Chapter 230: Chapter 205 Battle with the Duo Zhu of the Spirit Sect_1
At this moment, the Martial Spirits had suffered heavy losses.
There were twelve first-level Masters among the Martial Spirits. Chu Chenzhou had killed two of them earlier, and now Lu Yan had killed four more, leaving only six.
Of the nine second-rank Masters, Chu Chenzhou had killed one and seriously injured another earlier. Lu Yan had just killed another two more, again leaving only six remaining.
The situation, gradually turned around.
Whoosh!
Another arrow swiftly shot out, heading towards a first-level Master Martial Spirit.
However, a Money Dart flew out and interrupted the trajectory of the arrow, causing it to fly past the Martial Spirit.
Lu Yan’s eyes narrowed.
The Money Dart, was thrown by the Duo Zhu.
"Almost there."
Lu Yan muttered.
His bodily transformation hadn’t completed, it was still ongoing.
This means that his fighting power had yet to reach its peak.
His plan was to first eliminate some of the Martial Spirits of the first and second Master levels, stabilize the situation, and then join forces with Chu Chenzhou or Guan Shan to eliminate the enemy’s top combat power.
Swish!
Lu Yan aimed his arrows at other people, shooting three arrows in a row.
The three arrows aimed at three different Martial Spirits.
"Old man, first to get rid of you."
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu’s charming face showed a trace of ferocity. It could be seen that her teeth had quickly become sharp, and three tails had grown from her coccyx.
These were fox tails, white and glistering, without a single stray hair.
Besides that, there were no other changes in her body.
This was the power of Spirit Sect Duo Zhu’s Martial Spirit. After using it, her combat power soared.
With a wave of her hand, she threw out several more Money Darts, attempting to deflect Lu Yan’s arrows.
However, only two arrows were hit, deviating from their original course, but the third arrow drew a beautiful arc and hit a first-level Master Martial Spirit.
The effect was the same - one shot, one kill.
"Looking for death."
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu’s face flashed with ferocity, her fingers rapidly moving as she exchanged a few moves with Chu Chenzhou.
Chu Chenzhou quickly retreated, his body ducking and weaving.
"Old man, if you were still in your prime, I’d turn around and leave. Unfortunately, your life is coming to an end, your Qi-blood deteriorating, and your strength is only a fraction of what it was. You don’t have much longer to hold on. I’ll put you down first."
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu sneered coldly and didn’t pay any more attention to Lu Yan, instead launching a fierce attack on Chu Chenzhou.
Chu Chenzhou gave a low shout, his Inner Strength surged, and his aura increased, but it could be seen that his plump skin and muscles were rapidly shrinking.
"Fighting desperate are we? Let’s see how long you can hold on."
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu attacked fiercely, her fingers sharp as a sword. Especially under the enhancement of her Martial Spirit’s power, they were even sharper than a Divine Weapon.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Chu Chenzhou exchanged three moves with her, each one forcing him three steps back.
After three moves and nine steps back, blood was already overflowing from the corners of his mouth.
"Not good."
Lu Yan’s face changed.
Ignoring that his body had not yet completed its transformation, Lu Yan threw his horn bow and quiver to the Chasing Star Arrow avatar, and he quickly picked up Wei Changkong’s War Knife and rushed toward the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu.
After a few leaps he was above, and with the high ground advantage, he slashed down, as decisive as a mountain splitter.
He infused his Inner Strength into the War Knife. As it fell with a howl, the air in front of it was rapidly compressed, turning into Sword Qi.
Even though the knife hadn’t arrived yet, the Sword Qi had already fallen towards the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu.
"Interesting."
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu muttered. With one hand she held Chu Chenzhou at bay, and with the other hand, she directly confronted the Divine Weapon with her flesh and blood.
Clink!
The War Knife collided with the fingertip of the Spirit Sect woman, and actually stimulated waves of Sword Qi, sweeping all around.
Lu Yan felt a wanton and sharp force coming from the War Knife, unstoppable, involuntarily moving back, finally stabilizing after retreating more than ten meters.
"A formidable force."
Lu Yan was secretly shocked.
