Chapter 416 – Are You Trying to Get Close to Me?

Above the vast, murky water region, a blood-red sun suddenly rose. After a few breaths, the blood-red sun extinguished, its blood-red light retracting inward. A figure emerged from the blood sun.

Standing nearly twenty meters tall, its skin was a dark red, almost purple, covered in jagged scales. Like elephant hooves, it had eight robust arms, but only the two in the center had normal hands with five fingers. Two of the arms ended in massive, purplish-red hammers, another two bore terrifyingly exaggerated giant axes, while the remaining two were as sharp and keen as blades.

Blood-red eyes were embedded in its chest and back, spinning eerily as if they were some kind of bizarre ornament. Spiraling black horns grew from its forehead, and a blood-red tail, as long as a giant python, extended behind it. Blood-red flames quietly burned across its body.

An intense, cold, bloodthirsty, and frenzied consciousness and aura spilled out from every pore of its body like a flood, sweeping and overflowing in all directions.

This massive, terrifying figure, resembling a Mecha, hovered silently in mid-air. The space around it appeared distorted, as if scorched by intense heat. The murky water region beneath it involuntarily caved downward, parting to the sides, as tendrils of black aura steamed up from its surface.

Blood flames, black smoke… From its appearance alone, the figure seemed like a demon from a mythical legend, having just crawled out from the crevices of the Abyss, emanating an unnerving chill.

“Whoosh-“

Lu Yuan exhaled deeply, but the breath he released carried no warmth; instead, it was as sharp as a blade, cutting a clear mark in the air before him.

The last time he used the [gathering of three flowers at the apex] secret technique in his asura form, there was a minor transformation in the asura body. Now, after a third limit break of all attributes, using it again resulted in the asura body almost entirely transforming.

It was as if…

It had suddenly grown from a “juvenile stage” to a “mature stage,” with a colossal change in power.

“So this must be… the new form of the Three Flowers Asura State.”

Lu Yuan stretched out his eight arms, examining his current state, and murmured to himself. He suddenly noticed that his voice had also become raspy and sharp, like the friction of blades.

The [gathering of three flowers at the apex] secret technique deeply taps into Lu Yuan’s life potential, and once activated, can elevate the genetic form of his life level to a very high position in a very short time.

When this power acts on the asura body, it essentially accelerates Lu Yuan’s asura form, which originally had an experience progress of just over ten percent, pushing it to fifty, sixty, or even higher levels.

The final result is what is now presented.

Lu Yuan lowered his head, gazing gently at Yuwen Tong before him.

Yuwen Tong wasn’t frightened by his inhuman appearance; she merely looked up at him, her eyes full of wonder.

“Neither of us… needs to be the one left behind. Just wait for a moment…”

Lu Yuan tried to make his voice sound softer as he spoke gently to Yuwen Tong, “I should be able to handle it soon.”

Yuwen Tong didn’t speak; she suddenly smiled softly, then stepped back two paces.

She assumed a stance of patiently waiting to watch Lu Yuan perform.

Lu Yuan turned, the last bit of gentleness in his eyes quickly fading away.

He calmly stared at the figure clad in silver armor not far ahead, allowing the turbulent, almost boiling asura instincts within him to gradually take over his entire being…

“What is that?”

At this moment, Anders was also watching Lu Yuan.

This guy in front of him was so weak just a few breaths ago.

If it weren’t for the repeated interventions of the Immortal Bloodline Holder’s secret techniques, he would have been slaughtered long ago with no idea of what was happening.

Yet now, suddenly and inexplicably, his appearance transformed drastically, and the aura he was emanating… even stirred a bit of unease within Anders?!

“A guy without any armor making me feel tense?! What a joke!”

This trace of unease made Anders’ emotions boil over with agitation.

The face beneath the mask gradually twisted, and the retreating killing intent once again surged violently.

“Die for me!”

Anders swung his arm fiercely, attempting to control the silver malignant vine that was still embedded in his opponent, to strangle him directly.

