Chapter 230 Worry is the Enemy's Business (5500, First Update, Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

Since Su Zhou spiritualized his muscle tissue into spiritual energy organs, his pure physical strength had reached the realm of a humanoid hydraulic press that could be measured in hundreds of tons.

This strength was enough to propel Su Zhou to move at near the speed of sound. He could fly by stepping on the air, and even exceeding the speed of sound was not impossible—but because he was still a humanoid after all, his body structure did not conform to aerodynamics. Forcing himself to go supersonic would only cause him pain and could not be maintained for too long.

If he added the Zhou Shen Lan Jia (armor of azure energy surrounding the body), which had already reached Minor Completion and was advancing towards Greater Completion, as well as the assistance of wind and spiritual energy enhancement, then Su Zhou's limit burst strength would likely reach nearly a thousand tons.

Although the different sources of power brought by different cultivation methods cannot be simply calculated by addition, and some parts may overlap or even interfere with each other, even so, this was truly a force capable of destroying cities, breaking armies, cutting off rivers, and demolishing skyscrapers with bare hands.

If he were to go to some worlds with relatively low levels of extraordinary power, Su Zhou could completely act as a humanoid monster, and most modern weapons would not be able to kill him.

To put it bluntly, the damage caused by ordinary shells hitting him would not be as great as the reaction force brought by Su Zhou's own acceleration.

And what would be the result if this kind of power was applied to several ordinary Awakened-stage transcendents?

Su Zhou was experimenting.

Boom——!!

The sound of the air exploding rang out. As Su Zhou clenched his fingers and threw a punch, the armored soldier in front of him disappeared directly amidst the surging, distorted white air waves. Only sparks flying from pieces of steel parts could be seen in mid-air. The huge roar shattered all the windows of the surrounding houses, and at the same time turned into a gale, blowing the other soldiers into the air. After flying for more than ten meters, they fell heavily to the ground.

However, before they landed, air blasts, like heavy hammer blows, penetrated their armor, causing them to spit out large mouthfuls of blood while shattering their flesh and internal organs. By the time they landed, they were all corpses.

The constantly surging shock wave continued to spread forward, causing the solid stone bricks to shatter and the roadside railings to break. The entire street was as if it had been flattened by a road roller. However, Su Zhou had observed beforehand that the street ahead happened to have no other pedestrians passing by, so no innocents would be affected.

As for the unlucky guy who was directly hit, he had now turned into a mess that was enough to make the cleaning aunt shake her head and sigh.

Thump.

On both sides, there were still armored soldiers who had not been affected by the aftermath of Su Zhou's punch. They looked around blankly and discovered that within the few seconds of their daze, the originally tidy avenue had turned into a broken rubble ground, and a blood mist mixed with dust was slowly falling, bringing with it a sweet and greasy bloody smell.

Without any hesitation, facing the figure in a black hooded robe who was slowly approaching them like a demon god, everyone knelt down on the spot.

Su Zhou glanced at the consequences of his punch, confirming that it had only caused serious damage to the street and had not harmed anyone else. He did not continue to attack, but instead directly used soul transmission to whisper to the kneeling, trembling armored soldiers: "Alarm."

"Wha...what alarm?" One soldier, who seemed to be very brave, subconsciously replied, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he covered his mouth in horror. Unfortunately, this was a soul transmission, and opening or closing his mouth did not prevent him from speaking.

"I said, let you send an alarm to your superiors—tell them that an enemy full of hostility, powerful, and ruthless has arrived. Anyway, say it as dangerous as possible."

Su Zhou patiently taught the soldier: "Oh right, you can also say this, say that the Nesser family heir they are looking for is by my side."

"But..."

This somewhat clueless soldier originally wanted to say 'But I didn't see the Nesser family heir', but under Su Zhou's gaze, he swallowed and nodded frantically: "Okay, okay!"

At this moment, Su Zhou grabbed another armored soldier, and asked him directly: "The evil thoughts on you guys are red and purple. Tell me, how many innocent people have you killed recently?"

"This, these are all orders, sir!" This armored soldier's knees were too weak to stand up. Being held by Su Zhou, feeling the armor gradually deforming in the other party's hands, he cried without tears: "Those people are all related to the Nesser family. Who knows if they will help the heir return? I, I don't want to do it either, but if I don't kill them, that..."

