A Night of Desperation

Chapter 323: kills three

"Regretting now is utterly meaningless."

Yu Hong brushed off the remnants on his hand, and suddenly, like a bolt of lightning, raised his hand and struck a silent red shadow flying in from the right.

The red shadow burst out from the seawater with extreme speed, already comparable to Yu Hong’s full-force strike, but it lacked substance. When it was hit by the palm, it instantly exploded into red dots of light that dissipated into the air.

It was clearly of the type of a spiritual technique.

At that moment, a suppressed female voice filled with anger drifted from behind.

"Not confirming your opponent’s death immediately was the biggest mistake of your life!"

It was Lin Shan!

She actually wasn’t dead!!

Yu Hong turned around, his face showing a look of astonishment. He remembered clearly that he had already struck his opponent’s head on the side with full force just now.

With his strength, even without invoking new Inner Qi and Spirit Light, without employing the Thunderbolt Transformation, and just relying on his pure physical strength of several tens of tons, the opponent’s head should have exploded.

But now...

"I’m going to kill you!! Skin you alive! Soak you in salt water for three days and three nights, gouge out your eyes, cut off your tongue... I will make you suffer eternally without release!!" Lin Shan’s voice was filled with venom.

"What gave you the confidence to spew such vicious threats?" Yu Hong raised an eyebrow, "That weak surprise attack just now?"

"Weak!?! The trash that only talks big! I will devour you!!!" Lin Shan screamed furiously.

Hiss!

Beneath the sea surface, a red shadow shot out again, this time without a tangible form, and without disturbing the water, the red shadow burst forth like an illusion, attacking Yu Hong’s face with a speed slightly faster than his full-speed physical body.

At the same time, a faint aura similar to that of Chang’e spread out from her body.

Divine Intent!?

Yu Hong instantly understood that Lin Shan was temporarily fusing her own will and spirit with an Inheritance Dao Artifact, bursting forth in one fell swoop.

This was a true desperate deathblow.

A Temple Master-level expert fighting desperately...

Obviously, the previous strike had inflicted a fatal blow on Lin Shan, forcing her to choose this desperate measure.

’So, is she trying to quickly finish the fight and then leave to heal herself?’

Yu Hong speculated, but his hands didn’t slow down.

Although the opponent was faster, he needed to move less distance to raise his hand, naturally he could block in time.

Covering his arm with Inner Qi, Yu Hong raised his hand and blocked the incoming red shadow with his palm.

Bang!

His silver-blue Inner Qi and the red shadow exploded at the same time.

The muscles and nerves on the outside of Yu Hong’s arm twitched, a faint blackness appeared as if the skin was corroded and damaged.

’So there’s some physical substance in it? Seems like some kind of poison fog or similar acting as a carrier.’

Yu Hong’s guess flashed in his eyes.

But since it was confirmed that the opponent was seriously injured, he just needed to buy time.

And the subsequent developments fully confirmed his guess.

Lin Shan madly released one red shadow after another, which seemed to be a special kind of maggot. Because of their extreme speed, they appeared as mere red shadows from afar.

Yu Hong shattered the continuous maggots with repeated strikes, albeit each time it damaged his skin.

This was the first time since arriving in this world that something had hurt him, which greatly surprised him. After all, the strength of his body now should be capable of withstanding bullets.

Seeing that he could still be injured like this showed that the Divine Intent in the attack indeed had some substance.

However, injury aside, the slight wound was quickly healed by the flowing and abundant Inner Qi.

Of course, this also meant that a Temple Master-level expert was now qualified to hurt him without him erupting in Inner Qi flame...

To him, this was already quite remarkable.

After all, the strength of his body now, enhanced by the Cosmic Divine Light, was much stronger than before.

And logically, the opponent was merely driving some external force with pure spiritual will for the attacks.

Physical blows should be very weak.

But now, it seemed that high-level experts here were already meddling with reality to some extent, just on a smaller scale, resulting in less threat than actual weaponry.

Lin Shan was such an example, so was the previously mentioned Taoist Ku Chan.

By this time, Lin Shan, with each delay, grew weaker and weaker.

Clearly, she could no longer control her injuries, and Yu Hong’s sudden assault had inflicted a massive and irreversible fatal wound on her.

Now she was ferociously making her efforts in the desperate hope of getting a chance to escape the battle and leave to heal.

But Yu Hong didn’t grant her that opportunity, keeping a close watch on her.

As time went on.

In desperation, she attempted to flee but was held back by Yu Hong controlling Chang’e and a group of Fear Shadows to delay her.

Five minutes later, suffocating from her last effort, she released one final red maggot shadow, which Yu Hong easily burst with a casual strike.

The water was quiet again.

Splash.

Yu Hong walked forward and approached, only to see through the clear water at the bottom of the shallow sea, the body of the Vice Sect Hierarch of the Mud Doll Sect.

Her eyes were wide open, one side of her temple deeply caved in, like a tin can flattened by a hammer, with brain matter spilling out.

"You had such a resilient life force, truly troublesome that you held on for so long."

Yu Hong disdainfully bent down, searching the body, and quickly found a dark green pouch, resembling a sachet.

Inside the pouch were small black seed-like objects, seemingly worm eggs.

Yu Hong frowned, remembering the many strange insects released by the Vice Hierarch, and thinking they might be of use, he took it, sealed the opening, and hung it at his waist on his Daoist robe.

