Myriad Tentacles
The fleshy tentacles, nearly half a meter thick, instantly crossed over twenty meters and lunged at Kurozawa, truly startling him.
Looking closely at this fleshy tentacle, one would see it was entirely composed of tough, blood-red muscle. Kurozawa could tell just by looking that the immense power it contained was something he couldn't withstand.
Just as he was about to be swallowed whole, Kurozawa barely reacted, rolling awkwardly on the ground.
Bang! The tentacle drilled into the ground.
Kurozawa's Fighting Spirit Perception had been locked onto Hongyue, and he still almost failed to dodge this incredibly explosive surprise attack.
At the same time, before Kurozawa could gather Mingzhou to counterattack the fleshy tentacle,
In Transparent World, he suddenly saw the fleshy tentacles underground abruptly change. The blood-red maw at the tip closed, layering over itself. The dense muscles, practically crammed together, deformed and split, dividing into about fifty thinner tentacles with tips like sharp knives.
Kurozawa's heart tightened.
He slammed his hand down on the ground. The ground trembled slightly, and using the rebound force, he stood up from his roll, then immediately leaped and dodged without stopping.
Meanwhile,
A hissing sound came, and an earth-shattering tremor filled Kurozawa's senses.
The more than fifty tentacles, like blood-red snakes, broke through the ground, sweeping and stabbing in all directions indiscriminately, like a celestial maiden scattering flowers.
In an instant, the air was filled with blood-red shapes, countless afterimages, turning this area into a meat grinder.
The ground was torn and flipped over. Cypress trees as thick as an adult's waist were chopped into irregular pieces of wood. The wind was also cut apart, full of whistling sounds.
This scene was very much like a finishing move from a game in his previous life, Myriad Tentacles.
Fortunately, Transparent World greatly enhanced his perception of danger, allowing Kurozawa to dance on the edge of a blade, escaping from this terrifying attack range.
Glancing at his right arm, which had disappeared, Kurozawa felt a lingering fear.
Those tentacles seemed to have a life of their own, moving with uncanny agility. As they attacked, the surrounding area would condense and deform into blade-like shapes. With a single fierce slash, Kurozawa's physique, which he had always been proud of, was instantly breached. His arm sprayed blood and was tossed into the air.
Afterward, the tentacles wrapped around his severed arm, deformed into fangs and gaping mouths, and instantly devoured it, leaving not even a trace.
"Hongyue in this state is indeed terrifyingly insane."
Kurozawa's eyes flickered.
He activated his regeneration ability. With a squish, his right arm grew back in the blink of an eye.
Clenching his fist, Kurozawa let out a long breath.
Boom! The Pitch-Black Aura erupted fiercely. This time it was different from before. The dense Pitch-Black Aura enveloped Kurozawa completely, seemingly illusory yet burning like real flames. Tongues of fire escaped, licking the surrounding space.
Like a pitch-black sun, he appeared on the earth.
When his Power of Despair broke through 400, his control over the Pitch-Black Aura deepened again. Moreover, it had finally become dense enough to protect his entire body, leaving no gaps.
If the Pitch-Black Aura were condensed into a small area, both its defense against abnormal energy and its lethality against living beings would be greatly enhanced.
The fleshy tentacles suddenly retracted, disappearing instantly and leaving behind a large expanse of scarred land.
Hongyue, towering like a valkyrie in her blood armor, surged forward, a circle of trailing air currents even appearing behind her.
In the blink of an eye, Hongyue was in front of Kurozawa, spinning and kicking.
Her speed was incredibly fast, like a red flash of lightning.
Kurozawa relied on his extreme dynamic vision, combined with Transparent World and Fighting Spirit Perception – all three abilities together – just to catch Hongyue's movements.
The next second, her long leg kicked through the air, cutting towards Kurozawa's waist like a guillotine.
Her leg armor instantly deformed, revealing blade-like bone edges.
Before it even touched his skin, Kurozawa felt a slight stinging sensation on his skin, and the Pitch-Black Flames around him flickered.
He could imagine that if he were kicked, he would be directly cut in half at the waist. Sustaining such a severe injury at close range, he wouldn't be able to withstand the subsequent attacks.
A Demon's regeneration ability is astonishing. Hongyue had no intention of holding back. Whether she wanted to cut off Kurozawa's head or cut him in half at the waist, her movements were lightning-fast, without the slightest hesitation.
However, although Hongyue's strength and speed were superior to Kurozawa's, Kurozawa also possessed extremely strong perception and predictive abilities, allowing him to accurately avoid most attacks. Although each time was dangerous, he managed to successfully dodge.
It seemed like he was at a great disadvantage, but in fact, the situation wasn't that bad. Kurozawa was just waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.
And now, the opportunity had arrived.
Kurozawa leaned back extremely far, his legs rooted to the ground, avoiding Hongyue's heavy kick in an iron bridge stance.
Her thigh pierced through the Pitch-Black Aura, sweeping past Kurozawa's nose by a hair's breadth.
Immediately after, Kurozawa pressed his palm against the ground. The steel-like muscles of his arm bulged high, and his muscle groups suddenly exerted force.
With his head down and legs up, his feet together, he kicked Hongyue's chin.
Crack! The lower part of Hongyue's faceplate shattered, revealing a patch of snowy white cheek skin. Her head tilted back.
At the same time, a ball of burning Pitch-Black Flames attached itself to her.
Immediately after, Kurozawa's entire body of Pitch-Black Aura flared up, soaring into the sky like a torch.
He flipped his body, stood upright facing her, and while Hongyue was momentarily stiff from being kicked in the head, he directly circled behind her and climbed onto her back.
Clamping her waist with his legs, he reached his hands out from under Hongyue's armpits, then brought them together to lock onto her neck, pressing down hard.
Creak, creak, creak... If Hongyue's physique weren't much stronger than Kurozawa's, he could have directly twisted her spine off with this chokehold.
Unfortunately, Hongyue's combat ability was entirely in her Demon body, and Kurozawa felt like he was shackled to an unbreakable piece of steel, unable to budge her.
However, Kurozawa's strength wasn't bad either. With a full-force burst, he managed to lock down Hongyue's movements as well.
And around Kurozawa's body, a dense Pitch-Black Aura was still burning.
In their close embrace, the Pitch-Black Aura also enveloped Hongyue's upper body.
At a speed visible to the naked eye, that layer of hard blood armor was gradually being destroyed.
Under the scorching of the Pitch-Black Aura, cracks opened and spread, revealing the snowy white skin underneath.
The Pitch-Black Aura was all-pervasive, drilling into the cracks. Hongyue was also turned into a black torch, her body burning with flames both inside and out.
The Pitch-Black Aura simultaneously inflicted both spiritual and physical damage, making it difficult to withstand.
She immediately began to struggle violently.
Veins bulged on Kurozawa's arms, and his blood vessels snaked under his skin like earthworms or small snakes.
The pressure grew heavier and heavier. A few seconds later, Kurozawa could feel the muscles in his arms gradually becoming overwhelmed, tearing and then regenerating continuously. His blood vessels were the same; due to exerting too much force, they directly burst and spurted blood.
At the same time, Hongyue seemed to have adapted to the intense spiritual pain caused by the Pitch-Black Aura's burns.
Her body stiffened, as if she had given up struggling.
Kurozawa's expression, however, changed.
In the Transparent World, neither his nor Hongyue's body could obstruct his vision. He saw the blood armor on Hongyue's back suddenly surge, condensing into sharp spikes that burst out of her body.
Chichichichi... Kurozawa was instantly severely wounded, with over twenty bloody holes pierced through his body, and his vital energy suddenly plummeted.
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