One could only see a golden Sun lying horizontally on the ground over a thousand meters away, continuously emitting waves of terrifying and scorching fluctuations.
Furthermore, centered around this magnificent Sun, within the surrounding thousand meters, there were hundreds of phantom figures emanating a faint white light and blazing fire, constantly practicing various mystical Martial Arts.
Fist, palm, leg, saber, spear, sword... Every one of them was a peerless art and skill rarely seen in the world.
"What... What is this?!!"
For a moment.
Kael and the other person, seeing this incredibly mystical scene, were so shocked their minds went blank.
In the arena.
Velos's killing intent had become increasingly heavy.
"Oh oh oh ~"
He breathed out scorching hot air from his wide mouth full of sharp teeth:
"Inhale. In fact, ever since leaving that deserted deep-sea island and returning to the continent, I have killed thousands of mortals to supply my cultivation.
But as my cultivation becomes deeper and deeper, I find that mortals are becoming less and less effective for an existence like me who has surpassed the limits, so..."
Velos opened his crimson eyes wide and looked towards the three individuals, as well as the numerous martial artists in the surrounding stands, his mouth suddenly splitting to his ears, revealing an expression of utter madness:
"Help me out, everyone! I desperately need your flesh and blood to aid my cultivation, I truly desperately need it!"
"Attack!"
Caelus let out a great shout, his body flashing as he attacked Velos.
Vale, with his spear vibrating, stomped his feet, advancing fiercely like a specter with heavy, phantom-like movements.
Veritas also widened his eyes, sending forth a torrent of Mental Power towards Velos, while his body took on a brass-like color, stomping the ground with resounding BANGS as he charged forth.
"Heh heh heh heh heh!"
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!"
Seeing the three people attacking at extreme speed, Velos showed no panic. Instead, he threw back his lowered head and laughed wildly up at the sky.
Instantly, visible waves of violent sound billowed forth, covering all directions with this brutal laughter.
The next moment...
"Well met!"
Velos let out a great shout, fiercely stomping several times, crushing the ground and causing the air to be forcibly pushed out into a ripple vortex. He then attacked ferociously.
In an instant, a hundred meters were crossed.
BUZZ ~~
Velos first's eyes erupted with a crimson glow, unleashing even more powerful Mental Power, easily burying Veritas's mental spell offense.
He then extended a hand and delivered a palm strike, completely shattering the brass-colored outer layer of the opponent's body. Then, with a backhand shock, he struck the monk's chest bones, causing a continuous loud CRACKING sound and spurting blood as his body rapidly retreated.
With his other hand, he suddenly twisted and grasped the black great spear that had attacked from a blind spot in his vision.
Velos's elbow was as if it had no joint, twisting spirally dozens of times in the blink of an eye.
He brutally twisted the spear shaft and Vale's right arm until they were fractured and deformed, even white bone fragments bursting through the skin along with the gushing blood from the grievous wound.
At the same time, Velos channeled the inwardly insidious explosive force and surged it forth, instantly shattering Vale's broken spear and crippled arm into a shower of bloody mist and metallic shrapnel covering the sky.
In less than a second.
Two Evershield Body were crippled by him on the spot.
At the same moment.
Velos's hands snapped and cracked, seizing Caelus who had attacked silently from behind, in a posture that was almost like his bones were broken.
His two hands gripped Caelus's two hands.
His fingers dug into the flesh, penetrating through to the bone marrow.
Next, Velos's head, torso, and legs, using his shoulders as pivot points, immediately flipped 180 degrees and brutally kicked the opponent in the chest and abdomen.
BOOM!!
CRACK CRACK CRACK!
Caelus's chest and abdomen instantly caved in, with loud cracking sounds as more than half of the bones throughout his body shattered. He was sent flying a hundred meters away to the wall, spewing blood wildly by Velos's kick.
THUD!
With a loud sound, the wall was blown open into a several-meter diameter hole.
Caelus, head slumped and arms mangled, lay slumped in the crater.
His entire body was covered in blood, no longer resembling anything human.
Velos had brutally ripped off both of his arms.
After easily defeating the three, Velos leisurely lifted Caelus's two severed arms and brought them to his face, sniffing deeply.
"Inhale ~"
As he inhaled, the two crippled arms rapidly shriveled and withered, and streams of visible thick vital energy surged from within them into Velos's nose and mouth.
"Hiss ~"
The martial artists present, seeing this scene, couldn't help but be terrified and horrified.
How is this martial arts?
This is clearly a man-eating evil demon!!
