91: Chapter 91 Reunion with Blood Ghost

Starfire Financial Building.

It was the tallest landmark building in the center of East City.

In the center of the rooftop helipad, a massive formation pattern was drawn.

Dozens of specially made blood storage tanks were placed around the formation, filled with purified human blood essence.

A blood-colored pillar of light from the sky fell into the center of the formation.

Hundreds of blood bats tumbled within the pillar of light before rapidly gathering together.

The bats pieced together a figure.

Xue You stood in the center of the formation.

He gasped for breath, his shoulders bare and empty.

One arm had been severed by Li Zhengyang, and the other by Lei Qianjue.

Black blood was still dripping from the wounds.

Using "Blood Escape: Myriad Bat Dissolution" had cost him a massive amount of his lifespan and origin.

He needed to replenish his blood essence quickly.

The door to the top floor of the building was pushed open.

A man walked out quickly.

He was the deputy general manager of Starfire Group, Sun Decai's confidant, Xu Haidao.

When Xu Haidao saw the figure in the center of the formation, he and his subordinates fell to their knees with a thud.

"Welcome, Lord Blood Demon!"

Xu Haidao knocked his head against the ground.

Xue You lowered his head.

He had no arms, and his face was hideous.

"Where is Sun Decai?" Xue You asked in a hoarse voice.

"Reporting to Lord, General Manager Sun has gone to inspect the No. 2 cultivation base; a new batch of goods just came out there this week," Xu Haidao replied.

"Are the goods ready?"

Xue You took a step forward, walking directly in front of Xu Haidao.

"Lord, one hundred thousand portions of blood essence in the underground blood pool are ready. Please enjoy, Lord." Xu Haidao looked up and saw Xue You's bare shoulders.

He froze for a moment.

Xue You opened his mouth.

A terrifying suction force erupted from his mouth.

Before Xu Haidao could even scream, his body rapidly shriveled up.

The blood essence inside his body burst out, turning into a strand of blood that drilled into Xue You's mouth.

The bespectacled man turned into a dried corpse and slammed onto the ground.

The dozen or so subordinates behind him were trembling with fear.

Someone just tried to stand up and run.

Xue You inhaled.

The dozen or so people simultaneously exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

The blood mist gathered into a river and surged into Xue You's body.

Xue You closed his eyes, a satisfied expression appearing on his face.

The black blood at the wounds stopped flowing.

Flesh and bone began to squirm, and granulation tissue grew wildly.

With the regenerative power of an Overlord Level demon and the nourishment of human blood essence, his severed arms were regenerating.

This barely counted as a small dessert before the main course.

"Li Zhengyang." Xue You muttered the name.

"Just you wait."

"Once I absorb all this blood essence and thoroughly stabilize the Martial Venerable realm, I will return to the Northern Territory and chew you to pieces bit by bit!"

Xue You walked to the blood storage tanks.

He kicked and shattered the tank at the very front.

Red liquid flowed out, and Xue You prepared to swallow it greedily.

Boom!

A loud noise came from below the building, and the entire skyscraper shook violently.

Xue You stopped his movements.

On the street outside the building.

A dozen heavy armored vehicles surrounded the main entrance of the Starfire Financial Building, blocking it completely.

Commander Zhang Biao jumped off an armored vehicle.

"Surround the building! Don't let even a fly escape!" Commander Zhang Biao shouted, drawing his combat blade.

Over a hundred City Defense Army soldiers rushed off the vehicles with their guns raised, quickly occupying advantageous positions.

Large-caliber machine guns were aimed at all exits of the building.

Sun Decai was dragged off the vehicle by two soldiers like a dead dog and thrown at Li Zhengyang's feet.

Sun Decai's ankles had been crushed, one hand was broken, and his body was covered in blood.

Li Zhengyang held the dragon spear and looked up at the thirty-story building.

Within his perception range, there was an extremely familiar aura on the roof.

An Overlord Level demon.

Although the aura was weak, that fishy stench could not be hidden.

Li Zhengyang looked down at Sun Decai.

"Is this the Lord Blood Demon you were talking about?" Li Zhengyang pointed to the roof.

Sun Decai shivered in pain.

He looked up at the roof in the direction of Li Zhengyang's finger.

