Chapter 775: Bloody Battle!

Xia Yuan stared in a daze; who was that?

He did not know.

It was simply absurd to the extreme; the one battling Ji Tianhe was a mortal who had only cultivated the power of will.

A mortal?

No, a Will Warrior is not a mortal, but his physical body is that of a mortal.

The power of will reinforcing his physical body actually gave him the strength to dodge Ji Tianhe's slashes.

This was something Xia Yuan could not understand at all; even Chen Yan probably couldn't do it.

Xia Yuan recalled that Chen Yan had never used the power of will to reinforce his physical strength.

In Chen Yan, the power of will was, in fact, just like it was for most people—supplementary.

Even though he possessed powerful methods involving the power of will, the damage he dealt still came from that strange True Martial power.

"Die!!!"

Ji Tianhe stepped through the air and roared, the blade light in his hand slashing out in an instant.

The blood-colored light spread out like ripples, accompanied by a metallic ringing; the blade light recoiled, nearly sealing off all of Li Zhiyi's escape routes.

Sensing the incoming murderous blade light, Li Zhiyi remained expressionless as waves of immense power of will reinforced his physical body.

Swish!

His own power of will was the first to slice through Li Zhiyi's flesh, causing a line of blood to appear on his body in an instant.

Immediately following, the blood-colored blade light sliced across that bloodstain.

This scene made even Ji Tianhe's pupils tremble.

It looked as if the blade light had severed Li Zhiyi's body, but in reality, before the blade light even arrived, Li Zhiyi's body had already been severed by his own power of will.

And this slash of his merely followed the bloodstain that had already appeared, not even making contact with Li Zhiyi's wound.

It appeared that Li Zhiyi's body had still been severed, but being severed by one's own power of will was different from being severed by 【Blood Brand】.

The divine artifact 【Blood Brand】 possessed powerful offensive strength; severing a human body would often cause the killing intent carried by the blade to sweep through the victim's entire body, causing them to die instantly.

Li Zhiyi's method appeared to be a desperate move, but in reality, it minimized the damage he would sustain.

The key was that such combat intelligence made it hard to believe this was a youth who looked less than twenty.

It was as if he had experienced countless battles and encountered countless life-and-death crises.

But how could this be?

Below, the Vice Battalion Commander and the others stood up, their mouths agape as they looked at Li Zhiyi high in the firmament.

"Li Zhiyi, if you had shown your methods earlier, why would we have ended up like this?"

The Vice Battalion Commander slapped his thigh, but tears were already shimmering in his eyes.

Zhang Yu had once said that Li Zhiyi would surely shine brilliantly in the future.

But this—where was the need to wait for the future?

It was clearly happening now!

The one Li Zhiyi was battling was Ji Tianhe!

It was Ji Tianhe, who made the entire Great Xia Military Guard tremble with fear.

Above the firmament.

"What is wrong with you?"

Li Zhiyi suddenly spoke, looking indifferently at Ji Tianhe:

"Why have you stopped?"

Battling Ji Tianhe, Li Zhiyi truly felt the power within himself.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

On his body, the Immortal Will flickered, slowly repairing the bloodstains on him.

Intense pain arrived, but Li Zhiyi remained expressionless.

He should be in pain, he should be frowning; after all, this was the pain of a severed body.

Yet he found it difficult to make an expression.

It was as if he had truly grown accustomed to it long ago.

Deep within his mind, that figure stepping upon Jizhou surfaced once more, and the inner roar from that day echoed again.

What he wanted was to surpass the other!

As soon as these words were spoken, Ji Tianhe's pupils turned even more scarlet; he had been provoked.

That person was actually saying his blade was too slow.

Boom!

A muffled, thunder-like roar erupted; the thin blood-blade seemed to trigger a resonance with heaven and earth. As it struck, it was like thousands of heavy cavalry trampling over mountains and rivers, an unstoppable momentum that shattered everything.

"How could you possibly withstand the fury of me alone!"

"What I carry is the hatred of the entire Jizhou; what I want is to slaughter every living soul in Great Xia!"

Ji Tianhe roared madly, revealing endless killing intent in the firmament like a blood beast.

Overwhelming blade slashes descended, whistling as they poured down toward Li Zhiyi.

The long blade in Li Zhiyi's hand had long since been shattered into pieces.

Facing the unavoidable blood-colored blade light, Li Zhiyi's heart, however, became quiet.

This was it!

That invincible enemy seemed to have ignited every particle in his entire body.

His physical body was excited, shouting.

This was a kind of fanaticism originating from the depths of one's marrow.

To fight against an unconquerable enemy, to fight against an irreversible despair!

To defy all despair, to slaughter all powerful enemies, to endlessly break through limits—this is my Martial Dao!

His thinking became rapid, his will became active.

He saw more and more clearly.

That seemingly unstoppable blade light, in reality, had fissures everywhere.

That seemingly terrifying killing intent, in reality, was the incompetent revelry of a madman.

The power of will seemed to make his strength stronger and his speed faster, just like Qi and blood.

It seemed he had discovered the true essence of the power of will!

