However, Jiang Chen was not intimidated by these sword flowers. He used Traceless Steps, his figure as elusive as a ghost, and dodged the sword flowers in an instant.
He raised his blade and brought it down, slashing directly at Jiang Ming before him.
Jiang Ming's expression changed drastically. He had never expected Jiang Chen's footwork to be so exquisite that he could charge through so many sword flowers without suffering the slightest injury.
Jiang Chen had already cultivated Traceless Steps to the perfected level.
On top of that, Jiang Chen's strength far surpassed that of cultivators of the same level. Dodging these sword flowers was child's play to him.
Jiang Ming swung the long sword in his hand at Jiang Chen before him, and their weapons clashed at close quarters.
Powerful force erupted.
"Boom." Jiang Ming felt an overwhelming force and was sent staggering backward.
His sword-wielding hand went numb, and he stared at Jiang Chen in shock.
If he had not gripped the long sword tightly just now, it would have been knocked from his hand.
Jiang Chen took advantage of the momentum and slashed out with the Demonic Soul Blade, unleashing a massive blade qi.
With no other choice, Jiang Ming could only meet it head-on.
"Pfft." The tremendous might sent Jiang Ming flying.
Jiang Ming could not help spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Seeing their Martial Grandmaster Realm, First Level hall master sent flying by Jiang Chen and even made to bleed, the many mercenaries' expressions changed.
"Hall Master." Several Martial Master Realm mercenaries hurried over to support Jiang Ming.
"Get him! Kill him!" Jiang Ming roared furiously.
Seeing this, the other mercenaries charged toward Jiang Chen one after another.
"Hmph. Courting death." Seeing these underlings charging at him, Jiang Chen remained utterly calm.
Jiang Chen simply wielded the Demonic Soul Blade and began swinging it rapidly.
"Pfft, pfft..."
"Ah, ah..."
"Ah..."
Many mercenaries died tragically under Jiang Chen's blade.
Before long, dozens more mercenaries had died tragically beneath Jiang Chen's blade, while Jiang Chen did not have a single injury on him.
The gap between their strength and Jiang Chen's was simply too great. They could not hurt him at all.
Instead, they became lost souls beneath his blade.
After so many more people died, the other mercenaries no longer dared to advance. Fear flashed through their eyes. Charging forward to fight Jiang Chen now would be nothing but courting death.
Seeing that so many people no longer dared to step forward, Jiang Chen gave a contemptuous smile.
These people from the Bloodfire Mercenary Group usually killed without batting an eye, but now that they had encountered someone stronger than themselves, they felt fear as well.
It seemed that the instinct to fear death existed in everyone.
Jiang Chen admitted that if he were facing death himself, he could not remain completely calm either.
The others temporarily dared not charge over. Seeing the corpses covering the ground, Jiang Chen circulated the Sky Devouring Demonic Dragon Art. A powerful suction force absorbed the blood qi from the surrounding corpses.
The cultivation within Jiang Chen's body rapidly increased. Before long, his aura erupted.
"Pfft." Martial Master Realm, Sixth Level.
"What?" Jiang Ming watched as Jiang Chen's aura suddenly erupted and he advanced to Martial Master Realm, Sixth Level.
He had actually advanced just like that?
The other mercenaries were also dumbstruck.
He had suddenly advanced in the middle of battle. It was truly a fright for them.
Jiang Chen had already been so powerful at Martial Master Realm, Fifth Level. Now that he had advanced to Martial Master Realm, Sixth Level, his strength would be even greater.
This made them feel even more desperate.
As for Jiang Chen himself, delight flashed through his eyes when he sensed his breakthrough.
The Sky Devouring Demonic Dragon Art was truly overbearing. He had actually advanced again.
However, Jiang Chen had killed so many people from the Bloodfire Mercenary Group. The enormous amount of blood qi was enough to let him advance.
Jiang Chen looked toward Jiang Ming. Killing Jiang Ming was the most important thing now.
