Martial Arts Longevity Begins with the Equipment Slot

Chapter 104: All Cards Unveiled, Powerful Counterattack

"Chen Yu!"

Mei San Niang's voice echoed and reverberated in the cave.

"Go ahead and run! Run again!"

"You ran from Ghost's Den to the mine tunnels, and from the mine tunnels to here. Now you're surrounded by stone walls; you can't escape even if you grow wings!"

She spoke excitedly, clashing her two swords together in front of her chest.

"bass!"

The blood-red light from the blade made his entire face appear red.

"The day you killed the third brother, I said that the next time we met, I would rip your heart out with my own hands."

"This place is great today! Quiet, no one to bother me, I can slowly carve it out piece by piece!"

"Second Sister,"

Zhang Siyu stood on the left, his tone remaining calm.

"It's too time-consuming to cut it out piece by piece."

"This boy possesses a strange swordsmanship; it's worth questioning him before killing him."

He paused, then twirled the iron pen halfway between his fingers.

Then, the pen tip locked onto Chen Yu again.

"Commander Chen, you killed five of our leaders. You should have been torn to pieces! But if you tell me the details of your sword technique, I can assure you that I will leave you with a whole corpse."

Li Tianlong stood with his hands behind his back, blocking the retreat route.

His calm expression was exactly the same as before the war.

After Zhang Siyu finished speaking, he nodded slightly, indicating his approval of the reasonable suggestion.

"Commander Chen, I have been keeping an eye on your intelligence ever since you stepped into Niutou Mountain."

"You managed to take down five of my leaders in one go, that's quite an achievement. And coincidentally, I'm someone who appreciates talent."

At this point, Li Tianlong's tone suddenly softened.

"As long as you nod your head, you can choose any of the vacant leadership positions in Black Wind Stronghold."

Chen Yu's shoulder wound was still bleeding.

He glanced at Li Tianlong, then at Mei Sanniang, and then at Zhang Siyu.

These bandits all speak sweetly, but in reality, they all harbor ulterior motives.

If you really entrust your life and fortune to them, you won't even know how you died.

The only way to get out alive is to kill them all.

Finally, his gaze returned to the edge of his own blade.

"Black Wind Demon, we are not on the same path."

As he spoke, Chen Yu slowly raised the tip of his knife, aiming it at Li Tianlong.

"Of the nine leaders of your Black Wind Stronghold, I've killed five of them. Now it's your turn."

"court death!"

Before Li Tianlong could give the order.

Mei San Niang's twin swords were already slashing down.

The blade flashed fiercely, like a blood-red ribbon, obscuring the space in front of them.

"You're asking for it!"

Zhang Siyu's iron pen simultaneously pierced through his left rib.

"Trap him, kill him slowly!"

Li Tianlong raised his hand and took a step forward.

"Haa!"

As soon as the Cloud-Covering Palm was unleashed, the palm wind instantly sealed off all the space behind him for dodging.

Surrounded on three sides, it was a hopeless situation.

Chen Yu stood still and took a deep breath.

"Black Bear Hide Cloak, activate!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his skin changed drastically, starting from his collarbone.

Dark fur rose up all over its body, spreading all the way to its face.

"puff!"

Zhang Siyu's iron pen pierced his left rib, but the pen tip failed to penetrate the skin membrane.

At the same time, a reverse shockwave came back from the pen shaft.

Zhang Siyu felt a numbness in his hand and subconsciously took half a step back.

"What is it?"

No one answered; Chen Yu simply revealed his trump card.

"Tiger Striped Bone Armor, activated!"

A series of rapid popping sounds came from his spine.

The area covered by the bone armor had a very faint ivory-colored sheen.

"clang!"

Mei San Niang's twin swords slashed at her shoulder.

The blade pierced the flesh two inches before being instantly gripped tightly by the bone armor.

The impact force was spread throughout the entire skeleton.

At the same time, the damage reflection from the black bear skin cloak caused the force to rebound back onto her wrist.

