Chapter 091: Dreaming
With a thunderous boom, the answer came not in words, but in a great hand seal forged from condensed force, striking in from the side and hitting the chest of a clamoring beastman.
A spray of blood burst from its mouth at once. The hulking body staggered backward, toppling and smashing aside seven or eight of its fellows before crashing into the wall and punching out a crater. Cracks webbed the opening, while fine sand and debris above it streamed down in a constant trickle.
Life force gained: 159
The recovery notice flashed through his mind.
Still sustaining the flow of the Cloud-Scroll Hand, Tang Mubai felt the power of that palm strike and could not help but let the corners of his mouth rise.
Even without the aid of true force, that one palm was equivalent to five or six times the strength of Tiger Roar Fist.
And the blow he had just used had only been delivered with thirty percent of his power.
As expected, a high-grade martial art was something extraordinary indeed.
While Tang Mubai was immersed in the sheer force of the Cloud-Scroll Hand, the beastman opposite him, more than two and a half meters tall, was already raging.
"You’re asking for death!"
Its eyes burned red. Murderous and baleful aura erupted from its body. With a violent sweep of its massive hand, it roared, "Kill! Kill him for me!"
"Roar!" "Roar!" "Roar!"
The other beastmen, already eager beyond restraint, received the order and instantly howled in excitement. They surged toward Tang Mubai in relentless waves, transforming as they ran.
Wolf-headed, ox-headed, dog-headed, sheep-headed...
All kinds of beastmen bellowed and roared, half-man and half-beast, hideous forms flooding toward Tang Mubai like a tide.
Though Tang Mubai’s earlier palm had been powerful, in the eyes of the beastman over two and a half meters tall, such a sneak attack was useless against the charge of dozens or even hundreds of beastmen.
One must know that every beastman hiding in this underground space was elite class, equivalent to the professional level among humans.
A hundred professional-level martial artists launching a charge would kill even a grandmaster-level martial artist, let alone Tang Mubai.
As for a master-level...
Heh.
The beastman over two and a half meters tall sneered.
It was not one of those dim-witted kin. It had studied human knowledge for more than three years and understood human martial strength quite well.
Tang Mubai was so young; at most, he was a master-level martial artist.
To want to live? Dream on.
With a muffled boom, another sound rang out amid the beastmen's howls.
Tang Mubai's blood and qi surged, and streams of force danced between his palms.
Compared with the true-force augmentation of Hu Zonghan, it was still far inferior.
But under the impetus of one hundred fifty cards of blood and qi, the generated force was by no means to be underestimated. Under Tang Mubai’s control, the whirl of power in both palms intensified again and again, until at last it condensed into great hand seals, hurled forth like cannonballs.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The deep, resounding explosions echoed through the entire underground space.
Wherever the force-condensed hand seals passed, not a single charging beastman could keep advancing. Every one of them was sent flying back, crashing into walls, bursting into blood mist and dying on the spot, or smashing into the comrades behind them and being flung skyward together, coughing blood with bones snapping.
The dust on the ground, the tables and chairs that had been set out—at that moment, all were torn up by the storm of destructive force, shattered and scattered into a blizzard of debris.
Life force gained: 171
Life force gained: 182
Life force gained: 169
Life force gained: 172
Life force gained: 180
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Recovery notices flashed through his mind at great speed.
In the short span of ten seconds, more than twenty beastmen had died by Tang Mubai's hand.
The beastman over two and a half meters tall watched, shocked and furious.
"High-grade martial art!"
"Damned human, to think you have cultivated such a powerful technique!"
It growled and roared with mounting rage.
In the next instant...
Buzz~
The air trembled.
An invisible pressure suddenly burst forth from above, descending like a mountain and enveloping Tang Mubai.
Tang Mubai, who had been executing the Cloud-Scroll Hand to his heart's content, immediately came to a stop.
"Kill him!"
The beastman over two and a half meters tall barked at just the right moment.
"Kill!!"
The other beastmen, who had never possessed much fear to begin with, saw this and once again howled with excitement, pouncing toward Tang Mubai.
"A commander-class beastman?"
Tang Mubai, standing motionless, narrowed his eyes and gazed at the beastman over two and a half meters tall with a cold smile.
This was not the first time he had faced the pressure of a commander-class beastman.
Buzz~
Grandmaster-level pressure suddenly activated, dispelling the crushing force upon him and, in turn, spreading toward the beastman over two and a half meters tall.
At the same time—
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One great hand seal after another continued to fly from Tang Mubai's hands, slamming into the mass of beastmen charging in.
Life force gained: 173
Life force gained: 158
Life force gained: 164
...
Amid a chain of dull impacts, beastman after beastman was slapped to death, smashed to death, or smashed to death.
In shock, the beastman over two and a half meters tall no longer held back.
A long, strangled howl escaped its throat.
The already massive body of the beastman over two and a half meters tall suddenly swelled and shot upward. Its face thrust outward, sharp, curved fangs protruded from the corners of its mouth, its nose became soft and elongated, and its two ears widened like great palm fans.
In less than three seconds, it had transformed into a five-meter-tall elephant-headed man, mighty and imposing, its pressure vast as the sea.
No bone bead was visible, yet a layer of white light familiar to Tang Mubai appeared over its body.
A bone bead!
Once again Tang Mubai saw the kind of bead that could neutralize pressure one level above its own.
Only this time, he could not tell where the bone bead was hidden on the beastman that had transformed into an elephant-headed man.
Once wrapped in white light, the grandmaster-level pressure bearing down on it was instantly nullified!
"All of you, stand down!"
The elephant-headed man let out a long cry.
A streak of white light, carried on the force of its cry, burst from its hand and spread over the remaining beastmen, those reckless fools who knew no fear.
The beastmen, who had been frozen in place by grandmaster-level pressure and unable to move, abruptly recovered their ability to act, and one by one retreated unwillingly to the rear.
"Human, I admit I misjudged you. I never thought you would be a grandmaster!"
The elephant-headed man hissed in hatred. "But even if you are a grandmaster, you will still die here today!"
With a bang, the ground beneath its feet exploded, debris flying.
The elephant-headed man's mountain-like body charged toward Tang Mubai with the ferocity of a locomotive.
Its two bulky hands thrust forward, and in an instant a sheet of blood light erupted from them. In the blink of an eye, the light spread over both hands and quickly coursed across the rest of its body.
A blood-colored shield!
Once again Tang Mubai saw a blood-colored shield comparable to protective true force.
He did not evade, instead gathering power in both hands.
Meeting the charging elephant-headed man head-on, Tang Mubai drove the Cloud-Scroll Hand to its absolute limit.
Ten-tenths strength, ten-thousand-jin divine force, erupting together!
Boom~~~
The air detonated.
The immense sound reverberated without end.
There was no clash of fist and palm. At a distance of only half a meter, Tang Mubai's attack and the elephant-headed man's attack had already collided. In that instant, the violent force released by the impact exploded like a cannonball, sweeping through the entire underground space in a fraction of a second.