"Today, you can forget about keeping this base of yours," Jiang Chen said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Chen charged rapidly toward Jiang Ming.
The Demonic Soul Blade in his hand came slashing down.
"Demonic Soul Slash, Sky Annihilation Strike, tenfold enhancement." Jiang Chen leaped into the air, soaring ten meters high.
Then, holding the Demonic Soul Blade, he condensed a blade qi that seemed to split the heavens and slashed directly toward the area where Jiang Ming stood.
There were still quite a few powerful mercenaries there.
This blade qi was at least thirty meters long, and its momentum was utterly terrifying.
With the tenfold power enhancement from Sky Annihilation Strike, its might was even more astonishing.
Demonic Soul Slash was a martial technique recorded within the Demonic Soul Blade.
Now that the Demonic Soul Blade had acknowledged him as its master, Jiang Chen could inspect the contents it carried.
The heaven-shaking blade qi crashed down.
The expressions of Jiang Ming and the others changed one after another. Jiang Ming wanted to leave the spot, but this martial technique was simply too powerful. It enveloped the entire area and increased the gravity within it.
Their movements were impeded, preventing them from quickly escaping.
"Boom..." The blade qi crashed down.
It directly carved a huge pit dozens of meters long into the area before them.
As for Jiang Ming and the others within that area, they had already been chopped into mangled corpses.
The might was simply too powerful.
"This..." The other mercenaries who had avoided the attack paled drastically.
Their powerful Hall Master Jiang had actually died?
And he had been left without a complete corpse?
"Ah! Hall Master Jiang is dead! Run!" someone shouted.
Upon hearing this, some Martial Artist Realm mercenaries also began fleeing at top speed.
What a joke. The strongest expert at their base had just died tragically at Jiang Chen's hands.
Even those experts had not been Jiang Chen's match, so how could Martial Artist Realm mercenaries like them possibly do anything to him?
Had they not just seen how many experts at the Martial Artist Realm and Martial Master Realm had died tragically at Jiang Chen's hands?
The other mercenaries also ran for their lives after hearing this.
How could Jiang Chen possibly let them escape so easily?
He rapidly circulated Traceless Steps and pursued the mercenaries, killing them as he went.
However, after killing more than forty people, Jiang Chen found the entire base's camp deserted.
About two hundred people had escaped, most of them Martial Artist Realm mercenaries.
Jiang Chen had killed roughly three hundred people this time. The entire base was filled with corpses.
Jiang Chen circulated his cultivation technique again and absorbed the blood qi. His cultivation directly reached the peak of Martial Master Realm, Sixth Level, but he did not break through to Martial Master Realm, Seventh Level.
If those two hundred mercenaries had not escaped and he had killed them all, devouring their blood qi would have been enough for him to advance to Martial Master Realm, Seventh Level.
However, Jiang Chen was not in a hurry. His strength was already extremely powerful.
Even a Martial Grandmaster Realm, First Level expert like Jiang Ming had died at his hands. His current strength was already equivalent to the Martial Grandmaster Realm. What more could he possibly want?
The Bloodfire Mercenary Group had destroyed plenty of families before. Who could have imagined that today, someone would come knocking at their door to annihilate them?
The other mercenaries no longer dared to remain in the camp. They all fled outside. Now, Jiang Chen was the only living person in the entire camp.
Jiang Chen collected the spoils of war and then looted the treasury.
Afterward, he poured lamp oil inside some of the houses.
Jiang Chen had originally intended to wipe out this base.
He set it alight, and in an instant, the camp erupted into a raging blaze.
Jiang Chen took one look and left the base directly.
The entire Bloodfire Mercenary Group base was transformed into a sea of flames.
Jiang Chen's figure quickly vanished into the night.
By daylight, when the people from the Bloodfire Mercenary Group's other bases received the news and came over, all they saw was a ruin scorched by raging flames.
This left everyone from the Bloodfire Mercenary Group utterly furious.
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