Chapter 768: Defeat Me, and I'll Let You Leave

Chapter 768: Chapter 753: Defeat Me, and I’ll Let You Leave

To recap, Zhou Tianyi of the Blood Wing Demon Sect had invited Shen Lang to cooperate with him and fight their way out of the siege.

But Shen Lang’s flat refusal had instantly infuriated Zhou Tianyi.

The other seven men also began to laugh sinisterly.

“Where did this punk come from? Does he really think he can just arrogantly charge in because he has some skill in the Artifact Refining Dao and knows the puppets’ mechanisms? He won’t even know what hit him!”

“Exactly! He’s just at the measly King Martial Realm Second Heaven Cultivation, yet he’s so brazen and domineering. He’s simply courting death!”

“Hmph. If he slows down even a little and takes a single hit from a puppet, he’s dead for sure… And he even dares to go toward Mu Feng? Does he think the current Mu Feng is the same as before? With his cultivation, he probably can’t even withstand the aftershock of Mu Feng’s attacks!”

Seeing that Shen Lang refused to cooperate and was heading toward Mu Feng, they all immediately started jeering maliciously.

Meanwhile, the members of the Imperial Dragon Sect behind them watched Shen Lang weave through the puppets like a willow catkin drifting in a gale, and they all broke out in a cold sweat.

Even if Shen Lang was truly familiar with the puppets’ construction and knew their mechanisms, the scene was so chaotic, with so many puppets and such a turbulent surge of energy…

The danger was still immense!

However, Shen Lang was obviously not having as difficult a time as they imagined. Amidst this strange atmosphere, wherever he went, a large space was immediately cleared.

One after another, the puppets were disabled and then stored away.

It was as if Shen Lang had become addicted to collecting them. His figure weaved about continuously, his hands fluttering up and down like butterflies as puppet after puppet vanished.

‘These puppets are definitely good stuff.’

‘Puppets at the King Martial Realm Sixth and Seventh Heaven, impervious to weapons and elements—where else could I find such amazing things?’

At this moment, Shen Lang’s eyes gleamed, and he almost burst out laughing. If not for his mask, he might have really been seen grinning from ear to ear.

So-called “luck” or “fortunate destiny” was a strange thing in itself.

Shen Lang’s luck was even stranger; it could even suppress the luck of Chen Tianci and Xu Daolin.

But his experiences in the Dragon Scale Divine Hall couldn’t be explained by luck alone.

At the very least, his earlier acquisition of the Heaven-Slaying Trident and his current harvesting of these puppets were both related to a prior foundation.

This foundation, of course, was the one laid by the War Emperor.

It was because of the foundation laid by the War Emperor that Shen Lang could easily rescue Ye Youming, save his own life in front of him, and ultimately obtain the Heaven-Slaying Trident.

The same was true for these puppets. If the War Emperor hadn’t “coincidentally” studied these things, Shen Lang could have relied on Duanmu Xie to repel them, but subduing them would have been exceedingly difficult.

So, as Shen Lang moved through the corridor now, he was simply reaping a windfall, harvesting puppets!

To the group of experts trapped in this corridor, these puppets were like demons.

But to Shen Lang, these puppets were a rare and priceless treasure!

Shen Lang did, in fact, know the method for creating this type of puppet.

However, the materials for these puppets came from the Upper Realm. Forget Shen Lang, not even the War God Hall could find them anywhere else, unless they plundered a Pocket World Blessed Land!

Now that so many puppets had suddenly appeared, Shen Lang remained calm on the surface, but inwardly he was ecstatic.

“Hm?”

Just as Shen Lang was madly collecting puppets, a soft sound of surprise, almost like an illusion, echoed in the corridor.

Shen Lang paused for a moment, trying to find the source of the sound, but he found no trace of it!

Immediately after, the situation on the field changed!

The puppets that had been pouring out like a tide seemed to have received some kind of command and began to retreat frantically!

On the walls that not even Mu Feng’s attacks could budge, portals appeared once more. The moment the puppets touched these portals, they vanished without a trace!

The puppets were fleeing madly. Seeing this, Mu Feng, no longer entangled by them, also bolted toward the other end of the corridor!

“Dammit!”

Seeing this, Shen Lang couldn’t help but curse.

Because it forced him to make an immediate choice…

Should he stay and continue capturing the remaining puppets, or should he chase after Mu Feng?

After only a slight hesitation, Shen Lang’s body left a series of afterimages in the corridor as he pursued Mu Feng!

With Shen Lang’s current cultivation, catching up to Mu Feng in an open area would be nearly impossible.

But the corridor was still filled with countless puppets, blocking Mu Feng’s path!

Shen Lang ran along the walls, leaping over layers of puppets in just a few bounds and landing right in front of Mu Feng!

“Old friend, trying to leave without so much as a greeting? Isn’t that a little rude?”

Shen Lang drew his Immortal Celestial Saber, his Battle Intent soaring as he stood before Mu Feng.

“ROAR!” Mu Feng roared like a Demon Beast. “You brat, don’t push me too far! I’m not afraid of you anymore!”

Mu Feng’s voice had completely changed, becoming unfamiliar and extremely aggressive.

It was filled with a wild, brutal nature, as if he wanted to destroy everything he saw. He was faintly exuding the aura of an Abyss Demon, an aura that would make anyone’s courage fail.

However, he was facing Shen Lang, who was not only fearless but was even sizing up Mu Feng as if he were a lab rat.

When Mu Feng met this gaze, he subconsciously took two steps back!

“What the hell do you want?”

Mu Feng’s eyes turned blood-red, and black qi swirled around him. His aura was extremely unstable, but his mind was still clear.

