Chapter 153: Chapter 138: Demonic Siege_2
But most of the demon evils, zigzagging, nimbly dodged the arrow rain and quickly approached the city wall.
Lu Yan saw a demon beast that looked like a leopard spring its body up off the ground with a strong push on all four limbs, charging onto the fifty feet high city wall, knocking three soldiers flying, and getting into a fight with a martial arts master of Martial Marquis level.
This was a demon beast of Martial Marquis level.
Then, more and more demon evils of Martial Marquis level leapt onto the city wall.
Clang!
Lu Yan unsheathed his long blade, the pitch-black blade was almost invisible in the darkness of the night, slicing off the head of a demon beast that was equivalent to a Martial Marquis Level Two.
This demon beast was extremely strange. After its head was chopped off, it was not yet dead. Its body still lunged at Lu Yan, its sharp claws relentlessly clawing at Lu Yan, attempting to tear him apart.
Splat!
Lu Yan swung his blade once more. With this strike, he sliced the demon beast open, splitting it into two halves. At the same time, his left hand gripped at its heart, plucking out a crystal the size of a thumb.
The Demon Evils Crystal.
As demon beasts cultivated by absorbing corrupt vapors, they would condense a Demon Evils Crystal at their hearts. This was a demon beast’s power source, as well as their weakness.
Once the Demon Evils Crystal was extracted, the demon beasts would die. Otherwise, even if they were beheaded and dismembered, they would still struggle for a while.
Whether they were demon beasts, specters, or Martial Spirits, their life force was much stronger than that of human warriors.
However, demon beasts and specters were much weaker compared to Martial Spirits.
After putting the Demon Evils Crystal away, he gained twenty battle merits.
He then continued to kill the next demon beast.
The blaze of his blade flashed by, and another demon beast was split in two. The Demon Evils Crystal fell into Lu Yan’s hand.
This one was just Martial Marquis Level One, ten battle merits, better than nothing.
Lu Yan swung his blade in broad strokes, his blade shining like electricity, none of the demon beasts in this area could resist him. He slaughtered five of them in quick succession.
Suddenly, a burst of evil wind rushed towards him, an unusually burly demon beast, like a ferocious tiger, lunged to kill Lu Yan.
Martial Marquis Level Five.
Lu Yan was not afraid but delighted.
Killing one Martial Marquis Level Five demon beast was worth one hundred battle merits.
Clang!
Lu Yan released a powerful strike with his blade, which was blocked by the beast’s sharp claw. An explosive sound echoed as the energy rebounded, causing Lu Yan’s body to waver slightly.
The tiger-like demon beast, however, was pushed back three steps.
"Such strong power, it’s stronger than same-level martial artists."
Lu Yan felt a chill in his heart, not daring to be careless.
The tiger-like demon beast retreated three steps, steadied itself, and roared before it lunged again at Lu Yan.
Lu Yan swung his blade, clashing with the demon beast. After several rounds, Lu Yan had figured out the beast’s strength and weaknesses.
Although the demon beast was powerful, its attacks were unidimensional, purely relying on its beastly instincts. Its intelligence was also low, far inferior to that of specters.
This made things easier.
Lu Yan employed his agility, avoiding direct confrontation with the beast, instead choosing to engage it in close combat and seizing the opportunity to launch surprise attacks.
After a few moves, Lu Yan’s blade cut through the tiger-like demon beast’s neck, nearly slashing its head off.
But the tiger-like demon beast seemed to not feel anything at all, it continued to lunge at Lu Yan, its tail swinging towards Lu Yan’s neck like a steel whip.
Lu Yan leapt up, avoiding the swinging tail, and swiftly closing in on the demon evil, slashing his blade towards its chest.
Splat!
A gruesome wound appeared, reaching the heart. Through the wound, one could even see the fluttering gray heart.
Roar!
The tiger-like demon beast lashed out in a blind frenzy. Lu Yan blocked its claw with his Red Blood Blade. With his free left hand, he reached out and grabbed at the beast’s heart, then pulled back, forcibly ripping the beast’s heart out.
With a strong squeeze, the gray heart exploded, and a Demon Evils Crystal the size of a longan, fell into Lu Yan’s hand.
One hundred battle merits, earned.
In the surroundings, many people looked at Lu Yan with awe.
Being able to kill a Martial Marquis Level Five demon beast so cleanly and swiftly attested to Lu Yan’s formidable fighting power.
Could he be a top-notch expert from the Martial Marquis List?
Having killed the tiger-like demon beast, Lu Yan immediately went on to the next demon beast without resting for a moment.
However, the number of demon beasts multiplied exponentially.
Not only didthose of Martial Marquis level leap onto the city wall, there were also a large amount of demon beasts equivalent to the Limit Breaking stage.
Screech!
With a shrill bird cry, a demon beast resembling a gray hawk swooped down, snatched a soldier in its claws, flew high into the sky, then released its grip.
