Chapter 193: Bloodline Power, Demon Chen Chu (I)

Roar!

Beneath the smoke-filled cliff, an inhuman roar echoed.

Even though he had just been sent flying by the Blood Armored Beast King’s blow, Li Hao stood up. His battle armor was twisted, and his eyes bloodshot, filled with endless madness and demonic intent. An astonishing vitality erupted from within him, rendering his true power as crimson as blood as it burned fiercely. Gradually, a menacing aura permeated the air, causing palpitations.

This aura was somewhat similar to that of his current opponent, both belonging to the realm of kings.

Crack! Crack!

Li Hao's muscles kept expanding, stretching his modified armor to reveal his black-as-steel body and explosive muscles underneath. He grew from 2.2 meters to 2.5, resembling an ancient giant.

Huff! Huff!

In this state, Li Hao's aura was mighty. Even his breath stirred strong winds, and behind him, there was a faint glimpse of a huge, ferocious blood-colored shadow.

Such an astonishing aura made the Beast King's gaze sharp.

Boom!

Li Hao charged again, each step causing explosions in the soil. The steel pillar in his hand danced, stirring up thunderous winds that sounded like a mad blood dragon.

Roar!

Seeing this insignificant creature erupt with even greater power, the Beast King's eyes remained cold, tinged with mockery and disdain. Despite the appearance of indifference, however, the Beast King wasn’t careless. A more ferocious and violent aura erupted from it.

Crack! Crack!

The air within a ten meter radius around the Beast King solidified, followed by the massive space shattering as its enormous claws swung.

This was the Beast King’s innate ability—the Atmospheric Quake. Unlike the Dragon Turtle's indiscriminate vibration of matter, its ability could solidify the surrounding air within a certain range, then shatter it to create destructive impacts.

Boom!

The earth trembled as the steel weapon, resembling a pillar of heaven, collided with the dragon claw, and a ring of red and white shockwaves exploded outward. The force even compressed the air into a tangible white ring, sending rolling dust and debris flying dozens of meters as it shook the heavens and earth.

In the ten-meter-wide crater, Li Hao’s blood-like true power swirled around both him and his pillar, as he firmly blocked the Beast King’s claws.

𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Compared to human cultivators of true martial arts, these mutated creatures had even stronger and larger bodies, possessing overwhelming strength dozens or even hundreds of times greater than that of humans in the same level.

Even though Li Hao had entered the explosive state of the Bull Demon Battle Body, he was still only at the beginning stage of the Fourth Heavenly Realm, not strong enough to cause the Beast King harm. It didn’t help that the four-meter-long, thigh-thick steel pillar seemed tiny beneath the Beast King's massive claws, looking more akin to a slender chopstick.

Roar!

With a ferocious roar, the power encasing the Beast King's claws exploded, instantly causing Li Hao's figure to sink slightly as his face flushed with blood.

However, battles weren't just about strength. With bloodlust in his eyes, Li Hao's figure shifted slightly, and his power erupted as he started to pull and push.

Boom!

The Beast King was caught off guard by the sudden movement under its claws, and its massive body toppled over.

Roar!

Enraged by the audacity of this mere insect, the Beast King swiped its massive claws.

Boom!

The earth shattered, creating a crater with a diameter of over ten meters. Li Hao, however, had already evaded the strike, appearing several dozen meters away.

Roar!

Just then, another desperate roar echoed from afar. The Beast King suddenly whipped its head toward the direction of the Winged Dragon's death, its eyes gleaming with intense killing intent as it emitted a fierce roar.

Roar!

Instantly, a dozen or so level 3 and 4 scaled mutated beasts surged into action under the Beast King's command, charging toward the mouth of the valley.

Just as the Beast King was about to follow, however, Li Hao swung his steel pillar and charged once more, causing the Beast King's expression to chill.

Boom!

In an instant, man and beast engaged once more. Even now, however, it was less a battle and more like the Beast King playing around. Its huge body was agile and nimble, leaving behind afterimages as it dodged all of Li Hao's attacks.

Each swing of its massive claws would blast apart large areas of air, unleashing violent shockwaves that sent Li Hao flying, and leave deep marks on his steel pillar, despite it being covered and amplified by his true power.

Despite that, Li Hao was still a genius who even Chen Chu held in high regard. Every time he went flying for hundreds of meters, he would be back on his feet in a blink. Blood flowed from his mouth, wounds appeared all over his body, but his aura only became more frenzied.

With a body swelling to 2.6 meters and looking as if it was forged in black gold, he possessed indomitable strength. Each strike stirred up fierce winds and shockwaves, sending debris flying.

Such deranged fury made even the Beast King take it a bit seriously. Unfortunately, the power gap between the two sides was still too great; Li Hao couldn't even shake the Beast King.

Roar!

As Li Hao was being crushed by the Beast King, over a dozen scaled beasts savagely roared as they pounced toward Xia Youhui and the others at the mouth of the valley. In the minds of these beasts, there was no concept of solo fighting; that was the tactic of kings. These communal beasts preferred to cooperate in hunting.

