Chapter 123: Truly Invincible

On a rainy day, on the long street, two figures were shrouded in lightning, with white mist constantly rising.

Zong Guang's movement technique was agile, and his sword strikes were as fast as lightning. The sword light and lightning intertwined into a vast expanse of white, with the momentum of a wild thunderbolt; he truly possessed the domineering aura of being invincible within the same realm!

Under normal conditions, Zong Guang could thrust more than thirty times in a single breath. Now, in the thunderstorm, his 【Thunder Feather】 was greatly enhanced, allowing him to thrust more than fifty times in an instant!

Every strike carried lightning attacks; such an offensive was no weaker than that of an offensive-type martial artist possessing innate Qi.

Facing Zong Guang's storm-like attacks, Li Fei only attacked and did not defend. He let the sword light and lightning strike his body repeatedly, leaving his anti-stab vest riddled with holes, while he only swung his blade in a fierce assault!

He completely overwhelmed Zong Guang in strength, forcing Zong Guang to spend more energy to block his blade momentum.

After exchanging a few moves, Zong Guang spotted an opportunity and thrust five times in succession at the blade, not only neutralizing Li Fei's momentum but also knocking the blade aside, then thrusting his sword toward Li Fei's throat!

This time he could ensure that he would definitely succeed first; he wanted to see if Li Fei still dared to only attack and not defend.

Li Fei quickly gave him the answer:

Without dodging or evading, he continued to swing his blade!

Snap!

Li Fei's neck was struck first.

The moment it was struck, his neck expanded, becoming a circle thicker, and the skin took on a reddish-bronze color.

"【Steel Armor】, Tyrant Body?"

Zong Guang was startled, but his hand did not stop; instead, he added more force.

Even with a Tyrant Body cultivated from a second-grade low-tier 【Steel Armor】 implant, it was impossible to block his sword with a neck!

However, after striking Li Fei's neck, the tactile feedback from the sword tip made Zong Guang feel something was wrong, as if he had stabbed into a piece of extremely high-grade protective gear. He should have pierced the neck through, but in the end, he only broke the outer layer of skin.

And Li Fei's blade edge had already slashed over!

It was too late to withdraw the sword to block; Zong Guang could only raise his left arm to parry.

Swish—

Blood flashed, and Li Fei slashed Zong Guang's left arm with one strike.

Zong Guang was also wearing protective gear, but it was not third-grade, only second-grade, so it could not completely block Li Fei's blade.

The blade edge first cut through the outer second-grade protective gear, then sliced open Zong Guang's skin, followed by the muscles and implant underneath, finally getting stuck in the bone.

Zong Guang endured the piercing pain, immediately withdrew his sword to defend, and knocked Li Fei's blade away.

Li Fei swung his blade to attack again. This time, Zong Guang dared not counterattack and could only keep thrusting his sword to disrupt Li Fei's blade momentum.

Yet his greatest advantage was attacking, and now he was being beaten to the point of not daring to attack, inevitably feeling the urge to retreat.

Just as he intended to withdraw, Li Fei suddenly seized a gap in his "recharging" and attacked with his blade.

The power of the 【Thunder Feather】 implant could be maintained for about fifteen seconds after each activation, and then it needed to be activated again; the gap in between was the "weakness period."

It was just that Zong Guang's weakness period was much shorter than Ling Yong's had been, almost fleeting, and he would always compensate with extraordinary sword skills when the weakness period arrived, thus revealing no flaws.

At this moment, Li Fei was completely using brute force to overcome technique, forcing Zong Guang's longsword away with his blade, and then slapped his palm toward his chest from a distance.

A crimson gas shot out rapidly from Li Fei's palm, shooting toward Zong Guang like an arrow!

"Innate Qi?!"

Zong Guang's eyes widened.

Although the innate Qi cultivated in the early stage of Qi Transformation was powerful, it would dissipate after leaving the body. Only by reaching the mid-stage of Qi Transformation and refining innate Qi into force could one injure people from a distance at close range.

But if Li Fei were a mid-stage Qi Transformation martial artist, Zong Guang would have been dead long ago, so he never expected Li Fei to have this move.

Snap!

The crimson blood-evil energy hit Zong Guang's chest, and more than half of it penetrated the protective gear and entered his body.

Zong Guang's body trembled, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and staggered backward.

He looked at Li Fei with unwillingness, opening his mouth as if to say something.

"I shook my head just now to tell you..."

Li Fei stepped toward his opponent:

"Even in Xingcheng, you are not invincible within the same realm."

Zong Guang's pupils contracted; he understood this sentence.

Li Fei was telling him that he was also just a Body-Breaking realm martial artist.

Zong Guang could not believe it, yet he had to!

At this point, there was no need for the other party to lie to him.

Zong Guang's eyes dimmed, his heart filled with bitterness.

A person who prided themselves on being invincible within the same realm had met a truly invincible opponent of the same realm; this feeling was truly hard to describe in words.

Pfft—

Li Fei thrust his blade into Zong Guang's chest.

Affected by the blood-evil energy, Zong Guang's chest had already been severely corroded; Li Fei's blade felt as if it had stabbed into a puddle of mud.

The strongest swordsman of the Tiger Blade Gang in the Body-Breaking realm died right there!

Picking up the suitcase thrown on the ground, Li Fei turned and continued to run, disappearing into the vast rain in the blink of an eye.

【Level: 8, 47%

Blood Soul: 32 + 74%

Blood Soul Skills: Blood Rage, Blood Evil】

On the run, Li Fei checked the Myriad Blood Pearl inside his body.

In the fight with Zong Guang, besides the Blood Souls he consumed himself using Blood Soul skills, he had lost nearly 30 Blood Souls from the opponent's attacks!

This was the "heaviest" injury Li Fei had ever sustained.

He touched his throat, where there was a wound pierced by Zong Guang's sword.

If he didn't treat it in time, the wound would have already healed.

The iron plates of his anti-stab vest were pierced in many places and dented by lightning; it was covered in charred marks and was basically scrapped.

The mask on his face had also been shattered by lightning, but fortunately, there was a hood underneath.

In this battle, the Myriad Blood Pearl absorbed over 40% of energy at once, which could be considered a "bountiful harvest."

After reaching level 8, the energy required for the Myriad Blood Pearl to upgrade was more than all previous levels combined!

It was impossible for Li Fei to upgrade within just over ten days by gorging on elixirs again, so the lightning Zong Guang struck him with today saved him an untold amount of effort.

Thinking about it this way, the opponent had chased him relentlessly, determined to help him even in death.

The guy was actually quite nice.

And in today's battle, besides the Myriad Blood Pearl absorbing a large amount of energy, Li Fei had an even greater gain:

From the moment he swung his blade at Zhang Mingze to just now killing Zong Guang, he felt an indescribable pleasure in his heart, and a strong emotion had been surging in his chest!

And this emotion also affected the Steel Armor implant in his body, making his body heat up and the Steel Armor implant under his skin restless.

While running, Li Fei took out a medicine bottle and poured a dozen Force-Refining Pills into his mouth.

After taking the pills, the medicinal power was quickly absorbed and digested by the Steel Armor implant, several times faster than usual!

When everything calmed down, Li Fei clearly sensed that the Steel Armor implant in his body had become stronger again.

He understood that he had already stepped into the mid-stage of the Body-Breaking realm!

(End of chapter)