pjbooks Chapter 163 After the Broken Halberd, Stripping Off Armor and Devouring Generals
Chapter 163 After the Broken Halberd, Stripping Off Armor and Devouring Generals
The bronze halberd disappeared completely.
It didn't fall.
It didn't collapse.
Instead, Lin Yuan and Xue Ying each took half of it and forcibly swallowed it into the Extreme Dao Star Furnace.
On the battlefield, one could no longer sense even a trace of the warrior behind that door.
The Bronze Gatekeeper will stand beneath the main star gate.
My hands are empty.
The creases at the broken wrist are disordered.
Two of the four false mortises on the breastplate were broken, and the remaining two were also covered in cracks.
The chain connecting the second anchor at the back kept breaking under the combined attack of the Star Patrol Ship, the Star Town Army's heavy artillery, and Qin Zhu.
It once shattered the Star Law Net with a single strike.
He once drove the entire Longyuan City to the brink of despair with his near-kingly ambition.
But now.
Its weapons are gone.
The way home is locked.
Even the bronze armor he wore began to become food in Lin Yuan's eyes.
Lin Yuan stepped forward through the air.
The eight arms of the Eight Asura Body slowly stretched out.
The dark gold star rings behind him spun heavily.
Blood Shadow approached him from the other side, maintaining the exact same pace.
Two eight-armed Asuras.
Sixteen dark gold palms.
Like two human-shaped cages closing in.
The bronze goalkeeper did not immediately make a move.
Its true eye on its chest was tightly closed, and it relied solely on its damaged prosthetic eye to perceive the battlefield.
"The Gate Swallower".
"Do you think that cutting off your main force will guarantee victory?"
The voice remained cold.
But there was an added hint of barely suppressed anger compared to the beginning.
Lin Yuan looked at it.
"What else do you have?"
The bronze gatekeeper remained silent.
Lin Yuan continued forward.
"First?"
"Door pattern?"
"Or is it yourself?"
With each word spoken, the dark blue patterns on the bronze gatekeeper's body would tremble slightly.
It understood.
This human is not provoking.
It's about choosing where to take the next bite.
The bronze gatekeeper suddenly raised his arms.
At the severed wrist, numerous door patterns intertwined, transforming into a temporarily formed bronze giant hand.
The other intact arm is held across the chest.
"Goalkeeper guards the boundary!"
boom--
Beneath the bronze gatekeeper's feet, hundreds of dark blue gate patterns rose simultaneously from the ground.
They no longer spread outwards.
Instead, it quickly conforms to the body.
Shoulders.
Breastplate.
Arm armor.
Waist armor.
Leg armor.
The already extremely heavy bronze armor plates were stacked on top of each other.
In just a few breaths, the bronze gatekeeper's body grew a full size thicker.
The two damaged prosthetic eyes on his chest were covered by thick armor plates.
The severed wrist was also re-wrapped in layers of bronze door panels.
It's as if it compressed the entire remnant of the gate domain into itself.
A bronze goalkeeper.
It turned into a bronze gate city.
Zhou Xuanheng's face darkened.
"It is reclaiming the residual energy of the gate domain."
The deputy envoy of the star patrol said urgently:
"The second anchor is already locked; can it be restored?"
"It's not a recovery."
Zhou Xuanheng stared at the ever-thickening bronze armor.
"It means abandoning the subsequent arrival time and pressing all the existing projections into the physical body."
"It's not prepared for a prolonged battle."
"Kill Lin Yuan before the projection collapses."
The voice just fell.
The bronze gatekeeper has vanished from the spot.
It's not spatial teleportation.
Instead, it relied solely on its heavy body to forcefully break through the void.
boom!
It appeared in front of Lin Yuan.
The fist, covered with more than a dozen layers of bronze armor, smashed down like a city gate.
Without the halberd, it instead channeled all its power back into its body.
The fist hadn't even landed yet.
The void surrounding Lin Yuan has begun to cave inward.
The eight arms of the eight Asura bodies were raised simultaneously.
Four arms crossed in front of the body.
The other four arms clenched into fists and blasted towards the bronze gatekeeper's breastplate.
boom--!
The bronze giant fist clashed head-on with the dark gold four arms.
Lin Yuan's body suddenly sank.
A dark crack appeared in the void beneath their feet.
The bronze goalkeeper was much larger than him.
This punch carried the weight of the entire remaining gate domain.
If it were someone in the late stage of the Marquisate, their physical body would be crushed into a bloody mist the moment they made contact.
