I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 188 - 159 Got Another One_1

Chapter 188: Chapter 159 Got Another One_1

Battle Maniac Asura looked at his arm that had been stripped of its weapon and spat dismissively. A blood-colored gleam appeared, conjuring a weapon identical to the one just taken. Zheng Yichen had fought fiercely, even taking a beating, to snatch away his weapon; not to mention this human brute he was dealing with.

On the contrary, it was quite smart. Zheng Yichen’s battle suit was of excellent quality—his body’s energy membrane protection, and his robust physique allowed Zheng Yichen to be so daring. By taking away one of his weapons, Zheng Yichen had found a point of breakthrough from his side.

Sword and saber clashed, a blood-colored ripple spread out, pulverizing the ground around them, and rapidly expanding towards Zheng Yichen.

Originally intending to break through forcefully, Zheng Yichen, upon witnessing this scene, chose to retreat without hesitation, tossing out a black spear he had temporarily conjured in his hand. As soon as the black spear touched the pulverizing ripple, it fractured densely, and the entire black spear was crushed by the wave.

What kind of move is this? Zheng Yichen stared at Battle Maniac Asura, whose fierce face curled into an even more sinister smile. In the heat of a fierce battle, who has the time to shout out the names of their moves as if calling out dish names?

Or rather, there isn’t any time to shout them out during an attack—only after defeating an opponent does one have the chance to speak leisurely.

In the time it takes to say one sentence, they might have exchanged a dozen moves, and only at the beginning is there a chance to roar one out.

The move Battle Maniac Asura used was just the beginning; the real trouble came from the subsequent attacks, as the weapons were imbued with continuous saber Qi and sword Qi.

After exchanging blows once again with him, Zheng Yichen could tell something was off. The attacks infused with saber Qi and sword Qi had a strong penetrative quality. Even though he blocked the weapon attacks, the saber Qi could seep along the weapon directly through his defenses, causing direct damage—a kind of assault his battle suit could only partially block.

Taking advantage of the fact that he lacked Inner Qi, that intrinsic power? Zheng Yichen’s lips twitched slightly but still refrained from using Burst Mode Stage 2. The consumption of maintaining Burst Mode in his Return to Origin state was not severe.

Sustaining this state would allow him to fight for a long time. Using Burst Mode Stage 2 would drastically reduce that time, conflicting with his strategy.

Saber Qi seeped through the black spear and battle suit in Zheng Yichen’s hand, his lips twitching slightly. He could feel a force rampaging within his body, akin to a flurry of slashes from a small blade, indiscriminately cutting inside him.

When this power was weak, he could crush it—Burst Mode could suppress it. However, as Battle Maniac Asura’s attacks accumulated, the quantity of saber Qi increased beyond his immediate control. Not to mention, there was also sword Qi.

The saber Qi unleashed by Battle Maniac Asura was red, while the sword Qi was dark golden. Different colors meant different forces. Both sharp energies rampaged within his body, occasionally colliding with each other, making for an indescribable sensation.

His face spontaneously revealed wounds bursting out from within. Other areas, concealed by the battle suit, did not expose the injuries, which were, in fact, more extensive across his body.

Fixating on the weapons that carried saber Qi and sword Qi with their swings, Zheng Yichen’s gaze briefly fell on Battle Maniac Asura’s rear, where his more-than-three-meter-tall figure blocked the path, preventing Zheng Yichen from finding the opportunity to try something fierce on the Demon Flower.

Zheng Yichen retreated a distance, avoiding the earth-shattering sword Qi that struck the ground. He took a breath; the energy membrane on his body became somewhat agitated. He shook his hands, and an invisible force pierced his fingers. The sword Qi and saber Qi inside his body were squeezed out, but they caused even greater damage to him.

Fortunately, he was in a Return to Origin state, which further enhanced his recovery ability. He would be able to recuperate after a while... But there was no such opportunity.

Battle Maniac Asura would not allow it. The behemoth charged in front of Zheng Yichen, bringing down two giant swords on his head. Zheng Yichen retreated, but Battle Maniac Asura pursued him relentlessly, not giving Zheng Yichen any breathing space.

The saber Qi and sword Qi that Zheng Yichen had just expelled started to wreak havoc in his body once again.

Struggling to breathe under the pressure, Zheng Yichen looked up and opened his mouth as Battle Maniac Asura closed in, swinging his arms at him. The infiltrated saber Qi and sword Qi within his body, along with the air he had been inhaling and compressing in his lungs, were all expelled.

He couldn’t produce the kind of air projectile the Alien Phenomenon behemoth could when it opened its mouth, but he could still try a lower-grade version. The crimson blast he roared momentarily staggered Battle Maniac Asura.

The close-range burst impact pushed him back half a step. The expelled compressed air bullet, wrapped in saber Qi and sword Qi, created wounds on Battle Maniac Asura’s body, as those attacks, originally embedded in Zheng Yichen, had turned into a weapon damaging him upon expulsion.

Mixed saber Qi and sword Qi passed through the defended weapons, leaving numerous fine injuries on battle-state Asura’s body. This roar was also empowered by the force of Blood Sacrifice, and it was the converted power of this Blood Sacrifice that gave Zheng Yichen’s roar its lethality. Otherwise, it would have been as harmless as a gust of wind against him.

