Starting from the imperial palace guards, his clones spread all over the world.

Chapter 568 There are still masters
"What...what kind of monster are you?!"

Li Xueqing's voice pierced the night wind, her gaze fixed on the approaching steel behemoth before her—the war puppet Huang Xingzi.

This is definitely not made of flesh and blood!
Li Xueqing's brows furrowed, and alarm bells rang in her heart.

Mechanical arts? Puppetry?
Whatever it was, the overwhelming sense of terror and oppression, like facing an ancient beast, made her feel intensely uneasy!

The person is not good!
Almost the instant she saw her opponent clearly, Li Xueqing's poison technique was already silently activated!
The colorless and odorless aura of deadly poison, like the finest dust, quietly permeated Huang Xingzi with her breath and the rustling of her clothes.

She wasn't sure if her signature poison technique would work on the metal warrior before her, but it was her greatest asset.

The other side.

"Cough...poof!"

Silverwing Marquis Shi Danqin coughed up another mouthful of black blood, collapsing weakly onto the cold ground, each breath accompanied by excruciating, shattering pain.

The deadly poison and severe injuries have rendered him incapable of fighting.

He reached out with difficulty and shook the unconscious garrison general beside him:
"Wake up... wake up!"

"Are those...one of ours?!"

The garrison general was shaken awake. He opened his eyes groggily and his gaze fell upon the giant steel shadow that was slowly moving under the moonlight. He was instantly seized by boundless fear!

He screamed, his voice distorted with extreme terror:
"Monster... Monster! Hell! We must be in hell!"

"Otherwise... how could such a demon exist?!"

Shi Danqin's heart sank to the bottom.

Not reinforcements!

Is this terrifying creation friend or foe?
It was intimidating Li Xueqing at this moment, which indirectly saved its own life, but what exactly was its purpose?
The center of the battlefield.

Li Xueqing also stared coldly at the battle puppet Huang Xingzi, secretly unleashing various deadly poisons upon it:
"Would you dare to state your background?"

"I have no grudge against you, so what do you intend to do now?"

She was still stalling for time with words, making it easier for her to administer the poison.

Huang Xingzi ignored Li Xueqing's questioning.

Its steps were heavy, steady, and possessed a breathtaking rhythm.
Each step produced a dull thud, as if the earth were groaning in pain, and dust swirled around its feet.

It's like a mobile metal fortress, with a clear objective—to crush any obstacles in its path!

Li Xueqing's figure hovered in mid-air, her face as cold as frost.

She fell silent, and all her doubts and probing turned into an even more frenzied outpouring of poison!

The poison powder, barely perceptible to the naked eye, the palm strikes imbued with sinister internal energy, and even the azure poisonous mist emanating from her body, all resembled invisible tentacles, layer upon layer, wrapping around Huang Xingzi.

The air was filled with a nauseating, sweet, and rotten stench.

invalid!

All invalid!

The colossal steel figure moved without the slightest hesitation, its dark red eyes beneath the bronze-coated armor locked onto Li Xueqing, filled with pure, icy killing intent!
It's like walking in a vacuum; those deadly poisons that could turn thousands of troops into pus and blood are nothing more than a breeze brushing against its armor!

"How can it be?!"

A strong sense of unease gripped Li Xueqing's heart like a venomous snake.

Her most prized poison skills were utterly useless against this monster!
Liang Jin's immunity to all poisons is already one in a million, and tonight he's encountered another one?!

No! This thing in front of us is probably not even alive!

It has no flesh and blood, no veins, so it is naturally not afraid of deadly poisons that target life!

This realization plunged Li Xueqing into an icy abyss!

With her poison skills crippled, it's like breaking her claws!

"Then... let's meet them head-on!"

A fierce and resolute glint flashed in Li Xueqing's eyes. She slammed her palms together in front of her chest, and her powerful azure inner force gathered and compressed wildly, emitting a dangerous aura.

Just as she was about to unleash her power—

"laugh!!!"

A piercing steam jet tore through the night sky! Suddenly, the three rows of bronze tubes at the back of Huang Xingzi's neck spewed out scorching white mist!

