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Chapter 197, Chapter 212: The Calamity of Slaughter! A Day of Lamentation for the Demons!

Lu Chen fought too wildly and recklessly.

The sword wind force field covered a seven-zhang space, and the sword energy was expended almost without restraint. The "splitting light and turning shadow" movement technique, in which one person surrounded multiple people, was also a major energy consumer. But if he didn't fight like this, he wouldn't have been able to trap Chao Gongcuo, Zhao Deyan, Xi Ying, Pi Chen, and the four evil disciples who were combined into one by himself.

Therefore, Zhao Deyan and the others did not miscalculate.

Even if Lu Chen had achieved minor success in the "Blood Hand Miracle Skill" and gained two "small dantian" in his hands that could accumulate true energy, and even if he could borrow the enemy's true energy and turn it into his own sword energy, there was still a limit to this "borrowing energy to counterattack".

Lu Chen couldn't sustain this kind of squandering of his true energy for long.

But it doesn't matter.

He has plenty of means.

When the true energy was about to be exhausted, the first sacrifice appeared.

You Niaojuan was originally seriously injured, but after "merging" with his three fellow disciples, including Zhou Laotan, his condition improved. When he noticed that the sword energy crisscrossing around him was beginning to decrease, You Niaojuan's eyes lit up, and he chuckled strangely:
"This kid can't hold on any longer!"

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Chen in front of him pointed at him with a strange light in his eyes.

This finger did not unleash any sword energy.

Only a strange aura burst forth from his fingertips.

This energy was impossible to dodge or resist; once it struck, it would hit. You Niaojuan felt as if a cool breeze had blown across his dantian. His originally abundant true energy vanished in an instant, like snow being poured over boiling water!

It is the active skill of "Killing Calamity Qi" accumulated from "Sword Five. Calamity Sword" that cuts away true qi!

The calamity energy harvested from the carnage, each time refined, not only simultaneously increases the cultivation of the sword body, true qi, and heart sword, but also accumulates a trace of calamity energy.

This killing energy can be actively unleashed to remove a portion of the enemy's true energy out of thin air.

The more killing energy you consume, the more true energy you can remove from the enemy.

Lu Chen had killed countless people on the battlefield, and the calamity energy he had harvested was so dense that it almost formed a net that enveloped his entire body. He had now refined it almost completely and accumulated a considerable amount of calamity energy.

At this moment, having exhausted half of his killing intent, he pointed his sword at You Niaojuan and instantly reduced his true energy by a full ninety percent!

The reason for choosing You Niaojuan was that the combined skill of the four evil disciples was truly impressive. The four of them had their energy linked together, like a monster with four heads and eight arms, able to cover all directions, almost without any flaws. Their combat power was even greater than that of Zhao Deyan and Xi Ying.

Therefore, it is natural to break the combined technique of the Four Evil Disciples before exhausting one's true energy.

now.

Lu Chen pointed a finger, and You Niaojuan's true energy dissipated by ninety percent out of thin air. The four people's combined technique collapsed without a fight, and their momentum plummeted instantly.

The bird, its spirit broken and its soul scattered, saw Lu Chen once again form his palms into a sword and slash horizontally. It let out a strange cry:
"help me!"

Old Zhou sighed, and the three of them also wanted to save them.

However, since the combined technique had been broken, the energy that had originally connected the four people had been severed. Old Zhou sighed that the three of them were a beat too slow to react, so how could they have time to come to the rescue?
puff!
With a muffled thud, Lu Chen swept his sword, severing You Niaojuan's arm at the elbow as he raised it to block.

As the severed arm flew through the air, the sword, stained with blood, swept across You Niaojuan's neck with a swift, bloody light. Despite changing his movements several times, he was still trapped under Lu Chen's aura and had nowhere to hide. With a snap, his head flew high into the air.

kill!

Taking advantage of Lu Chen's exhaustion during the beheading of You Niao, Old Zhou let out a fierce roar and his bare hand, as big as a millstone, came crashing down on Lu Chen. Ding Jiuzhong also snorted coldly, and his large iron shears suddenly opened, slashing fiercely at Lu Chen's neck.

Lu Chen raised his left arm and placed it under Ding Jiuzhong's giant scissors, letting him twist and cut it. His right hand formed a sword finger and thrust out a sword towards Zhou Laotan's bare palm.

