Chapter 126: Taking On a Whole Village Alone
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Holy shit!
My pills!
My hundreds of days and nights!
Ma Tianshun felt as though he were dreaming.
To refine these five hundred semi-finished spirit-energy pills, he had endured humiliation and hardship at the Storage Bureau for years before finally achieving this success.
And in the blink of an eye, every last one of them had turned into ashes!
If he had not been a seven-star cultivator, Ma Tianshun would probably have died of a heart attack on the spot.
“Teacher Ma, it must have been this kid! It was definitely him!”
A hulking beastman bellowed, his voice savage and thunderous.
Zhang Chu, who was standing closest, felt as if his eardrums were about to burst.
Teleport!
Flash Step!
Electric Vine Bind!
The vines pierced straight through the beastman’s body like blades. He collapsed stiffly into a pool of blood.
“Even if you’re a mongrel hybrid, you should still have some manners. Why are you shouting in public?”
Silence!
The other beastmen in the alchemy chamber were left with their heads buzzing.
Only then did Ma Tianshun come to his senses.
“Could this kid have been using me?”
“Not completely stupid after all, Teacher Ma.”
“You gave me so many semi-finished spirit-energy pills and helped me break through to seven stars. Tell me, how should I repay you?”
Zhang Chu smiled with an utterly harmless expression.
What?
Ma Tianshun’s eyes trembled.
Devouring pills to increase one’s cultivation was one of a martial artist’s methods of training, but he had never seen anything so terrifying.
“You were able to withstand five hundred semi-finished spirit-energy pills? You’re even more beastly than a beastman!”
“I’ll take that as a compliment. I won’t kill you later. I’ll hand you over to the Martial Administration Bureau.”
Zhang Chu narrowed his eyes and smiled.
“Attack! All of you attack! Take him down!”
With a wave of Ma Tianshun’s hand, a portable high-energy electric net descended over Zhang Chu.
He intended to report everything that had happened in Immortal Pool Village to the headquarters of the Fallen God Alliance through the dark web—especially the fact that Zhang Chu could directly devour spirit-energy pills to increase his cultivation.
But Zhang Chu had no time to bother with Ma Tianshun.
A seven-star Gifted was little more than trash in his eyes.
He had something far more important to do.
He would simply deal with the beastmen of Immortal Pool Village.
“Damn system, come out for a moment.”
Seeing himself surrounded by eleven beastmen—all of them in their combat forms, their bodies enormous, fur sprouting from their skin, and their appearances monstrous—Zhang Chu summoned the system.
“Please state your request, host.”
Fortunately, the system had no emotions. Otherwise, being called a damn system might have left Zhang Chu wondering all day why it was angry.
“The latest form of Passive Devouring can be used once a day?”
Zhang Chu asked.
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“At the host’s current seven-star level, Rampant Devouring can be activated once per day, for a duration of seven minutes.”
The system’s confirmation gave Zhang Chu a new plan.
He would absorb every beastman in Immortal Pool Village in one go.
“You beasts, call in your reinforcements. Come at me together.”
The strongest among them was only a five-star beastman, and even in beast form, they possessed merely six-star strength.
They would be easy to deal with.
“Ding, ding, ding!”
Ma Tianshun fulfilled Zhang Chu’s wish and immediately pressed the emergency call button.
In an instant, red warning lights flashed throughout the alchemy chamber.
More than a dozen beastmen rushed in through the four entrances.
Zhang Chu gave them a quick count.
There were thirty-three in total.
“Take Zhang Chu alive!”
By then, Ma Tianshun had finished reporting the situation and received a response.
Zhang Chu had to be captured alive and sent to the Alliance’s research base.
The fact that he could devour so many spirit-energy pills without exploding was simply inconceivable.
If the Fallen God Alliance acquired this ability, then in theory, as long as they had enough money and materials to refine large quantities of spirit-energy pills, they could cultivate a vast army of powerful beastmen—even beastmen at the Spirit Realm level.
At the order, the beastmen attacked from every direction.
The most outrageous among them was a female beastman who had fused with the serum of a red-crowned white crane.
