45: Asura Demon Body? That's it! *Slaps him away!*

"Snap—!"

That ear-splitting slap not only shattered The Asura Blood Maiden's dignity, but also completely ignited the madness deep within her [Asura Blood Body]!

"Ahhhhh—!"

She sprang up from the ground, her long dark red hair standing on end without any wind!

In those dark golden pupils, there was no longer a shred of rationality, only endless destruction and madness left.

Humiliation!

Unprecedented humiliation!

To be slapped away by a man in front of the entire Sect?!

This was ten thousand times worse than killing her!

"I will kill you!!"

"I will tear you... into pieces!!!"

She let out a roar toward the sky that did not sound human!

Boom—rumble—rumble—!

An incomparably terrifying aura, like an ancient devil god that had slept for billions of years, awakened from within her body with a boom!

At this moment, the sky over the entire Purple Cloud Holy Land changed color!

Endless blood-colored dark clouds gathered from all directions, forming a massive, destructive blood-colored vortex above the martial arts field!

"This... this is...?!"

On the rostrum, a Grand Elder stood up abruptly. He looked at the terrifying phenomenon in the sky and then at the figure on the Arena Platform completely enveloped in blood-colored Devilish Qi, his face filled with endless shock and disbelief!

"It... it is the Golden Core Tribulation!"

"The Asura Blood Maiden... she actually... chose to... Breakthrough in the middle of a battle at a time like this?!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire audience erupted again!

Everyone stared fixedly at The Asura Blood Maiden on the Arena Platform with the eyes one would use to look at a madman!

A Breakthrough during a battle is inherently a life-or-death gamble!

And she had attracted the most terrifying one, the [Bloody Heart Demon Tribulation] specifically targeting devil cultivators!

Is she... throwing her life away?!

Blood-colored thunder flashed wildly in the dark clouds!

The massive Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, as if finding an outlet, poured madly into The Asura Blood Maiden's body!

Her aura climbed steadily at a speed visible to the naked eye!

That long-impenetrable "Half-step Golden Core" barrier, under this suicidal, crazed impact...

Crack!

A soft sound.

Was forcibly shattered!

Boom!

A genuine, terrifying pressure, several times stronger than an ordinary Early Stage Golden Core, erupted from her body!

Behind her, a ten-zhang tall phantom of an Asura devil god holding a giant scythe even condensed!

Golden Core Realm!

She succeeded!

"My god... she... she actually succeeded!"

"A Breakthrough in battle! Surviving the Heart Demon Tribulation with supreme devilish might! Is... is this the true strength of the 'Asura Blood Maiden'?!"

"Too terrifying! She is probably... already capable of going head-to-head with an Early Nascent Soul Stage Elder now?!"

The entire audience fell into dead silence once again!

Everyone's face was filled with shock and fear!

They looked at The Asura Blood Maiden hovering in mid-air like a true female devil god, and then looked at the other side of the Arena Platform at Lin Chen, who was still "only" at the late Golden Core stage.

The outcome...

It seemed that, once again, there was no suspense.

On the rostrum.

Sect Master Yun Yun, after experiencing a brief moment of shock, finally allowed a cruel smile of control to reappear on her cold, pretty face.

She slowly picked up the spiritual tea in front of her.

She blew on it gently.

In her view.

This farce.

This farce caused by a brat who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth.

Was finally about to end completely.

However.

Just as The Asura Blood Maiden had just stabilized her Realm, and those dark golden pupils filled with destructive killing intent locked onto Lin Chen again!

Just at the moment when everyone thought she was about to launch that heaven-destroying and earth-shattering "Divine Punishment" strike!

The man who had been standing in place, appearing as if he had been scared silly.

He was gone.

Just like that, once again, he vanished from everyone's sight out of thin air.

The next moment!

When his figure appeared again.

He had already appeared, like a ghost... right in front of The Asura Blood Maiden, who had just completed her Breakthrough and was at her absolute Peak of power and most confident!

He arrived later but reached first!

