NOVEL NEXT Chapter 278 Death_2
This is his unique skill.
As his distinctive method of defense.
To the untrained eye, it looks as if he relies solely on the toughness of his flesh to resist attacks, when in reality, he utilizes the hardness and strength of the Tie Shi to neutralize the blow before physically taking it on with his well-trained body.
In this way, he neither loses face nor succumbs to the attack, killing two birds with one stone. It also serves to intimidate the multitude, one of the many tricks he had devised earlier in his years.
Stone Elder did not expect that without even drawing his sword, Fang Yu's mood has already taken numerous tumultuous turns, finally bracing himself with utmost vigilance, while at the same time, verbally, he did not forget to weaken the enemy's will.
"Young friend, although I have offended you previously, I never intended to take your life. Let's just go through the motions, so we can meet again in the future, what do you say?"
Stone Elder spoke softly.
It was precisely because he was uncertain that he started probing and undermining the opponent's assault from all directions.
The words out of Stone Elder's mouth were just a formality, simply a verbal tactic.
But the terrifying presence that just a moment before seemed insurmountable like the weight of Mount Tai, unexpectedly eased slightly at this moment.
Stone Elder's heart paused, a smile unwittingly curling up the corner of his lips.
Young people, after all, are just young people!
In a life-and-death struggle, how could such words ever hold weight?
Today, Li Shidao has forced me into killing my own nephew.
Tomorrow, could I possibly spare you, lad?
It's just that current circumstances compel me to bow my head for the moment!
A fierce glint flickered in Stone Elder's eyes, but in the next instant, he was shocked to find that the pressure that had just lifted surged back stronger than before, overwhelming his heart with dread!
What's going on?!
Has this kid seen through my bluff?
No! That can't be it!
Stone Elder turned his gaze to the young man.
Only to see that the young man had just shifted his gaze away from Li Shidao and Li Xunxue.
Li Shidao stood with his back to them, while Li Xunxue showed no change in expression, as if there had been no interaction.
So... is it just this kid, suddenly realizing something, planning to kill me to eliminate future trouble?
Such a vicious mind!
At such a young age, to have such machinations!
Stone Elder's heart sank.
It seems that it's time to show the goods and put up a true fight.
He didn't believe it.
His decades of consistent training couldn't withstand a mere sword strike from this youngster?
Impossible, there's no such possibility!
With an understanding of Fang Yu's intentions, like tearing off a facade, Stone Elder's face became twisted.
"Come..."
He gritted his teeth, as if squeezing the words out from his throat in a raspy voice.
"Make your move! Let me test your mettle!!"
Boom!!!
As if complying with his words, the Bone Blade in the young man's right hand suddenly burst into a mass of white powder!
A huge cloud of dust that concealed both figures, while the young man's Bone Armor turned as aged as tree bark, covering his entire body, with dark red blood coursing beneath his skin, barely visible.
And that Bone Blade, in that moment, suddenly twisted and deformed violently!
What kind of technique is this?!
Thump thump thump!
The intense beating of a heart, thrown into panic on the face of Stone Elder!
Then he suddenly realized, this sound was his own heartbeat, thumping fiercely, causing the noise!
This youngster, without even taking action, has already exerted an overwhelming and terrifying pressure on him!
What, what does he want to do?!
Stone Elder felt waves of panic and realized that this fellow before his eyes seemed to be undergoing some unknowable, never-before-seen transformation.
Before he could understand what Fang Yu's change implied...
Whizz!!!
Something, as fast as lightning, cut through the air before his eyes!
So fast?!
Whiz whiz whiz!
The skill of Tie Shi running under his skin had been practiced by Stone Elder until it became as natural as breathing.
In just an instant, he poured all his effort into protecting the vital area of his abdomen!
Originally intending to use only a few Ironstones, in that instant, his mind completely abandoned thought. He covered himself with all thirty-eight Ironstones he had kept close to his body, converging them onto his abdomen, forming a makeshift Iron Armor out of Ironstones!
