Stronger with Crimson Modifier

Chapter 136: Crushing the Skillful (Part 3)

"What a pity!"

Hu Qi glanced at the notch on the blade of the Long Saber in his hand.

He shook his head.

Although the material of this Long Saber was already top-tier, and his Spirit Devouring Talent had allowed him to use Black Blood to slightly enhance its hardness, it still wasn’t enough for a battle of this intensity.

"You... are good. To think you could push me this far!"

Just then, a slightly hoarse voice suddenly sounded from ahead.

WHOOSH!

An extremely condensed killing intent, like a fierce gale, blew the dust and gray fog to the sides.

Helinta’s figure reappeared.

However, compared to before, her once-beautiful face was gone.

All the skin on it had vanished, replaced by a shocking, bloody, mangled mess.

On her face, muscle fibers had been scorched by the high heat, and black blood vessels were exposed, looking twisted and grotesque.

The area where her wine-red eyes had been was now a patch of charred blackness.

Thick, pungent, black-red blood dripped continuously down her cheeks, leaving spots of varying sizes on the ground.

But Helinta seemed to feel none of it.

As she walked, the cooked flesh on her face flaked away.

Soon, new, blood-red buds of flesh intertwined, growing a new pair of wine-red eyes and facial tissues.

"Your sword is no good."

Helinta’s face had now almost completely recovered as she looked at Hu Qi.

"Is that so? It’s more than enough to kill you!"

Hu Qi’s expression was indifferent.

As he spoke, he took another Long Saber from his back and held it in his hand.

"Fine, I won’t take advantage of you. You’re worthy of me using my true strength! I just hope I don’t kill you in one hit. That wouldn’t be any fun."

As she spoke, a hint of excitement appeared on her face.

Helinta, no matter how she changed, was, deep in her Genes, a madwoman who craved battle.

As she spoke, she gripped the hilt with both hands and slammed her Long Saber into the ground.

The hard concrete ground was like tofu, and the blade sank several inches into it.

The next second.

Streams of red Qi Blood True Strength burst forth, leaping and flickering across her body like bolts of crimson lightning!

That immense Qi Blood True Strength surged out from her body like a storm.

Her waist-length golden hair danced behind her, and each stream of Qi Blood True Strength was like a burning black-red flame, emitting a powerful aura and force field capable of incinerating everything.

It weaved, shuttled, and condensed across her body, outlining the figure of a colossal, blood-red serpent nearly a hundred meters tall.

All of this sounds lengthy, but it was actually completed in an instant.

The moment the colossal blood-red serpent appeared, a massive tail, thick enough to cover half a street’s width, swept out like a collapsing Celestial Pillar.

Everything in its path—the gray fog, the buildings—was crushed and torn apart as it smashed directly toward Hu Qi’s position.

BOOM!

Dust and gray fog scattered, revealing a scene of utter ruin.

This was a Blood Soul condensed to the extreme, a technique of a Martial Arts Family at the Qi Blood Soul Level.

However, compared to an ordinary Martial Arts Family at the Qi Blood Soul Level who could only condense a Blood Soul of ten or a few dozen meters, Helinta’s Blood Soul was undoubtedly terrifying in both its size and density.

However, seeing this, Helinta, who was inside the Blood Snake, showed no joy. Instead, her brow furrowed slightly.

Although she had hit her opponent, she felt it had been a little too easy.

"Where are you looking?"

Just then, Hu Qi’s voice suddenly rang out.

At the same time, a massive shadow loomed over as a gale howled.

The gray fog within a hundred-meter radius was instantly sent rolling to the sides.

Helinta’s expression froze. She slowly raised her head to look.

There, a behemoth a thousand meters tall appeared above her head.

It was a completely black Three-Eyed Black Snake.

At this moment, its giant head looked down from on high, its pair of cold, Crimson serpent eyes like two suns of blood.

Its massive body was like a towering mountain peak, looming in and out of the gray fog.

Every black scale shimmered with a cold luster.

The powerful aura of a Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent descended, and within a thousand-meter radius, both Black Blood Species and humans alike felt a bone-deep terror and began to tremble!

Helinta was no exception.

A flash of astonishment crossed her wine-red eyes.

"How is this possible?"

The overwhelming sense of danger it gave her was no weaker than what she had felt from Jiang Zuo, whom she had killed.

HISS!

Suddenly, the Three-Eyed Black Snake hissed.

