Chapter 296 - 31: Nuked Again, Seven Million Spirit Stones Bounty!
The Blood-eyed Old Demon watched with interest.
He reached out to grab a few more nanomissiles, watching them "blossom" like fireworks in his hand.
After the upgrade, just one of these small nanomissiles could penetrate the protective True Essence of a mid-stage Golden Core.
But in the Blood-eyed Old Demon’s hands, it was like a toy.
"Truly interesting..."
"It seems this isn’t an ordinary puppet... at least those kids in Puppet Hall couldn’t make something like this."
The Blood-eyed Old Demon looked at Long Ba and Feng Jiu in front of him, revealing the same expression as when he first saw the Ghost-eyed Child.
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Meanwhile, a thousand miles underground.
Lin Chen watched this scene in silence.
"As expected, conventional weapons are completely useless now..."
"We’ll have to try a nuclear solution."
Lin Chen muttered.
Against an enemy of the Blood-eyed Old Demon’s level, the threat posed by martial puppets was almost zero...
That’s why the Human Race has always been at a disadvantage when dealing with Demon Beasts in the Martial Realm.
Martial puppets or hot weapons could at most threaten Third Tier Demon Beasts.
But for Fourth Tier Demon Beasts, even using a nuclear weapon, it would be difficult to kill...
Needless to say, even more terrifying Fifth Tier Demon Beasts.
"Long Ba, Feng Jiu... prepare for self-destruction..."
Lin Chen did not hesitate, issuing the order immediately.
At this time, Long Ba and Feng Jiu were less than ten meters away from the Blood-eyed Old Demon, and at such close range, Lin Chen wanted to see if the nuclear solution could threaten Nascent Soul cultivators...
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With Lin Chen’s order, Long Ba and Feng Jiu took two steps forward, quickly approaching within a meter of the Blood-eyed Old Demon.
Soon, terrifying energy brewed and erupted within the martial puppets...
Bang!
In that moment, time seemed to pause.
The imagined mushroom cloud did not rise; instead, an invisible energy enveloped Long Ba and Feng Jiu.
"Interesting, did they install Celestial Thunder Master within the puppets? This power..."
The Blood-eyed Old Demon slightly frowned as his bony fingertips slowly lifted.
An incomparably thick True Essence enveloped Long Ba and Feng Jiu.
Long Ba and Feng Jiu successfully completed the explosion; their bodies made of high-tier Exotic Metal instantly shattered into pieces.
However...
The explosion did not spread, instead it was trapped within the True Essence.
The Blood-eyed Old Demon’s True Essence turned into two invisible giant bubbles, isolating all the explosive power.
Tens of thousands of tons of nuclear threat turned out to be like a dud, causing no harm.
Watching the disintegrating True Essence bubble being devoured, the Blood-eyed Old Demon raised an eyebrow.
"Tsk tsk, truly terrifying!"
"The explosive power would even leave a Nascent Soul cultivator unable to handle it if caught in the blast..."
The Blood-eyed Old Demon laughed, waving his hand to toss the explosive True Essence bubble into a storage bag.
A breath later, the storage bag broke, but the nuclear threat was resolved quietly...
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A thousand miles underground, Lin Chen saw this scene and his pupils shrank suddenly.
"This..."
Lin Chen’s face was somewhat unsightly; he had always considered nuclear weapons as one of his trump cards.
Previously, Lin Chen used the nuclear solution to heavily injure the Ghost-eyed Old Monster.
Now, the amount of nuclear threat within each martial puppet was twice what it was a few years ago.
Yet he had not expected that such terrifying power would be so easily nullified by the Blood-eyed Old Demon...
Just now, Lin Chen saw it clearly.
The Blood-eyed Old Demon first encapsulated the explosive power of the martial puppets with absolute True Essence to prevent nuclear leakage.
Then, he dropped it into a storage bag...
Theoretically, the storage bag is a small alternate space.
No matter how great the power, it would only cause the storage bag to be damaged.
Thus, the Ghost-eyed Old Monster resolved Lin Chen’s two martial puppets at the cost of a single storage bag...
"Truly horrifying..."
Lin Chen’s face was somewhat unsightly; since even nuclear threat couldn’t deal with the Blood-eyed Old Demon, Lin Chen had no reason to continue watching.
However, just as Lin Chen prepared to leave.
The situation took a turn.
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On the ground.
After dealing with two martial puppets, the Blood-eyed Old Demon’s face showed interest.
He scanned around, and his gaze finally fell upon Xu Shi.
"It was you who killed Ghost Eye, right? I know you... a few years ago you were only a Foundation Establishment cultivator, yet after entering the Life Sect ruins of the Golden Yuan Sect, you came out alive..."
"It seems your talent is quite impressive!"
The Blood-eyed Old Demon paused, extending his hand and looking at his finger, as dry as a mummy, muttering to himself:
"Just in time, this body of mine is sufficiently ancient and decaying... and you seem to be a talented young man..."
At this point, the Blood-eyed Old Demon’s eyes suddenly glowed red.
"But before that... I think the secrets of your Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect should be revealed to me..."
"Heh, still have the magical treasure to shield Divine Sense, huh?"
The Blood-eyed Old Demon sneered, directly extending his left hand to capture Xu Shi puppet in the air.
At the same time, Lin Chen, far underground, smiled.
Bang!
An incomparably terrifying energy erupted.
At the border between Yanlai Country and Fog Country, a splendid mushroom cloud rose into the sky...
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When the Blood-eyed Old Demon grabbed Xu Shi, he immediately felt something was amiss.
The weight of the martial puppet was far greater than a normal person.
But when he realized that Xu Shi was also a puppet, it was already too late...
The nuclear weapon exploded in the Blood-eyed Old Demon’s hand like a droplet.
And at the instant Xu Shi self-destructed, the martial puppets resembling Five Thunders and Han the Sixth simultaneously self-destructed.
More than ten thousand tons of nuclear threat, with terrifying high temperatures, swept everything madly.