Chapter 683 - 449: Slaying the Early Realm, Battling the Middle Realm, Challenging the Limits! (Double-Length)
"How is this possible?!"
At this moment, Su Muchuan saw that Song Changming’s chest was covered by a mysterious painting, resembling a suit of armor made from scales!
Simultaneously, Song Changming shattered all of his protective talismans.
The final slash severed Su Muchuan’s body in two!
Blood splattered, and Su Muchuan’s expression turned bewildered. He tried to summon his bodily strength again, but found his entire being felt like it was leaking air.
His life force quickly dwindled, and his qi power was drained in an instant, rendering him unable to move.
As his consciousness faded, Su Muchuan realized, belatedly, that he was going to die!
Though he carried the Changsheng Bloodline, he was still flesh and blood. While he possessed a long lifespan, he would die if killed.
At this moment, his Changsheng Bloodline was of no help to him.
Song Changming snatched the Heaven and Earth Ring from his opponent, then took five drops of the Purple Mansion Essence Blood his opponent had cultivated—not much at all.
Afterward, without looking back, he left for the Red Earth Continent.
When Su Muchuan died, Su Jichuan in the Red Earth Continent seemed to sense something, and suddenly turned to look back, lagging behind the pursuing group.
"Jichuan, what’s wrong?" asked an elder grandmaster when he saw Su Jichuan slow down his pursuit.
"Something seems to have happened to Muchuan! I need to go back and check!" said Su Jichuan, before leaving the group and turning back.
As soon as Song Changming set foot on the desolate Red Earth Continent, he suddenly stopped and looked up.
Su Jichuan had already appeared before him, with a sullen expression.
"Where’s Muchuan?" he asked.
Song Changming said nothing, only focusing intently on the Su Family grandmaster before him.
Compared to his earlier opponent, the grandmaster before him was in the Middle Realm, with formidable strength.
From his previous experience gained in Cloud Fighting, he knew just how powerful a Middle Realm Grandmaster could be.
Even if this one’s cultivation wasn’t on par with that of Situ Ming and Huaqing Pool, he was still beyond Song Changming’s ability to defeat.
"I can only do my best..." Song Changming sighed inwardly.
Slaying one Su Family grandmaster and stalling a Middle Realm grandmaster was the limit of what he could do to help now.
Su Jichuan’s expression grew increasingly grim.
In truth, not finding Su Muchuan, and seeing Song Changming approach alone, it wasn’t hard to guess what had happened.
Most likely, his brother was no more.
"Damn it!" Su Jichuan regretted leaving Su Muchuan alone to deal with Song Changming earlier, while also harboring an endless killing intent towards Song Changming.
Su Jichuan wasn’t one for idle chatter, so he summoned his weapon, a Spiritual Treasure.
Two sawtooth short blades, appearing both like daggers and short swords.
"Go!" Su Jichuan pointed at Song Changming. The next moment, the short blades carved through the air like two crescent moons, reaching Song Changming in an instant.
Song Changming’s feet erupted with a violent wave, and his body retreated rapidly.
The two short blades crossed each other, missing their mark.
But the blades turned again, humming through the air, closing in on Song Changming in a mere breath.
The sharpness of the blades was formidable, causing Song Changming great apprehension.
Earlier, Su Muchuan’s two Windchasing Needles couldn’t penetrate Song Changming’s flesh defenses, leading to his quick defeat.
But these two short blades prevented Song Changming from attempting the same tactic.
Wielding his Spirit Saber with care, he retreated while defending.
Thanks to Song Changming’s profound swordsmanship mastery, he could fend them off and avoid an instant defeat.
However, the Master’s Power within those blades was unstoppable, repeatedly destroying Song Changming’s sword qi and striking his body.
This was the most direct suppression in terms of qi refining cultivation.
Song Changming’s innate qi aura was far inferior to the opponent’s master’s power, making them incomparable.
