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Even though one blow had dented the azure membrane and shattered the Wu Clan Princess's bones, it still hadn't broken. It continued to protect her.
"Origin Mud—"
Liu Chengfeng knew what it was.
At the fourth stage of Treasure Mountain, one reached perfection by fusing Origin Mud and breaking through the bottleneck.
Origin Mud molded the body and protected it. Possessing it not only made the body stronger, but also added another layer of defense.
Mountain Mud formed the Azure Light Membrane; City Mud formed the City Guard Armor.
Origin Mud also had grades: low, middle, high, supreme, and innate.
The Wu Clan Princess's status was lower than the Fourth Elder's. Because of his ties to the royal family, the Fourth Elder possessed high-grade City Mud, while her Origin Mud was only high-grade Mountain Mud.
Although Mountain Mud's Azure Light Membrane wasn't as hard as City Mud's City Guard Armor, it still wasn't easy to break.
"Kill—"
Protected by Origin Mud, the wounded Wu Clan Princess fought like a female leopard in dire straits. Her blood surged, and the Azure Light Membrane shone brightly as the Colorful Dragon Sword slashed furiously at Liu Chengfeng.
The Wu Clan Princess saw a glimmer of hope. If she could keep him from breaking through her Origin Mud, then her Heart Method could heal her injuries. If she fought with everything she had, there would always be a chance.
With Origin Mud protecting her, the Wu Clan Princess attacked with wide, sweeping movements, refusing to defend.
The Colorful Dragon Sword rang out. Dragon light surged as it cleaved through metal and stone, aiming straight for Liu Chengfeng.
Liu Chengfeng parried three consecutive strikes. Sparks flew. Although the Wu Clan Princess couldn't cut him down, if things continued like this, the Thunder Sound Staff would be chopped apart. It wouldn't hold much longer.
"Kill—"
Killing intent blazed in Liu Chengfeng. He let out a long howl and activated the "Flying Rosy Cloud Gold Sword Technique." His body became like a sword, Sword Qi erupted, and sand and stones flew.
"This is—"
At this astonishing sight, both Ye Yiqing and the Grandmaster Mansion's experts were stunned.
He threw back his head and howled, Sword Qi bursting from his mouth. A flash of cold light appeared, and killing intent pierced the heart.
The Wu Clan Princess was horrified. Origin Mud protected her, and a flood dragon swam around her, trying to block the Sword Qi.
How could it possibly stop Sword Qi from the Sage Scroll Innate? With a deafening crash, the Azure Light Membrane was pierced. Blood sprayed as the Sword Qi ran through her body, sending the Wu Clan Princess flying.
Blood stained the earth. With one sword thrust through her body, the Wu Clan Princess had lost the ability to fight.
"How would you like to die?"
Liu Chengfeng advanced step by step, his killing intent terrifying. The Wu Clan Princess was so frightened that her blood ran cold. She scooted backward.
"Princess, save me! Young Master, save me!"
The Wu Clan Princess's face was deathly pale as she screamed in terror.
Even if the Grandmaster Mansion's people wanted to save the Wu Clan Princess, they didn't dare act. Lady Chen was keeping them in check. Whoever dared to move would be the first she killed.
"Go on, run. Let's see how far you get."
Liu Chengfeng sneered, killing intent flashing in his eyes. The Wu Clan Princess was so terrified that her courage shattered.
With no one to rely on and Liu Chengfeng's killing intent rolling over her, the Wu Clan Princess was scared out of her wits. Bleeding and wounded, she scrambled to her feet and fled toward the Wu Clan.
Liu Chengfeng sneered and followed close behind, refusing to let her escape.
One chased; the other fled. Their path led straight to the Wu Clan.
The Grandmaster Mansion's experts fell silent.
Wounded, the Wu Clan Princess fled toward the Wu Clan.
Like a hunter pursuing its prey, Liu Chengfeng followed at an unhurried pace, scaring the Wu Clan Princess half to death.
She fled westward. Blood covered her body, her clothes were torn, and her hair hung loose over her shoulders. Like a stray dog driven from its home, she had lost every trace of her former pride and nobility.
The Grandmaster Mansion wanted to help, but didn't dare act. All they could do was watch from afar.
The Wu Clan Princess fled for three days and three nights. By then, she was so wretched that she no longer looked like a princess. When the Wu Clan finally came into view, she was overcome with joy.
"Stop him! Stop him..."
Like a gale, the Wu Clan Princess rushed toward the Wu Clan, screaming hysterically, her heart pounding with fear.
"Kill—"
Dozens of Wu Clan disciples had already charged out. They drew their swords and blades, shouting as they rushed toward Liu Chengfeng to protect the Wu Clan Princess.
"You all deserve to die—"
Liu Chengfeng sneered, Thunder Sound Staff in hand. His River Staff technique surged without end, like the mighty waves of a great river. One wave followed another, crashing against the shore and soaring through the air.
