Chapter 309: Just This?

BANG!!

Amidst the splashing blood rain, Lu Yang fell backward. In the momentary silence, everyone turned their heads in astonishment, looking into the darkness behind them, at the figure standing on the distant cliff.

He pulled the bolt leisurely. In the crisp friction sound, the scorching red shell ejected from the gun chamber, falling off the cliff and pulling a hot trajectory glow from the darkness.

Glancing indifferently at the gushing blood:

"Average goods."

Amidst the blood rain, he counterattacked.

It was as if he had thrown himself into the net...

But he didn't seem to be affected at all!

Whether it was Lu Yang, who had transformed into a Ba Serpent, or Gao Cheng, who could manipulate the blood rain to a certain extent by relying on the Gao family's talisman, they were completely unaware!

In his fury, Gao Cheng's face changed slightly, suppressing the unease in his heart.

Not only was the void in his perception difficult to penetrate, but the Sin-Tainted erosion and the suppression blockade of the entire deformed Kunwu had no effect at all!

There was no sign of difficulty at all.

Even... damn it, he was more in his element than himself! Wait, this dog thing, could it be that he had secretly joined the Yousui Sect?

A furious roar sounded. The headless corpse fell backward. Before it hit the ground, granulation and blood gushed out, writhing, suddenly swelling, and growing out, even doubling!

Losing one head, growing two heads. Now, both heads were half-human and half-snake, filled with the same anger and madness, roaring. The blood eyes suddenly shot out light. Across a distance of seven kilometers, they shone toward Ji Jue. Under the gaze, the blood rain all over the sky stalled, and then, countless raindrops suddenly began to wriggle.

In the blood water, one strange worm after another transformed rapidly, wings unfurled, and they gathered like a swarm of bees.

Lu Yang's two heads had ferocious expressions, and the countless mouths on his body roared:

"Go die!"

In an instant, the poisonous insects hatched from the withered curse blood gathered into a tide, like a giant's palm suddenly closing, drowning Ji Jue's cold face.

From beginning to end, he was unmoved.

BOOM!!!

Accompanied by the gathering and closing of countless gray-black poisonous insects, they couldn't invade Ji Jue's surroundings. What rose from beneath the tide of thousands of poisonous insects was seemingly endless blood fire.

Just by waving, countless poisonous insects were burned to ashes, and not even the ashes remained.

Non-Aggression's hand-refined alchemy, the material property interference of the embers, the high temperature of the Furnace Blood, and even the undisguised Sin-Tainted alchemy... With the explosion of spiritual quality, invisible hands waved in the void, easily interfering with the essence of the air, constituting a thin and flickering entity, like a bubble. And in this bubble membrane, the violent temperature of the Furnace Blood erupted and swept, drummed by the inextinguishable firewood, instantly reaching a high temperature of thousands of degrees, constructing an invisible furnace out of thin air, treating everything that attacked as material, extracting, purifying, and refining it in one go, and finally, falling into Ji Jue's unfolded hands.

It turned into a pure blood-colored crystal.

With the tossing, turning, and flipping, it disappeared like a magic trick.

"Just this?"

The fierce flames rose, burning the blood rain.

Under the illumination of the fierce light, Ji Jue's gaze swept over those few faces and landed on the very last one, Yue Chen's face, as he sighed with regret: "Relying on teammates like this, I'm afraid it'll be hard for you to win."

From beginning to end, Yue Chen remained expressionless.

It was just that, staring at Ji Jue at this moment, a glimmer of excitement that could be called excitement actually floated in his eyes, which had no human aura.

"You're not running anymore? Very good..."

He suddenly raised his voice: "Gao Cheng, come to my side!"

Gao Cheng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized; recalling the cause of Zhou Lun's death earlier, he rushed toward Yue Chen without a second thought.

This guy Ji Jue loved avoiding the real to strike the void most of all; to win, he would stop at nothing. If he wanted to win, it would be absolutely impossible for him to go head-to-head with Yue Chen. On the contrary, the fact that he was actively standing in the open to attract attention right now meant that he was definitely going to strike from the shadows!

