Chapter 516 Encountering a Mutated Blood Scythe Demon Mantis, Gaining a Powerful Talent, and Running into Giant Spirit Martial Artists

"Kill him!"

"If he lives, he’ll become a grave threat to our Great Yan Kingdom!"

The two exchanged a look, their killing intent set!

"Kid, you’re pretty good. Really, really good."

The man on the left stopped, now less than a hundred feet from Jiang Che.

He looked at Jiang Che as if he were already a dead man, his tone menacing:

"Too bad for you... you had the misfortune of running into us!"

Before his voice had even faded.

ROAR!!!

A low, beast-like roar erupted from both of their mouths simultaneously!

Then, a horrifying scene unfolded.

The two men’s seemingly frail bodies suddenly began to inflate wildly, as if being pumped full of air!

"CRACKLE! POP!"

Bones cracked and popped, and their clothes exploded from their frames!

Dark red muscles bulged like coiling dragons, and layers of a gray-brown, rock-like keratin formed on their skin!

In just a breath’s time, the two unremarkable middle-aged men had transformed into two muscular giants nearly ten feet tall, radiating a violent, baleful aura!

BOOM! BOOM!

As their transformations completed, their auras began to skyrocket!

Shooting up from the Third and Fourth Layers of the True Master Realm!

One reached the Seventh Layer Peak of True Master Realm!

And the other broke straight through to the Eighth Layer of True Master Realm!

’This is...’

Jiang Che was startled, instantly recalling what Bao Da had told him before.

’Giant transformations...’

’Giant Spirit Martial Artists from the Great Yan Kingdom?!’

’They’ve set up an ambush all the way out here??’

Jiang Che hadn’t expected to run into this group right at the entrance to his own Sect!

"Die! You genius of Great Chu!"

The Giant Spirit Martial Artist at the Eighth Layer of the True Master Realm let out a vicious laugh. With a heavy stomp of his massive foot, he shot toward Jiang Che like a cannonball, carrying an overwhelming, terrifying momentum!

As he saw it,

although Jiang Che had been able to defeat a Purple Spot Blood Scythe Demon Mantis from the Seventh Layer of the True Master Realm, a feat beyond his own level,

that was the extent of it.

Against two true experts like them, he was naturally powerless to resist.

However, faced with this deadly situation, Jiang Che suddenly smiled.

The glint of his pearly white teeth was exceptionally piercing in the gloomy, dense forest.

"Hm?"

The two Giant Spirit Martial Artists were both taken aback.

A smile?

’Has this kid been scared stupid?’

’How can he still laugh when death is at his doorstep?’

It turned out that Jiang Che had used his [True: All-Seeing Eye] to confirm that besides the three of them, there was no one else for miles around.

Since there were no witnesses...

...then...

...there was no need to pretend anymore.

Jiang Che watched the two approaching giants and muttered to himself:

"Transform... Black Armor!"

BOOM!!!

An aura far more violent, more primal, and more sinister than that of the two Giant Spirit Martial Artists erupted from within Jiang Che!

A stream of black light instantly enveloped his entire body!

Vicious bone spurs burst from his skin!

His once slender frame began to shoot up and expand wildly!

Two meters!

Two and a half meters!

Three meters!

Three-point-two meters!

When the black light dissipated,

a terrifying giant, a full head taller than the two Giant Spirit Martial Artists, stood in his place. Its body was covered in jet-black, metallic armor, and its eyes burned with crimson Demon Flames!

The two Giant Spirit Martial Artists came to an abrupt halt, their feet stomping massive craters into the ground.

They stared at the Black-armored Giant before them, their faces a mask of pure terror, as if they had seen a ghost!

There was even a trace of something from the depths of their bloodline...

Fear and reverence!

"B-Black Armor?!"

"Perfectly-formed Black Gold Battle Armor?!"

The voice of the assassin at the Eighth Layer of the True Master Realm trembled:

"Th-This is... the Black Gold Emperor Body?!"

It turned out that in the Giant Spirit Martial Dao system of the Great Yan Kingdom, while everyone pursued physical mutations, these mutations were also ranked in a hierarchy.

Ordinary Giant Spirit Martial Artists, after transforming, would simply have bulging muscles and thick, tough skin. At most, they might develop a layer of keratin, just like them.

A more High Level one might grow beastly fur or scales, possessing some traits of Exotic Beasts.

But according to legend...

only those with the purest and most noble Royal Family bloodline,

or peerless prodigies who had experienced an atavistic awakening of an ancient Demon God’s bloodline,

would grow this kind of black keratin that resembled natural armor after their transformation!

This constitution was known as—

The [Black Gold Emperor Body]!

In the Great Yan Kingdom, those who possessed this constitution were either esteemed members of the Royal Family or a Saint Heir of the Divine Hall!

"How is this possible?!"

"How could a noble lord of the Royal Family be hiding in the Myriad Phenomena Dao Sect?!"

The two assassins were completely stunned, their minds a chaotic mess.

They even wondered if some great personage was on an undercover mission, incognito, deep in enemy territory.

"M-My lord?"

The assassin at the Seventh Layer of the True Master Realm subconsciously reined in his aura and called out tentatively.

However, his answer was a jet-black, ice-cold, giant fist that rapidly filled his vision!

"Who the fuck is your lord!"

"Just... DIE!!!"

BOOM!!!

The thirty-percent boost from the "Blood Burning Secret Technique."

Combined with the Twenty-Eighthfold Strike.

Plus the massive boost to his base strength from the Black Armor Form itself.

Jiang Che himself no longer knew how many times his power had been multiplied for this single punch.

The very Space around the fist seemed on the verge of collapsing!

"BANG!!!"

A tremendous explosion rang out.

The Giant Spirit Martial Artist at the Seventh Layer of the True Master Realm didn’t even have time to raise a defense before his enormous head was smashed into a bloody mist by Jiang Che’s punch, like an overripe watermelon.

The headless corpse swayed for a moment before crashing to the ground.

An instant kill!

"Second Brother!!!"

The remaining assassin, the one at the Eighth Layer of the True Master Realm, screamed in anguish, his eyes nearly splitting at the corners.

But instead of charging forward to fight to the death, he was completely terrified, his courage shattered by that horrifying punch!