Chapter 1194: Chapter 1166: Wind Roar
Not long ago, Li Chen was in closed-door cultivation on the third layer of the Relic World.
The time wasn’t long, but it wasn’t exactly short either.
For others, perhaps two months indeed is not long; even for ordinary people, two months can pass in the blink of an eye.
For a Martial Artist, it’s even more so.
Two months is barely enough for them to have a brief period of closed-door cultivation.
But those two months, for Li Chen, were like being in Hell.
Every single day, he was.
In the mist-filled third layer, where he couldn’t see clearly within ten meters, Li Chen had to keep his nerves tight and face everything with the utmost vigilance.
He dared not relax even a little, for just a moment of slack could mean becoming food for the vicious Demon Beasts.
It was a layer filled with slaughter.
Only the strongest could enjoy peace there.
Li Chen’s strength was clearly not the strongest there.
So, he could only cautiously avoid powerful Demon Beasts, hunt the weaker ones, and live carefully day by day.
Yet, no matter how careful, in such a place, it was impossible to avoid those powerful Demon Beasts forever.
Finally, one day, Li Chen was surrounded by three formidable Ferocious Beasts nearly comparable to Roaring Level warriors.
But the final result was that Li Chen came out alive.
While those three fierce Roaring Level Demon Beasts became food for other Demon Beasts.
His survival wasn’t relying on luck, nor was it because of stronger Demon Beasts passing by.
He relied on himself.
He relied on the Red Moon in his hand.
He relied on...his Third Blade.
This blade was called...Wind Roar.
Unsheathed, the sword drawn, Wind Roar.
In the instant the Red Moon in Li Chen’s hand slashed out, the surrounding breeze started to pulse with a strange rhythm.
Soon, the pulsation speed became faster, forming a vortex centered around Li Chen.
The once peaceful breeze also transformed almost instantaneously into Wind Blades that could rival swords.
The rustling sound of leaves became, at this moment, a horrifying, teeth-on-edge friction noise.
The wind roared at this moment.
In front of Li Chen was a giant evil light, as if to cleave everything before him. And among these things to be cleaved, Li Chen was included.
Behind Li Chen were trails of black smoke like venomous snakes, eerie and terrifying.
Yet, regardless of the evil light or the black smoke, upon encountering these roaring winds, they mysteriously dissipated.
No earth-shattering collision, no deafening thunderous noise.
Just dissipated, quietly, uneventfully.
It seemed as if they naturally decomposed, lacking subsequent power.
However, Chu Songlan and He Baigang’s faces suddenly changed at this moment.
They turned extremely grim.
Because only they knew that their attack couldn’t possibly dissipate just like that, inexplicably.
"What... exactly is this thing?!"
Looking at the nearly tangible breeze hovering around Li Chen, the expressions on both their faces became extremely unsightly.
"Too quiet."
Li Chen’s head was slightly lowered, and with a face showing no expression, he suddenly said such a sentence.
With Li Chen’s words, the breeze around him suddenly began to collide violently.
The noise became even more chaotic and piercing than before.
Even Chu Songlan and He Baigang, who were a certain distance away from Li Chen, heard the harsh friction sound of the intertwining Wind Blades.
This is not the wind!
Even if it is the wind, it is definitely not ordinary wind!
Suddenly, Chu Songlan seemed to see something incredible; his pupils contracted sharply, and he shouted loudly: "Baigang! Full defense!! Quickly!!"
He used True Qi to amplify his voice to the maximum with this shout.
In the moment he shouted, he also gathered all his True Qi in front, and the scythe in his hand started to rotate swiftly.
In an instant, it formed a layer of the strongest defense.
Meanwhile, behind Li Chen, He Baigang, amidst the intense shout, was momentarily stunned before he reacted.
For some reason, although Chu Songlan’s voice was loud, he didn’t hear it very clearly, only vaguely catching the word ’defense’.
The tacit understanding over the years made him choose to trust Chu Songlan’s words.
He began to defend.
However, he did not defend with all his might like Chu Songlan did.
The next moment, there was a sudden stillness between Heaven and Earth, and the wind seemed to disappear in an instant.
At this time, if someone stood above the forest, they would see a Bloodstorm centered around Li Chen.
The storm, in an instant, swept out in all directions from Li Chen.
And in this storm, Chu Songlan and He Baigang were included.
The wind, it indeed was wind, yet not wind, either.
For within each Wind Blade in the wind was imbued with Li Chen’s True Qi, with Li Chen’s blade light.
The Red Moon was sanguine, the blade light was sanguine, so the wind, too, was sanguine.