Liu Chengfeng charged into the flock like a tiger among sheep. Screams rose one after another, and in the blink of an eye, he had killed dozens of disciples.
Terrified, the Wu Clan Princess kept fleeing toward the Wu Clan, rushing straight into its grounds.
"Brat, how dare you—"
The Wu Clan's three elders, hurrying back to rescue her, roared from afar. Their bodies shot forward like flying bullets as they charged toward Liu Chengfeng.
"First Elder, save me—"
Scared out of her wits, the Wu Clan Princess rushed toward the three elders.
"It's over—"
Liu Chengfeng sprinted up behind the Wu Clan Princess and unleashed the "Flying Rosy Cloud Gold Sword Technique." He let out a howl, his body became a sword, and Sword Qi poured forth, transforming into a golden sword's icy gleam that shot out to kill.
"Save me—"
The Wu Clan Princess screamed and ran toward the three elders with every last bit of strength she had.
She was still a step too late. Her scream cut off abruptly as the Sword Qi pierced her body. Even the Azure Light Membrane formed from Mountain Mud couldn't stop it.
The Wu Clan Princess's eyes were wide open. As she died, they filled with unwillingness and despair.
She had fled like a stray dog all this way and made it into the Wu Clan, yet still couldn't escape death.
"Beast! You deserve to die—"
By the time the three elders arrived, the Wu Clan Princess had already begun to fall, slain by Liu Chengfeng.
The three elders were beside themselves with rage. Liu Chengfeng had killed the Wu Clan Princess right in front of them, and they had been powerless to stop him. They had come just one step too late.
"Die—"
With a furious roar, the Third Elder attacked first. He brought his enormous hammer crashing down, each blow like a boulder, smashing viciously toward Liu Chengfeng.
"Just what I wanted—"
Liu Chengfeng laughed loudly. His Mountain Staff rose, shadows of the staff overlapping, each mountain higher than the last.
Amid a series of booming impacts, he blocked every one of the Third Elder's blows.
The Third Elder's Grey Rock Heart Method and Eighteen Crushing Stone Hammers were both upper-grade Human Scroll techniques.
Each strike unleashed more than a hundred thousand pounds of force. The hammer weighed like a mountain, yet it still couldn't break through Liu Chengfeng's Mountain Staff.
"Kill—"
The Second Elder was like a black leopard struck by lightning, pouncing behind Liu Chengfeng. The Poison Nether Sword, like a black leopard's fangs, silently stabbed toward Liu Chengfeng's back.
It was the same Leopard Shadow Heart Method and Shadow Hunting Sword Technique, but in the Second Elder's hands, they were far faster than when Wang Jing used them.
A flash of cold light, and the sword had already reached his back. Its icy gleam seemed to bite into his heart, vicious and ruthless.
Liu Chengfeng snorted. His body became like a flying soul, and the Purple Mist Flying Waterfall Technique reached its limit. He vanished in an instant, dodging the strike.
But his arm was still wounded, and blood sprayed out.
The Poison Nether Sword was poisonous. His wound blackened as the poison invaded Liu Chengfeng's body.
Liu Chengfeng activated the "Golden Dragon Heart Method." The innate Heart Method's power was immense; it healed his wound and drove out the poison.
Liu Chengfeng roared and swept his hand around, bringing down an Earth Splitting strike. The explosion was deafening as he slammed it toward the Third Elder.
The Third Elder tightly guarded himself behind his enormous hammer, like a wall of towering boulders, and met the Thunder Sound Staff head-on.
The collision boomed, and sparks flew. The Third Elder's tiger's mouth stung, and the hammer nearly slipped from his grasp.
He couldn't help but be horrified. How could a boy at the third stage of Treasure Mountain have such immense strength?
Suddenly, the First Elder attacked. His Coiled Dragon Sword circled around Liu Chengfeng, winding about him as rings of Sword Qi tried to bind him.
The First Elder's Coiled Pine Sword Technique was a supreme-grade Human Scroll technique: fast, with a flexible sword. Once his Coiled Dragon Sword locked onto someone, there was no escape.
Liu Chengfeng moved like a flying rosy cloud. The footwork of the Purple Mist Flying Waterfall Technique was peerless. He changed his form again and again, darting through the First Elder's layers of sword shadows.
The Second Elder, swift as a black leopard, attacked once more. The Poison Nether Sword aimed for Liu Chengfeng's throat, a strike meant to kill.
"Get lost—"
Liu Chengfeng howled. His Thunder Staff exploded with force, knocking aside the Second Elder's Poison Nether Sword.
In the blink of an eye, Liu Chengfeng had fought the Wu Clan's three elders for more than thirty moves.
The three furious elders fought with all their might, unleashing their life's work without pause: the enormous hammer fell like a mountain, the poison sword flashed like lightning, and the Coiled Dragon Sword wound around him...
Their attacks surged without end, one wave following another.
Liu Chengfeng swung the Thunder Sound Staff, the staff whipping through the air in a storm, the Thunder Staff exploding with force, the Mountain Staff sealing off every path... The longer he fought, the braver he became.