As the sword was drawn, an illusory sword cry rang out.

The sword's cry resonated in his mind, and Old Zhou's consciousness wavered for a moment. A bright white light flashed in his eyes, and he was instantly blinded. His palm strikes involuntarily slowed down, and his strength failed to reach its peak.

At that moment, Lu Chen pointed his sword and pierced Zhou Laotan's palm.

The sword energy, as thin as a hair, shot out from the fingertips, easily breaking through Zhou Laotan's palm force, penetrating his meridians, destroying Zhou Laotan's arm meridians section by section like a devastating blow, and heading straight for his heart meridian!

Without hesitation, Old Zhou grabbed his shoulder with his left hand and tore his right arm off at the shoulder, thus avoiding the calamity of the sword energy piercing his heart.

But that didn't work.

Lu Chen raised an eyebrow, and a sword aura shot out from the corner of his eyebrow, slicing off Zhou Laotan's head with a hiss.

In the blink of an eye, Ding Jiuzhong's giant scissors snipped at Lu Chen's raised left arm, twisting it with a sharp clang and tearing off Lu Chen's sleeve, even leaving a faint white mark on his arm!
Lu Chen glanced at Ding Jiuzhong:
"Not bad. To actually leave a white mark on my arm, you truly live up to Emperor Ding's reputation!"

"..."

Ding Jiuzhong couldn't quite tell if it was sarcasm or praise; he only knew one thing:

escape!
Run away quickly!
Ding Jiuzhong retreated rapidly.

Jin Huanzhen let out a shrill, ghost-like cry and lunged at Lu Chen.

On the surface, she and Zhou Laotan were wary of each other and plotted against each other, but in secret they had long been married and had a deep affection for each other. When she saw Zhou Laotan with his head separated from his body, how could she restrain herself?
While emitting a shrill, ghostly wail, he unleashed a furious attack on Lu Chen with both palms.

The whistling sound reached Lu Chen's ears, and he found it noisy, causing him to frown slightly.

"It's noisy."

He ignored Jin Huanzhen's two palms, used his crown to receive her left palm, and his chest to withstand her right palm. He then swung his sword horizontally and slashed at Jin Huanzhen's neck.

Bang!
Amidst the deafening explosion, Jin Huanzhen was struck by both palms, but Lu Chen didn't even flinch. With a blank expression, he swung his palm sword and severed Jin Huanzhen's head.

After sending Jin Huanzhen and Zhou Laotan became a pair of lovebirds destined for the same fate.

Lu Chen suddenly turned around, his figure flashed, and he caught up with Ding Jiuzhong, who was flying backwards and facing him. He gathered his last bit of true energy on his sword finger, condensing it into a sword rainbow like lightning, and thrust it out at Ding Jiuzhong.

When this sword was drawn.

Ding Jiuzhong felt as if the space around him was collapsing madly, as if an infinite force was squeezing him from all directions, forcing him to catch his breath, stiffen his body, and even pause involuntarily as he flew backward.

In the face of life and death, Ding Jiuzhong's true energy exploded, and a violent wave of energy surged out from his body, causing his robes to swell and his beard and hair to fly wildly.

After briefly breaking free from the "spatial collapse" sensation—whether it was a hallucination or a physical sensation—Ding Jiuzhong swung his iron shears, aiming to sever two of Lu Chen's fingers as he met Lu Chen's sword-like fingers.

however.

When the sword finger collided with the iron shears, the large iron shears, which were infused with true strength and could even cut iron plates like paper, crumbled instantly under Lu Chen's sword finger.

As the iron fragments flew, Lu Chen's sword finger did not stop, flashing like lightning, and struck Ding Jiuzhong squarely in the chest with a "thud".

Ding Jiuzhong was shocked. His skin and flesh were not broken, but his heart had exploded into pieces.

The four evil disciples are now completely wiped out!
When Lu Chen killed the four disciples of the Evil Sect, Zhao Deyan and the other three did not come to their aid. However, this was not because they were upholding the traditions of the Demonic Sect. In fact, they themselves were also under the influence of the sword wind force field and were being attacked by Lu Chen, who seemed to be "omnipresent"!

Until Ding Jiuzhong died.

