The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 257 The Reverse Derivation of Sequence Martial Arts
"Commander, those two seem to have... escaped!"

The half-scaled youth, a mid-stage Bone Forging Realm cultivator, watched the two red dots disappear rapidly from the life detector. It took him a while to react before he reminded the person on his smartwatch.

"It's not just a feeling; I saw them both run away."

Ino stared at the two mercenary leaders who had disappeared from sight, unable to believe it was real for a long time.

Two top-tier Bone Forging Realm experts, along with more than forty other Bone Forging Realm warriors, could easily wipe them out. However, for some reason, those two top-tier Bone Forging Realm experts turned and ran away upon seeing the two high-level martial arts disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, which is truly puzzling.

Meanwhile, the Blood Knights on the other side were somewhat taken aback.

The name of the Smiling Skull is known to almost everyone in the Mist Mountain region and among the high-ranking officials of major cities, as he is one of the three most formidable entities.

But the Southern Skeleton and the Northern Gray-Clad?

What is this ghost?

"Blood Rider Commander, shall we make our move?" A high-level Bone Forging Realm man from the Mountain Clan spoke up. "Although those cowardly mercenaries have left, we still have nearly thirty Bone Forging Realm experts on our side, while the other side only has twenty Bone Forging Realm experts, and they are scattered in various places in a chaotic mess. It is the perfect time to make our move."

Now that both mercenary groups have fled with their Bone Forging Realm experts, they still have nearly thirty Bone Forging Realm experts remaining. If they were to fight head-on, their chances of winning would still be very high.

"Attack!" Blood Rider shouted without hesitation, "Let these mercenaries know what true bravery and the spirit of a Star Tower warrior are!"

The talk of "Southern Skeleton" and "Northern Gray Robe" is nothing but alarmist rhetoric.

They're just two high-level martial artists. What difference would it make if we killed them?
After saying that, he led his team and charged towards Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing. His terrifying blood energy was no longer held back, and he slashed at them mercilessly with his second-tier battle blade.

A streak of blood-red light instantly extended to Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing, who were more than 300 meters away, threatening to completely engulf them.

This move is also Blood Rider's signature super-level martial skill, Blood Destruction, and it's at the second level of perfection.

With a single slash, a torrent of blood surged forth!
The farther away you are, the less you can dodge; unless you can withstand the attack, you will surely die.

"Damn it! He used a super-level martial skill on two high-level martial artists? Has he gone mad?"

Ino was also shocked as she watched the blood waves crashing towards Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing like ocean waves.

As the leader of the 23rd Regiment of Star Tower City, Blood Knight was quite famous in the surrounding cities. Moreover, she was a veteran high-level martial artist at the Limit Bone Forging Realm. She couldn't understand why she would use her full strength against two high-level martial artists. What was wrong with everyone in Star Tower City today?

"Blood Rider, why are you doing this?" Stone Axe glanced back at the towering blood wave and shook his head.

Even though the two of them had already warned Blood Knight, he still insisted on going his own way, thinking that the two of them were cowards.

Southern skeleton, northern gray clothes.

When he and Iron Claw first heard about this title, they were both dismissive, thinking it was just an exaggeration by the merchant caravans traveling between the two regions.

However, after watching a battle video recorded by a caravan, he and Iron Claw were truly astonished.

The human in the silver-gray clothing in the video was an ordinary Refining Organ Realm martial artist, but he actually took the initiative to attack when faced with dozens of Bone Forging Realm experts from the caravan, and even several high-level Bone Forging Realm martial artists.

The moment they made their move, these humans suddenly transformed, their combat power soaring several levels. Not to mention ordinary mid-level Bone Forging Realm martial artists were powerless to fight back, these gray-clad men could suppress several high-level Bone Forging Realm martial artists by themselves. Moreover, they were completely fearless of death in battle, and would not hesitate to exchange injuries for injuries.

Despite having only a few men in gray, they managed to kill more than ten experts in the Bone Forging Realm from the caravan.

The caravan thought it was over, but less than an hour or two later, several more men in gray appeared and engaged the caravan in a fierce battle, causing the caravan to lose more than ten Bone Forging Realm experts, including a high-level Bone Forging Realm warrior.

By the time the caravan left the Mountain of the Dead, only one-third of the Bone Forging Realm experts remained; those who survived were all severely injured.

Faced with this group of gray-clad men whose fates were unknown, wave after wave, the major caravans were truly terrified.

The reason for this fear wasn't that they couldn't defeat the gray-clad men, but rather that the gray-clad men seemed endless, killing wave after wave until they were all wiped out.

Therefore, the only condition for the caravan to hire them for the return journey is that they must not kill any of the gray-clad men and must find a way to delay them, otherwise they will suffer endless retaliation from the gray-clad men.

They naturally refused such harsh employment conditions.

