Chapter 466: Sura King Gaoyuan

The smell of fresh flowers and metal permeated the air. Sun Xiaowu gaped at the entrance to Gaoyuan's camp, extremely flustered by his strange actions.

The red-robed elder standing by the entrance to the sura camp continued shouting, "Don't worry, human fighters! Our king bears you no enmity. He simply wants to have a cordial conversation."

The hunters beside Sun Xiaowu whispered, "They're surely planning something! We can't listen to them."

The sura fighters stationed by the entrance to the camp started to laugh. "Well, humans? Don't you at least have the courage to step inside? If you don't, then don't even bother fighting against us—surrender now! We're very kind-hearted, and we won't kill you. You'll just be reared like a pig."

"Kill them!" Sun Xiaowu strode forward, genetic energy flaring all over his body.

The sura fighters laughed coldly. "Oho, you finally have the courage to come out of the bushes now, do you?"

Sun Xiaowu rushed forward and smashed his fist against one sura's head, causing it to burst like a watermelon.

The other sura fighters around shouted in rage at the sudden assault. Just as they were getting ready to strike Sun Xiaowu back, he cast [Golden Divide], sending a resplendent beam of golden light into the air and disintegrating the entrance to the camp.

The sura fighters who opposed him were all swept away, leaving a gully on the ground before him.

As Sun Xiaowu continued striding forward, the sura elder shouted, "Hold it! I'd like to have a peaceful discussion behind the founding of Renhuang!"

"The founding of Renhuang? You don't have any right to speak with me. Summon the sura king whom you serve!"

"Insolent—" The incensed elder was about to strike Sun Xiaowu when he sent the elder flying with a slap to the face instead. After all, Sun Xiaowu had capped out his peak gene fragments.

A figure came out of the tent located at the very center of the camp. Sun Xiaowu struck forward with a fist, meeting his opponent's with a clash of genetic energy that cracked the ground and sent fighters on both sides reeling back.

Both Sun Xiaowu and Gaoyuan took a step back. Sun Xiaowu narrowed his eyes at his new opponent. "You must be the sura king, then."

Gaoyuan tutted at him with dissatisfaction. "Humans are truly beasts unable to be reasoned with. I wanted to have a pleasant conversation with you, but it's a pity."

"What's there to discuss? As a sura king, you should perish."

The form of Sun Xiaowu's genetic energy suddenly shifted in caliber. A golden glow radiated from his right arm. It suddenly bulked up, and a layer of dense golden scales emerged over his skin. An aura of intense strength emanated from his body.

Sun Xiaowu took a step forward, then punched with all his might, generating a dominating wave of genetic energy.

Gaoyuan was knocked flying like a bullet, stopping only after he had crashed through five tents in a row, his bones broken and his body twisted out of shape.

Sun Xiaowu snorted. "Is this the full strength of a sura king?"

Suddenly, Gaoyuan's bones began to make popping noises, and his broken body seemed to restore itself. His injuries vanished in the blink of an eye. He cracked his neck. "You might be somewhat strong for a human, but you're still too weak to take down a sura king!"

Gaoyuan shouted. His body began to grow larger: three, five, ten, twenty meters tall, as though he were some sort of giant. Hair sprouted thickly from his skin and made him look like an oversized gorilla.

He pounded his chest as he yelled out, "Sura, slaughter these humans to the last!"

Gaoyuan's troops immediately emerged from the camp, thirty thousand strong in all, and surrounded the thousand or so humans. They began to laugh. "I thought Renhuang would boast an impressive force, but there are only a thousand of them humans here! Do they really think they're so strong, or that we're that weak?"

"Thirty thousand forces against a thousand... we have thirty times their number!"

"Did the governor of Renhuang send you all here to die?"

Gaoyuan called out, "If you reveal the mastermind behind Renhuang now, I might consider sparing you."

Against the thirty thousand sura, however, neither Sun Xiaowu nor the hunters behind him panicked.

"The potions!" Sun Xiaowu shouted. The thousand hunters each sent a vial of potion flying into the air, the drops splattering on the unguarded soldiers.

Few of the sura paid it any mind. Some smashed the vials to smithereens with their fists, while others took them down with their weapons. They didn't guard against the liquid; the sura possessed extremely strong constitutions, and ordinary poisons did nothing to them. A strong herbal odor rose into the air.

"Charge forward!" the sura fighters yelled. After two steps, however, they dropped to the ground, reeling in shock and pain. As they writhed, their bodies rapidly blackened. "What's going on?!"

The sura all began to panic, giving the hunters an excellent window of opportunity to strike. The hunters charged forward, dealing the sura a devastating blow in their panic.

As he saw his forces dying, Gaoyuan's eyes turned bloodshot. Given his monstrous appearance, he looked even more like an enraged beast. He roared, "What have you done?!"

Instead of replying, Sun Xiaowu punched him directly in the chest, only to have the attack completely blocked by his pectoral muscles. Gaoyuan counterattacked with a fist of his own, sending it smashing down on Sun Xiaowu.

"Have a taste of it yourself!" Sun Xiaowu flung a vial of potion toward him, which Gaoyuan smashed with a fist.

"[Adamantine Aegis]!" A layer of golden runes covered Sun Xiaowu's skin, absorbing the brunt of the impact.

Gaoyuan suddenly felt poison seeping into his body, shocking him. As a sura king, his body's strength and constitution had reached the pinnacle of the sura, and it was highly abnormal that any poison would have a deleterious effect. Furthermore, the poison proved surprisingly resistant to isolation. He attempted to halt the flow of poison with his genetic energy, but...