The soldier let out a horrible scream as he fell from the high altitude and splattered onto the ground.
Many soldiers attempted to shoot with their armor-piercing crossbows or arrows, but all were evaded by the gray hawk-demon beast.
"Give me the bow and arrow."
Lu Yan took a bow and arrow from a soldier, pulling it back till it was like a full moon.
Whoosh!
The arrow split the air and traced a perfect arc, striking the chest of the grey eagle demon, the meter-long arrow completely buried within.
The grey eagle demon plummeted towards the ground, but when it was still more than twenty meters from the ground, it managed to recover, frantically flapping its wings, trying to take off again.
Bang!
Lu Yan pushed off the ground, propelled himself dozens of meters into the air, and with a swift slash, split the eagle demon in half. He quickly reached out and caught a grey heart which fell into his hand.
Upon landing, he squeezed the heart with force, and another Demon Evils Crystal was in his possession.
A Martial Marquis Level Three Demon Evils Crystal.
Hmm?
Lu Yan saw a few demons had leaped from the city walls, rushing into the streets behind the wall, engaging in a bitter fight with a group of martial arts experts.
Lu Yan leaped down, from his higher position, took a big swing, and split another demon in half.
Next, with a push from his legs, he charged forth like a whirlwind, his blade flashed, and another demon was cut into two.
Swoosh, swoosh!
Intense ripping sounds rang out, as if several sharp blades were slashing towards the back of Lu Yan’s head at a terrifying speed.
Lu Yan swung his sword in response and blocked the fatal attack, and then abruptly spun his body. His leg moved like a steel whip, sweeping everything behind him.
But the one who took the sneak attack on him was a leopard demon.
Over 1.5 meters tall, with thick and strong limbs, its claws were fifty centimeters long and shone with a grey gleam.
The leopard demon lightly retreated, cleverly avoiding Lu Yan’s kick, and then with a soft jump, it appeared at Lu Yan’s side. Its claws swung out, the sound of tearing through the air echoing around.
This was a Martial Marquis Level Five demon.
It was quick, flexible, and more troublesome than the previous tiger demon.
Lu Yan blocked the leopard demon’s claws with his blade and fought back, only to have the leopard demon dodge his attack and jump to another position to launch another attack.
Several of Lu Yan’s moves were dodged by the leopard demon, which casually ripped a limit breaking warrior who had passed the limit five times into five pieces.
Lu Yan found that even when he pushed his Cloud Walk to the limit, he still couldn’t catch up with the speed of this leopard demon.
If the realm of the Cloud Walk was higher, reaching the Transcendent state, it would not be difficult to catch up with or even exceed the speed of the leopard demon.
Lu Yan simply put away the Red Blood Blade and stared at the leopard demon with his bare hands.
The leopard demon circled around Lu Yan, looking for an opportunity to attack.
Lu Yan simply closed his eyes.
Swish!
As soon as Lu Yan closed his eyes, the leopard demon immediately growled and lunged at him.
"As expected, its intelligence is low and it’s easily fooled."
Lu Yan suddenly opened his eyes and reached out, grabbing one of the leopard demon’s front claws.
The leopard demon was greatly surprised. Its other front claw swept towards Lu Yan, but was grabbed by Lu Yan’s left hand.
The leopard demon opened its bloody mouth, attempting to bite Lu Yan’s head.
Lu Yan’s whole body was enveloped in a golden light as he headbutted the leopard demon, hitting its chin.
Crack!
The leopard demon’s jaw bone broke, and it became dizzy.
Lu Yan exerted force with both hands, lifting it upwards.
Boom!
The leopard demon’s body heavily landed on the ground, causing the ground of this area to tremble slightly. The impact created a large pit in the ground.
Even the leopard demon, with its tough skin and surprising durability, had five or six of its bones broken by the impact.
Boom! Boom! ...
Lu Yan lifted the leopard demon and hit it against the ground five or six more times, turning it almost into a puddle of soft flesh with all its bones shattered.
Only then did he draw his Red Blood Blade, cut open its heart, and extract a Demon Evils Crystal.
Swoosh, swoosh...
Just then, Lu Yan heard a very faint tearing sound.
The tearing sound was so minute, just like the sound made by an adult man thrusting a thin needle through the air.
If it was not for Lu Yan’s keen senses, he would miss it.
The tearing sound came from behind Lu Yan.
Lu Yan felt a prickling sensation on his skin. Without hesitation, he drew his sword and turned around, his blade sweeping across the air, setting up a knife screen in front of him.
Ting, ting, ting...
Sparks flew in all directions. Lu Yan could see clearly that dozens of black needles, as small as cow hair, were blocked by his Red Blood Blade and scattered in all directions.
Most of them were embedded in the ground or in the walls of surrounding buildings, but one limit breaking warrior who was standing closer didn’t react in time and got pierced by two black needles.
"I..."
Before the limit breaking warrior could say anything, a large amount of black blood gushed out.
