Chapter 694 213: The Terrifying Might of the National Preceptor's Golden Arrow

A fierce whistling sound cut through the air as the Marquis of Ren De swung his long spear in a horizontal slash, clashing with Shen Bai's Cold Moon.

"I spent half a lifetime of painstaking effort Casting this armor. How could you possibly break through it?"

The Marquis of Ren De sneered.

As he spoke, the two exchanged hundreds more blows.

The longer the Marquis of Ren De fought Shen Bai, the more astounded he became.

He had long heard of Shen Bai's famous ability of Overcoming Adversity and Attacking Upward, but he never expected it to be this absurd.

Legends in the Jianghu were always prone to exaggeration. But faced with Shen Bai now, the Marquis of Ren De felt that the tales weren't exaggerated at all—in fact, they had severely understated his prowess.

He had not only gathered the Power of the Battle Array but had even used the Blood Sacrifice Training Method, yet he still couldn't take Shen Bai down.

Against the blessing of Shen Bai's many Divine Powers, the best he could do was trade blows and fight to a standstill.

'This can't go on. Sooner or later, Shen Bai will defeat me. I have to find a way to end this battle quickly.'

The Marquis of Ren De pondered.

His gaze fell upon his soldiers.

Even with the blessing of the Power of Battle Array, too many of his men had defected. Moreover, the Observatory had sent nothing but top masters of the Celestial Spirit Realm, and many of his soldiers had already been cut down.

If all these soldiers were to die, the Marquis of Ren De would surely lose the blessing of the Power of Battle Array and be defeated by Shen Bai.

At that point, his own life would be forfeit.

At this thought, the Marquis of Ren De gritted his teeth and said, "You forced my hand."

Shen Bai was attacking relentlessly.

His Soul-Annihilating Sword possessed the ability to wear down a Divine Soul. This erosion was subtle and gradual; it had gone unnoticed when he fought the old man under Zhang Dao Ling's command.

Shen Bai could feel the Marquis of Ren De's Power of Divine Soul weakening bit by bit.

Killing the Marquis of Ren De was only a matter of time.

However, hearing the Marquis of Ren De's sudden declaration made Shen Bai frown.

A sense of danger bloomed in Shen Bai's heart.

Shen Bai instinctively brought his sword back to block.

The long spear struck Cold Moon, and the force behind it was even more terrifying than before.

The Blood Evil Qi swirled around him like a mad thing, completely enveloping him.

Seeing this strange development, Shen Bai immediately used Instant Teleportation to leave the attack range.

A bottomless pit appeared in the ground, and beads of sweat covered the Marquis of Ren De's forehead.

At that very moment, the opposing commanders suddenly clutched their chests and collapsed.

Wang Teng and the others fighting them faltered, stunned. Then, they watched as the soldiers' flesh and blood vanished before their very eyes, flowing into the spear of flesh and blood in the Marquis of Ren De's hand.

The flesh on the spear writhed, emanating an eerie, demonic aura.

"I have condensed the very lives of all my soldiers into this one strike. Today, either you die or I do!"

The murderous light in the Marquis of Ren De's eyes burned ever brighter.

He had been backed into a corner. Since it had come to this, he would risk it all in one final, desperate struggle.

After this battle, once he killed Shen Bai and the others from the Observatory, he would no longer have any troops.

The Great Yue Country would likely cast him aside.

But at least he would survive, instead of dying right here and now.

With this power-up, the Marquis of Ren De's strength reached the peak of the Celestial Spirit Realm; he was even halfway to the next stage.

With a single thrust, the spear shot straight for Shen Bai's chest.

The surrounding Space was instantly flooded with terrifying Blood Evil Power. At the spear's tip, a gruesome skull composed of the same power began to form.

Shen Bai felt a sense of mortal peril bloom in his heart.

He had never felt so close to death.

He was certain that if that spear pierced him, even he would fall right here.

But even in the face of such mortal danger, Shen Bai's mind raced, his Divine Thought flashing like lightning. He had already made a decision.

"Get back."

At just those two words, Ma Yuan and the others instantly obeyed Shen Bai's command, rapidly retreating a great distance.

"Water, come."

Shen Bai pointed his left hand at the sky.

The next moment, under Shen Bai's Manipulation, vast amounts of water vapor condensed into a terrifying Water Flow that flooded the area.

Both Shen Bai and the Marquis of Ren De were engulfed by the Water Flow, as if crushed by its pressure.

The Marquis of Ren De felt an immense pressure from the water.

Faced with the torrent Shen Bai had conjured from thin air, the Marquis's resolve remained unshaken.

'I must make this strike. I must kill Shen Bai.'

At this moment, the Marquis of Ren De seemed to have returned to his early days fighting on the battlefield. His aura became utterly ruthless, that of a man with nothing left to lose.

Just then, Shen Bai's entire body suddenly disappeared without a trace.

It was as if he had become one with the water around him. The water was him, and he was the water.

The Water Transformation Ability—gained after his Water Control Technique evolved into the Ten Thousand Water Technique—made Shen Bai even more powerful in water than on land.

He rarely used it, because it was one of his trump cards.

As Shen Bai became one with the water, the surrounding pressure abruptly increased several hundredfold.

The Marquis of Ren De felt as though his very bones and flesh were about to be crushed.

He had lost sight of his target, and a sense of bewilderment washed over him.

Just then, Shen Bai's figure flickered into existence within the formless currents.

The blessing of the Soul-Annihilating Sword on this strike was even more terrifying.

The Blood Red Sword Qi emanating from it seemed powerful enough to split the heavens and sunder the earth.

"CRACK!"

A crisp cracking sound echoed.

The blood-red spear in the Marquis of Ren De's hand snapped in an instant.

Moreover, Cold Moon's momentum was unbroken as it pierced through the Marquis of Ren De's chest.

In that instant, the erupting Sword Qi began to relentlessly erode the Marquis of Ren De's flesh and Divine Soul.