Zhao Deyan, Xi Ying, Pi Chen, and Chao Gongcuo only then realized that Lu Chen, who had been fighting them just moments before, had vanished.

The dense, fine sword energy surrounding them, as well as the invisible force field that enveloped them and interfered with their movements, techniques, and even their sense of qi with various vortex-like undercurrents, also dissipated!
This discovery initially surprised Zhao Deyan and the others, but they were overjoyed at first.

"He's exhausted his true energy!"

Chao Gongcuo laughed heartily, feeling that he had finally made it to the dawn. Overwhelmed with joy, his eyes welled up with tears, and he almost cried with happiness!

Since the start of the war, the sixth-ranked expert of the Demonic Sect, known as "Demon Daoist" Pi Chen, who had a low profile but considerable strength, didn't hesitate. His longsword transformed into a strange sword light and flew towards Lu Chen.

Looking at this sword strike, determined to kill.

Lu Chen raised his hand and pointed lightly at Bi Chen, saying leisurely:

"Speaking of which, do you still remember why you came to deal with me?" As he spoke, the remaining half of the killing intent poured out, sweeping over Bi Chen.

The killing intent that had been building up for so long was thus exhausted.

Of course, the "killing tribulation energy" is just like true energy. Once you reach a certain level, even if it is temporarily exhausted, you can recover it by cultivating the "tribulation sword" mental technique. It is not necessary to refine new tribulation energy to replenish it.

Refining the new Calamity Qi increases the upper limit of the total amount of Calamity Qi.

By this point in the battle, Lu Chen's true energy and killing intent had been completely exhausted.

But it doesn't matter.

He still has other tricks up his sleeve.

As the killing intent swept across.

Pi Chen felt a coolness in his dantian, as if a cool breeze had blown by. His true energy quickly dissipated, and in the blink of an eye, more than 80% of it was gone!
The sharp and eerie sword light dimmed instantly, its power reduced by ninety percent.

Lu Chen remained calm and composed. With a casual flick of his index and middle fingers, he caught the tip of Bi Chen's longsword, whose power had become negligible. With a gentle twist, the tip snapped off with a clang. With another flick of his finger, the tip shot out and pierced Bi Chen's throat with a soft thud.

Although his true energy was exhausted, he still possessed the finger strength to turn copper into mud. With such finger strength, the sword tip could easily pierce through stone and gold.

But Bichen's mind only suddenly cleared up when he died:
Yes, didn't we come to besiege him because of the Holy Emperor's Relic?

Wasn't the plan to capture him alive and torture him?

How did a fight break out like this...?

Did they unknowingly forget their original purpose and only want to kill him?

Unfortunately, this moment of lucidity before death could not undo anything. Filled with doubt, Pi Chen fell backward to the ground, his legs twitched slightly, and he breathed his last.

Seeing that Lu Chen had exhausted his true energy, Chao Gongcuo, Zhao Deyan, and Xi Ying, who were about to rush up and kill him, stopped in their tracks, their eyes filled with shock and horror.

They couldn't figure it out.

Why did Lu Chen, with just a flick of his finger, cause Bi Chen to suddenly lose power and his swordsmanship to plummet, making him as easy as a chicken to be slaughtered by Lu Chen?

Didn't the guy surnamed Lu already exhaust his true energy?

Even if he still possessed innate divine strength, and even if his indestructible body still retained some hardness, it wouldn't be enough to kill Bichen so easily!

This is a bizarre method of killing.

This caused Zhao Deyan, Xi Ying, and Chao Gongcuo, who were already confident of victory, to feel uneasy and even develop a great fear of the unknown.

"do not be afraid."

Lu Chen sensed the fluctuations in their emotions, his Heart Sword vibrated slightly, emitting wisps of spiritual energy, and he murmured:
"I've exhausted my true energy. I can't use sword energy, force fields, movement techniques... you're all so close to defeating me, just a tiny bit more... just a tiny bit more..."

He raised his right hand and made a "just a little bit" gesture:

"You will be able to defeat me!"

His words seemed to possess a certain magic.

The fear in Zhao Deyan, Xi Ying, and Chao Gongcuo vanished instantly, replaced by a strange sense of determination and confidence.

boom!
A surge of energy erupted as Zhao Deyan took the lead, unleashing his "Eighteen Claws of Returning Soul" with a frenzied sweep. As the claws struck, two ever-changing diamond spears shot out from his sleeves, striking Lu Chen's throat and dantian like black snakes.

