Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 674 - 653: Crocobear

The Light of Redemption hurried to Mrs. Xiyang’s side, whispering, "Madam, are you alright?"

"It’s just external injuries, consume more pills and rest for a while, and you’ll recover."

"I have spare pills and magic potions here." The Light of Redemption handed over a large amount of precious pills, feeling the pain in his heart.

"You’re quite generous." Mrs. Xiyang was also surprised; some pills she herself was reluctant to use.

The Light of Redemption’s eyes flickered; Zhou Leng had given pills in person, such a clear hint—is it wise to ignore it?

The Light of Redemption and Arjun replaced the Qilin Wolf, dragging the heavily injured group towards Wanyun Mountain.

Zhou Leng ran all the way, observing the ground footprints, capturing Divine Death Beasts for interrogation.

Half an hour later, he exited the red mist, seeing a massive army of Divine Death Beasts, surrounding numerous giants and some giant dragon spirits of death.

From a distance, piercing sounds of battle rang out, a gigantic sword light flew across the sky.

The combatants separated left and right.

On one side, a demigod Divine Death Beast, with a bear-like upper body and a crocodile-like lower body, four arms, standing around fifteen to sixteen meters tall, known as Crocodile Bear.

The Demigod Crocodile Bear, revered as the Crocodile Bear God.

This Crocodile Bear God’s aura was evidently weak, just recently ascended, with immense power, but its movements were relatively slow.

Yet even then, its speed exceeded eight times the speed of sound, surpassing Zhou Leng’s current limit.

Opposite the Crocodile Bear God, Li Shenkong’s eyes were empty, his hands gripping the sword hilt, holding it overhead, suspended to the upper right, the sword point aimed diagonally behind him, embodying the basic sword technique "Leopard Head Stance", as if holding a head.

The formidable Crocodile Bear God, facing an upper-rank grandmaster, showed a hint of disdain and fear in its eyes.

Its body cracked open with great wounds.

Within the wounds, flesh rapidly squirmed, unable to heal, star-lit traces mixed within the flesh.

It occasionally groaned lightly, enduring tremendous pain.

The Crocodile Bear God was injured, but Li Shenkong was in a worse state.

Despite wearing demigod armor, both the armor and clothes were stained with blood, large wounds tearing apart the armor and body.

Every wound seemed like it had been struck open by a large knife, deep enough to expose bone.

Within the wounds, the faint power of magic potion and pills worked with all might to repair.

The largest wound crossed his abdomen, exposing his insides.

The armor was horizontally cracked, several torn intestines protruded outside the wound, yet the wound was half-healed, clamping the broken intestines.

Li Shenkong seemed unaware and had no opportunity to tend to his wounds.

Above his head, astonishingly, was suspended a second half-divine artifact, a massive shield.

Zhou Leng glanced at the ground, where hundreds of meters of sword scars lay a line, claw marks resembling channels.

From the ground traces, it could be deduced that Li Shenkong had slashed over a hundred swords.

Zhou Leng nodded lightly.

An upper-rank grandmaster persisted in front of a demigod, lasting over a hundred moves.

The half-divine artifact and Star Sky Divine Sword indeed played a role, but his own strength and will were beyond doubt.

Not far away, corpses of alien giants lay, all cut into several pieces by claws.

"Brother Leng, run! Don’t look back!" The sound of Golden Spar appeared in the encirclement.

She had resumed her giant form, her golden armor cracking, the originally braided golden hair loose, messily draped behind.

"Hurry!" Mountain River Celestial Peak shouted.

At the same time, all alien giants also shouted for Yuan Kuo Leng to leave.

Among the encircled giant dragon spirits of death, there were many Dragon Carp People, some of whom had seen Zhou Leng before, shouting for him to run.

Zhou Leng hesitated.

On his own, he absolutely lacked the strength to defeat a demigod.

Even with two half-divine artifacts on him, there wasn’t the slightest chance to kill a demigod.

Li Shenkong, possessing the Star Sky Divine Sword, was definitely stronger than him.

