Chapter 296: You think you're worthy of collaborating with me?
"You didn't tell me you invited someone else!" Reylo, the giant crocodile, breathed heavily, his face somewhat unpleasant as he looked over at Ralph.
Ralph hastily raised his hands and said, "I didn't lie to you, I really didn't invite a third Demon God."
"Could that guy be deceiving us?" Reylo's face showed a look of astonishment.
"No!" Ralph's expression turned serious as he looked toward the not-too-distant pagoda, "Someone really has come, an uninvited guest. And to be able to elude the perception of both you and me, this person, I'm afraid, might be troublesome."
The scene suddenly became quiet.
Boom!
From the drooping blood-colored vortex, a thunderbolt suddenly exploded.
Above the white pagoda, a black shadow that seemed almost tangible first appeared, and then a figure emerged into everyone's view.
It was of ordinary human height, indistinguishable as male or female, for it was cloaked in a layer of black armor, its face even covered within a closed helmet. Only at the eye area, a black slit was left, emitting red blood light outward.
A red cape was tied over its shoulders, which fluttered briskly in the strong wind, stretching towards the hanging vortex in the sky.
"To be able to detect my presence, not bad at all. You've got some skills, far better than those two useless ones, Reylo and Ralph," the figure in Scale Armor said mockingly, holding two crescent blades in its hands, treating the whole scene as if it were a relaxed and enjoyable game.
It was only after seeing this person quietly appear that both Reylo and Ralph's faces changed.
"Blood Shadow Demon God!" Ralph wore an ugly expression, his muscles visibly tensing. It was like a farmer in the forest encountering a venomous snake, startled and enveloped in immense danger. He immediately grimaced and asked in a low voice, "How did you come to be here?"
"Oh dear, I was actually planning to chop off your head and use it as a chamberpot," the Blood Shadow Demon God said with a smirk, "but I never expected such interesting things to happen here, so I followed secretly."
The person's gaze fell onto Su Heng, pausing briefly, before addressing him outright, "Young man, you have a pretty good physique. How about you join forces with me, and we deal with these two first?"
"Humans have an old saying, the enemy of my enemy is my friend," the Blood Shadow Demon God said in a low, velvety voice.
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With these words.
Before Su Heng could speak, the faces of Ralph and Reylo had already changed dramatically.
"Although we have some disagreements, after all, we are both Blood Realm Demon Gods, how can you elbow us out!"
Ralph nearly jumped out of his skin at the cry, having already witnessed the exaggerated strength displayed by Su Heng.
The Blood Shadow Demon God itself was also a well-known entity within the Blood Realm.
Coming without a shadow, leaving without a trace.
Mysterious and terrifying.
More than a handful of Demon Gods died at its hands.
An absolutely intimidating existence. If these two were to join forces now, his carefully prepared plans would come to naught, and he himself was very likely to die here without any chance or possibility of turning the tables!
Even the usually unflappable giant crocodile, Reylo, warned in a low voice, "Blood Shadow, do not err!"
"I just like the feeling of being with the strong..." The Blood Shadow Demon God seemed quite pleased with the astonished and furious expressions on their faces. It chuckled while looking back at Su Heng, "What do you say, young man? If you agree, we can get started right now."
"Cooperate?" Su Heng, who had been coldly observing the three of them, finally spoke, "You think you're worthy?"
"The rats that scurry everywhere in the gutter, aspiring to accompany the true dragon that fights against the heavens, wouldn't that make others laugh their heads off?" Su Heng's body shook, and the sound of rumbling like muted thunder emanated from within his bones. His muscles undulated, and ripples of golden light flickered within the Scale Armor.
"You three wastes, come at me together," Su Heng crossed his arms over his chest, his gaze condescending, and he coldly said, "Come on over and die quickly, make it clean and efficient. My time is precious, I don't want to waste too much of it on you!"
"You!" Upon hearing these words, the Blood Shadow Demon God was rooted to the spot in shock.
It didn't really want to cooperate with Su Heng, it just wanted to get rid of everyone present.
But it never expected Su Heng to be even more arrogant. Rejecting its offer outright, it was compared to a rat in the gutter.
This was rubbing its pride in the dirt.
In the thousands of years since it had become a Demon God, it had never suffered such humiliation.
The Blood Shadow Demon God felt like a volcano erupted in its chest, a red rage rushing to its head, nearly smoking from all seven apertures.
"Good! Good! Good!" The Blood Shadow Demon God's voice was no longer mocking, but turned cold, "Since the young man is so confident, I hope when I cut off your limbs later, you can still speak so boldly."
"A dying man sure has a lot to say!" Su Heng didn't even glance at it, suddenly reached out his hand, and made a pinching motion forward.
A torrential surge of pitch-black force came crashing down.
Boom!
