Chapter 66 Conclusion
Chapter 66 Conclusion
Alkaid held not only the newly acquired Divine Shadow Sword in his hand but also the Chengying Sword, which he had cultivated with the "Formless" secret technique for some time.
At this moment, the two demons thought they found an opportunity and pounced to kill, only to meet the suddenly emerging Chengying Sword, which Alkaid wielded while invisibly cloaked.
Sword light broke through the air!
The arm of one of the demons was directly shredded by the blade of the Chengying Sword, scattering flesh and blood.
The other demon collided head-on with the Pill Energy Alkaid forcefully unleashed while in mid-air.
The violent vigor collided in the void, causing Alkaid, who had no leverage, to involuntarily fly out sideways.
However, as his body flew out, the Chengying Sword, which had just shredded the demon's arm, continued its formidable trajectory toward the demon's head, with an edge sharp enough to slice through fine iron, splitting the demon's head into two halves on the spot.
The figure that flew out from the punch's force even used the resistance from splitting the demon's head to perform a flip in mid-air, ultimately stabilizing at ninety degrees on the wall several meters away.
It was as if the scene from his original fight with Xia Li was replaying.
As he landed, his knees bent slightly to absorb the shock, and the next moment, the power within him burst forth explosively.
"Bang!"
The wall cracked!
He shot out like a cannonball, fiercely attacking another demon.
This demon, having collided with Alkaid's Pill Energy, also retreated several steps and had just steadied himself. Facing Alkaid, who plunged toward him like a cannonball, the demon had no time to fully respond and could only roar lowly as a dreadful killing intent burst forth from the blood-red light, faintly reflecting a vision of mountains of corpses and seas of blood in his pupils.
Such an apocalyptic vision would terrify anyone who saw it.
Divine Intent!
This was an attack of Divine Intent!
Although this demon's physical strength limited him, revealing a power lesser than Zhao Sheng and Xie Yusheng, he astonishingly…
also released the Divine Strike Technique, which only those in the God Realm of Martial Saints could unleash!
Regrettably...
If it had been half a month earlier, the attack of Divine Intent might have had some effect on Alkaid. However, as Alkaid reached the pinnacle of Fourth Rank Martial Saint and consolidated the secret technique - Great Sun Suppressing God Diagram, his spiritual world had already visualized a nascent great blazing sun.
Before the terrifying aura of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood could invade Alkaid's spiritual world, this blazing sun that suppressed the godly sea released a radiance thousands of fathoms bright. The high heat mixed with intense light instantly filled every corner of his spiritual world, and similarly...
Through the empathetic connection of Divine Intent, it also shone into the spiritual world of the demon.
For a moment, he felt as if he was being scorched by the blazing sun; his thoughts, consciousness, and perceptions were all blanked out by this brilliant light. Under the severe backlash, he couldn't help but emit a series of agonized screams.
"Bang!"
The next second, the demon's screams abruptly stopped.
With his head shattered by the sword that shot out like a cannonball, his pain was completely healed, and incidentally, Alkaid ended his life.
"Sizzle!"
As he pounced and landed steadily, Alkaid crouched with his center of gravity low, the friction between his shoes and the ground creating a sound as he slid forward nearly ten meters.
This was because he had burst forth with all his strength earlier, moving too fast to stop.
"Bang Bang Bang!"
While sliding, his form trembled slightly three times in a row.
This was a sign that bullets had struck his body!
He had a gun, and so did the people of the Xie Family.
Hit by three bullets, the impact inertia of the three bullets caused his sliding speed to drop instantly.
The martial master of the Xie Family who fired the shots saw that Alkaid was hit by three bullets but not a drop of blood spurted out, he instantly realized something, raised the gun barrel, and aimed at his head...
But almost the moment he raised the gun barrel to aim at Alkaid's face, the Chengying Sword in his hand had already shot out, whistling at a speed no less than that of a bullet, and like lightning, it pierced through the martial master's forehead, the tip coming out from the back of his head.
His figure fell backward.
And Alkaid himself had completely neutralized the downward inertia on his body at this moment, his body spinning to the limit as he swept his hand past the Divine Shadow Sword plunged in Xie Yusheng's skull...
The specially made large-caliber handgun, following his body's spin, aimed precisely at the other four gunmen in the hall, and both parties fired almost simultaneously!
"Bang Bang Bang!"
Blood splattered.
As Alkaid twisted his body, the foreheads of the four men simultaneously burst into crimson blood.
Following that, the Divine Shadow Sword that he had abruptly picked up, as his body twisted, was held flat and swung out horizontally over one hundred eighty degrees...
"Bang!"
Sparks flew.
A bullet aimed at his forehead was cleaved away by the sword.
As for the other two bullets that hit...
The powerful defense of the Grade 5S Battle Garment meant he suffered nearly no substantial damage.
By the time Alkaid had taken care of Xie Yusheng, demons, and gunmen in the first-floor hall, the elite forces led by Zong Yan from the World Salvation Society had already charged in.
Including Zhao Sheng and Xie Yusheng, amongst the twelve demons, Alkaid had taken care of eight alone, leaving four remaining. Even if the World Salvation Society was hardly powerful, they wouldn't be suppressed to the point of being unable to raise their heads now.
With the entry of Zong Yan, Zhang Tianji, and others into the hall, the tide of battle instantly turned.
