Chapter 315 – Flesh Flower, Breakthrough, Shatter!

Lu Yuan completely stood up from the ground.

He quietly examined his body as if he were admiring a unique, unparalleled piece of art.

Around the blood sphere pattern on his chest, numerous blood vessels, meridians, and muscles entangled and extended outward in layers, creating a flower-like design centered on the blood sphere.

It was enchanting, magnificent, and carried an indescribable demonic allure.

This made Lu Yuan recall the Blood-red Lotus Eye pattern that used to emerge on his back after deeply activating his ultimate exertion and undergoing the Third Rank Transformation.

Lu Yuan had once been puzzled by the appearance of this pattern.

After reshaping his body and ascending to the level of a Grandmaster, the pattern had vanished, and he hadn’t given it much thought since.

However, now, the long-forgotten mystery was finally unraveled-

“So… this is the external manifestation of the Flesh Flower among the Three Flowers!”

lv1 [Three Flowers] (Flesh Flower): Triples physical strength.

Beneath this enchanting flower, Lu Yuan’s entire musculature was as dense and intricate as a flower’s root system, grand and meticulously ordered, with blood flowing serenely, illuminating patches of his spectacular bone and muscle structure.

“The past Blood-red Lotus Eye was merely a glimpse of the Flesh Flower’s mystery I stumbled upon. Now… this is the perfect blooming state of the true Flesh Flower.”

Lu Yuan softly sighed in his heart, his pupils gleaming with light as his memory revisited the moment he struck that terrifying scarlet axe light in the Elephant Man King’s Dynasty.

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The vertically descending scarlet axe light transformed into a scarlet blood line, reflecting in Lu Yuan’s eyes, seemingly splitting his pupils in two.

Within that pure scarlet, Lu Yuan once again saw the infinite blood sea where corpses floated, and the black demon mountain standing upon it.

He had little time for deeper thoughts.

lv4 [Grandmaster’s Domain] and lv4 [Grandmaster’s Qi] were immediately activated.

An immense, unseen power unfurled abruptly around Lu Yuan.

He then took a deep breath, and the hidden blood sphere on his chest surfaced, spinning rapidly.

In his mind, a pure golden point quietly bloomed, connecting to the blood sphere, and from his Ming King’s Body, an immense amount of black eerie light erupted from countless pores.

These eerie lights converged above his head, and within a breath, formed the Dharma Form of a ten-meter-tall elephant deity with three heads and six arms.

“Grandmaster Divine Elephant Style: Guarding Domain!”

Lu Yuan and the Dharma Form moved in unison, bringing twelve arms together in a synchronized gesture.

Instantly, countless black ripples emanated from both Lu Yuan and the Dharma Form of the elephant deity, layers upon layers almost forming a black barrier…

In the next moment, the Scarlet axe light descended.

Without much hindrance, the axe light silently sliced through the layers of black ripples around the Dharma Form, then cleaved it in two.

Next were the ripples released by Lu Yuan’s Guarding Domain.

Then his Grandmaster’s Domain.

Lastly, his Protective Shield of Qi.

Seeing the axe light, imbued with the might of the blood sea and demon mountain, breaking through his layered defense techniques and still carrying residual force, Lu Yuan’s pupils contracted sharply. He finally activated – [Three Flowers]…

…

“Thankfully, withstood it.”

Returning to reality, Lu Yuan casually glanced at the gray-white giant axe wedged in his neck and couldn’t help but softly sigh.

With this sigh, the muscles in Lu Yuan’s neck started writhing like living things. The muscle root system, resembling a flower’s roots, slowly pushed the axe blade out inch by inch, with blood flowing back into the wound…

Finally.

The gray-white giant axe was fully expelled from Lu Yuan’s body.

The scarlet sphere on the axe surface dimmed significantly, seemingly exhausted by the recent strike.

“Hoo-“

Lu Yuan exhaled a scorching breath, blowing hot air onto the face of the Elephant Man King before him, whose body size was akin to his own, almost like a twin brother.