In their fright, they immediately wanted to flee the scene.
But Velos disagreed.
"Hmm?"
His designated blood sustenance wanted to leave on their own?
Velos suddenly opened his eyes and said coldly, "Want to run? Did you get my permission?!"
"Permission my ass!!!"
Vale, who had just had one arm broken, suddenly reappeared behind Velos with a strange movement technique.
In a prostrate posture, from head to tail, he clutched a bronze spear he had found from who knows where, and with a continuous resounding CRACKLE in the air, he obliquely pierced Velos's lower back near the kidney.
"SNAP!"
Velos's waist suddenly sparked a lot as the spear pierced him.
But besides the sharp tip of the spear being ground down by half, he was actually completely unharmed.
"Spirit Shift!"
At this moment, the near-death Caelus suddenly roared and leaped out of the pit.
Immediately after, he continuously conjured over a dozen illusions, rushing fiercely towards Velos with waves of dragon roars and tiger cries.
Veritas, pale and constantly coughing up blood, also appeared at the right moment.
Enduring the severe chest pain, he suddenly opened his mouth and nose wide, sucking in a large area of air, and loudly roared out a buddhist shout towards Velos's head.
"Thunderchant of Purity!!!"
The three great Evershield Body attacked together once more.
BOOM RUMBLE RUMBLE!!
For a moment, continuous vibrations and loud noises were incessant.
The ground within a radius of 10 meters was instantly shattered into stone fragments. Dust and dirt completely enveloped the few people.
Next.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
In a flash, three figures flew out in a sorry state. Only Velos, with his body surface covered in mottled, bone-deep wounds, stood up and remained in place.
"Weaklings, unable to withstand a single blow."
Velos sneered as he finished speaking. The injuries on his body surface immediately began to clot and close rapidly.
In just a few seconds, he was restored to his original state.
He lowered his head, his gaze sweeping around, and cackled malevolently at the three lying on the ground:
"Heh heh heh heh, think you can kill me with that little skill of yours? Stop having your damn pipe dreams!"
Finishing, he bared his teeth and grinned, comfortably relaxing his body. "However, you just now, you hit me so hard!
But..."
BANG!
Velos patted his chest, lifted his chin, and sneered arrogantly: "I... have long ago cultivated the Bloodfiend Undying Body! I have devoured the Vitality and life sources of tens of millions of people. With the Undying Body, as long as my origin is not depleted, I will absolutely never die!"
His eyes revealed a greedy light, and he cackled:
"You people, ah, cultivated year-round. The Vitality contained within you is extremely abundant, simply born as the best blood sustenance prepared for me!
Just a bunch of food, and you still think about fighting me! Truly don't know what's good for you!"
Velos turned his head to look at the heavily injured Caelus lying dozens of meters away, and sneered:
"You old fart, you've always been cunning. The killing array five years ago was organized by you!"
"Cough cough cough... Demon!"
Caelus spat out a mouthful of blood containing internal organ fragments, gasping: "You don't need to be smug, every generation produces talents. The Number One Under Heaven is no longer you, and you are not the only one who has set foot on the path forward in martial arts."
"Ah ~"
Velos frowned and cackled, "Is it Xelorian? The fact that you would let that illusionist fellow be the Number One Under Heaven just shows how much of a waste you all are!"
"Ha ha ha, truly frogs in a well."
Caelus laughed heartily, "I'll tell you, the new Number One Under Heaven is the Emberlight Ninth Princess.
Her Highness has similarly set foot on the path forward in martial arts, and is far more righteous and honorable than you."
"Hmm? There's still such a figure in the royal family?!"
Velos frowned and muttered.
"The path forward in martial arts... I spit on it!!"
Caelus, struggling to stand up, sneered coldly, "What kind of path forward in martial arts do you think that is? You're just a dirty hybrid who has trained yourself into a demon!!"
"Demon... Hybrid..."
"You old man who's about to die... How dare you still curse me! Good! Very good!"
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The crimson light in Velos's eyes surged, and he laughed out of extreme anger, "Old fool, just die for me!!"
Saying that, he stomped his foot fiercely.
BANG!
The ground shook violently. Velos instantly transformed into a crimson afterimage, covering dozens of meters and slapping Caelus, who couldn't dodge in time, across the face, violently slamming him to the ground.
Next, he sped forward.
CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK!!
In an instant, chunks of hard, rough arena bricks were brutally plowed up by Velos pressing down on Caelus, tearing forward along the way.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!!
