Chapter 1742 Simple

Chapter 1742 Simple

After Ryu's voice fell, he suddenly took a step forward and punched out.

The light in the waters vanished as he stored the blood crystal away. At the same time, he sent out a pulse of Bloodline Resonance.

It all happened in an instant.

The waters were agitated beyond recognition. Their senses seemed to tell them that Ryu was everywhere and yet nowhere at the same time, all while they had lost the light source that they had been relying upon before.

The blood crystals seemed to be the only things that could light up these rotten waters. Even those with light or fire abilities found themselves out of luck in this regard. So the moment Ryu put the blood crystal away, it was like they had once more been thrust into the jaws of hell.

Ryu's pulse of Bloodline Resonance covered two bases for him at once. First, it obscured him from their senses, and second, it allowed him a perfect lay of how they were reacting.

Wunikai had retreated into the encirclement of sycophants, while the others looked around warily, trying to find exactly where Ryu was. Wunikai herself seemed to be particularly calm. She stood there without a word, her gaze shifting from side to side at times until it suddenly landed in Ryu's exact position.

Ryu was likewise calm when this happened. 'She's pretending. She never lost track of me in the first place.'

He was too good at reading people for these little tricks to work. Wunikai had methods of seeing through these waters that others did not, and more shocking than that was retrospectively, it seemed that even her "shock" at seeing him should have been an act as well.

She had likely spotted him from an exceptionally long distance away.

All things considered, Wunikai wasn't actually on his kill list. The "her" he had referred to back then was an Ice Queen who seemed a little too fond of his wife.

Wunikai and he didn't even really have a grudge between them, and after this slight against her, she hadn't said another word. Her worst sin was just trying to mediate a situation she shouldn't have stepped into.

In the past, Ryu might have marked her for death just because of this. But he had mellowed out a lot over the years. He couldn't be bothered to expend the energy just for this.

It was difficult to use the Qi Line technique in these waters due to its very nature. It was only worse that they had to protect themselves with qi skins, so penetrating that needed another layer of control as well.

That meant the best communication method was actually just talking normally, but how much time would that waste?

Wunikai sent out orders immediately about where Ryu was coming from, but by the time they realized, he had already shifted.

Ryu pierced down with a finger, the aura of a spear radiating out from him as he thrust right through the forehead of another Blacksteel Giant. Before his Bloodline Resonance and close combat abilities, they might as well have not been there at all.

By the time they reacted, Ryu had already killed three of their group of nearly 40.

He sent out another Bloodline Resonance pulse and then vanished again.

It had been a while since he slaughtered to his heart's content. He remembered his battle in Sacrum, facing off against a sky full of Gods with the arrogance of an Immortal Ring Realm expert.

His blood boiled, and he grinned wildly.

He had almost forgotten just how much he loved to fight.

In his first life, he was suppressed so greatly, only being able to use his tongue to lash out in the most vicious ways he could muster.

But now he preferred not to talk at all.

They stood in his way so they would die.

Simple as that.