As he said this, the soldier's eyes rolled back, a restriction in his soul exploded, and he died.

"...So strict?"

Su Zhou was slightly stunned. He did not intend to let the other party go—although in this world, as long as the superiors order people to be killed, the soldiers really have no right to refuse, but it was obvious that these soldiers had not shown any pity before.

To put it bluntly, when the captain tortured the poor ordinary family, they were all watching the fun with great interest.

If there was even a little bit of intolerance, for the sake of that little bit of intolerance, Su Zhou would not have attacked so directly. He was indeed the kind of person who leaned towards kindness.

And just now, when this soldier wanted to say someone's name, or rather, attempted to describe a certain being, he died on the spot... This group of mysterious people who plotted against Nesser City were unexpectedly well-organized, and their strength was probably not that simple.

However, Su Zhou was not afraid of the other party.

Since Duke Nesser was only a transcendent at the High Rank, or rather, at the peak of the High Rank, then the enemies who did not dare to attack while he was alive, and only dared to make small moves after his death, were at most only at this level—and Su Zhou was also at the High Rank.

They were all at the same level, who was afraid of whom? Thinking of this, Su Zhou couldn't help but touch the scabbard at his waist. Blazing and majestic heat was flowing in the blade.

—The Blade of Extinction, it had been a long time since it had been unsheathed.

"Not faster?"

Putting down the corpse in his hand, Su Zhou turned his head and looked coldly at the previous soldier, who was trembling as he took out a disc-shaped communication device, activated the magic circle with magic power, and then, the soldier immediately called out a series of languages that Su Zhou could not understand to the other side—it seemed that Su Zhou's previous request for him to convey the message, he had said it all, without any concealment.

However, after speaking, this soldier, like his colleague who had suddenly died before, fell straight down and stopped breathing.

"They kill their own people so readily? What kind of organization is this!"

This scene immediately made Su Zhou frown—he killed people because they were enemies, and he was happy, which was normal, but the other party desperately killed their own people, as if they were afraid that he would force them to talk and ask for some information... So timid and afraid of trouble, without any courage, Su Zhou's perception of the enemy dropped again.

Next, Su Zhou didn't leave either. He directly asked the people in the tavern to bring out the grilled fish for him, and prepared tables and chairs for him outside. He continued to serve food and eat among the corpses, highlighting a grave-side feast, without any taboo, just waiting for people to come and fight.

As for the injured family who had probably really been in contact with the Nesser family heir before, they were also handed over to an adventurer who knew how to heal.

Although Su Zhou was willing to help, he didn't know any healing techniques except for his own super-regeneration ability... He couldn't just use holy water or his own blood every time he healed people, right? Su Zhou himself didn't mind, but it was too horrifying.

The people in the tavern naturally did not dare to refuse Su Zhou's request. If they had previously respected Su Zhou, it was only because of the deterrence brought by the Transcendent Rank itself, but now, what they feared and revered was the power that Su Zhou could use to blast more than a dozen people flying with one punch, and smash the soldiers in armor and the entire street into pieces.

The adventurers who had gathered in the tavern had also dispersed for the most part—everyone could see that this master was probably here to fight against those foreign soldiers, and his strength was terrifying. He might really be able to provoke the other party.

Unfortunately, their strength was not enough, and they couldn't afford to offend either side. If the Transcendent fought, the aftermath might wipe them all out. It was better to go home and be a coward as soon as possible, and wait for the situation to become clear.

However, there was also a group of adventurers who did not know whether they were drunk or felt that Su Zhou had done a great job, and did not leave. Instead, they began to go to the surrounding streets to evacuate the people.

In this world, the status of adventurers was approximately equal to community workers doing volunteer work, or vigilantes. They could see that Su Zhou was planning to wait for the enemy's counterattack in the same place, so they evacuated the surrounding people as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary casualties at that time.

Surrounding Su Zhou, who continued to eat indifferently, there were many whispering voices.

"This is already the power of the peak of the Elite Rank..."

"Originally, I thought this master was a mage wearing a hooded robe, but I didn't expect that he was probably a knight or a warrior."

