Invincibility starts when I see the BOSS health bar.

Chapter 954 Battle Bone Demon

Buzz—! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

An indescribable explosion erupted!
Centered on Qian Wu, a visible ring of shockwaves spread wildly like a tsunami!

The air was violently compressed and torn apart, emitting a piercing shriek like cloth being repeatedly ripped apart!
The crowd fleeing on the street below was swept by this invisible sonic pressure, and they immediately felt a sharp pain in their eardrums, their blood surging, and screams and cries of agony filled the air. They all covered their ears and squatted down in pain.

From their perspective, on the rooftop—

A terrifying black light flashed by!

Then came a muffled "Bang!!!" sound, like a heavy hammer striking a drum!
Immediately, blood rained down!
The dark figure that had just pounced onto the rooftop had its upper body completely pierced, torn apart, and exploded by that black light!

It turned into a bloody storm mixed with sawdust and some kind of viscous liquid!
Only his two legs below the waist remained, like two broken stakes, standing still for a moment before stiffly falling backward.

"Murder! Someone's been killed in an explosion!"

"Demons! There are demons!"

"Run! Report to the authorities immediately!!"

The street instantly erupted like boiling water with bubbling oil thrown in!

Terrified screams, panicked cries, and the clattering of waist tokens and hurried footsteps of constables from the distant underworld mingled together, creating an apocalyptic chaos.

On the rooftop, Qian Wu stood proudly.

He looked down at the neighborhood, which was completely out of control because of his "masterpiece," and a disdainful smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Is this... over? But..." Before he could finish his disdainful mutterings, Qian Wu's expression suddenly froze!

Those eyes, slightly excited by the killing, were fixed on the pile of remains belonging to the "masked man" that had fallen into the alley.

Something's wrong! Something is wrong!
Why is there no dripping blood at the severed waist? No shattered internal organs? Why does the inside of that broken cavity... display a twisted, gnarled, woody texture, like the roots of an old tree?! Hollow, dry... like a human-shaped piece of rotten wood hollowed out!

This is absolutely not the state a corpse that has been violently blasted apart should be in!
"What is that?! Could it be..."

A sudden, alarming siren sounded in Qianwu's heart!

A thought flashed through his mind like lightning!

A chilling sense of crisis instantly gripped his entire body!
Without a second thought, his muscles bulged, and he abruptly turned around to deal with any possible attack from behind!

however--

Just as he had turned most of his body around and his peripheral vision had barely caught a glimpse of the silhouette behind him, his entire movement was frozen in time by a chillingly calm shout:

"Don't move."

Fang Yu's voice was as if it came from a cold, dark pool, devoid of any warmth.

A cold, sharp point of light precisely struck the spot on Qian Wu's back corresponding to his heart.

The sharp, piercing pain from the sword tip clearly told Qian Wu that this sword was enough to pierce through his body!
If he makes the slightest movement, the sword will pierce through him like piercing through a window!

Fang Yu could tell at a glance whether a person was human or demon, and the reason was very simple: he could tell from the thickness of their health bar.

And the one in front of us, named Qian Wu, is... a demon-level health bar.

If he had the strength corresponding to his health bar, he would have killed him instantly long ago, instead of being outmaneuvered by him.

"This tree body substitution technique... is really quite useful, but it has emptied out all the tree sap that I had just accumulated." Fang Yu sighed inwardly, but remained unmoved on the surface.

Just now, at the critical moment, he did feel the terrifying pressure brought by Qian Wu's charged arrow; its destructive power was enough to make him choose to retreat.

It's not entirely impossible for him to withstand it. With his unfathomable health bar, he might not die from taking that arrow, but he would certainly pay a heavy price.

The tree-body substitute, combined with the huge commotion and chaos created by the opponent's attack, allowed him to complete a near-undetected "escape" and silently sneak up behind the opponent.

Qian Wu's fingers gripping the Black Spine Bow turned white from the extreme force, and his body was as stiff as iron.

He didn't speak, remaining as silent as a dead object.

Fang Yu's eyes grew even colder: "A mere archer, caught in my close quarters, do you think you can turn the tables? You'd better answer me obediently—who sent you?"

Qian Wu lowered his head, but suddenly a suppressed, low, eerie laugh, like the grinding of sand, escaped his throat.

Fang Yu raised an eyebrow slightly: "You're about to die, what are you laughing at?!"

"Heh heh... Hahaha!" Qian Wu's laughter suddenly rose, carrying a twisted arrogance. "You laugh at me, saying that archers are doomed in close combat? How foolish! Who told you... that those who use bows are not good at... close combat?!"

Fang Yu was taken aback, and then immediately sensed that Qian Wu was about to make a move.