After breaking through to Master level, his strength had increased drastically.
When he reached the peak of the Martial Marquis Level Five, Lu Yan could already suppress the Martial Spirits of second-rank Masters and came close to the third-rank.
Every level of the Master realm, each level of strength, is three times that of the previous level.
After Lu Yan broke through to the Master level, how many times had his strength improved?
A normal Master’s strength is equivalent to an Innate Martial Body that has trained six or seven strands of Bone Strength.
After leveling up to Master from Martial Marquis Level five, the strength is amplified six or seven times.
It was almost the same for Lu Yan.
So, his strength directly surpassed the third-level Master.
Adding on top his Unity of Man and Martial Arts like the Jiu Jie Knife, his combat power was comparable to a fourth-level Master.
Against an average fourth-level Master, Lu Yan was confident in his ability to hold his own.
But the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu was no ordinary fourth-level Master.
She cultivated Top Martial Arts and mastered the pinnacle of Inner Strength.
On this aspect, it offset Lu Yan’s advantage in Inner Strength.
Additionally, she was also a Martial Spirit, her combat strength far surpassing ordinary Martial Cultivators of the same level.
Lu Yan was completely outmatched.
"With my body not yet fully transformed, I don’t dare to use Body Refining Martial Arts. I’ll just keep her busy."
Lu Yan used Cloud Walk, floated towards her, performing Jiu Jie Knife, and turned a single knife strike into a dozen shadows.
At the same time, Chu Chenzhou also charged forward, joining Lu Yan in his fight against Spirit Sect Duo Zhu.
However, even working together, Lu Yan and Chu Chenzhou were still no match for her, as they were always on the defensive.
In a blink of an eye, the two sides had already exchange several dozen moves.
At this point, Chu Chenzhou’s skin and muscles had shriveled drastically and he looked much older, almost like a dying old man.
Lu Yan knew that Chu Chenzhou wouldn’t last much longer.
"Almost there."
Lu Yan’s physical transformation was coming to an end.
With a single thought, he simultaneously activated all four of his Body Refining Martial Arts techniques.
His body began to undergo drastic changes. His bones creaked loudly, his body rapidly increased in size, and his skin was covered in dark golden scales.
In this state, he resembled a Martial Spirit undergoing a malevolent transformation.
"Kill!"
Lu Yan no longer stalled. He aggressively attacked his opponent. His war knife howled, its aura surged violently, aiming to strike his opponent’s weak points.
"Body Refining Martial Arts."
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu’s eyes narrowed slightly. Her hands formed a sword, continuously striking out.
She repelled Chu Chenzhou with one hand and blocked Lu Yan with the other. She then surged forward, lunging towards Lu Yan’s heart.
Lu Yan swung his knife horizontally with his right hand, aiming for her head, while his left hand sent a punch towards her finger-sword.
The woman leaned backward narrowly avoiding the war knife, but her fingers did not cease, stabbing Lu Yan’s punch.
With a loud bang, Lu Yan was sent backward, leaving a blood mark on his fist.
But, he managed to stop her attack.
Filled with increased confidence, Lu Yan swung his knife, launching another attack.
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu’s face grew cold, a thick black fog enveloped her. The number of tails appearing behind her increased from three to six, making her presence even more intimidating.
She took a chance and left Chu Chenzhou, directing her attack towards Lu Yan.
Without any fear, Lu Yan met her attack with his knife.
Chu Chenzhou wouldn’t let Lu Yan face the enemy alone. He attacked from the side.
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu split her power, using thirty percent to counter Chu Chenzhou’s attack, while seventy percent was directed at Lu Yan.
A few moves later, Lu Yan was hit again, and he was sent flying backward.
However, the area hit only sustained minor injuries, nothing too serious.
Lu Yan regrouped and launched another attack.
Meanwhile, the battle between the Jiu Jie Knife avatar and the refined middle-aged man had reached its conclusion.
With Lu Yan’s breakthrough, the power of the Jiu Jie Knife avatar had also soared.
Combining sixty percent of Lu Yan’s power with the supreme knife technique of Unity of Man and Martial Arts, the combat strength of the Jiu Jie Knife avatar was astonishing. It could crush the third-level Master opponents.