And among everyone present at this moment, the one who posed the greatest threat to him was not Yue Chen, but Gao Cheng, who could manipulate the blood rain through the talisman and was also a Chosen of the Eternal Gate!

Just like a hunter hidden in the dark, as long as Gao Cheng, who could manipulate space and convert the eight directions, was still alive, Ji Jue would always have to worry about being controlled by others.

The matrix and ability of 【Bai Lu】 were certainly limited and by no means omnipotent, but in this situation where the bottom line was difficult to discern, this unknown was precisely the greatest threat.

At the same time, Gao Cheng didn't forget to remind: "Be careful of that Bai Lu! And another hunter from the An family!"

Before that, the foot Yue Chen had planted on the ground suddenly sank, stepping downward without warning—immediately after, the earth and stone cracked, and the rock strata shook.

The violent power of the Wasteland-rank path sprayed out, guided by the ground, crossing a long distance, protruding upward. The mud pond where it passed boiled, and the earth and stone bulged. And before that, on the cliff where Ji Jue was, spikes like blades had already shot out.

The Ba Serpent roared, a giant mouth in the void manifested, covering the entire cliff, and closed violently!

That wasn't all. A bone-chilling cold suddenly erupted and manifested. The air, which had not yet extinguished its residual warmth, instantly dropped to a freezing point below zero, and it was still falling endlessly!

It was not just physical freezing; even the circulation of spiritual quality began to slow down. Also behind Yue Chen, that Entropy-type who had survived by luck many times struck again; even at such a great distance, it still manifested a terrifying threat.

In an instant, it was enough to freeze Ji Jue to death on the spot, provided there was no interference from the Furnace Blood...

Instantly, the furnace fire reignited.

The severe cold that was enough to freeze the lungs and intestines rolled back under the repulsion of the Furnace Blood. Countless piercing stone blades and rock peaks rose from the ground, only to crumble under the trampling of the Little Niu Ma. Across such a long distance, the residual power only left scratches on the outer armor.

And the moment the Ba Serpent's void mouth closed, it suddenly stuttered!

It was like biting into iron and stone.

The tooth-aching friction sound echoed in the air. The Little Niu Ma's body changed, and the giant steel claws were raised, dead-locking the formless mouth, like iron pliers, not allowing it to close completely and break free.

Mo Xie pierced, sweeping across the void air, as if tearing the formless jaw, thoroughly chopping the formless giant mouth into pieces. And right on the shoulder of the Little Niu Ma, the heavy sniper rifle in Ji Jue's hand had been prepared in an instant, raised again, locked onto Gao Cheng's position, and pulled the trigger!

The moment the crystal bullet broke through the air, it was already close at hand!

Even though he knew he had Yue Chen's protection, Gao Cheng still couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end.

BOOM!

Blood-fire suddenly exploded from Yue Chen's hands. In the split second, his palm had already been raised, intercepting the trajectory, colliding head-on with the fragments of Mo Xie. On the palm where iron light and rock color swirled, a crack actually appeared, and the faint glimmer of burning lava emerged.

A blow that was enough to make an Awakened of the Rebirth Rank vanish in body and soul was blocked!

Just skin-deep.

There wasn't even any blood Qi from the wound, as if there was no blood in the whole body, and even what flowed in the blood vessels was scorching lava.

Immediately after, what manifested was a wisp of faint light galloping from the darkness!

From the long surveillance, the skill of flying light manifested again, right behind the bullet Ji Jue shot!

Just like what had happened before, only the order was suddenly reversed. It hid its own tracks right behind Ji Jue's bullet, and the moment the bullet exploded, that wisp of tiny faint light suddenly lit up.

Within this short distance of less than half a meter, it surged and pierced, ignoring inertia, carving out a sharp right angle, rising from between Yue Chen's fingers, and thrusting straight toward Gao Cheng behind him!

Slap!

The flying light shattered and ejected.

It was like hitting an invisible barrier.

No, before that, the flying light had already been cut off—under the air-cutting slash of a jade axe, all the blessings of the flying light matrix were cut off, returning to its original form, leaving only an iron piece that was only in shape, hitting Gao Cheng's protective shield and bouncing off.