But after several attempts, the silver tentacles extending from his armored suit remained taut and straight, while the opponent’s body did not move an inch.

It was as if those silver malignant vines had grown into the opponent’s body, making it impossible for him to even retract them!

“Are you kidding me?!”

A look of shock flashed across Anders’ face, unable to comprehend or accept this outcome.

With the silver malignant vine armor, in this state, his speed, defense, and Strength were all more than a hundred times that of an ordinary star spirit realm tenth stage being.

With a couple of pulls, even a mere twenty-meter-tall person shouldn’t be able to withstand it… Even a meteorite several kilometers in diameter, in high-speed flight, would be pulled off course by his efforts.

Yet his opponent remained unmoved, making Anders feel like a fool.

“Impossible!”

A vicious gleam flashed on Anders’ face as he spread his arms, his entire body, encased in silver armor, began emitting a strong silver light.

The silver tentacles extending outward started intertwining and merging with each other, unleashing an even more massive force.

This terrifying power even affected the surrounding environment, causing the space around the silver tentacles to warp in large swathes, while the water region below began to tremble and undulate.

Anders’ exertion was not in vain; under his full-on explosion of power, his opponent’s body finally moved.

Pulled by the taut silver tentacles, the opponent stumbled forward a few steps.

Just as Anders, with a ferocious expression, was planning to take advantage of the momentum to pull the opponent over and tear him apart, the opponent, who had been yanked somewhat awkwardly, suddenly stopped.

The opponent abruptly lifted his head and looked directly at him.

The horned monster with a vertical mark on its forehead suddenly grinned at him.

The smile stretched all the way to the ear, revealing a mouth full of sharp, white teeth.

“Are you trying to get close to me?”

“As you wish!”

With that, the eight-armed monster grabbed the silver tentacles in front of it with all eight thick arms and pulled them fiercely toward itself!

“Boom!”

Anders didn’t even have time to react before an unprecedented, indescribably terrifying force surged through the silver tentacles violently crashing into him.

“Bang!”

He was propelled forward like a cannonball, his body stretching into an exceedingly blurry silver afterimage through the air.

As he was involuntarily hurled forward, the monster clutching the silver tentacles also suddenly kicked off fiercely, shattering the space beneath its feet, and lunged at him voluntarily.

One silver and one red, one small and one large.

The two figures hurtled toward each other like two meteors streaking rapidly across the sky, colliding heavily in a fraction of a second.

“Boom!”

A colossal sound akin to the collapse of the heavens and the earth.

Centered around the point of collision between the two beams of light, hundreds of kilometers of murky water region exploded.

The terrifying aftermath of the collision was visibly spreading, like an enormous silver-red aperture expanding in all directions.

After the shockwave, a torrential black-red rain began to pour from the sky.

The black aura permeating the air grew denser, carrying traces of desolation, decay, and an indescribably eerie feeling.

Nearby, watching the battle, Yuwen Tong furrowed her eyebrows slightly, trying to capture a strand of the black aura to sense it.

But the next second, she was drawn to the scene revealed at the center of the explosion.

At this point, nobody paid attention to these small details.

There it was.

At the center of the explosive collision stood a figure with four heads and eight arms.

Bloodied all over, with conspicuous dents in the chest and shoulder areas, and wounds in the process of healing, the sight was somewhat tragic.

Yet his figure remained majestic, without a trace of pain or embarrassment on his face.

Instead, he was smiling-a bright and fierce smile.

Lu Yuan’s robust, scale-covered arm was holding Anders’ head as if he were a small chick, suspending him in mid-air.

Anders’ body was laced with countless silver tentacles, viciously whipping across Lu Yuan’s body like whips, leaving astonishing scars one after another.

Yet Lu Yuan seemed entirely unfazed, as if he couldn’t feel the pain, as though the lashing wasn’t inflicted onto himself at all.

