139: Chapter 139 The People Who Came to the Rescue? Extremely Dangerous!

Inside the city, everyone was startled by this sudden aura...

Xia Xi stood at the intersection on the east side of the Rong City commercial plaza, smashing the head of a Source Gathering Realm Pollution Beast with the large hammer in her hand.

Polluted blood splattered onto her pant legs, and she stood there as if nailed to the spot.

That aura surged over from the direction of the northern Wasteland Zone, scalding and intense, carrying the domineering heat of the Great Sun scorching all things.

She recognized this aura, and her eyes reddened.

"This is... Dad...?"

The voice squeezed out from her throat, hoarse beyond recognition.

That was the aura of Xia Yunchi...

The fluctuations of the Great Sun Divine Furnace erupting at full power swept over from the northern Wasteland Zone, and the entire Rong City could feel the scorching heat of that golden great sun.

Before they could make any move, four auras descended from the sky like four meteorites crashing into the center of Rong City.

Four War General Realm individuals!

The pressure brought by the initial appearance of Martial Dao Will was completely different from the Hua Hai Realm.

The aura of the Hua Hai Realm was a river, while the aura of the War General Realm was a tsunami; when it crashed over, even the air wailed.

A man in black in the middle took a step forward...

With every step he took on the ground, the soles of his shoes left a smoking footprint on the asphalt road.

The black robe covered most of his face, revealing only the lower half.

He stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.

The tongue extended from the corner of his mouth, licking across his cheek, over the bridge of his nose, and all the way to the earlobe on the other side.

His entire face had been licked by that tongue, leaving behind a wet trail.

The hood of his black robe slipped down slightly as he licked his face, and the exposed skin was covered in black rune patterns.

Those runes wriggled under his skin like living worms, and he spoke.

"Next..."

The voice was sharp and thin, with the tail end curling upward, carrying a tone of near-maniacal joy.

"It is..."

He spread his arms wide, as if to embrace something.

The sleeves of his black robe slid down, and his exposed arms were covered in dense pollution runes.

Those runes spread from his wrists to his shoulders, wriggling under his skin, bulging and receding.

"Time for a massacre!!!"

The last four words were shouted out.

He shouted until he was hoarse, his throat cracking, but the expression on his face was one of extreme, twisted pleasure.

His mouth stretched to his earlobes, his exposed teeth stained with grey-white pollutants, his two eyes wide open, pupils shrunk to the size of pinpricks.

Immediately after... figures appeared in front of them.

A total of fourteen people... rushing over from all directions of Rong City.

There were officers in Defense Bureau uniforms, middle-aged men in plain clothes, and an old man with gray hair standing straight.

The aura on everyone was at the Hua Hai Realm.

This was all the high-end combat power that Rong City could spare at the moment.

Fourteen Hua Hai Realm individuals... blocking four War General Realm individuals... to be honest, it was a bit of a stretch...

On the west side of the commercial plaza, that Hua Hai Realm Deputy Chief of the Defense Bureau stood at the front.

The badge on his chest was half-stained black by polluted blood, and the tactical long blade in his hand had several chips in its edge.

He took a deep breath and held the blade horizontally in front of him.

"Rong City Defense Bureau..."

Before he could finish, Saliva Shadow tilted his head.

The angle of the tilt was very strange, as if his neck had no bones, and his head was almost tilted below his shoulder.

He used those eyes with pinprick pupils to size up the fourteen Hua Hai Realm individuals in front of him, and then stuck out that overly long tongue to lick his own eyebrow.

"Mantises trying to stop a chariot."

The voice was still as sharp and thin.

But the tone suddenly deepened, like a blade scraping against a whetstone, carrying a cold, judgmental air.

He retracted his tongue, straightened his head, and turned his back to the fourteen Hua Hai Realm individuals.

The hem of his black robe dragged a black trail on the ground, and polluted Source Power seeped out from under the robe, corroding the asphalt road until it bubbled.

"These guys..."

He raised his right hand and waved his fingers casually at the fourteen Hua Hai Realm individuals behind him, as if shooing away flies.

"Leave them to you to deal with."

Then he turned back, his gaze passing over the street, over the collapsed streetlights and burning vehicle wreckage, over the scattered corpses of Pollution Beasts on the ground.

"I have found a more interesting target."

His gaze landed on a red dot marked on the terminal map.