"court death!"

With a cold snort, Fang Yu plunged his longsword directly into Qian Wu's body.

呲! !

The heart is pierced through.

Qian Wu paused.

Bang! ! !
Blood mist exploded.

The demonic body rose ever higher amidst the blood mist.

"Hmph, so you've finally revealed your demonic form?"

Fang Yu's eyes were like ice that had stood for millennia, piercing through the surging blood mist and locking onto the twisted, mutated pale skeleton. His chilling killing intent seemed to freeze even the air.

In the past, demons with 100,000 blood were considered super powerful demons, beings he would avoid at all costs.

At this moment, the [Bone Shattering Bow Demon] before him, brimming with blood and radiating murderous aura, possessed a demonic pressure powerful enough to crush the will of ordinary martial artists, yet it couldn't even make Fang Yu frown slightly.

The rise in strength forged an unyielding mindset!
What gives him even more confidence is that he has seized the absolute initiative with that thunderous strike!

If struck first and its skin is torn open, the demon will be severely injured; this is an ironclad rule. With just this one blow, the demon's health bar will visibly dwindle by a large margin!

At this moment, in Fang Yu's eyes, the [Bone Shattered Bow Demon] still seemed fierce, but in reality, it was empty inside and was just a shell with no real substance. Its threat had been greatly reduced and it was no longer a threat!

boom!
The bricks and stones beneath their feet shattered with a loud crash!

Without hesitation, Fang Yu, like a blood-red lightning bolt tearing through the darkness, took the initiative and charged into the pungent, blood-red fog!
Buzz—Clang!
A piercing whistling sound suddenly erupted from the fog!
Upon entering, a massive bone blade, formed from gleaming white bones and wreathed in eerie, demonic winds, slashed down with the force to cleave mountains and shatter peaks!

Fang Yu's forward momentum had not stopped. At the last second, he twisted his waist sharply and took a precise side step!
The cold blade almost grazed his nose, the strong wind stinging his face.

His pupils contracted slightly, and the dormant blood energy within his body suddenly erupted!
A surge of immense power rose from beneath his feet, and his body accelerated a second time the instant he was blocked, forcefully tearing through the bone blade's blockade. With even greater speed, he crashed headlong into the massive skeletal outline within the blood mist!

"Die!" The cold judgment was uttered, and the longsword, like a venomous dragon emerging from its cave, gathered a deadly cold light and fiercely stabbed towards the chest of the demon in the mist!
However, the expected resistance to pierce flesh did not come; the sword passed through the blood mist without any hindrance—it missed!

Fang Yu's figure shot out of the fog with inertia, a look of surprise flashing in his eyes, and he turned around abruptly.

As the fog dissipated, the scene below became clear. The so-called enormous demon was actually no bigger than an ordinary person!

What stood there so eerily was just a monster the same height as an ordinary person, made entirely of pale white bones. Where was the magnificent figure that the phantom had just shown?

Fang Yu felt a chill run down his spine. He forcefully stopped his momentum, lightly touched the broken eaves with his toes, and used the momentum to flip onto the roof of a nearby small building. His sharp gaze was almost tangible, fixed on the eerie skeleton below. Although he was confident that his combat power was enough to crush his opponent, demons were cunning and had revealed the traces of illusion in their first encounter. He could not afford to be careless.

"A demon...a monster!"

"That commotion just now was caused by this monster!"

"A fight has broken out! Run! It's really started!"

The commotion downstairs erupted instantly!
The passersby, who had been watching with suspicion just moments before, now scattered and fled in all directions, screaming, like a swarm of bees that had been disturbed.

The few brave souls who dared to venture out huddled in the shadows of a distant street corner, trembling as they peered out.

Looking at this chaotic scene, Fang Yu couldn't help but recall the eerie thick fog that shrouded the entire battlefield during his battle with Qian Jinxun.

How I miss that carefree, unrestrained, and completely fearless atmosphere of battle where you don't have to worry about revealing your whereabouts!
Right now, we're right here in front of the imperial city, in a public place...

"We must fight quickly!"

Fang Yu sighed softly in his heart.

The thought had barely formed in his mind when, at the end of the street below, a dozen figures were breaking through the crowd at an extremely fast speed and rushing towards the ruins!

They were dressed in uniform dark-colored outfits, their figures were agile, and their movements were as swift as the wind—they were clearly a team of elite soldiers from the Foolish Underworld!
Fang Yu's brows furrowed instantly.

He had only recently killed Qianjin Xun, that foolish head of the local government, and right now the other party's government office was probably digging three feet into the ground to search for his whereabouts.

