Chapter 408: Chapter 346: Tell a Story: See Page Number 5 of This Chapter
"Phoenix Mountain, launch the signal flare!" Li Zheng drew his sword and charged straight ahead, followed closely by Zhan Zhouzhou.
Swoosh!
The blinding signal flare shot skyward, and its sudden brilliance momentarily blinded the two-headed mutant No. 29, causing a brief stun and slowing their speed.
"You left, me right!" Zhan Zhouzhou wielded the Purple Thunder Longsword, her voice icy and her steps shifted, stirring a gentle breeze around her, and she surpassed Li Zheng in speed.
"A new ability," Li Zheng’s eyes flickered slightly. In just over half an hour, Zhan Zhouzhou had developed a new wind ability, perfectly complementing her steps, making her movements even more elusive.
It seemed that the recent event challenge spurred her on, and despite the Purple Thunder Longsword not being full level yet, she risked developing a new genetic ability.
"Got it!" Now wasn’t the time to be distracted. Li Zheng quickly refocused and shouted loudly, "Xiao Ying, stay with me, Phoenix Mountain go help Zhan Zhouzhou, keep an eye on avoiding damage from afar!"
Swoosh!
The Demon Thunder Wings unfurled, and two figures, one blue and one black, rushed leftward with lightning speed.
"Damn! So you’re all bullying me because I don’t have an acceleration skill, huh?" Phoenix Mountain stowed the signal gun, cursed loudly, and decisively burned his bloodline, using Tenfold Amplification to accelerate.
Phoenix Mountain had yet to catch up to Li Zheng and the others when the battle formally commenced.
"Howl!" Xiao Ying raised its head and roared to the sky, a blood-red light glowing from its sharp horn, as if countless invisible objects spun endlessly in its mouth.
"Whoosh!"
A wide spray, sixteen invisible wind blades flew from Xiao Ying’s mouth, instantly striking mutant No. 29.
This was the diamond-level new ability, "Ferocious Wind Thousand Blade Slash," a revised version of "Myriad Blades Tornado," with not only more wind blades but also shifting from close-range defense to mid-long-range attack.
"Ah! Ah!"
Instantly, mutant No. 29’s two heads cried out in pain, with the areas continuously slashed by the wind blades turning bloody and mangled.
Their defense was far inferior to Fujita’s, so even a regular diamond-level ability could injure them.
Yet, what lacked in defense was naturally compensated in other areas.
The mutant No. 29, writhing in pain, sidestepped to avoid further wind blade damage, waving one arm and skillfully grabbing the invisible wind blades with long-nailed hands.
With a series of "clang clang clang," sparks flew, and all sixteen wind blades were worn down, while the hand remained unharmed.
"Gaaah!"
Suzuki Yuuki’s head, with its black hair scattered, turned, roaring angrily, and the other right arm reached out to crush Xiao Ying for injuring it.
At that moment, a flash of blue lightning whisked Xiao Ying away and left a shallow wound on the reaching arm.
The wound had a faint flame burning on its surface, not high in tier and insufficient to cause much interference with the arm.
Suzuki Yuuki instinctively raised the other arm to slap at it.
"Boom!"
Li Zheng opened his mouth and softly uttered a word.
Boom!
The weak flame suddenly exploded, as if a high-explosive grenade was inserted into the wound, enlarging the scar by several notches.
"Ah!!!" Suzuki Yuuki howled in pain, even more furious, wanting to turn and chase but was held back by "Yamato Reiko" and couldn’t move.
Over there, Yamato Reiko was also locked in fierce combat with Zhan Zhouzhou.
Zhan Zhouzhou didn’t possess Li Zheng’s flying ability and could only rely on the flying device on her back. However, she took an alternative approach, using her newly developed "Wind Manipulation" to forcefully control the jets of air from the flying device to assist her in acrobatic aerial maneuvers, displaying incredible agility.
Yamato Reiko manipulated her two arms to attack Zhan Zhouzhou with blinding speed and sharp angles.
Zhan Zhouzhou wielded her Purple Thunder Longsword, executing her family swordsmanship to precisely block every attack from Yamato Reiko.
Nonetheless, even with the aid of the flying device and wind manipulation ability, Zhan Zhouzhou’s flight speed was slightly lacking, the situation becoming increasingly difficult, and she was gradually falling behind, struggling to cope.
Just then, a bright voice echoed from the forefront of mutant No. 29, carrying a wildness of supremacy over the world: "Look here, bitch!"
"Full Power Burst·Tenfold Amplification!"
"Abyss Pig Demon·Salty Pig Hand!"
The three-toed pig hand, wrapped in black qi, thrust straight toward one of Yamato Reiko’s eyes.
No matter how the exterior changes, the eyes are always one of the greatest weak points of humanoid creatures.
Compared to other areas, the defense here was significantly lower, extremely fragile.
It was even linked directly to the brain behind it. Once the eye was destroyed, there was a risk of brain damage causing lethal injuries.
So Yamato Reiko had to temporarily abandon her fierce assault on Zhan Zhouzhou and free a hand to defend against Phoenix Mountain, placing a palm in front to catch Phoenix Mountain’s full-power strike.
After blocking Phoenix Mountain’s attack, Yamato Reiko closed her palm, trying to seize the "ant" daring to attack her eyes.
But unexpectedly, Phoenix Mountain retreated instantly without lingering for damage, pushing his flying device to the limit and retreating swiftly.
"Ah!!" The palm closed, grasping nothing, and Yamato Reiko suddenly screamed in agony, glaring angrily at Zhan Zhouzhou still flipping in the air. The arm attacking Zhan Zhouzhou had been slashed multiple times in that brief moment, each cut precisely landed, revealing deep, bone-sight wounds.
"Everyone’s... so strong," Lin Fengjiao watched the battlefield intently, her Ancient Technology Eye capturing everyone’s movements and rapidly analyzing them, turning them into her own combat experience.
"..." Yan Guang stood silently on one side, raising his left arm several times before finally dropping it dejectedly.
Phoenix Mountain was right.
Becoming stronger is more important than anything.