Bang!
The foul-smelling water slammed against the dark Demonic Baleful Intent Armor, splashing up large amounts of water that were forcibly bounced away.
Su Yu did not take a single step back.
His right hand, holding the knife, hung casually at his sides. Facing the three-headed water demon at the Spirit Realm Ninth Level, he not only did not draw his sword to block, but instead tilted his head back and laughed.
The pool was teeming with high-level water demons, all of them gleaming white Slaughter Points.
There's no reason to let such readily available resources slip by.
At the same time, two figures landed at the exit of the passageway above the water fortress.
Cao Yue and Zhang He stepped steadily onto the stone platform.
"Lord Su, the secret accounts have been found."
Cao Yue tossed a muddy booklet at her feet.
The thick booklet was full of transaction records between the Flying Fish Gang and the underwater demon, with irrefutable evidence of the monthly offering of three hundred living people's blood in exchange for the safety of merchant ships.
The chain of evidence is now completely closed.
Zhang He drew his long sword from his waist, stepped forward, and pointed the blade directly at the water.
"Step back."
Su Yu didn't even turn his head.
Zhang He's steps froze.
The three-headed Spirit Realm Ninth Level, along with the leader of the Flying Fish Gang, would normally require a combined attack formation to barely contend with them.
"Keep your eye on Zheng Tie; leave the rest to me."
As Su Yu uttered those words, the mutated water demon on the left had already launched its attack.
Its powerful hind legs kicked the bottom of the water.
Its body, over five zhang long, leaped into the air, its barbed tail sweeping towards Su Yu's side with a piercing whistling sound.
A huge shadow instantly enveloped the stone platform.
Su Yu remained rooted to the spot, and the dark golden Demon-Suppressing Qi within his dantian began to circulate rapidly.
The dark Demonic Baleful Intent Armor was covered in a frenzy of black and gold spiritual light.
The water demon's giant tail slammed heavily into Su Yu's side, causing the bluestone pavement to cave in half a foot.
Su Yu withstood the blow, which was powerful enough to shatter a building, and his body remained completely still.
The recoil force surged back out along the armor.
The dark green scales on the water demon's tail shattered in large areas, black blood splattered everywhere, and a shrill roar burst from its throat.
Su Yu raised his left arm, his five fingers pressed together like a cone.
Vajra Star-Shattering Seal!
The power of his muscles and bones gathered at his fingertips, his knuckles gleaming with a terrifying dark gold metallic luster, as he thrust straight towards the water demon's chest.
The powerful punch first dented the breastplate.
Immediately following, the sharp finger force forcefully pierced through the defenses and went straight to the heart.
Su Yu plunged his entire left arm into the water demon's chest cavity, then clenched his fingers and pulled it outwards with a sudden force.
A giant, still steaming and beating heart of a water demon was forcibly pulled out.
Foul-smelling black blood gushed out like a waterfall from the bloody hole in his chest cavity.
The massive body, lifeless, crashed onto the bluestone, crushing it into dust.
[Ding! Slayed a water demon at the Spirit Realm Ninth Level, gaining 900 Slaughter Points!]
The entire kill took only two breaths.
The other two water demons, who were originally preparing to attack from both sides, were abruptly stopped in mid-air, their massive bodies shrinking back slightly in front of the black-armored figure.
Zheng Tie, hiding behind the stone steps, was trembling violently.
His biggest trump card couldn't even withstand a single move from Su Yu.
Just as Zheng Tie had the thought of escaping crossed his mind, the massacre had already entered its second phase.
The largest water monster in the middle suddenly opened its blood-red maw and spat out a thick cloud of green venom.
The venom corroded countless pits in the bluestone slab the moment it hit the ground, and white smoke rose up.
The lightning patterns on the soles of Su Yu's feet exploded.
With a burst of lightning, Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps, dark purple bolts of electricity tracing a right-angled line in mid-air as he vanished directly from the net of venom.
When he reappeared, he was hovering above the head of the largest water monster.
As his Qi Sea churned, the dark gold Spiritual Qi flowed backward along his meridians and surged into his right palm.
Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand.
He flipped his wrist and pushed it down horizontally.