But Lin Yuan's four arms simply sank downwards at the same time.
Within the dark gold skeleton, star patterns lit up one by one.
The Extreme Star Body dispersed the power that was enough to crush a marquis's domain along its spine throughout its entire body.
Click.
Fine cracks appeared on the surface of Lin Yuan's arm.
The dark gold blood had just seeped out when it was locked in place by the star pattern.
next moment.
The other four fists landed on the bronze gatekeeper's breastplate.
"The Great Wilderness is Desolate."
Four fists combined into one point.
It did not explode outwards.
All the force collapsed into the breastplate.
Boom-!
The bronze gatekeeper's massive body trembled violently.
The chest is covered with more than a dozen layers of armor, with the outermost three layers concave inwards at the same time.
But it didn't retreat.
Instead, another giant hand swept across.
Lin Yuan had not yet retracted his fist.
Blood Shadow pounced from behind the Bronze Goalkeeper.
The soul core in his chest throbbed violently.
Eight arms embraced the bronze gatekeeper's elbows, shoulder armor, and waist.
Blood Shadow did not confront it head-on.
Instead, all eight arms exert force in different directions simultaneously.
screw.
tear.
pull.
The trajectory of the bronze gatekeeper's massive arm, which had just swept out, instantly shifted.
A terrifying gust of wind from the fist grazed past Lin Yuan's side, instantly shattering a swarm of door-eye insects in the distance into a dark blue mist.
The bronze goalkeeper roared:
"Clone, get out of my way!"
Its shoulder armor markings burst forth.
Hundreds of dark blue spikes pierced out from between the armor plates.
Blood Shadow's eight arms were pierced simultaneously.
The dark gold body exploded with large cracks.
But Blood Shadow did not let go.
Each time the ultimate soul core in his chest throbs, a portion of the bronze spikes that have penetrated his body are locked in place.
Then.
Autonomous identification.
Remove contaminants.
Swallowing and refining.
The bronze spikes that were meant to tear the Blood Shadow apart instead darkened one by one inside the Blood Shadow's body.
The bronze gate caused the remaining energy around it to dissipate rapidly.
Blood Shadow gripped even tighter with his eight hands.
Lin Yuan looked up and glanced at it.
No communication is required.
The main body and its eight arms simultaneously change targets.
They ceased bombarding the front of the breastplate.
Instead, they all snapped at the three-layered armor that had been dented by the desolate destruction.
Eight dark gold hands were embedded in the gaps between the armor plates.
The bronze goalkeeper realized something.
Its massive body trembled violently.
"Let go!"
Lin Yuan exerted his strength with all eight arms.
"You're wearing too much."
Stab it--!
The first layer of bronze breastplate was forcibly ripped off the goalkeeper's body.
Those are not ordinary nail tips.
Hundreds of dark blue veins, resembling flesh and fascia, are connected to the back of the armor plates.
The moment it was torn apart, a large amount of ghostly blue residual energy sprayed from the chest of the bronze gatekeeper.
Lin Yuan gripped the armor plate with one hand.
The other seven hands continued to penetrate deeper.
The Extreme Dao Star Furnace simultaneously unleashed its devouring power.
[Contact with the core of the bronze goalkeeper's armor stacking]
[Residual contaminants are being removed from the gate area]
[Physical compression of Qi and blood is underway]
[Current number of Qi and Blood Physical Compression Counts: 938000]
The bronze gatekeeper suddenly lowered his head.
For the first time, genuine shock and anger were revealed in the damaged fake eye.
Just by tearing off one layer of armor, the energy required for five thousand compressions was swallowed up.
Every single armor plate on its body is now formed by the compression of residual energy from the gate domain and the projection of its main body.
The heavier the defense.
In Lin Yuan's eyes, the more he supplemented it, the better.
"roll!"
A beam of dark blue light erupted from the chest of the bronze gatekeeper.
At such close range, Lin Yuan had no room to hide.
The beam of light slammed directly into his chest.
boom--!
Lin Yuan was blasted dozens of feet away from the front.
The old school uniform on his chest was completely shredded.
Large patches of charred black marks appeared on the surface of the dark gold body.
Some of the door patterns even pierced through flesh and nailed into the sternum.
A gasp of alarm rang out from the inner ring defense line.
"Lin Yuan is injured!"
"That was a burst of energy from the core of the Bronze Goalkeeper's chest!"
Song Li's face turned pale instantly.
Ji Qinghe stared nervously at the center of the dark blue explosion.
However, the bronze gatekeeper did not pursue Lin Yuan.