The level 4 beasts lagged behind, hesitation appearing in their eyes as they glanced at the king fighting behind them and then at the direction outside the valley.

"Perfect timing." Xia Youhui's body, battle armor, and even large and thicker heavy shield were enveloped in yellow true power, resembling an armored black tortoise as he blocked the valley entrance.

Boom!

One beast, three meters tall and ten meters long, sprinted at high speed and slammed into the heavy shield. In an instant, the ground within several meters shook and shattered.

Xia Youhui's figure, however, remained unmoved; instead, it was the beast that was forced away with a bleeding head, wailing as it was thrown over ten meters by a stronger recoil force.

This was the might of the Black Tortoise Earthly Art; rooted in the earth, immovable as a mountain.

Liu Feng shouted, "Keep your distance, keep Old Xia in the center, and take down these 3s one by one!"

Bang!

Before Liu Feng could finish, Li Meng's figure flickered, his hands gripping his hammer. With a thunderous strike, he shattered one beast’s hind leg, then rolled to evade the tail coming at him from behind.

Splurt!

Bai Mu, trailing behind, left behind afterimages, his long sword emitting swirling sword qi as it tore open huge wounds among the beasts one by one.

Compared to him, Yuan Chenghuang was much more aggressive and domineering as he wielded a heavy sword as wide as a door, a golden sword qi swirling around it. With one slash, he split open the chest of a level 3 beast.

Bang!

In mid-air, Yuan Chenghuang was swept away by a tail, letting out a scream as he went flying.

"Damn, Old Yuan, be more careful!" With a low shout, Xia Youhui unleashed a powerful gravitational force, diverting a massive tail that was originally aimed at Li Meng.

Bang!

With one strike, the tail scales exploded, flesh and blood flying while Xia Youhui stood firm.

While their combat capabilities couldn’t match up to Chen Chu’s Herculean level, they were still geniuses, and they had no difficulties with slaughtering beasts of the same level. Together, they could even hunt down level 4 beasts.

There were quite a few beasts here, however, all of them massive in size and possessing astonishing vitality. Despite inflicting severe injuries, they hadn’t found any opportunities to actually finish any of these beasts off.

Roar!

One beast, in the beginning stage of level 4, finally decided to join the fray, and the pressure on everyone except Xia Youhui suddenly increased. Just as the others were about to join the battle to tear them apart...

A dreadful aura appeared in the distance.

The Beast King, who had been constantly hurling Li Hao away at the other end of the valley, turned back abruptly, following the scent of the Winged Dragon’s blood. As soon as it saw Chen Chu, its eyes turned red in an instant.

Roar!

The Beast King erupted with an extremely ferocious aura.

"Li Hao, hold that king beast off for a minute."

Chen Chu let out a long roar after saying that. In an instant, a black and red aura that seemed both divine and demonic exploded from his body, exuding a pressure that seemed to sink the earth as he leaped toward a level 4 beast. The radiant light his halberd emitted resembled a sun crossing the sky as he soared a hundred meters into the air.

Roar!

The beast, nineteen meters long with a head the size of a room, emitted a furious roar. Its body surged with blue light as it ferociously lunged toward Chen Chu. The most powerful weapons of carnivorous mutated creatures were their claws and menacing jaws; while their bodies were enhanced by their mutations, however, they still followed instinct when attacking.

Boom!

The halberd descended from the sky, and the black and red true power exploded. The energy on the beast's body collapsed, and half of its head was blasted apart by the sharp and domineering halberd.

From afar, it looked like several hundred kilograms of high explosives detonating in mid-air, with black and red waves of wind mixed with blood and flesh rushing out dozens of meters.

With a single strike, a late stage level 4 mutated beast had been directly killed.

Such devastating power astonished everyone, especially Li Meng, who had just smashed a level 3 beast with a single blow. He exclaimed, "Damn, he's that strong!?"

Roar!

At the other end of the valley, the Beast King, which had just hurled Li Hao away with a swipe, let out an even more ferocious roar. Its eyes nearly turned blood-red, filled with endless killing intent.

That beast had been its first offspring.

In a fit of rage, the Beast King's massive body thundered toward the valley's rocky side wall, fully determined to tear Chen Chu apart. Just then, a sonic boom resounded from afar, and a steel pillar surrounded by red light shot out, emitting circles of white sonic booms as it flew toward the king's head.

The Beast King was forced to suddenly stop in order to intercept the blow. With a swing of its claws and a bang, it knocked the pillar away, but the interruption to its momentum was enough to unbalance it, making it topple over.

From afar, Li Hao, bleeding from many wounds, charged toward the Beast King, not even slowing down as he grabbed his steel pillar from the ground halfway. Seeing Chen Chu obliterate that late stage Level 4 beast with a single strike had made him even more frenzied.

Not strong enough! I'm not strong enough yet! I can become even stronger!