Chapter 126: Chapter 32: Spear of Justice
Even for someone like Su Zhou, a glancing blow would mean torn tendons and broken bones.
But if Su Zhou feigned retreat and tried to disengage, the Demon General would immediately turn and charge. Its speed was incredible, and it would force Su Zhou into a confrontation. It was the height of shamelessness!
After nearly ten exchanges, Su Zhou grew irritated. ’This won’t work. This Demon General is playing it safe, determined to stall me...’
’I’ll have to take a risk.’ His mind raced. With that, Su Zhou deliberately left an opening.
As the Beast Taming Demon General charged again, forcing him into a direct clash, Su Zhou deliberately leaped up. He allowed his large spear to be parried by the enemy’s Riding Blade—empowered by the centipede’s might—and sent flying. The massive Spirit Iron Long Spear went spinning through the air, leaving Su Zhou’s upper body wide open.
’An opportunity!’
The Demon General’s decades of combat instinct immediately seized this golden opportunity. It couldn’t see how Su Zhou could possibly harm it after losing his weapon. Instantly, the Wood Centipede beneath it shuddered, and it brought its blade down with full force, intending to slice Su Zhou in two!
But Su Zhou was prepared. How could he be cut so easily? He condensed Sacred Geometry with his Qi Condensation Technique, and the Gale Armor from his Gale Seed raged furiously. As the blade descended, hundreds of currents of air instantly slammed against it, deflecting its force!
BANG! His rudimentary Gale Armor was shattered by the Demon General’s all-out strike. But the blow, which carried the full might of the Wood Centipede, had lost most of its power breaking through the armor. By the time it reached Su Zhou’s head, there was barely any force left. It simply bounced off his smooth, hard, glowing forehead, which flashed with a Triangular Spirit Pattern.
Perhaps the only one affected was Yara, hiding in Su Zhou’s hair. It hurriedly dodged the shockwave from the blade and clung to the back of Su Zhou’s head, sighing. ’There’s a bit of tactics here, and you could call it the boldness of the highly skilled, but it’s still so reckless...’
"I’ve only trained with the spear for a little over two months, but guess how long I’ve trained in unarmed combat?"
Spouting trash talk fearlessly on the battlefield, the instant the Riding Blade bounced off his own forehead before the Demon General’s shocked eyes, Su Zhou laughed heartily. One hand shot toward the Demon General’s chest, while the other grabbed the hand holding the Riding Blade.
CRACK! The Demon General’s physique was truly terrifying. Without a weapon, just touching its flesh felt like grabbing reinforced concrete. An ordinary Martial Artist couldn’t dream of killing it; they probably couldn’t even pierce its skin. But in the next instant, Su Zhou let out a savage grin and squeezed. With a sickening CRUNCH, he crushed the Demon General’s hand, along with the hilt of the Riding Blade!
’Concrete? I could crush that to dust right after my Awakening, let alone now, after months of Cultivation!’
Immediately after, with a wet SQUELCH, Su Zhou’s other hand plunged directly into the chest of the Demon General’s human torso. A series of muffled cracks echoed from within the Beast Taming Demon General’s body—the sound of an entire row of ribs being crushed. Su Zhou quickly found his target: the spinal column of the Beast Taming Demon General.
"Got you."
The Beast Taming Demon General heard these words. It had been about to taunt its opponent, saying that harming its human body was useless, but in the next moment, Su Zhou grabbed its spine with one hand and its shoulder bone with the other. He then plummeted toward the ground, his arms, waist, and legs overflowing with Spiritual Light, his muscles bulging as he exerted his full strength, and then—
He unleashed an over-the-shoulder throw with all his might!
’Dragon and Snake Power!’
Normally, no one could perform an over-the-shoulder throw on a giant centipede weighing over five tons. But the Beast Taming Demon General just had to have a human-shaped target, didn’t it? And a tough one at that. Instantly, under the explosive force of Su Zhou’s full-strength throw, the entire body of the Wood Centipede was flung into a sideways roll, completely losing its balance!
——RUMBLE!