The opponent’s master’s power was strong enough to injure Song Changming!
In no time, Song Changming plummeted like a meteor, crashing into the red earth below.
The protruding cracked dark red rocks shattered and flattened upon impact, and Song Changming felt pain all over his body.
He looked at himself and saw his body covered in blood.
He couldn’t remember the last time he’d been injured like this.
Few in the world could break his defenses; only such a powerful grandmaster martial artist could do so.
Taking a deep breath, he slammed his left palm down onto the ground.
Numerous rocks were immediately lifted into the air by the powerful ant power unleashed from his left arm.
The two deadly short blades descended straight down, their master’s power instantly grinding the rocks into dust.
As the short blades pierced the ground, it was as if a subterranean volcanic eruption occurred, blasting a massive crater over ten miles wide.
Su Jichuan squinted his eyes, peering through the swirling dust, unable to spot Song Changming below.
He realized his attack had missed.
Song Changming’s strength was beyond ordinary, surprising and unexpected.
No wonder his brother had fallen to him.
When Song Changming demonstrated his strength, one could easily forget he was just an innate martial artist.
He hadn’t even opened his Purple Mansion, yet possessed such martial tao prowess, which was truly incredible.
Meanwhile, Song Changming had already retreated a long distance, but Su Jichuan didn’t intend to end his assault.
The two short blade spiritual treasures suddenly broke through the ground below Song Changming, stabbing at him once more.
Song Changming was getting frustrated with these two short blades.
From start to finish, his opponent walked leisurely, using only these two spiritual treasure weapons to make Song Changming flee and be injured in embarrassment.
Moreover, Song Changming couldn’t get close to his opponent, nor pose any effective threat.
Song Changming was injured, while Su Jichuan remained unsatisfied, thinking it dragged on too long and decided to speed things up, forming a hand seal and lightly shouting.
"Azure Celestial Python!"
Buzz!
The two short blades morphed again, their master’s power grew immensely stronger, transforming into two giant pythons.
With scales shimmering blue, the python heads bared with fury, howling against the wind vividly, as if real, rushing to devour the only living person nearby, Song Changming.
Surrounded by the shadows of ancient exotic beasts, the thunder seed surged, and with a single slash, Song Changming unleashed thunderous might!
With terrifying force, one of the giant pythons twisted its energy body, almost dissipating.
Su Jichuan focused intently, more serious than before, changing his hand seals once more.
The two pythons merged, becoming one larger and stronger giant python.
"Devour!"
Su Jichuan suddenly slammed both palms in front of his chest, his spiritual power raging.
Apparently, controlling the powerful energy giant python was also taxing on him, not an easy feat.
"Die for me!"
His eyes widened, filled with ferocity.
Seeing Song Changming swallowed whole by the python, he truly didn’t believe Song Changming could survive this.
At that moment, a streak of thunder light flashed before his eyes.
"What is this?" Su Jichuan was taken aback.
The next second, before he could think further, a thunder seed exploded in front of him.
Boundless thunder light instantly turned the world white, as if all color vanished, leaving only a mass of thunder energy.
In his daze, Su Jichuan seemed to witness the singularity of the universe’s big bang.
On the Red Earth Continent, rocks were destructively ground to powder, and distant rocks were pulled in by the area’s abnormal magnetic field, only to be crushed together.
With the thunder seed’s explosion, heaven and earth collapsed, and even gods and ghosts retreated!
Not knowing how much time had passed, the rolling thunder power gradually dissipated.
All that remained on the Red Earth Continent was the impact marks as if struck by a large meteor, with earth core lava erupting in layers.
Amongst all this, Su Jichuan was in disarray, appearing particularly disheveled.
Mighty as he was, even he was slightly injured by something comparable to a great demon detonating its demon core.
This made him angrier, his gaze ominously scanning the desolate environment before him.
His two short blades emerged from the lava, returning to his side.
But Song Changming!
Was nowhere to be found!
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