Kong Wu seemed tireless, continuously swinging the Evil-Slaying Saber in his hand.
Blood Spirit, who had originally looked relaxed, frowned slightly at the sight.
The Blood Shield Talisman's defensive power was excellent, but every time it blocked an attack, it consumed a portion of True Qi.
His initially playful attitude changed. His expression turned serious as he raised a finger and once again began drawing a talisman in the air.
Noticing this, Kong Wu did not stop. He continued hacking away.
But his eyes remained fixed on Blood Spirit.
The next moment, Blood Spirit finished the final stroke.
Blood-colored light exploded, and five blood spears as thick as fingers appeared from thin air and shot toward Kong Wu.
Having prepared in advance, Kong Wu withdrew the Evil-Slaying Saber and held it before him, blocking all five blood spears.
The blood spears struck the Evil-Slaying Saber and immediately dispersed, but the force within them still drove Kong Wu back several steps.
The Evil-Slaying Saber moved aside, revealing Kong Wu's face.
There were no wounds on his body, but his constantly trembling hands showed that this attack had not been easy to receive.
Seeing this, Blood Spirit was astonished that the man had blocked the blood spears, but he still relaxed somewhat.
Although this mortal was strong, his strength was limited.
With his own abilities, he could still take him down with ease.
Once he had made up his mind, he said no more and lowered his head to draw another talisman.
This time, he spent far longer than he had on the previous two.
Kong Wu did not hurry forward to attack. He lowered his head, seemingly lost in thought.
Before long, Blood Spirit gave a low shout and pressed one finger onto the blood-colored talisman.
Countless blood-colored spears flew out from before him, surging toward Kong Wu like a curtain of rain.
Blood Spear Rain was one of the Blood Talisman Sect's Twelve Blood Talismans. Only cultivators who had reached the Foundation Establishment Realm could unleash this talisman.
This talisman required a tremendous amount of True Qi. Even Blood Spirit, who had only just broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, was panting slightly.
Correspondingly, its power also ranked among the best of all the talismans Blood Spirit had mastered.
I never expected that, in this tiny Qingshan County, someone would force me to use this move.
Blood Spirit sighed inwardly.
In his eyes, Zhou Sangu's commission this time had been something he could resolve with the lift of a hand.
If he had not just broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm and needed more cultivation materials, he would never have made a trip to this remote place.
But unexpectedly, the moment he arrived, Junior Brother Zhou had already lost his life.
For now, he could only deal with this fellow first.
As he pondered, he suddenly realized that Kong Wu was standing there without moving.
Had he been scared silly?
The thought had only just surfaced when Blood Spirit saw Kong Wu abruptly raise his head.
And the countless blood spears were already right before him.
Kong Wu took one step forward and advanced into the Blood Spear Rain.
"System! Allocate points!"
With a thought, all his idle free attribute points were added to his strength attribute.
Boom!
Kong Wu's body suddenly expanded. His already burly physique grew an entire circle larger from nowhere.
The sweat expelled from his body instantly evaporated. An invisible shock wave erupted outward from him, kicking up sand and dust from the ground.
Blood Spirit saw this scene and felt an inexplicable jolt in his heart. He stared fixedly at Kong Wu, who was hidden behind the cloud of dust.
A huge hand emerged first, and Kong Wu slowly revealed himself.
His clothes were tattered beyond recognition. Clearly, he had taken the attack head-on with his body.
Yet the skin exposed beneath them was completely unscathed, without so much as a scratch.
"How... could this be?"
Blood Spirit's eyes widened.
He could confirm that the countless blood spears had truly struck Kong Wu.
Yet Kong Wu had blocked them with his physical body alone.
How could this... Wait!
Blood Spirit's mind was shaken for an instant, but he immediately regained his senses and noticed something amiss.
Kong Wu, who had already been so burly that he hardly looked human, had now become even taller and more powerfully built.
He stood nearly two meters and thirty centimeters tall, with a waist as broad as a millstone, broad shoulders, and a muscular chest.
Most terrifying of all were his thick arms, almost as wide as Blood Spirit's waist.
Standing there, he filled the air with an invisible intimidation.
Blood Spirit felt as though he were a mortal who had encountered a black bear rearing upright in a deep forest—helplessness, fear, and countless other emotions churned through his heart.
Somewhere in the depths of his mind, a voice screamed.
Run!
Run now!
You're no match for him!
And that was indeed the truth. Kong Wu's strength attribute had now leaped upward.
Kong Wu
Life: 102 Strength: 33.6 Skill: Blood Burst Technique Lv1 (0/10) Free Attribute Points: None Special Attribute Points: None
Feeling the explosive power contained within his body, Kong Wu raised his head to look at Blood Spirit and revealed a ferocious smile.
"All flash and no substance. Let me show you what true strength is!"
The moment his voice fell, Kong Wu vanished from where he stood.
Not good!
Blood Spirit's alarm bells rang wildly. Before he could react, he heard a thunderous crash behind him.
Then his entire body, wrapped in a pale-red barrier, flew out and smashed through the wall, shooting straight into the house.
Crash!
Blood Spirit rose from a pile of rubble. When he looked up, his pupils immediately contracted.
Several faint cracks had appeared on the pale-red barrier.
When he looked toward Kong Wu, however, he saw Kong Wu slowly retracting his fist.
In that strike, Kong Wu had not even used the Evil-Slaying Saber. He had relied solely on his physical body to throw that punch.
"Pretty tough!"
Kong Wu said this indifferently and took the Evil-Slaying Saber in his hand.
Seeing this, Blood Spirit immediately reacted and focused all his attention on drawing a talisman.
That last strike had made him realize that Kong Wu was no longer a little cat he could toy with.
He could no longer approach this with a playful attitude.
Compared with before, his movements were now much faster, his arm leaving afterimages in the air.
Kong Wu had just raised the Evil-Slaying Saber and charged out when the talisman before Blood Spirit had already taken shape.
After finishing it, Blood Spirit did not even have time to catch his breath before pulling two more talismans from his chest and activating them with visible reluctance.
Three streaks of blood-colored light flew out and transformed in midair into blood-colored tigers.
Roar!
The blood-colored tigers seemed alive as they roared and pounced toward Kong Wu.
This was the strongest talisman Blood Spirit could cast.
Nearly all the True Qi in his body had been drained by this single talisman, and he had even used up the finished talismans he had painstakingly saved over the years.
Finished talismans were extraordinarily precious, after all.
The higher the grade of a talisman, the more expensive the materials it required. After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, all of Blood Spirit's savings had only been enough to exchange for the materials for these two Blood Tiger Talismans.
Blood Spirit was certain this strike would prevail.
But what happened next caused his mind to slip out of his control, and he could not help shouting.
"How is that possible?!"
Kong Wu expressionlessly raised the Evil-Slaying Saber and brought it down in a straight slash. The first blood-colored tiger was cleaved into two.
Its body, formed from pure True Qi, exploded in midair and instantly dissipated into nothingness.
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