Purple Bamboo Forest, detached courtyard.
Looking at the small courtyard with its unique sense of elegance, who could have imagined that the notorious leader of the Red Hair Bandits, Red Haired Ghost Luo Hu, would be hiding here, in seclusion for cultivation?
Wu Shan led Lin Sheng into the small courtyard, and in one of the studies, he opened a mechanism revealing a passage staircase leading underground.
"The leader is in the quiet room below. However, there is a mechanism inside that can only be opened from within. Otherwise, even a Blood Transportation Warrior wouldn't be able to get in by brute force."
"Tell him to come out."
Lin Sheng narrowed his eyes, his gaze landing on Wu Shan.
Wu Shan merely wore a fawning smile on his face, showing a hint of hesitation upon hearing the words, but he quickly nodded in agreement.
"Alright, I'll give it a try."
Saying this, he stepped into the passage.
The passage was somewhat narrow, and Wu Shan's bulky body almost filled the entire space.
What went unnoticed was that after Wu Shan stepped into the passage, the fawning look on his face vanished, replaced by a gloomy sneer.
"Die!!"
He spat out these two words. The next moment, the stone door of the passage abruptly closed, and a large cloud of white smoke suddenly erupted in the study, followed by dense sounds of rushing wind.
Countless crossbow bolts shot out from the ground and walls, leaving no empty space in the entire study.
Hearing the intense sounds coming from outside the stone door, Wu Shan's face in the passage was full of a smile of a successful scheme.
"What if his strength is great? Many times, brains aren't necessarily inferior to Realm..."
Thinking this, he didn't delay for a moment and immediately headed down the passage. Although the mechanism in the study was unavoidable and impossible to guard against, the strength the kid had shown was too strange, and he wasn't sure if he could be killed on the spot.
Moreover, he hadn't forgotten that he still had the opponent's potent poison in one of his arms and had to deal with it quickly. Otherwise, if the opponent didn't die in the trap mechanism and reacted, it would be troublesome.
"I'll inform the leader first. No matter the outcome, the leader coming out can definitely handle him..."
Bang!
A series of muffled thuds suddenly came from one side of the passage.
This made Wu Shan feel a burst of confusion. He didn't remember there being any mechanism here.
"Could it be a hidden mechanism?"
He thought this to himself, but his feet didn't stop. He quickly rushed down the passage. However, the next moment, a violent explosion sounded beside him.
He was greatly alarmed and turned his head to look, only to see a large hand reaching out from the broken wall rubble, filling his entire vision.
Thud!
Amidst the muffled sound, Wu Shan's round head was directly smashed into the wall on the other side.
His fat body heavily crashed against the wall along with it, causing the wall to tremble and explode with a large amount of rubble.
Wu Shan felt as if all his bones were numb, and his consciousness fell into a temporary blank state.
Although his Physique was special, this blow still nearly took half his life.
His consciousness recovered somewhat, but he was still in a dazed state.
"Who?! Who attacked me? Does that kid have a helper!!"
This was the thought in his mind at this moment. He wanted to speak but couldn't, because his face was still buried in the wall.
It wasn't until the pressure on the back of his head disappeared that he struggled to pull his head out of the wall.
Only then did he clearly see the tall figure standing beside him.
His figure was over two meters tall, with a strong and broad build, giving off an indescribable sense of power, as if the person standing before him was not a human, but a Spirit Beast of terrifying strength.
Although his Physique had undergone earth-shattering changes compared to before, Wu Shan still recognized the person from the somewhat familiar face before his eyes.
"How is this possible? How are you here? How are you alright!!?"
His pupils constricted, his heart filled with disbelief. He never expected that the kid who had been trapped in the mechanism and subjected to myriad arrows piercing his heart a moment ago, would now appear here as if nothing had happened.
No, not as if nothing had happened...
He noticed that the other party had streaks of blood holes on his body, clearly injured by the specially made powerful crossbow bolts.
But what frightened him even more was that the large and small wounds on the other party's body were healing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In just a few breaths, these wounds had already recovered as before.
"Mon... Monster!!"
This thought popped into Wu Shan's mind, and his fear intensified.
Lin Sheng, however, paid him no mind, gripping his neck with one hand and turning to look towards the end of the passage.
A tall figure emerged, walking slowly, dragging a long-handled steel saber on the ground, scraping out a series of sparks.
"Leader... save me... save me..."
Wu Shan clearly also noticed the person who had appeared in the passage and, like a drowning man grasping at a straw, desperately shouted for help.
