After a while, Yang Xiong stood up unsteadily again.
"Lu Banner Sergeant!"
He rushed to Lu Chen's side and probed for Lu Chen's breath with trembling fingers.
There was only a hint of airflow, so weak that it seemed like it would be cut off at any moment.
Yang Xiong's heart instantly sank to the bottom.
He checked Lu Chen's pulse again, and found it was cold where he started. There was almost no sign of True Qi's circulation in the meridians. His body was in a mess, with many meridians broken, and the internal organs were shocked to varying degrees.
This injury was ten times more serious than he imagined, almost no different from a dead person!
Without any hesitation, he suddenly took out an unpretentious white jade vial from his Storage Bag.
This is the holy healing medicine - Ninefold Life-Renewing Pill that was personally rewarded by Commander Demon Suppression Division after he narrowly escaped death and completed a top-secret mission on the frontier battlefield.
This elixir is extremely precious and is said to be able to bring people back from the gate of hell as long as they are still breathing.
Even though he was seriously injured and dying several times, he was reluctant to use it and always used it as a last resort to save his life.
But now, he pried open the bottle cork, poured out the longan-sized elixir that exuded a refreshing medicinal fragrance, then roughly opened Lu Chen's already closed teeth, and forced the priceless elixir in.
"Lu Banner Sergeant, you must not die!"
At this moment, Wang Teng finally recovered from the panic.
He looked at Yang Xiong's actions, and then greedily glanced at the inestimable corpse of Judge on the altar, as well as the Storage Bag scattered everywhere, with a complex and greedy light flashing in his eyes.
What he was thinking about was not saving people, but that it was not a good place to stay for a long time, and how to divide this huge booty.
He struggled to get up and tentatively spoke to Yang Xiong, "Yang, Brother Yang, this place is too dangerous. Let's... leave here first, and then make a long-term plan, right?"
After giving Yang Xiong the medicine, he was about to use his remaining True Qi to dissolve the power of the medicine into Lu Chen. When he heard these words, he turned around suddenly.
Those eyes were bloodshot, but as cold as ice. What they contained was the purest iron-blooded Sha Qi, honed in hundreds of battles on the battlefield!
"Shut up!"
"Without Lu Banner Sergeant, we wouldn't even be considered a puddle of rotten meat now! From now on, whoever dares to touch a hair of his, or dare to mention a word of nonsense, I, Yang Xiong, will be the first to unscrew his head!"
Boom!
A violent Sha Qi burst out from Yang Xiong's body. It was the Sha Qi who was killed in the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses. It was far more solid and terrifying than the momentum of ordinary warriors.
Wang Teng was rushed by this Sha Qi, and felt as if his breath was suffocated, as if he was being stared at by a wild beast. He couldn't say a word after that, and his face instantly turned pale.
It was at this time that Ninefold Life-Renewing Pill's powerful medicinal power finally dissolved in Lu Chen's body.
An extremely pure warm current, like the source of life, began to flow through his damaged meridians, repairing the broken tissues.
However, a sudden change occurred!
There is some kind of wonderful and violent resonance between this pure medicinal power, the traces of condensed essence of hundreds of battles left in Lu Chen's body due to the ultimate death battle, and the mountain-like True Qi foundation of <Ten Thousand Year Black Tortoise Art> that he cultivated to perfection!
An uncontrolled energy vortex that was a hundred times more violent than the previous healing process suddenly formed in his Dantian Qi Sea!
Yang Xiong was shocked to find that the remaining Spiritual Qi, blood evil energy, and even the invisible energy in the void began to pour crazily into Lu Chen's body!
Lu Chen's body is like a dry sponge, greedily absorbing everything!
A sudden, unprepared, and sudden breakthrough at the weakest moment of the body has begun!
The energy storm raged crazily in Lu Chen's body, and his skin was sometimes as red as fire, as if it was about to be burned into coke;
Sometimes it turns purple as ice, and a thin layer of white frost even condenses on the body surface.
His already weak breath became extremely unstable at this moment, like a candle in the wind that could be extinguished at any time.
"No! Forcefully break through!"
Yang Xiong's face changed drastically, and a deep chill filled his heart.
He knows better than anyone that a warrior's passive breakthrough in such a weak state is tantamount to a gamble and a narrow escape!
The meridians are already in dilapidated condition and cannot withstand such a violent energy impact. If there is any external interference, the only outcome will be Qi Deviation, exploding to death!