He Baigang didn’t hear Chu Songlan’s words clearly, not because his hearing was bad, but because at that moment, the area where Li Chen stood was completely enveloped by Li Chen’s ’Wind Roar’.
The blood-colored Wind Blades seemed capable of cutting through everything.
Even the sound was shredded, and only some scattered words could be heard.
This is the Wind Roar.
The Wind Roar that shreds everything.
"Clang clang clang..."
In front of Chu Songlan, the black scythe, glowing with white light, erupted into countless sparks in an instant, and the sound of an incredibly intense and dense clash rang out.
Chu Songlan could even see marks appearing on the blade and handle of the scythe as it clashed with the Bloodstorm.
"This... is all blade light?!! How is this possible?!"
"Clang clang clang clang..."
A dense sound like a storm striking was heard, and Chu Songlan’s eyes were bloodshot at this moment. Wounds began to appear on his arms and body, and they were increasing.
Because he realized that he was about to be unable to withstand the seemingly endless blood-red blade light!
"Soul Reaping!!"
A terrifying howl exploded in the air above Chu Songlan, and the scythe in his hand suddenly retracted at that moment.
And as his scythe retracted, a large number of wounds appeared on his body instantly.
Clothes, skin, and flesh were ripped away by the roaring wind blade light at that moment.
But with a fierce expression, he didn’t care about any of it.
He lifted his scythe high, slashing down like a giant cleaver.
"Crack crack crack..."
With this slash, countless blood-red blade lights were shattered, but the blood on his body splattered even more violently.
Because even though he shattered the blood-red blade light in front of him, there were still many around him.
"Soul Severing!"
The scythe swept across, delivering another slash.
The massive white light blade shattered many of the blood-red blade lights once again.
"Three Souls and Seven Spirits Annihilation Slash!!"
The white light exploded with Chu Songlan at its center.
"Boom!!!"
The Bloodstorm that originally enveloped Chu Songlan finally disintegrated in this strike.
Yet Chu Songlan could barely stand, almost collapsing directly to the ground.
"Zing!"
Supporting himself with the scythe, Chu Songlan’s body was already soaked.
Not soaked by sweat, but stained with blood.
The tattered clothes clung to his body, covered in his own blood, and Chu Songlan felt a sensation of surviving a disaster.
He raised his head slightly, and in his line of sight, the surroundings had already turned into a vast open plain.
Trees, flowers, grasses, and insectoids had all disappeared.
In this Bloodstorm, everything vanished.
"Bangang?!"
As if suddenly remembering something, Chu Songlan gave a jolt and instinctively looked towards the direction where He Baigang had been before.
He Baigang had fallen.
His entire body seemed to have been placed inside a meat grinder, a mess of blood and flesh.
His white clothes had disappeared, leaving only bright red, eye-stinging, even nauseating, blood and flesh.
"Bangang...?!"
Chu Songlan called out softly in disbelief.
However, He Baigang did not respond to his words.
Only the almost imperceptible rise and fall of his chest indicated that he still had a breath left.
"Li... Chen!!!"
From Chu Songlan’s mouth, an incredibly horrific howl suddenly erupted.
The entire forest seemed to shudder with that howl.
But no birds were startled.
Because in the Bloodstorm just now, there were no living creatures left around.
Li Chen’s condition was not any better than Chu Songlan’s.
Kneeling half on the ground, large drops of cold sweat dripped down his cheeks.
His body was trembling slightly.
It wasn’t fear, but the extreme discomfort from the excessive extraction of power and True Qi.
An indescribable pain emanated from within Li Chen’s body.
This was a pain that even Super-speed Regeneration couldn’t handle.
He couldn’t even manage to stand up now.
This Wind Roar had already surpassed the limits of what he could execute in his current realm.
Back in the third layer of the Relic, Li Chen had also killed three Roaring Level Demon Beasts with one swipe. But the outcome left him too exhausted even to retrieve the corpses and Beast Pills, forcing him to hide in a cave and pass out for three full days.
Fortunately, no Demon Beasts infiltrated the cave to ambush him during those three days, otherwise, he would not have survived to walk out of the Relic’s third layer.
He was somewhat stronger now than back then, but only by a limited extent.
Trying hard to keep his body from collapsing was already his limit.
Now, he couldn’t even stand up.
Looking around, Li Chen’s pupils were somewhat unfocused, but his strong willpower forced him to hold on and not collapse.
Raising his head with effort, Li Chen lightly placed his hand on the Red Moon and said coldly, "Why are you howling, do you still want to seek death?"
Hearing Li Chen’s words, Chu Songlan instinctively caught his breath. Thinking of that terrifying scene just now, cold sweat began to appear on his forehead.