Becoming a Saint by Touching Corpses-Chapter 588 - 565: Defeat

As the various phenomena dispersed,

The figures of the two reappeared in everyone’s pupils.

Lou Yi stood atop a wooden house seven to eight stories high, his shirt severely torn, exposing a large area of his bronze skin.

Under the sunlight, it shimmered with a faint luster, giving an extremely resilient and solid impression.

National Master Mu Yun still hovered in mid-air, wearing a golden crown and a yellow robe, looking down on Lou Yi like a deity, his gaze showing a hint of surprise.

"What kind of martial arts is this?"

The bout between the two had resulted in a draw.

The difference was,

National Master Mu Yun had used the martial arts essence to harness the power of heaven and earth.

Whereas Lou Yi relied solely on his own strength.

To counter heaven and earth with sheer human force shocked Mu Yun internally.

"Extreme Qi-Blood, generating Gang Qi."

As soon as Lou Yi spoke, it caused an uproar among the martial arts practitioners below.

"Qi-Blood can actually be cultivated to the extreme! What truly is the extreme, when can one cultivate to the extreme?"

"What is Gang Qi? It seems like I’ve never heard of it, even the martial arts records lack any mention..."

"Even without comprehending the martial arts essence, could simply accumulating Qi-Blood finally lead to a qualitative change?"

Lou Yi’s brief words represented another direction in martial arts cultivation, completely different from this world’s mainstream path.

Listening to this, Mu Yun sneered: "Only cultivating Qi-Blood without understanding the essence is mere brute force, just live targets for us."

He reached out again towards the space below, and shouted.

"Rise."

As soon as the words fell.

All martial arts practitioners’ expressions changed.

They felt the surrounding atmosphere becoming completely different, a suppressed, oppressive, uncontrollable feeling arose.

Obviously, the Grandmaster realm enveloped them all.

However, National Master Mu Yun’s target was not them personally.

All the weapons hung around their waists, carried on their backs, or held in their hands—swords, spears, sabers, halberds, staffs—emitted buzzing vibrations, seemingly trying to break free at any moment.

"What on earth?!"

Someone couldn’t help but hold onto their weapon, but then the surrounding heavens’ power pressed down, causing them to turn pale and forcefully stop their previous actions.

Soon, constant sounds of ’zeng zeng zeng’ and ’shoo shoo shoo’ arose.

Weapons broke free from their owners’ grasps and soared skyward.

They transformed into streams of black, silver, red, and gold, gathering into a torrent of steel, fiercely sweeping toward Lou Yi’s location, numbering in hundreds or thousands!

"We are all inside the Grandmaster realm, life and death are out of our control, so the weapons naturally cannot escape."

"With so many weapons attacking, even if it’s a mountain ahead, it would be forcibly dismantled!"

"Brother Liu, quickly evade!"

Below, people’s eyes revealed concern.

Especially the few familiar individuals with Wang Yukai and his wife, their hearts were in their throats.

Faced with such a terrifying attack, Lou Yi squinted his eyes.

He felt himself being remotely locked onto by Mu Yun’s will.

No matter how he dodged before, the weapons could still follow him relentlessly.

Even maintaining a sufficient distance to accelerate would make their power more terrifying.

Thus.

Lou Yi lightly leaped, bending his body, kneeling against his chest, grasping his head, shielding all vital parts.

At the same time, the Petrification Talent was pushed to its maximum, wearing the Glazed Steel Armor, and both tenacity and regeneration talents activated.

’Clang clang clang!’

In the eyes of all who watched in shock and worry, Lou Yi was soon enveloped by numerous weapons, emitting a harsh metallic crashing sound.

’Bang bang bang!’

’Clang clang clang!’

’Crack crack crack!’

However, no matter how exquisite, mundane weapons could not break through top-grade Spiritual Artifact level defenses.

Instead, each one deformed in the violent clash, becoming a pile of useless scrap metal.

"Holy crap, this is so hard!" A sharp female voice echoed, it was from a disciple of the Haoran Sect.

But then she realized her words were inappropriate, her face flushed scarlet.

The rest of the martial arts practitioners also looked pleased.

Unexpectedly, Lou Yi’s physical hardness exceeded their expectations, even the onslaught of countless weapons left him unscathed.

But their smiles soon froze.

"It’s over!"

"How could this happen?"

As the weapons’ strikes continued, a large number of yellow sparks began to form on Lou Yi’s surface, and even blue electric arcs.

Only a ’boom’ explosion was heard.

His entire being was directly set aflame, transforming into a massive blue and purple fireball, fiercely burning in the air.

It turned out that Mu Yun’s move wasn’t fearsome simply because of the weapons’ hardness.

The key lay in the intense heat generated from friction that couldn’t be dissipated.

When heat accumulates to a certain extent, quantitative change leads to qualitative change, forming a high-temperature flame that could burn Lou Yi alive!

No matter how abundant Qi-Blood or hard the flesh, a body of flesh and blood cannot withstand the scorching of high-temperature flames.

’Clang clang clang!’

Weapons continued surging toward Lou Yi, escalating the flames’ temperature, ultimately turning them white.

The temperature was so high that the surrounding void seemed to warp from burning.

Even those far below felt the heat wave assault, hair curling, unable to stop retreating constantly.

"Brother Liu!" Wang Yukai shouted in grief and indignation, tears welled up in his eyes.

In his eyes, Lou Yi was enduring the world’s most dreadful torture, not only being cut to pieces but also burned by a huge fire.

"Quick, save young Brother Liu!"

Zhang Laoshan and others forced their way through the Grandmaster realm’s blockade, barely launching beams of Qi-Blood to try to drive away the weapons on Lou Yi.

Unexpectedly, the dense Qi-Blood turned into a fuel for the white flames, burning even hotter, scaring them into stopping immediately.

In a Grandmaster-level battle, even top-notch experts cannot intervene, how utterly hopeless it felt.

After a dozen breaths, all swords and blades were finally exhausted at the site.

The white flames covering Lou Yi gradually shrank and finally extinguished, revealing an object wrapped in irregular black metal remnants.

"Mere brute force without true essence, what a foolish and laughable path of cultivation." Grandmaster Mu Yun stood high in the void judgingly, a hint of ridicule flashed through his eyes.

Being baked by such high-temperature flames, this brute should have turned into a pile of charcoal.

However, his complexion appeared somewhat pale, showing that the move "Ten Thousand Blades Return to Sect" consumed greatly, even for him it wasn’t easy to cast.

Mu Yun turned to look below, his figure slowly descended, preparing to settle accounts with the martial arts practitioners below like ants.

Suddenly, his expression stiffened.

The irregular black metal-covered object emitted a soft ’pat’ sound. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Then.

’Bang!’

It exploded outright!

"Body Transformation!"

A vibrant red light burst forth from the dark cluster, dazzlingly bright.

In an instant, the red light transformed into a dazzling ray full of sharpness and murderous aura, like a meteor catching up with the moon, tearing through the void, shooting straight at him!

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