At this moment, the latter still wore a ferocious expression, poised to exert strength, with the single scarlet eye on each of his three heads filled only with intense bloodlust and brutality, devoid of any other emotion.

“You’ve been devoured by the blood sea…”

Lu Yuan said calmly, looking at him.

He slowly twisted his neck and moved his body, the blood flower on his chest blooming ever more enchanting and demonic.

“You are lost within a power that does not belong to you…”

Inside Lu Yuan’s body, there was a sound of boulders grinding, and a massive shadow began to rise rapidly from behind him inch by inch.

“Let me…”

Lu Yuan looked at the Elephant Man King before him, spreading his six arms and clenching his fists.

With a trace of condescending compassion on his face, he softly spoke, “Let me redeem you.”

Without another word.

“Divine Elephant Devours the Dragon x6!”

“Roar!”

From the depths of the giant sand pit, a sound that resembled the roar of a demonic dragon elephant echoed.

Following that, six pitch-black great suns suddenly burst and ascended…

“Boom!”

Everyone standing at the edge of the sand pit felt the ground beneath them shake violently, as if the entire world before their eyes was quaking.

In the next moment, they saw an enormous figure, as massive as a small mountain, arch its back and blast out of the sand pit like a cannonball.

Another figure with three heads and six arms followed closely, casting a monstrous shadow.

The two beings clashed fiercely in mid-air, then plummeted to the ground like meteorites, creating immense craters upon impact.

“Roar!”

The ground continued to tremble incessantly, as if two ancient and forbidden fierce beasts were entangled in a life-and-death struggle!

…

“Uh…”

Yin Muqing stared blankly at the intense battle below, her mind still not recovered from the previous scene.

“It was blocked… That elephant man… actually blocked it…”

She had personally felt the terrifying power of the evil deity’s treasure, the Scarlet Axe Light, and knew full well its might.

Even just the residual edge of the force had been enough to shatter her longblade, dim her star acupoints, and make her feel like her body was on the verge of breaking.

The more powerful Xilin had almost been eviscerated.

Yet, the second axe strike from the Elephant Man King, which had unleashed a power more than ten times greater than the first, had been…

Blocked?

Who could possibly have such monstrous strength?

“This is no ordinary SSS-level monster from a secret realm… This is a sub-legendary level being, infinitely close to true legend!”

Yin Muqing muttered to herself.

She instinctively glanced towards the Sleepless, noticing that Xilin and Coyle both wore expressions of shock and awe.

Yin Muqing’s eyes flickered as she pondered for a moment before finally moving deliberately closer to the two of them.

“What do you think?”

Yin Muqing stepped forward and asked directly.

Her gaze fell on Coyle.

Although the strongest among the Sleepless was Savage Beast Xilin, ranked sixty-sixth on the supernova ranking, the true leader was Coyle, who hailed from the real Javier.

Coyle looked at her and asked in return, “What do you think?”

Yin Muqing replied calmly, “Withdraw for now. Report the situation and reorganize our forces before coming back.”

Coyle frowned, his eyes glinting, “Actually, I think this might be the best opportunity…”

“I know what you’re thinking.”

Yin Muqing interrupted Coyle, her gaze shifting to the battle group below. She spoke lightly, “I’ve gathered some secrets regarding the Elephant Deity Sect and the Elephant Man Tribe during my exploration. In the Elephant Man Tribe, there can’t be two three-headed, six-armed elephant men at the same time. What’s happening now is a battle to determine the King of the Tribe…”

“That’s why it’s a good chance.”

Coyle’s eyes sparkled, “In your Xia State’s words, ‘When two tigers fight, one is bound to get hurt.’ We’ll wait until they are both exhausted before making our move…”

“Heh…”

Yin Muqing couldn’t help but scoff. She looked at the battle group below, her expression turning grave as she whispered, “Do you think it’s likely they’ll both be severely injured?”

Their eyes turned to the battlefield, where the Elephant Man King, wielding a giant axe, was being hammered by another elephant man adorned with a demonic flower pattern.