Caelus was pinned down tightly by the extremely ferocious-looking Velos, violently plowing open a half-meter wide trench in the ground.
Along the way, there were countless mangled bodies, fragmented bones, and pools of blood.
In the end, Velos dragged him for a full two hundred meters before finally stopping.
Ultimately, Caelus.
Died a gruesome, incomplete death!
"Caelus!"
Vale, his limbs twisted, lay on the ground, grinding his teeth and roaring.
"Amitabha!"
Veritas, bleeding from his seven orifices, leaned against the wall, his back hunched, murmuring softly, "Such cruel actions, you demon, will surely meet your retribution! It's not that retribution won't come, but that the time has not yet arrived!"
"Heh heh heh heh! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Velos shook the residual blood from his hands, laughing wildly towards the sky.
The next moment, his body flickered. Accompanied by violent whistling winds, he appeared at the arena exit several hundred meters away.
He then wildly swung his hands, brutally smashing several martial artists attempting to flee at close range into bloody mist. He inhaled the bloody mist through his nose and mouth, drawing it into his body.
BANG!
His colossal foot crushed the ground. Velos instantly surged forward several tens of meters, brutally stomping towards a white martial artist who was closer.
BANG!
SPLATTER ~
The opponent's waist was directly shattered by the kick. His upper body howled as it flew towards mid-air but was caught by Velos. He then casually threw it towards another panicking martial artist fleeing dozens of meters away.
In an instant.
CRACK CRACK CRACK!
That unfortunate guy was smashed until his bones shattered and blood and fluids flew everywhere. He became a mass of bloody, indistinct flesh with the mangled upper body, completely devoid of life.
"ROAR!!!"
Driven by the thrill of killing, Velos let out a satisfying roar towards the sky. He opened his mouth and shot out a long, spiked, crimson tongue, piercing and bursting a martial artist's head, shoulder, and neck from a distance.
Next, he swung his long tongue again, slicing several martial artists dozens of meters away cleanly in half across their waists.
For a moment, the entire arena was plunged into a bloody massacre.
It was a one-sided slaughter by Velos against everyone.
Amidst the slaughter, Velos laughed wildly:
"Do you know what the path forward in martial arts is like?!"
The surrounding martial artists, either fleeing or counterattacking, had no mind to answer.
"Demon! Die!"
"Go to hell!"
"Help!"
"Oh god!"
"Someone, quickly save me!"
Amidst the screams, wails of pain, and choked sobs, Velos, who had transformed into a bloody demon, wantonly killed and sneered:
"Let me tell you then! To advance on the path of martial arts and break through the limits of humanity, one must transform from human to monster, devouring all living beings in the world!
And you, must be slaughtered by me to be used, to aid me in ascending to a higher realm..."
Suddenly, an alarm blared in Velos's heart.
His intuition sensed a pressure like the ocean instantly enveloping his entire body.
It could be said that from the moment of his birth until now, all the dangers he had experienced over a hundred years were not as threatening as this aura!
Velos's body stiffened, and cold sweat instantly poured down his forehead like a waterfall.
"Red Howl Fist!!"
He immediately used all the strength in his body, roaring angrily as he turned around and struck out with both palms clenched into fists.
Behind him, a blurry figure suddenly appeared, calmly extending a fist to meet Velos's fist in a strike.
BOOM!!!
The air vibrated loudly.
A huge roar echoed throughout the entire arena, causing many martial artists to fall over in disarray.
Velos's face was also grim as he retreated repeatedly.
He only felt as if he had completely lost control of his body.
Both of his hands felt numb.
His entire body was then forcibly pushed back by a subtle yet immense power.
Irresistible.
Just like being hit by a great mountain.
BANG!!!
Velos retreated several hundred meters consecutively until he crashed into a colossal wall, finally stopping.
"You..."
He tried to open his mouth to speak, but found that his entire body was a chaotic mess of intense pain, numbness, and boiling vital energy. He couldn't even move.
Velos lowered his head, looking at his twisted and deformed hands which were continuously gushing blood, his heart trembling incessantly.
Terrifying!
Truly terrifying!
That radiant phantom that suddenly appeared just now used only one fist strike.
Just one fist strike.
It completely injured both of Velos's arms, even causing him to almost lose his ability to fight.
Since achieving the Bloodfiend Undying Body, no one had ever injured him to this extent.
Furthermore, just at the moment he truly saw the opponent's figure, Velos froze completely, from soul to flesh.
An intense sense of immense danger was constantly, frantically warning him.