Something's not right!

Mei San Niang let out a muffled groan and staggered back two steps.

"Impossible! This is impossible! What is this thing? Fourth brother, did you see it? What exactly is it?"

""

Before Zhang Siyu could answer, Chen Yu's body changed again.

"Kui Niu Gui Bei, open!"

The latissimus dorsi muscle expands at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The shoulder blades are pushed outwards, and the entire upper back bulges out.

His muscles revealed the outline of a primal beast.

"W-what is this?"

Zhang Siyu almost dropped the iron pen from his hand.

He had heard of martial arts masters whose bodies had been altered.

The Black Wind Stronghold's intelligence database contains several old files that record some martial artists who had gone mad from practicing external martial arts, and who would briefly experience muscle swelling and hardening of the skin before their death.

But without exception, those cases were all out of control and eventually led to the collapse of the meridians.

Chen Yu's changes were clearly methodical and controllable.

"His back! Look at his back!"

Zhang Siyu's voice was no longer calm.

"These are the spine lines that only a demon beast in human form has! He's a demon! He's a demon beast in human form!"

Mei San Niang was startled by his shout.

"A demonic beast? A demonic beast that transforms into a human? How is that possible?"

"How could the Sword Guard Hall recruit a demonic beast as its leader? Impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible! He was clearly human just now!"

She said it was impossible, but her feet involuntarily took a step back.

Just as the two were stunned by the Kui Niu demon's back shape...

Li Tianlong suddenly made his move.

As the head of the village, he recovered from the shock faster than anyone else.

Because he had witnessed too many changes on the battlefield, he knew that it was precisely in such situations that one must not show weakness.

"You're playing tricks! Take this!"

Li Tianlong moved swiftly and used the Cloud Locking Knot.

His five fingers precisely gripped the back of Chen Yu's neck.

This is the most vicious grappling technique, specifically designed to lock the throat and crush bones.

"Whoosh!"

The five points of force tightened simultaneously, and the force from the fingertips was like five steel needles piercing into the back of Chen Yu's neck at the same time.

After the five fingers are firmly clasped together.

Li Tianlong twisted his wrist suddenly.

The force of this twist, combined with the penetrating power of the fingers, is enough to break the cervical vertebrae of a martial artist of the same level, bones and tendons together.

Having landed a successful blow, a smile appeared on Li Tianlong's lips.

"No matter what you become, your neck will always be a vulnerable spot."

However, he couldn't twist it off.

Chen Yu's neck had a muscle group that looked like an iron plate.

His finger strength was like a clay ox sinking into the sea; he couldn't even create a dent.

Why?

Li Tianlong was terrified, and his voice trembled.

"Oh no! My Lock Cloud clasp won't go in! This thing might not actually be human!"

Mei San Niang held the knife, but didn't know how to cut.

Zhang Siyu stared at Chen Yu's bulging back, unsure how to proceed with his iron pen.

With the three forms combined, Chen Yu instantly gained the upper hand.

Li Tianlong abruptly withdrew his hand.

"Everyone, attack together! We must kill this monster!"

With a loud shout, the three attacked simultaneously.

"Ape Stance, activated!"

Chen Yu slid out from under the attack of the three men.

Take off, flip in the air, and roll upon landing to dissipate the impact and post-swing.

His speed increased by 30%, and his figure became a blur as he leaped between the three of them.

"call out!"

Mei San Niang slashed at the afterimage with her sword.

She stumbled and turned to roar at Zhang Siyu.

"Fourth brother, seal off his hideout!"

Zhang Siyu's iron pen pierced out repeatedly.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

The pen tip pierced the damp air, each strike precisely passing through the afterimages left by Chen Yu as he dodged, yet never striking his physical body.

"Too fast! I can't block it!"

Zhang Siyu shouted sternly.

Just then, Chen Yu's rolling trajectory suddenly stopped.

The afterimages of the first four dodges still lingered in the air.

