Martial Arts Overlord!

"Kid, luckily I had a bad feeling when I left home and asked the hall master for the culmination of our Holy Church's technology."

"Otherwise, I might have really been defeated by a greenhorn like you today."

"However... the game ends here."

In an instant, as the angry voice of the evil spirit slowly approached, the smoke settled in the grayish-white light.

When the fine dust finally settled on the ground, the figure of the evil spirit reappeared in Lu Jin's sight!

The evil spirit was no longer the three-meter-tall monster it had been before.

He returned to his original size, but now wore a suit of completely black armor.

"Click!"

The armor wasn't metal, yet it gleamed with a cold metallic luster. Each plate was tightly fitted to the curves of his body, and intricate mechanical structures operated silently at the joints. On the chest plate was an eerie rune that Lu Jin had never seen before, radiating a dark red halo, like a slowly beating heart.

The armor covered him completely from head to toe, leaving only a pair of eyes burning with a ghostly green light.

At this moment, the demon stood there quietly, its aura far stronger than its previous monstrous form, and even the surrounding air was slightly distorted by the radiation from the armor.

Mecha.

Upon seeing this, Lu Jin raised his eyebrows slightly.

Of course he had heard of this thing. Its manufacturing process was many times more complicated than that of polymer equipment. The cost of each mech was astronomical. Ordinary people would never even have seen it, let alone own one.

Even the most basic mech can increase a martial artist's strength several times over. Below the Grandmaster level, a good mech is enough to turn the tide of a battle.

After all, once a warrior dons a mecha, he is no longer a mere mortal.

The mecha itself is a weapon and armor, a power amplifier that amplifies every bit of a warrior's power to the extreme.

He just didn't expect that the Holy Church would have something like this.

"I didn't expect your cult to have something like this."

Lu Jin withdrew his gaze, his voice as calm as if he were asking a casual question.

"What are your origins? And what is your purpose?"

"Kid, since you're so curious..."

The demon clenched its fist, the mech's knuckles making a cracking sound as they meshed, revealing only a ferocious smile on its face, which was mostly covered by the mask.

"I'm giving you one last chance! Join our Holy Church and bring this corrupt world back to life! Then you'll know everything you want!"

"otherwise---"

"die!!"

Looking at his determined expression, Lu Jin slowly smiled.

His bones and muscles crackled and popped, as if something was awakening deep within his bones.

My whole body is releasing adrenaline like crazy!

With the Bone Forging Realm at its peak, the Heavenly Dragon Bone, and all martial arts skills pushed to their limits, his attributes have increased dramatically!

He had just completed a qualitative leap and was worried about not having a target heavy enough to test his limits.

The demon in the mecha suit arrived just in time.

"I'd really like to see."

Lu Jin's voice was low, yet incredibly confident, and filled with fervor.

"Is your mech tougher, or my fist?"

"What exactly was your cult planning on the day the seven stars aligned?"

The demon's pupils suddenly contracted.

In that instant, the green light burning in his eyes flickered violently, and the killing intent in his body exploded like a powder keg that had been lit.

He didn't know where Lu Jin had learned the phrase "Seven Stars Aligned," but since he did, he couldn't let him live.

"For the Holy Church! You must die today!"

Before he finished speaking, the demon's figure had already disappeared from the spot. Two dark red flames shot out from the joints of the mecha's legs, propelling his body toward Lu Jin at a speed far exceeding human limits.

Only a black afterimage remained in the air, and the gray-white light of the Holy Realm seemed to be torn apart by his trajectory!

In a flash, he charged towards Lu Jin!

At the same time, a mournful ghostly wail emanated from the rune on the mecha's chest. The sound was sharp and piercing, like countless needles stabbing into the brain at the same time, striking the depths of the spirit.

If Lu Jin's mental strength and willpower hadn't increased several times, this single ghostly wail would have been enough to break the mind of an ordinary martial artist.

This made Lu Jin's eyes even brighter!

"Well done!"

"We can really enjoy ourselves today!"

Instead of retreating, they advanced!

He pushed the Eight Trigrams Dragon Step to its limit, and his figure disappeared from the spot. Golden dragon scales appeared layer upon layer on his right fist. He threw a punch, and a visible white shockwave exploded in the air!

Two fists!

One was covered in black mech armor, and the other was covered in golden dragon scales!

They collided violently in mid-air!

boom! ! !

