Chapter 359: Kill Stealing

It was a good thing that the Seven Kills Stele craved the power of the Divine-Demonic Blood.

A normal blood sacrifice could only draw out the Seven Kills Stele’s superficial power. So, what changes would occur if he used this Divine-Demonic Blood for the sacrifice?

Chen Yuan wasn’t certain, but he knew the benefits would be significant.

At that moment, the six Palace Guardian Divine Generals had already begun a large-scale slaughter.

They had no intelligence, only the most basic instincts, so they all began by killing the people closest to them.

After several Independent Martial Artists were torn to shreds, only one weaker Martial Artist was left fleeing in haste. But how could he possibly outrun a Palace Guardian Divine General, which had four wings on its back and moved as fast as a golden streak of light?

But just as he fell into despair, a whistling sound cut through the air. A pitch-black arrow, imbued with the majestic power to pierce the Nine Prisons, slammed directly into the Palace Guardian Divine General’s face, erupting with a deafening BANG.

The golden mask on the Palace Guardian Divine General’s face was instantly shattered, revealing a mangled, bloody face covered in Array Patterns.

These Palace Guardian Divine Generals were a type of Flesh Puppet; they had no real faces. The Battle Armor masks had already fused with their flesh and blood.

The Martial Artist who had just escaped death looked at Chen Yuan gratefully. He never would have expected that this Chen Jiutian, who had seemed so arrogant and domineering outside the Heaven-Reaching Tower, would actually save him.

Chen Yuan, however, paid the Martial Artist no mind. He had only attacked because this particular Palace Guardian Divine General was the closest one to him.

Chen Yuan’s brow furrowed slightly. He clicked his tongue. “Damn, that’s tough!”

His Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrow in its Nine Prisons State was astonishingly powerful, yet it could only shatter the thing’s mask with one shot. One could only imagine how strong its defense was.

At this moment, the Palace Guardian Divine General seemed to have been enraged. The wings on its back flapped, and it transformed into a streak of golden light, lunging straight for Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan slashed out with the Blood Sea Listening Tide in his hand. Nether Blood Fiend Power coalesced, and a black-and-red Sword Aura slashed down through the air, clashing head-on with the Giant Sword in the opponent’s hand and unleashing a tremendous BOOM.

After the exchange, Chen Yuan’s arm was numb, and the Palace Guardian Divine General was also sent flying back.

But it was just a Flesh Puppet and had no pain receptors. After being knocked away, it immediately transformed back into a streak of light and charged again.

The two of them clashed more than ten times in an instant, a direct confrontation of pure physical strength that produced a series of deafening roars.

The Independent Martial Artists on the scene, who were desperately fleeing for their lives, were utterly horrified when they saw this.

‘Is he even human?’

Each of those Flesh Puppets was like a giant, possessing immense strength and incredible speed.

Never mind them; even a Martial Arts Grandmaster at the Primordial Pill Realm would be worn down and killed by these things!

Yet Chen Yuan had clashed with one for over ten moves without being at a disadvantage. The depth of his power was truly terrifying.

Even Ming Chong looked at Chen Yuan with a solemn expression.

He himself had cultivated Vajra Zen for over twenty years to be able to clash with these Palace Guardian Divine Generals using only his physical strength.

But Chen Yuan wasn’t known for specializing in physical Cultivation Techniques, yet he could still accomplish this. His true strength was truly unfathomable.

After clashing with the Palace Guardian Divine General for more than ten moves, Chen Yuan had a rough grasp of its Strength Attribute.

These Palace Guardian Divine Generals had Divine-Demonic Blood inside them, which provided them with supreme, overwhelming power.

However, they lacked intelligence and only had simple instincts. They couldn’t even utilize ten percent of their immense power.

If someone from the former Endless Immortal Palace were here to control these Palace Guardian Divine Generals from the rear, the power they could unleash would be utterly terrifying—they might even be able to slay a Divine Platform Realm Martial Artist.

But as it was, their weakness was extremely obvious: they only attacked and never defended, possessing no combat skills to speak of.

A divine light flashed in Chen Yuan’s eyes, which seemed to contain a rotating river of stars, becoming incomparably deep in an instant.

He activated his *Emperor’s Qi Observation Skill* and looked at the flow of power within the Palace Guardian Divine General.

To Chen Yuan’s surprise, the Palace Guardian Divine General’s core power was located not in its head or its Dantian, but in its heart.

The people of the Endless Immortal Palace had actually created an artificial, array-driven heart inside its body. With every beat, that heart would pump Divine-Demonic Blood, which contained immense power, into the artificial Meridians throughout its body.

Although this Flesh Puppet wasn’t a real person and could only be considered a product of Artifact Refining, the ingenuity of its inner workings was a marvel. It was practically an enlarged one-to-one replica of the human body—truly a work of masterful craftsmanship.

As the golden streak of light charged again, Chen Yuan formed a Seal Technique with his hands. Killing Tribulation Power descended abruptly, and he unleashed the Blood Killing Heaven-Seizing Hand. The enormous, blood-red handprint sent the Palace Guardian Divine General flying.

The instant it was knocked back, a Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrow shot out, heading straight for its chest.

This was just an ordinary Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrow, not one charged with Nether Blood Fiend power. Its might was limited, only managing to dent the Battle Armor on the puppet’s chest.

But from then on, every time they clashed, Chen Yuan would follow up with another Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrow the moment his opponent was sent flying.

After more than ten Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrows, he finally tore the Battle Armor on its chest completely apart, exposing a mangled mass of flesh.