Next!

"Boom!!!"

Huang Xingzi bent his knees abruptly, and the ground beneath his feet was as if struck by an invisible giant hammer, instantly creating a deep crater, with spiderweb-like cracks spreading wildly!

Using this terrifying recoil force, its incredibly heavy body transformed into a black lightning bolt that tore through the night sky, carrying immense and unstoppable kinetic energy, soaring into the sky and heading straight for Li Xueqing, who was suspended in mid-air!
At the same time, the greatsword Qian Shan Lin, which had no edge or blade but contained immense power, was swung around in a wide arc, bringing with it the terrifying force to crush mountains, and slashed down at Li Xueqing!
"call!!!"

The greatsword was swung, and the resulting gust of wind formed a violent vortex that was visible to the naked eye!

A sharp whistling sound pierced the eardrums! With just a gust of sword wind, several withered trees in the distance were cut in half!
Shi Danqin, who was not far away, witnessed the power of this sword and was horrified:

"Such power... is only attainable by those at the peak of the third rank!"

"Run! The aftershocks could kill us!"

He endured the excruciating pain, struggled to his feet, and staggered away like a frightened bird.

The garrison general also regained full consciousness, and dragged his unconscious colleague up as they ran for their lives!

Faced with this towering, unstoppable torrent of steel, Li Xueqing unleashed her palm strike, which she had been gathering for a long time!

"call--!"

A foul wind, carrying condensed, almost tangible, azure poisonous energy, slammed down on Huang Xingzi like a giant, churning poisonous cloud!

The war puppet, Huang Xingzi, neither dodged nor evaded, nor even adopted the slightest defensive stance!
It merely adjusted the trajectory of the giant sword it was swinging slightly, and the massive, stone-like blade of the Thousand Mountains, carrying the power to split the heavens and the earth, fiercely met the Poisonous Palm Print!
"boom!!!"

A deafening roar exploded in the night sky! A shockwave, visible to the naked eye, spread out in a ring!

The cyan poisonous palm print shattered instantly under the absolute power of Qian Shanlin, like fragile glass!

It transformed into a wisp of azure air, emitting a hissing corrosive sound, leaving wisps of pungent azure smoke on the surface of the giant sword, yet it could not harm it in the slightest!

The violent charge of the War Puppet Wilderness was abruptly interrupted by the recoil, and its massive body froze in mid-air for a moment.

Li Xueqing's heart sank completely, and her face turned extremely pale.

"As expected... immune to all poisons!"

"What I hate most is people like you!"

Her words were filled with resentment and bitterness stemming from being restrained and humiliated.

She originally thought Liang Jin was one of a kind, but she never expected that this cold, mechanical creation would be the natural nemesis of her poison skills!
"Keep some distance first!"

Li Xueqing made a quick decision, lightly tapping her feet and gracefully retreating like a ghost, attempting to use her extraordinary lightness skill to maneuver around the enemy.

However, would Huang Xingzi give her another chance?

Beneath its bronze-copper armor, two dark red lights suddenly surged, like boiling molten lava!
Immediately afterwards, a deep, strange, terrifying sound wave, as if it were a mixture of countless metal frictions and the painful wails of thousands of people, suddenly burst out from the depths of its chest!

A soul-destroying howl!
An invisible wave of sound swept in all directions like a tsunami!

Caught off guard, Xie Wuwei felt as if his head had been struck by a heavy hammer. His vision went black, his ears rang, and he painfully covered his ears!

Those officers who hadn't escaped far far far far fared even worse!
The sound waves struck their bodies, and they were crushed as if by an invisible force. Their seven orifices burst open instantly, blood gushed out, and they collapsed to the ground without uttering a sound, their fate unknown!

Li Xueqing, who was the first to be hit, was a third-rank expert. Her body stiffened abruptly under the terrifying sonic wave impact that struck her soul and shook her internal organs!
It was as if they were bound by invisible shackles, their thinking sluggish and their movements stiff.

The fatal flaw was exposed in that instant!
This is the opportunity that War Puppet Arakawa created!

Its left arm suddenly swung!
"Boom!!!"

