Wang Sheng was unclear about what type of Demon Beast the Blood Locust King truly was, nor did he know its status among demon beasts.
However, as it possessed the strength of a Grandmaster and was still within the realm of control, it could definitely serve as his opponent after his breakthrough.
The pity was that he hadn’t expected to encounter the Blood Locust King this time and had brought neither the Black Dragon Spear nor flying swords with him; he could only use his fists.
But that didn’t matter. If anything, martial arts were what he was truly best at.
The Blood Locust King had heard Wang Sheng’s words and said with a distasteful voice, “Confident? With your strength, you have the right to be confident.
It seems you don’t want to hand it over directly. You humans have ruled this world for a long time, and demon beasts have been suppressed by you for who knows how many years; today, you’ll witness the true power of a mighty Demon King.”
The Blood Locust King had already seen it.
This human who had just broken through to the Grandmaster level had no intention of handing over the item; thus, there was only one way left.
Battle!
A battle in which only one could survive. As long as it emerged victorious, it would have a way to obtain what it desired.
Boom!
The Blood Locust King no longer hesitated, instantly reverting to its true form.
This body was not as large as one would imagine, only about a hundred meters tall, not even as large as the Mechanical Giant Beast White Tiger, but it was extremely terrifying and shocking, like a Demon God from ancient times.
Its appearance was just like its name, a massive locust tree, lush with “foliage,” unlike the withered branches of its humanoid form.
Every branch had “leaves” that fluttered in the wind.
Wang Sheng’s Divine Thought could clearly sense what these so-called “leaves” truly were.
Human skin!
Countless pieces of human skin formed leaves, clashing against each other and emitting a most horrifying sound.
Furthermore, with just a casual shake, the Blood Locust King sent countless blood-red “locust flowers” flying towards Wang Sheng. They were made of human blood.
The Blood Locust King was a Demon formed from a blood-colored locust tree.
With the locust flowers came branches that blocked out the sky, oozing blood like repulsive worms.
The blood flowers alongside the branches dyed the sky red, creating a bloody hell, where countless tendrils seemed to pull everything around them into that endless abyss.
Wherever they passed, everything was crushed and shattered, draining all vitality.
Facing the bloody wind, Wang Sheng frowned.
It wasn’t fear, but rather a feeling of disgust.
His Qi-Blood Power, too, was related to blood, but essentially it was a special energy, far from being this repulsive.
“Blood Locust King, eh? Let me show you what true Blood Qi power is!”
He was precisely eager to test the newly advanced Blood Qi power.
As the Blood Qi was mobilized, Wang Sheng was enveloped in a terrifying force, a crimson light that transformed him into a blazing sun.
The Blood Locust King’s attacks of blood flowers and branches had not even reached within a hundred meters of Wang Sheng before they were destroyed utterly.
The “blood flowers” evaporated, and the branches were instantly set aflame, turning into pitch-dark ash that vanished without a trace.
The Blood Locust King’s first attack had no effect whatsoever.
However, Wang Sheng did not let his guard down; that was merely a probe from the Blood Locust King.
As expected, when the Blood Locust King saw its own attack dissipate, its massive form actually laughed, a sound that made the entire space tremble.
“Hahaha, truly worthy of the Cultivation Technique I’ve set my sights on; I want it even more now!”
It had noticed that Wang Sheng’s Cultivation Technique could greatly enhance the power of Blood Qi. This technique was perfectly suited for it; it had to acquire it.
“Overwhelming Blood Sea!”
The Blood Locust King launched another attack, endless branches coalesced and entangled to cover the ground, then surged towards Wang Sheng like waves.
The branches formed waves, tumbling and twisting to the point that, in the end, they seemed to cover the sky, compressing the space.
The ultimate sensation of pressure.
Naturally, Wang Sheng was not going to underestimate the attack.
“Eight Extremities Fist, Crane Step Mountain Push!”
Each move of the Eight Extremities Fist was explosive and powerful. When Crane Step Mountain Push was deployed, numerous explosive Fist Forces erupted from the Void, the Qi Blood Power burst forth, making the ferocious wind even stronger, forming countless blade-like gusts that seemed to tear the sky apart.
Wherever the gusts passed, they left countless sharp ravines, immediately colliding with the surging Blood Sea formed by the Blood Locust King’s branches.
Boom!
The clash uprooted everything nearby, resulting in vast destruction, leaving none of the trees within thousands of meters intact.
The forces of both sides seemed to be in a deadlock.
But the Crane Step Mountain Push was not without reason.
After a brief deadlock, Wang Sheng’s Eight Extremities Fist proved superior; the gusts directly shredded the branches forming the Blood Wave.
The Blood Locust King’s Overwhelming Blood Wave was instantly overturned and dissipated.
Not just that, the gusts continued to advance, then hit the Blood Locust King’s true body directly, cutting off several of its main branches instantly.
“Ah! My main body, how painful—just kidding!”
The Blood Locust King first feigned pain, then quickly recovered, sneering once again.
The tree trunks shredded by Wang Sheng’s gusts swelled back to their original shape, as though they hadn’t been injured at all.
This was the Blood Locust King’s ultimate trump card.
