Chapter 260 (2/2)

But why was this happening to Mu Chen?

Su Ling’er remembered Mu Chen’s demand and quickly made her retreat, even as she towed the other three along.

Mu Chen made sure that they’d escaped a good distance before he flashed a smile filled with bloody marks. But now, it was an extremely savage sight. The animosity on the wind even affected Bai Xuan’s aura.

“What a façade!”

Bai Xuan glared as he snarled. His palm trembled as he pulled back on the blood-red spear and tore it from Mu Chen’s hands with a red shower of blood. He stepped forward, then swept the spear back towards Mu Chen, this time with enough force that it left dizzying afterimages.

Boom!

A blood-red baleful aura surged from Mu Chen’s body, like a shell of red armour. He allowed Bai Xuan’s sharp spear to reach him.

Shhhhiiiiiii!

The moment the powerful spear met the shell of baleful aura, it was corroded away. However, the spear’s gale still ripped open new wounds on Mu Chen’s body.

But those new wounds weren’t enough to deter Mu Chen. On the contrary, his scarlet eyes deepened in colour and a deep roar built up in his throat. He released it as his torrential baleful energy took the form of a second bloody spear.

Shhhhuuuuu!

Mu Chen trembled from the surges in his body and his clash with Bai Xuan. Powerful shockwaves rippled from the impacts, and the nearby mountain peaks crumbled.

On one faraway mountain peak, Su Xuan and the others stood and watched the confrontation with fear and worry in their eyes. They realised that right now, Mu Chen was capable of standing his own against Bai Xuan!

Guo Xiong couldn’t help his astonished murmur. “How could he have grown so much?”

Something flickered in Su Xuan’s charming eyes. “That’s the same power as the black demonic pillar back in the Spirit Treasury. My guess is that Mu Chen has been taken by its baleful aura.”

When Su Ling’er heard that was said, she instantly grew anxious. “Then Mu Chen…?”

“I think he’s trying to use the battle to expel the baleful aura inside his body. But if that’s true, then he’s in an extremely dangerous position, right now. That baleful aura is extremely oppressive; if Mu Chen doesn’t handle it properly, he could be devoured. The baleful aura would take over his senses and he’d turn into a massacring puppet.”

Su Xuan sighed as she stared at the faraway figure shrouded in red. “The best we can do right now is trust in Mu Chen.”

Clang!

The two blood-red spears clashed and the force rippled out. Even the space around them began to twist.

Bai Xuan’s face turned steel-grey and astonishment filled his eyes. He refused to believe that Mu Chen had actually kept up with him for several exchanges, and still didn’t show any signs of slowing.

It was as if Mu Chen’s strength had caught up to his.

Bai Xuan was in disbelief. But he wasn’t your average expert — he slowly began piecing together the clues and filling in the rest with calculation.

“Is he borrowing the baleful energy that’s invading his body?”

Something flickered in Bai Xuan’s eyes as he stared at Mu Chen’s blood-marked face. There wasn’t the slightest hint of emotion in Mu Chen’s eyes. Just a pure bloodlust. Bai Xuan flashed a savage smile. “How are you any different from a bloodthirsty beast?”

It was clear to him that Mu Chen had borrowed the power of the baleful energy; but in exchange, he’d lost consciousness and had turned into the massacring puppet.

“Since you’re in such deep pain, let me free you.”

Bai Xuan abruptly shot up, stirring up waves of Spiritual Energy. He roared and a boundless Spiritual Energy rose from behind him, like a colossal blood-red beast. A dense animosity soared into the heavens.

“Demonic Blood Beast, Blood Smelting Sea!”

Bai Xuan shouted as his scarlet beast suddenly exploded. It turned into waves of blood that filled everything between heaven and earth.

Onom!

The bloody sea carried an earth-shattering power as it swept down from the heavens and ground every mountain in its path into dust.

“Die!” Bai Xuan savagely smiled. Mu Chen slowly raised his head as a mocking smile spread across his strangely marked face. The scarlet pupils, that’d been filled with animosity, rippled.

“Roar!”

An endless sea of baleful aura surged from Mu Chen’s body, forming its own version of a bloody, starry sky. Within this bloody sky, a massive white tiger took shape. One with scarlet-red eyes.

This Divine Seal of the White Tiger, which contained a boundless killing intent, slowly merged with the baleful aura, becoming an even more fearsome force. Even heaven and earth trembled before it.

Mu Chen hovered as the animosity filled the sky around him. As he floated before the huge white tiger, the mocking smile on his blood-marked face grew even wider.

“It’s you who’ll die!”