Chapter 371 - 353: Flesh and Blood Alchemy

"A Martial Artist! Hahaha! With this Holy Pill, I’m going to become a Martial Artist! I’m going to be one of the elite!"

The young man held the Evil Pill like a devout believer, tilted his head back, and swallowed it in one violent gulp!

BOOM—

The moment the Pill hit his stomach, the man’s originally feeble Qi and Blood erupted as if doused in kerosene, surging at an unnaturally insane rate! His bones let out a series of CRACKLE-POPS as his muscles bulged like inflating balloons!

Beside him, the old couple who had just witnessed their daughter being disemboweled showed no hint of grief or terror on their faces.

Instead, as they watched their son’s aura surge, their faces twisted into gratified, crazed smiles. Like a pair of marionettes, they began to dance excitedly in the pool of blood.

"It worked! It worked! Our son is finally becoming a Martial Artist! The Song family will finally rise in Black Stone City!"

The white-haired old woman even shed tears of emotion. "My son, your mother didn’t hold you back... I offered your sister to the Old Mother and finally obtained this supreme Holy Pill for you..."

"Sever the threads of the mortal world, return to the home of the Void!"

Just then, the disemboweled woman, who was somehow still alive, let out another shriek.

The next second, her mangled body began to swell like it was being pumped full of swamp gas, expanding at a rate even more terrifying than before!

"Get back further!"

Standing outside the window, Su Yu saw it all clearly with his Divine Sense. The destructive energy within the corpse had reached a critical point. He immediately circulated his Qi and Blood and let out a powerful shout that boomed like thunder!

No sooner had the words left Su Yu’s mouth than a deafening explosion erupted from the room!

KA-BOOM—

The terrifying blast shattered the peace of Anping Square!

A violent shockwave swept through the house like a hurricane. The heavy wooden windows and brick walls were blown clean off with a loud BANG!

Then, ravaged by the epicenter of the blast, the entire residence could no longer stand. With a sound of splintering wood, it collapsed in on itself, kicking up a massive cloud of blood-red dust!

"*Cough, cough*... Dammit! Another one of these twisted flesh-and-blood explosions! These inhuman bastards from the Black Lotus Sect deserve to die by a thousand cuts!"

Li Jingxuan cursed, waving the dust from his face as he stared at the ruins.

Just as everyone thought the family of four had perished together in the explosion,

Su Yu’s brow furrowed. He shouted again, "Careful! East side! Something’s coming out!"

Before he’d even finished speaking!

BOOM!

The broken wood and rubble on the eastern side of the ruins were violently thrown aside, as if blasted by a cannonball!

With a beast-like roar, a figure shot out and slammed directly into one of the Black Armor Guards.

BANG!

The heavily armored Black Armor Guard couldn’t withstand the blow and was sent flying on impact.

Su Yu frowned as he watched. This Black Armor Guard was one of dozens of elites, a Skin Tempering Realm Martial Artist who had opened his Second Acupoint and was clad in Black Stone Heavy Armor, yet he had been sent flying with such ease.

"Stop him!"

The Black Armor Guards were well-trained. In an instant, two more elites moved to intercept.

One of them, wielding an iron hammer, swung it at the figure like a heavy cannon.

The shadowy figure was astonishingly fast. With a roar, it tensed its muscular legs, about to leap aside and dodge the fatal blow.

Just then, another Black Armor Guard threw a rope dart that, with a SWISH, wrapped precisely around the creature’s ankle.

"HUP!"

The Black Armor Guard wrapped the rope tightly around his forearm twice and yanked back with all his might!

The powerful counterforce instantly broke the creature’s balance, slowing its attempt to dodge!

BOOM!

The iron hammer slammed into the creature’s upper body. The savage force should have been enough to knock it down.

But in the next instant, the figure roared again. It managed to halt its momentum and, unbelievably, stop the iron hammer—a weapon larger than a man’s head.