"You..."

The Asura Blood Maiden's pupils shrank violently into the most dangerous needle points!

She could not even get a complete sentence out!

Two strong, powerful hands that seemed capable of locking down all things in heaven and earth.

Had already, like two bolts of lightning crossing time and space.

Firmly grabbed her two wrists that had just condensed supreme devilish might!

Time.

Seemed, at this moment.

To have stopped completely.

Still.

Dead-like silence.

The whole world seemed to have been pressed with a pause button.

The tens of thousands of Disciples, hundreds of Elders, along with Sect Master Yun Yun on the rostrum.

Everyone's face maintained that expression of stupidity, numbness, and complete brain shutdown.

What did they see?

The Asura Blood Maiden, who had just survived the Golden Core Tribulation, her aura soaring, like a female devil god descending to the world.

That invincible legend who, in their eyes, was already capable of going head-to-head with a Nascent Soul Elder.

Had actually...

Just before launching her strongest attack.

Been, by that man...

Casually, as if catching a little chick, grabbed by her hands?!

This...

What the hell is going on?!

The script wasn't written like this!

"No... impossible..."

"He... how did he get over there?! I didn't even see his movement at all!"

"Teleportation! This is definitely a spatial Divine Ability that only a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor can master! He... what kind of monster is he?!"

"A man... how could he... be this powerful?! Is... is this still a man?!"

The fearful discussions spread through the crowd like a plague.

The way everyone looked at Lin Chen was no longer simple shock or awe.

It was a kind of... fear that one would only have when looking at an unknown, terrifying creature that was completely beyond their comprehension!

On the rostrum.

Sect Master Yun Yun's jade hand, which had just picked up the teacup, froze in mid-air.

Her pretty face, which had just displayed the smile of a victor, was now completely frozen.

She looked at the absurd scene on the Arena Platform, her mind a blank.

She lost.

She knew.

She... had lost again.

Lost completely and utterly.

And on the Arena Platform.

The Asura Blood Maiden finally came back to her senses from that extreme shock.

She stared blankly at those two large hands that were like divine metal iron clamps, locking her wrists tightly, feeling that terrifying power that she could not shake even a fraction, no matter how much she channeled her Golden Core power.

An unprecedented emotion called "despair" surged into her heart for the first time.

How... could this be?

I have already... achieved a Breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm!

I am already... more than ten times stronger than before!

Why...

Why am I still... like an ant, vulnerable to a single blow in front of this man?!

No!

I don't believe it!

"You... you despicable, shameless villain!"

Despair instantly transformed into endless madness and anger!

She glared fiercely at Lin Chen and screamed shrilly: "Do you only know how to sneak attack?! If you have the ability, let me go! Let's have a fair fight!"

She attributed her incomprehensible failure to... Lin Chen's "sneak attack"!

However, after hearing this, Lin Chen laughed.

That smile was full of pity and... disdain.

"A fair fight?"

He looked at the "mad woman" in front of him, who still couldn't see the reality of the situation, and slowly shook his head.

Then.

With a backhand, he slapped her again, hard, across her pretty face that was twisted with anger!

"Snap—!"

This slap was louder than any before!

More crisp!

It sent The Asura Blood Maiden staggering, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

"You...!"

"What about me?"

Lin Chen's eyes instantly turned cold. He grabbed The Asura Blood Maiden by the throat, pulling her pretty face, which was full of humiliation and disbelief, up to his own, and said coldly, word for word:

"Open your dog eyes and see clearly."

"This is an Arena Platform."

"This is a competition."

"Not a life-or-death battlefield."

"From beginning to end, it was you who was trying to kill me."

"And I was just playing a... game with you."

He looked at The Asura Blood Maiden's dark golden pupils, which were shrinking violently due to fear, the curve of his mouth becoming even more cruel.

"Also."

"Didn't you say before the competition started that you wanted to cripple my limbs and shatter my Dantian?"

"What's wrong?"

"Is this all the strength you have now?"