Chapter 42: Four Blood Replacements, Lone Hero!
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Zhao Chuanxiong had no desire to be bait...
The risk was too great, and in fishing... if the bait isn't eaten, how can you catch anything?
Even if the bait is just nipped, it will be left in a terrible state!
"Blood Replacement... you're actually Blood Replacement..."
The male child mask shattered into pieces under the terrifying force of the Bull Demon's punch, fragments flying and cutting through the air.
Zhao Chuanxiong's face turned bright red, and he was hammered into the ground like a wooden stake, his knees shattered and the cruciate ligaments torn to pieces!
His chest oozed blood, and fragments of the shattered steel longsword were embedded in his sunken chest, the flesh and organs nearly visible through the broken ribs!
Just one move...
It was just one move!
This Bull Demon had grown even stronger!
The first time they met, the Bull Demon was just at the beginning of Bone Tempering and had to flee for his life when faced with the combined attack of Zhao Chuanxiong and Bagua Staff.
The second time, although they didn't meet, Bagua Staff was brutally killed, confirming that the Bull Demon had reached the peak of Bone Tempering...
And now, the Bull Demon was Blood Replacement!
Each step in strength was a leap!
Eight years for Bone Tempering!
Many martial artists need at least eight years of Bone Tempering to qualify for Blood Replacement, and the transition from peak Bone Tempering to Blood Replacement is known as the 'Thousand-Day Blood Replacement,' taking a full three years!
No matter how talented, it's impossible to make such a terrifying leap in just one year!
"Who are you..."
"Who are you?!"
Zhao Chuanxiong spat out blood continuously, his eyes fixed on the cute and adorable bull mask.
The cuter the mask, the more his heart froze with fear!
He couldn't recognize...
He couldn't recognize at all!
If it were a martial artist from Feilei City, such progress would be impossible to hide and would have caused a sensation throughout the city!
Even noble families would go mad over it!
But there was no such information in the entire Feilei City.
Li Che looked at Zhao Chuanxiong with a cold, indifferent gaze, his eyes like two sharp blades in the winter frost.
The arm that had smashed Zhao Chuanxiong's chest was pulled out, blood splattering as it prepared to strike again.
The terrifying strength of a Blood Replacement martial artist would ensure Zhao Chuanxiong's death with another punch!
"The fish is out! Save me!!!"
Zhao Chuanxiong roared, his voice like thunder, as if he was trying to expel all the breath he had left in his life!
The thunderous sound echoed around!
Li Che's eyes behind the mask showed no emotion.
Indeed, Zhao Chuanxiong was just bait, a lure to draw him in. Si Mu Bai and the Spirit Child Sect... their real target was him.
This Bull Demon, who sought to breathe freely in Feilei City, which was under the control of the Spirit Child Sect.
After shouting, Zhao Chuanxiong used all his remaining strength to roll into the snow, trying to escape.
He was afraid.
The Bull Demon's emotionless eyes terrified Zhao Chuanxiong.
He knew...
The Bull Demon had known all along... that this was a targeted ambush!
Yet, he still wanted to eat the bait!
Damn it!
Zhao Chuanxiong had underestimated the Bull Demon's determination to kill him...
Why was it so intense?
What kind of grudge, what kind of hatred?
Just because he and Bagua Staff had bullied him in the Liu family courtyard back then?
The Bull Demon hadn't even been seriously injured, yet he remembered it so vividly?
His body was so massive, yet his heart was so petty!
Li Che watched Zhao Chuanxiong roll into the snow, his blood-stained palm raised, fingers curling, and a sound like chalk scraping on a blackboard echoed like thunder!
In the darkness, the almost invisible silver threads suddenly snapped.
With a quiver, the air exploded, the sound like the wailing of ghosts!
Pfft!
On the ground...
The scalding blood spurted three feet high!
Zhao Chuanxiong's head and neck were torn apart, his eyes wide open with shock and confusion.
Why?
Why!
Even in death, Zhao Chuanxiong was filled with endless resentment and anger!
At this moment, Zhao Chuanxiong hated only Si Mu Bai!
He had endured for so long, why force him to come and die?!
You, Si Mu Bai, acted as a fisherman, but used his life as bait!
Hate!