A deafening explosion resounded through the sky!

Centered on the two people, the fleshy ground beneath their feet exploded into a crater more than twenty meters in diameter.

The violent shockwave swept outwards, scattering all the rubble within a radius of tens of meters, and even the gray-white sky of the Holy God Realm trembled violently from this force.

The demon was sent flying backward, its feet carving two deep furrows in the ground. It flew dozens of meters before finally managing to regain its footing.

He suddenly raised his head, the green light in his eyes beneath the mask pulsating wildly, filled with disbelief.

"How is this possible! You're at most at the Bone Forging Realm! How can you possess such terrifying power!"

Lu Jin stood still, without moving an inch.

He glanced down at the still faintly glowing golden dragon scales on his fist, then slowly closed and opened his fingers, feeling the surging residual power between them.

Then Lu Jin raised his head, looked at the evil spirit, and smiled faintly.

"The human body is amazing, isn't it?"

"The human body is inherently invincible; why should it rely on external aids?"

Upon hearing this, the demon's pupils contracted again.

escape!

The word struck his mind like a bolt of lightning.

Song Xiaolong is dead. As long as Gao Qiqiang, that pawn, is still safe and sound, his mission for today is complete.

As for Lu Jin, if he cannot handle the situation himself, he must go back and report so that the hall master can send out a more powerful person.

Given Lu Jin's demonstrated talent, they could even request the dispatch of a Grandmaster. As long as he isn't captured alive, there's always room for maneuver!

But the moment he had this thought, Lu Jin was already in front of him.

It was so fast that he didn't even have time to react.

"Can I leave now that I've told you?"

Lu Jin's voice was as cold as ice, "Let me see how strong you are after you put on this skin."

At that moment, the demon gritted its teeth and pushed the mecha's full power to its limit in an instant.

The runes on his chest burst forth with a dazzling dark red light, and dark red flames simultaneously erupted from the joints of the entire suit of armor.

The armor on his right fist cracked open, revealing a black core that was gathering energy inside. Countless black lights condensed around the core, forming hideous ghost heads, and the howling of ten thousand ghosts exploded once again!

"I think you're fucking stupid!"

The howls of the evil spirits sounded particularly mournful amidst the wailing of the ghosts!

"How can your mere mortal body compare to the technology of my Holy Church! Die!"

In the blink of an eye, his right fist, glowing with a black light that seemed to echo the wailing of ten thousand ghosts, slammed fiercely into Lu Jin's shoulder.

But Lu Jin didn't budge an inch!

boom!

A deafening roar!

The fist slammed solidly into Lu Jin's shoulder.

However, the scene that the evil spirit had envisioned—Lu Jin being sent flying by a single punch—did not occur.

His fist felt like it had smashed into a bottomless ocean; all the power was absorbed by an invisible barrier.

Lu Jin stood calmly in place, his figure not even swaying. Only a huge dragon-elephant phantom appeared behind him, covering all directions, his upper body clothes fluttering in the wind.

The dragon and elephant raised their heads and roared, and golden sound waves spread outwards, completely suppressing the ghostly wails emitted by the mecha.

"This is impossible!!!"

The demon's eyes were wide open, and its voice trembled with fear.

His full-force attack after donning the mecha failed to inflict the slightest damage on Lu Jin.

This was no longer a difference in strength; it was a terror he could not comprehend at all.

After donning the mecha, the demon was confident that he had reached the pinnacle of strength, but Lu Jin didn't even flinch when he took a punch from him.

Could it be...?

The evil spirit was filled with shock and disbelief. In just a few days, Lu Jin broke through from the Bone Forging Realm to the Extreme Realm!

"Monster! You monster!"

At this moment, the demon had only one thought in its mind!

That means escape!

Run away immediately!

We absolutely cannot let them be captured alive!

Then report Lu Jin's situation!

Lu Jin looked down at him, twisted his neck, and his joints made a crisp cracking sound.

"generally."

"Your Holy Church's technological mechs don't seem to be anything special."

"We must believe in our own strength!"

In an instant, Lu Jin reached out and his five fingers gripped the evil spirit's arm that was still pressing on its shoulder like iron clamps.

Azure Dragon Shattering Heaven Claw!

The moment the five fingers closed, the mecha armor groaned under the strain.

Cracks started at Lu Jin's fingertips and spread outwards. The mech shells that could withstand countless impacts peeled off piece by piece under his finger force, like dry, cracked soil.