A terrifying explosion occurred right there.
The ground caved and burst, pitch-black, dreadful dust billowed up, and then swept across all directions in the ensuing shockwave.
"Hahaha!" Ralph laughed heartily, "Blood Shadow Demon God, I didn't expect you'd see the day when you'd be beaten."
"Reylo, let's attack together!"
"Okay!" Reylo responded with a throaty voice.
His body was massive and weighty, yet his speed wasn't slow at all. He sprinted forward and at his fastest moment, he pushed off hard with his legs, causing mud to explode from the ground as Reylo's body leaped high into the air, transforming into a huge iron-black ball. Spinning rapidly in the air and carrying a deafening whirlwind, he fiercely smashed down towards Su Heng.
"Haha, that's got some force!" Watching the impressive strike before him, Su Heng looked up and laughed loudly. Amidst the intense trembling of the ground, he first took a deep breath, then also accelerated forward. His second heart beat rapidly as a splendid golden light shone from his body.
Then, with a fierce twist—
Smack!
His tail whipped out, shattering the air and simultaneously, carrying the force of a collapsing mountain, it heavily struck the body of the mountainous demon.
If time were slowed down a thousand times, one could clearly see.
In the midst of lightning-fast booms, Reylo's armor, reputed to be indestructible, first severely caved in and deformed before exploding outright. Countless pieces of black armor, like a fierce storm, scattered in every direction and a series of explosive blasts erupted in an instant.
Shockwaves rolled, thick smoke rose.
Reylo's body shattered like pottery and was directly flung out, crashing heavily onto a distant mountain.
The hundreds of meters high mountain, as if bombarded from orbit, was leveled in an instant.
"Damn it!" Demonic God Ralph had intended to sneak an attack, but seeing Reylo neatly flung away by a clean strike and unable to climb out of the ground for a long while, fragments of his armor exploded not far from Ralph.
Just the shockwaves from the exploding fragments made Ralph's entire body violently tremble, with crimson streaks of blood appearing on his pale face.
Such extreme violence, such terrifying oppression!
It left Ralph completely stunned in place, not daring to move rashly, caught in a dilemma of whether to advance or retreat.
But while Ralph dared not strike, Su Heng wasn't about to spare him.
Bang!
His face carried a murderous aura, he strode forward.
With each step he took, the vast ground seemed unable to carry the weight, exploding with dust and billowing smoke, much like a violently trembling heart. Cracks spread from beneath Su Heng's feet, and countless remaining buildings and pagodas on either side crumbled and collapsed during this process.
"It's too late to feel fear now. Daring to challenge me was the biggest mistake of your life!" As the dust settled, Su Heng wore a ferocious smile, "I have already foreseen that your end is near."
Boom!
Like a gigantic road roller, a palm came crashing down unapologetically towards Ralph's head.
What seemed like a normal palm strike, but when Ralph looked up, he felt the intensifying air pressure, the shaking ground, and red halos on the palm appearing from the severe friction with the air, akin to a meteorite falling from the sky.
His mouth agape, he let out a silent scream.
In that moment, Su Heng truly resembled the legendary Supreme Sky Demon, unstoppable and unchallengeable.
Bang!
In the nick of time.
Ralph detonated his own body, turning into a mass of blood shadows.
The enormous palm swept across, violently blasting the ground, amidst the raging winds. A dark shadow flickered several times, covering a distance of over a thousand meters, before reappearing in the void on the other side. Ralph's figure emerged, pale-faced and notably weaker in breath.
Clearly, that nearly instantaneous Secret Technique was not easy for Ralph to execute.
It required the right time, place, and came at a certain price.
"I have plenty of time. I want to see just how long you can hide!" Su Heng sneered coldly and stretched out his hand again, pinching in the direction of Ralph.
Whoosh!
But just then, a sharp, piercing sound of cutting through the air arrived.
The blood-colored cape billowed behind him, and the Blood Shadow Demon God in armor appeared in front of Su Heng.
With curved blades reflecting the bloodlight in hand, they crossed and chopped towards Su Heng's neck. The latter slightly tilted his chin and smoothly dodged the strike with a side step, then Su Heng, baring his densely fanged mouth, lunged forward to bite.
Though he had already used strength and Gravity Lock to seal the surroundings, the Blood Shadow Demon God moved like a fish through water, seemingly able to find the weak spots.
Su Heng bit the air, as the figure vanished right before his eyes.
Reylo and Ralph both held considerable fear for this person. Among the three, the Blood Shadow Demon God seemed the most formidable. The abilities now demonstrated were indeed troublesome. But Su Heng was not afraid; his spiritual power was already profound. Coupled with the seventh sense, his large body was remarkably agile.
Even in his normal state, he could completely keep up with the speed of the Blood Shadow Demon God.