Chapter 401 - 383: Wind of the Forest Stance, Divine Blood Transformation

Chen Fan struggled to his feet and quickly swallowed a top-grade Healing Pill to treat his chest wound.

With the powerful physique of the Muscle Forging Realm, as long as one wasn’t killed in a single blow, recovery was always possible.

At this moment, the bloody hole in his chest had already been plugged by his writhing Great Tendons. Under the effects of the Pill, his flesh and blood began to slowly regenerate.

BOOM!

A deafening explosion echoed from a distance.

Under the moonlight, Su Yu slashed out. A crimson saber light shot out ten feet, like a bolt of blood-red silk tearing through the night sky.

Huyan Tuoba crossed his arms to block the blow head-on.

The next moment, he was sent flying backward, shattering half of a low wall and sending rubble flying everywhere.

Their battlefield had expanded from the courtyard to the open ground outside.

Although the commotion was huge, the doors of the village houses remained tightly shut, as Su Yu had given them a warning in advance.

Seeing Huyan Tuoba being completely suppressed, Chen Fan lost all will to fight.

’I can’t beat him. I really can’t beat him!’

Only now did he understand.

Su Yu’s greatest trump card was never an assistant, nor was it some scheme.

It was himself!

Thinking this, despite the immense unwillingness in his heart, Chen Fan suppressed all of his emotions.

In the end, only one thought remained: ’Escape!’

The next moment, the Great Tendons in his legs tensed, and his body shot backward in an attempt to flee.

However, he had only dashed a few dozen feet when a figure in green silently appeared, blocking his path.

The moonlight shone down on Lin Wanzhu, who stood holding her sword, her black hair fluttering gently.

"Junior Brother Chen, you should stay."

Chen Fan’s pupils shrank. The next instant, his expression turned utterly savage. "Get out of my way!"

CLANG!

He swung his saber down violently. A faint blue flame burned fiercely on the blade, making the surrounding air CRACKLE.

Although Chen Fan was injured, this strike was still very powerful, mainly due to the eerie blue flame clinging to the blade.

Lin Wanzhu naturally noticed this strange blue flame. Before the blade even got close, she could feel its terrifying power, and her expression grew solemn.

However, she did not retreat. The Great Tendons in her arm snapped taut, and at the same time, a powerful stance erupted from her body, like a gale sweeping in all directions.

Facing the descending saber, Lin Wanzhu took a step forward and thrust out her palm.

BANG!

The moment her palm strike exploded outward, a massive amount of Gang Wind swept up, causing her robes to flap loudly in the air.

The blue flame on the saber’s edge flickered wildly, completely suppressed.

Chen Fan’s expression instantly changed.

’What a terrifying stance! How could this bitch also...?’

At this moment, he felt as if his saber had sunk into an invisible mire, unable to descend even a fraction of an inch further.

Then came a muffled THUD.

Lin Wanzhu’s fair, jade-like palm, shimmering with a faint jade-colored light, struck the flat of the saber heavily.

An incomparably tyrannical force erupted in an instant, sending a violent shockwave back through the blade.

Chen Fan, whose severe injuries had not yet healed, was violently shaken. He spat out a mouthful of blood and staggered backward.

"Why? You bitch who does nothing but follow Su Yu around all day, what right do you have to become this strong?!"

Chen Fan roared in fury.

He had been so proud of awakening his Cold Soul Cold Fire Spirit Body, believing he had joined the ranks of peerless geniuses. Despite just entering the Muscle Forging Realm, he could already defeat masters of the Ape Tendon Realm.

But in front of Su Yu, his pride had been utterly shattered.

And now, even Lin Wanzhu, someone he had never taken seriously, could repel him with a single palm strike.

FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!

’If I hadn’t been severely injured by Su Yu earlier, how could I possibly be defeated by this bitch with a single palm strike?’

Across from him, Lin Wanzhu shook her head mockingly.

Before, she would indeed have been no match for the current Chen Fan. But ever since Su Yu gifted her that divine stone, she had used the Dao-like rhythm within it to comprehend a powerful stance.

That stance was incredibly powerful, like a potent Gang Wind, and it suited her perfectly. In just over ten days, she had already brought it to near Perfection.

’Once I’ve fully comprehended the stance from the divine stone, I’m sure I’ll reach the Perfection realm. My strength will surge once again!’

She had named this powerful stance the Wind of the Forest Stance, like a gale raging through the woods, strong enough to flay the very bone!

BOOM!

In the distance, the battle between Su Yu and Huyan Tuoba was nearing its end.

Su Yu’s mastery of the Demon Ape Demon-Vibrating Saber was sublime, and with the enhancement of two powerful stances, Huyan Tuoba’s defeat was only a matter of time.

Huyan Tuoba was now covered in injuries. Su Yu’s Mo Yuan was a Profound Spirit Blade, and against its slashes, even the defenses of the Jiao Tendon Realm were like paper.

"Boy, I admit you’re a stunningly brilliant genius! But do you really think you’ve won tonight?"

Huyan Tuoba leaned on his notched Wide-Blade Heavy Sword, letting crimson blood drip continuously from his arms and down the blade, PITTER-PATTER, onto the pale soil.

Although he was covered in wounds and looked utterly wretched, his somewhat sunken old eyes glinted with the violent madness of a cornered beast.

"You forced my hand! Since you insist on my death, then tonight, I’ll let you taste the true power of the Huyan Family!"

