Chapter 1010: My Time to Shine
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The lightning forest was not the sort of place one could hold lengthy discussions. After a brief talk, they heard wolves howling in the distance.
When the sounds subsided, the lightning trees seemed to react as if a message was being relayed, passed from tree to tree.
Chen Hu and the others were unnerved at the sight, and mournfully realized that their trials might not be over.
In the distance, the surviving wolves prowled in the undergrowth and watched the travelers.
"Come and fight us, if you dare! Your howls will accomplish nothing!" Chen Hu was annoyed, and their constant watching made him itch. He couldn't help but blurt out insults towards them.
"Let's just hasten our passage and leave this forest as soon as we can," Lin Weiwei said.
"Don't be afraid. There's no need to be. If they come closer, I am sure our friend Han Sen will re-activate their retardation mode," Chen Hu said.
"Talking will only slow us down. We should hurry; I have only opened my fourth gene lock. And if there are sacred-blood creatures amongst them, my powers won't be half as effective. It'll be bad news, if we have to face-off against sacred-blood wolves," Han Sen said.
"But there's only one wolf king. And it's only sacred-blood!" Chen Hu let out a hearty laugh.
They continued walking through the forest, and they espied more and more wolves amassing on the fringes of their sight. There were dozens of sharp, gleaming eyes watching them.
Some followed them from behind, others were up front. Every now and again, they all howled.
"Oh no! There must be at least a thousand of them around us, by now," Lin He said.
They did not see the wolf king, but the number of subordinate wolves was enough to strike fear into their hearts.
Chen Hu did not say anything now, and Lin Weiwei's nerves looked wracked. Things did not look good for the band of travelers.
If Lin He had Dongxuan Aura, it would have been far more effective. But he didn't, and Han Sen's senses were the best of the group. This meant he was the one who had to remain the most alert. And Han Sen knew the number of wolves around them was greater than Lin He's estimation. There was, in fact, twenty-three hundred wolves baying for their blood.
Although there were no sacred-blood creatures, it was a terrifying number for even the strongest person to think of competing with.
"Those wolves sure look hungry. Please, remain vigilant." As Lin He said this, the sacred-blood wolf king revealed itself.
Before they could react, though, four more wolf kings appeared. They each came from a different direction, surrounding them on all sides.
"Me and my big mouth." Chen Hu wished he could take back what he had said, and did not incite any further ire from the wolves by taunting them.
Even though Han Sen could deal with the legions of mutant wolves, the combined strength of the sacred-blood wolf kings was out of his league.
Hooooowl! The five wolf kings howled in unison, and after that, all the lesser wolves began running towards the group with a ravenous appetite.
Han Sen quickly snuffed out their senses, for a re-enactment of what had occurred earlier.
"Pah! So dumb! Have they not learned a thing?" Chen Hu tried to lighten the mood.
But unlike last time, the wolves did not stop and wander about aimlessly. They seemed to react better to their disability, and they ran forward at a decent pace.
Pang!
A wolf came into contact with a lightning tree, which rattled it. From the boughs above, many leaves began to fall.
"Oh, no!" Lin He screamed.
It was a new tactic. The wolves mindlessly charged forward to bash the trees and make the forest rain those electrifying leaves.
The lightning danced from leaf to leaf in sparkling freefall.
Everyone drew a weapon and tried to cut the leaves before they could touch them.
With every connection of a leaf to a weapon, the leaves exploded in a firework of electricity. It was a frightful sight.
The leaves were like rainfall, and one leaf was enough to injure you so grievously, you could no longer raise a weapon.
"These wolves are smart," Lin Weiwei said, as her once-hopeful spirit began to sink.
With a wry smile, Han Sen responded, "I underestimated their cunning. I shouldn't be surprised that they came up with a solution for our initial trick."
Lin He was shredding the airborne leaves like a madman, and without him there, they wouldn't have been able to survive the leaf-rain as long as they did.
The wolves did not relent in their bashing of the trees. And as more and more leaves departed their harboring branches, many wolves decided to rush to the fighters and do what they could in close-quarter combat.
"It's my time to shine." Han Sen's skin started to turn red, as if he was a being formed of blood.
His black pupils turned red, with many rings emerging within.
Han Sen's pupils soon had seven of these rings, indicating his Blood-Pulse Sutra had seven gene locks active.
He only had a fitness of fifteen hundred. If he activated his eighth gene lock, he wouldn't be able to last very long, and he'd most likely end up damaging his own body.
Han Sen ran the Phoenix hyper geno art, and his body burst into a living brazier of wild flames.
The fire was no longer black, either. Due to the effect of the Blood-Pulse Sutra, the fire looked demonically red. It was terrifying.
Chapter 1011: Killing the Wolf King
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Lightning was tearing the battlefield asunder, and it sapped the fighters of their hope of triumph. But suddenly, from the corner of their eyes, a red flame danced.