Wary of Duanmu Xie, Mu Feng was on full alert, not daring to make a rash move.

“I don’t want anything. Weren’t you the one who wanted to kill me from the very beginning?” Shen Lang said coolly. “Now your strength has greatly increased, and I’m standing right here in front of you, letting you kill me, yet you ask what I want?”

Mu Feng’s blood-red eyes darted back and forth. “That was just a misunderstanding. You go your way, I’ll go mine. We can have nothing more to do with each other. Why must you press me so hard?”

“So, I’m the one pressing you?” Shen Lang laughed.

Shen Lang had far too many reasons to kill Mu Feng.

According to his personality, he would never easily let go of someone who had tried to kill him multiple times.

Besides, Mu Feng had seen Shen Lang kill members of the Demon God Hall in the Hungry Ghost Dao. Here in the Dragon Scale Divine Hall, with an unknown number of Demon God Hall experts present, Shen Lang would be in huge trouble if that news got out.

And then there was the Abyss Lord’s Demon Power on Mu Feng, which Shen Lang was now very curious about…

With a thought, Shen Lang released Duanmu Xie and pointed to the eight men far behind Mu Feng. “Those men just insulted me. Kill them all. Leave no one alive.”

Shen Lang casually found an excuse to have Duanmu Xie slaughter the eight men.

Back in the Stone Forest at the foot of the active volcano, Shen Lang hadn’t killed all the people from the White Bone Hall and the Blood Wing Demon Sect. Instead, he had crippled and captured them all because there were many experts from other sects present in the Stone Forest, and there were too many prying eyes.

While his strength was still insufficient, Shen Lang was unwilling to make two Spirit Copper Level Sects into mortal enemies at once, unless he could completely annihilate them.

In fact, even if he could annihilate them, he wouldn’t do it for the time being, because both of these factions were connected to the Candle Dragon. Destroying them would inevitably attract the Candle Dragon’s attention.

So, just as he had spared the Holy Light Sect and the Beast Emperor Palace, he also spared these two sects for now.

In the Stone Forest, Shen Lang had crippled those people in front of everyone and then captured them, preparing to have the White Bone Hall and the Blood Wing Demon Sect ransom them back with a large number of treasures. Experts at the King Martial Realm Sixth and Seventh Heaven were very valuable, after all.

But in this enclosed corridor, Shen Lang had no such scruples!

‘However many people from the Demon God Hall there are, I’ll kill that many!’

“Rest assured, my lord, not a single one will escape!”

Duanmu Xie let out a wild laugh and, under Mu Feng’s wary gaze, shot past him like a whirlwind toward the eight men.

‘How is this possible? A King Martial Realm Martial Artist with an Emperor Martial Realm Zombie?’ The faces of the eight experts immediately fell.

A moment ago, they were endlessly mocking Shen Lang; the next, they were about to die!

“Run!”

The eight men roared, scattering and transforming into eight streaks of Escape Light as they shot toward the sides of the corridor!

Faced with this zombie whose aura was as vast as the sea, even these ferocious and unruly experts from the Demon God Hall couldn’t muster a shred of Battle Intent.

With their cultivation at the King Martial Realm Seventh or Eighth of Heaven, they were no different from ants before Duanmu Xie, who was at the Emperor Martial Realm Peak.

As Duanmu Xie charged toward the eight men, Mu Feng, who had been standing perfectly still, finally made his move!

Mu Feng had been waiting for this exact moment!

As long as Duanmu Xie wasn’t in his way, it was the perfect time to escape!

Mu Feng’s figure blurred. The Blood-colored Long Spear in his hand suddenly struck out, thrusting toward Shen Lang like a venomous dragon. The sharp sound of it breaking the air was especially loud in the corridor.

“Good timing! Let me see just how strong this Demon Power of yours is!”

Unafraid, Shen Lang met the attack head-on, the light from his long saber flaring as he refused to back down!

“CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG!”

The moment the Immortal Celestial Saber met the Blood Spear, a deafening clang of metal rang out.

Amidst the surging Powerful Qi, both were forced to retreat rapidly.

However, Mu Feng only retreated three meters, while Shen Lang was knocked back more than ten.

Mu Feng, who had intended to use Duanmu Xie’s distraction as a chance to escape, had been directly forced back by Shen Lang despite his full-powered charge!

Mu Feng wore an expression of disbelief. He couldn’t believe that even with his cultivation having surged to this level, he had only gained a slight advantage in a head-on clash and had failed to knock Shen Lang down!

Shen Lang stumbled slightly as he came to a stop, a fiery light in his eyes. “The Demon Power truly is formidable. To make your cultivation so powerful in such a short time… I’m getting more and more curious!”

Taking a deep breath, Shen Lang’s whole body trembled. The sound of dragons and elephants roaring together emanated from within him as his aura surged.

Layers of glossy, jet-black scales began to cover his exposed skin.

For the first time, Shen Lang had fully unleashed the power of his Chaos Divine Body before a fight even began!

“HAH!”

Shen Lang exhaled with a shout, and a clear cry sharp enough to pierce metal and stone instantly echoed through the corridor!

The cry was like a monstrous wave, kicking up a tide of Qi Force that swept through the corridor!

“Beat me, and I’ll let you leave. Lose, and you’ll become my dissection subject.”

Shen Lang dragged his long saber on the ground as he slowly walked forward, exuding a tragic, heroic air. An unparalleled Battle Intent rose madly from him!

Only by improving and tempering oneself amidst crisis, by undergoing a baptism of blood and fire, could one truly grow…

For this reason, Shen Lang had set himself this difficult challenge.