As dozens of experts rapidly pounced toward him, Lu Chen felt not the slightest fear. Instead, a cold gleam flickered in his eyes as he said, "Good. Let me test my true strength now!"
Boom!
His internal energy circulated, and the Azure Wave Art gave off the roar of crashing waves within his body. All his inner force surged forth like vast, rolling tides, churning violently across the surface of his body.
At the same time, his talents, [Convince with Virtue] and [Bronze Skin Iron Bones], were instantly activated. His body seemed to erupt like a volcano, overflowing with unimaginable power.
Whoosh!
With a flicker of his movement technique, he vanished in an instant.
He was nearly half again as fast as before. A shadow flashed, and he appeared before Zhao Hu in a heartbeat.
Zhao Hu was startled.
He had already known that Lu Chen was fast, but he had never imagined he would be this fast.
"Tiger Fiend · Thunderclap Fist!"
With a savage roar, Zhao Hu's eyes blazed with ferocity. His inner force erupted, and his two fists seemed to transform into countless black shadows, densely packed as they shot out at lightning speed with heavy, tyrannical fist force.
Boom boom boom boom boom...
Thirty punches in one second.
The dense fist shadows formed a vague black tiger before him, lifelike and vivid. It let out a deafening roar and lunged wildly at Lu Chen.
But Lu Chen's eyes flashed. He did not even look at the swiftly pouncing black tiger. One massive hand blasted out in an instant, wild winds surging from his palm as his inner force rolled forth like a great river and raging tide, unstoppable. Boom!
With a thunderous blast, energy burst outward.
The black tiger was shattered by Lu Chen's slap. His terrifyingly powerful palm pressed onward without hindrance, like a demonic claw descending from beyond the heavens, and landed on Zhao Hu's face in an instant.
Under Zhao Hu's terrified and disbelieving gaze, Lu Chen seized his face and violently slammed his body down toward the ground.
Bang!!
The sound was tremendous.
The ground caved in.
A vast burst of force swept wildly outward from Zhao Hu in every direction, and countless shattered stones shot into the surrounding walls like concealed weapons.
Pfft!
Zhao Hu spat out a mouthful of scarlet blood on the spot. His entire body was firmly pinned to the ground, smashing the earth down more than half a meter and creating a pit over a meter wide.
The bones in Zhao Hu's face shattered instantly, leaving him a bloody mess.
Only convulsions remained in his entire body.
His eyes were filled with overwhelming terror.
He had actually been instantly killed with a single move?
The others from Rising Sun Martial Hall, who had been charging toward them, immediately changed expression in fear. They hurriedly stopped, then rapidly backed away without a second thought before turning to flee.
"Hall Master, take care! My wife gave birth, I need to go back..."
"This has nothing to do with me. I was just here to watch the excitement..."
"I was just here to make up the numbers..."
They fled at once and vanished in the blink of an eye.
Even Chen Baisha and Guo Feng, who had been rushing over, changed expression and quickly halted.
Their hearts turned icy as disbelief filled them.
Zhao Hu!
The hall master of Rising Sun Martial Hall, a mid-stage Third Rank martial artist!
He possessed an internal cultivation method and a Ranked Martial Skill!
Yet he had been taken down with one move!
How was that possible?
"Spare... spare me..."
Zhao Hu struggled to move his lips on the ground. Blood flowed from both his mouth and nostrils.
He was terrified beyond measure.
"Heh."
Lu Chen laughed. His five fingers gripped Zhao Hu's shattered face as he yanked his body out of the ground like a scarecrow. Then he suddenly turned and smiled. "Senior Sister Su, what do you think? I told you I could help you kill Zhao Hu, didn't I? You didn't pass that cultivation method to me for nothing, did you?" Su Yingxue, who had only just arrived and landed atop a nearby roof, shrank her pupils in shock, unable to believe what she was seeing.
Not long ago, Zhao Hu had been like a towering mountain to her.
Now, he was like a dead dog.
Casually held in someone's hand.
This Lu Chen!
He was terrifying!
