“Just as expected of my disciple!” the Great Sage said, his voice filled with relief. Though he could feel his blood-qi being obstructed, he could also sense that Lanoras’s formation wasn’t strong enough. His own formation would recover soon.
Most importantly, he was strong enough now that he had nothing to fear from Lanoras. All he needed to do was wait for his formation to recover, and he could continue as before. At most, the creation of his perfect body would be delayed slightly.
“But do you really think this is enough to contend with me?” the Great Sage asked confidently.
“Contend with you?!” A smile flickered across Lanoras’s face. Then, a blood-colored formation appeared behind him. All the blood-qi energy intercepted by his formation gathered into his body, rapidly enlarging him until, in the blink of an eye, he stood on equal footing with the Great Sage’s flesh-and-blood body.
“I’m here to kill you!”
“Roar—!” Feeling the explosive power surging through his body, Lanoras let out a furious roar. The blood-colored greatsword in his hand was cloaked in a layer of bloody energy, while twisted blood snakes writhed and surged across its surface!
Lanoras didn’t waste words. He gripped his blood-colored greatsword and brought it down toward the Great Sage. The tentacles that had blocked him moments ago were now sliced clean through, even when more than a dozen of them joined together to resist.
“Splurt—!” A heavy slash tore open the Great Sage’s twisted flesh. Yet he seemed completely unaware of it. A gigantic fist suddenly emerged from one of the lumps of flesh and slammed into Lanoras’s chest, knocking him back several steps!
“You’ve truly surprised me. I never thought you’d be able to reach this level!” The Great Sage looked at Lanoras with an expression of incomparable relief.
“You old bastard, don’t look at me with those disgusting eyes. I’m killing you today!” Lanoras glared at the Great Sage in disgust. Every part of his body twisted strangely. A pair of enormous bat wings sprouted from his back, and then two arms extended from beneath his flesh. At the same time, three different weapons appeared in his three remaining hands.
“A Four-Armed Naga? A Bloodthirsty Demon Bat? And…” The Great Sage’s brow furrowed when he saw this.
“I cultivated this body from countless different materials, all for this day!” Lanoras transformed into a monster that looked as if it had been assembled from all kinds of creatures. He gave a sinister grin. Although he had lost his original body, this one was even stronger than the one he’d had before.
Of course, the various parts he had cultivated from those materials weren’t easy to use. They required an enormous amount of power to maintain. His own strength alone wouldn’t have been enough to support these limbs, but things were different now. He had an endless supply of blood-qi energy, enough to keep these limbs with their special abilities functioning!
Lanoras charged at the Great Sage, brandishing the four weapons in his hands. The Great Sage, meanwhile, extended dozens of flesh-and-blood tentacles to meet him.
“Splurt, splurt, splurt—!”
“Smack, smack, smack—!”
Lanoras kept cutting apart the tentacles that lashed toward him, while quite a few of them slammed into his body. The two fought back and forth in a scene of extreme bloodshed and violence. Flesh flew everywhere, and berserk energy surged and poured out in all directions!
After a fierce battle, both of them began to run out of strength. The Great Sage was nearing exhaustion because the blood pool rooted beneath his feet was almost completely dry, while Lanoras was suffering from an insufficient supply of blood-qi. Although his formation suppressed the Great Sage’s formation, it couldn’t be maintained forever. The Great Sage’s attainments in formations were superior to his own.
“Today, I’ll show you the strongest power of my troll race!” Lanoras let out a thunderous roar. A terrifying phantom then emerged behind him—a pure-black troll wielding a massive black bone club. The moment it appeared, it roared at the Great Sage, its voice shaking the air like a violent storm whipping up enormous waves across the sea!
“Go to hell!”
“The Troll King’s Power!”
Lanoras’s greatsword descended toward the Great Sage, while the phantom behind him raised its bone club and smashed it down as well. Their movements were perfectly synchronized, but this still counted as a twofold attack!
“Gloop—!” The flesh giant controlled by the Great Sage squirmed violently. A mass of tentacles surged out and formed a gigantic blood-colored tentacle sword, which swung back against Lanoras’s attack.
“Boom—!” At the moment of impact, Lanoras’s power was clearly far more terrifying. The Great Sage’s flesh sword shattered instantly, while the blood-colored greatsword cut down from the top of his head without the slightest resistance, splitting him in two!
“Eek-eek-eek—!” Lanoras’s wings beat once, and countless tiny blood-colored bats shot toward the Great Sage’s exploding flesh. They rapidly absorbed the surrounding blood-qi energy. Some of the bats even attached themselves to the Great Sage’s flesh and began feeding on his blood-qi energy.
The blood-colored bats that flew back to Lanoras’s wings carried abundant blood-qi energy with them, feeding it back into Lanoras and allowing his body to rapidly recover after its explosive burst of power.
“I truly underestimated you!” The Great Sage still watched Lanoras with a faint smile. Lanoras’s eyes narrowed when he saw it. His attack seemed not to have achieved the effect he needed, and the Great Sage’s smile filled him with a trace of unease!
“Smack, smack, smack—!” But before Lanoras could figure out what the Great Sage was planning, several enormous tentacles thrust up from the ground beneath his feet and bound him tightly!
