Chapter 548 448: Indestructible: Eternal Life and Immortality

It stopped just before his throat.

PSSH!

A blade as thin as a cicada's wing pierced the Blood Grand Marshal's palm.

The afterimage slowly solidified.

Luna's figure appeared before the Blood Grand Marshal.

"Not bad. I actually failed to defend against that move. If you hadn't aimed for my throat, you might have achieved something. But what a pity. Your killing intent was already roused, so how could you possibly give up this chance to kill me?" The Blood Grand Marshal's gaze turned cold, and he kicked out.

THUD!

Luna was sent flying.

"Mom!" Yi Qinglian, caught in the thick of the battle, cried out in anguish the moment she saw what happened. She then looked toward Gao Neng. "Gao Neng..."

"Gao Neng!"

"Oh no, Gao Neng's been ambushed!"

"Quick, save him!"

Shaximo and the others immediately shouted.

Ignoring the surrounding alien army, they charged recklessly toward Gao Neng.

However, they couldn't break through.

At the same moment Luna was kicked away, the gene weapons fighting the High-tier Leaders also vanished one by one.

Without the gene weapons, the High-tier Leaders were effectively liberated.

So, how could they possibly let Shaximo save Gao Neng?

"Gao Neng!" Shen Fei and the others watched, equally panicked. They had never imagined that Gao Neng would be ambushed by the Blood Grand Marshal.

'Was it a lack of experience after all?'

'How could he get distracted on the battlefield when facing a Tier Nine alien?'

Shen Fei seethed with frustration.

They had the advantage, but because of Gao Neng's mishap, the entire situation had collapsed.

And most importantly, it was unknown if Gao Neng was dead or alive!

That was the most terrifying part.

Without Gao Neng, humanity would lose the opportunity for more people to reach the higher tiers...

"Kill them! We must save Gao Neng!" The old monk's eyes were bloodshot. As a Buddhist of the Esoteric Sect, he was supposed to be free of anger, but at this moment, it was impossible not to be enraged.

But the angrier they became, the less likely the three Tier Nine alien Grand Marshals were to let them pass.

"Don't even think about leaving!"

"Hahaha, so what if he's a Super Energy Warrior? You can only blame yourselves, humans, for being too greedy. If you had chosen to abandon the Northern District Battlefield, perhaps you might have stood a chance in the battle a year from now!"

"What a pity! You humans are destined to become our slaves! Or be exterminated!"

The three Tier Nine Grand Marshals erupted with powerful energy, their confidence instantly soaring.

Gao Neng had been knocked unconscious.

Over a hundred gene weapons had vanished.

The situation had become clear once more.

On the Northern District Battlefield, they would ultimately reign supreme.

And once they occupied the North District, for the next year, it would be as if a knife was perpetually hanging over the Human Alliance.

The initiative on the battlefield would forever be in their hands.

They could attack when they wanted.

They could defend when they wanted.

And the humans could never again take a single step out of the City of Hope. The moment they did, the garrisons in the North District would conquer them instantly.

...

On the Northern District Battlefield, the flames of the human garrisons were dying down.

In the City of Hope, the frantic cheers were fading.

Fang Tangtang held her cannon, firing ceaselessly at the Blood Grand Marshal. She wanted to blast him to smithereens, but her cannon fire couldn't hit him at all.

Flames rose from the ground.

Ice and snow melted into water.

The frigid air and searing heat intertwined.

The Blood Grand Marshal stared at a crater below. He didn't immediately rush down, not even after the hundred-plus gene weapons had vanished. He was just that cautious.

'Is he really dead?' The Blood Grand Marshal naturally believed in the power of his two palm strikes, but from a distance of over sixty meters, he wasn't completely certain if those two strikes had actually killed Gao Neng.

'To find out for sure...'

'...the simplest method is to check for any remaining energy fluctuations.'

The Blood Grand Marshal used his Spiritual Power to probe the area.

He found no energy fluctuations whatsoever.

'Dead? Gao Neng is dead? No... I should still be careful, just in case!' In his heart, the Blood Grand Marshal was fairly certain—nine times out of ten—that Gao Neng was dead.

But he still had to be cautious.

So, he decided to kill Fang Tangtang first.

'If Gao Neng can still hold back after this, then even if I lose, I'll have no regrets.'

The Blood Grand Marshal's gaze shifted.

"Little girl, die!"

