Chapter 257 - 251: Demon Elephant, Last Words

Chapter 257: Chapter 251: Demon Elephant, Last Words

Within the Gratitude Sensing Realm, whose Vitality could possibly compare to the sheer might of a 44-point [Attack] bonus, amplified by the Five Evils Reincarnation across his Five Acupoints from the Great Success stage of the Five Aggregates Profound Slaughter Technique?

At least, Fu Juemin had never seen anyone who could.

And he figured he never would.

Outer Sensing, Inner Sensing, Heart Sensing... so what if it was Heart Intent?

No matter how fancy one’s moves were, they couldn’t stand up to the merciless crush of absolute power!

Fu Juemin suddenly had an epiphany.

’With my current accumulation of Martial Arts knowledge, it’s too unrealistic to create the Muddy World Saber by pursuing unprecedentedly complex and exquisite moves.’

’So I can only abandon form to grasp intent, perfecting the saber intent of the Five Muddles descending upon the world. As for the actual moves... those are just minor details.’

Fu Juemin’s mind was clear. At this moment, his Vitality was as vast as a river, as deep as the sea, and as blazing as fire!

Beneath his suit, dark meridians spread like little snakes or demonic tendrils, forming another bewitching "Black Flower" at the center of his chest—a version 2.0, so to speak.

He sped forward, kicking up splashes of water. Unseen by anyone, his body was nearly hovering above the ground.

An invisible, twisting Vitality lifted him with every step, generating immense momentum that made him faster and faster.

This was a completely different feeling from when he activated [Demon Body] and relied on pure, brute physical strength.

It was strange, and... very good.

In the blink of an eye, Fu Juemin caught up to someone.

In the downpour, the woman in the red dress from the Black Tower now held only a solitary umbrella handle with a few ribs attached.

She had the appearance of a sixteen-year-old girl, with skin like cream, a graceful figure, a delicate, pale chin, and lips that seemed ready to drip with moisture...

But looking any higher was a bit of a challenge.

A flat nose, squinty eyes, a protruding forehead—calling her plain would have been a compliment. She could even be considered ugly.

Fu Juemin glanced at her once and had no desire to look again.

Perhaps his gaze stung her, because the red-dressed woman’s face suddenly twisted and she shrieked, "What’s that look for? You think I’m ugly?!"

Fu Juemin froze for a second, then slashed out with his saber!

"So you’re ugly, but no one’s allowed to say it? How dare you yell at me first?!"

BOOM!

A transparent, distorted energy, so condensed it was almost tangible, shot forth from the Blue Tassel Saber!

In an instant, it transformed into a terrifying blade of light more than twenty feet long, slashing horizontally toward the woman in red.

This single slash was almost as powerful as Xue Hen’s all-out "Return to Nothingness" from before!

Beneath the light of the blade, the previous angry shout immediately turned into a shriek so shrill it was almost distorted!

It was as if the woman in red was being pulled by countless invisible threads; she suddenly shot into the air with an unnatural movement. The terrifying saber light grazed the tips of her feet and, with a BOOM, blasted open several shuttered storefronts along the street!

Seeing his first slash miss, Fu Juemin swept the blade’s light around and slashed upward in a reverse cut!

This slash was different from the previous one. As the saber light flared, a strange, sinister chill immediately filled the air.

Wherever it passed, the falling rain quietly froze into beads of ice. The air temperature plummeted, and it was as if a tyrannical cold front was surging upward, straight for the figure in red!

Five Poisonous Creatures, Five Evils, Five Aggregates, Five Muddles...

Great towers are built from the ground up. Fu Juemin wanted to create the Blade of the Muddy World, based on the Five Muddles descending upon the world. He thought... he’d start with the Five Poisonous Creatures!

The Red Lady from the Black Tower was mid-air. Seeing the saber light rushing up from below, even before it arrived, her legs felt as if they’d been plunged into icy water in the dead of winter. A piercing pain shot through them, and even the Qi Blood in her body began to stagnate.

Her face instantly turned pale, her beauty draining away in terror.

Just then, a burly black figure shot over like a cannonball, smashing through the area enveloped by the Saber Momentum. The Red Lady found a sliver of a chance to live. With her teeth chattering, a transparent thread suddenly shot from the tip of her umbrella handle. With a tug, it pulled her entire body aside.

The frozen raindrops went TINK-TINK-TINK as they landed on the spine of the Blue Tassel Saber. Fu Juemin’s expression was calm. He didn’t even glance at the fleeing Red Lady, his gaze fixed on the person before him.

It was the giant cloaked man, also from the Black Tower. Beneath his cloak was a horrifying body, nearly two meters tall and covered from head to toe—including his face—in thick black hair.

He looked just like an upright black bear, and even his aura was filled with wildness, ferocity, and brutality.

"A Demon Fiend?"