Xi Ying released strands of energy from his ten fingers, binding Lu Chen's body like a large net, rendering him unable to move.

Chao Gongcuo circled behind Lu Chen, leaped up, clasped his fists together, raised them high above his head, and slammed them down. A solid column of energy erupted from between his fists, like an invisible giant hammer, and slammed into Lu Chen's crown chakra.

If they don't take the initiative to attack, Lu Chen will find it really difficult to deal with them.

Having exhausted his true energy, he could no longer use his sword energy from a distance, and his movement techniques were no longer nimble. He could only run and jump with brute force, and he couldn't perform any fancy moves or flashes.

Given the martial arts skills of Zhao Deyan and the other two, if they were determined to escape and used their full movement techniques, Lu Chen probably wouldn't be able to catch any of them.

and so……

This situation is exactly what Lu Chen wanted!

boom!
Lu Chen stomped his foot on the ground, and his right boot shattered with a loud crack, causing the ground to shake violently and sending mud and rocks flying.

As the sword unleashed its immense power, the wisps of energy binding him snapped one by one. Xi Ying shuddered, his ten fingers throbbing with pain, and his face was filled with horror.

"Is this a human being?"

The breaking of the hairpin's energy was merely a side effect.

The immense force that shatters even shoes when the soles of the feet slam into the ground surges upwards, gathering in the shoulders and arms, and solidifying in the fingers and palms.

Lu Chen's figure shot out like a cannonball, pushing aside layers of air waves and whistling like a whistling wind. As he dodged Chao Gongcuo's hammer-like fist, his palm sword pierced out with a mysterious sword cry that shook the mind and drew a bright white rainbow shadow like lightning in the air.

Rainbow Shadow easily deflected the two ever-changing diamond spears, then pierced through Zhao Deyan's claws with overwhelming force. Finally, under Zhao Deyan's incredulous and astonished gaze, it pierced through Zhao Deyan's protective true energy as easily as piercing thin paper, and stabbed into his chest, shattering his heart!

Demon General Zhao Deyan is dead!

Boom!

Chao Gongcuo's missed punch created a crater several feet deep in the ground.

As mud and rocks flew, a violent surge of energy crashed into Lu Chen like a tidal wave.

Lu Chen simply used the momentum to propel himself forward, his feet leaving afterimages as he stepped, each step causing a loud bang and a burst of mud to erupt from the ground.

Such footwork, while possessing the speed of a straight sprint, lacks the agility for turning and twisting, making it difficult to catch up with a skilled master of light-body techniques.

However, Lu Chen, having borrowed the residual force of Chao Gongcuo's punch, exploded with great power and moved incredibly fast. Before Xi Ying could react and use his movement technique to dodge, Lu Chen had already launched a fierce attack on Xi Ying in an instant.

Xi Ying was shocked. With a tremor of his hands, he wove layers of true energy into a net that blocked his way, while simultaneously trying to shift and dodge.

But Lu Chen blinked, and a lightning-like glint appeared in his eyes. Xi Ying suddenly felt a void in his heart, as if he had lost some emotion. He became disheartened, and his body, which was about to dodge, slowed down.

He had just sensed something was wrong, but before he could regain his composure, Lu Chen had already drawn his sword.

The palm sword, which was clearly devoid of any true energy, was like a divine sword that flew from the sky. In one strike, it pierced through the net of energy that was most adept at using softness to overcome hardness, and violently stabbed into Xi Ying's throat.

puff!
Blood splattered, and Xi Ying's head flew off, his eyes filled with astonishment and resentment.

call……

The wind howled behind us as we went further and further away.

Lu Chen looked back and saw Chao Gongcuo moving as fast as lightning, rushing into the forest without looking back.

He originally intended to give chase, as Dugu Feng and the others were about to finish their battle. If he could just stall for a bit and wait for them to catch up, Chao Gongcuo would have nowhere to escape.

but……

The "Sword Five Imprint" trembled slightly, giving Lu Chen a very mysterious premonition.

He narrowed his eyes, watching Chao Gongcuo's figure disappear into the forest, a strange smile playing on his lips.

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