Chapter 653: Defeat (Part 1)
The blood mist was thick and sticky, with a pungent, fishy smell.
A Grandmaster of the Azure Blood Demon Sect was desperately running eastward.
Even with the Blood Shadow Step pushed to its limit, creating seven or eight afterimages behind him, his legs still trembled uncontrollably.
The bloodthorn vines beneath his feet snapped and cracked under his feet, splattering him with dry branches and leaves.
But he couldn't care less about that now, and as he ran, he blasted away the Bloodthorn Golems blocking his way.
"Get out of my way! All of you, get the hell out of my way!"
He struck out with his right palm, which was wrapped in dark red blood energy, and a puppet exploded from its chest, with fragments flying to both sides.
With a sweeping left leg, another puppet's lumbar spine snapped in two, its upper body spinning as it crashed into the nearby thicket of thorns.
"Monsters! They're all monsters!" He gasped for breath, his face a mixture of blood and mud, his voice filled with despair.
"The intelligence department is a bunch of bastards! They actually said that guy surnamed Lin was just a Grandmaster! This guy is a Grandmaster?! This guy is a Celestial Realm expert!"
He glanced back and saw only the Bloodthorn Golem moving slowly among the vines behind him, with no sign of pursuers.
But he dared not stop; the feeling of being locked on by something had been pressing down on his back all the way from the battlefield to here.
"Damn it, I've run almost twenty miles, they can't possibly catch up with me..."
Before he could finish speaking, a golden streak of light shot down from behind.
The light was so fast that his senses couldn't react in time, and he only had time to deviate by half a step.
The tip of the Wildfire Spear pierced his left shoulder and emerged from his back, pinning him to the trunk of the Bloodthorn Tree behind him.
He opened his mouth, and blood and foam spilled from the corner of his mouth. Only a muffled sound rolled out of his throat, like he was cursing or calling someone's name.
Lin Feng landed and pulled the Wildfire Spear from his shoulder blade. The moment the spear tip left his body, blood spurted onto the ground.
He glanced at the dozens of Bloodthorn Golems rushing towards him, then swept his spear horizontally, the spear light like a fan, slicing the five golems at the front in half.
The second spear thrust out, piercing the chest cavities of the three puppets and pinning them together.
The third shot knocked two away, and the fourth shot shattered one.
Seven shots exploded in a second among the puppets, the gunfire as dense as a torrential rain, each shot taking away several puppets.
In less than five seconds, dozens of Bloodthorn Golems were reduced to broken vines and mangled limbs scattered on the ground.
Lin Feng holstered his gun and stood there, the soil beneath his feet soaked with blood and broken vines.
The surrounding battlefield fell silent for a brief moment, with only faint shouts of battle and the roar of skills echoing from the depths of the blood mist in the distance.
He felt the vibrations coming from the ground and tilted his head slightly.
Within the blood mist, a blurry, tall figure appeared in each of the three directions: west, south, and north.
Five meters tall, its body was covered with dark red blood thorn vines, and five faces frozen in the moment of death were embedded in its head and chest.
It's the Five Souls Blood Puppet! And it's already switched to defensive mode.
The bloodthorn vines wove together to form a shield about two meters wide, covering most of the torso.
【Defense increased by 50% when blocking from the front; Knockback damage increased by 60】
At the same time, five figures emerged from the blood mist in the east.
Leading the way were two Grandmasters of the Demonic Sect, one tall and one short.
The tall man had a thin face, prominent cheekbones, and wore a dark red robe.
The short man was stocky with thick arms and a string of copper bells hanging from his waist, which made a dull metallic clanging sound with every step he took.
Behind them followed three Qingyang Grandmaster Blood Puppets. These puppets retained their faces and moves from when they were alive, and there was still a faint blue aura circulating around them, but their eyes had turned dark red.
The two demonic sect masters exchanged a glance, and without any further words, waved their hands: "Kill him!"
Three Qingyang Grandmaster Blood Puppets and three Five Souls Blood Puppets rushed towards Lin Feng simultaneously, while the two Demonic Sect Grandmasters were a beat slower, hiding in the back and waiting for an opportunity to strike.