Seeing this, the Qi Blood throughout Chen Yuan’s body began to burn fiercely. Nether Blood Fiend Power surged as the Vitality in his body transformed into an extreme intent of death, materializing as a black mist that swirled around him.

The next moment, the black mist instantly condensed upon the Blood Sea Listening Tide in Chen Yuan’s hand. A pitch-black Sword Aura enveloped the blood-red long blade, and an aura of extreme death instantly radiated outwards.

As Chen Yuan slashed down, wherever the black Sword Aura passed, there was no chance of survival—all Vitality was extinguished!

Nine Deaths Nether Slash!

The Palace Guardian Divine General seemed to ignore this powerful Extreme Killing Intent and Netherworld Death Qi. It brought its Giant Sword down, but Chen Yuan’s slash shattered it to pieces.

Its Weapon shattered, the Palace Guardian Divine General threw a punch at Chen Yuan, but under the tyrannical might of the Nine Deaths Nether Slash, its arm was also minced into a mess of flesh!

Seizing the opportunity, Chen Yuan changed his slash into a thrust, plunging the Blood Sea Listening Tide straight into the puppet’s exposed chest. The Seven Kills Stele inside his body sensed the power of the Divine-Demonic Blood and instantly unleashed an incredibly strong suction force.

In an instant, the Divine-Demonic Blood within the Palace Guardian Divine General was drained dry. Its body immediately fell to the ground as if it had lost all life. Its flesh and blood crumbled, and the four wings on its back lost their luster.

In truth, this Palace Guardian Divine General only had a single drop of Divine-Demonic Blood in its body. The reason it could supply the entire body was because it had been diluted with other blood.

However, even though it was just one drop, Chen Yuan could sense that the Seven Kills Stele Fragment was very satisfied with it. In return, it fed back an even stronger stream of Blood Fiend Power to Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan estimated that if he killed all six Palace Guardian Divine Generals and obtained the six drops of Divine-Demonic Blood, the increase in Blood Fiend Power he would gain would be almost equivalent to fusing with another Seven Kills Stele Fragment.

After slaying this Palace Guardian Divine General, Chen Yuan immediately turned his gaze toward Gu Lichuan.

At that moment, Gu Lichuan was fighting a Palace Guardian Divine General by himself. Although he was able to hold his ground with his six swords, the stamina consumption was immense.

“Brother Gu, aim for its heart!”

Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Lichuan attacked with all six swords, forsaking all defense. He focused all his power on a single point and finally tore open the Battle Armor over its heart.

But the Palace Guardian Divine General seemed not to notice, and the Long Spear in its hand was already less than three feet from Gu Lichuan!

The next moment, Chen Yuan unleashed a Mulan Jail-Piercing Arrow in its Nine Prisons State, which shot out and pierced straight through the Palace Guardian Divine General’s heart.

Then, he plunged his Blood Sea Listening Tide into its body and absorbed the Divine-Demonic Blood within.

A moment later, Chen Yuan brought Gu Lichuan to support Luo Lie and the others, collecting another drop of Divine-Demonic Blood in the process.

Meanwhile, Ming Chong saw that Chen Yuan had already dealt with three Palace Guardian Divine Generals while he was still entangled with just one. A competitive urge rose within him, and he began burning his Qi Blood to madly attack his opponent.

He truly lived up to his title, “Descent Vajra.” He clashed with the Palace Guardian Divine General using only his physical body, smashing its incredibly tough Battle Armor to smithereens before sending it flying with a final Vajra Pestle strike.

Ming Chong took a deep breath and was about to attack again, but Chen Yuan appeared out of nowhere, pierced the Palace Guardian Divine General from behind with a single slash, and absorbed the Divine-Demonic Blood within.

Seeing this, Ming Chong’s eyes turned red with anger, but he couldn’t bring himself to say anything.

He, of course, didn’t know that the Divine-Demonic Blood inside the Palace Guardian Divine Generals was beneficial to Chen Yuan; he just assumed Chen Yuan was doing his best to deal with these Flesh Puppets.

If Ming Chong were to tell him to mind his own business, it would just make him seem petty.

Having dealt with four Palace Guardian Divine Generals, Chen Yuan turned his head just in time to see Qingchen use some unknown technique. A palm strike landed on a Divine General’s head, instantly tearing apart all the flesh on its body, yet leaving its Battle Armor completely intact.

Chen Yuan’s heart ached at the sight.

‘A waste! What a complete waste!’

But just then, Qingchen’s expression suddenly changed, and they shouted, “Watch out!”

Five Palace Guardian Divine Generals had been slain, leaving only one remaining on the field.

Perhaps sensing that its companions were dead had triggered some restriction within the Array in its body.

An extremely terrifying fluctuation of power suddenly erupted from this last Palace Guardian Divine General. The Array within the Longevity Hall also activated, pouring a massive amount of power into it, and it looked as if it was about to self-destruct.

Chen Yuan’s eyes narrowed. He drew his bow and nocked an arrow, preparing to interrupt the self-destruction with a Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrow at its maximum power.

But at that very moment, two figures appeared from behind them.

One was a powerfully built man wearing a Daoist Robe. An incredibly terrifying power fluctuated around him. Like a falling meteor, he instantly appeared behind the Palace Guardian Divine General, grabbed the wings on its back with both hands, and with a sudden exertion of force, tore them off along with the back plate of its armor!

The other person held a Long Sword. As they thrust it forward, the cry of a phoenix seemed to ring out. The Sword Qi was like a great river, surging forward with unstoppable momentum. This majestic power pierced straight through the Palace Guardian Divine General, obliterating it in a single strike.