"This strength is probably similar to when the Duke was alive! Is it a backup plan left by the Duke before?"

"Maybe he's just passing by?"

Although Su Zhou still couldn't understand these otherworldly languages, relying on sensing the emotional fluctuations around him, as well as a few words that he had learned through soul communication, he knew that these people were discussing him, and he didn't care. He just watched with interest as a relatively short adventurer, who looked very young, cast a spell to heal the most seriously injured adult man in that family.

He could see that water element light patterns, like water waves, flowed out from the adventurer's hands. It controlled the blood, preventing the wound from bleeding, and then the aura turned, and it transformed into earth element fluctuations, controlling the flesh to squirm, sticking together, and closing the wound.

Soon, the wounds outside the man who was seriously injured were mostly healed, and he was out of danger from infection and excessive blood loss.

"Oh, it can be done like this?" For a time, Su Zhou also felt that he had learned a lot of things. He widened his eyes and said in surprise: "That's right, as long as you can control the blood and flesh, at least most of the external injuries can be controlled. I seem to be able to learn this healing technique too!"

After all, with the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumage transformed into reverse scales, Su Zhou did have the capital to control the spiritual energy of various attributes, even if he was not too proficient, he could still practice it.

But the question was, who would be his guinea pig for healing?

Just as Su Zhou was thinking about this question, he could hear a shrill alarm suddenly sound.

The alarm, which had always only sounded when undead monsters attacked the city, had not sounded in the stable Nesser City for decades, so that most people did not react at first, where the alarm came from.

The adventurers looked blank, and the civilians also looked at each other.

But soon, with the rapid footsteps of teams of people from far to near, they could see that there were a full four teams, eighty armored soldiers, rushing towards Su Zhou's direction from the direction of the city center!

And after that, there were more people, surrounding him from all directions.

At this time, Su Zhou had just finished eating five portions of grilled fish. To be honest, if he couldn't adjust his taste, he would definitely feel a little greasy at this time, but for transcendents, even the feeling of happiness, they can keep it longer, and every time they eat their favorite food, it is as new and pleasant as the first time.

The enemy would send people to besiege him? This was expected. Rather, this was Su Zhou's purpose—he didn't know the way, didn't know where the enemy's headquarters was, and didn't know where this group of people would gather. In that case, it was better to let the other party gather with himself as the center, so that he could wipe them all out in one fell swoop.

"I'm full, it's time to kill."

The supernatural power of the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord was activated, Su Zhou stood up and began to move his wrists. The blue-purple dragon eyes swept across, although not all of the enemies were extremely sinful, the faintest evil thought started at least with killing more than a dozen people, about the same level as the perennial bandits who tried to rob him before.

"There are so many scum in the apocalypse."

Su Zhou sighed, in that case, he didn't need to deliberately hold back—his right hand pressed on the scabbard, and the light of thunder and flames began to light up. The long-awaited Blade of Extinction finally waited for the call of its master and began to bloom its power.

In an instant, the surrounding air became hot, and electric arcs flickered at the end of the street. As Su Zhou slowly drew the four-foot-nine-inch-long black blade from the thunderstruck wood scabbard, allowing the red-golden blade to come into contact with the outside air, for a time, everyone around the tavern felt dry and tongue-tied, as if they were in the belly of a volcano.

"Transcendent Divine Object!" In an instant, an adventurer standing next to Su Zhou exclaimed, but more shocked than them were the soldiers who had already begun to charge at Su Zhou—they saw the divine knife in Su Zhou's hand, which had already begun to burn with dazzling fire, and were desperately slowing down, trying to turn around and escape, but it was too late.

"Go back and tell Sorcerer Delonger!" Someone shouted hoarsely: "The enemy has the strength of the peak of the Elite Rank, and also a high-level Transcendent Divine Object!"

"This is enough to be the lord of a shelter, where did such a strong man come from?!"

"Who said the information?!"

But there was no chance to complain.

When he advanced to the Transcendent Rank, Su Zhou knew again when he held the Blade of Extinction that this was indeed a well-deserved divine knife, a divine weapon that was enough to generate anomalies and even cause small-scale weather changes. If he had the strength of the Transcendent Rank at that time, holding this knife, killing the Demon Emperor would really be like killing a dog. No wonder the Hundred Families' Righteous Army believed that casting this knife could counterattack the Demon Dynasty.