'Danger! Danger! Danger!'
'Will die! Will die! Will die!'
'Escape! Escape! Escape!'
That battle just now was entirely Velos enduring the boiling fear in his heart and forcibly meeting the attack.
"Spit!"
Velos narrowed his eyes, spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, and activated his demonic cultivation within his body, beginning to heal his arm injuries.
CRACK CRACK CRACK ~
After a series of bone twisting and squirming sounds of flesh and blood, his hands rapidly returned to their original shape.
The bone fragments that had pierced the skin retracted, and a layer of skin grew back over the exposed red muscles.
Even the blood hanging on his arm was absorbed back into his body by the flesh.
"Undying Body."
"Interesting."
From within the radiance, a clear, cold voice emerged, "I have never seen a martial art like this that can widely heal bodily damage."
Lying prone far away, Vale, upon hearing the familiar voice, his pupils trembled, and he painstakingly scrambled to his feet, hoarsely shouting:
"Ninth Highness! That demon is very hard to kill..."
"No need for more words, I already know everything."
The radiant figure raised an arm to stop him, slowly saying, "Rest well."
Veritas, the old monk far away, also recognized that the arrival was Seraphine. He let out a sigh, the tension in his heart relaxing, and clasped his hands in front of his chest, muttering:
"Amitabha."
Velos slightly tilted his head, looking at the reactions of those hai 'old friends', then turned back to face the radiant figure and sneered, "So you are that, what's-it-called, Emberlight Ninth Princess! But, why are you in such a bizarre form?"
"Ah! Her Highness's appearance is like a goddess, unlike you!"
Kael suddenly leaped from the arena entrance, stood with hands on hips, pointed at Velos, and said with a pout and mockery, "Like a demon, ugly as hell."
Alban carefully walked up from behind, and upon hearing what this kid said, couldn't help but twitch his face.
Good grief, you brat, you really aren't afraid of death!
Daring to talk back to such a great devil, even mocking him.
But as Alban cursed silently, upon seeing Seraphine's back ahead, the image of the golden Great Sun he had just witnessed couldn't help but appear in his mind, and his tense mood immediately eased quite a bit.
It's fine, with Her Highness present, we can definitely handle this!
The more than a hundred martial artists around, some hiding and some retaliating, also discovered the situation had changed and stopped one after another, looking towards this side.
"What's happening?"
"That monster stopped?"
"Let's see how things develop."
SWISH SWISH ~
The light in front of Velos slowly faded, revealing the ethereal figure of Seraphine.
Her aura was vast, supporting the heavens and splitting the earth.
Seraphine's expression was calm as she looked at the wary Velos and said flatly:
"Actually, I am not interested in your tragic past, but I am very interested in your martial arts. Therefore, let us have a fight."
She smiled softly:
"You seem uneasy; relax, I will not kill you quickly. However, if you have any trump cards, it is best to reveal them all, otherwise you will regret it greatly."
Hearing the other party speak such arrogant words in a calm tone, Velos's eyelids twitched violently.
He couldn't help but sneer repeatedly:
"You are very arrogant, brat. Good! Very good indeed!"
"It's been many years, many years since anyone dared to speak to me like this; you are the first!"
From the exchange just now, Velos was confident that he had no chance of defeating Seraphine.
But he, who considered himself the first to set foot on the path forward in martial arts, would not back down.
He absolutely could not tolerate this kind of contempt and arrogance.
"Looks like I'll have to use my ultimate move."
Velos’s expression turned ferocious, and he hoarsely shouted:
"Fatebreaker Blood Art!"
Gulp...
Velos’s heart suddenly swelled. Waves of agonizing, tearing pain flooded through his body as it throbbed violently.
The vital energy within him, tempered like steel, now surged like molten metal. It was roaring and gurgling through bones, muscles, and flesh.
At the same time, the twisted blood markings across his body began spewing vapor, hot enough to sear human skin.
"AAAHH!!!"
Velos threw back his head, unleashing a deep, guttural roar that shook the sky.
Creak… creak…
After activating the technique, and to the shock and horror of all watching, Velos's body grotesquely expanded. He was forcibly growing beyond two meters tall.
Muscles ballooned across his frame, grotesquely thick, as if armored by layers upon layers of muscle plating.
"This this this..."
Even Kael, staring wide-eyed at the now monstrous Velos and the immense aura he radiated, instinctively stepped back.
He turned and whispered to Alban, whose face had grown equally grim: "How does this guy even transform?!"
Alban’s mouth twitched. "Uh... I don’t know either."
