Chapter 380 362: Slaying the Demon, Taking the Divine Statue

The Money Darts were propelled by Su Yu's special technique, each flying at a different speed. The first was the fastest, instantly arriving several yards in front of the Divine Statue.

HUMMM—

But a ripple of invisible power spread out, and the Money Dart—powerful enough to pierce iron armor—was brutally flung away, as if it had struck a wall of resilient air.

Soon, the second, the third... all eight Money Darts shot out in succession, a torrential downpour of metal!

THUD, THUD, THUD...

In mid-air, the Money Darts let out a series of dull thuds. Like dead leaves scattered by a fierce wind, they were all flung back without exception.

A closer look, however, would reveal that with each successive dart, the distance to the Divine Statue was shrinking.

By the time the seventh Money Dart broke through, it had silently closed the distance to just a few feet from the Divine Statue!

At this, the Black Lotus Sect Incense Master, who had been chanting fanatically, finally noticed something was wrong. The smug look on his face vanished, replaced by shock.

'How is this possible!'

'This is a sacred statue bearing a sliver of the Mother of Non-Birth's divine will! It's protected by Divine Power, impervious to all harm! How could that kid's hidden weapons possibly get closer and closer to the Divine Statue?'

Although he had activated the Divine Statue's blessing, he himself couldn't perceive the surging waves of Divine Power, so he had no idea what was happening.

"The mortal world is purgatory! May the Mother grant her blessing!"

He bit down hard on the tip of his tongue and, with a SPIT, sprayed a mouthful of rich heart's blood essence onto the Divine Statue, desperately channeling all his energy to activate it.

Just then, the eighth Money Dart closed to within inches of the Divine Statue, on the verge of striking its target.

But the Divine Statue, spurred on by the Black Lotus Sect Demon, erupted in an intense red light and suddenly unleashed another violent shockwave of Divine Power!

BANG!

The spiraling energy on the final Money Dart was shattered, and it was sent flying back.

The Black Lotus Sect Demon's face lit up, and he was just about to utter a taunt. But in the next instant, Su Yu appeared in a blur, right in front of him and the Divine Statue.

This sight shocked both the Demon and Wang Lingran; they couldn't understand why Su Yu hadn't been affected by the Divine Statue's attack.

The principle was actually quite simple. The Divine Statue's shockwave of Divine Power wasn't constant; it only emitted ripples when an enemy approached. With his Divine Sense, Su Yu had naturally discovered this pattern.

So, by using the Money Darts to probe, he had quickly determined the limits of the Divine Power's shockwaves.

In any given moment, the Divine Power could only pulse a few times. Even with the Demon's blood essence, it had only managed one extra pulse. The moment after it had repelled all the Money Darts was a crucial opening before the power could surge again.

'Ape Arm Star-Picking!'

Su Yu uttered the name in his mind as the Great Tendons in his body snapped taut like bowstrings.

In an instant, the inky patterns on the Mo Yuan Saber swirled. Blood-red, ape-like Evil Qi poured into the blade, staining the blackness like blood on dark clouds, as he carved a massive crescent arc through the air!

"No!"

The Black Lotus Sect Incense Master roared, but there was no evading the terrifying strike. Its massive range enveloped both him and the Divine Statue simultaneously.

PFFT!

The slash was astonishingly powerful. The Black Lotus Sect Demon, who was only at the Ape Tendon Realm, was instantly sliced in two. The mighty blade continued, slashing toward the Divine Statue and threatening to cleave it in half as well.

CLANG!

It was unclear what the Divine Statue was made of, but it withstood Su Yu's attack without a scratch. However, now that the Demon was no longer channeling power into it, and after being struck by the Mo Yuan Saber, the Divine Power within the statue vanished completely.

With a THUD, it rolled heavily to the ground like a dead piece of wood.

Seeing this, the others watching from a distance were utterly stunned.

Li Jingxuan was the first to react. The moment he saw Su Yu make his move, he'd had a fleeting thought: 'Is Younger Brother Su about to perform another miracle?' Now, seeing the result, he snapped into action, sending a vicious iron fist smashing toward his opponent's chest.

The Divine Power blessing on the opposing Incense Master had just faded. Caught completely off guard, his two-armed defense was shattered by the punch, leaving his chest wide open.