Lu Yuan held onto Anders’ head firmly, suppressing the struggling Strength within his grasp while bringing Anders closer to his own face.

Compared to Lu Yuan’s over twenty-meter-tall form, Anders, who was only slightly larger than a normal human, seemed like a mere toy in his hands.

Lu Yuan pressed Anders’ head against his own cheek, his scarlet eyes seemingly piercing through the silver mask on Anders’ face, trying to glimpse the frightened and panicked face beneath.

Lu Yuan then moved Anders just a bit farther away, positioning him at just the right distance to exert force.

He raised his hand, forming a fist.

Muscles on his purple-red arm twisted and bulged like coiling dragons.

Then, with a fierce grin at Anders, he softly muttered, “You’re so tough…”

“But…”

“I like it.”

With that, he unleashed a powerful punch!

“Boom! Bang-“

A fist almost as large as half of Anders’ body slammed into Anders’ face and torso.

A visible shockwave erupted from behind Anders, raging backward like an angry dragon.

The already calmed murky water region was again thrown into tumultuous turmoil.

Starting from Anders’ body, the water surface seemed to be sliced by an invisible blade, splitting perfectly in half and extending rapidly outward.

Anders’ body trembled violently from the blow.

The wildly flailing silver tentacles all over his body suddenly went taut, pausing for a brief moment.

But this was just the beginning.

After delivering one punch, Lu Yuan used his other hand to grab onto several silver tentacles, counteracting the terrifying impact, and forcefully pulled back Anders, who should have been flying away.

Then came the second punch!

The other arms, already transformed into forms of hammers, knives, and axes, weren’t idle either, bombarding Anders’ body like cannonballs.

“Boom! Boom, boom!”

The enormous monster, towering over twenty meters tall, with four heads, eight arms, horns on its head, and a tail on its back, held a silver humanoid only about a tenth of its size, delivering a relentless onslaught.

In the center of the battle group, the void resembled a furiously beaten drum surface, constantly twisting into various shapes, erupting with thunderous sounds.

This frenzied barrage seemed to go on indefinitely.

Until, at a certain moment, a completely bewildered Anders finally seemed to snap out of his daze.

A brilliant and unmatched silver light suddenly burst forth.

Lu Yuan’s storm-like barrage of attacks abruptly halted.

The previously rigid silver tentacles sprang back to life, coiling around Lu Yuan’s body in loops.

His neck, his torso, his eight arms-all were ensnared by the mass of silver vines, rendering him immobile.

Just like prey trapped by a giant snake, colossal as he was, he couldn’t struggle free.

“Ridiculous… utterly ridiculous…”

Beneath his mask, Anders’ face twisted grotesquely as if he were laughing, though his eyes seemed to blaze with fiery rage.

“Do you think these attacks can break my defense? They aren’t even enough to tickle me! You backward and incompetent fool!”

Anders seemed to have regained control of the battle in a single instant.

He wasn’t wrong.

With the protective silver armor, although he seemed battered under Lu Yuan’s relentless attacks, the actual damage he suffered was negligible.

The armed defense of a top-tier Mech isn’t something ordinary people could comprehend.

He could even have a good chance of surviving a planet exploding in front of him.

Expecting to break it with attacks below the Star Lord Level was purely wishful thinking.

Even though Lu Yuan couldn’t understand Anders’ language, he could deduce the general meaning from Anders’ furious and arrogant consciousness ripples.

Looking at the seemingly unscathed Anders, Lu Yuan showed no hint of surprise or panic.

He smiled slightly and said softly, “Is that so?”

With that, Lu Yuan punched again.

This time, from his fist, black cracks resembling a spider web spread outward into the void.

“Shatter!”

Level 2, the power of the ultimate skill, Shatter!

As this punch landed, there was a crisp “crack” sound…

At that moment, time seemed to stand still.

Anders’ face, frozen with an arrogant and ferocious expression, looked down incredulously at himself.