By now, everyone could see the figure clearly.

It was the young man from the house, but he hardly looked human anymore. His entire frame had grown, his muscles swollen until he resembled a ferocious bear.

His clothes had been completely shredded by his expanding muscles. The exposed muscle fibers were a sickly dark red, and veins writhed beneath the skin like tiny snakes.

But the most terrifying part was his face.

It was covered in strange, dark-red markings. During the bloody explosion, the skin and a piece of his skull on the left side of his face had been sheared away, exposing the gleaming white bone beneath.

Flesh and blood, like melting and reforming wax, dripped from his chin. DRIP. DRIP.

"ROAR!"

He roared again, seized the massive hammer, and in the same motion, swung the other Black Armor Guard through the air, throwing him aside with a THUD.

"He’s as strong as someone in the Flesh Refining Realm! Dammit, what kind of methods does the Black Lotus Sect have? To turn a man into a Demon like this in an instant!"

Li Jingxuan’s expression grew grim. He had seen this man just moments ago; he was an ordinary person. Now, he had somehow broken straight through to the Flesh Refining Realm. ’What kind of power is this?!’

"Surround him!"

Four more elite Black Armor Guards moved in, surrounding the creature and cutting off all routes of escape.

But the Demon showed no fear. Facing the coordinated attack of four Martial Artist-rank Black Armor Guards, it launched its own frenzied assault.

BANG! BANG! BANG...

Within a few breaths, the Demon had tried to break through the encirclement several times, but the Black Armor Guards managed to hold it back.

"Use the military crossbows!"

At the command of a Black Armor Guard captain on the perimeter, several crossbows fired at once.

The bolts were incredibly fast, and they flew from all directions, cutting off any path of escape and making them impossible to dodge.

THWIP! THWIP! THWIP...

The Demon’s body became a living pincushion, instantly riddled by dozens of heavy steel bolts until it looked like a hornet’s nest.

Blood sprayed like fountains from the dozens of wounds covering its body.

The pain seemed to bring some clarity back to its mind.

Its half-destroyed head drooped slightly, its single scarlet eye staring blankly at the flattened ruins around it.

Finally, its gaze fixed on the Black Armor Guards surrounding it.

"Damn you! DAMN YOU ALL! You government dogs who eat people and don’t even spit out the bones!"

"My whole family died so I could practice martial arts! I have nothing left! Why the hell do you get to come and ruin this for me?!"

"If you won’t let me live, then you can all go to hell with me!"

In the next instant, a sinister red light flared from within its perforated body!

Its body, already riddled with holes, began to swell like a balloon again, but this time at a terrifying speed, several times faster than before!

"Not good! He’s going to self-destruct!"

Li Jingxuan cried out. His Great Tendons snapped with power as he shot toward the man.

But Su Yu was a step faster. The instant the man began to swell, the Qi and Blood in Su Yu’s Yongquan Acupoints roared. He executed a Flash Step, his body instantly appearing in front of the nearest Black Armor Guard.

He threw his right fist toward the Demon. As he punched, blood-red Evil Qi erupted, shrouding his fist.

POW—

A powerful wave of Gang Force struck the Demon’s expanding torso from a distance, and its body, which had been about to detonate, was instantly blown apart.

From the moment the Demon began to self-destruct to the moment Su Yu’s punch obliterated its upper body, only an instant had passed.

Only then did the nearest Black Armor Guards react, their hearts pounding in shock.

’Just how powerful was that punch? It didn’t even make contact—it blew him apart from several feet away!’

THUMP!

Only then did the Demon’s mutilated corpse—consisting of only two thick thighs and half a waist—finally lose all balance. It pitched forward and collapsed into the ruins with a heavy THUD, completely and utterly dead.

Su Yu turned to look at the Black Armor Guard behind him and asked coolly, "Are you all right?"

The Black Armor Guard snapped out of his shock and swallowed hard. "I’m fine, my lord. Th-thank you..."