In a short time, Liu Chengfeng was covered in blood, his clothes torn, with sword wounds and hammer marks across him.
The Golden Dragon Heart Method protected him. Treasure light flowed without pause, and an illusory Dragon Scale shielded his body.
Even as Liu Chengfeng fought while wounded, it didn't affect him in the slightest.
Compared to Liu Chengfeng, whose clothes were stained red and body crosshatched with wounds, the three Wu Clan elders were less badly hurt, though they had taken injuries too.
They all possessed Origin Mud. The First Elder had middle-grade Great Tree City Mud, the Second Elder had low-grade Nether City Mud, and the Third Elder had low-grade Solid Rock City Mud.
City Mud protected their bodies, and City Guard Armor covered them. Even though every one of Liu Chengfeng's blows landed with the weight of a mountain, they only sent the three elders' blood surging. When they couldn't suppress it, they would cough up a mouthful of blood.
In such a short time, the Thunder Sound Five Staffs couldn't break through their City Guard Armor.
Even so, the longer the three Wu Clan elders fought, the more alarmed they became, while Liu Chengfeng grew more and more valiant.
The Blood Sea Divine Treasury and the Treasure Mountain Divine Treasury were both powered by innate Heart Methods. Liu Chengfeng's blood and energy were inexhaustible, and his Treasure Mountain body would not break.
Liu Chengfeng was like a tireless, unkillable cockroach. He counterattacked again and again, and the three elders simply couldn't knock him down.
Instead, as the long battle dragged on, the three elders' blood and energy were greatly depleted. With too little left, their treasured bodies could barely hold up.
Their muscles and bones lost their hardness, and their wounds healed less effectively. It became a vicious cycle.
At first, the three elders had held the upper hand. By the end, even fighting together, they could only draw with Liu Chengfeng.
Everyone outside the Wu Clan was dumbstruck.
They had never seen a cultivator with inexhaustible blood and energy. No matter how powerful a cultivator was, prolonged fighting would deplete it.
The three Wu Clan elders were a perfect example.
But Liu Chengfeng was different. His blood and energy were inexhaustible, and his treasured body would not break. Unless they could kill him outright, he could wear the three elders down.
The three elders understood this, of course. They had sent out a distress signal long ago.
In a battle like this, ordinary Wu Clan disciples couldn't get involved.
Ascending Wu Rong, who had attacked the Cloud Rising Sect, and the Path Clearing Envoy still hadn't returned.
"Kill—"
Seeing that the three elders had nearly exhausted their blood and energy, Liu Chengfeng let out a long howl and unleashed the "Flying Rosy Cloud Gold Sword Technique," spitting out golden Sword Qi.
The golden Sword Qi shot out like a rainbow, straight toward the First Elder.
The Sword Qi was terrifying. The First Elder cried out and activated his City Guard Armor. Thick bark, layer upon layer, appeared around him.
The Sword Qi slammed into the City Guard Armor. Though it didn't pierce through, the First Elder was blasted away. His blood and energy churned, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Kill—"
The Second Elder and Third Elder were both shocked and enraged. They had been shaken by the "Flying Rosy Cloud Gold Sword Technique," so they charged forward to suppress Liu Chengfeng.
Otherwise, if he spat out another wave of Sword Qi, the First Elder, already depleted, might not be able to withstand it.
"Come on."
Liu Chengfeng laughed. With one hand, he used his Mountain Staff to block the Third Elder's enormous hammer. Then Sword Qi erupted once more, and he spat out a blast of golden Sword Qi aimed at the Second Elder.
The Second Elder's City Guard Armor protected him, with Nether City Mud like a thick layer of black sludge coating its surface.
The golden Sword Qi slammed into him. City Mud splattered like black slurry as he was blasted away. With his blood and energy depleted, he was almost pierced through his City Guard Armor.
"Does the Treasure Mountain Divine Treasury really have techniques this powerful?"
The Grandmaster Mansion's experts were stunned. Even City Mud, with its powerful defenses, could barely withstand Liu Chengfeng's Sword Qi.
"A talent the likes of which appears only once in ten thousand years."
Lady Chen was stunned as she watched from afar.
At the third stage of the Treasure Mountain Divine Treasury, his combat strength was already so formidable. What would happen once he reached the Reception Divine Treasury?
Most terrifying of all, Liu Chengfeng could fuse and create innate cultivation methods, giving him the foundation to slay enemies above his level.
"Little beast, I'll tear you limb from limb!"
A furious roar rang out. The aura of Witch Fire surged like the waves of a mighty river. Ascending Wu Rong had returned.
Ascending Wu Rong had been ambitious, joining forces with the disciples of powerful cultivators to besiege the Cloud Rising Sect.
He hadn't expected that before the Cloud Rising Sect could be conquered, the Ascending Wu Clan would fall and his precious daughter would die.
Seeing his daughter's corpse, Ascending Wu Rong's eyes bulged with fury, and his killing intent went wild.
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