Bang!
The heavy solid-wood doorframe shattered completely.
A ghastly white skeleton over ten feet tall forced its way out of the darkness.
A layer of dark red keratin covered its bones.
An eerie green, poisonous gleam shone at the tips of its finger bones.
Pressure at the peak of the Mortal Realm Fifth Layer.
The dense corpse stench became a tangible wave that slammed into their faces.
Every hair on Tang Shan's body stood on end, and he instinctively reached back to draw his saber.
He poured all his Spiritual Qi into the sword and sprang off the ground.
His saber tip went straight for the third vertebra in the Bone Demon's neck.
The strike was precise and vicious.
Clang!
Sparks burst before the dim ancestral hall.
The webbing of Tang Shan's hand split, and his entire right arm instantly went numb.
Not only did the refined-steel blade fail to pierce that layer of keratin, but a notch was chipped out of its edge instead.
The Bone Demon lowered its enormous skull.
The green flames in its hollow eye sockets locked onto Tang Shan in midair.
A bony palm the size of a door came crashing down at his head.
Tang Shan had no time to withdraw his saber and could only bend his left arm to shield his chest with all his might.
Bang!
A dull impact rang out.
Tang Shan flew backward four or five meters, sword and all.
His feet plowed two deep furrows through the muddy ground before he finally dropped to one knee.
He spat a mouthful of foul blood straight onto the mud.
The Bone Demon stepped over the threshold, shaking the ground.
It raised both arms, preparing to stomp the human on the ground into meat paste.
"Die! Five human martial artists will be enough to awaken the Demon God!"
An eerie red gleam flashed in the eyes of the village chief, who had been hiding not far from the ancestral hall all along. Madness covered his aged face. But the very next moment, his expression suddenly froze.
A dark figure abruptly cut across the battlefield.
Su Yu stepped over the broken wood on the ground and faced the Bone Demon head-on.
He did not draw his saber.
The violent Spiritual Qi of Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons surged backward through his meridians into his right arm.
The black sleeve of his fitted martial outfit burst into strips around his forearm.
His exposed flesh took on an unusually hard sheen as Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons circulated furiously inside him.
Su Yu abruptly twisted his waist, unleashing his strength.
His right arm punched upward with savage force, and two fists, one large and one small, collided head-on in midair.
Bang!
An ear-splitting sonic boom erupted, and white waves of air swept wildly outward.
The remaining half of the ancestral hall's roof was torn off completely.
The Bone Demon's enormous body abruptly stalled.
Its thick bony palm began cracking inch by inch from the finger bones.
The cracks raced upward.
Wrist, forearm, elbow.
Amid a dense series of shattering blasts, the Bone Demon's entire right arm exploded into a skyful of bone dust.
Su Yu did not stop charging forward.
He raised his right foot and crushed the Bone Demon's kneecap with a heavy kick.
Carrying that momentum, he slammed in front of the Bone Demon's broad rib cage and thrust out both hands.
His ten fingers, like nails forged from refined steel, clamped firmly onto the two thickest main ribs.
His muscles bulged as sheer, extreme violence pulled savagely outward.
Crrrack-!
The sound of snapping bones rang through the night sky.
Su Yu tore the ten-foot-tall rib cage in two straight down the middle with his bare hands.
Deprived of support, the enormous skull crashed to the ground along with the spine.
Dust filled the air.
[Slain: Mortal Realm Fifth Layer Bone Demon. Slaughter Points gained: 50]
Su Yu casually tossed aside the broken rib in his hand.
Ten paces away.
Tang Shan remained on one knee, even his breathing coming to a halt.
Not one of those aristocratic prodigies in Tiannan Commandery, raised on oceans of resources, would dare rely on physical strength alone to dismantle a Fifth Layer Bone Demon barehanded.
This utterly unreasonable, crushing violence shattered his understanding of martial arts.
"How is this possible?!"
The village chief found it equally unbelievable. He knew the Bone Demon's combat strength very well; human martial artists at the same realm could only last a dozen or so exchanges against it.