"Are you Red Haired Ghost Luo Hu?"
Lin Sheng looked at the approaching figure.
This was a man who looked about 40 years old, with a blood-red cloth turban covering his head. At this moment, he was looking at him with a gloomy face.
"Let him go now, and I will leave you a complete corpse."
Luo Hu narrowed his eyes slightly, speaking coldly while continuously sizing up Lin Sheng.
"Looks like it's you."
Seeing Luo Hu's appearance, Lin Sheng burst into laughter.
After wasting so much time, it could finally end.
"Alright, I'll put him down now."
His hand loosened, and Wu Shan's fat figure dropped to the ground.
His heart was filled with ecstasy, the joy of being alive.
Just as he struggled to get up, Lin Sheng had already lifted his foot.
"You dare!!"
Seeing this scene, Luo Hu seemed to realize something. His body leaped over like a fierce tiger, roaring in anger.
Crack—
Watching his leader fall into a rage, Wu Shan was still somewhat confused, but the next moment, his perfectly good head was stomped into a bloody mess by a black riding boot.
"Wu Shan... I want you dead!!"
Seeing his trusted subordinate die tragically before him like this, Luo Hu's heart was filled with rage.
"Red Refining Astral Qi—"
Before his words finished, his figure had already arrived nearby. The saber he was dragging emitted a terrifying Aura.
It carved deep marks on the hard ground.
"Die!"
Facing the oppressive pressure from the opponent, Lin Sheng took a deep breath.
"Secret Technique: Ape Demon Transformation."
"Activate, Earth Affinity..."
As thoughts turned in his mind, his figure immediately swelled up as if being inflated. His already strong Physique now resembled an ancient giant, or a ferocious demon ape.
He forcibly burst the cramped and narrow passage.
At this moment, Lin Sheng's face was twisted, and he was grinning ferociously.
"Come on, let me see what kind of surprise you can give me..."
"Putting on a show!!"
Seeing Lin Sheng's sudden astonishing change, Luo Hu was startled at first, but soon sneered, directly pushing the force in his hand to the limit.
Clang...
The long-handled saber accurately struck Lin Sheng's palm, erupting in a series of sparks and the explosive clang of metal on metal.
"Such defensive power..."
Feeling the strong recoil force from the saber, Luo Hu's heart slightly trembled.
After seeing the opponent's figure, he had only thought that the opponent's defensive power was definitely not weak, but he hadn't expected it to reach this level.
However, he was only slightly surprised. He had anticipated this situation early on, and a cold smile soon appeared on his face.
"Astral Qi Break!" With a cold laugh, a trace of red light immediately flickered on the blade. The next moment, it directly sank into Lin Sheng's arm.
"Just a thick-skinned show-off, die for me..."
As he exerted force, the saber went deeper and deeper, almost splitting the arm in half.
"It's over!"
Luo Hu wore a ferocious grin. In his opinion, victory was certain. He twisted the saber and aimed directly for Lin Sheng's neck, intending to decapitate him.
However, the next moment, he felt an intense warning bell in his heart. A sudden sense of deadly danger came from one side.
He reacted extremely quickly, immediately drawing his saber and rapidly dodging to the side, narrowly avoiding a swollen, blood-red Red Hair hand.
However, the strong wind brought by the large hand still made the skin on his body feel scraped and painful. It was not difficult to imagine that if he had been hit by that palm just now, even with his body hardening techniques, he would have suffered no light injuries.
The large hand heavily slapped the wall on one side, immediately causing a huge explosion and blasting out a large pit.
The small pit was filled with a large amount of dust, and Luo Hu tapped his toe, his figure already in front of Lin Sheng. The saber in his hand skillfully struck out from various tricky angles.
Each strike left deep bloody marks on Lin Sheng's massive figure.
Although surprised by Lin Sheng's formidable strength and vitality, Luo Hu believed that the final victor would definitely be him. The technique he cultivated, the Red Tiger Demon Saber, was extremely skilled in offense, claiming to cut through everything, and was the nemesis of practitioners focused on defensive strength.
"I'd like to see how much blood you can shed."
"Red Tiger Demon Shadow!"
With a low shout from him, a series of afterimages appeared on the saber and simultaneously landed on Lin Sheng.
A series of blood flowers burst out on his massive body, splattering across the entire passage.
Even the air was filled with a strong bloody smell. It was no exaggeration to say that Lin Sheng was riddled with holes. Deep, bone-deep saber marks covered his entire body, especially his hands and legs.