After all, it was a starry sky divine artifact.

Even then, it was unlikely he could win.

Staying here meant almost certain death.

But, if he turned and left, he couldn’t let go.

The human race’s first genius was here.

The giant allies were here.

Mountain River Celestial Peak had saved him twice more.

Zhou Leng raised his head, looking toward Li Shenkong, motionless, eyeing the Crocodile Bear God.

He was Xu Ming’s friend and fought alongside Xu Ming.

During the battle in the Tree-man World, he led Xu Ming to join the fight.

He didn’t know the exact nature of their relationship.

His connection with Li Shenkong was mere acquaintance.

But, if Xu Ming were here, and Xu Ming and Li Shenkong entered the True King Trial together, would it be like in the Great Battlefield, sending voice messages to all friends?

"This young man named Li Shenkong is very important."

"He is the human race’s first genius."

"If you find him in peril, try to assist him, I, Xu Ming, owe you a favor..."

In Li Shenkong’s Martial Faith, perhaps Xu Ming’s message and favor echoed too.

Zhou Leng finally understood why Xu Ming uttered those words.

For this moment, for possibly countless such moments.

"Xu Ming, very cunning indeed."

Zhou Leng smiled slightly, stepping forward.

No path? Then carve one out.

If unable to carve, then leave traces on the ground, let future generations follow this path, continue moving forward.

Someday, a path will be carved out.

"Here I come."

Zhou Leng’s usual reminder echoed in the sky.

Li Shenkong fixed his gaze on the Crocodile Bear God, unmoved, speaking, "Immediately, leave! Path ahead, severed..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Crocodile Bear God suddenly lunged.

The demigod’s instinct seized the perfect opportunity.

Zhou Leng channeled the true energy of the starry sky and shouted.

"Croc Bear God! With the divine name of the Star of Death and the Far-reaching Mountain, in the name of the true king of giants and the true king of dragons, I command you to stop!"

When the two divine names rang out, all the Divine Death Beasts shuddered, and upon learning that Zhou Leng was the true king of two races, some indeed stopped.

The Croc Bear God first paused, turning to gaze at Zhou Leng with scarlet eyes, then opened its mouth to let out a couple of wild laughs, ready to attack again when Li Shenkong swung his sword.

The Croc Bear God’s instincts were strong, and Li Shenkong’s talent was equally formidable.

A moon blade of sword qi twenty meters high flew from the Star Sky Divine Sword, slicing through the earth, reaching the Croc Bear God in an instant.

The Croc Bear God dared not take it head-on, rapidly evading, but a large piece of flesh was cut from its shoulder.

After swinging his sword, Li Shenkong staggered, stepping back three times before stabilizing.

His body had reached its limit.

He slightly lowered his head, his bloodshot eyes rolling upward, staring daggers at the Croc Bear God.

"Run!" he roared.

A shard of ice appeared in Zhou Leng’s palm, he slapped it against his chest.

Ice spread across his body, covering him in the blink of an eye, forming an armor of frost.

"Everyone, protect yourselves and the Demon Spirit Artifacts, don’t come near."

After speaking, Zhou Leng raised a dense star core in each hand and rushed toward the Croc Bear God.

"I am an envoy of His Majesty the Disaster Star Dragon. Whoever dares to harm me today, His Majesty will annihilate your entire clan!"

The two dense star cores emitted a blinding divine light, crackling in Zhou Leng’s hands.

The ordinary Divine Death Beasts below the Grandmaster level, upon seeing them, their eyes burst, fleeing in agony.

The Divine Death Beasts at the Grandmaster level, upon hearing "Disaster Star Dragon" and witnessing the power indeed in the Disaster Land, felt burning and sharp pain all over, and without hesitating, turned to flee.

The giants within the encirclement were also driven back, retreating constantly.

The intangible destructive star power shone like ordinary sunlight onto Li Shenkong and the Croc Bear God.