"Don't!" Uncle Bai's voice rang out from the distance.

"Fang Tangtang, quick... run!" Luna, who had been sent flying, staggered to her feet. After spitting out a mouthful of blood, she slowly moved closer to Fang Tangtang.

Luna was injured.

And it was clearly not a light injury.

"No, I'll take him down with me!" Fang Tangtang's gaze was resolute. A terrifying and exceptionally unique aura began to radiate from her body.

"Hmm?!" The Blood Grand Marshal's eyes narrowed. Even he could sense a hint of a threat coming from Fang Tangtang.

A mere human girl...

could actually make a magnificent Tier Nine Grand Marshal like him feel threatened?

This little girl...

...must not be left alive!

The Blood Grand Marshal raised his palm.

A blood-red light began to gather on it.

But just as he was about to strike, the Flying Earth Dragon at Fang Tangtang's feet, which had been motionless, suddenly opened its eyes.

BOOM!

The Flying Earth Dragon grabbed Fang Tangtang and instantly burrowed into the ground.

"Wh-What? Oh no!" The Blood Grand Marshal clearly hadn't expected this. Subconsciously, he sensed that something was wrong.

In an instant, he dodged aside.

SWOOSH!

The gleam of a blade slashed past his face.

Then, a sky full of black shadows descended upon him.

One slash!

Two slashes!

Three slashes!

Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine slashes...

Anyway, it was a lot of slashes.

In an instant, blood sprayed from the Blood Grand Marshal's body.

And then, from the crater where Gao Neng had fallen, a figure shot out.

"How is this possible?!" The Blood Grand Marshal couldn't believe it. He knew very well how much destructive power his two palm strikes contained.

He wasn't dead!

Not only was he alive, but he had also surrounded him with so many gene weapons at once.

How was this possible?

"You can't be alive, impossible!" The Blood Grand Marshal went berserk. He didn't know why Gao Neng was still alive, but he knew that he himself was about to die.

Over a hundred gene weapons had him surrounded.

He had almost no chance of survival.

So, what was he to do?

RUMBLE!

With the Blood Grand Marshal at the center, a thick Blood Mist began to radiate from his body.

Without any hesitation, the Blood Grand Marshal chose a strategy of mutual destruction.

A Tier Nine alien choosing to perish alongside a human who had just broken through to Tier Seven was something no one would dare imagine, nor could they possibly imagine.

But the Blood Grand Marshal dared.

And he did it.

Such was his decisiveness.

"Don't come over here!" Gao Neng, who had just burst out of the ground, was horrified, his face pale with fright. "I'm a fake! I'm a gene weapon!"

"Nonsense! You think I would believe you?!" The Blood Grand Marshal, naturally, didn't believe him.

Not only did he not believe him, he attacked with his full, decisive power.

The bloody aura from his body instantly enveloped Gao Neng and, like a liquid, dyed his body red.

"Die!" he roared.

And Gao Neng exploded!

That's right.

He was blown to smithereens by that blood-red liquid.

BOOM!

The ground shook.

The Blood Grand Marshal's body went limp.

He had already been struck by too many blades and was bleeding profusely. On top of that, he had unleashed all his energy to envelop Gao Neng. He was now a spent force.

However, he had no regrets.

To trade a year of his time for Gao Neng's life...

...was truly worth it!

"Finally dead! Hahaha..." The Blood Grand Marshal stopped resisting, allowing the gene weapons in the sky to charge down at him relentlessly.

'Am I going to die?'

'It's just a matter of spending a year in a tree.'

'What's the big deal?'

'But...'

'Wait a minute... '

'If Gao Neng is dead, why are these gene weapons still trying to cut me down?'

CRACK! Just as the Blood Grand Marshal had this thought, the ground split open again. Then, two figures and a Flying Earth Dragon emerged from below.

"I told you that one was a fake... Why wouldn't you believe me?" Gao Neng looked at the Blood Grand Marshal, less than twenty meters away, and pursed his lips.

Southern Vermilion Bird (Undying): When the host activates the Undying attribute, your Stamina will be rapidly converted into Vitality, replenishing your health. As long as your Stamina is not completely depleted, you cannot die.

Gao Neng looked at the Blood Grand Marshal.

There was something he left unsaid, because he felt it would be too crushing for the Blood Grand Marshal. After all, he had actually been hoping the Blood Grand Marshal would hit him with another palm strike.