112. Iron Armor Steel Fist

  Swoosh!

  Li Aozi's arm was bitten off by a huge demon ghost, his katana leaving his hand. He unceremoniously kicked the monster away. The enormous Pegasus wings swept across instantly; the bzing Stardust Wings gushed rapidly, shredding and slig the mohat rushed up like an ion cutter.

  "Where are you looking!"

  A cross-shaped spear instantly pierced through Li Aozi's back from behind, skewering his still-beati. Lu Yuping-san, covered in blood, viciously swung the spear toward the ground. Li Aozi rolled on the spot, the golden halo in his eyes expanding. Using gravitational pullback, he flung the katana that had left his hand directly toward Lu Yuping-san.

  Lu Yuping-san stood upright like a martial god, pulled out the spear and p on the ground. Instantly, a strong aura burst out from his position, bsting Li Aozi and his katana away. Li Aozi rolled tinuously to dissipate the force. 【Cut Off Vitality】 promptly absorbed life blood with a fierce draw, and his arm rapidly regeed visibly. However, before he could rise from one knee, a burst of blood exploded from his chest.

  Bang—

  A huge shell g was ejected. Yin Shuyan coldly pulled the bolt. Blue Qi gathered and pressed in the gun barrel like a storm. The propelnt gas fully mixed with the Qi. With a thought, as the trigger ulled, it ignited instantly with almost no dey. Yet another depleted uranium fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-pierg round struck Li Aozi's armor.

  Due to the self-sharpening and defgration properties of uranium, Li Aozi's armor along with flesh was instantly shredded and vaporized. His body spttered everywhere like minced meat. Raging fmes burst from his back, dragging fragments of internal ans for over a dozeers, spshing onto the surrounding walls.

  Li Aozi staggered a couple of steps. Seeing his health bottoming out again, he immediately sed all the monsters in his field of vision, using 【Death Link】 to ect all of them to his own life.

  Crash—

  In an instant, the previously imposing monsters fell dead oer ahe "death" that Li Aozi should have suffered was transferred to them. Since most of the monsters didn't have his high healing ability and simuted life, death was their only fate.

  One by ohe monsters rushed forward, but before they could reach Li Aozi, they bizarrely colpsed, lying prone on the ground. The ghostly fmes in their eye sockets extinguished, and their forms turned into bck ash and spiritual dust, dispersing with the wind.

  "You monster..."

  By now, the proud Lu Yuping-san, upon seeing this se, had a numb expression.

  It wasn't his first time seeing rivers of blood, but it was the first time seeing one person causing rivers of blood.

  Blood, blood—damn, all blood. The blood was greedily drunk by the earth, flowing wantonly in the cracks between bricks, spttering on the walls, crashing underfoot like surging waves. If a film reviewer saw this se, they might instantly die of a heart attack. Even for a battle-hardened warrior like Lu Yuping-san, it caused physical disfort.

  "Simply a demon... a blood demon."

  Miko Gozen Suzuka had been ambushed several times by Li Aozi, having a k of flesh hacked off her thigh. Even she, as a 【Medium】 with strong immunity to physical damage, could not avoid being injured amid Li Aozi's frenzied sshing. The burns on her hands and face all attested to his formidable threat.

  They were all wounded, but Li Aozi, fighting drenched in blood, seemed always on the brink of death yet occasionally had the strength to terattack.

  "Hey, Suzuka-."

  Yin Shuyan looked a bit unfortable. After firing that shot, she, being linked by 【Death Link】, immediately received damage feedback. For someone as physically frail as her, even bearing just a portion of the death transfer made her face pale, nearly causio colpse. She panted heavily, coughed a few times, and shouted to the miko:

  "This guy's ter-damage ability is to. If this tinues, we 't eliminate him."

  She g the Grand Onmyoji floating high in the air and clicked her tongue:

  "He really is leisurely. Why oh did he bring such a camity into the try?"

  "It's poiue now. Although Li Aozi's offensive power is limited, his regeive ability is to. We need a way to restrain him."

  "For example?"

  "Not giving him a ce to absorb our life force."

