Chapter 441 - 276: The Formidable Blood-Bathed Tyrant Body (Part 2)

Chapter 441: Chapter 276: The Formidable Blood-Bathed Tyrant Body (Part 2)

He summoned all his focus, and the sword shadow at the center of his Returning Ruins Spiritual Source brightened. His Inner Qi, strength, the Zhanming Greatsword, and all his other conceptual abilities merged under the command of his Sword Intent, forming a strange new power.

He viciously slashed at the beast’s flesh, now unprotected by its Scale Armor.

BANG!

In that hurried exchange, killing intent flared from both man and beast. A gash deep enough to see bone was carved into Yu Fei’s chest, while a massive, bowl-sized wound was torn open on the beast’s flank.

HISS!

A shrill cry rang out. The Stage 7 desolate beast had suffered unprecedented damage. The source of its brazen confidence had always been its powerful defense.

And now, that defense had been breached!

Yu Fei completely ignored his injuries. For the first time, his powerful Iron Body cultivation showed its true worth. The bleeding stopped in an instant, and new flesh began to grow.

This was a rare experience for Yu Fei.

Ever since reaching the Second Realm, he had almost never been injured. No matter the enemy, once he played his trump card—Sword Qi—they were no match for him.

Over time, although Yu Fei had poured many resources into his Iron Body training, he hadn’t thought much of its defensive capabilities. He was more interested in the other benefits it provided, like increased strength and Inner Qi recovery.

Today’s injury had finally activated his body’s latent potential.

What was the Bloodbath Tyrant Body?

As his injuries mounted, his strength, speed, and regenerative abilities all increased. He was like a bonfire: as long as there was fuel to burn, the flames would only rage hotter.

Yu Fei had consumed so many precious elixirs; the foundation of his body was far stronger than he had imagined.

Although the desolate beast possessed some intelligence, it was purely instinctual. Its mind was dominated by the law of the jungle.

Yu Fei brandished his sword and charged forward ferociously again. To his surprise, the savage beast let out a cry, transformed into a silver streak, and burrowed into the ground. His sword slashed through empty air.

"Damn it!"

After getting injured, the arrogant beast had actually gotten scared!

Yu Fei couldn’t understand it. The creature’s injuries weren’t that severe, and a Stage 7 desolate beast’s Qi and Blood were incredibly potent. He never expected it to be so cowardly.

In his vision, a red, gem-like silhouette plunged rapidly into the earth. In a flash, it moved beyond the limits of his perception and vanished.

As his cultivation realm had advanced, the range of his perceptual ability had long since surpassed ten meters. It was now close to thirty.

Yu Fei felt resigned, but there was nothing he could do. He put his tattered clothes into his storage space and, after a moment’s thought, decided to don the Shuofeng Liquid Silver Armor again.

Against high-stage desolate beasts, the armor’s usefulness was limited, but it was better than nothing.

After deactivating the Bloodbath Tyrant Body state, Yu Fei felt surprisingly refreshed. The wound on his chest had already scabbed over and healed, leaving only a faint red mark that was visibly fading.

He took out a body scale, stepped on it, and checked the numbers. As expected, his weight had dropped a little.

’It seems that activating the Bloodbath Tyrant Body for a bloody battle is beneficial for tempering my own body.’

’Unfortunately, this ability’s activation condition is somewhat semi-passive. It can only be triggered by getting injured during a dangerous battle.’

Looking inward, he saw that the core sword shadow within his Returning Ruins Spiritual Source had solidified slightly. He estimated that the dense cluster of conceptual light specks had been reduced by about 1%. This kind of intense battle was extremely helpful for purifying his divine will.

The Eternal Night Forest would be his proving ground!

Yu Fei rested for a short while, taking out a number of Spirit Fruits native to the Forest Sea from his storage space. Their restorative properties were secondary; the main thing was that they were delicious.

Leaving a Fog Pine Stone as a marker, he activated his Silent Shadow Body and continued onward, searching for his next valuable target.

At the same time, he fully activated all his sensory abilities, periodically checking the ground beneath him.

To be honest, Yu Fei rarely extended his senses underground. He’d never considered that there would be such a strange enemy with the ability to burrow through the earth at incredible speed.

About four hours later, he found a new target: a feline creature that possessed an orange-level talent. It was the size of an ox, entirely jet-black, and looked somewhat like a lynx.

The big cat possessed a natural stealth ability. Without the innate tracking of his Reversing Destiny Vision, Yu Fei’s own senses wouldn’t have detected it until he was within a hundred meters.