Saliva Shadow licked his lips. This time, his tongue didn't extend very far; it just licked from the corner of his mouth to the bridge of his nose, very slowly, as if savoring some delicacy.

On the terminal screen, the target information popped up.

Xia Xi, daughter of Rong City Mayor Xia Yunchi.

Saliva Shadow's eyes lit up.

They lit up in a way that didn't look like human eyes.

The pupils were the size of pinpricks, and the whites of his eyes were full of bloodshot veins.

"If I catch this one..."

He put away the terminal and cracked his finger joints, making them pop.

"To offer to the Divine Envoy..."

He didn't finish the rest of his sentence.

But his mouth stretched even wider, the skin on his entire face twitching, and the black runes wriggled crazily under his skin.

Then he moved, disappearing from the spot in an instant.

Meanwhile, in the alley, Lu Cheng's Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Bad Luck exploded.

The Berserk Blood in his body was directly activated by this extreme danger...

"Damn it!"

He didn't even think about it.

Holy Dragon Armament!

Golden-white dragon scales surged crazily from the surface of his skin! The phantom of the dragon soul exploded its wings behind him! The Holy Dragon field surged outward with him at the center, and the gravel and dust on the ground were pushed outward, rolling away by the field!

Flame Demon Transformation!

Flame horns grew on his head! His pupils turned into molten gold! Black-red demonic flames surged from his body, wrapping around the outside of the dragon scale armor. The golden-white holy light and the black-red demonic flames intertwined, wrapping his entire body into a flame of interwoven gold and red!

He turned around!

Saliva Shadow had already arrived.

Less than twenty meters away, that face licked by the tongue rapidly enlarged in Lu Cheng's field of vision.

Saliva Shadow's right hand raised, black nails growing on each of his five fingers, with pollution liquid dripping from the edges of the nails.

The air was torn apart by that hand, emitting a ripping sound like tearing cloth.

"Ant!!!"

Saliva Shadow's voice was sharp to the extreme.

Twenty meters, fifteen meters, ten meters...

Lu Cheng's feet were planted firmly on the ground, the phantom dragon wings of the Holy Dragon Armament spread out behind him, ready to take this blow head-on at any moment.

Five meters!

Then a thin, small figure appeared in front of him.

The back was very thin and small, wearing clothes that were tattered beyond recognition, the color washed to white, the hem shredded by something.

The shoulders were narrow, the frame small, and standing in front of Saliva Shadow, the person looked like a withered branch that could be snapped at any moment.

But this withered branch had tentacles growing on it.

Growing from the back.

Six of them, each as thick as a forearm, the surface covered with a grey-white chitinous layer, the edges glowing with an eerie dark purple fluorescence.

The tentacles swayed slowly in the air, the tips opening and closing, as if breathing.

An eerie aura radiated from her.

It wasn't pollution, nor did it look like normal blood and Qi Source Power.

It was mixed with some more primitive, more chaotic energy.

When Lu Cheng's Holy Dragon Armament's holy light was swept by that aura, it actually stagnated for a moment.

Seeing her back, Lu Cheng was slightly stunned.

He recognized this back...

"Chu Xiuxiu?"

His voice was not loud.

The thin, small figure in front heard these three words and trembled.

Then she turned her head; her face was fairer and more tender than when Lu Cheng first met her... It seemed she hadn't been lacking nutrition during this time.

Chu Xiuxiu's eyes were very complex, containing something indescribable.

Her lips moved several times, wanting to say something but not daring to.

The tentacles behind her tightened and relaxed unconsciously, the chitinous layers rubbing against each other, making faint clicking sounds.

Finally, she nodded.

"Brother Lu Cheng, it's me."

She turned her head back to face Saliva Shadow again.

The tentacles fully expanded behind her, all six spreading out to separate her from Lu Cheng.

"Now is not the time to explain this. You guys go quickly; he is not someone you can deal with."

After saying this, she raised her right hand, her fingers tracing an eerie arc in the air.

The surrounding air began to vibrate. Three cracks opened in the ground beneath her feet, and grey-white mist surged out from the cracks.

Three pollution-type monsters walked out of the mist.

Saliva Shadow tilted his head, looking at those pollution-type monsters, looking at the wriggling tentacles on Chu Xiuxiu's body, his mouth stretching even wider.

"It's you..."

He straightened his head, and the tongue he had stuck out slowly retracted.

"Defector."

Meanwhile, within a three-kilometer radius centered on Chu Xiuxiu, all Polluted Exotic Beasts that were attacking humans suddenly stopped.