It was a true essence, and also a martial art.

This was a martial art belonging solely to the path of will, much like a breathing technique for the path of hard training, or a Qi and blood technique for the path of Qi and blood.

It could achieve the true application of will, and could allow will to become a sharp blade that truly slaughters powerful enemies!

"Will, endow my body!" Li Zhiyi's eyes erupted with brilliant light; he had named this martial art.

But before him, Ji Tianhe had already fallen into madness.

The flesh and blood all over his body trembled violently, the Blood Blade hissed, and the scarlet blade light was dense and thick, whistling as it tore through the air, the sharp screeching sounding like ten thousand ghosts wailing in unison.

He was a butcher on the battlefield, and it had always been blade up, blade down.

Since he could not kill the bug before his eyes in an instant.

Then he would strike a thousand blades, ten thousand blades, one hundred thousand blades!

Hum, hum, hum!

"Did you hear that? Blood Brand is excited!"

Ji Tianhe grinned hideously, and the long blade in his hand actually rippled with a blood-colored luster like blood water.

It was as if the Blood Brand Blood Blade were an extension of his own body, their blood connected.

Boiling!

Ji Tianhe's movements paused for an instant.

"Hehehe..."

At this moment, he actually let out a satisfied moan, and circles of blood-colored air spread out around him like clouds and mist.

Above the clouds, the Pool Master raised his eyebrows:

"Ji Tianhe's killing intent has reached a new level, and the Blood Brand has even resonated with him!"

In the void below, that Blood Blade was extremely demonic, erupting with a sound like ghosts crying and wolves howling.

Even the Pool Master's eyelids twitched.

If such a Ji Tianhe continued to grow, he would become a Blood Beast even more terrifying than an Ancient Divine Beast.

Until the end, there would only be slaughter in his eyes.

To slaughter all living beings of the Great Xia, to slaughter everything related to Chen Yan.

This was the hatred of killing one's father and brother, an irreconcilable enmity.

Even if Chen Yan were dead, he would not let it go.

Grudges are cyclical; they will never disappear.

But because of the Blood Brand, Ji Tianhe's killing intent and hatred were being continuously magnified.

Killing intent erupted in the depths of Xia Yuan's eyes.

He could not let such an enemy continue to grow.

After all, in rumors, the Blood Brand had no upper limit.

Xia Yuan gritted his teeth; the Chen Master actually possessed such a monstrous item as the Blood Brand.

Hum!!!

Terrifying blood light erupted instantly, crushing down like a fog of blood that descended in an instant.

On the mountain, the Vice Battalion Commander and the others, who had originally stood up, instantly had their expressions change drastically, and they were instantly suppressed to their knees.

Pfft!

Some young soldiers were affected by the killing intent, directly spitting out blood, their physical bodies collapsing.

"Ahhh!!!"

Someone wailed, completely unable to resist.

They seemed to see an endless purgatory descending instantly, with the Nine-Layered Ghost Mansion suppressing them.

This was the might of a Divine Artifact.

Mortals could only become a remnant soul on the ghost banner dragged out from the depths of the underworld, never to be reincarnated for eternity.

The Vice Battalion Commander seemed to see a great terror approaching, roaring with all his might:

"Don't worry about us!"

"Run!!!"

He spat out blood:

"Escape! In the future, you will definitely be able to avenge us!"

The air twisted, and the evil, ghostly sounds of slaughter echoed within the endless blood color.

"Run..."

The Vice Battalion Commander roared with all his might.

Everyone could see that the Blood Brand had changed, and Ji Tianhe had also changed.

Killing a hundred people, or even a thousand, had never made Ji Tianhe feel this way.

But facing a Will Martial Artist who, like Chen Yan, possessed an Immortal Will, caused Ji Tianhe's killing intent to sublimate to its absolute limit.

Li Zhiyi's eyes widened instantly, staring straight at Ji Tianhe at this moment.

Crimson blood vessels bulged all over Ji Tianhe's body, and within those thick, twisted vessels, it seemed as if dense, rolling killing intent was surging.

Feeling his brand-new body and brand-new power, even his breathing was trembling.

"Chen Yan!!!"

He suddenly roared like a madman:

"I want to show you that all of this was brought about by you; I heard you still have a younger sister.

I will cut off your sister's head and mount it upon my army's great banner; I will make you regret and despair for all eternity!

Even if you are already dead, I will never let you go!!!"

It was as if he were making the most vicious vow to the depths of his soul.

He would use everything he had to realize these things.

He did not care about Li Zhiyi, nor did he care about the hundreds of troops beneath his feet.

Chen Yan was already dead, yet Chen Yan was always before his eyes.

Any person he killed could be Chen Yan; any head he chopped off could be Chen Yan's head.

In this instant.

Li Zhiyi, whose eyes were already wide open, suddenly widened them further, listening to Ji Tianhe's words.

For some reason, a nameless rage instantly rushed into Li Zhiyi's brain.

He opened his mouth, wanting his own will to suppress this surge of rage.

However, it could not be suppressed at all.