The giant centipede rolled uncontrollably, and then a huge spray of greenish blood erupted from its back!
One could see that the six-eyed human form of the Beast Taming Demon General had been forcefully torn from the centipede’s body by Su Zhou’s brute force, then carelessly tossed aside, limp and lifeless!
——UWAAAAARGH!!!
One could almost hear a silent scream of the soul echoing in the Spirit Realm... God knows how much that hurt! But to draw a comparison: human males possess a similar protruding appendage. The pain the Beast Taming Demon General felt was likely akin to having that appendage crushed and ripped right off.
"KLAK KLAK!"
Having lost its "protruding part," the centipede—the true body of the Beast Taming Demon General—instantly lost its nerve. Its great mandibles trembled and knocked against each other as it turned to flee. Su Zhou, who had just picked up the great spear that had fallen nearby, bellowed, "And where do you think you’re going?!" He activated Lightweight Thousand-Mile Walk and gave chase like a war chariot.
This left Zhou Buyi’s trio, who were locked in a fierce battle with the Demon Wolves, and the Demon Wolves, who were locked in a fierce battle with Zhou Buyi’s trio, standing there in a daze.
"...Did we just miss something?"
How did one of them suddenly end up spouting blood twenty feet high while the other was shouting for them not to run?
Left behind to fight the Wood Armor Gray Wolves, who were growing sluggish and clumsy without their master’s commands, Zhou Buyi’s trio paused. They glanced in the direction where Su Zhou and the Beast Taming Demon General had vanished, then roared in unison and unleashed their full power.
Zhou Buyi was skilled with the sword, and like his teacher, he was also skilled with Sword Qi. But in essence, he had studied the Hundred Schools, mastering both Curse Weapons and Martial Arts; he was not purely a Martial Artist.
Facing the pack of wolves, which now showed openings due to their controller’s departure, the somewhat prematurely aged Swordsman’s eyes narrowed. He held his Steel Sword horizontally before his chest, pressed two fingers of his left hand against the blade, and began chanting an incantation.
Instantly, a fierce wind erupted around Zhou Buyi. He gathered all his Inner Strength into his sword. The next moment, with a flash of cold light, he slashed out a pure white wave of energy. The seven Wood Armor Gray Wolves in front of him were sliced in half along a gleaming horizontal arc, and the raging gale blew away all their blood and viscera.
At the same time, amidst the splashing greenish wolf blood, the Martial Monk Fang Hui also channeled his power into his Ironwood Long Staff and, with a great roar, swept it outward. He was naturally tall, possessed extremely high Innate True Power, and every move he made carried immense might.
Now, boosted by Medicated Sugar and Inner Strength, the sweep of his iron staff was like a road roller, clearing a path through the wolf pack that surrounded them—a path filled with mangled flesh and bone!
"Go, after them!"
Seeing no more Demon Wolves blocking their path, Zhou Buyi immediately gave the order, and the others didn’t hesitate. They charged in the direction where Su Zhou and the Beast Taming Demon General had disappeared. Just before leaving, Liuu Xizhao pulled out a small medicine pouch and tossed it on the ground. Instantly, a pale blue mist spread out. The remaining Wood Armor Demon Wolves, which had recovered and were about to howl and give chase, stopped in their tracks upon contact with the mist. Their eyes glazed over, and they wandered about foolishly. Only after seven or eight seconds did they shake their heads, their wolfish eyes clearing up again.
But this time, with no scent to follow and no controller to command them, they looked at the remains of their pack mates, whimpered a few times, and did not continue the pursuit.
Zhou Buyi’s trio had already reacted very quickly. Their breakout and pursuit were both first-class responses.
But Su Zhou was faster.
In that short span of time, he had already struck down the Beast Taming Demon General with his great spear.
The dark green spearhead flashed with crimson Spiritual Light. The entire great spear acted like a nail, plunged through the wound on the back of the great greenish centipede and pierced deep into the ground, pinning it in place.
The Spear of Justice, striking down the wicked—it was just that simple, that easy, and even a little boring.