The fine threads silently flowed, adorned with round blood droplets.
With a quiver, the blood droplets exploded into a mist.
Thousand Spider Threads!
Around the massive Bull Demon, countless silver threads intertwined like electricity, whipping the air and tearing through the falling snow.
His spine stood tall, like a dragon roaring, his qi and blood like a python spewing from his pores, wrapping around his body.
Behind the mask, his eyes were calm like water.
There, three figures wearing various children's masks stood on the rooftops, the rain and snow slanting down, creating a thick, chilling atmosphere.
And even further away...
A cold figure without a mask held a finely crafted steel bow, his eyes sharp and cold, tilting his head as he looked at the massive form of the Bull Demon.
In the next moment, the bow was drawn full, the bowstring quivered, and his qi and blood rose like a dragon in the night!
The momentum was overwhelming!
Li Che recognized this person!
He was Si Mu Bai's assistant, whom Li Che had seen when he met Si Mu Bai at the Golden Splendor Pavilion.
Si Mu Bai's capable assistant, Blood Replacement martial artist Guo Zhan!
Four!
Four Blood Replacement martial artists!
Such an array, what a level of importance!
Among them, the one standing far away, drawing the bow and aiming, was a Blood Replacement peak martial artist!
Just the act of drawing the bow made the air seem to freeze, giving Li Che a bone-chilling feeling, as if being stalked by an extremely fierce predator in the wild!
Zhao Chuanxiong, compared to these four, was a mere ant.
"Si Mu Bai... you really think highly of me."
Li Che narrowed his eyes, facing four Blood Replacements without fear, but with a different kind of excitement.
The Dragon-Elephant Vajra Dao fruit in his chest pulsed wildly, as if it too yearned for such a battle.
In the next moment, he stomped heavily, the earth and snow exploded and fell like a curtain!
The Dragon-Elephant Vajra pulsed violently, pushed to its limit!
Now, with his peak Bone Tempering cultivation, under the Golden Body Transformation, he could exert the full power of a Blood Replacement peak martial artist...
His spine arched, nine large tendons like nine roaring dragons, supporting his spine like a dragon's backbone, his bones bursting with infinite strength under the Tiger Bone Tempering Method!
"The battlefield... can't be here."
Behind him was his own courtyard.
Zhang Ya was still holding Xixi inside. If the battle affected them, the arrow from the Blood Replacement peak martial artist...
It would be like a machine gun spraying randomly, too dangerous!
Li Che made up his mind and shot out, heading for another part of Xu's Compound.
"Want to run?"
"Killed Zhao Chuanxiong, ate the bait... and want to run?"
The three Blood Replacement martial artists from the Spirit Child Sect let out voices that sounded like crying, laughing, anger, and sorrow, echoing between the courtyard walls.
In Xu's Compound, many woodcarvers watched from the dark, extinguished houses, but dared not intervene...
Intervening in a Blood Replacement martial artist's battle meant certain death.
With the unparalleled strength of the Golden Body Transformation, Li Che's speed was incredibly fast, his feet smashing through the rain and snow, crushing the air!
A few leaps, and he was far away.
But the Blood Replacement martial artists were also extraordinary, quickly catching up with the Bull Demon!
Zhao Chuanxiong was dead, and they had to kill the Bull Demon and bring his head to complete their task, or face the wrath of a Divine Capturer.
In the pitch-black night, rain and snow raged!
The darkness was deep and impenetrable.
But there were five qi and blood auras, like five blood-red lanterns, racing through the dark night!
In the narrow alleys of Xu's Compound, they chased each other!
The scene was completely chaotic and out of control.
...
...
Outside Xu's Woodcarving Shop.
In the dark alley, rain mixed with snow fell coldly to the ground.
The old man's ears twitched, listening to the chaotic sounds coming from Xu's Woodcarving Shop, his eyes flashing with a strange light.
"Bull Demon..."
"The lone hero of this city? Interesting..."
The old man smiled, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth.
At the other end of the street, the sound of wind and snow was suddenly drowned out by footsteps on the cobblestone ground, the sound of shoes rubbing against the bricks, light but resonant.
The old man frowned.
He gently patted the child, Lv Chi, with the Nezha braid, whose eyes were wide open like copper bells in the dark alley.
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