The fifth dodge did not occur.

Zhang Siyu's pupils suddenly contracted.

He realized that this afterimage was the last one.

Chen Yu's physical form had already stopped less than three steps in front of him!

At this distance, the pen cannot retract in time to block!

Chen Yu suddenly turned around.

The blade bounced off the trajectory of its tumbling motion.

"Whoosh!"

The blood-red jade on the blade suddenly shone brightly in the darkness.

A scarlet light exploded outwards from the jade heart, landing directly on Zhang Siyu's chest and condensing into a red mark shaped like a struggling deer trying to escape.

The "Who Will Win?" flag is triggered.

The target's health is below one-quarter; the next attack will deal double damage.

When Zhang Siyu saw the deer-shaped red mark branded on his chest, he instinctively wanted to put down his pen and move aside.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Chen Yu's blade was already striking.

"Whoosh!"

[Tiger's Bone Cry] has also been activated.

This is the fifth attack in the ape form.

During the first four dodges, the blade's trajectory was already subtly built up.

At that moment, they all erupted at once, and the pen instantly broke in two.

"Bang!"

The "Bone Fracture" effect was triggered, and Zhang Siyu's wrist bones were completely shattered.

"Ahhh! My hand! My hand!"

Zhang Siyu couldn't help but wail and scream.

"laugh!"

Chen Yu's blade slicing across his throat.

"thump!"

Zhang Siyu fell backward, his screams abruptly ceasing.

"Fourth brother!"

Mei San Niang was in a state of utter confusion, and her twin swords moved without any discernible pattern.

"Waaaah!"

She lunged at Chen Yu, her bloodshot eyes almost bulging out of their sockets.

The "Conquer the World" event has finished cooling down.

Chen Yu transformed into a pale blue sword light afterimage and charged forward.

"laugh!"

In the blink of an eye, the deer-slaying knife had pierced through Mei San Niang's right chest, pinning her to the stone pillar.

The blood jade lit up again.

"Swish swish swish swish!"

With five consecutive slashes, "Bone Chirp" was activated once again.

"Bang!"

Mei San Niang's breastbone was chopped into pieces.

She stared at Chen Yu's face, which was inches away from hers, blood gushing from the corner of her mouth.

"I————uh————"

With her lung pierced by a bone fragment, Mei San Niang was no longer able to speak.

Before she breathed her last, a blood-red tear rolled down her cheek and landed silently on the hand holding the knife.

"Die!"

Li Tianlong unleashed his Cloud-Covering Palm technique only after Mei San Niang died.

He had been carefully observing, and now he finally found his opportunity.

Chen Yu had just pulled the knife out of Mei San Niang's chest and had no time to dodge the palm strike.

By taking advantage of Mei San Niang's death, we can deliver a fatal blow to Chen Yu!

He had a good plan, but he didn't expect that Chen Yu had no intention of hiding at all.

"Bang!"

The Cloud-Covering Palm struck solidly on his chest.

The sternum cracked open with two fissures under the force of the palm strike, and the sound of bones splitting was particularly crisp in the stone hall.

Chen Yu spat out a mouthful of blood and grabbed Li Tianlong's wrist with his left hand.

Li Tianlong was terrified and tried to pull his hand away.

However, the grip strength of the Kui Niu demon after its back was covered with bone armor exceeded his expectations.

"Aaaaaah! No! What are you doing? Let me go!"

After being grabbed, Li Tianlong got a closer look at the body in front of him.

Dark brown animal hide patterns spread from the neck to the cheekbones.

The raised back ridge is more open than before.

This is clearly a ferocious beast that has stood upright!

Looking at the creepy smile on Chen Yu's face, Li Tianlong suddenly realized something.

Although he was the leader of Black Wind Stronghold and the head of the Nine Thieves.

But he was never free; he was never truly happy for a single day in his position as chieftain.

The position of chieftain, to put it nicely, is that of a boss.

To put it bluntly, it was just a dog kept by the Huang family.