A giant translucent dark gold hand with a radius of several feet was formed in mid-air. In the middle of the palm was a blood-colored inscription with the word "Zhen", which was full of oppression.
The giant hand descended vertically with immense force.
The water demon raised its head and desperately lifted itself upward with its thick arms.
The moment the giant, dark golden hand touched the demon's body, a series of crisp cracking sounds rang out as bones shattered.
The enormous demonic body, five zhang long, was crushed into a flat mass of flesh, its green juice mixed with bone fragments spraying wildly in all directions.
[Ding! Slayed a water demon at the Spirit Realm Ninth Level, gaining 900 Slaughter Points!]
The last remaining water demon was utterly terrified.
It twisted its body and plunged headfirst into the deep water below, desperately diving towards the bottom of the pool.
"Trying to run?"
Su Yu shattered the stone platform with one foot, using the recoil to leap into the air, and drew the black and gold longsword from his back with his right hand.
Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade's ultimate killing move, Blood Prison Heaven-Slaughtering.
Boiling blood and dark gold spiritual energy simultaneously flowed into the blade.
A dark red, arc-shaped blade, ten zhang long, cleaved through the oppressive air, skimming across the water's surface and splitting the entire pool into a two-zhang-deep, dry ravine.
The water demon, which had submerged less than three zhang (approximately 10 meters) underwater, was struck head-on by the blade's energy.
The tough scales and armor were practically useless.
The long blade precisely cleaved it in two from head to tail, the violent, Sha Qi shredding all the organs along the way.
Two pieces of the corpse floated to the surface of the water.
Cao Yue, standing at the back, kept her fingers pressed against the sword sheath, her knuckles turning slightly white from the excessive force.
She gazed at the blood-soaked figure in black armor ahead and silently pushed the longsword, which she had only half-drawn, back into its sheath.
[Current Slaughter Points: 5700]
Su Yu glanced at the system panel, flicked the blood off the blade, and sheathed his sword.
The black iron boots made a squelching sound as they stepped on the sticky stone platform.
He walked step by step toward Zheng Tie, who was huddled in the corner.
Zheng Tie's knees buckled, and he knelt heavily on the slippery stone steps, frantically banging his forehead against the stone slabs.
"Don't kill me!"
"I handed over all the profits from the Yunchang River, and I was forced into cooperating with the water demon by that person!"
To survive, he couldn't care less about anything else at that moment.
Su Yu didn't stop walking; he had absolutely no patience to listen to this scum's pleas for mercy.
He placed his right hand on the hilt of the knife, pushed the guard open with his thumb, and the grating sound of metal scraping against metal echoed in the underground space.
Just as the long sword was about to be drawn, spatial ripples suddenly spread through the dark corners deep within the water fortress.
A thick black mist exploded.
A figure shrouded in a black robe swiftly traversed ten zhang (approximately 33 meters) and pierced straight in front of Zheng Tie.
A jet-black curved blade, engraved with blood-red array patterns, slashed horizontally toward Su Yu's wrist.
The corrosive odor clinging to the blade caused the air to hiss and crackle.
The spiritual pressure of the Half-Step Mystic Realm spread out without reservation.
Lightning flashed beneath Su Yu's feet, and the Reverse Scale Flash propelled him backward about ten feet, allowing him to avoid the slash.
A scorched, blackened groove, half a foot deep, was carved into the bluestone slab by the residual energy of the blade.
Cao Yue and Zhang He drew their weapons and rushed forward.
"Protector of the Demon God Cult."
Cao Yue stared at the alluring blood lotus totem on the black-robed man's sleeve.
The man in black robes didn't even glance at anyone else, only sweeping over the fragments of the demon corpse scattered on the ground.
"Quick and efficient methods indeed. Tiannan Commandery has produced such an unexpected variable as you."
He grabbed Zheng Tie by the collar and lifted him up.
"I'll teach you how to use this chess piece; you can't take it with you."
Su Yu gripped the knife hilt tightly with his right hand again.
Dark red blood energy surged along the black and gold longsword, while the Pagoda True Intent the Demonic Baleful Intent Armor and the Demon-Suppressing Qi intertwined wildly.
The violent airflow forced the surrounding turbid water into a hemispherical vacuum zone.