75: Chapter 75 The Power of Thunder

Pojun Division Branch.

The once impenetrable fortress had now turned into a meat grinder.

A gap had been forcibly torn open in the alloy defensive wall.

The Command Center was in total chaos.

Assistant Chen Feng knelt on one knee in the center of the ruins.

His combat uniform was already soaked through with blood.

His right arm was severed at the root, and blood was spurting from the exposed, upturned flesh of the stump.

His 7th Grade Martial Emperor Protective Qi was reduced to a mere film, as weak as a candle in the wind.

Around him lay the corpses of over a hundred Pojun Division warriors who had remained behind.

Some had not even been left with whole bodies, having been forcibly torn to pieces.

"Run... Commander, run..."

A young warrior, half his body buried under a wall, grabbed Assistant Chen Feng's trouser leg tightly, using his last breath to utter these words.

Assistant Chen Feng did not run.

He could not run, and he could not leave.

Boom!

A massive shadow enveloped the entire ruin.

A black dragon, a hundred meters long, coiled in the sky above, its eyes filled with mockery.

Nether Dragon Venerable.

A Tier 1 Martial Venerable demonic beast.

It lowered its head, coldly looking down at Assistant Chen Feng as if observing a dying ant.

"Where is that old dog, Lei Qianjue?"

Nether Dragon Venerable asked, mimicking a human voice.

"He killed my clan brother, the Dark Gold Dragon Emperor. Today, I will chew every inch of bone of everyone in this base."

Assistant Chen Feng raised his head and spat out a mouthful of blood foam.

"Good kill. Beasts deserve to be skinned and have their tendons pulled."

A flash of brutality crossed Nether Dragon Venerable's eyes.

The giant dragon claw pressed directly onto Assistant Chen Feng's left shoulder.

Crack!

His shoulder blade shattered instantly.

Assistant Chen Feng gritted his teeth so hard they nearly broke, refusing to let out a single scream.

"You have tough bones."

Nether Dragon Venerable sneered, tightening his dragon claw.

In a pool of blood not far away, Xue You hovered in mid-air.

He closed his eyes and spread his arms.

Wisps of blood qi rose from the corpses of the human warriors on the ground.

These blood qi turned into threads and surged into his mouth and nose.

"Ah... refreshing!"

Xue You tilted his neck back and let out a long moan.

The aura on his body climbed steadily.

The Martial Venerable barrier that had trapped him for years was loosening under the onslaught of massive blood qi.

"Human blood qi is indeed top-tier."

Xue You opened his eyes, his pupils filled with madness.

He looked at the Nether Dragon Venerable hovering above and spoke urgently.

"Old Hei, don't crush him. The blood qi of a 7th Grade Martial Emperor belongs to me; it's a great supplement."

Xue You licked his lips, feeling the power about to overflow within him.

"In at most half a day, I will be able to fully step into the Martial Venerable realm!"

"When that old immortal Lei Qianjue returns and sees these ruins, we can fight him two-on-one and send him down to reunite with these pieces of trash."

Nether Dragon Venerable puffed a cloud of white smoke from his nostrils.

"Stop talking nonsense and absorb faster. When the time comes, I want to use Lei Qianjue's skull as a wine cup."

The two chatted wantonly above the ruins.

They completely disregarded the humans struggling for their lives beneath their feet.

In a corner of the ruins, several blood-covered figures stood up unsteadily.

"Screw your mother!"

A bald, burly man dragged an alloy saber and backhanded his own chest.

He burned his life essence, causing his aura to rise briefly.

He shattered the stone slab beneath his feet and charged straight at Xue You's face.

"I'll drag someone down with me even in death!"

Behind him, seven or eight surviving warriors also ignited their life essence, rushing towards mid-air one after another.

It was tragic and resolute.

Nether Dragon Venerable didn't even lift an eyelid; he swept his giant tail casually.

Bang!

The bald man who charged first, along with the warriors behind him, exploded into mists of blood in mid-air on the spot.

"Flies buzzing around."

Nether Dragon Venerable yawned: "Things not even enough to get stuck in my teeth, yet they insist on throwing themselves into my mouth. They really think they're something."

Xue You raised his hand and absorbed all the blood qi that had just exploded in mid-air into his palm.

He curled his lip in disgust: "The blood qi is too inferior. Normally, even dogs wouldn't eat this kind of trash. Let's treat it as an appetizer."

On the ground, another warrior dragged his broken body upward.

"Kill... kill you..."

Xue You landed and stepped on his back.

"How interesting."

Xue You crouched down, "You humans love to talk about 'never yielding even in death.' Does it work?"

He applied force with his ankle, and the sound of the spine breaking inch by inch rang out.

He hooked his index finger, and the blood inside the disabled warrior's body spurted out through his pores. In less than three seconds, he turned into a withered husk.

A warrior nearby, his eyes bloodshot, pulled a high-explosive grenade from his back waist and was about to bite the pin off.

Xue You flicked his finger.

A blood-colored wind blade swept past.

The arm holding the grenade was severed at the shoulder and flew off.

"Save it."

Xue You snapped his fingers, and the severed hand in mid-air was engulfed in a ball of blood-colored flame, burning it along with the grenade into ashes.

"Boring."

Xue You shook his head and sighed, walking towards Assistant Chen Feng: "All deformed melons and cracked dates, no experience at all. Better eat the main course."

Assistant Chen Feng watched his brothers breathe their last one by one, gritting his teeth.

He wanted to detonate his blood qi to take these two monsters down with him.

But the pressure of the Martial Venerable level tightly sealed his meridians.

He didn't even have the qualification to self-detonate.

"Unreconciled?"

Xue You slowly floated down in front of Assistant Chen Feng, stepping in the blood.

"This is the fate of the weak. Your human blood qi is naturally the best supplement for us Demon Men."

Xue You raised his hand, aiming at the top of Assistant Chen Feng's head.

"Come, become the cornerstone for me to step into the Martial Venerable realm."

A massive suction force surged from Xue You's palm.

The blood inside Assistant Chen Feng's body flowed backward uncontrollably, and beads of blood seeped out from the surface of his skin.

His vision began to blur.

His consciousness slid into the abyss.

Just then.

On the distant horizon.

A piercing sonic boom rang out!

The ruined walls of the entire Pojun Division branch trembled violently under this sound.

Nether Dragon Venerable turned his head abruptly.

His dark golden vertical pupils instantly contracted into thin lines.

Xue You's action of absorbing blood qi also stopped, his brows furrowing sharply.

At the skyline.

A pitch-black thunderbolt smashed straight toward the base.

Too fast.

So fast that even the Martial Venerable-level Nether Dragon Venerable felt a trace of surprise.

"What is that?" Xue You roared.

"Could it be that old thing, Lei Qianjue, has returned?"

Before the words fell.

The thunderbolt had already arrived.

Rumble!

An afterimage landed outside the qi wall blocking the base.

Thunderlight exploded in the air!

Li Zhengyang had arrived.

The blood qi of a 5th Grade Martial Emperor exploded fully.

The crimson-gold flowing light of the "Indestructible Golden Body" enveloped his entire being.

His eyes were terrifyingly cold, and he gripped that dragon spear in his hand.

"Thunder Fall!"

The first move of the Nine Heavens Thunder Control Spear.