Although they were top-tier Bone Forging Realm experts, they couldn't withstand the combined might of several high-level Bone Forging Realm warriors who could fight to the death without risking injury.

The Blood Riders were now planning to kill the two gray-clad men. Just thinking about what would happen to the Blood Riders sent chills down his spine.

However, just as Stone Axe was sighing, two terrifying life auras suddenly descended, sweeping directly over Stone Axe's body, causing Stone Axe to tremble.

"Two natural disasters? This... how is this possible!"

Stone Axe stared intently in the direction from which the life force was coming, his eyes filled with fear.

He had experienced this life force before, and it was a memory he least wanted to recall in his life, but the life force he was experiencing now forced him to remember it.

Cataclysmic monster!

That is an absolute taboo in the Mountain of the Dead!

If you encounter this, it means death is imminent!

Immediately afterwards, a golden lion over a hundred meters tall appeared from the blood waves. The blood waves crashed against the illusory golden lion, but it was like waves crashing against it, having no effect whatsoever.

Inside this illusory golden lion stood two figures, Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing.

Then, with the roar of this illusory golden lion, the blood wave was directly shattered and disappeared without a trace, after which the illusory golden lion gradually dissipated.

"Monsters! They're Cataclysmic-level monsters?"

Blood Knight was completely stunned as he watched the golden lion suddenly appear and then disappear.

He knew all too well how powerful his Blood Destruction was; it was an impact of hundreds of tons of force, capable of shattering a mountain. Yet, when it struck the illusory golden lion, it was as if it were hitting divine iron, unable to budge it even a fraction.

Moreover, that terrifying life force was absolutely certain.

Natural disaster!

At this moment, not only was the Blood Knight dumbfounded, but even Ino, who was not far away, was speechless.

"Transformation? Can they transform too?" Ino stared intently at Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing, her beautiful eyes filled with incomprehension and shock.

During the battle at the Martial Arts Association, Lin Qi's transformation shocked everyone. He killed Tu An with a single blow. Everyone thought it was due to Lin Qi's personal ability and talent, but no one expected that the two disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy would also be able to do it...

She still vividly remembered Lin Qi's transformation. Although his appearance didn't change much, his life force was terrifying; he was definitely not human. Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing's transformations were exactly the same as Lin Qi's; there was no mistake.

Moreover, Fang Zhen actually managed to easily block the Blood Rider's full-force attack once again. Even the other deputy city lords could not match his combat strength.

"Old Zhen, how are you?" Li Ranxing asked curiously, looking at Fang Zhen who was panting heavily. "How much of that sequence martial skill did you manage to replicate?"

He was somewhat familiar with the sequence of martial arts techniques that Fang Zhen had deduced using a quantum supercomputer, after all, he had seen the Blood Condensation Realm leader use the Golden Roar more than once, and then die.

The extent to which this technique can be replicated is only known to the person using it.

"I can only recreate about six-tenths of it at the moment," Fang Zhen said, panting heavily. "I still can't use the final Golden Roar. The control over strength and blood circulation in this move is still a bit lacking with my proficiency in mental techniques and the Stellar Explosion Visualization. If I could achieve 100% proficiency in the first level of mental techniques and the Stellar Explosion Visualization, I should be able to recreate it perfectly."

"So, if we want to better reproduce martial arts techniques, we still need to improve our mental techniques and visualization methods?" Li Ranxing couldn't help but fall into deep thought after hearing this.

In fact, he also had many ideas about the restoration of martial arts techniques, especially after witnessing the sequence martial arts technique Golden Roar.

If he could transform his qi and blood into a large mecha, even if he couldn't condense his power into a single burst like that leader in the Blood Condensation Realm, he could still freely control the transformed mecha, and he would definitely not be much inferior to a sequence martial art like Golden Roar.

However, the difficulty of freely controlling this kind of mecha that can transform strength and blood is obviously much greater than that of the Golden Lion that can simply transform. After all, it requires constant control of the transformed strength and blood rather than just maintaining it, which raises the difficulty of control by more than one level.

While Li Ranxing and Fang Zhen were chatting, Blood Rider turned around and ran away without saying a word.

What's going on today?

Fang Zhen stared blankly at the fleeing Blood Riders, wondering if the NPCs today had some kind of redesigned AI system, knowing to run away when they couldn't win.

Can't people even enjoy playing games anymore?!
"We must give chase! We can't let these people escape!"

"These people are key to completing the mission. If we can't complete the mission, we won't be able to freely explore this battlefield!"

As Chen Ya jumped down from the flying transport vehicle, she couldn't help but remind Xiang Fangzhen and the other person.

"I was wondering why this mission was so simple. So it was just about chasing down three thousand fleeing enemies?" Fang Zhen looked at the Blood Riders scattering in all directions and suddenly realized.

Killing three thousand martial artists would be incredibly easy for them now. In their superhuman state, they could easily take down dozens of people with a single move. Even if some of them were at the Bone Forging Realm, they were only thirty. Their team had over seventy members, and now more than ten of them could transform, so it wouldn't take them any trouble at all.