Eight combatants of level 39 surrounded them at the same time.
The three Five Souls Blood Puppets took the lead. The right hand of the one in front spread its five fingers and shot five hollow thorns at Lin Feng at the same time, the thorns making a sharp whistling sound as they pierced the air.
Lin Feng dodged to the side, but the blood puppet on the left had already rushed within three steps. It unleashed the Five Souls Continuous Fist, with five fist winds of dark red, purple-black, gray-white, brownish-red, and dark blue alternatingly striking.
Lin Feng held his Blazing Spear horizontally in front of him, the spear blocking four punches in succession. The fifth punch, a dark blue wind carrying 150% attack power, slammed towards his chest. He dodged to the side, the fist grazing his breastplate.
Taking advantage of the moment when he dodged the punch, the Blood Puppet on the right raised his right arm high above his head and slammed down with his Bloodthorn Arm Hammer, creating a fan-shaped shockwave at the point of impact.
Lin Feng lightly touched the ground with his toes, his body rising several meters into the air. The shockwave swept past his feet, creating a deep crater in the ground.
But just as he dodged the arm hammer, the three Qingyang Grandmaster Blood Puppets on his left and right sides arrived simultaneously.
Two on the left, one on the right, six palms struck simultaneously, their power weaving in the air into three red nets of righteous energy.
Lin Feng swept his spear tip horizontally, tearing apart the three-sided palm force net, but the Qingyang Grandmaster Blood Puppet on the right had already closed in.
The Azure Sun Earth-Splitting Leg technique combined three layers of leg power, each kick carrying a dark red light, and launched a series of kicks towards his waist and ribs.
Lin Feng raised his knee to block the first kick, dodged the second kick by turning to the side, and the third kick kicked the outside of his thigh.
-386!
The two demonic sect masters attacked simultaneously under the cover of the blood puppet.
The Seven Fiends Blood Handprint on the left slammed into Lin Feng's back. The seven layers of palm force were superimposed, and the cold poison and various fiendish energies were mixed together. Before the palm wind even arrived, the air had already become viscous.
The Blood Fist on the right was thrust out in mid-air, a dark red finger beam aimed straight at the back of Lin Feng's neck.
Lin Feng dodged the Blood Fist, but the Seven Fiends Blood Handprint struck his chest armor, and the Betrayal Crystal on his back suddenly lit up, reducing the damage of attacks from behind by 30%.
-440!
He forced back the Demon Sect Master on the left with a backhand thrust of his spear, then with a swift movement, he used his Sky-Chasing Boots to activate 【Meteor Flash】, breaking free from the encirclement of the five.
With a flick of his left hand, ten blazing spear beams shot out simultaneously, five on each side, aiming straight for the faces of the two Demon Sect Grandmasters.
The spear's edge trailed ten golden flames, tearing through the blood mist.
The two demonic sect masters' expressions changed drastically. Just as they were about to dodge, two thorny shields appeared in front of them.
Two Five-Soul Blood Puppets blocked their way, and five blazing spear beams struck the thorny shield. The blood thorn vines on the shield suddenly tightened, swallowing the flames of the spear beams.
-0!
-0!
In defensive mode, the Five Souls Blood Puppet withstood the Blazing Flame Spear's edge without sustaining any damage.
The three Qingyang Grandmaster Blood Puppets seized the opportunity to launch an attack.
Qingyang Breaking Fist!
The three blood puppets unleash their punches simultaneously, with seven layers of power stacked together. The first punch deals 110% damage, and the seventh punch deals 200% damage.
Lin Feng parried and dodged, but the three grandmaster-level experts' attack was impenetrable, and he still managed to slip up with one move.
The seventh punch from a Qingyang Grandmaster Blood Puppet landed on his chest.
"Bang!"
The force that could shatter mountains and destroy the heavens exploded on Elderland's Lament, causing a small dent in the dark gold armor.
-901!
Lin Feng glanced down at the dented nail, his eyes turning slightly cold.
"Armor unified!"
Golden light surged from his entire body, and a layer of pale golden light film rose on the surface of his dark gold armor.
The body's defensive power was integrated and superimposed in an instant, finally settling at a terrifying 850 points.