In that instant, Huyan Tuoba’s face twisted in a savage grimace of extreme pain.

However, Su Yu was never the type of fool to let his opponent calmly recite their lines and power up during a life-and-death battle.

The instant Huyan Tuoba’s aura shifted, Su Yu moved in a flash, his body creating a piercing sonic boom as he instantly appeared right before him, ready to kill!

"Draw the Line, Seal the Demon!"

Su Yu gripped his saber with both hands in a reverse grip. His Qi and Blood surged as his Great Tendons explosively snapped taut. In the blink of an eye, he unleashed dozens of violent, intersecting slashes that formed a black and red web of saber light, completely sealing off Huyan Tuoba’s escape routes for dozens of feet in every direction.

The wind from his saber was like thunder as it enveloped Huyan Tuoba.

But in that same instant, Huyan Tuoba’s body underwent a bizarre transformation.

His bones CRACKLED and in the blink of an eye, he transformed into a ten-foot-tall giant. His muscles bulged and POPPED, swelling like tumors and shredding his black robe to pieces.

Facing the torrential net of saber glints from Su Yu, he let out a savage laugh, abandoned his weapon, and brazenly crossed his arms to block!

"SHLICK! SHLICK! SHLICK! SHLICK—"

The sharp, black saber light instantly tore through the thick skin on his arms. But a moment later, after cutting three inches deep, the usually unstoppable edge of Mo Yuan felt as if it had struck an incomparably hard alloy.

"CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!"

A shower of piercing sparks erupted. The blade, which should have been able to cut through anything, was forcefully repelled by a tyrannical shockwave the moment it touched his bones!

"Die, you little bastard!"

Huyan Tuoba’s face had completely transformed into a terrifying, half-human, half-beast visage.

From a split in the skin on one side of his forehead, a long, sharp, jet-black horn bizarrely grew out. His hands swelled rapidly, his fingernails shooting out several inches to become a pair of sharp claws covered in fine scales!

He lunged forward, his black claws leaving five cold glints in the air, fast as lightning, as they swiped horizontally toward Su Yu’s abdomen!

The attack was so fast it seemed to drag afterimages behind it.

Every hair on Su Yu’s body stood on end in an instant as an extreme sense of crisis washed over him.

His Divine Sense was frantically warning him!

’If I can’t dodge this claw, my body will absolutely be disemboweled in an instant, torn in two at the waist!’

He instantly executed his swift movement technique!

Without any hesitation, the Qi and Blood in his body surged into the acupoints in his feet. In the nick of time, his figure blurred into an afterimage and shifted sideways, retreating several dozen feet in an instant.

His expression grew solemn as he stared at Huyan Tuoba, whose attack had missed.

Or perhaps he could no longer be called Huyan Tuoba. His form was more like that of a Demon Beast.

’A Divine Blood transformation?’

Su Yu had dealt with the Huyan Family and the Black Lotus Sect for a long time, and he had witnessed this kind of mutation caused by Divine Blood a few times before.

The form and aura of the Huyan Tuoba before him were clearly of the same nature.

The next moment, a flicker of delight sparked in his heart.

’Since he can transform, that means I’ll get a Divine Blood harvest if I kill him!’

’That means I can accumulate at least one more Breakthrough Point, and my Divine Skills will grow!’

This sudden turn of events also caught the attention of Lin Wanzhu, who was not far away.

Sensing the dangerous aura, her expression became exceptionally grave.

’Muscle Forging Realm Perfection?’

’No! This aura is even stronger!’

Lin Wanzhu compared him to Master Qin in her mind and realized that the sense of danger Huyan Tuoba gave off now surpassed even Master Qin’s! ’Perhaps he’s already touched the edge of the Profound Bone Realm!’

Her heart clenched. ’What do I do, what do I do? How could something like this happen?!’

’Faced with such a powerful opponent, I probably can’t even take a single blow!’

"HAHAHAHA!"

When Chen Fan saw this, his intention to flee vanished, and he began to laugh maniacally.

’So this is the Divine Blood transformation! It can increase one’s strength by so much. No wonder the Huyan Family looks down on ordinary Martial Artists!’

’They’ve always claimed to be descendants of gods. Is it because they have this Divine Blood in their veins?’

"Elder Huyan, kill him!"

Chen Fan screamed, his voice high-pitched and trembling with excitement!

’The tables have turned! That damned Su Yu, you’re going to die tonight after all!’

"Ah Yu, be careful!"

Lin Wanzhu’s cry had barely rung out.

Under the moonlight, Huyan Tuoba’s demonic form abruptly vanished from where he stood.

BOOM—

In that instant, a large area of the ground cracked and shattered, creating countless deep, web-like fissures.

Before the sonic boom even had time to echo through the air, the massive shadow had already appeared abruptly behind Su Yu!

"ROAR—"

Huyan Tuoba’s eyes were bloodshot as he let out a deafening, bestial roar.

It seemed this Divine Blood transformation had significant side effects, similar to others Su Yu had seen before. Even before the transformation’s effects wore off, it was already starting to affect Huyan Tuoba’s sanity.

At this moment, he wasn’t using his heavy sword; instead, he had tossed it far away.

His pair of eagle-like claws, covered in iron-like scales, clasped together in midair to form a heavy hammer, smashing down viciously toward Su Yu’s head!

"Die!"