  As Miko Gozen Suzuka spoke, she immediately cast a smoke talisman, separating Li Aozi and Lu Yuping-san. Then, crossing the spiritual realm, she pressed her hand on Lu Yuping-san's shoulder:

  "Let's go, baldy. Don't be a free blood bag for him."

  Lu Yuping-san cursed under his breath but, seeing the rapidly approag presence Suzuka pointed out behind them, didn't hesitate to retreat.

  Whoosh—

  Li Aozi's greatsword tore through the smoke. In the pupils of the Dominator, a vast meized army was instantly reflected.

  "—'t believe they're pying hardball, actually deploying regur troops."

  Gamma Rank individuals are powerful entities, but ohrown into the battlefield, they're just advanced on fodder. The formal deployment of mobile units means Tianhuan o loolerate him and has officially beguions against Li Aozi.

  Looking into the distance, tless scarlet lights bloomed in the sky. Hypersonic missiles arrived in an instant, exploding oer another around Li Aozi. Without hesitation, he used gravity to propel himself upward, tinuously evading those terrifying missiles. The sky over Kyōan-kyō was instantly covered with fmes.

  The Tianhuan people proved with as that they are pletely different from the Frost-Pted Republi terms of martial ethics.

  Three minutes into the battle, hundreds of droook off to intercept, ung an aerial siege against Li Aozi with maneuverability beyond human limits. At the same time, the Tianhuan people maximized the power of Kyōan-kyō's barrier. The bzing artificial sun pletely transformed the barrier into a beam prison; any flying object daring to exceed 19,000 meters in altitude would be instantly vaporized by high-temperature particles.

  Under such trol, Li Aozi's aerial movements were severely restricted. Drones flew directly toward him. They didn't o catch up; as long as they got close, they activated their warheads. The high-explosive drones were essentially airborne bomb trucks. Shrapnel and shockwaves bounced Li Aozi bad forth like a volleyball.

  "So troublesome!"

  Li Aozi hated tinuing to tah Tianhuan's air force. These kamikaze drones, relying on low-altitude advantage, chased him relentlessly. His high-speed flight had no advantage in this enviro.

  The Tianhuan forces attacked him like mad. He quickly felt their firepower—various types of anti-aircraft missiles rapidly approached. Tactical sers calcuted and predicted his trajectory, weaving a vast ser in the air.

  Even though beam ons didn't pose much threat to him, if he tried to block the sers, the drones would immediately pounce. Uianhuan's powerful near-ground satellite surveilnce, his movements had o hide.

  "You won't escape anywhere!"

  After several Gamma Rank individuals withdrew from the battle, professional medical teams rushed in to provide them with the best care and treatment.

  Among them, Yin Shuyan, as a 【Ranger】, had the lightest injuries. After a brief rest, she immediately jumped into an aerial bat mobile armor, linking the Qi transmission els to her brain and spine.

  "Wait, Miss Yin Shuyan, the crew members for this unit haven't arrived yet—"

  "No need. I alone am the crew."

  【Link plete】

  The s lit up, and the grim face of the Grand Onmyoji Abe Tadayuki appeared oinal proje. He said in a deep voice:

  "Shuyan, the crew members aren't all here, right?"

  "There's no time to wait for them. I'll go first."

  "Then it's up to you, Shuyan. Be sure t him down."

  "Uood."

  Yin Shuyan put on the high-pressure oxygen mask. As a Gamma Rank, she needed more oxygen and energy than ordinary people to maintain her physical dition. After taking a deep breath of an ammonia, oxygen, chlorine, and ixture, this unpleasant gas allowed her physiological system—surpassing human limits—to return to peak state.

  Electrolyte ions rapidly spread in her blood, enhang Qi transmission efficy, and her mind became clearer.

  All systems normal. Deep blue Qi fmes lit up in Yin Shuyan's eyes. Her entire Qi was transmitted to the mobile armor. Simir azure light patterns quickly lit up in the armor's seams. The eleic eyes fshed tinuously. The reactied a humming sound, activating.

  "pde-'Mind's Eye'—Yin Shuyan, ung!"

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