CRACK!

The iron fist slammed into the enemy's chest with the distinct sound of a breaking sternum. The Demon's body was sent flying back, crashing into a burning crossbeam.

"Don't let them escape!"

Li Jingxuan roared, reminding the others.

A murderous light flashed in Zhao Sen's eyes. He had been uncomfortably suppressed by his opponent moments ago, but now his spear stabbed out a dozen times in an instant, a sky full of afterimages enveloping his foe.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!...

The tables turned in an instant. The enemy was completely suppressed by Zhao Sen, forced into a steady retreat.

"Careful, new enemies are here! Secure the Divine Statue!"

Wang Lingran took a deep breath of the scorching air, calming the rise and fall of her chest. Though she was dying to know how Su Yu had done it, this was not the time for questions.

She darted to the side and, with a CLANG of her thrusting sword, intercepted a newly arrived enemy.

Su Yu immediately sensed the arrival of the enemy reinforcements as well. He frowned. 'Mansion Master Pang and the others should have been here by now. Why haven't they appeared? And why are there new enemies instead?'

As these thoughts raced through his mind, Su Yu swiftly grabbed the Divine Statue and stuffed it inside his robes.

'This is a real treasure,' he thought. 'Not only can it provide Divine Blood, but it can also grant divine authority.' Sure enough, as he stowed the Divine Statue, the familiar ink-wash text appeared before his eyes.

But this was no time for that. He immediately dismissed the text and delivered another strike to the bisected Black Lotus Sect Demon, finishing him off for good.

...

"Mother of Non-Birth, Vacuum Home..."

"The mortal world is a prison, all living beings suffer..."

At that same moment, in the western slums, the city center, the East City Trade District, the northern Martial Arts Hall district—even on Black Stone Avenue near the Public Security Bureau Headquarter—large numbers of Black Lotus Sect followers were emerging.

Their faces were filled with fanaticism as they loudly chanted the name of Mother Black Lotus and wreaked havoc everywhere.

But a closer look revealed that they weren't all true Black Lotus Sect Demons. Judging by their clothes and appearance, most were ordinary citizens of Black Stone City.

On Black Stone Avenue, inside an ordinary home.

BANG!

The heavy wooden door was smashed open by three burly, ragged men with sunken eyes!

Their eyes glinted with madness as they charged into the house like rabid dogs, pinning the man inside to the floor and beating him savagely. Soon, he was spitting up blood, paralyzed on the ground.

The three men's gazes swept across the room, landing on a corner.

There, a trembling woman clutched a five- or six-year-old child protectively. At her feet, she desperately pinned down a half-empty sack of coarse rice.

"Food! HAHAHA! There's food!" one of the thugs shouted maniacally.

"No! Please, don't! This is the last of our food! You can't take it! If you take it, my child will starve to death!"

As the three men lunged, the woman desperately shielded the sack of grain and was immediately met with a barrage of punches and kicks.

"Mama! Mama! You big bullies! Stop hitting my mama! Waaah..."

The five- or six-year-old child cried out, pummeling the thugs' legs with his tiny fists, only to be mercilessly kicked away. He slammed into the corner of the wall and fell unconscious.

Similar scenes were playing out all over Black Stone City.

"Haha, I got a tael of silver! My kid can survive now!" a man with yellow-stained teeth laughed madly.

In his hand, he tightly gripped a rusty, chipped kitchen knife. He had just hacked to death the man pinned beneath him, from whom he'd pulled a piece of Broken Silver.

The silver was stained red with warm blood, which still dripped from its edges.

"Brothers! That big mansion ahead is Hu San's place! He owns a grain shop, so his cellar must be full of food! Everyone, with me! We'll kill his whole family, take all his grain, and split it among ourselves! Kill!"

A man wielding a broken club shouted as he led seven or eight others to smash relentlessly at a large gate.

"Protectors! Protectors! Get out here and kill these wretched peasants for me! For each one you kill, I'll reward you with five taels of silver!"

In a luxurious courtyard in the city center, a portly man with large ears anxiously shouted at his Protectors. He hid in the deepest part of the courtyard, cradling a trembling concubine who wore only a pink bodice.