Boom!
Xie Linyuan's furious strike was steadily caught by Su Heng with one hand.
A massive air explosion burst between them, the shock waves spilling wildly in all directions.
Two "meat lanterns" hanging from the ceiling swayed violently, their light flickering, and despite their mouths being sewn shut, anguished screams and low growls could be heard!
"Give up,"
The smile on Su Heng's face gradually faded, turning cold as he spoke calmly, "You are no match for me, and to continue struggling will only bring more despair. Those who make enemies of me often end up in a very miserable state."
"Kid! Who the fuck do you think you're talking to!"
Xie Linyuan was furious to the extreme, his eyes bloodshot and his face covered with twisting, terrifying veins.
Ever since he had entered the Heavenly Deceit Realm, he had never encountered such a death-defying creature.
"I usually kill people with one blow, but this time might be an exception," Xie Linyuan activated the Super Sensory State unique to the warriors of the Heavenly Deceit Realm. His figure blurred, gradually disappearing from Su Heng's field of vision and perception, but his cold and terrifying voice still continuously came from all directions.
"You deserve to be sliced to pieces a thousand times over!"
Xie Linyuan brought his palms together like a knife, with ghastly pale sharpness in his qi, and slashed toward Su Heng's neck.
Bang!
Su Heng raised his left arm, blocking on the side.
A large amount of airflow instantly exploded, forming a white jet in all directions.
On the battlefield, Su Heng's towering stature stood steady as a mountain, unmoved. Even as a warrior of the Heavenly Deceit Realm, it was not easy for Xie Linyuan to break through Su Heng's defense and truly injure him. But one feature of warriors in this realm was their speed.
If one attempt didn't work, then they would try ten more times, a hundred times.
Repeatedly attacking the weak point, a constant drip wears away the stone, will eventually cause a qualitative change.
Bang!
While blocking Xie Linyuan,
Su Heng's right hand, like a heavy cannon, fired off, slamming into the air in front of him.
Just in the nick of time, Xie Linyuan, with his extraordinary reaction speed, dodged it. A terrifying airflow came from behind; using his peripheral vision, Xie Linyuan was shocked to discover that the wall behind him, built of luminous stones, had been pierced through, bright moonlight spilling into the tower from outside.
"Such formidable physique!" Xie Linyuan's heart tightened, "But it's useless if you can't hit me!"
"Secret Technique·Golem True Martial!"
Xie Linyuan took a deep breath, his chest expanded, then burst out with a terrifying roar like an ancient behemoth. At the same time, his body swelled, with his Achilles tendons getting thicker, and a robust force enveloped his body, forming an armor.
Empowered by the True Martial, Xie Linyuan's already swift speed increased by another thirty percent in an instant.
In Su Heng's vision, it seemed as if seven identical Xie Linyuans suddenly appeared around his body. This was not some sorcery or secret technique, but purely due to Xie Linyuan's speed reaching the extreme, even surpassing the limits of Su Heng's reactions and causing a visual disorientation effect.
"So this is the Heavenly Deceit Realm," Su Heng thought, as many realizations sprung to mind.
He had already gained a certain understanding of this profound realm thanks to the information passed down within the Demon Suppression Bureau.
Reading about it in documents was one thing,
But actually feeling it in battle was something else entirely.
Bang!
Xie Linyuan threw a direct punch toward Su Heng's face.
Su Heng reached to grab it but was dodged by Xie Linyuan's sidestep.
Then, in less than a heartbeat, bang, bang, bang, three punches landed on Su Heng's back heart, left upper arm, and abdomen respectively. The three dull impacts overlapped as if Su Heng had only been struck once, but at three different spots, his clothes burst open at once.
Two explosive sounds.
The lanterns fashioned from Pang Shan and Lian Qing burst open.
Amidst the splatter of blood, the remaining two demonic corpses flew out, to be absorbed and merged into Su Heng's body!
"Devour the Sun!"
Su Heng's face twisted, and his eyes flickered with a tyrannical red light.
He reached out his hand, and as if a black hole suddenly appeared in his palm, a terrifying gravitational force emerged on the battlefield.
The air outside rushed into the Demon Suppression Tower, driving a stream of white air that produced a 'whooshing' sound.
Xie Linyuan's face was filled with terror.
The skin on his face and the clothes on his body fluttered wildly under this force.
While the demonic corpse's divine skills of a death-level Demon Lord were powerful, relying solely on this force to stop a fighter of the Heavenly Deceit Realm was rather unlikely.
But that didn't matter.
Su Heng hadn't counted on this alone to deliver a fatal blow.
As long as he could slow down Xie Linyuan's speed with the gravitational force generated by "Devour the Sun," then he would pose no threat. In Su Heng's eyes, he was no different from a piece of garbage.
Boom!
The ground beneath Su Heng's feet burst open.
His massive frame, like a pitch-black raging dragon, tore directly through the wall.
Under the bright moonlight, amidst the dust raised from the shattered wall, an exaggeratedly ferocious punch came crashing down onto Xie Linyuan's head.
In mid-air—
Xie Linyuan changed direction and locked eyes with Su Heng.
In an instant, he felt as if his entire vision was filled with that exaggeratedly dominating punch, with no room to dodge or withstand it. With a roaring cry, he funneled all the strength in his body into his arms and lunged forward to block.
Boom!
The massive iron fist struck Xie Linyuan like a meteor, exploding on impact.
A clear blood-colored shockwave ring was visible between them, and the tremendous force of the impact, coupled with the robust energy derived from practicing the Secret Technique·Domineering Dragon Thirteen Forms, surged in all at once, shattering and destroying Xie Linyuan's protective energies.
His body flew backward like a plaything.
And in mid-air.
Su Heng delivered another strike from above.
His thick, imposing leg descended with the ruthless force of a god's axe, striking unmercifully in the middle of Xie Linyuan's lower abdomen.
Bang!
The immense power crushed bones and internal organs.
Xie Linyuan's body nearly folded in two under the force of the brutal blow, as his head and ankles snapped together with a crack.
He spewed out a mouthful of old blood, his eyeballs bulging as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.
The trajectory of his flight shifted from horizontal to a vertical fall.
Finally, with a "boom," he crashed heavily to the ground.
The newly repaired plaza once again caved in and exploded, even shaking the Demon Suppression Tower noticeably.
Amidst the dust, Su Heng's steps were heavy and steady as he walked toward the crater formed by the fall, "I've said it before, no matter how you struggle, the outcome will be the same."
"—If you don't want to die with dignity, then I can only help you die without it."