Its giant tail swept through the air like a toppling mountain, accompanied by the deafening roar of a sonic boom, as if it would tear space itself apart.

A gale howled, and the gray fog was instantly churned into a frenzied, surging tide.

The next moment, like a black bolt of lightning, it whipped down on the colossal blood-red serpent Helinta had transformed into below.

In terms of size alone, it was like an adult fighting a child; there was no room for resistance.

The moment they collided, a terrifying roar erupted, and the giant serpent exploded at its midsection.

HISS! The Blood Snake let out a pained, mournful, and despairing cry.

Its body was sent flying, crashing through countless buildings.

Shattered stone and glass flew everywhere. A deep, massive trench was gouged into the ground, and soil and rock were thrown high into the air.

It finally landed in a large building, and the steel-and-concrete structure was instantly blasted into a pile of rubble.

After the attack,

the Three-Eyed Black Snake’s body shrank by an imperceptible amount.

Just then, Hu Qi’s figure appeared atop the head of the Three-Eyed Black Snake.

He raised his hand slightly, palm aimed at Helinta’s position, and clenched his five fingers into a fist!

At the same time, below him, the Black Snake’s head tilted up slightly.

It opened its cavernous mouth and frantically gulped in a massive amount of air.

The surrounding gray fog was drawn in by this powerful suction, forming a huge vacuum vortex.

The Black Snake’s body swelled slightly.

Suddenly,

it abruptly opened its mouth.

A pillar of white light shot out like divine punishment from the heavens, blasting toward the distant ruins of the building at an unimaginable speed.

Space itself seemed to warp where the pillar of light passed, letting out a sharp whistling sound.

The white pillar of light, carrying devastating power, instantly struck the ruins of the building.

With a deafening explosion, the earth trembled violently.

Under the impact of this force, the ruins of the building were instantly pulverized.

Stone, steel, and concrete were blown into the air, forming a small mushroom cloud.

Breath of Thunder!

This attack, unleashed by Hu Qi using the power of his Blood Soul, was astonishingly powerful, comparable to a missile.

After releasing this attack, even with his Qi Blood True Strength as vast as an ocean, it was completely drained in that instant.

To put it simply, the Three-Eyed Black Snake was the Blood Soul condensed from Hu Qi’s powerful Qi and Blood. Now that his Qi and Blood was depleted, the Three-Eyed Black Snake naturally lost the source of power needed to sustain its existence and dissipated completely.

Hu Qi’s figure also fell from the sky.

Fortunately, the remnants of the Black Snake’s body provided a buffer, and by using them to break his fall, Hu Qi landed safely on the ground.

THUMP, THUMP, THUMP!

As his heart beat, a massive amount of Qi Blood True Strength surged forth once again from his perfect-level Essence Element Divine Treasure.

In just a few breaths, his Qi Blood True Strength was replenished, and his slightly pale complexion returned to normal.

With a flip of his palm, a Long Saber appeared in his hand once more.

He then headed straight for the ruins ahead.

The path that had been cleared by the earlier attack began to close behind Hu Qi as the surrounding gray fog rolled back in.

Soon, Hu Qi stopped before the ruins.

Even with the dust and gray fog obscuring the view, he could still see the rubble-strewn ground.

The ruins were deathly silent.

Clearly, nothing could have survived such a terrifying attack.

The few surviving humans and Black Blood Species in the area had either hidden themselves or fled far away, not daring to make a sound.

"What’s wrong? Weren’t you so arrogant just now? Why are you playing dead for me now!"

Hu Qi sneered.

As he spoke, he raised his Long Saber slightly and swung it to the side. As the Sword Light flashed, a terrifying blast of Sword Energy condensed from Qi Blood True Strength erupted, slashing directly at a block of stone from a wall to the side.

BOOM!

The collapsed wall fragment cracked and exploded.

In the dust, a figure lay prone on the ground.

It was Helinta, but she was in a much more miserable state than before.

Not only was her entire body charred black and her golden hair completely gone, but she looked as if she had been tossed into a raging fire and roasted.

She was almost unrecognizable, and nearly all of her limbs were broken.

It was a miracle that she had survived such injuries.

"Hh... hhh..."

She raised her head, staring fixedly at Hu Qi with her one remaining eye.

When she saw that Hu Qi looked as if he hadn’t expended any energy at all, a look of disbelief filled her eye.

She opened her mouth as if to say something, but her tissues were so severely carbonized that her throat was ruined, and she couldn’t make a sound.