Because the blood shadow is still wrapped around it.
Before Lin Yuan was blasted away, he was still clutching the torn piece of bronze breastplate in his hand.
The pale blue light dissipated.
Lin Yuan stopped in mid-air.
Several gashes were blasted into the flesh on his chest.
Dark gold bones are faintly visible.
However, the marks embedded in the body did not continue to spread.
The Extreme Star Soul has locked onto the contamination path.
The ultimate star body bears the impact of the core.
The Extreme Star Furnace then dragged the door patterns embedded in the body inward, one by one.
Lin Yuan looked down at his wound.
"It's not light."
The bronze goalkeeper's voice was chilling:
"You will get hurt too."
Lin Yuan raised the bronze breastplate in his hand.
"Um."
"But you're missing a piece."
Tighten your fingers.
The armor plate shattered.
All the remaining blue energy was dragged into the Extreme Star Furnace.
[First Layer of Core Armor Stacking for the Bronze Goalkeeper]
[Current number of Qi and Blood Physical Compression Counts: 942000]
The wound on his chest began to close rapidly.
As the bronze gatekeeper watched this scene, his tattered false eye contracted violently.
It did indeed hurt Lin Yuan.
But after Lin Yuan swallowed its armor, its injuries healed faster than it had imagined.
This exchange continues.
It will be the one that falls.
……
On the star cruiser.
Zhou Xuanheng immediately grasped the change in the battle situation.
"The second anchor fluctuation continues to decline!"
"Its armor layers aren't infinite!"
He raised his hand and waved.
"Star Law Formation, hold down the second anchor!"
"We cannot allow even a sliver of remaining energy to slip through behind the door!"
The twelve patrolling star guards gritted their teeth and urged the array plate to activate.
Hundreds of silver and black chains tightened simultaneously.
The two blue anchors vibrated violently.
The crack widened further.
Marquis Zhenxing also understood.
"All heavy artillery, cease fire on the goalkeeper!"
"Second target!"
"Lin Yuan peeled off its armor."
"We'll cut off its food supply!"
Boom boom boom!
The silver-white cannon beams focused fire on the two anchors.
With each round of bombardment, the patterns on the bronze gatekeeper's body dimmed a little.
Qin Zhu even used his palm to suppress the edge of the main star gate's crack.
The mountain and river candle seal transformed into a black gold barrier, sealing off part of the overflowing tide.
The bronze goalkeeper wanted to turn around and save the anchor.
The Blood Shadow Eight-Part Asura Body still clung to it tightly.
Lin Yuan has arrived again.
This time.
He did not attack the breastplate.
Instead, all eight arms simultaneously grabbed at the left shoulder of the bronze gatekeeper.
The shoulder armor there had just withstood several heavy blows, and the mortise pattern had broken.
The bronze gatekeeper slammed down with a punch.
Lin Yuan blocked with both arms.
The other six arms are fastened to the shoulder armor.
At the same time, Blood Shadow yanked its right arm backward.
One left and one right.
The bronze gatekeeper's massive body was forcibly pulled open.
"Open it for me."
Lin Yuan exerted force with all six arms simultaneously.
Click!
Half of the entire left shoulder armor was lifted up.
The core on the Bronze Goalkeeper's chest lit up again.
This time, however, the Blood Shadow's chest core detected the energy trajectory ahead of time.
Its four arms suddenly pressed down on the upper body of the bronze gatekeeper.
The other four punches simultaneously slammed into the chest markings that had just lit up.
"Great desolation and annihilation!"
boom!
Before the beam of blue light could be fully emitted, it exploded inside the goalkeeper's chest cavity.
The bronze gatekeeper's massive body suddenly leaned back.
A crack appeared inside the breastplate.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lin Yuan tore apart his six arms.
Stab it--!
The left scapula has completely fallen off.
Large sections of the door pattern were uprooted.
The bronze gatekeeper finally let out a roar filled with pain.
"The Gate Swallower!"
Lin Yuan gripped the shoulder armor.
The Extreme Star Furnace began to rotate again.
[Core Armor on the Left Shoulder of the Bronze-Forging Goalkeeper]
[Current number of Qi and Blood Physical Compression Counts: 947000]
[Current number of Qi and Blood Physical Compression Counts: 951000]
Nine hundred and fifty thousand one.
The dark gold starlight in Lin Yuan's eyes deepened.
The armor on the bronze gatekeeper is more suitable for the current compression than the fragments of the battle halberd.
Because these scales are not just energy.