The Star Sky Divine Sword rang out, twisting the surrounding destructive star power, allowing Li Shenkong to evade entirely.

The Croc Bear God growled, leaping frantically to dodge, but its body gleamed with faint starlight, and its fur caught fire.

The exposed wounds slowly turned black.

Zhou Leng retrieved dense star cores and other gems imbued with destructive star power from the starry pouch, hurling them at the Croc Bear God.

The Croc Bear God could only dodge and retreat, not daring to advance.

Upon throwing the tenth one, Zhou Leng stopped, as Li Shenkong’s Star Sky Divine Sword seemed to waver.

The Croc Bear God fled a kilometer away, roaring and shouting around the edge of the destructive star power.

As a demigod, it was unlikely to be killed by this destructive star power.

But the title of the divine spirit and the threat of the Disaster Star Dragon left it flustered.

Most fatal were the many wounds on its body that couldn’t heal, turned permanently necrotic by the destructive star power, causing significant loss.

It glanced at the Star Sky Divine Sword in Li Shenkong’s hand, its eyes brimming with undisguised greed.

It knew the value of the Star Sky Divine Sword.

Once mastered, even if wielded clumsily, it could become one of the strongest demigods in the True King Land.

A mere Upper-Rank Grandmaster spanning both Grandmaster and Grandmaster King realms to confront a newly ascended demigod; wouldn’t a new demigod closely follow Demigod King if obtained? 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

It glanced across the Divine Vein River.

Time grew ever more pressing.

Once seen by other powerful demigod Divine Death Beasts, it would miss the greatest opportunity of its life.

"Aoo!"

It howled, charging straight at Li Shenkong, seizing the Star Sky Divine Sword.

Zhou Leng took a deep breath, the Great Sun Divine Skill operating within, with giant divine power and dragon god divine power rotating wildly around the true energy singularity like two accelerating planets.

Steps quickened, faster and faster.

Four times the speed of sound, four and a half times, five times the speed of sound!

Surpassing the extremes of an Upper-Rank Grandmaster.

Charging up, throwing a punch.

A vast painting unfolded between Zhou Leng and the Croc Bear God.

The eleventh move of the East Wind Fist, a shattering in an instant.

Li Shenkong’s wrist flicked, the massive moon-white blade thrusting forth, reaching the Croc Bear God at over ten times the speed of sound.

This time the Croc Bear God was prepared and ready to evade.

Boom!

The moon-white blade suddenly exploded into thousands, expanding into a sword wall of light blades, crashing down on the Croc Bear God.

With the sudden change, the Croc Bear God dared only cover its head and retreat, the countless starry sword blades slicing through its defense, leaving huge gashes.

Zhou Leng’s punch arrived.

The seamless cooperation of the two most outstanding Upper-Rank Grandmasters of the human race.

The Croc Bear God swung its bear paw fiercely.

Zhou Leng’s punch hit the center of the palm.

A pale shockwave spread wildly, shaking the earth like waves.

Zhou Leng was sent flying back, blood spurting from his mouth, splattering in mid-air.

The Croc Bear God only retreated half a step, looking at its right arm in disbelief.

No matter how strong an Upper-Rank Grandmaster was, relying on body alone, it was impossible to break the strong defense of the Croc Bear God.

But a Martial Artist was different, capable of using the Mountain-Separating Bull-Striking Force.

Starry sky true energy was different, the star radiance pulse even more so; both were demigod-level forces, the essence of stellar life.

Even though the Croc Bear was a demigod, with thick skin and tough flesh, a great amount of punching power and star true energy pierced through the demigod’s defense, invading the body.

Zhou Leng’s punching power could tear the flesh of the Croc Bear God.

Not only that, but a strange force also formed, preventing the wounds from healing.

Li Shenkong saw the opportunity, just about to strike, but his body swayed, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, gulping it down, accumulating strength again.

"Woo..." the Croc Bear God glared angrily at Zhou Leng, in disbelief, then its eyes lit up.

Could it also have a starry sky divine artifact?