Chapter 726 Old Hei, You Didn't Let Me Have Enough Fun

His skin flowed with a deep, eerie blood-gold hue, the color seemingly seeping from deep within his marrow. Surrounding him, dense bursts of Red Gold lightning cascaded outward. Amidst the glare, Black Tuo could only see a pair of indifferent eyes.

“This…” The almost solidified Black Oil on the surface of Black Tuo’s body trembled violently under the howling air currents. At this moment, he felt that Su Chen’s body was as solid as a planetary core. Its density had reached an inconceivable level, far exceeding Tier Eight!

Black Oil intertwined as shields of light bloomed in overlapping layers beside Black Tuo. Yet, before they could even make a sound, they were crushed to dust.

BOOM!

Shockwaves erupted, sweeping across this space of Fog Ashes. Black Tuo’s body exploded on the spot, scattering into countless drops of oil that reassembled in the distance.

“You really haven’t fought anyone for a long time…” Su Chen felt the terrifying power surging through his body. He had gone all out right from the start, unleashing an unprecedented level of full strength. He had already elevated all seven Secret Artifacts to Tier Nine, and the resulting buffs were absolutely terrifying.

He was able to accomplish this not just because the World Slaughter Form had recently reduced the cost of Enhancing Secret Artifacts. The root cause was the Power Pill in his stomach—no, wait… the Great Heaven Pill. The effects of this thing far exceeded his imagination. He had already activated the Permanent Body while simultaneously extracting nutrients from the Great Heaven Pill, rapidly converting them into Physical Strength.

This meant that all of his energy consumption was entirely borne by the Great Heaven Pill. Enhancing seven Secret Artifacts to Tier Nine required an astonishing amount of power. Even at his peak, he would have found it hard to endure. However, this terrifying drain seemed barely noticeable on the Great Heaven Pill. It was only shrinking at a slow, almost imperceptible speed.

“How could this possibly still be a Tier Seven Professional…” Black Tuo’s body took shape again, though it was noticeably smaller. “Such terrifying physical toughness…”

Even though he was shocked, he still seemed somewhat confident.

“Take a guess…”

Even though he was burning through the Great Heaven Pill instead of his own Physical Strength, Su Chen did not waste any time. His figure flashed, moving horizontally like a shooting star and stirring up a roaring howl.

“So what… if your physical toughness is high?” Black Tuo slightly lowered his head. The vertical pupil on top of his head suddenly burst with a black glow, pouring out like ink. In an instant, it dyed the surrounding shadows an abyssal dark, enveloping the charging Su Chen.

His specialty was not hand-to-hand combat, but mental hexes…

Suddenly, his cheek twitched. This time, he truly paled in disbelief. “Unity of Spirit and Body! How can you have Unity of Spirit and Body?”

If his true body were here, he would be confident in tormenting even a Morning Star Tier opponent with Unity of Spirit and Body until they begged for death. But right now, he was merely a projection of Fog Ashes. The power he could exert was strictly shackled.

Carrying an unshakable momentum, Su Chen smashed a punch squarely onto the vertical pupil on his head.

BANG!

Amidst the muffled impact, Black Tuo felt a wave of dizziness. With Su Chen’s Unity of Spirit and Body, low-level Mental Attacks were completely useless against him. This made Black Tuo look like nothing more than a living target just moments ago.

“It actually didn’t shatter?” Su Chen was surprised as he looked at the giant black head in front of him. The surrounding hissing sounds grew increasingly dense. He realized that it was because the power of the Fog Ashes had been drained away.

Black Tuo remained silent. If he drew upon the power of the Fog Ashes to fight Su Chen, the Flame Fire would come and annihilate him. But if he fought off the Flame Fire, Su Chen would gain the upper hand.

It was a dead end. He could already see the outcome… BANG!

His body exploded, once again smashed to pieces. This time… even his condensation speed had slowed down significantly.

“This last bit of Fog Ashes is going to be purified too,” Black Tuo muttered to himself, an eerie light flashing through his eyes. “How on earth… did this Su Chen do it? I can’t drag this out any longer…”

“Old Hei…” Su Chen looked down at him. “You didn’t let me have enough fun.”

Old Hei? Black Tuo’s expression darkened. How dare he call him that…

Su Chen dove down like a collapsing sky, truly resembling a crashing Meteor.

BOOM!

Pure, tyrannical force was interwoven with threads of electric arcs. The sound was so loud it was almost deafening. Cracks split across the ground, rapidly spreading in all directions, completely shattering this space of Fog Ashes along with it.

This core Fog Ashes was indeed extraordinary. Su Chen didn’t even fall out of it immediately; he could only watch as the incredibly profound blackness around him gradually faded into ash-white. Before the outside scenery became truly clear, he heard the howling of the Flame Fire. When his vision finally cleared, he was left slightly dazed. He saw that the small flames had already transformed into pillars of light shooting up into the sky, covering the entire heavens like an inverted sea of fire. It was exceptionally magnificent.

A nearly tangible cluster of Fog Source condensed in front of him. As Su Chen reached out and grabbed it, text appeared on his interface:

[Great Venerable Red Flame Thunder Resonator has discovered that you purified the Fog Ashes. He hopes you can feed this cluster of Fog Source to him…]

“I know you want it, but I can’t give it to you right now. You’ll definitely fall into a deep sleep after eating it, and I still don’t know what the situation is outside.” Su Chen was in no rush to feed it to the Great Venerable, temporarily putting it away.

“Tsk… how should I get out of here?” Su Chen muttered. Then he paused as a brilliant stream of fire drifted over, forming a rainbow bridge beneath his feet.

Outside the Bronze Sect’s defensive barrier, a fleet had already deployed. The numbers weren’t considered large; a rough estimate put them at only a thousand ships, all clustered on both sides of the massive central mothership. The blade-like, streamlined hulls were covered in matte composite armor. At their bows were rows of faintly glowing Energy array interfaces, shimmering with a fine, scale-like luminescence.