freeallnovels Chapter 240 - 142: Gaining Another Skill, the Star General Camp Opens
Chapter 240 - 142: Gaining Another Skill, the Star General Camp Opens
Shi Ruifeng’s arrival completely changed the tide of battle.
He didn’t even use any fancy moves. He simply swung his saber.
In his hands, that standard-issue long saber seemed to come alive.
Every slash was accompanied by an intensely condensed, crimson saber gang. The gang left his blade yet held its form, cutting visible ripples through the air.
The flames parted automatically before the saber gang, and the putrid black mist was swept away.
PSHLAAA!
The saber gang struck the Fungal Descendant Corpse King’s massive body. It didn’t make a dull thud, but rather the sharp sound of tearing cloth.
The defense formed of tough mycelia and bone was as fragile as paper-mache before the saber gang.
Huge swathes of corrupted tissue were easily stripped away, leaving wounds as smooth as a mirror. The internal network of mycelia didn’t even have time to regenerate before it was utterly pulverized by the tyrannical power contained within the saber gang.
The other three military Martial Artists were equally formidable. They, too, were in the Gang Condensation Realm.
However, they were likely only at the Early Stage of Condensing Gang Realm.
The four of them, led by Shi Ruifeng, formed a battle formation, balanced in both offense and defense. Every attack precisely struck the Corpse King’s joints and energy-flow nodes.
"GUUUH—"
The Fungal Descendant Corpse King let out a low cry filled with fear.
It could sense that these four humans who had just appeared were on a completely different level from the kid who, while troublesome, was still manageable.
The four of them had perfect coordination. Without any need for verbal communication, they naturally divided their attack zones, forming an unbreakable net of death.
For a moment, Lin Ye’s presence seemed almost redundant.
If he stayed here, he would just disrupt the attack rhythm of the four Gang Condensation Realm experts.
Lin Ye’s brow furrowed slightly.
’Killing this monster is a side quest issued by the system.’
’The reward for this quest is a permanent optimization and upgrade to my core mechanism, Taotie.’
’This is a reward I have to get.’
’There’s no way I’m just going to stand by and watch someone else steal this kill.’
With that thought, Lin Ye no longer hesitated.
His figure blurred and turned illusory where he stood.
Phase Shift!
Frenzy, activate!
VMMM!
The air vibrated faintly, and Lin Ye’s figure abruptly vanished.
In the next instant, he reappeared like a ghost in the only remaining gap in Shi Ruifeng’s four-man encirclement, perfectly filling a blind spot that had just opened up as the Fungal Descendant Corpse King twisted its body.
The sight of this instantly caused the four of them, who were in the middle of an all-out assault, to freeze in unison.
’So fast!’
Shi Ruifeng’s pupils contracted.
Before, when he had seen Lin Ye use this move to unleash a burst of extreme speed on video playback, he had merely been impressed.
But now, on the battlefield, seeing Lin Ye execute it right beside him... the visual impact was far greater than anything that could be conveyed through a screen.
’This speed... it’s actually a bit faster than my own at full power!’
Shi Ruifeng felt like this year was cursed. Monstrously talented rookies were popping up one after another all over the country like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
And now, even a third-tier city like Dongjiang could produce such an unreasonable monster.
His current realm was the Mid-stage of Condensing Gang Realm.
Yet the young man before him, according to the files, had only just entered the Vein Opening Realm!
There was an entire major realm separating them!
For a moment, Shi Ruifeng was struck by a sense of absurd frustration. ’Have the decades I’ve spent on the martial path all gone to waste?’
Before, he had subconsciously been about to tell Lin Ye to step aside and leave this to them.
After all, the aftershocks from a battle between Gang Condensation Realm cultivators were enough to be a fatal threat to a Vein Opening Realm Martial Artist.
But the two words "fall back" were on the tip of his tongue, and yet he couldn’t bring himself to say them.
Because Shi Ruifeng was horrified to discover that it wasn’t just Lin Ye’s instantaneous burst of speed that had shocked him.
The combat power the kid was displaying now with his every move was even more unbelievable.
Lin Ye’s realm aura hadn’t changed.
But his strength, his reflexes, and even his grasp of combat opportunities seemed to have truly leaped over a massive threshold, forcibly squeezing him past the doorway to the Gang Condensation Realm.
Although his use of that power was still a bit green, and he lacked the special effects unique to Gang Sha...
...he was now truly capable of integrating into their four-person strike formation and precisely filling that fleeting gap.
At the very least...
...he absolutely wasn’t dragging them down!
Lin Ye could actually keep up with their rhythm!
"Monster!"
Shi Ruifeng silently branded Lin Ye with that label in his mind, and then he too unleashed his full power.
Lin Ye’s powerful entrance seemed to ignite not only the fighting spirit of the other three soldiers but also a sliver of competitive urgency they hadn’t dared to acknowledge.
’If a junior in the Vein Opening Realm can be this ferocious, how can we, his seniors, let ourselves be outshone?’
For a time, five figures weaved through the sea of fire, the glint of sabers and spears forming a continuous blur as their assault grew ever more frenzied!
The Fungal Descendant Corpse King’s size was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
「A few dozen seconds later.」
BOOM!
With one last slash, Shi Ruifeng cleaved off the remaining half of the Corpse King’s body, completely stripping away its outer shell of corrupted flesh.
It revealed its most fundamental composition.
It was a core mass formed from the aggregation of countless mycelial threads, each shimmering with a faint, milky-white halo.
These mycelia seemed to have a life of their own. Freed from the confines of the skeleton, they were tough enough to briefly survive even within the raging flames.