The bone-corroded wheel, covered in serrated fangs, was violently hurled at Li Xueqing, who was frozen in place, as if it were a meteorite!

The bone-corroding wheel was too heavy, and when it spun at high speed, it emitted a dull and terrifying sound that tore through the air, creating a visible gray-white vortex!
The sharp teeth on the rim gleamed with a deathly cold light under the moonlight, aiming straight for Li Xueqing's vitals!
Li Xueqing had just regained a sliver of clarity from the dizziness of the sound waves when the menacing wheel of death was already upon her! The biting cold instantly froze her blood!
"Damn it!"

A warning screamed in her mind, and the instinct for survival overwhelmed everything.

Suddenly, she twisted her body, unleashing the "Centenary Immortal of the Earth" movement technique to its fullest extent.

Like a startled centipede, he left a blurry afterimage in the air, narrowly avoiding the Bone Erosion Wheel's true form!

However, just as she thought she had escaped death—

"Crash!!!"

A sickening metallic scraping sound suddenly rang out!
At the center of the spinning bone-corroding wheel, nine thick, dark iron chains, each as thick as a child's arm and covered with jagged barbs, shot out like nine venomous pythons emerging from the abyss of hell!

They weren't in straight lines, but rather with strange curves and tricky angles, instantly blocking all of Li Xueqing's space to dodge, and with a ferocious aura that seemed to tear everything apart, they wrapped around and strangled her entire body!

Corpse Dance!
"What the hell are you?!"

Li Xueqing was terrified and screamed in utter horror.

This monster is not only incredibly strong, immune to poison, and capable of emitting terrifying sonic waves, but even its weapons are insidious and bizarre.

There was no way to avoid it! A hint of madness flashed in Li Xueqing's eyes as she unleashed both palms.

"His!"

A surge of powerful azure internal energy erupted, instantly coalescing into a gigantic, ferocious azure venomous spider phantom before her. The Azure Spider Entangling Hand technique reappeared!
Countless viscous, tough, and shimmering with poisonous light, blue internal energy spider silk shot out like a net, heading towards the nine wildly dancing deadly iron chains, attempting to entangle and corrode them!

however--

"Qiang! Qiang! Qiang!"

Nine barbed iron chains, carrying terrifying inertia and rotating cutting force, lashed fiercely at the blue spider web like nine raging steel whips!

Those tough, poisonous threads that were strong enough to trap ordinary masters were easily torn and snapped like fragile silk threads in the face of absolute power and sharp barbs!
The heavy Bone-Eroding Wheel itself, with undiminished momentum, crashed into the cyan poisonous spider phantom with an aura of crushing everything!
"Oh!"

With a muffled thud, the illusory image of the poisonous spider shattered, transforming into countless firefly-like blue specks of light that vanished into the night sky!
Li Xueqing was shaken by the backlash, her blood and qi surged, her body staggered backward, her face was as pale as paper, and her eyes were filled with disbelief, horror and deep frustration!
restraint!

Complete restraint!

This monster was not only immune to her poison, but its powerful and fierce attacks completely suppressed her skillful, grappling, and soft-to-hard martial arts techniques!

A long-forgotten feeling called "powerlessness" began to spread in her heart like a cold tide.

The last time she felt this way was when she was facing Liang Jin.

What horrified her even more was—

Suddenly, she felt waves of excruciating itching and burning pain on her exposed cheeks and the backs of her hands.

Looking down, I saw that several patches of skin had begun to turn a strange bluish-black color and were quickly festering and oozing pus!
"Corpse poison?!"

Li Xueqing instantly realized that the nine iron chains could emit such a strong and domineering corpse poison when they swung!
She, a grandmaster of poison, was actually ambushed by her opponent's poison?!
This is incredibly ironic!
"mean!"

She cursed angrily, but dared not be negligent in the slightest.

fortunately.

Li Xueqing is an expert in using poisons, and naturally also a master at detoxification.

She quickly figured out the nature of the poison she had been given and immediately took some antidote to suppress the toxicity.