A Source Gathering Realm Pollution Beast that was tearing at a Defense Bureau member raised its head, the pollution liquid in its mouth dripping onto the ground.

It turned around, gave up on the prey in front of it, and walked towards Chu Xiuxiu's direction.

On the streets, in the buildings, in the open spaces, every pollution-type entity that was attacking humans stopped.

As if summoned by something, they all turned together and moved in the same direction.

Saliva Shadow watched all this and licked his teeth.

"Want to leave?"

He suddenly raised his head and roared at the sky.

The voice was no longer sharp and thin, but became coarse and twisted, like several layers of voices stacked together, shaking the surrounding glass windows with a clattering sound.

"Black Snake! Stop playing with them!"

A thin, slender figure in the air suddenly stopped moving.

"Come over first and catch the Xia family girl and the defector! These two things are more important than anything else!"

The thin, slender figure turned his head, shifted his gaze from the Defense Bureau member under his feet, and locked onto Chu Xiuxiu's direction.

Then he rushed over.

The speed of the War General Realm was fully unleashed. Black Snake left a black afterimage in the air, the air torn apart by his body, emitting a sharp sonic boom.

Chu Xiuxiu's tentacles fully expanded.

Six tentacles shot out simultaneously towards Black Snake, the grey-white chitinous edges glowing with dark purple light, the tips opening to reveal the dense barbs inside.

She wanted to hold back Black Snake.

But how could Saliva Shadow let her succeed? Slender nails struck down those tentacles.

Chu Xiuxiu stumbled back a step, the tentacles swaying wildly in the air.

In just that instant, Black Snake had already passed her.

His target was the direction behind Lu Cheng.

Black Snake's figure rapidly enlarged in his field of vision...

Damn it...

"You guys... go quickly..."

Lu Cheng's voice squeezed out from between his teeth.

Su Wan stood behind him to the right, the Cold Soul Sword Cloak wrapped around the sword body, and the surrounding temperature dropped to freezing point.

Go? Go where?

This is the War General Realm.

Lu Cheng was already heavily injured after fighting five peak Hua Hai Realm entities in the Simulation Tower.

The War General Realm was far from comparable to five peak Hua Hai Realm entities.

War General Realm, the initial appearance of Martial Dao Will; every martial artist who reaches this point will face a real crossroads.

The improvement brought by Martial Dao Will is not a quantitative change, but a qualitative leap.

Lu Cheng felt the Berserk Blood in his body burning even more intensely.

The extreme danger caused the Eternal Flame Demon Bloodline to automatically operate to its limit. Black-red demonic flames surged out from the gaps in the scale armor, and the patterns on the flame horns shone like red-hot branding irons.

He kicked off the ground, and his whole body turned into a golden-red flame, rushing towards Black Snake.

Gale Step combined with the explosive power of the Holy Dragon Armament, plus the lightning flash dash of the Thunder Step Boots; with three layers of acceleration stacked together, his speed was so fast that the air was torn into a white streak.

Drifting Dragon Rending Shadow!

Golden-red afterimages dragged out for dozens of meters, and each afterimage had the ability to deal substantial damage!

His fists were fully charged with holy light and demonic flames, and the dragon soul phantom behind him simultaneously extended dragon claws, preparing for a second-stage pursuit!

Black Snake watched him rush over.

The corner of his mouth exposed under the hood curled slightly.

He raised his hand slightly, palm facing outward.

Black Snake's fingers pressed in the air.

A black ripple spread from his fingertips.

Lu Cheng's fist smashed into the ripple.

The impact of the Holy Dragon Shock Blast, the burning of the Holy Flame, and the stacked damage of the dragon soul pursuit all smashed onto the same ripple.

Then he was bounced back.

His body tumbled several times in the air, his back hitting the outer wall of a building on the side of the street.

A pit was smashed into the concrete wall, and cracks spread outward like a spider web.

Lu Cheng slid down from the wall, his boot soles stepping on the ground, dragging two black scorch marks on the ground with his feet.

Several cracks appeared on the dragon scales of the Holy Dragon Armament, and Holy Radiance Regeneration had already begun to repair them.

Black Snake stood where he was, his hand still maintaining that posture.

He tilted his head.

"Source Gathering Realm..."

"To be able to stand under my forty percent strength..."

He put his hand down, and a very thin blade slid out from his sleeve.

"You... also have some value..."