The faster-reacting demons sensed that the situation had turned against them and planned to escape.
But how could Zong Yan, Zhang Tianji, and the others let the tiger return to the mountain?
Instantly, what had previously been the demons restraining them, turned into them restraining the demons.
And as Alkaid pulled himself together, with both gun and sword ready, the remaining four demons were quickly slain by their combined force.
Fortunately for them, demons find it hard to find a battle garment that fits when they reveal their real bodies, otherwise, the ordinary members of the World Salvation Society would have suffered heavy casualties in confronting them.
After personally killing the last demon, Alkaid did not make another move.
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He even withdrew the Divine Descent Technique.
As the Divine Descent state dissipated, the pain from enduring Xie Yusheng's strike instantly spread, wildly proliferating to every corner of his body.
Fortunately, when he was struck by Xie Yusheng's Fatal Kill punch, the Divine Shadow Sword had already penetrated his skull a split second earlier.
With the brain nerves damaged, the force of this punch was naturally far inferior to its state prior to impact.
Furthermore, with Alkaid's strong control over his own muscles, bones, and internal organs, such injuries...
At most, would affect his strength in fights against demons, but would not cause him to falter and vomit blood in unconsciousness.
He sat on the sofa, quietly watching the others from the Healing Society clean up the battlefield.
He then took a Snow Ginseng Pill and a Healing Pill.
Concurrently, he consciously enhanced the energy in his stomach for digestion and the transporting capacity of his heart, assimilating the elixir's power and delivering it to the injured areas, nourishing them, and hastening the recovery of his wounds.
Even...
Accelerating the transformation of his internal organs.
He had taken a direct hit from Xie Yusheng in his demon form from the Martial Saint, which was in itself like a tempering for his internal organs. Once the wounds healed, it would significantly shorten the time required for him to complete his Internal Cultivation of the viscera.
He just sat there, letting others clean up the Xie Family manor.
Yet none of the dozen members of the Healing Society had any complaints.
Many of them looked at him from time to time with eyes filled with reverence.
Especially Zhang Tianji...
Even though according to the data he gathered and the results from the personal assessment by Commissioner Zhou, he already knew that his cousin had exceptional strength.
But reviewing data and an official assessment couldn't compare to witnessing a high-intensity, high-standard life-and-death battle firsthand.
No!
Not one battle!
But several!
Each one, in their eyes, was a fierce battle where even risking one's life might not avoid a near-certain death.
Every opponent was so formidable that even to him, a Grandmaster, they seemed invincible.
Especially when Xie Yusheng manifested his True Demon Body, at a towering height of three meters, and punched to collapse a floor; it sent a genuine shudder from deep within him.
This kind of power was so formidable that just one glance was enough to send chills down his spine.
Let alone fighting against it!
Yet such a terrifying beast was bested in an instant when it came into contact with Alkaid, resolving the fight and deciding life and death.
Such a powerhouse was truly inhuman.
Truly a being who embodied immense power in one body, whose every action could dictate the life and death of countless people.
No amount of respect or fear was too much.
Shortly after, Zong Yan, who had completed clearing the battlefield, came before Alkaid.
His gaze towards Alkaid carried a mix of complexity and transience.
After a long while, he expressed somewhat emotionally, "So, what you said was true."
He lowered his head, muttering, "To think a Grandmaster could challenge a Martial Saint, I thought such astonishing and brilliant talent existed only in books and biographies..."
"Today, you saw it,"
Alkaid opened his eyes.
"Never look at a genius who became a Grandmaster at just nineteen and possesses natural divine prowess like you would an ordinary person, I will take this lesson to heart."
Zong Yan solemnly said, "From now on, I will believe without doubt any description or action of yours."
"We have reached a consensus,"
Alkaid said and suddenly reached out, tapping on Zong Yan's body.
Zong Yan instinctively wanted to dodge but, trusting Alkaid, he suppressed this instinct and allowed him to tap repeatedly on his body.
After numerous extremely fast taps, Alkaid withdrew his hand.
"Go back and take some stamina and vitality supplements, and take good care of yourself,"
he advised.
Zong Yan was startled.
Soon after, he quickly noticed something unusual about his body.
He was prepared to unleash the full force of his Martial Saint power without regard to his aging body's weakening, boiling his blood. Normally, this would have rapidly weakened him, potentially causing him to fall from the Martial Saint Realm and reducing his lifespan to at most three to five years, or even as little as one and a half years.
However, under Alkaid's several interferences, the boiling blood in his body quickly subsided, recirculated to his limbs and body, and significantly reverted him back to his state before going all out.
"This!?"
Zong Yan suddenly widened his eyes.
He was well aware of what this meant.
Alkaid's keen awareness of the blood and energies within his body and even his precise control in rechanneling his boiling blood was...
an understanding and mastery of the blood force that he, as a Martial Saint, could not even attain!
Could this imply that Alkaid's understanding of Blood Replacement and Marrow Cleansing exceeded his, a Martial Saint who had bathed in this realm for over a decade!?
"How is that possible..."
Suddenly, the Martial Saint, who had just claimed he would believe without doubt any of Alkaid's actions or words, lost his composure again.
A nineteen-year-old youth indeed!
Becoming a Grandmaster through Internal Cultivation was already a display of immense talent!
How could his understanding of blood force possibly surpass that of a Martial Saint's!?