In her beast form, she had actually grown wings and could skim through the air just above the ground. It was absurd.
“Mental Combat Art—Gravity Domain!”
Zhang Chu had considerable experience with large-scale battles.
Under the sevenfold Gravity Domain, even Ma Tianshun, hiding in the distance, fell to his knees with a thud, let alone the beastmen charging toward him.
Apart from a few beastmen possessing tremendous physical strength and brute force, most of them found it difficult even to walk.
With the Gravity Domain restricting their movements, Zhang Chu made his move.
Electric Vine Bind!
The Vine Demon Seed awakened within his dantian. Following the energy through his palms, it transformed into seven vines that swiftly bound the beastmen.
The electricity coursing through them was immense.
The beastmen trembled violently.
Then the anesthetic venom rapidly seeped into their bodies.
In barely a moment, the beastmen in their transformed states lost all ability to fight. One after another, they staggered and collapsed onto the floor.
“Holy crap! Is this kid even human?”
Seeing this, Ma Tianshun felt a chill run down his back. He took advantage of the chaos and slipped out through a side door.
If he did not leave now, he would certainly die!
Just as he charged out of the alchemy chamber, the high-energy magical barrier over the entire Immortal Pool Village began to shake violently. Countless shells rained down, and the barrier teetered on the brink of collapse.
The Martial Administration Bureau’s Celestial God combat aircraft appeared overhead, bombarding the barrier with high-energy electromagnetic shells.
Below—
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Zhang Xueying and the others were already prepared.
The moment the barrier opened, they would rush inside and find Zhang Chu.
Boom!
At the instant the sixth shell struck, the barrier shattered completely.
Several shells began saturating the area indiscriminately.
Under the overwhelming bombardment, Ma Tianshun was blasted more than ten meters through the air and landed directly at the feet of Hu Sanyi and the others.
“This is that old bastard we saw through Brother Chu’s camera!”
“Where is Zhang Chu?”
The Godslayer Sword in Zhang Xueying’s hand was pressed against Ma Tianshun’s neck.
“Tell us, or I’ll tear you apart!”
Chen Long raised his hand and slapped him hard across the face.
“He’s… over there!”
Ma Tianshun knelt on the ground with both hands raised. He was quickly subdued by members of the Inspection Squad.
“Teacher Xueying, go find Mr. Zhang Chu. We’ll capture the remaining remnants of the Fallen God Alliance.”
After saying this, the Inspection Squad members swiftly began arresting the other martial artists.
Zhang Xueying and the others hurried toward Alchemy Chamber Number Two.
“Zhang Chu, you absolutely cannot be hurt!”
At that moment, Zhang Chu could not hear the commotion outside.
He assumed that his Rampant Devouring was simply too powerful and had caused the energies in the area to intertwine.
The thirty-three beastmen were bound together by vines.
Without the slightest hesitation, Zhang Chu activated the latest form of Passive Devouring—Rampant Devouring.
Powerful energy began flowing into Zhang Chu’s body along the vines.
The beastmen screamed in terror, but their cries were utterly useless.
As the energy entered his body, part of it replenished his mental energy.
Another part increased his physical strength.
Most of it entered his dantian, where the Vine Demon Seed greedily absorbed it.
The alchemy chamber rang with wails of despair.
Zhang Chu wore a broad, satisfied smile.
The instant seven minutes elapsed, the system automatically cut off Rampant Devouring.
The thirty-three beastmen lay on the ground like dead dogs, gasping for breath, their bodies looking as though they had been completely drained and dried out.
Just as Zhang Chu brought up his personal status panel to inspect it, Zhang Xueying and the others’ voices came from outside.
“Zhang Chu, where are you?”
“Brother Chu, are you still alive?”
Before long, Zhang Xueying and the others rushed into the alchemy chamber.
But the scene before them left them all frozen in place.
“This… you did all this?”
Looking at the more than thirty beastmen sprawled on the floor and bound by vines, Chen Long felt a lingering chill.
Thank goodness he had never opposed Zhang Chu. Otherwise, he could not imagine what his fate would have been.
One man had taken down all the beastmen in an entire village!
He was practically a beastman harvesting machine!
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