But soon, intense delight welled up in her heart.
"Kill him now!"
Su Yingxue shouted sharply.
As she spoke, Senior Brother Zhang and Senior Sister Mei narrowed their eyes. Cold light flashed within them as they suddenly glanced toward Su Yingxue, cruel smiles rising in their hearts.
An opening?
Whoosh! Senior Brother Zhang vanished in an instant, pouncing toward Su Yingxue in an attempt to capture her first.
But how could Lu Chen fail to guard against him?
Almost the moment Senior Brother Zhang moved, Lu Chen crushed Zhao Hu to death. His body shifted in an instant as well, and he unleashed Grass on Flying, intercepting him nearly immediately.
Yet just as he intercepted Senior Brother Zhang, Senior Sister Mei sneered. Her body shot forward as well, her movement technique flashing repeatedly as she lunged directly at Su Yingxue from another direction.
Lu Chen's expression darkened. He swung Zhao Hu's corpse and hurled it toward Senior Sister Mei as though it were a concealed weapon. At the same time, he swept his leg, sending countless broken roof tiles flying out in an instant. Wrapped in powerful waves of inner force, they shot rapidly toward Senior Sister Mei, forcing her to dodge.
But at that moment, a bloody stench rushed toward him head-on. It was thick, pungent, and nauseating.
Senior Brother Zhang gave a vicious smile. One of his palms was enveloped in a layer of bloody light as it struck toward Lu Chen's body almost instantly.
Without hesitation, Lu Chen stirred all his inner force and met it with a palm strike of his own.
Bang!
Boom!
Their palm forces collided with a tremendous crash.
Borrowing the force of the impact, Lu Chen instantly retreated. He unleashed Grass on Flying, his body flickering several times before he landed before Su Yingxue and firmly protected her behind him. His heart was heavy as he subconsciously glanced at his own palm.
"What a strange martial art!"
From that palm clash just now, he had felt the blood and vitality within his body fall into chaos instantly.
It was as though he had encountered an enormous suction force that wanted to tear open his blood vessels and draw the blood from his body.
If he had not cultivated the Azure Wave Art, allowing his inner force to form a great circulation that protected his entire body, that palm strike might truly have drained a great deal of his blood and vitality.
Moreover, when the other party attacked, a bloody and pungent stench filled his palm.
It was as though a scarlet sea of blood had enveloped him.
This was an evil art!
[You successfully sent a hall master to reunite with his son. Merit Points +100]
A line of text appeared before Lu Chen's eyes.
"You blocked one of my palm strikes?"
After exchanging a move with Lu Chen, Senior Brother Zhang also revealed a look of surprise. He carefully examined Lu Chen again, then smiled. "Interesting. I am very curious about what secret you carry that allowed someone who was once worse than a beggar to become a Great Accomplishment Third Rank martial artist in a single day. Tell me this secret, and perhaps I can spare your life. What do you say?"
"Lord Zhang..." Guo Feng's expression changed as he hurriedly looked toward Senior Brother Zhang.
Lu Chen had killed his entire family.
How could he possibly let Lu Chen go?
Yet Senior Brother Zhang merely chuckled and ignored him completely.
Even Senior Sister Mei smiled sweetly as she approached from the side, looking relaxed and at ease as she stood beside Senior Brother Zhang.
Lu Chen's gaze was grave as he stared intently at the man and woman.
He felt waves of invisible pressure.
This man and woman were so strange!
They gave him a feeling of ill omen.
A feeling of coldness!
More importantly.
Both of them carried that faint bloody aura, and especially when they attacked, that bloody aura became exceptionally dense. It was as though mountains of corpses and seas of blood suddenly appeared before his eyes, delivering a spiritual shock... At once, he recalled the rumors he had heard that morning.
More than thirty people had been drained of blood and died last night...
That manner of death seemed exactly the same as the scene when that man attacked just now.
"You were the ones who drained the blood from those thirty-odd people last night!"
Lu Chen narrowed his eyes, staring at the man and woman as he spoke in a low voice.
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