"Even a place like Nanhe County has such a powerful Demon Suppression Guard?!"
Rumble!
The instant the Bone Demon fell.
A large expanse of bluestone slabs directly in front of the ancestral hall collapsed, exposing a hole over ten feet wide.
Dark red blood mist billowed upward through the opening.
A strong bloody stench rushed straight into their nostrils.
A moss-covered stone stairway slanted deep underground.
Su Yu walked to the edge of the hole.
There were definitely high-level demonic creatures hidden underground.
Without a doubt, this was a gold mine with extraordinarily rich reserves of Slaughter Points.
He picked up the black-gold saber from the ground and planted his military boot on the first stone step.
"There's something filthy down there at the Sixth Stage or above!" Tang Shan clutched his sword hilt tightly, his voice hoarse.
Su Yu did not look back.
"Wait for me to return!"
His figure vanished into the blood mist.
Tang Shan ground the bloody foam in his mouth between his teeth and followed him down, dragging his crippled right arm.
At the end of the stone stairs lay a spacious underground cavern.
At its center, a circular blood pool a hundred feet across boiled violently.
Countless incomplete human body parts bobbed in the thick, dark red blood.
A black stone pillar stood deep within the blood pool.
Refined-steel chains bound a hairless, crimson monster to the top of the pillar.
Pressure at the Mortal Realm Sixth Stage.
A Blood Baleful Intent Demon Corpse.
The rich blood Qi in the pool surged wildly up the chains and into the crown of its head.
An emaciated figure sat cross-legged on a boulder at the edge of the blood pool.
Twisted dark red skulls were embroidered on his black robe.
"The Demon God Cult?!"
Tang Shan's shocked voice rang out again. As though he had connected it to something, his expression grew complicated.
Hearing the voice, the black-robed man stopped what he was doing and turned to look.
When his gaze landed on Su Yu, his withered face with its deeply sunken eyes froze for an instant.
Then his features twisted with extreme ecstasy.
"A supreme-grade blood Qi furnace far surpassing others of the same level!"
He stared fixedly at Su Yu, pointing a trembling, shriveled finger toward the passage entrance.
"The Liu Family has finally sent a grand gift!"
Tang Shan leaned against the rocky wall of the passage, cold all over.
A Mortal Realm Sixth Stage Demon God Cult member, plus a Sixth Stage Blood Baleful Intent Demon Corpse on the verge of awakening.
Certain death.
Su Yu stood where he was, his gaze sweeping over the two fat sheep in this underground space.
He raised his left hand and tapped the virtual panel in midair.
[Host: Su Yu] [Current Slaughter Points: 330] [Consume 200 Slaughter Points to extrapolate Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons]
Add points.
Two hundred Slaughter Points were instantly spent.
A scorching torrent detonated in his dantian.
An even vaster surge of spiritual power emerged within him.
Explosive cracks like frying beans rang out across the surfaces of his bones.
Su Yu forcibly grew half an inch taller, and what remained of his black uniform burst apart completely.
The muscle fibers beneath his skin were violently tearing apart and restructuring.
At that very moment, his cultivation also rose to the Mortal Realm Fifth Layer!
The black-robed man instantly detected the highly abnormal, dangerous presence emanating from Su Yu.
His expression changed drastically. His withered hand abruptly closed downward, drawing out something resembling a formation flag.
The blood pool churned.
A crescent-shaped scarlet water blade shot through the air, cleaving straight at Su Yu's face with terrifying destructive power.
Facing the blood blade tearing through the air, Su Yu took a step forward.
He slowly raised the black-gold saber level.
Overbearing Spiritual Qi, compressed to its utmost limit, poured into the blade, severely warping and wrinkling the air.
The saber slashed down with savage force.
Riiip!
The saber force split the scarlet water blade straight down the middle, bursting it into a skyful of bloody rain.
Su Yu turned his saber wrist, pointing the bloodstained tip straight at the black-robed man on the boulder as fighting spirit surged from his body.