That ferocious flame of anger seemed more intense than at any other time, threatening to occupy Li Zhiyi's inner heart.

"Run!!!"

Amidst the shattered mountain range, a roar suddenly rang out.

"Li Zhiyi, run!!!"

Bang bang bang bang bang!!!!

A series of gunfire roared, the dense bullets transforming into ten thousand streaks of ink-black light, causing even space to distort.

Sensing something was wrong, Zhang Yu, who had rushed back, now held a machine gun and charged toward Ji Tianhe.

As the Battalion Commander of the Punishment Battalion, Zhang Yu was a Level 5 Blood-Qi Martial Artist; the bullets fired from the machine gun in his hand were manifested from his own Blood-Qi.

But compared to Ji Tianhe, who held a divine artifact, he was more like a moth flying into a flame at this moment.

He stared fixedly at Li Zhiyi, the meaning in his eyes couldn't be clearer.

He wanted to hold Ji Tianhe back and give Li Zhiyi a chance to escape.

He had no desire to live anyway; he just wanted to die in a way that had meaning.

Chi chi chi!!!

The countless bullets flying out were extinguished the moment they collided with the scarlet blood mist.

The next moment.

"I'm coming!!!"

A roar rang out; from deep within the mountains, another figure flew out, both arms severed, but his entire body was strapped with explosive formation disks.

It was Li Xin, who had fled to the Punishment Battalion.

Facing Ji Tianhe, who had slaughtered the entire Vanguard Battalion, Li Xin's whole body was shivering, but the shame of his escape made him even angrier.

Now, charging into battle alongside Zhang Yu, he had long since cast all caution to the wind.

"I won't live anymore; I will surely die today!!!" Li Xin's eyes were filled with a determination to die:

"Li Zhiyi, you must live on and avenge us!"

He roared, yet a smile appeared on his face.

It was as if, in this moment, he saw his brothers from the Vanguard Battalion once again; it was as if he were no longer that Li Xin who had fled out of panic.

Instead, he was a Vanguard Battalion soldier dying together with his brothers.

Is Ji Tianhe terrifying?

Not terrifying!

Today, he saw a Will Martial Artist who could contend with Ji Tianhe.

And in front of this Will Martial Artist, even with a divine artifact, Ji Tianhe was like a headless fly, unable to touch his opponent!

God of Slaughter?

Trash!

Garbage!

"Hahahahahahahaha!!!"

Tears streamed from Li Xin's eyes, his vision long since blurred, but his own Blood-Qi had already been ignited, and his physical body displayed the momentum of an imminent self-detonation.

Boom boom boom!!!

From deep within the mountains, even more sounds of Blood-Qi collapsing and roaring rang out.

Those were the veteran soldiers of the Punishment Battalion who were seeking death alongside Zhang Yu; one by one, their eyes revealed a fierce light, determined to perish together with Ji Tianhe.

At this moment, even though Ji Tianhe was clearly more terrifying, in everyone's eyes, he was no longer terrifying.

"Hahahaha!!!"

Ji Tianhe grinned hideously:

"Come, all of you, come!"

He looked up toward the firmament:

"Father, elder brother, do you see this?!"

"Are you... still watching me?!"

But the very next instant.

BOOM!!!!

A brilliant golden light erupted high above in the sky, like a small sun standing horizontally.

Willpower transformed into tangible flames, pressing down instantly, frantically strangling the killing intent radiating from Ji Tianhe.

This sudden change occurred.

Everyone's expression turned to one of astonishment.

Even Zhang Yu, who had come to meet death, showed a moment of bewilderment.

Ji Tianhe looked over with scarlet eyes, only to see a long blade burning with golden flames striking toward him.

This was a long blade formed purely from the power of willpower, sharp and magnificent, as if a falling sun were smashing toward Ji Tianhe.

Ji Tianhe's expression changed slightly, and he tilted his head to dodge this strike, but the moment he tilted his head, his eyes turned instantly ferocious, and he slashed toward the person wielding the blade.

Bang!

A low sound rang out.

Before the Blood Blade could arrive, Li Zhiyi's physical body was first severed by the power of willpower, the upper and lower halves of the body separating by a millimeter.

The next instant, the Blood Blade slashed through the gap, yet it did not harm Li Zhiyi's physical body.

The moment the Blood Blade swept past, the power of willpower acted like thousands of golden-red needles and threads, stitching Li Zhiyi's severed body back together.

In just a fleeting moment, the willpower long blade in Li Zhiyi's hand had already slashed diagonally, cutting into Ji Tianhe's shoulder.

This strike was extremely swift; Ji Tianhe quickly twisted the Blood Blade in his hand, shattering this willpower long blade.

But his shoulder had already been cut with a bloodstain one centimeter deep.

And strands of willpower extended out from Li Zhiyi's hand, transforming once again into a long blade.

In this instant.

Ji Tianhe locked eyes with Li Zhiyi, only to discover that in the depths of the other's eyes lay killing intent and rage not a whit weaker than his own.

Where was that a human?

That was a wild beast burning with golden-red willpower.