The distance was too great; he couldn't see anything.

"Officer, if Lord Blood Demon comes, we'll all die!" Sun Decai roared.

Sun Decai was still trying to use Xue You's name to intimidate him.

Li Zhengyang gripped the shaft of the spear.

The aura of a First-Grade Martial Venerable erupted fully.

A wild wind whipped up from the ground.

The surrounding armored vehicles creaked under the overload.

Commander Zhang Biao was forced to retreat dozens of steps by this suddenly rising Martial Venerable pressure, landing on his bottom on the ground.

Commander Zhang Biao stared at Li Zhengyang, his eyes filled with extreme shock.

This is a Martial Venerable!

Commander Zhang Biao had once seen a National Guardian Martial Venerable take action from afar at the East Sea defense line.

He would never forget that aura in his lifetime.

The young man before him was actually a Martial Venerable!

Sun Decai was completely stunned.

He couldn't perceive the difference in cultivation realm, but he could feel the power that was crushing his internal organs to the point of shattering.

"Just a stray dog."

Li Zhengyang raised his right foot.

Soaring Dragon Sky-Stepping Footwork.

The air rippled beneath his feet.

Li Zhengyang's figure vanished from the spot out of thin air.

Rooftop of the building.

Xue You stood in the center of the formation.

Hearing the commotion downstairs, he walked to the edge of the top floor to look down.

He saw dozens of armored vehicles and a circle of City Defense Army soldiers.

Xue You sneered.

Mere City Defense Army of East City, a bunch of ants.

These humans actually dared to come and ruin his good deed.

He turned around, preparing to finish absorbing the blood essence before going to clean up this trash.

Just as he turned around.

The space in front of him distorted.

A figure appeared in front of him out of thin air.

Xue You froze.

He looked at the person's face.

Black combat suit, holding a long spear in his hand.

The surface of the spear flowed with dragon scale patterns.

Xue You's eyes widened abruptly.

His pupils contracted violently.

"You... you are that brat?"

Xue You's voice changed pitch.

How could he be here?

Wasn't he in the Northern Wasteland Ruins? Lei Qianjue saved him, so how could he arrive at East City faster than himself?

Li Zhengyang did not speak.

He held the spear and took a step forward.

Xue You instinctively retreated.

His arms had not yet grown back; only a bit of granulation tissue had sprouted.

He mobilized the aura within his body, preparing to release Martial Venerable pressure to intimidate his opponent.

He remembered very clearly.

Li Zhengyang was only a Martial Emperor.

Although his combat power was monstrous, he himself was a true Martial Venerable.

As long as he kept his distance and used realm suppression, he could still kill him.

Xue You unleashed the trace of Martial Venerable blood essence he had just recovered in his body.

Blood-red internal energy swirled around him.

"There is a path to heaven, but you refuse to take it!" Xue You stared fixedly at Li Zhengyang. "You break into hell where there is no door."

"You dare to chase me here all alone; without Lei Qianjue to back you up, I want to see what you have to fight me with!"

Just as Xue You finished speaking.

Li Zhengyang raised his head.

An even more domineering aura erupted from Li Zhengyang's body.

Boom!

Martial Venerable blood essence.

The unadorned pressure of a First-Grade Martial Venerable suddenly appeared.

The blood-red internal energy Xue You had just condensed did not even last a second before this pressure.

Crack.

The blood-red internal energy shattered directly into specks of light in the sky.

Xue You's legs went weak.

That heavy sense of oppression locked his meridians tightly.

He stared at Li Zhengyang, his eyeballs about to pop out of their sockets.

Martial Venerable!

A genuine Martial Venerable!

One day ago.

In the Northern Wasteland Ruins, this brat was clearly only a Martial Emperor.

He had been beaten to the point of vomiting blood by Nether Dragon Venerable and had his sternum broken by his own kick.

How could it be that less than a day had passed.

He had become a Martial Venerable?

This was absolutely impossible!

Xue You's internal defenses completely collapsed.

He could not understand this phenomenon that defied the common sense of martial arts.

"You... you... how could you be a Martial Venerable!"

Xue You's voice trembled.

He even forgot to fight back.

Only one word remained in his brain: escape.

Run for his life.