Despite the intense itching and humiliation, she quickly pulled out several porcelain bottles from her bosom, poured out a number of pills of different colors, and put them into her mouth while simultaneously using her internal energy to suppress the toxins.

However, she had just finished doing all this, and before she even had a chance to catch her breath—

"Boom!!!"

Huang Xingzi's heavy body, like a meteorite falling from the sky, with a suffocating sense of oppression, rushed in front of her!

The two dark red lights on the bronze-copper armor were so close, coldly reflecting off her horrified face!

With nowhere to dodge, Li Xueqing's eyes flashed with fierce light. She gathered all her strength in her palms and, with a resolute determination to destroy everything, fiercely struck Huang Xingzi's chest covered with scars!

"boom!!!"

Both palms were firmly imprinted on the battle-scarred armor!

A violent surge of cyan internal energy rushed in!
But at the very moment the palm strike erupted, Li Xueqing's heart sank!
Because she sensed that the other party... didn't seem to have the slightest intention of deflecting or blocking!
It withstood those two palms that were powerful enough to split stone!

This was completely different from what she had expected.

Something's not right...something must be going on!

really!

The next moment, a sudden change occurred!

"Click! Click! Click! Click!!!"

A series of dense and ear-piercing metallic scraping sounds erupted from the War Puppet Araki!
Its battered armor, scarred from countless battles, seemed to come alive, instantly standing upright, flipping, and springing out!

Each plate had an incredibly sharp edge, covered with sharp, reverse-bladed barbs!

Prison of bones!
This reverse-blade caltrop sphere not only perfectly absorbed the terrifying power of Li Xueqing's palm strikes, but also, in an instant, violently rebounded and exploded this power, along with the sphere's own kinetic energy, ten or even a hundred times more!
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!!!"

Countless reverse-bladed iron caltrops, centered on the war puppet Huang Xingzi, were indiscriminately and wildly scattering in all directions at a speed exceeding that of crossbow bolts!

Within a radius of five zhang, it instantly transformed into an absolute forbidden zone filled with death screams!
Li Xueqing was too close!

So close that her pupils could only reflect the metal storm that exploded in an instant, composed of countless death spikes!
Protective Qi?

At such close range, with such ferocious power, and with such dense barrage, it was as thin as a cicada's wing!
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!!!"

A series of throbbing, blood-piercing, tearing sounds erupted from the ground!

Li Xueqing's body was like a tattered rag doll in a storm, brutally pierced by countless terrifying torrents of metal!

Her arms, shoulders, chest, abdomen, legs... instantly exploded with dozens or even hundreds of bloody holes!
Warm blood mixed with torn flesh gushed out like a fountain!

Her plain white mourning clothes were completely stained with a glaring scarlet in a fraction of a second!
"Ughh ...

An indescribable, soul-tearing pain instantly overwhelmed Li Xueqing's consciousness like a tsunami!

She let out a bloodcurdling scream that was so shrill it was inhuman, and her body was thrown backward by the enormous impact, like a tattered blood bag!
However, the torture did not end!

Just as Li Xueqing was riddled with bullets and in excruciating pain, a low and eerie buzzing sound emanated from inside the body of the war puppet Huang Xingzi!

An incredibly powerful suction force suddenly erupted from Huang Xingzi!

The reverse-bladed iron caltrops that had pierced the ground, trees, and even deeply embedded themselves in Li Xueqing's flesh and bones seemed to be summoned by an invisible magnet, instantly ceasing their trembling, and then—

"Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!!!"

Like a thousand birds returning to their nest!

All the reverse-bladed caltrops, no matter how deep or far they were shot, turned into deadly streaks of light and flew back!

They flew precisely toward the Wildwalker, and during their flight, their form rapidly changed, transforming from sharp caltrops back into thick plates of armor!
The iron caltrops deeply embedded in Li Xueqing's body were forcibly pulled out by this terrifying suction force!

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!!!"

Each time the barbed wire was removed from the body, it was accompanied by a muffled thud as flesh was forcibly torn apart and a spurt of blood!
The barbs on the barbed wire are like countless miniature hooks, cruelly tearing off large chunks of flesh, skin, and even bone fragments, the moment they leave the body!
This is tantamount to a living, breathing form of torture, a thousand cuts!
And this happened after she had already suffered a severe injury!
"what--!!!"