"Being able to persist so long after taking a fatal strike from my surprise attack, there must be something worthwhile on you. I’ll keep it for now."

After checking the spoils of the battle, he turned to look toward the beach.

Not far away, another of the Primordial Embryo Septuplets fighting against Cheng Shu and the others had already run far away, with Cheng Shu and others in pursuit.

Evidently, this person had sharp eyesight and, upon realizing something was wrong, immediately disengaged from the scene without hesitation.

Yu Hong paid no attention to them, instead, he looked toward Zheng Ying and the others collapsed on the ground, unable to muster any strength to move.

Just now, his action had been witnessed by them.

At this moment, even though several Dao Seeds lay on the ground, the pressure exuded a kind of indescribable complexity.

"....Zheng Rou...you...." Zheng Ming could not help but speak up in a low voice.

Despite the howling sea breeze, his voice still reached Yu Hong’s ears.

"Didn’t I say it? I’ve just practiced a bit of close combat." Yu Hong nodded naturally.

Just a bit... Are you kidding me by calling blowing someone up with a punch and piercing through a Technique ’just a bit’???

Their faces contorted.

"But that..."

"That was the amplification given to me by my Inheritance Dao Artifact. I don’t know why, but suddenly my speed and power increased, and then I flew over, and then... you all saw what happened." Yu Hong spread his hands.

"....." Zheng Ming really wanted to say are you freaking kidding me???

But he dared not.

He watched with his own eyes as that arrogant Vice Sect Hierarch had his head blown up by Yu Hong’s punch and his body smashed into the sea, dead on the spot.

So, right now, he truly did not dare.

Beside him, Zheng Ying barely managed to prop herself up, wanting to speak, but was surrounded by rapidly arriving medics.

Not just her, the others were treated the same way, with a medic squatting down beside each injured person to check their bodies and determine how to move them.

Tatatata.

The helicopter flew overhead, firing two black missiles towards the distance.

The missiles left two black trails, hitting the side of a three-story building.

Boom!!!

A massive explosion resounded.

The shockwave pushed back any urge Zheng Ying and Zheng Xia had to speak.

All they could do was watch Yu Hong standing amid the blast wave, immovable, like a black monolith that couldn’t be shaken by the waves.

And all the others were yelling to take cover and get down.

This scene, like an engraving, was instantly and deeply imprinted in their minds, indelible.

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Five Star Town.

Meng Chengshuang coughed up a mouthful of blood while lowering her head.

In front of her lay a chaotic street, littered with explosion craters.

Houses and shops had collapsed, and a large number of soldiers surrounded the area, with many guns aimed in this direction.

The ground was strewn with bodies of Mud Doll Sect followers, while some soldiers’ corpses were also being moved away.

Meng Chengshuang snapped back to reality and saw a figure slowly emerging from the mist in front of her, taking a deep breath.

Just now, a person had rushed out from the mist and attacked her.

After a clash of Techniques, that person was defeated and injured. Just as she was about to continue the pursuit, a new person appeared.

And then came the hard battle.

"Quite a splendid Technique, taking the dawn and dusk as the theme, Condensing it into one’s spirit, borrowing the name of Zihe Palace’s renowned Feixia Sword to transform into a special Technique."

The person finally stepped out of the mist.

Bang!

Suddenly, a gunshot.

It was the snipers from the military acting.

But even before the sound of the gunshot reached, that person suddenly sidestepped to the left.

This step neatly avoided the bullet that whizzed past his side.

"I originally wanted to have a proper exchange with you to see the mysterious aspects of Zihe Palace’s Techniques, but unfortunately, the timing is not right," the person walked forward again and finally revealed his full appearance.

He was a bald, ugly man with eyes and nose each misplaced.

By misplaced is meant his features not located where they should be.

One eye was not on the same horizontal line as the other, and his nose was not at the center of his face but tilted to the left.

His mouth shifted to the right, not aligning vertically with his nose.

"Do you think you’ve already won?" Meng Chengshuang straightened her body, the tip of her sword once again brightening with a red light.

The Feixia Sword was her Inheritance Dao Artifact, and now, with great exhaustion and serious injuries, she finally decided to invoke the Divine Intent of the Inheritance Dao Artifact.

"Divine Intent descending? I can do that too." The odd man chuckled lightly, also holding a dark yellow stone pendant worn on his chest.

Buzz!

At the same moment, two massive and exaggerated spiritual pressures emerged upon them both.

Bystanders felt a flicker in their vision, seeing dark yellow mud pour out rapidly from the side of the monstrous man, completely enveloping him.

On Meng Chengshuang’s side, a surge of red and purple clouds also enveloped her.

The mud and clouds quickly spread, covering several streets in the blink of an eye, even engulfing several buildings.

Intermittent sounds of clashing metal rang out from within.

"All snipers, attention!!"

The military commander at the rear picked up the radio, his expression solemn.

"Take out all the snipers on the opposite side! Miss Meng being shot is our negligence! No further mistakes can be allowed after this!"

When Meng Chengshuang was shot just now, it almost made his heart leap out of his chest.

Fortunately, the bullet only passed through the thoracic cavity and did not hit the heart. From Meng Chengshuang’s performance, it seemed that she had no intention of retreating.

Whether it’s a victory or defeat now relied on the outcome of the battle.

"Issue an order, if it’s judged that Miss Meng has lost, immediately bring up the artillery for saturation strikes!" the commander-in-chief ordered sternly.