Scourge Messenger

Chapter 276 Seven Stars of Flame Pattern Annihilation
"Seven Stars of Flame Annihilation (Asura)"

"Rank: Third-tier Rare"

"Durability: 80/150"

"Equipment requirements: 25 points of health, 15 points of spirit"

"Equipment Requirements: Kill Points exceeding 200, exclusive to Yan Shiyi"

Base attack power: 33~55 points of cutting damage + 10 points of fire damage

"Effect - Seven Stars: The Seven Star Sword's attacks will leave sword marks. When seven sword marks accumulate, they will immediately explode. Each sword mark will cause 30 points of cutting wounds and the sword marks will last for seven seconds."

"Effect - Radiance: When Radiance is activated, the Seven Star Sword Marks will no longer explode or fade, but will remain on the enemy, leaving two sword marks with each attack. For every 2 seconds that Radiance lasts, the sword mark damage increases by 5 points. Radiance lasts for a maximum of 10 seconds, and maintaining Radiance consumes 20 points of spirit power per second. The cooldown is 5 seconds. When this effect is activated, the Flame Pattern Seven Star Annihilation can penetrate most defensive barriers."

"Evaluation: Your death star is shining brightly."

Having fought so many battles and killed so many people along the way, most of whom were not red-name messengers, 'Yan Shiyi's' blood-red killing value naturally exceeded 200 points, and he also completed the 'blood-red asura' milestone.

Just as Yan Qing had guessed, after reaching the 'Crimson Asura' milestone, the system popped up a message asking him whether to use the Crimson Slaughter Points to strengthen the Asura Token. Every 100 Slaughter Points could be used to strengthen it once, with three options to choose from. However, the Asura Token would be bound to the character, just like a locked public bicycle, and no one else could use it. Yan Qing naturally gave the Seven Star Sword to 'Yan Eleven' to bind, and even if the Bingzi Pepper Forest was bound, it could only be bound to him.

The options for the first enhancement are: "Shining Sword Mark reduces enemy healing effect by 70% and sword mark damage by 60%", "When Shining is activated, the attack still deals damage", and "Shining Sword Mark reduces enemy movement speed by 25% and spirit power consumption by 50%".

No wonder the Shura Relics we found along the way seemed relatively weak. It turns out that the stronger the enhancement, the greater the nerf. It's practically sacrificing PVE for a PVP advantage. Yan Qing naturally chose "When activating Shining, the attack still deals damage." He only needed to penetrate; reducing healing and movement speed was unnecessary. Local Muggles don't use potions in fights and are slow anyway.

For his second upgrade, Yan Qing chose to enhance the token to a third-tier rare level, but the cost was that the lower limit of base attack power remained unchanged, only the upper limit of attack power was increased. Looking at it this way, the Asura route is quite interesting. As long as you kill enough people, you can upgrade the token all the way up, which feels like raising a wife—in fact, according to Yan Qing's observation, many Demon Path Messengers do treat their tokens as wives.

'Yan Shiyi' was able to kill his way from Tombstone Army Town to Nightless City without even blinking an eye. The actual damage was secondary; the Flame Pattern Seven Star Annihilation was the real key to his success. The Asura Token's advantage in penetrating defensive barriers was too great in terms of killing.

But this time, he returned empty-handed.

The blade pierced through the armor of the Hundred Guards, but it didn't cut off his head, only making a small incision. Instead, 'Yan Shiyi's' right arm split open and bled profusely, and his health bar in the lower left corner dropped by a third.

Although she had expected it, Yan Qing was still shocked to see this scene.

Back in the Pingcheng Secret Realm, Yan Qing had vaguely realized that since the counter-damage of the Hundred Guards would stack in a chain, wouldn't the more they numbered, the more terrifying the stacking damage would become? Eight Hundred Guards had already crippled Yan Qing's hands, and now with eight hundred Hundred Guards, if 'Yan Eleven' were to die from counter-damage after just one strike, Yan Qing wouldn't be too surprised.

The good news is that the counter-damage chain should have a limit, at most taking away 30% of 'Yan Shiyi's' health in one hit. This is really good news, because Yan Qing can use potions to heal, and as long as the attack frequency is controlled, 'Yan Shiyi' can definitely go toe-to-toe with Bai Bao's guards. The bad news is that the counter-damage doesn't chain, but there seem to be other chain buffs.

When the Flame Pattern Seven Star Annihilation is activated, it can penetrate defensive barriers. Therefore, what blocked the blade was definitely not a defensive token, but the physical defense of the Hundred Guards themselves. This sword strike must have dealt more than 50 damage, but it only managed to cut a tiny bit into the neck. This means that unless Yan Qing takes out the Bingzi Pepper Forest and activates Overturning Heaven, he will need at least four or five strikes to have any chance of killing an enemy.

However, the next second, the Momoko guard in front of him would rush away, and a new Momoko would surround him again, giving him no chance to unleash four sword strikes in a row.

"Team Three, fill in."

"Sixth team, turn left."

Momobu Konoe showed no disrespect for the numerical advantage, operating with the cold indifference of a machine, strictly adhering to tactical regulations, treating him as if he were an entire army! As for chaos, that was out of the question. Momobu Konoe was like a swarm of bees with a shared will, showing no hesitation even in the torrential rain, rising and falling like waves, moving in unison with a single move!
"He lost."

"His Majesty's Imperial Guards are indeed the strongest army in the world, even surpassing the Vajra Divine Army of the former General Chongtian."

“That ignorant madman dared to challenge His Majesty, but he couldn’t even get close to him.”

"Pity……"

Seeing that the Hyakubo Guards had completely surrounded the 'Yaksha', even though they couldn't see what was happening inside, the Qi generals watching knew that the 'Yaksha' was already a trapped beast, and no matter how fierce or ferocious it was, it would only be bled out step by step.

Even with boundless spiritual power, it's useless. The tokens have limited durability. The Hundred Guards are no ordinary army. They can maintain this level of focus for three days and three nights, gradually destroying all the tokens on 'Yaksha's' body!
'Yaksha' is a madman, but Momobu Konoe is even madman, and His Majesty... is the king of madmen!

Some felt relieved, some sneered, some sighed, but everyone thought it was over and everyone was considering how to report to His Majesty next.

The only exception is that it should be so.

She stood atop the imperial chariot, her gaze piercing through the rain, fixed on the surging black waves ahead. These black waves had swallowed the soldiers of Zhou and Liang, His Majesty's most prized weapon, never having missed its mark since its unsheathing. But Ying Rushi believed… this would be their only defeat!
There was no basis for it, but that's how she believed it, and she was willing to believe it!
Yellow dog, you wouldn't fall here, would you! You haven't even seen His Majesty... or Ying Le yet!

As if in response to her expectations, the formation of the Hyakubo Imperial Guard faltered, and some men fell from their horses. Just when everyone thought it was an accident, more and more Hyakubo Imperial Guards fell from their horses, like a small boat braving the waves in a turbulent whirlpool, heading straight for the imperial carriage!

"He's killing a horse!"

Seeing the heavily armored warhorses lying on the ground, the Qi general suddenly realized the truth. While the Hundred Guards were invincible below the Foundation Establishment stage, their horses were not! The 'Yaksha' didn't need to kill them; simply killing their horses would break the battle formation!
Three hundred steps!
The 'Yaksha' was still three hundred paces away from Ying Le's chariot!

(End of this chapter)