"CLANG CLANG CLANG! THUD THUD!"

The first six or seven Finger Swords were barely blocked or deflected by her, exploding into bursts of energy. But the remaining three landed solidly on the Combat Suit covering her chest and abdomen!

"CRACK, CRUNCH!"

The embedded Spiritual Crystal Stones let out an overwhelmed wail. Their light extinguished instantly, and immediately after, they completely shattered apart! The True Martial Level Combat Suit was torn open by the extreme piercing power contained within the Finger Swords, leaving several finger-sized holes! The residual power of the Finger Swords penetrated through, leaving behind several wounds on her body that gushed with blood!

"ARGH!"

Ding Yan cried out in pain, her body staggering once more as her Aura plummeted.

Yet, in the very split second Fang Chen unleashed his Finger Swords with his back turned to Xu Xiao, the latter’s pursuit had already arrived! A fierce glint flashed in Xu Xiao’s eyes. Carrying a desperate, do-or-die momentum, his long saber viciously slashed toward Fang Chen’s defenseless back!

This slash struck squarely against Fang Chen’s Combat Suit! Even though it was a High Martial Realm Combat Suit, the Spiritual Crystal Stones flickered madly under the blade before losing more than half their luster! Although the blade hadn’t sliced through the Combat Suit, its might wasn’t something the suit could entirely neutralize. At least fifty percent of the power bypassed the Combat Suit and transmitted directly into Fang Chen’s body, leaving a hideous, bone-deep gash on his back!

Agonizing pain surged. Fang Chen felt as though his internal organs were going to be displaced by the sheer power of this slash! He violently coughed up a mouthful of bruised blood, yet the madness in his eyes hadn’t diminished in the slightest. Turning a blind eye to Xu Xiao’s threat from behind, he used his forward momentum to brazenly lunge at the teetering Ding Yan once again!

"Is this guy insane?!"

"Just how deep is his grudge with Senior Sister Ding?!"

"His bones must be falling apart! Is he trying to drag her down with him?!"

Incredulous cries of alarm rang out from the sidelines. Everyone was utterly intimidated by Fang Chen’s fighting style—a style where he would completely disregard his own safety just to forcibly take down a single person.

Xu Xiao was even more alarmed and bewildered. He was absolutely certain that his previous slash had heavily injured his opponent! But why... why was he still able to move? And why were his movements almost completely unaffected by the fatal strike?

Despite his shock, Xu Xiao didn’t stop his hands, continuing to swing his saber at Fang Chen.

Having just forcefully endured Xu Xiao’s blow, Fang Chen now knew the limits of the Combat Suit; it could keep him from dying! He thought, "As long as it doesn’t kill me, I’ll keep going!"

Ignoring Xu Xiao’s assault, he pounced toward Ding Yan, pressing the index and middle fingers of his right hand together. Aiming straight at the face of the blurry-visioned Ding Yan, who was struggling to regulate her breathing, he thrust his fingers through the air!

It was the [Heaven-Cutting Finger Sword] once again! Although it wasn’t as powerful as the ten-finger volley from earlier, it was much faster and far more abrupt!

Ding Yan had just managed to gather a sliver of True Essence when she saw several invisible Finger Swords shooting toward her face. She was forced to frantically tilt her head to dodge while raising her right arm to block.

"RIIIP!"

One of the Finger Swords brushed past her cheek, actually tearing straight through the zipper connecting her Combat Suit’s mask to its hood! The upper half of the hood was flipped back, revealing a beautiful, pale face filled with shock and pain.

She was just about to call out to Xu Xiao to save her, but the moment she opened her mouth... a finger had already silently slipped into her slightly parted lips! At the tip of that finger, a streak of Sword Qi was rapidly taking form! Ding Yan’s pupils instantly shrank to the size of pinpricks.

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