It also includes the structure of the bronze gatekeeper projection itself.
Each time you swallow one piece.
He not only became stronger.
Bronze goalkeepers will also become truly weaker.
This is the most direct example of one gaining at the expense of the other.
The bronze gatekeeper understood as well.
It cannot continue to be peeled away bit by bit by the two eight-armed Asuras.
Otherwise, it would be eaten up before the second anchor was destroyed.
next moment.
The bronze gatekeeper's remaining two fake eyes exploded simultaneously.
boom!boom!
Detonated intentionally.
It wasn't shattered by Lin Yuan.
After the two fake eyes exploded, they turned into a large patch of dark blue mist, enveloping it, Lin Yuan, and Xue Ying at the same time.
Perception is obscured.
The trajectory of the star soul was briefly disrupted.
Lin Yuan's eyes gleamed with a subtle, golden starlight.
In the fog of the fake eye, every path of pollution is clearly visible.
But just as he was about to lock onto the position of the bronze goalkeeper.
An unprecedented sense of danger erupted from the depths of the fog.
It was not an attack.
It is not a gate domain either.
Instead, the true eye on the bronze gatekeeper's chest, which had been tightly closed, was fully opened.
boom--!
The dark blue mist was instantly illuminated by the light of the True Eye.
The bronze gatekeeper's thick, overlapping armor on his chest spread out to both sides.
Like a real door.
There was no flesh and blood behind the door.
Instead, it was a bottomless, deep blue vortex.
At the center of the vortex, a broken bronze seal was nailed to the ground.
Zhou Xuanheng's expression changed drastically when he saw the general's seal.
"retreat!"
"That's its original gate seal!"
Marquis Zhenxing suddenly looked up.
"What is it going to do?"
Zhou Xuanheng's voice became hurried for the first time.
"It wants to abandon projection!"
"Offer the entire bronze gatekeeper's body, along with the second anchor, to the main gate!"
"The original essence descends after the door is replaced!"
Everyone's heart sank.
The bronze gatekeeper was driven to a dead end.
The halberd was swallowed up.
The coffin door was destroyed.
The armor plates were peeled off layer by layer.
The second anchor is also about to be locked by the star law.
It was no longer prepared to retreat alive behind the door.
Instead, they wanted to sacrifice everything they had left.
The bronze gatekeeper fully opened the true eye on his chest.
This time, it was no longer afraid of Lin Yuan's gaze.
Because it was prepared to burn off even this eye.
"The Gate Swallower".
"You want to eat me?"
"Then we'll swallow the main sect along with it!"
The seal on his chest suddenly burst into flames.
The bronze gate's entire body emitted a dazzling, eerie blue light from within.
Every armor plate, every gate pattern, and every inch of projection on its body began to collapse towards the original gate seal on its chest.
The second anchor also emitted a sharp roar.
He was dragged in the opposite direction by the bronze goalkeeper.
Zhou Xuanheng's Star Law Chains broke one by one.
The star cruiser tilted violently.
The heavy artillery positions of the Zhenxing Army were largely extinguished.
An aura far exceeding that of before pressed down from the depths of the main star gate rift.
He was granted the title of King.
It was not a complete investiture of a king.
However, they had already truly touched upon the origin behind the gate of the King-level.
Lin Yuan stood before the dark blue light.
The eight arms of the Eight Asura Body slowly drooped down.
Blood Shadow also retreated to his side.
The two soul cores resonated remotely.
A system warning appears.
[Detection detected: Bronze Gatekeeper sacrificing his essence]
[The second anchor has been detected and is about to merge with the goalkeeper's essence.]
[Upon completion of the fusion, the target will briefly advance to the King-level projection stage.]
[Can be consumed and refined]
[WARNING: The current Eightfold Asura Body poses an extremely high risk.]
Lin Yuan looked at the collapsing bronze gatekeeper.
The dark gold star ring behind them slowly accelerated.
Above the Eight Asura Body.
The deeper battle scars of qi and blood began to awaken inch by inch.
red.
It's not the red of ordinary flames.
Rather, it is the pure red lotus that ignites when blood and air rub against each other after the density of the physical body is pushed to the extreme.
The first wisp of crimson flame rose from Lin Yuan's shoulder.
The bronze gatekeeper's true eyes narrowed sharply.
Zhou Xuanheng's breath hitched.
Gu Changye stood on the black tower and slowly closed his notebook.
"Phase Two: Eat A."
"The third stage..."
He looked up at the crimson lotus flame blooming in the night sky.
"It's time to eat."