Crackling sounds!

The demon's arm made a sickening, grating sound as the bones shifted inside the mech.

"ah----!"

"Lu Jin! You wait! The Holy Church will not let you go! They will not let you go!"

The screams of the demons echoed under the greyish-white sky of the Holy Realm.

"As if I would let you off the hook."

Lu Jin loosened his grip on his arm, then clenched his right fist.

World-Destroying Hurricane Fist!

Golden dragon scales exploded layer upon layer on the surface of his fist, and at the same time, the power circulation method of the True Dragon Nine Transformations was poured into his whole body!

Nine points of force are simultaneously generated on one arm, unleashing nine layers of power.

The terrifying speed of the World-Destroying Hurricane Fist, combined with the explosive power of the True Dragon Nine Transformations, transformed into countless golden fist shadows across the sky.

Not dozens of punches, but hundreds of punches that suddenly appeared.

In the blink of an eye, it filled the demon's entire field of vision, the golden afterimages like a blot out the sky.

The air howled under the tearing of these fist shadows, the gray-white sky of the Holy God Realm was stirred by the fist wind, and a huge dark red hurricane rose out of thin air behind Lu Jin!

From small to large, it transformed in the blink of an eye into a dark red tornado that stretched across the heavens and the earth!

A golden dragon could be faintly seen coiling within the tornado, and each rotation caused the entire Holy Realm to tremble violently!

The mecha on the demon's body shattered like paper under the barrage of punches, and the intricate mechanical parts were torn into flying metal fragments by Lu Jin's fist force.

Bang bang bang bang!

In an instant, the demon's body was beaten like a rag doll, staggering from the shadows of fists, with blood gushing from every wound on his body.

As the final punch landed, the demon's body plummeted from the sky and crashed into a pile of rubble.

His mech suit was almost completely shattered, with only a few charred fragments still clinging to his body.

Blood gushed from his mouth like a spring, and the faint rise and fall of his chest proved that he was still alive, but that was all.

His eyes widened, his pupils reflecting the figure that emerged from the dark red tornado.

Lu Jin withdrew his fist and shook the blood off his hands.

The tornado behind him slowly dissipated, and as the demon's consciousness fell into a coma, the surrounding space began to tremble violently!

Boom—Crack!

The surrounding scenery returned to the real world.

The cement frame of the unfinished Hengtai building, the sparse stars in the night sky, and the distant sound of police sirens.

The evil spirit lay on the cold cement ground, next to Song Xiaolong's body, which had been buried in the rubble.

Zhao Wen was the first to rush over.

They searched the area but found that Song Xiaolong had vanished into thin air and there was no trace of him.

When they tried to contact Lu Jin again, they found they couldn't reach him. By the time Zhao Wen arrived, he had already detected the fluctuations in spiritual energy and knew that Lu Jin had likely entered the Holy God Realm again. He had already notified He Yulong.

Then Zhao Wen saw this scene before him.

Lu Jin stood in the middle of the ruins, slowly wiping the blood off his fist.

Beside him, Song Xiaolong's body lay quietly among a pile of rubble.

On the other side, a man wearing a black, shattered mech was lying in a pool of blood, barely breathing and with blood still gushing from his mouth.

Zhao Wen's Adam's apple bobbed up and down several times.

He looked at Lu Jin, his voice filled with a bewildered shock that left him speechless: "Junior brother, you've broken through again?"

"By sheer luck."

Lu Jin remained completely calm. "This mecha is not bad. I didn't expect a cult to have something like this."

hiss!

Upon hearing this, Zhao Wen gasped sharply!

"You were lucky enough to have junior brother smash a mech?" Zhao Wen had also heard of mechs and had even had the honor of seeing one.

He had seen it once when he went to the provincial capital's martial arts school for an exchange and study. The provincial capital's martial arts school only had one such mecha.

"Junior brother, you've reached your peak?"

"Not yet." Lu Jin shook his head.

Now Zhao Wen was even more bewildered. He hadn't even reached the extreme level yet, and he had already managed to crush the cult members wearing mechs.

This is even more shocking.

"Notify Mayor Han, Director Jiang, and Master. The evidence is conclusive that Gao Qiqiang's family is colluding with a cult. Take them into custody first."

Lu Jin clapped his hands and snorted coldly.

"What kind of class do they have that they think they're worthy of me associating with them?"

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