At this critical juncture, it would be truly strange if the foolish underworld did nothing about the rampaging demon in the streets!

This is a big problem. His eyes narrowed, and he gripped his longsword tightly, ready to unleash his full power without regard for the consequences, to immediately eliminate this skeletal demon, and then retreat.

However, just as Fang Yu's aura was about to reach its peak, a sharp sound of air being torn apart rang in his ears!
Chi Chi Chi -!
Several specially made arrows, gleaming with a cold metallic light, shot swiftly from afar, their target the white skeleton below! They were from the Foolish Underworld, and without hesitation, they prioritized attacking demons!
Fang Yu was slightly taken aback, but then he understood.

This is the capital city, right under the emperor's nose.

People may be a mixed bag, and their thoughts may be unpredictable;
But demons are undeniably the common enemy!
Especially for an institution like the Foolish Underworld with clearly defined responsibilities, if they encountered a demon on the street and instead ignored it, instead harassing this "passerby," that would be true dereliction of duty and bizarre. Whether genuinely trying to exorcise the demon or just putting on a show, this is the basic procedure. Fang Yu was somewhat surprised by this, but it was also within reason.

But then...

Da da da……

With a few muffled thuds, the steel arrows that shimmered with runes struck the skeleton of the Bone-Shattered Bow Demon, whose bones were harder than steel, and bounced off as if hitting an iron wall, falling to the ground powerlessly!

The damage was negligible; not even a single bone fragment broke off.

But this sudden attack clearly enraged the skeletal demon!

The skull abruptly turned towards the direction from which the arrows had come, its empty eye sockets seemingly burning with invisible fury. Its bony jaws parted in a chilling, silent sneer, like a gaping fissure.

“...It’s in the way…” A low, hoarse voice, as if it were the sound of bones grinding together, rang out.

Gollum-

As if a muffled rumble came from the belly of a giant beast, a viscous, semi-liquid, dark red cloud of gas, exuding a strong smell of blood and decay, suddenly gushed out from the joints of the skeletal body!

This mass of air churned, stretched, and expanded violently! In an instant, it condensed in the air into a gigantic monster phantom several times larger than its original form!

The phantom image is an enlarged version of the Bone Shattering Bow Demon!

As soon as it solidified, the skeletal hand suddenly pulled a pale, sharp rib from its spine and used it as an arrow. With a "clang," it nocked a bow onto the equally phantom-like giant skeletal longbow, and the bone fingers pulled the string, slowly drawing it to a full moon!
"Um?!"

Fang Yu's eyes flashed with a cold light!

This demon dares to attempt to kill those foolish soldiers of the Underworld right in front of him? He's courting death!
Just as he was about to move again, he saw that the skeletal body moved in sync with him!
It also stomped its feet hard on the ground, making a standard backward drawing posture, the huge bow made a teeth-grinding creaking sound, and the bowstring was taut like a full moon!
The skeleton-faced demon turned towards Fang Yu, its massive jaw opening and closing silently. The skeletal "face" formed a twisted expression full of extreme mockery—as if it were laughing at Fang Yu's overestimation of his abilities!
“Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!!!”

A piercing, tearing sound erupted instantly!
The Bone Shattered Bow Demon suddenly released its grip!
The moment that pale white bone arrow left the bowstring, it split into four during its flight!
Four streaks of dark red light, tearing through the air and carrying a chilling killing intent, shot straight toward the Foolish Underworld Squad, who had just rushed to the edge of the ruins and had not yet had time to spread out and set up defenses!

"presumptuous!!"

Fang Yu roared, his voice shaking the surrounding area! The longsword in his hand transformed into a storm of silver streaks!
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
A series of crisp, crackling sounds rang out like popping beans!
His sword moved like a dragon, and in an instant, he accurately cleaved away and intercepted three deadly streaks of light!
However, it was ultimately too late!
Just as he drew his sword to intercept the phantom arrow, the demon's true form also silently fired an arrow!
Fang Yu's mind was completely focused on the arrows flying towards the members of the Foolish Underworld, and he was completely unprepared for the hidden arrow from the demon's true form!
A sharp aura, even more condensed and almost transparent than the phantom arrows, silently passed by him and, along with the other three uninterrupted phantom arrows, hurtled straight towards their target!

"Be careful!!!"

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way quickly!!"

"It's a sorcery arrow!!!"

A horrified alarm erupted from the Foolish Underworld team!
What followed was—

boom! Boom boom boom! ! !
Four deafening explosions erupted almost simultaneously at the edge of the ruins!

A terrifying shockwave swept outwards, turning the ruins into even finer dust!
The ground trembled violently as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer!

Dust billowed into the sky, obscuring most of the street corner.

(End of this chapter)