However, chasing down more than three thousand people would indeed be a normal task prepared for the more than one thousand players.

“This task is too slow for one team to complete. Let’s notify the other teams so we can finish it sooner and go to the battlefield to earn merit points,” Li Ranxing said.

After listening, Fang Zhen thought about it and agreed. He then had someone contact Xiang Luowu, Yi Ye Fuyun, Lu Fanchen, and others, instructing them to quickly eliminate the escaped people.

Soon, Luo Wushang, Yiye Fuyun, Lu Fanchen and others who rushed from Fenglin Town received the message from Fang Zhen and the others.

"Sister Wu, I just saw two figures running very fast, heading towards the direction of Ragewind Town on the map. Should we chase after them?" Ragnarok asked.

"Ragewind Town?" Luo Wushang thought for a moment and said, "Just in case, let's go! We can't let any of the monsters in this mission get away. If we can't complete the mission, we won't be able to move around freely at all."

"Understood!" Ragnarok also piloted the rented flying transport vehicle and flew straight towards Stormwind.

While Luo Wushang and the others were chasing after them, Shi Fu and Tie Zhao, who were running wildly on the ground, felt a headache coming on.

"Are these gray-clad men crazy? We haven't done anything, why are they chasing us?" Stone Axe glanced at the flying transport vehicle that was hot on their heels. The flying transport vehicle was exactly the same as the one that the gray-clad men had gotten out of, and it was heading in the same direction as the transport convoy. There was no other possibility but those gray-clad men.

"Ignore them for now. Once we get to Stormwind Town, they'll retreat unless they're stupid." Iron Claw glanced at the map. At their near-sonic speed, they could reach Stormwind Town in just a few minutes, while the flying transport vehicles were much slower than their burst speed.

They only need to hold out for a few minutes, and then the men in gray will have to retreat even if they don't want to.

As a key forward town of Star Tower City, Ragewind Town has a permanent population of 100,000 martial artists and several deputy city lords. It is also rumored that the leader of the Holy Blood Mercenary Group is there. Unless one is a fool, the gray-clad men who stand on the side of Chasing Light City would never dare to approach Ragewind Town.

With this in mind, Stone Axe and Iron Claw increased their speed even further.

They had witnessed the battle between the gray-clad man and the Blood Rider from a distance.

That enormous, illusory golden lion is definitely real!

That's the Golden Roar, a transcendent martial art mastered by the Smiling Skull!

Although they had already tried to think highly of those gray-clad men, they never expected them to be so terrifying. They had actually obtained the extraordinary sequence martial arts techniques wielded by the Smiling Skull, and some of them had even learned them.

They couldn't imagine what had happened to the enormous Smiling Skull in the Dead Mountain Range, to this group of gray-clad men.

Extraordinary Martial Arts!

That's the core of a major power; it's not something you can learn just by wanting to, let alone let people from other powers learn it. The gray-clad man has always been hostile to the Smiling Skull. The only explanation for the gray-clad man being able to learn it is that he severely damaged the Smiling Skull's stronghold and seized the inheritance.

Faced with such a gray-clad man, they dared not make another move.

This is something that can severely injure the Smiling Skull; they'd better not die.

The only way is to let the gray-clad men retreat on their own, otherwise they will definitely face endless pursuit by the gray-clad men.

Sure enough, after running for nearly three minutes, Stone Axe and Iron Claw soon saw a town in the distance surrounded by a ten-meter-high alloy wall. It was the town of Furywind, under the jurisdiction of Star Tower City.

The appearance of Stone Axe and Iron Claw was detected by Ragewind Town immediately.

"Deputy City Lord, we have spotted the leaders of the Stone Axe Mercenary Group and the Iron Claw Mercenary Group six kilometers away. A flying transport vehicle from the City of Light is following behind them," a high-level Bone Forging Realm half-beastman reported respectfully.

"A flying transport vehicle from the City of Light?" A middle-aged man from the Mountain Clan, wearing light blue Tier 2 alloy armor, asked with some surprise, "How dare they come here?"

As a key town on the front lines, Ragewind Town is home to Star Tower City's main fighting force. It can be said that unless the city lord of Light City arrives, anyone who comes here will die.

"Should we send someone out to intercept them?" asked the high-level Bone Forging Realm half-beastman.

“No need.” The middle-aged man from the Mountain Clan shook his head. “I’ve already spoken with the leader of the Holy Blood Mercenary Group. Several of their vice leaders are already preparing to lead their men to the front lines. Let them handle it.”

"Yes." The high-level Bone Forging Realm half-beast man said nothing more.

With the Holy Blood Mercenary Group involved, and several of its vice-leaders together, even if all the vice-city lords of the City of Light were present, there would only be one outcome.

That is death!

(End of this chapter)