Han Sen was standing there, a red flame encompassing his being. He raised his hand and a thousand firebirds shot out, hungry for murder. There were so many of them, they covered the skies like a veil.
At first, the firebirds went for the leaves. Their touch incinerated the leaves effortlessly.
The fire still raged around Han Sen, and he generated more and more firebirds.
When each leaf was destroyed, a blood-bird spawned out of its ashes, as well. Where there was once lightning, now there was fire. The forest had become a raging inferno, all answering to the whims of the one who controlled it: Han Sen.
The fire quickly overwhelmed all it came into contact with, and everything that it touched was turned to ash. From that ash, firebirds arose. It was like the spreading of a violent, parasitic infestation.
The firebirds did not extinguish, either. They went on ceaselessly, incinerating the wolves with a ravenous appetite for the act.
The wolves whimpered and cried out for aid, but nothing could save them. The squeals were like those of tortured souls wailing from the pits of hell. Countless wolves fell in a short amount of time.
Aside from where they were standing, everything around them was ablaze.
Everyone looked at Han Sen, who had become a fire-casting monstrosity.
"Phoenix? But Phoenix is not that powerful!" Lin He struggled to speak. He was too overwhelmed by what he was seeing.
Howl!
The five wolf kings howled to the skies once more as the lesser wolves started to scatter and run away in fear. A hundred wolves and a dozen trees had been burnt to a crisp in a matter of moments.
The wolf kings were not going to flee, though. With an aura of blue light surrounding them, they raced towards the travelers, all from different directions.
Han Sen was not going to waste any time, and he was surely not going to wait for them to close the gap. He transformed himself into a phoenix and flew forward to meet one of the kings.
Hooooowl! Seven bolts of lightning were fired towards Han Sen.
That meant the wolf had opened seven gene locks. It was a scary thing, considering the wolf had a much higher fitness level.
Pang!
Lightning and fire collided into a dizzying array of fireworks that exploded against each other.
Han Sen did not relax his attack. He fearlessly flew towards the wolf king, Taia in hand.
The wolf king bared its fangs to Han Sen in response, and lightning flickered across them. The beast reared its head, ready to sink its teeth into Han Sen's neck and rip out his throat.
The wolf king's mouth reached its target, and the monster brought its hungry maw down on Han Sen's neck. Strangely, not a single mark was left. The wolf king, however, had been cut.
Boom!
The wolf king twitched as blood gushed from the wound Han Sen had inflicted. It looked ready to collapse and die.
Everyone was shocked, having seen Han Sen kill a sacred-blood wolf king with seven gene locks active with a single hit.
Lin Weiwei thought her eyes were playing tricks on her, and she found it difficult to believe what Han Sen had accomplished in the single year he had been in the Third God's Sanctuary.
"It looks as if he managed to max out his super geno points before choosing to become a surpasser. But still, he has only been here for a year. Where has all this additional power come from?" Lin Weiwei retreated into her mind, as a complicated look consumed her face.
"Sacred-Blood Creature Lightning Wolf killed. No beast soul gained. Consume its flesh to gain zero to ten sacred geno points randomly."
Han Sen heard the announcement and did not relent. He went straight for another wolf king.
The Blood-Pulse Sutra was quite simple. It did not matter how many gene locks it had open, it imbued the power of blood onto every skill its user performed.
The more gene locks that had been opened, the stronger this boon of blood-power would become.
Without this skill, even with Taia, Han Sen would not have been able to take down the wolf king in a single hit.
Everyone was shocked, and even the wolves were taken aback by what had just occurred. Without hesitation, they chose to flee before any more of them became victims of the ruthless man.
Han Sen caught up with one of them, and try as the wolf king might, it was unable to avoid Han Sen's assault.
His phoenix flames annihilated the seven lightning bolts the wolf cast, as Taia was plunged deep into the furry fiend's throat. It was killed in one hit, once again.
"Sacred-Blood Creature Lightning Wolf killed. Beast soul gained. Consume its flesh gain zero to ten sacred geno points randomly."
The rest of the wolves managed to get away. They were terrified of Han Sen, and they scrambled wildly in their attempt to flee.
To be honest, it wasn't only the wolves who were scared. Even Lin He and his people were unnerved. The power they had just witnessed was too shocking for them to comprehend.
Lin He could have fought against one wolf king, but it would have been a lengthy battle. The victor of such a fight would be difficult to determine, as well.
But Han Sen was able to one-hit kill a wolf king. Rarely had he ever been in such a state of speechlessness and shock.
"Oh my God! Brother Han is that strong? Weiwei, didn't you tell us he had only just become a surpasser?" Chen Hu was flabbergasted at the ruthless spectacle he had just witnessed.
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"I told you that because it's true..." Weiwei wasn't sure what to say anymore.
But Han Sen did not have time to revel in the glory of victory, because the wolves now stopped running.