Chapter 394 - 286: Slay

The figure was not particularly large, but standing before Ba Wu, he was like a towering mountain, an impassable chasm.

At some point, the hulking figure began to tremble. A shade of fear had clouded his fierce, scarlet eyes.

Amidst this despair, his ferocity seemed to have been completely unleashed, and he let out a sudden, furious roar.

"Do you think this is over?!!"

THUMP! THUMP!!

Ba Wu’s body began to mutate rapidly, his frame ballooning even further. The black, keratinous layer covering him cracked open into countless fissures. As the Primordial Qi pumped through his body, a terrifying Primordial Pressure shot out from the gaps, granting him even greater propulsion and explosive power.

At this moment, he pushed the abilities of his Holy Seed to their absolute limit. In this life-or-death struggle, he had nearly returned to his peak state from the Ancient Times.

BOOM!!

The Primordial Qi erupted. Dozens of meters away, Lin Quelan and the others were instantly sent flying by the terrifying wave of energy. The wreckage where Ba Wu stood was cleared—everything within a radius of over ten meters was blown away, revealing a patch of level ground.

In an instant, Ba Wu was moving again. His massive form generated a terrifying wind pressure as he swung his fists again and again. Primordial Qi burst from his palms with a force that seemed capable of shattering mountains.

However, Zhao Xuanqi’s expression didn’t change in the slightest. True Essence converged between his palms, and a silver light materialized into the form of a Qilin’s head, the size of a grown man’s, which he sent forward to meet the attack.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!

Fists flew and flesh collided in the purest outpouring of violence. Yet Ba Wu, who styled himself the king of violence in the Ancient Era, was being completely overpowered by a mere human body.

Wherever Zhao Xuanqi’s fists went, the Qilin heads formed from his True Essence were as indestructible as a Divine Weapon, breaking through every eruption of Primordial Qi. No matter how Ba Wu thrashed and raged, Zhao Xuanqi’s fists were like the legendary Stabilizing Needle, unmovable and absolute.

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!!

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!!

The sounds of splashing gore and shattering bone mingled with the terrifying explosions. Even Ba Wu’s monstrous regenerative abilities could not keep up with the speed at which his body was being destroyed.

"DISINTEGRATE!!!"

Ba Wu’s face was a mask of savagery and madness as he let out a terrifying roar. For a split second, even Zhao Xuanqi felt a flicker of danger.

VMMMM!!

Ba Wu’s body seemed to reach some kind of limit, like an engine running at full throttle. The Primordial Qi compressed within him had exceeded what he could withstand. The result was a catastrophic blowout.

The cracks on his body’s surface burst open, and Primordial Qi erupted, blowing his physical form to pieces.

In the very instant his body blew apart, Ba Wu forcefully guided the power within, concentrating it into his fist to unleash one final, ultimate attack against Zhao Xuanqi.

CRACK!!

Zhao Xuanqi generated power throughout his body, clapping his fists together as he focused all his Force into a single point.

Burst!!

ROAR!!

A silver light burst forth. With this one strike, the Primordial Qi within him surged out, consuming nearly thirty percent of his reserves in an instant.

The roaring Qilin collided with Ba Wu’s attack.

The Primordial Qi was instantly detonated. The aftershock annihilated every building within a nearly one-hundred-meter radius, leaving behind a scene of utter devastation.

WHOOSH!!

After the impact, another violent gust of air followed. Zhao Xuanqi had exhaled sharply, instantly clearing the smoke and dust that had filled the area.

Ba Wu’s massive body was gone. All that remained on the ground were chunks of minced flesh and splatters of black blood, a truly gruesome sight.

That one strike had utterly obliterated Ba Wu’s body.

’He’s dead?’

Zhao Xuanqi did not relax, however. He didn’t believe Ba Wu would use such a suicidal technique so easily.

For these long-lived species that had existed for thousands of years, nothing was more important than survival.

His eyes were half-lidded as he spread out his perception and Primordial Qi in unison.

After nearly ten seconds, his eyes snapped open. His figure flashed, and he instantly appeared over a certain patch of ground, pummeling it with his fists.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!

The ground trembled as if an earthquake had struck. The tremors continued for a full half-minute before finally stopping.

As the dust settled, a crater dozens of meters deep was revealed in the ground. Zhao Xuanqi now stood beside it, clutching a constantly writhing mass of flesh in his palm.

The mass of flesh pulsed faintly like a heart. All around it, tentacles had sprouted, stabbing at Zhao Xuanqi’s arm like sharp spikes.

It was no use, however. The attacks were too weak to even break through the passive defense of his True Essence.

"You almost got away."

Zhao Xuanqi looked at the rather disgusting mass of flesh in his hand. He knew this was the core of a lifeform within the Bloodline Species system: the Holy Seed.

As long as the Holy Seed escapes, even if its physical body is destroyed, these creatures can be reborn by finding a new vessel. Their strength will be greatly diminished, of course, and they will require a long time to recover.

Ba Wu’s final, disintegrating strike had seemed like a desperate, all-or-nothing gamble, but it was merely a distraction. The true purpose was to use it as a ’Golden Cicada Shell’ and escape with his life.

Unfortunately for him, Zhao Xuanqi had seen through his trick. After all, if an Exotic Beast on the level of the Eight Fiends had truly died at his hands, the Merit within his Rebirth Jade would have increased.

He channeled Force into his palm, and with a burst of True Essence, squeezed his hand shut.

SPLAT!!

Under the terrifying, crushing pressure, the mass of flesh instantly burst. Shreds of it slipped through Zhao Xuanqi’s fingers to the ground, where they twitched for a moment before finally going still.

Ba Wu, one of the Ancient Eight Fiends, was dead.

At the same time, the Rebirth Jade within Zhao Xuanqi’s body trembled slightly. He could distinctly feel an indescribable power surging out from the shredded remains.