As the Battle Maniac Asura was forced back half a step, and his attack rhythm was disrupted, a black substance swiftly covered the fishing rod in Zheng Yichen’s hands, which glowed with a faint red light. The long spear thrust straight at the Battle Maniac Asura, as four weapons from different angles clamped down toward the long spear wielded by Zheng Yichen.

But the red glow that erupted from the long spear pierced through the weapon blockade at an even faster speed, hitting the behemoth’s phantasmal giant scissors, penetrating them and passing through one of the Battle Maniac Asura’s arms.

At the same time, a saber also struck Zheng Yichen’s shoulder. When the saber made contact with the Qi film, its saber Qi trembled for a moment, shedding some of its strength but still maintaining enough momentum to cut through the battle suit and send Zheng Yichen reeling back with it.

"Fuck—" Looking at the wound that had been sliced open on his chest, Zheng Yichen felt a lingering fear as he drilled the arm wielding the black spear into the ground. Prior to this, the Battle Maniac Asura’s attack and defense had been nearly flawless, but after one of the weapons was taken from him, a gap had emerged.

Taking advantage of that gap had allowed him to successfully sever one of the Battle Maniac Asura’s arms. However, the Battle Maniac Asura didn’t give Zheng Yichen a chance to rejoice, and nearly made Zheng Yichen’s heart leap for real.

With that single slash, the protection of the battle suit drastically decreased. If the same spot were to be hit by another saber strike, he would truly be in trouble.

The arm pinned by the black spear quickly turned ash-gray, and no blood flowed from the cut, as it was all absorbed by the black spear. The pain from the saber wound that extended to the waist lessened significantly.

Kicking a giant sword lying on the ground into his hand, Zheng Yichen saw from a distance the situation at Qi Xiangyun’s side. There, Liu Hongzhao swung a giant sword, ill-suited to her stature, yet the aberrant creatures that approached her were all slain by the wind-sword energy flung from the giant sword.

The divine weapon greatly amplified the Sword Qi.

Seeing this, Zheng Yichen threw the newly acquired weapon over.

"Quick, Brother Chang Qing has gotten another sword. Let’s hurry and fetch it!" Lin Yaoyao, hearing the commotion and seeing the giant sword land far away, excitedly said. She had not seen Zheng Yichen getting slashed, and assumed that Zheng Yichen had the upper hand and had managed to reclaim one of the Supreme Demon’s weapons. To them, a formidable Supreme Demon had now been robbed of two weapons.

This suggested that Zheng Yichen was more formidable than the Supreme Demon.

"..." Qi Xiangyun’s lips twitched involuntarily. When she looked toward the receding figure of Zheng Yichen, she was filled with expectations. She hoped that Zheng Yichen really could kill the Battle Maniac Asura, but the records she had read came to mind: the Supreme Demon does not die; even if killed at great cost, the Supreme Demon would reincarnate after some time.

It was only a matter of how long that might take—perhaps ten or twenty years. However, a proper seal could suppress a Supreme Demon for decades, or even centuries. Furthermore, a sealed Supreme Demon could not grow stronger, and even if they were to break free one day, if the later generations were strong enough, there was a chance to seal the Supreme Demon again.

To pay a great price to annihilate a Supreme Demon wouldn’t be cost-effective. Of course, there were benefits—such an approach was stable, as the Supreme Demon would need ten or twenty years to reincarnate, and during this time there was no worry of unscrupulous people causing trouble.

As for seals, they were made to be broken. Over time, there would naturally be those who coveted the power of the Supreme Demon, or those desiring the Supreme Demon’s blessing, who would attempt to break the seal.

"It hurts so much—" Lin Yaoyao, with tears welling up in her eyes from the pain, but with her hands firmly grasping the giant sword, pulled it out of the ground. She had seen Liu Hongzhao wield the previous sword competently and was determined not to be outdone.

"You... be careful," Qi Xiangyun said hesitantly, watching Lin Yaoyao’s stubborn face. She knew that wielding a Supreme Demon’s weapon was not easy; if it wasn’t for the fact that their martial arts were Blood Asura, passed down by the Battle Maniac Asura himself, merely touching the weapons of the Battle Maniac Asura would bring even harsher retribution.

Even now, wielding the Battle Maniac Asura’s weapon inflicted considerable harm unless they could fully dominate the weapon.

"We should hurry back. Maybe, like with White... with Hong Zhao, once we kill some monsters, we’ll be able to wield this weapon," Liu Hongzhao suggested, somewhat strained by the weight of the giant sword.

Zheng Yichen, staring at what seemed to be an enraged Battle Maniac Asura, had not only directly severed one of his arms, but also drained it, and felt the feedback he received fortify him swiftly, with the ’optimization’ of his physique increasing much more than what he experienced with just a slight taste of the Supreme Demon Blood previously.

Yet this feedback still wasn’t enough to grant him the overwhelming power to resolve the fight with the Battle Maniac Asura; it only meant that he would be a bit more at ease in the upcoming fight.

Such ease would be temporary, as once the Return to Origin state wore off, he would likely be beaten down. The blood essence he expended for that last strike had significantly reduced the duration of his Return to Origin state.