Clearly, the other party's plan was to first cripple his mobility.
Whoosh... Whoosh...
Streaks of strong wind sounds struck. Two bloody hands continuously smashed towards Luo Hu, but each time they were evaded by the other party's extremely agile movement technique.
Although he was in the passage, the other party seemed to have cultivated a secret technique like bone contraction, his figure shrinking a few times from time to time. Even though the passage was cramped, it didn't affect him much.
On the contrary, Lin Sheng's massive figure was quite inconvenient to move around in the passage. Even though he continuously counter-attacked, he still found it difficult to hit the opponent.
A strong gust of wind swept past in front of him. Luo Hu's figure effortlessly retreated several steps backward, avoiding the attack and wiping away the blood stained on his face. He had a lot of blood on him, but not a single drop was his.
"Foolish to choose to fight me here, you don't have a chance..."
Luo Hu wore a faint smile on his face.
This kid before him indeed brought him quite a surprise. To be able to endure his attacks for so long was the first time he had encountered such a situation in his life. But so what? He would still die under his saber.
"It's over. I will cut off your head and keep it as my trophy."
Saying this, his Aura had already risen again, and he was preparing to step forward again, looking for an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.
"You're right, it's time to end..."
And at this moment, the massive figure across from him, covered in blood, also let out a laugh.
"Dreaming even when death is upon you?"
Luo Hu narrowed his eyes, thinking the other party was talking nonsense in the face of death.
He no longer hesitated, gathering all the force in his body and concentrating it in his right hand.
"Demon Tiger..."
"Ape Demon Ghost Decomposition!"
A low roar sounded first. The two Red Hair hands swelled a circle like crimson giant pythons and heavily smashed onto the ground.
The terrifying force shattered the floor tiles, and countless bricks and rubble shot towards Luo Hu.
Seeing this, Luo Hu slightly furrowed his brow and, with a swing of his saber, sliced all the rubble in front of him into powder.
"Demon Tiger Annihilation!"
A crimson saber light enveloped the saber, and just as it was about to be fully unleashed, Luo Hu's face turned red and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, which even contained traces of black and gray.
At the same time, intense pain came from his cheeks, arms, neck, even scalp, and other exposed skin.
"This is... poison!!"
Luo Hu reacted instantly. He had been poisoned at some point without knowing it.
"It's the blood!!"
He was experienced in combat after all and immediately understood that the opponent's blood was poisonous.
And the massive figure that was originally ten meters away in his line of sight was now charging towards him like a bulldozer.
"Do you think this will work?"
Luo Hu understood that he couldn't delay any longer. He had to finish the fight quickly, otherwise, he might capsize in the gutter.
He raised the long saber in his hand and, without any hesitation, swung it forward with full force.
"Demon Tiger Annihilation, die for me!!"
As his words fell, a crimson saber light flashed from the saber, landing like a gust of wind on the charging Red Hair giant.
He was confident that this final strike, containing his essence, qi, and spirit, would definitely end his life.
The true power of this strike lay in its ability to instantly obliterate a large amount of the opponent's vitality.
He had already endured so many of his strikes before. No matter how powerful his Physique was, his vitality was now weakened and not as good as before, so the opponent would definitely die from this strike.
After the saber struck, the passage fell into a brief silence as if time had stopped.
Watching the crimson saber light cut open the opponent's chest, Luo Hu's face showed a smile.
Plop—
But the next moment, the smile came to an abrupt halt. He lowered his head in disbelief, only to see a blood-red hand already plunged into his chest, even gripping his heart and spine.
"You... How can you still..."
Blood flowed from Luo Hu's mouth. He stared blankly at the Red Hair figure before him, his eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment.
He had clearly been struck head-on, and his vitality should have been evaporated. Why wasn't he dead yet? Why could he still move?
"It hurts so much."
Lin Sheng didn't rush to crush the opponent's chest. Instead, he gripped his spine, lifted him up, his face twisted and ferocious from the intense pain.
"But... it feels so good!"
At the same time, countless fleshy tendrils extended from the wounds. In Luo Hu's widened eyes, in just a few breaths, the wounds on the other party's body had recovered by more than half. The chest, which had been almost peeled open, was now connected and entangled by countless fleshy tendrils, healing together.
Plop...
As the saber in his chest was pulled out by the other party, this last wound also quickly healed.
"Hand over your assets, and I'll let you go more comfortably."
Lin Sheng looked down at the opponent.
"You... You're not... not human..."
However, after only spitting out this sentence, Luo Hu's Aura continued to weaken.