At this moment, Yang Xiong made a decisive decision without any hesitation.
He shouted in a low voice at the frightened Wang Teng beside him, "Protect Lu Banner Sergeant! If you dare to make the slightest move, I will kill you first!"
Before he finished speaking, he had already picked up the spear again, turned around and rushed into the surrounding darkness.
He wants to nip all potential threats in the cradle!
"Pfft!" "Pfft!"
Several low-level demons, attracted by the rich smell of blood here, just poked their heads out of the shadows, and were accurately pierced through their heads by rapid gunshots. They didn't even have time to scream, and they turned into cold corpses.
Yang Xiong held on to his severely injured body, like a tireless god of war, and quickly cleared an absolutely safe area outside the cave.
At the same time, Lu Chen's consciousness was in a state of half-dream and half-awake chaos.
He could see the changes in his body.
On the one hand, it was Ninefold Life-Renewing Pill's majestic and pure life medicine, like a gentle river, working hard to repair his dry and cracked meridians.
On the other hand, during the deadly battle with Judge, the ray of Bai Zhan essence condensed by him overdrawing his life and squeezing his soul, was like an unruly ancient ferocious beast, rampaging through his damaged meridians, causing heartbreaking pain.
Two forces, one gentle and the other violent, were incompatible with each other and almost tore his body apart completely!
On the verge of losing control, at the moment when he was about to be completely exploded by this force, <Ten Thousand Year Black Tortoise Art>, which had long been integrated with his flesh, blood and soul, instinctively started to operate on its own!
"Ang--!"
A silent roar, as if coming from the ancient times, exploded directly in the depths of his sea of consciousness!
A vague, ancient shadow of an ancient black turtle, carrying the entire world on its back, slowly emerged.
Its four legs are like the pillars of the sky, and the tortoise shell is imprinted with the mysterious patterns of the birth and death of the universe. A supreme artistic conception that is as thick as a mountain, suppressing eternity, and calming the world spreads from the virtual shadow!
The unruly spirit of fighting for a hundred battles, in the face of this artistic conception of suppressing all things, seemed to have encountered a natural enemy and became docile in an instant.
And the majestic torrent of medicinal power was forcibly restrained and integrated by this artistic conception, and slowly blended with the essence of Bai Zhan.
The chaos was forcibly terminated at this moment!
Lu Chen relies on his extraordinary willpower to hold on to the clarity of the spiritual platform in the midst of chaos.
He felt this unprecedented powerful force after being integrated, and also felt the extremely solid barrier between the early and middle stages of Meridian Opening.
There is no way out!
"Give me... break!"
He took the initiative to guide this majestic force that was suppressed by the black turtle, and launched the most decisive charge towards the barrier!
"Boom!"
During the first impact, the barrier did not move at all, but the force of the counter-shock caused his meridians to burst again, causing severe pain.
"Boom!"
After the second impact, there was an imperceptible crack in the barrier, and blood oozed from all his orifices.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Time and time again, it's like hitting the immortal wall with flesh and blood.
Every impact was accompanied by pain as painful as breaking one's body into pieces.
But Lu Chen's will has been tempered even harder and purer in this extreme pain!
Finally, after an unknown dozens of impacts, the indestructible barrier made an overwhelming "click" sound.
Then, like a landslide and tsunami, it shattered!
A jet of black True Qi, which was far purer and several times more majestic than before, surged out like a bursting river, flowing all over his limbs and bones in an instant!
All the injuries and damaged meridians left in the battle, washed away by this new-born force, healed, reshaped, and became stronger at a speed visible to the naked eye!
His aura is no longer violent, but is rising steadily, vigorous and restrained, and finally stays firmly at the level that countless warriors dream of -
[Meridian Opening mid-level]!
Lu Chen suddenly opened his eyes, and two rays of light flashed past in the dark cave.
The whole person's temperament has undergone earth-shaking changes. It is no longer as sharp as before, but like a peerless magic weapon hidden in a deep sheath, becoming more restrained, deeper, and more dangerous.
Yang Xiong, who was guarding the periphery, felt this stable and powerful aura. He was stunned for a moment, and then his face showed incredible ecstasy and deep awe.
In such a desperate situation, not only did he not die, but he was a blessing in disguise, and he stood up again after breaking.
What kind of monster is this Lu Banner Sergeant?!