To outsiders, it probably seemed that in that instant, his belly bizarrely bulged outwards, resembling a pregnant belly.
But in fact, it was an expression of his full-on defense!
I can withstand this strike!!!
Bang!!!
Almost the moment the Stone Elder thought of this, a terrifying power beyond compare, indescribable in words, immediately burst forth from his abdomen.
The first touch was terrifying impact that the Stone Elder felt.
The terrifying force, in almost an instant, crushed the thirty-some Ironstones hidden in his abdomen into powder, with only three remaining, and even those specially made Ironstones, which had accompanied the Stone Elder in his many battles through the south and north, split in half on the spot!
Even the Ironstones forged from mysterious metal could not withstand this terrifying power of this strike!
The Stone Elder's eyes widened, almost in disbelief.
Just when he thought this was all there was to Fang Yu's strike... only then did the truly terrifying power of this strike begin to exert itself!
If the initial terrifying impact is considered the first wave of impact,
Then the following bizarre, twisting, pin-like terrifying Penetration, directly caused the Stone Elder's brain to buzz and crash, leaving a void.
Zzzzzzzz!!!
Countless, indescribable, densely packed terrifying entities, thousands, tens of thousands, crazily penetrated the Stone Elder's abdomen.
The remaining Ironstones, even in that instant, were shattered into gravel and powder.
Those things easily penetrated the Stone Elder's well-trained iron hide, effortlessly through his sturdy internal organs, and in the blink of an eye went through everything in his abdomen, and "swoosh," penetrated out his back!
Countless, needle-like things came out through his back, and then wildly and brutally blossomed like dead wood meeting spring, turning into an enormous horizontal Bone Tree in the blink of an eye.
But this was just the beginning, when the Bone Tree was about to extend beyond the range of the Bone Powder, amidst the Stone Elder's incomprehensible sensations...
Crash!!!
Bone Blades, Bone Trees, Bone Leaves... everything collapsed like gravel, scattering down with a crash.
The pressure in his abdomen suddenly cleared, the Stone Elder fell to his knees with a thud, and from his belly, blood flowed out along with the pouring sand-like Bone Powder.
"What is... this martial art..."
He looked down at the ghastly wound on his stomach, then dumbly looked up at Fang Yu.
Confused, lost, puzzled...
At this moment, the Stone Elder had a thousand words in his heart, but he could no longer utter a single word.
The reason was very simple.
The dreadful injury almost immobilized him.
He looked down at his abdomen.
The hollow abdomen, almost as if it had never existed, with the internal organs, blood vessels, everything, vanished without a trace.
The only thing visible was the huge cavity, the blood cascading down, and the marks left by fine needle-like penetrations around the wound.
An individual with a hole in the abdomen won't live long.
The Stone Elder was no different.
Even though he felt that Fang Yu seemed to have held back at the last moment,
The resulting dreadful injury was beyond repair.
He was not going to last much longer.
Thump!
He collapsed sideways onto the ground, his mind a blank.
He could never have imagined, even in his dreams, that one day he would fall at the hands of a greenhorn.
He'd been wary and cautious for so many years in the world, and yet he hadn't anticipated this one.
He had fallen.
He had truly fallen.
And the cost of his fall was fatal.
[Lin Nanshuang: 485/3000.]
The continuous bleeding from the abdomen made the fallen man's injuries worse.
-195!
If at this moment there were prompt medical attention, the Stone Elder might have had a slim chance of survival...
-178!
But at this moment, neither Fang Yu, nor Li Shidao, who was slowly turning around, looking indifferently at the corpse on the ground and making no move to save him.
Around him, there was not a single ally.
-112!
[Lin Nanshuang: 0/3000.]
The Stone Elder, who once dominated the world with his remarkable presence, just like that, ingloriously died under the hands of an obscure officer from the Yangshen Hall.