Unharmed!

"Tsk..."

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An Ning, hidden in the dark, had her expression turn cold.

His gaze looked behind Yue Chen, at that Entropy-type Chosen who was cowering in his defense, not showing his head at all.

In his hand, there was an extra strange jade axe, a blessed creation from the Tian Yuan system. Just a virtual slash, and it could cut off the connection between all spiritual qualities in the range out of thin air. It was like a drone losing control. Even if it was only for a moment, it was enough to achieve the goal—without absolute precise control, the destructive power of the flying light skill couldn't be exerted at all!

She originally thought he was cannon fodder who didn't even deserve a name, but she didn't expect that now, like Gao Cheng, he had become the most troublesome obstacle in the field.

Moreover, the traces revealed in the moment of the strike were actually captured!

After deforming into a Ba Serpent, Lu Yang's senses had a qualitative improvement. Not only in vision, hearing, smell, and spiritual quality perception, but even slight anomalies were as clear as fire.

"Get out here!"

In the moment of spiritual quality change, a giant mouth manifested from the void, like a waterfall, pouring down a large amount of emerald-green breath.

Where it passed, everything rotted, the stench spread, and the blood water had turned into a poisonous pool.

"Caught you!"

In the spiritual quality change, Gao Cheng couldn't help but grin again. In just a few seconds, with the blessing and assistance of the blood rain disaster, he had successfully locked onto the crucial position.

Ji Jue's coordinates!

The moment he captured it, he didn't hesitate to send a signal, telling everyone to be ready.

The formless Bai Lu car operated again.

In an instant, the four directions were moved, and the eight directions were transported!

The difference between far and near blurred instantly. Without warning, space seemed to overlap like folded paper. A huge hole manifested from the void, the blood rain swirled and turned into a vortex, instantly swallowing Ji Jue.

Then, it bloomed in front of all of them—

—【Transport】, complete!

Ji Jue, who was six kilometers away, appeared in front of everyone in the snap of a finger.

There was no more distance to escape.

And before that, everyone had already launched their strongest attack toward a predetermined area without hesitation—the bitter cold rose from the ground, shrouding the entire area, the temperature plummeted to minus one hundred degrees, locking all spiritual quality operation.

Lu Yang's body swelled again, layers of scales manifested, teeth and claws like blades pierced out from his hands, the poison mutated, and the whole person rushed up, wanting to strangle Ji Jue completely in an instant.

Yue Chen's body shook, and his originally massive, towering frame surged again. The shadow of a giant manifested from around his body for an instant; iron light and rock color gathered between his arms and five fingers. The earth within a radius of several thousand meters shook suddenly, and an incomparable, terrifying mass, following the circulation of the essence of the ruins, gathered upon that fist.

Without reservation, he smashed it out!

BOOM!!!

The terrifying power that was enough to crush an Artisan ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, actually stopped abruptly at that moment!

It seemed to hit an iron wall that couldn't be broken through, difficult to advance an inch...

It was blocked!

The bone-chilling cold disappeared, and the burning wind spread, like a furnace, dissolving the frost, raising a thick white mist that couldn't be seen clearly, swallowing everything.

In the white mist where one couldn't see one's fingers, one could only see the blood light flowing, flashing and disappearing.

Slash!

Lu Yang roared, flying backward!

On the deformed Ba Serpent body, a deep crack nearly waist-cutting appeared out of thin air. The teeth and bone blades disintegrated instantly, along with an arm that was broken at the root, falling from the air.

Even, too late to react...

When the violent air wave rose out of thin air, blowing away the steam and white mist, everyone finally saw—in the heavy encirclement, that armored monster like a steel giant, more than a few meters high.

At this moment, bursts of tooth-aching sharp friction sounds kept erupting.

The steel hand was raised, blocking in front of the earth-vein fist, actually turning back, gripping the giant's fist, and without fear, wrestling with the giant.

The metal beast face like a wolf was raised, and in the eyes, the light of purgatory manifested.

Mockingly looking down:

"—What are you expecting?!"

(End of chapter)