Chapter 92 Individual Actions <TOC> Chapter 94 The Cowardly Beast From Within
Translator: SumTLMan
Overwhelming power surged from the curved blade, causing the cursed blood iron scimitar to be cut in two. Half of the broken blade flew into midair.
Li Mu’s own strength, combined with the momentum of Dao Li, was not something a fifth-level awakened could withstand.
The cultist’s face still bore the traces of terror as he was directly cleaved in half by the Blade of Annihilation.
Before the corpse could even hit the ground, it was incinerated into ashes by the blazing high temperature of the Great Extinction Flame.
Li Mu rode Dao Li into the midst of the armed cultist crowd.
The powerful Dao Li rammed several armed cultists directly, as Li Mu swung the Blade of Annihilation like slicing through vegetables, quickly scattering the cultists and leaving a trail of corpses behind.
Ignoring the fleeing cultists, Li Mu rode towards the farm.
The sudden attack threw the entire farm into chaos. Whenever Li Mu saw signs of the cultists being organized, he would charge on his horse to disperse them and then slay the organizing cultist directly.
Amidst the chaos, a fourth-level awakened appeared from the outpost.
Dressed in traditional Xindu attire, the man was already quite old, with graying hair.
“Do you know whose territory this is?”
The awakened man looked at the scattered corpses and terrified cultists, roaring in anger.
He drew the curved blade from his waist, his murderous intent surging.
“An enhancer awakened?”
Li Mu sat on his horse, looking down at the man. Most awakened would only focus on their own psychic inclinations before reaching the fourth level. To practice other psychic inclinations simultaneously would require too much talent.
“It seems you haven’t heard of my name, Cedric of the Black Blade.”
Cedric tore off his robe, revealing a lean and muscular body. His body was covered in crisscrossed scars, appearing fierce and grotesque.
“Merely a fifth-level awakened, you’re incredibly audacious!”
He removed his boots, standing barefoot on the ground, his calloused hands holding the curved blade close to his body.
A pale glow flowed like water over his upper body, shimmering brilliantly.
A mere touch would cause the destructive psychic energy to turn a person’s internal tissues into a sieve.
Li Mu gripped the hilt of his blade and urged Dao Li to accelerate, charging directly at Cedric.
Cedric’s face tensed up as the towering figure of Dao Li was already imposing. Once it charged, it was truly unstoppable.
Regret welled up in his heart, as he somewhat lamented not taking the initiative due to his arrogance, allowing his opponent to accelerate their horse.
“Clang!”
A piercing resonance rang out, nearly tearing the eardrums, as a dazzling burst of sparks erupted between the two weapons.
Cedric’s arms went numb from the shock, and he had to retreat four or five steps to dissolve the tremendous force transmitted along the blade.
He had just attempted a horizontal swipe at the horse’s legs to incapacitate the powerful psychic creature, but Li Mu had intercepted it with a single stroke.
Glancing at the tiny notch on the blade, Cedric’s eyelids twitched.
He had just wanted to unleash a devastating psychic energy along the entwined weapons to destroy the muscles in Li Mu’s palm, but he did not expect to encounter a surge of psychic energy. The two forces collided as if their wills were clashing.
Cedric felt as if his forehead had been struck by a powerful hammer, and he barely managed to block the momentum of the blade. The opponent’s psychic energy might only be at the fifth level, but their will was as hard as steel.
“What, is this the Hidden Bone Energy Technique? Who are you?!”
“Hidden Bone Energy Technique isn’t difficult. After raiding the monastery, I learned it in no time.”
Li Mu turned his horse around after galloping tens of meters, looking down at Cedric and spoke.
Cedric’s psychic energy shone brightly, and his face showed an incredulous expression:
“So, you’re the heretic who attacked the monastery, escaped Bishop Pilate’s pursuit, and dared to come to destroy the Ten Pine Farm.”
He took Li Mu’s words as a joke. The monastery had been attacked just a few days ago. How could the other party have learned the Hidden Bone Energy Technique in such a short time? There must be a traitor within the church, allowing the technique to leak out.
If he could capture Li Mu, he would undoubtedly gain Bishop Pilate’s favor!
A glimmer of passion ignited in Cedric’s heart. Enhancers were not valued within the Soul Sect. Even though he had advanced to the fourth level, he only received a Beast of Darkness holy relic.
At this thought, he instantly activated the berserk effect of the Beast of Darkness holy relic.
His originally thin body swelled up in an instant.
Cedric let out an angry roar, charging towards Li Mu like a cannonball.
He would not give that giant horse another chance to accelerate.
Li Mu directly invoked the holy relic within the Blade of Annihilation, summoning the devastating black fire.
“Boom!”
The scorching, annihilating flames surged towards Cedric in a deadly slash.
Cedric’s pupils contracted sharply, his heart and gallbladder nearly shattering, and the hairs on his back stood on end. The attack came so suddenly that he hadn’t even had time to gather information about Li Mu from the scattered cultists.
He never expected that Li Mu, an enhancer awakened, could summon such terrifying flames.
Cedric stomped one foot firmly into the ground, abruptly exerting force and striking the blazing annihilation flame with a single slash.
“Boom!”
The annihilating flame was cleaved in half and struck the ground, transforming into a sea of fire that raged and engulfed Cedric in its midst.
The scorching tongues of fire licked at his body but were repelled by his dense bone armor. Though he hadn’t directly touched the annihilation flame, the intense heat had caused burns in several places.
Cedric let out a piercing scream. Clenching his teeth, he transformed his unbearable pain into rage.
“Roar!”
In the next moment, the sharp edge of his curved blade slashed towards Li Mu.
Dao Li stood upright, lifting Li Mu to dodge the attack.
From a higher vantage point, Li Mu gripped his sword and counter-attacked. His dark blade was like a falling dark cloud, still carrying traces of the burning annihilation flame.
Cedric rolled on the ground and evaded the strike, ending up beneath Dao Li to avoid the slashing blow.
Dao Li raised his enormous hooves to stomp down, forcing Cedric to awkwardly roll away in evasion.
“Damn heretic, fight me fair and square on the ground,” Cedric yelled, repeatedly avoiding Dao Li’s hooves, which could easily crush a car.
He couldn’t understand where Li Mu, a mere level five awakened and a lowly enhancer one at that, had acquired such precious treasures.
Even if Cedric were to sell himself into slavery, he couldn’t obtain a steed as exceptional as Dao Li. And the extraordinary longsword that could unleash terrifying flames was something even level three powerful awakened would covet.
Chapter 92 Individual Actions <TOC> Chapter 94 The Cowardly Beast From Within