Fu Juemin looked at him, but soon shook his head. ’No, this should be lycanthropy.’

He didn’t sense the slightest trace of a Demon Fiend’s aura on the hulking man. The one standing before him was a bona fide human.

’He must have some strange illness like werewolf syndrome, and combined with his martial arts practice, he ended up looking like a "Human Bear."’

The Human Bear didn’t speak, only giving Fu Juemin a bloodthirsty smile, but his eyes were filled with apprehension.

The Red Lady, holding the umbrella handle with her ugly face now fully revealed, slowly walked over.

This time, she wasn’t putting on a cutesy act. Her delicate, crisp voice returned to its natural, much shriller tone, and her face was a mask of coldness and venomous resentment.

"You were right. No matter how a person changes their path and starts their training anew, decades of combat habits and style can’t be changed..."

The Red Lady had been speaking to the Human Bear, but her gaze suddenly shifted, locking onto Fu Juemin.

"On the night of the Fish Demon, you were the one who killed Toad Palace Yu Zhonggui by the Dragon Gate Water Gate!

You are the Demon Elephant!"

Fu Juemin stiffened, narrowing his eyes slightly, but said nothing.

But the Red Lady, as if she had found some leverage, shouted excitedly, "It really is you!

Ji Shaotong is already dead! Before he died, he must have transferred all his Martial Arts Inner Force to you through an impartation ritual! Otherwise, there’s no explaining how someone so young could have cultivated such terrifyingly peerless Vitality!

What are the rest of you standing around watching for?"

The Red Lady swept her gaze over the surrounding crowd and sneered, "Right now, he is the Demon Elephant, and the Demon Elephant is him!

Killing him is the same as killing Ji Shaotong!!"

As soon as the Red Lady said this, everyone present was stunned.

Countless gazes instantly converged on Fu Juemin.

In the downpour, a slow smile spread across Fu Juemin’s face.

He lifted his saber and slowly walked forward. With every step he took, the Human Bear’s expression grew graver, while the distant Red Lady subconsciously took a step back.

"You’re absolutely right. Too bad... there’s no prize."

His voice faded into the rain, and in the next instant, a brilliant saber light erupted!

This slash was as scorching as fire. As the saber light appeared, all the surrounding rainwater and puddles were blasted into the air, turning into a vast white mist as a hot wind suddenly rose.

"Attack now!"

The Red Lady shrieked as she flew back, "Tie him down! I’ll lock his Vitality!"

ROAR—

A black figure shrouded in yellow light lunged forward, crashing through the curtains of rain with a beast-like growl.

"Tearing Wind, Unarmored!"

The Human Bear attacked. His two thick, black arms, wrapped in Vitality, created overlapping afterimages in the rain. The curtain of rain within ten meters of him shattered, and an aura that could tear apart and strip away anything emanated from him.

But Fu Juemin didn’t even look, casually slashing out with his saber like a bolt of white lightning streaking across the long street!

With a BOOM, he sent the Human Bear flying.

At that moment, the other figures scattered around the street began to move. One of them leaped from the roof of an overturned, dilapidated trolley car like a goshawk, landing in front of Fu Juemin as he was about to pursue the Human Bear.

It was an old man in a gray shirt who looked to be in his sixties, with a strange and ancient-looking face. Vitality radiated from his body, repelling every drop of rain.

One of his eyes seemed to have been gouged out years ago. Now, he stood before Fu Juemin with one hand behind his back, his expression grim as he spoke coldly, "Ji Shaotong gouged out one of my eyes back in the day. Since Ji Shaotong is dead now, I’ll take my revenge for that eye on... huh?!!"

The old man hadn’t even finished speaking when his remaining eye suddenly bulged, a flash of saber light erupting within his pupil.

He let out a low roar and subconsciously thrust his palms forward in a frenzy!

A terrifying Palm Momentum stacked layer upon layer, mixing with the downpour to instantly form a white, furious tide that erupted from the ground!

However, the next second—

The furious tide of Palm Momentum was cleaved in two by a single slash. A white figure shot through and slammed into the old man. A saber flashed, and with the soft SQUELCH of a blade slicing into flesh, the two figures passed each other...

"Hkk... hkk..."

The one-eyed old man stood frozen in the rain, soaked to the bone.

His single eye was wide, and his face was a mask of shock, bewilderment, and utter disbelief.

Gouts of blood spurted from the gash in his neck, mixing with the rain and splattering all over the ground.

With a look of unwillingness, he slowly collapsed.

Fu Juemin’s figure reappeared behind him.

"If you have any last words, you should say them before you enter the stage..."

Fu Juemin casually shook the blood from his Blue Tassel Saber. With the tip of his blade lowered slightly, he said indifferently, "I don’t have the patience to listen to your nonsense in the middle of a fight."

As his voice fell, the figures who had been about to close in all froze, their expressions stiffening.

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