The Huang family has its own dog leash in Black Wind Village, and that is the mysterious and unpredictable Ninth Master.

Nominally the Ninth Master, he was actually the true power behind the Huang family's secret stronghold.

When he first became the chieftain, he sent his trusted confidants to investigate Lao Jiu, but they found nothing.

This person has no name, no origin, and no traceable background.

With Lao Jiu representing the Huang family to monitor everyone, Li Tianlong had no choice but to accept the order to besiege Niutou Mountain.

He knew Chen Yu was an unknown variable, yet he still staked all seven of his leaders on him.

Because the Huang family's letter clearly stated that the Nine-Leaf Fire Lotus must be delivered before the full moon.

If it's even one day late, someone will be killed.

Even Li Tianlong himself could be killed.

The Huang family doesn't need a leader who's left with all his men dead or wounded.

The Huang family has no need for a good-for-nothing who couldn't even pick a Nine-Leaf Fire Lotus.

The Huang family only needs one good knife.

This knife used to belong to him, but now it can be given to someone else.

"I absolutely cannot die! I'm not useless! I'm useful!"

Thinking of this, Li Tianlong couldn't help but roar.

After he shouted, he saw the air behind Chen Yu turn red.

A crimson blade aura was expanding outwards from Chen Yu as the center.

"Deer-Cutting Domain!"

The crimson blade energy, like a silent, exploding blood ring, enveloped the two of them.

"This is?"

Li Tianlong looked down at his chest.

A red, deer-shaped mark is emerging from the heart area.

"Whoosh!"

A flash of light swept past.

Li Tianlong's head flipped twice in mid-air.

In his dying moments, he saw his own body.

He still wore the old thumb ring that symbolized the chieftain on his knuckles.

He suddenly remembered.

In his last letter to the Huang family, he signed it "Respectfully submitted by Tianlong".

I have been respecting the Huang family for over a decade.

They worshipped until all the village leaders were dead, until their own heads flipped twice in mid-air.

"Thump!"

Heads fell to the ground.

"Whoosh!"

Chen Yu was panting heavily.

This was a fierce battle, fought with all their might.

The wound on his chest was still bleeding.

A faint light flickered at the tiger-striped bone armor, slowly recovering.

Look ahead.

Li Tianlong collapsed at his feet, blood still gushing from his throat.

Mei San Niang was nailed to a stone pillar, her eyes wide open.

Zhang Siyu's wrist bones were shattered into a pile, and fragments of the iron pen were scattered all over the ground.

All the enemies of Black Wind Stronghold have been eliminated.

But Chen Yu knew that the curtain had not yet fallen.

The next crisis has arrived.

Deeper into the cave, a ball of eerie blue flame emerged.

The firelight approached from afar, quickly turning the entire passageway into a deep, dark blue, like the ocean.

Flames enveloped a slender human figure, which slowly emerged from the darkness.

After a long while, Chen Yu finally saw clearly that it was an old woman with a full head of silver hair.

Her face did not resemble that of someone from the Eastern Continent.

He had pale skin, a high nose bridge, and deep-set eyes.

Its eyes are golden-green, with long, narrow pupils like a cat's.

"Habamla,"

The old woman spoke.

Although he spoke the official language of Daliang, his accent at the end of his sentences carried a distinct foreign accent.

"These Easterners are fighting again in my ruins."

She walked forward, leaning on a strangely shaped silver staff with a snake's head, talking as she went.

They got closer and closer as they walked.

Chen Yu suddenly noticed that she had a palm-sized flame emblem pinned to her collar.

This fire emblem looks somewhat familiar.

The pale blue flames dissipated as the old woman moved.

She stopped when she was about ten steps away from Chen Yu.

"Thump!"

The silver staff with the snake's head tapped lightly on the ground.

The crisp sound of the staff striking the stone surface echoed through the cave.

The old woman raised the tip of her cane and pointed it vaguely in Chen Yu's direction.

"Child, what is your name?"

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