Chapter 302 All Kinds of Martial Arts, This is Hellfire Gatling! (First Update, 7500, Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

Regardless of whether it's useful or not, the battle must continue.

If the enemy can shoot down artillery fire with swords, then it can only prove that there isn't enough artillery fire.

As the six leaders of the Descending Spirit Society maneuvered their exoskeleton armor with a sudden burst of mobility, moving in arcs from the side to surround Su Zhou, the remaining seventeen suits of armor underwent slight transformations, showcasing their power as creations that merged modern technology with magical artifacts.

"Ka-cha!"

The sound of steel rotating and transforming echoed, and menacing launch ports appeared on arms or chests. In the next instant, tens of thousands of torrents of metal projectiles swarmed out, arcing through the air towards Su Zhou, who slightly raised his eyebrows.

The bullets fired from martial weapons engraved with the runes of 'Lei Fan' (Thunder Return) and 'Po Jia' (Armor Piercing) would not be deflected by lightning abilities in a short time, and could even penetrate material and spiritual energy shields to a certain extent. Now, vast swathes of metal storms, like clouds, assaulted all areas Su Zhou could dodge. No matter how fast his reaction speed was, there was no way he could avoid them.

And if even one shot hit, the projectile carrying lethal kinetic energy would tear through the target's skin and flesh, either piercing through or tumbling and shattering inside, creating a massive cavity of blood and gore. But at this moment, seventeen suits of exoskeleton armor were firing more than one hundred thousand bullets simultaneously.

Even the body of a Transcendent would be no exception.

However, wasn't it natural for a well-trained body to overcome steel?

Su Zhou raised his eyebrows, not because he noticed that the bullets could not be deflected by his thunder magic, but because he felt that the clothes on his body might not be salvageable again.

--Oh well, it's just a cheap shirt anyway, let it go.

Boom!

As the metal storm slammed into Su Zhou, a dazzling spark suddenly ignited, even vaguely forming a bright humanoid shape.

"Did it hit?"

For a moment, the Spirit Caller, who was preparing to encircle and suppress Su Zhou in coordination with the troops, was stunned. She was skilled at using various decree incantations. In the past, she had been on good terms with the Shepherd, and the Shepherd's death decree technique was developed with her cooperation. She originally wanted to use 'Decree: Bind' to make Su Zhou unable to dodge the bullet attack, but even so, she was prepared for Su Zhou to easily break free from her confinement.

But Su Zhou didn't even dodge?

There was no time to think too much. Whether Su Zhou forgot to dodge or was just crazy, the attack had to continue. Visible, dense plant roots suddenly sprang from the depths of the earth, and then wrapped around Su Zhou's ankles in unison. That was the power of the Arborist. In this dense Black Forest area, he was virtually omnipotent. Visible, dozens of huge treants were uprooting themselves in the surrounding Black Forest, preparing to advance.

And further away, extremely thick miasma began to gather with the movement of the gale. Strange spirits were being bred from it. That was the Exchanger using souls as the price, imbuing the miasma with sentience, allowing it to temporarily transform into spirit-like creatures similar to elementals, to be driven by him to fight.

Apart from the Silent One, the Reborn One, and the Manipulator, who did not take action, this was the top standard of coordinated attack by the Descending Spirit Society.

But what was terrifying was precisely this point.

Being bombarded by metal storms, entangled by tree roots, bound by incantations, and pounced on by miasma spirits... But the humanoid figure that was erupting with bright sparks under the impact of countless bullets was still advancing, steadily, step by step.

It was as if… it was not he who was moving, but the earth beneath his feet!

Crack--this was the sound of tree roots being torn apart by brute force.

Crackle--this was the sound of bullets colliding with flesh and blood bearing triangular spiritual纹, but twisting and deforming, forced to bounce off, colliding with other bullets, and erupting sparks.

Whoosh--this was the sound of a thick miasma spirit being inhaled in a large gulp by someone, directly inhaled into the body with a gust of wind, and even smacked his lips. You could even see the humanoid shake his head, as if feeling that the taste was not very good.

Buzzing… The reserves of bullets were also limited. After eight seconds, almost all the Descending Spirit Society's exoskeleton armor stopped shooting. It was not that they didn't want to continue, but there were simply not enough bullets, and even with spiritual assistance, the launch tubes were completely red.

The smoke cleared.

Su Zhou walked out of the smoke and dust slowly, carrying his blade. Melted iron and metal powder flowed through his muscle lines like water, but did not leave any traces of burns.

Apart from the clothes on his upper body being torn, he was unscathed. The previous bullet storm was not even worthy of a bath. There was even sporadic fire still shooting. Visible, bullets like fire snakes bombarded Su Zhou, but were like shooting at some kind of pulverizer. Before they could even be bounced off, each bullet was directly shattered by the majestic spiritual power in Su Zhou's body, turning into metal dust, or melted into molten iron, and falling to the ground.

Su Zhou walked over, and along the way, all that was left was hot, smoky metal dust. It was clearly the remains of all the bullets that hit his body. The surging heatwave pushed away the smoke, forming gusts of wind that rolled outwards.