Lu Yuan’s massive, ferocious fist had sunk deep into Anders’ chest and abdomen. The edges of the fist were surrounded by the silver armor, resembling ancient vines entwined and woven together, which now appeared cracked and dented.

The top-tier silver malignant vine armor, reputed to be nearly unbreakable below the Star Lord Realm…

Had actually been shattered?!

Anders was utterly stunned, seemingly unable to believe his own eyes.

“Did you forget how your subordinates were powered down?”

Lu Yuan moved closer to Anders, his soft words sounding like thunderclaps in Anders’ ears.

Anders slowly raised his head, meeting Lu Yuan’s gaze as he looked down at him with a radiant yet icy smile.

Lu Yuan’s asura arms, transformed into colossal hammers, were already raised high without Anders realizing.

The spiderweb-like black cracks spread and expanded around his arms.

“While you still have a breath left…”

“You might want to swear.”

Lu Yuan said softly, looking at Anders.

With that, his arm hammer, infused with the power of the ultimate skill, level 2 Shatter, came crashing down towards Anders’ head.

“Asura-Haotian Hammer Strike!”

“Boom!”

…

“What?!”

Outside the ancestral land secret realm, the handsome youth and the white-haired middle-aged man both had their pupils contract, expressions of disbelief etched on their faces.

In that moment, even the face of the bespectacled old man showed signs of surprise, his eyes flashing with brilliance as a torrent of light swirled within.

“An ultimate skill? The power of the ultimate skill?!”

The handsome youth and the white-haired middle-aged man exchanged glances, seemingly trying to find answers to their astonishment in each other’s eyes.

“How could the silver malignant vine armor shatter from sheer brute force?”

“An ultimate skill! It must be empowered by an ultimate skill! And one related to Strength!”

“But how could someone at the star spirit realm possibly comprehend the essence of an ultimate skill? And a heretic at that!”

The white-haired middle-aged man’s eyes flickered for a moment before he coldly remarked, “Perhaps it’s precisely because he’s a heretic that he managed to achieve this.”

The handsome youth watched the figure in the scene with a flickering expression.

After a moment of silence, the white-haired middle-aged man suddenly spoke, “This guy is highly significant. Once this is over, it’s best to report it to the Star Deity Association. If this somehow ties into a sinister plot by some heretic evil deity, we can’t afford to bear the responsibility…”

He then glanced at the bespectacled old man beside him.

For once, the bespectacled old man agreed with him and even nodded proactively.

The handsome youth exhaled softly, his expression gradually relaxing.

Looking at the scene before him, he said, “In any case, so far it has turned out to be a good thing for us. Who would have thought such a twist would occur? Now that the dust has settled, the Immortal Bloodline can be preserved. The Blood Sprout Mech as a fallback turned out to be a wasted effort. The exit should be nearly ready…”

As the handsome youth spoke, he was about to inquire with the person responsible for opening the secret realm exit when the white-haired middle-aged man’s face suddenly changed, and the bespectacled old man’s eyebrows furrowed deeply.

The handsome youth quickly looked up at the screen again.

Upon clearly seeing the scene unfolding, his handsome face instantly turned grim.

“The silver malignant vine… in its semi-mature form! For someone at the mere star spirit realm to afford expending resources to cultivate it to such an extent… Just whose direct descendant from the Tulan Family is this top-tier figure?!”

In the vast and desolate Starry Sky, there was no answer.

At that moment, in the footage transmitted back by the Blood Sprout Mech, what had originally been a nearly settled situation underwent another drastic change.

The roles of attack and defense had reversed.

…

“Boom!”

At the instant Lu Yuan’s two hammers crashed down, an unprecedentedly terrifying energy suddenly erupted from within his embrace.

His attack, infused with the power of the ultimate skill, Shatter, was directly pushed away by this massive and almost fearful force, sending him hurtling backward as if struck by a heavy blow.

When he finally steadied himself and looked up to see the scene before him clearly, his expression momentarily froze with surprise.