Li Xueqing's screams were no longer melodious, only a wild, desperate howl remained.

The extreme pain was like countless red-hot steel needles, repeatedly piercing every nerve in her body!
Her consciousness struggled wildly amidst the boundless pain and dizziness from blood loss, almost succumbing to complete oblivion.

When the last piece of caltrop, carrying a large patch of her flesh, flew back to Huang Xingzi's body and transformed back into a piece of armor covering his torso, Li Xueqing completely lost all her power.

She fell from mid-air like a boneless rag doll, limp and dripping with blood, crashing heavily into a pool of blood on the ground, splattering crimson everywhere.

Meanwhile, the War Puppet Wild Wanderer retrieved all the armor plates, and the Hundred Battle Scars Armor was instantly restored to its original state.

Without hesitation, his heavy steel body crashed down like a meteor towards the dying Li Xueqing on the ground!

Its giant sword, Thousand Mountains Rugged, was raised high!

The dark bloodstains on the sword seemed to come alive, radiating a ferocious light that devoured life!
With this sword strike, Li Xueqing will be reduced to a pool of mangled flesh, with no chance of survival!
Behind a distant mound.

Xie Wuwei clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging deep into his palms, his body trembling slightly with extreme excitement and anticipation!
His eyes gleamed with fanaticism as he stared intently at the descending giant sword—it was done!
It's almost done!

Xiong Ba's plan is right before our eyes!

nearby.

Shi Danqin and the others, who had just escaped to a relatively safe distance, also happened to witness this final scene.

Their faces were a mixture of relief at surviving the ordeal and boundless fear of the steel monster.

Li Xueqing is about to die, and the powerful enemy is about to be destroyed. This should be a cause for great joy.

But looking at that cold, powerful, and incomprehensible steel demon, an even deeper chill enveloped them—who would be this monster's next target?

In a pool of blood.

Li Xueqing's consciousness sank and floated in boundless darkness and excruciating pain.

She could feel the shadow of death looming over her, and she could hear the terrifying sound of the giant sword cutting through the air.

She didn't even have the strength to lift a finger, and could only close her eyes in despair and resentment, awaiting final and utter destruction.

The shadow of the greatsword had already enveloped her battered body!
A close call!
Just as the giant sword was about to touch even a fraction of Li Xueqing's mangled body—

“Buzz——!!!”

Between heaven and earth, it was as if an invisible string of a musical instrument had been suddenly plucked!
An indescribable, terrifying internal force, seemingly originating from the primordial era and carrying the majestic might of heaven, suddenly erupted from the dense darkness at the edge of the battlefield without warning!

This force was so vast and powerful that the entire space trembled violently!
The moonlight seemed to distort and dim in an instant!
Next!

"BOOM!!!!!"

A deafening roar, a hundred times more powerful than any of Huang Xingzi's attacks, exploded above everyone's heads like divine thunder from the heavens!

A sinister green light, whose form was indescribable and which was purely composed of destructive energy, struck the falling war puppet Huang Xingzi with perfect accuracy and force!
"clang--!!!!!"

The deafening sound of metal clashing resounded through the sky!
It was as if the gods were striking a giant bell!
The War Puppet Wildwalker's heavy, indestructible steel body was actually blasted away by this sudden, terrifying green light, like a kite with a broken string, flying backward at an even faster speed than it had come!

It tumbled through the air, snapping several large trees before crashing heavily into the ground in the distance, kicking up clouds of dust. Its fate remains unknown.

A violent blast of air swept across the entire arena, making it difficult for people to stand!
When everyone was still dizzy from this earth-shattering change, and barely managed to regain their senses, they looked again at where Li Xueqing was—

The pool of blood was now empty!

Only a blurry figure, moving faster than the limits of vision, cradling Li Xueqing like a rag doll in its arms, vanished without a trace into the boundless darkness of the night, concealed by the smoke and lingering energy ripples...

Who would have thought.

There was a master hidden in the shadows!

(End of this chapter)