On the stage.
CRACK!!
Casually crushing a mass of air in his hand, the transformed Velos slowly raised his head.
He locked eyes with Seraphine, his crimson gaze blazing, and sneered:
"After using this secret technique, my strength multiplies three or fourfold. So, kid..."
Grinning malevolently, he bared his fangs.
"You won’t die easily!"
Then his expression turned cold. With a thunderous stomp, the stage beneath his feet sank by three inches.
BOOM!!
A white shockwave erupted from the point of impact as Velos blurred. His figure vanished amid the explosive crackle of air splitting.
He lunged toward Seraphine like a hunting beast.
"Surpassing the speed of sound... how interesting."
"Physical attributes likely over one thousand. Good enough to practice on."
A soft smile formed on Seraphine’s face. She stepped forward calmly to meet him.
BANG! BANG!
The two figures flashed across hundreds of meters and collided with a thunderous roar.
Velos roared, aiming a punch straight at Seraphine’s face, but she easily deflected it with a palm strike, scattering the impact.
She then drove a knee upward into his abdomen, sending him staggering backward.
Before Velos could regain balance, Seraphine's eyes shimmered with divine light as she followed with another fist strike.
"Hmph!"
Velos growled, raising both arms to receive the blow.
BANG!!
The air cracked violently at the point of impact. Inside him, vital energy churned chaotically, leaving him reeling in pain.
He gritted his teeth, twisted, and lashed out with a savage kick toward Seraphine’s lower abdomen. Air exploded in its path.
But Seraphine shifted her weight, slipping past with elegant precision, and the insidious strike missed entirely.
She responded immediately with a swift downward chop, the air slicing apart like paper beneath her strike.
"Ah!"
Vital energy now wildly chaotic, Velos growled through clenched teeth, ducked low, and narrowly avoided the blow.
But just as he lifted his gaze—
BANG!!
A lightning-fast kick shot up, smashing into his chin.
A deafening BOOM shattered the air.
"PFFFT!!!"
Blood and shattered teeth burst from Velos's mouth as his head snapped back.
He was launched into the air, soaring over five hundred meters under the force of the strike.
In mid-air, Velos regained some consciousness, grit his teeth, and kicked downward. He was propelling himself back toward Seraphine like a meteor.
"Truly disappointing."
Seraphine, unmoving, shook her head with a quiet sigh.
Her calmness only deepened Velos's rage.
"AAAHHH! DIE FOR ME!!!"
"Such sloppy moves... And they called you 'number one under heaven' back then? What a joke."
Seraphine raised her slender arm, slicing through the air in a graceful arc.
From an impossible angle, she seized Velos mid-strike, grabbing his neck in a crushing grip.
Creak...
With a twist, she spun and flung the musclebound monster across the field, hurling him toward the distant storm.
But that wasn’t the end.
Seraphine followed. Each step blasted the ground apart in her wake.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Her body spun in mid-air, compressing into a spiraling form, like a divine drill.
BANG!!!
She slammed directly into Velos’s face, detonating a wave of force that shattered the air.
His skull visibly dented, expression warped in pain, he was flung even farther, a distorted sonic boom trailing behind him.
Seraphine squatted slightly, then stomped again. A crater formed beneath her feet.
She vanished into motion, closely tailing him like a shadow.
BANG!!!
Using her shoulder and neck as a pivot, she locked onto Velos's thick, red-black neck and twisted hard in mid-air.
CRACK CRACK CRACK!!!
His head snapped back at a grotesque angle, his spine arching unnaturally. His skull was now parallel with his back.
Still, Seraphine didn’t stop.
Harnessing the inertia, she flung him violently again.
Whoosh!
Velos's disfigured form spun like a war missile, crashing hard into the central arena a hundred meters away.
BANG BANG BANG BANG!!!
Then, with blinding speed, Seraphine stomped once more and appeared above him like a phantom.
As the bloodied figure came spiraling toward her—
She moved.
Her arms blurred. Dozens of afterimages flashed.
With seamless mastery, she redirected the devastating force behind Velos's charge, dispersing, deflecting, then folding it back into itself.
In the end, she reversed every bit of it, and returned it into his collapsing body.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!
Explosions erupted from within.
His body, tempered beyond steel, finally burst apart.
Blood. Bone. Flesh.
Scattered.
A distorted mass of gore lay on the field.
Silence.
Those who witnessed it stood frozen, overwhelmed by the sheer brutality and grace of the battle.
Not a single soul could speak.