Though both were similarly sized, there was a vast difference in their strength and skill.

The Elephant Man King’s giant axe, which had previously allowed him to dominate with its terrifying power, seemed to be in a “cool-down period.” The previous terrifying might was nowhere to be seen, and against the fearsome elephant man, the king was reduced to a punching bag, utterly unable to fight back.

The Elephant Man King’s body was already covered in large, rock-like fissures, with the injuries continuing to spread.

“…The old Elephant Man King barely counts as a tiger, but without the support of the secret treasure, he’s nothing more than a toothless, ailing tiger. But the other one…”

Yin Muqing watched as Lu Yuan, with his six arms moving in unison, continually pummeled the Elephant Man King, producing one black great sun after another and heavy ripples on its body. Her expression calm, she spoke gravely, “That thing isn’t just a tiger.

It’s a Tyrannosaurus Rex!

It is destined to become the new king of the Elephant Man Tribe!

Once it kills the Elephant Man King and seizes the secret treasure in the King’s hands, gaining the added powers of that treasure, we might not even have the chance to escape!”

As Yin Muqing elaborated, the expression on Coyle’s face became increasingly conflicted.

Yin Muqing glanced at him and said lightly, “I’ve said all there is to say. It’s up to you whether to heed it. Regardless of your decision, I’m retreating now…”

With that, Yin Muqing turned to leave.

But at that moment, an overwhelming presence suddenly surged up beside her.

Immediately following, an arrogant and icy voice echoed slowly.

“Retreat?”

“Why would we retreat?”

“The ultimate winner… will surely be me!”

“Boom!”

Terrifying cosmic energy erupted in the air with overwhelming force, causing Yin Muqing to turn her head abruptly.

Upon seeing the scene before her, her face instantly displayed a look of shock and utter disbelief.

She saw that Xilin, whom she had not been paying attention to, was slowly standing up from the void.

At this moment, he was enveloped in an exceptionally dazzling radiance.

Four rapidly rotating, resplendent light spots appeared around him, and faintly, there was even the emergence of a fifth light spot!

Not only that, but a vast amount of mental power was also arising from Xilin, continuously gathering and condensing…

Under the intertwining of these two forces, the wound on Xilin’s lower abdomen, which had nearly disemboweled him, was healing rapidly.

His face, which had been as pale as paper, was visibly regaining color, radiating an incomparable brilliance!

“Breakthrough… In the middle of combat?!”

“And a breakthrough in both mental power and star acupoint? Mental power advancing to the fourth-stage, and the star acupoint about to activate the fifth one!”

Yin Muqing was stunned, barely able to believe her eyes.

Achieving a breakthrough in the midst of combat was highly improbable, and doing so within the secret realm isolated from cosmic energy made it even less likely.

And yet, this minuscule probability had been realized by Xilin? It was utterly astonishing!

“Hahaha, good, very good!”

While Yin Muqing was still in shock, Coyle, who was with Xilin, couldn’t hide his delight. Excitement gripped him, and he even clenched his fists tightly.

In just a few breaths, Xilin had been utterly transformed from his previously severely injured and weakened state!

He was now bathed in a radiant glow, with every pore on his body emitting a hazy brilliance. His forehead shone brightly.

Five dazzling light spots orbited him like comets, generating visible energy ripples.

Standing proudly in the void, Xilin’s aura was several times more terrifying than it had been at his peak.

A fierce, arrogant, cold, and violent energy surged skyward. He was like a dazzling supernova, sharp and unstoppable.

He cast his gaze down towards the distant battle group, his eyes blazing as if woven with Thunder.

“New King, Old King of the Elephant Man Tribe… those ancient relics that crawled out of the dust should be buried back in the dust!

Watch as I crush all of you! The secret treasure is mine!”

With a wild laugh, Xilin shot towards the two massive figures in combat below like a comet striking the moon.

Yin Muqing watched his descending form, her expression blank, murmuring dazedly, “With his current strength… after this, he may even have the qualifications to reach the top fifty, perhaps even the top forty of the supernova ranking…”