And, the refined middle-aged man was only a second-rank Master. Even with the Martial Spirit’s power, he remained a second-rank Master, unable to cross rank for the fight.
The Jiu Jie Knife Avatar dominating over the refined middle-aged man was an absolute crush.
If the refined middle-aged man wasn’t a Martial Spirit, he would have been killed long ago.
Even so, he was now at the end of the line.
His body had been severely injured, the black shadowy aura inside him was weak and dim, and then with a bang, it exploded into a black smoke, dissipating into the world.
After killing the refined middle-aged man, the Jiu Jie Knife avatar quickly attacked the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu.
Simultaneously, the Chasing Star Arrow avatar also closed in on the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu, shooting arrows that roared like thunder.
Now that Lu Yan had entered the Master Level, the strength of his top Martial Arts Avatar had also soared.
Before Lu Yan’s breakthrough, the power of his top Martial Arts Avatar was comparable to a first-level Master. Now, not only could it compete with a second-rank Master but it was close to the third-rank.
With the bow and arrows, it could pose a threat to third-level Masters.
But with a single point of her finger, the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu managed to deflect the arrows, and with another, she sent the Jiu Jie Knife avatar flying.
At the same time, her six tails enlarged and swept out like a palm-leaf fan, blocking the attacks from Lu Yan and Chu Chenzhou.
"Young lad, cooperate with me."
Just then, Lu Yan heard Chu Chenzhou’s voice in his ear.
Chu Chenzhou suddenly took a deep breath. His body turned even more shriveled, resembling a mummy.
However, his aura instantly surged, his inner strength roiling, causing a sharp drop in the surrounding temperature.
"Kill!"
With a long howl, as if a divine dragon was leaving its abyss and shaking the heavens, his pair of meat palms, white as ice, creating terrifying palm winds, struck at Spirit Sect Duo Zhu.
Perceiving the crisis, the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu’s expression grew serious. With a light shriek, three more tails emerged from her back.
A total of nine fox tails, seemingly pushing the Martial Spirit’s power to its limit, neared the edge of violent mutation.
Her fingers transformed into a sword, stabbing Chu Chenzhou’s palms.
The two sides were at a standoff. With a click, the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu’s fingers bent and broke. Chu Chenzhou’s palmar force, like a wrecking ball, struck the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu’s chest and abdomen.
Bang!
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu’s body was sent flying back several meters. Her protective inner strength was penetrated, leaving two bloody holes in her body. A horrifying chill penetrated her internal organs.
She vomited several mouthfuls of fresh blood. The moment the blood left her body, it froze into ice.
"Kill!"
Hearing Chu Chenzhou’s words, Lu Yan was already prepared. At that moment, his original body and his two avatars all launched their strongest attacks.
The Chasing Star Arrow avatar, released a chain of three consecutive arrows.
The Jiu Jie Knife avatar and Lu Yan’s original body attacked from both sides, executing the most powerful Jiu Jie Knife technique – Destruction.
Combined with the supreme inner strength cultivated by the Jiu Jie Knife, this move could cause terrifying destruction.
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu, shrouded in black fog, resisted the extreme cold energy inside her body. The bloody wounds on her body squirmed as though trying to recover, but clearly, the recovery rate was slow.
Such were the terrifying effects of Chu Chenzhou’s blows.
Facing Lu Yan’s all-out attack, the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu roared. Her face distorted, the black fog on her body surged, and the figure of a fox emerged.
It was a nine-tailed fox.
It lunged towards Lu Yan in one leap.
The Spirit Sect Duo Zhu channeled her inner strength, her finger-sword continuously striking out.
Dang! Dang! Dang!
The three arrows were each deflected. The last one was aimed at the blade of the Jiu Jie Knife avatar.
However, the moment her finger hit the blade, the Jiu Jie Knife avatar abandoned his knife.
The Red Blood Blade was flung away like a bolt of lightning.
The Jiu Jie Knife avatar grabbed hold of the Spirit Sect Duo Zhu’s wrist in one swift motion.