The big cat was sleeping; from a great distance, he could hear its faint, intermittent purring.

A Stage 7 desolate beast was an apex predator in the outer regions of the Eternal Night Forest. The forest was still teeming with mid-stage desolate beasts. Yu Fei had noticed that many Stage 6 desolate beasts from the Mist Sea seemed to be continuously migrating here, which maintained the integrity of the food chain.

Yu Fei approached cautiously. As he drew closer, the big cat seemed to stir slightly. He immediately froze, pushing his stealth ability to its absolute limit.

It took him a full half-hour to close the final hundred meters and circle around to a position five meters behind the big cat. Yu Fei planned to ambush it.

After the pangolin-like beast had fled, Yu Fei had received a massive feedback from his [Invincible Will].

The effect of this "will to win" was to enhance his comprehension, willpower, and fortune.

Fortune was ethereal and difficult to quantify, but the improvement to his comprehension was tangible, even if the effect was subtle.

His martial arts comprehension had risen from that of an unremarkable person all the way to a gold-level cultivation talent, so he was extremely sensitive to any changes in it.

The enhancement to his willpower was harder to notice. He just felt a stronger sense of conviction in his own abilities, which helped in purifying his divine will.

A Stage 7 desolate beast was equivalent in rank to a Grandmaster, but their methods were far less varied. It was a rare opportunity to find one so unguarded. If he could gain the upper hand with a sneak attack, he might be able to kill it in one fell swoop.

When it came to Yu Fei’s strongest attack, it had to be the [Fallen God Finger], a technique he had comprehended in a dream by transforming his body into light.

Its lethality wasn’t weak even among the Grandmaster level, but it had a charge time of three minutes—not a second less.

He prepared silently for a long time, aiming for its family jewels.

The [Fallen God Finger] was a single-strike attack; it was impossible to kill the beast with it. He had to use this technique to inflict the maximum possible damage. After much thought, he concluded that this was the only spot where he could land a truly critical blow.

People are especially patient when they’re up to no good.

From spotting the big cat to getting close and finding the right angle, nearly an hour had passed. He did his best to maintain his stealth, carefully suppressing any fluctuations of his Inner Qi.

A beam of platinum-gold light flashed into existence, carrying a piercing, destructive will as it shot forth from Yu Fei’s fingertip.

The big cat awoke with a start. A sudden sense of crisis filled it with a nameless dread. It sensed something amiss behind it, and just as it was about to get up, an infinite pain shot up from below.

"YEOOOWL~"

The pain was unbearable! As it rose, wracked with agony, the big cat saw a strange metallic creature. There were still flecks of light lingering on its claws. That bastard!

The big cat instantly swung its claws, creating a flurry of afterimages as it attacked Yu Fei relentlessly. ’Kill him!’

From Yu Fei’s perspective, the [Fallen God Finger] had just struck true, perfectly achieving its objective. Not only had it successfully deprived the big cat of its manhood, but the residual beam had also punched a bloody hole in its abdomen.

The big cat’s hide was incredibly tough; the wound on its abdomen was merely a flesh wound.

But the enraged big cat’s subsequent assault was incomparably fierce. Its speed even surpassed Yu Fei’s fifteen-fold enhanced reaction time.

Yu Fei blocked instinctively, but to little effect. In an instant, under a continuous shower of sparks, the upper half of his Shuofeng Liquid Silver Armor was completely destroyed, and new gashes appeared on his chest.

He immediately activated his Bloodbath Tyrant Body and, completely ignoring defense, swung his sword straight at the big cat’s head.

After a brief exchange, Yu Fei noticed the difference between this big cat and the pangolin.

The big cat’s speed was terrifying, but its defense was slightly weaker—not even as good as Ah Zhen’s big rooster.

Its attack power was also much weaker than the pangolin’s. A swipe of its claws could only tear the surface of his skin, barely drawing blood and completely unable to reach the bone.

Moreover, the big cat had been... neutered. Having suffered Yu Fei’s critical strike, its lower body was incapacitated. Now was the time to press his advantage.

Yu Fei abruptly unleashed countless streams of Sword Qi. He activated his Bloodbath Tyrant Body, enhancing his constitution, recovery, and strength. Completely abandoning defense, his figure flickered around the big cat, landing heavy blow after heavy blow with his Zhanming greatsword.

For a time, the big cat’s miserable shrieks were endless as black fur filled the air!