Fire attribute spiritual energy circulated throughout his body, and then poured into the Blade of Extinction. Starting from the finger where Su Zhou held the hilt, rustic and majestic scorching patterns like blood vessels began to spread. He placed the blade horizontally in front of him—and then, in a seemingly slow speed, pushed it forward.

Buzz——!!

In the harsh buzzing sound, a translucent light flame was cut out by Su Zhou. The gale carried lightning, and the spiritual energy was used as the material, condensing into an invisible blade light.

The blade light swept across the street, the distorted air heat wave spread, the gray-white ground was roasted black by the high heat, all the scattered flowers, plants, and equipment were ignited, and even the dust in the air was ignited, turning into fire rain.

In an instant, the incoming enemies, the dozens of people at the head, died in agony—the agony was very short, it was not painful, because before they could feel the pain, the whole person had turned into ashes.

What was truly miserable were the more than twenty people behind them. They did not have time to die in the first moment. The hot gale swept across their bodies, and the full-metal armor became a simmering grill, making them like fish in a red-hot can. After struggling in pain for more than ten seconds, they died in extreme pain and suffocation.

One slash, all the incoming enemies were annihilated.

At this time, Su Zhou had already retracted the Blade of Extinction.

The surrounding adventurers had already hid back in the tavern the moment the heat wave spread. The huge spiritual energy fluctuation even made them think that a dozen Elite Rank monsters had suddenly appeared on this street. This huge power aftermath had undoubtedly spread to the entire shelter, and even the adventurers staying underground would sense this shocking fluctuation.

The soldiers and guards who had been aggressive and pouring in from all directions were now retreating faster than they had come before—and this time, Su Zhou saw clearly the direction in which the strongest team was retreating. That was probably where the headquarters of these foreign transcendents was located.

What to do next?

Of course, it was to follow the retreat of this group of people and slash directly to their home!

"Just as a warm-up after dinner."

Su Zhou had always advocated simplicity and directness. Since he had come to Nesser City, and Nesser City happened to have such a group of villains who committed evil and oppressed ordinary people, then he would do a good deed for the local residents and kill all those guys.

Counterattack? Conspiracy? Would he be unable to defeat them? Solving these problems was the reason why Su Zhou had worked hard to cultivate until now—and now, the ones who should be worried about these problems should be his enemies.

"Sir, please wait a moment——"

However, just as Su Zhou was planning to take advantage of his excitement and kill all those people before dawn today, and even scatter their ashes, a rather young voice suddenly sounded behind him.

Su Zhou turned his head and looked behind him.

The one who made the sound was the adventurer who had healed the interrogated ordinary family before. He was wearing a hooded robe like all the local spellcasters, and holding a wooden staff in his hand.

Facing Su Zhou, who was not smiling at this time and was full of majesty, this adventurer was a little hesitant, but soon made up his mind. He took off his hood, and then took out a bottle of processed magic potion from his arms and applied it to his face.

In an instant, the spellcaster who looked quite ordinary, with dark circles under his eyes, immediately turned into a more youthful and delicate young man who was at most only thirteen or fourteen years old.

This young man, who had just passed the stage of being a boy and could barely be considered a teenager, had gray eyes and deep blue hair. He was about 1.6 meters tall, and many local adventurers in Nesser City widened their eyes in surprise when they saw this hair color and pupil color, raised their hands, as if they wanted to say something, and he himself also opened his mouth slightly, preparing to explain his identity.

"You are the last heir of the Nesser family, right?"

But the moment the other party removed his disguise, Su Zhou saw that the spiritual energy fluctuations on his body were extremely similar to the slight spiritual energy fluctuations left on the interrogated ordinary family before.

Therefore, without waiting for anyone to reveal the plot, Su Zhou guessed it first. He directly used soul transmission and said calmly: "You seemed to want to attack before, I appreciate this, proving that although you are a bit naive and innocent, your essence is not bad."

"However, if you are trying to get close, then forget it. I am just simply going to kill villains, not to help you."

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