As a plant-based Demon King, its strongest attribute was its regenerative ability, a power that nearly guaranteed its invincibility within the Grandmaster realm!
“Regeneration, huh?”
Wang Sheng observed the restored Blood Locust King without any sign of panic.
He wondered how this so-called regeneration compared to the destructive nature of his own Qi-Blood Power.
Just now, Wang Sheng had used the Eight Extremes Fist without releasing his Qi-Blood Power and had not utilized Fist Force.
“Eight Extremes, Destructive Collapsing Fist!”
The Collapsing Fist was the symbol of the fierce and explosive power of the Eight Extremes Fist. Wang Sheng shifted his stance, stamped his foot, and the ground shook as if the entire surface were about to topple over.
The Destructive Fist Force unveiled, instantly condensed by Wang Sheng within the Qi-Blood Power.
The Blood Locust King sensed something was off and immediately took action to intervene.
Countless branches converged into a massive wooden spear, thrusting toward Wang Sheng.
However, Wang Sheng’s movement appeared to take a long while, but in reality, it was just within a second’s time. The Blood Locust King was fast, but it was already too late to stop Wang Sheng now.
Boom!
The momentum of the Collapsing Fist, carrying all the Qi-Blood Power, burst forth, then seemed to turn into a great dragon—a dragon of Fist Force and Qi-Blood.
The Blood Locust King as if seeing an exceptional True Dragon roaring towards itself, its massive wooden spear barely touching the “True Dragon” before being instantly destroyed.
Then, in the blink of an eye, the Fist Force arrived in front of it.
Boom!
The Fist Force struck directly on the Blood Locust King’s main branch.
The Blood Locust King exerted all its strength to block and prevent the Fist Force from hitting its body.
But these attempts were futile.
The Blood Locust King was sent flying for miles, with the power of the Fist Force carving a broad “path” through the forest.
Next, before the Blood Locust King could react, Wang Sheng’s Fist Force exploded, instantly enveloping its enormous body and lifting a mushroom-like cloud of dust that shot up towards Yun Xiao.
After about fifteen minutes, the dust had mostly cleared, revealing the broken body of the Blood Locust King.
More than a hundred meters tall, the locust tree’s upper half had completely vanished.
The lower half was battered and full of scorch marks and puncture wounds; it was clear that although the bottom part of the tree was preserved, it had sustained severe impacts.
By this time, Wang Sheng had already climbed up to the main body of the Blood Locust King and stepped on it.
“Dead?”
He stopped attacking, wanting to verify something.
It was then that the lower half of the Blood Locust King suddenly sprouted a terrifying face, which then spoke.
“Hahaha, how could I possibly die? I, the Blood Locust King, am the strongest. Your move from just now should no longer be usable, right? As long as I regenerate, you are definitely doomed!”
The Blood Locust King indeed had nearly been rubbed out of existence.
The Fist Force refined with the Qi-Blood Power in the midst of transforming into dragon’s Blood Qi was simply too terrifying, an aura of destruction that the Blood Locust King never wanted to face again.
However, it believed such a fearsome move certainly couldn’t be used a second time, or else the second attack would have come already, so it remained fearless.
Wang Sheng heard this without showing agreement or disagreement.
Regenerate?
Wang Sheng just watched, quietly concentrating on gathering his Fist Force.
Not possible a second time?
In fact, although this move wasn’t a common attack, it didn’t consume that much of his energy.
If it could still regenerate, rewarding the Blood Locust King with ten or eight more times was not a problem.
Seeing that Wang Sheng didn’t refute, the Blood Locust King grew even more certain of its assumption.
Then it quickly started regenerating using its power.
But it soon encountered something amiss.
At the spot where it was hit by that force, there seemed to be a power clinging like a bone-attaching sore, constantly destroying, demolishing, and preventing its regeneration.
Each time it regenerated a bit, it would quickly be worn away.
Not only that, but this force was also relentlessly corroding its tree body—given enough time, it might be possible to erode it completely.
The Blood Locust King panicked.
Its highly relied upon regeneration was failing to function.
Wang Sheng saw no movement from the Blood Locust King and laughed, “Weren’t you able to regenerate?”
“I am willing to…”
Before the Blood Locust King could finish, Wang Sheng’s fist had already landed.
He only wanted to verify the extent of the impact of his Destructive Fist Force. Now that he had, naturally there was no need for further talk.
Boom!
The Blood Locust King knew it had no chance of surviving, its voice filled with resentment: “I will surely find you again!”
After saying these words, the Blood Locust King was thoroughly obliterated.
Wang Sheng naturally heard this “last word.”
“Find me again?”
The statement was easy to guess.
Perhaps the Blood Locust King hadn’t truly perished, and it was likely that this body was just an avatar.
One must not underestimate a Demon Beast of Grandmaster Level.
Of course, Wang Sheng didn’t regret having killed the Blood Locust King; he wasn’t one to sit and wait for his doom.
Besides, he hadn’t even used his full strength, let alone taken up his weapon.
Even if the actual body of the Blood Locust King came for him, he might not necessarily be a match for it.
After all, finding him would not be so easy for the Blood Locust King.
He quickly let it go.
“Meet the soldiers head-on, cover the water with earth; now it’s time for the spoils of war!”