The Blood Wolf Guard leader was, after all, a late-stage Meridian Condensing Realm expert. At the critical moment, he forcibly suppressed the discomfort in his mind and fiercely swept up the savage, barbed blood-red curved blade in his hand!
Clang—!
A piercing explosion rang out! Two concentrated streams of Killing Intent crashed wildly against each other, blood-red and black-red light blooming like two sinister flowers at the bottom of Eagle Beak Ravine!
The shockwaves rolled out, directly sending several ordinary Northern Barbarian transport soldiers flying, breaking their tendons and shattering their bones!
Chen Qing only felt a ferocious, tyrannical rebounding force strike him, making his body pause slightly in midair. The Blood Wolf Guard leader, meanwhile, let out a muffled groan. The ground beneath his feet cracked as he slid several steps backward, the arm holding his blade trembling slightly. For the first time, horror appeared in his eyes.
The other man's strength and Killing Intent were actually this tyrannical! Especially that mental assault—it was impossible to guard against!
"Form up! Wolf Killing Array!" the leader roared sharply.
The remaining four Blood Wolf Guards reacted with extraordinary speed. They instantly abandoned their respective opponents, their figures flickering as they surrounded Chen Qing with an enigmatic set of footwork. The five men's auras connected, their Killing Intent intermingling, faintly forming an illusory blood-red wolf head that squeezed Chen Qing's Fierce Tiger Domain until it warped slightly! An even denser stench of blood and slaughter spread through the air, enough to make one retch.
This Wolf Killing Array was clearly a joint combat secret art. It could gather the strength of several people into one, unleashing battle power far beyond that of any individual!
"Interesting." Rather than panicking within the formation, Chen Qing's battle intent burned even hotter. He could feel that the Killing Intent formed by these five working together was of extremely high quality. To him, it was a great tonic!
He no longer held back. His Black Tiger True Intent, honed to perfection, erupted completely! The dark-red Killing Intent around him no longer diffused outward, but condensed to an extreme, becoming a suit of close-fitting dark-red armor. Around his arms and ring-pommel saber in particular, the Killing Intent had nearly become tangible!
"Roar!"
He released a low tiger's roar—not a sound, but a tremor of true intent and Killing Intent! The illusory blood-red wolf head was actually jolted into a brief standstill by that silent tiger roar!
Seizing the chance, Chen Qing moved!
With one step, the ground exploded beneath him. His figure vanished from where he stood like a ghost, and in the next instant, he was already before a Blood Wolf Guard on the left! His ring-pommel saber cleaved down with a shriek that tore through the air!
The Blood Wolf Guard raised his blade to block, but before Chen Qing's strength and Killing Intent, condensed to their utmost limits, his resistance was as fragile as paper!
Crack!
The curved blade snapped!
The ring-pommel saber continued downward, splitting him in two from head to crotch! Blood and organs splattered across the ground!
[Blood Wolf Guard killed (early Meridian Condensing Realm). Obtained a large amount of pure blood vitality and Killing Intent. Fierce Tiger Iron Body proficiency +400!]
A corner of the Wolf Killing Array was instantly broken! The formation backlashed, and the other four Blood Wolf Guards, including their leader, all went pale.
"How is that possible?!" The leader was both shocked and enraged. This Wolf Killing Array could contend even against a peak Meridian Condensing Realm expert, yet it had been broken by a single strike?
But Chen Qing did not pause in the slightest. His figure flashed again, and he appeared behind another Blood Wolf Guard as though teleporting. The five fingers of his left hand burned with dark-red baleful flames like red-hot iron pincers as they viciously clawed for the man's nape!
The Blood Wolf Guard's soul nearly fled his body. He spun around and slashed at Chen Qing's arm!
Clang!
The blade struck the "armor" formed from condensed dark-red Killing Intent, leaving only a shallow mark! Chen Qing's palm, however, had already pierced through him like tofu and crushed his cervical spine!
[Blood Wolf Guard killed. Fierce Tiger Iron Body proficiency +380!]
In the blink of an eye, two Blood Wolf Guards had died!
The remaining three Blood Wolf Guards were completely terrified, and even their leader began to think of retreating. This Chen Qing was simply a monster!
"Trying to run?" Chen Qing's icy voice seemed to ring beside their ears.
The Fierce Tiger Domain contracted with all its strength, concentrating around the three men. That powerful suppression and mental assault slowed their movements to an extreme!
Chen Qing charged among them like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, saber light and fist shadows crisscrossing!
The third Blood Wolf Guard had his heart blown apart by a single punch!
The fourth was severed at the waist by saber light!
The final leader desperately unleashed all his Killing Intent. His blood-red curved blade transformed into a bloody rainbow and shot toward Chen Qing's glabella, attempting to perish together with him!
Chen Qing neither dodged nor evaded. His ring-pommel saber struck later yet arrived first, following an enigmatic trajectory to tap the very tip of the blood-red curved blade!
Ding!
A soft chime rang out!
The blood-red curved blade was like a man struck in his fatal acupoint. All its radiance instantly dimmed before it shattered inch by inch!
The ring-pommel saber drove straight ahead, piercing through the leader's throat!
[Blood Wolf Guard leader killed (late Meridian Condensing Realm). Obtained an enormous amount of pure blood vitality and Killing Intent. Fierce Tiger Iron Body proficiency +800! Fierce Tiger Domain significantly strengthened!] [Black Tiger Fist Intent has deeply fused with Killing Intent. Killing move comprehended: Fierce Tiger Roar!]
The light in the leader's eyes swiftly faded, and his corpse collapsed limply to the ground.
All five Blood Wolf Guards had been wiped out!
The entire process had taken no more than ten breaths!
The ordinary Northern Barbarian transport soldiers around them had long since been frightened out of their wits, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy. Those obscure auras lying in ambush within the distant forest also retreated silently like startled rabbits the moment the Blood Wolf Guards were wiped out.
Chen Qing stood with saber in hand, feeling the surging pure energy within him, nearly overflowing. In particular, the information about the killing move called "Fierce Tiger Roar" that had appeared in his mind made a satisfied curve rise at the corner of his lips.
This trip to Eagle Beak Ravine had been worth it.
He looked at the Northern Barbarian Soldiers kneeling and begging for mercy, his eyes cold.
"Leave none alive."
"Yes!" Old Niu and Sun Quezi grinned savagely as they led their men in a charge.
A short while later, there was not a single living thing left in Eagle Beak Ravine aside from the soldiers of the Black Tiger Camp.
Chen Qing walked to the Blood Wolf Guard leader's corpse and searched his robes, retrieving a Blood Wolf Head Token. On the back of the token was an ancient Northern Barbarian character—"Blood."
He put the token away. It might prove useful later.
"Clean up the battlefield. Take every head and all captured spoils. Return to camp!"
"Yes, General!"
The Black Tiger Camp returned in triumph once more, carrying abundant "spoils of war" and a heavy stench of blood.
After this battle, the elite squad of Blood Wolf Guards that had infiltrated the Northern Frontier was uprooted completely, and Northern Barbarian's scheme had once again gone bankrupt. Chen Qing's fierce reputation would surely spread through the upper ranks of Northern Barbarian alongside the tale of the "Fierce Tiger Devouring Wolves."
The rats hiding in the shadows of the Imperial Capital would surely receive this "generous gift" as well.
Chen Qing raised his head and looked south, toward the Imperial Capital, his gaze deep and unfathomable.
The game had only just begun.
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