Clearly, the relationship should be between the tearer and the torn… but at this moment, the positions were reversed.

He even had the spare power to protect his pants.

"The flesh is so powerful?!" For a moment, someone was so shocked that they almost lost their voice: "Isn't he a Celestial Master who is good at casting thunder magic... Oh, that's right, he is a dragon after all!"

Now that the battle had begun, there was no more nonsense. No matter how shocked they were, the battle still had to continue. Since ordinary conventional weapons were ineffective, the Descending Spirit Society naturally had corresponding methods.

Since Su Zhou said that times had changed--then let them change. Indeed, playing with firepower in the era of spiritual Qi recovery was a bit of a contempt for people. In that case, they would use transcendent means to deal with transcendents.

Boom! In an instant, viscous, gray-black unclean fire ignited around the Reborn One's body. This was demonic fire from the Naraka Purgatory. It was watered with hatred, cared for with sorrow, and then pruned with fury and confusion to give birth to an immortal flame. If it weren't for the Reborn One's chosen innate family heritage, which was the power of the 'Black Phoenix', even ordinary hell demons would never be able to control this kind of fire. Even approaching it would turn them to ashes.

Immediately afterwards, the demonic fire, mixed with endless negative emotions, was like a cloud of fire, like a rain cloud falling from the sky, collapsing towards Su Zhou in a way that was impossible to resist. At the same time, the Manipulator finally completed her ritual. This charming woman hid behind everyone, remotely aiming a mirror at Su Zhou, and naturally Su Zhou's figure appeared in the mirror--she used a small hammer made of human bones to hit the mirror surface, causing it to ripple with a strange, water-like pattern.

The huge treants had already rushed over. Their footsteps shook like an earthquake. The elites of the Descending Spirit Society abandoned their heavy modern weapons and instead took out different styles of spiritual Qi weapons. Visible, small magic arrays engraved with rune arrays were lighting up all over their bodies. These exoskeleton armor either rushed towards Su Zhou at high speed, or controlled frost, fire, lightning, and flying dust in place, preparing to seize the opportunity to unleash a fatal blow on Su Zhou.

More decree spells were cast, and each one was enhanced at the cost of a soul. Even the Silent One, who had been silent all along, controlled his armor and strode forward.

And their target was all Su Zhou.

--Indeed, a very strong attack.

Su Zhou nodded slightly. Even as an enemy, he had to admire the other party's exquisite coordination. This series of coordinated attacks was indeed extremely powerful and had amazing lethality. Not to mention anything else, if you randomly selected a divine beast to face this kind of attack, even if it had advanced to the Ruler level, it would probably suffer heavy damage, or even die on the spot.

After all, the difference between a Ruler and a Transcendent, apart from spiritual power, was essentially just having divine powers--without divine powers to strengthen the body, in terms of pure physical strength, the initial and intermediate stages of the Ruler level would be strengthened, but there would be no qualitative improvement.

This was indeed a combined attack sufficient to kill a Ruler-level.

--It's just, it's not as good as him.

So, he seriously raised the Blade of Annihilation in his hand and used 'skill'.

The enhancement of wind, water mist, thunder, and flames. With the explosion of the Storm Seed, the violent hurricane began to set off waves as the Blade of Annihilation danced. Su Zhou swung his long blade at the incoming cloud of demonic fire from Naraka. Where the sharp blade pointed, the wind swept. For a time, in front of Su Zhou, even around the entire Black Forest, all the wind and moisture began to rise under the lightning that electrolyzed the water, and the high temperature that evaporated the water.

The four major attributes rotated, and Su Zhou began to use his power.

The plants began to wither, the moisture in the earth dried up, and was transformed into hot water vapor by the fire array. The endless, high-temperature water vapor carrying lightning then transformed into a cloud and mist giant hand as large as several hundred meters under Su Zhou's will. It rose from the ground, directly supported the falling cloud of fire, and then 'grasped' it, taking advantage of the situation to smash it towards the treant on the side.

Each of the Black Forest treants, endowed with souls and power by the Arborist, possessed the power of the Transcendent rank. This was because they were inherently talented, born in the strange region of Typhon, and coupled with the power of the sacred tree held by the Arborist, they could truly turn decay into magic.

But facing the smash of the demonic fire of Naraka grasped in Su Zhou's hand, even the Black Forest treant could only be completely ignited, making a painful wail, and dancing wildly in the flames.

In the distance, the Manipulator, who had just begun to prepare to reverse Su Zhou's luck, causing his internal operations to go wrong and his spiritual spells to fail. Even slightly using spiritual power would cause backlash, instantly spat out a large mouthful of red blood. A peak Transcendent cultivator softened and fainted on the ground.

At the moment she cast the secret technique, it was as if a supersonic fighter jet had crashed into an 8,000-meter-high mountain--the fighter jet was certainly expensive and powerful, but could the mountain be described with expensive and powerful? These were simply not on the same level, and she was naturally almost mentally collapsed by the backlash caused by the curse and the cursed effects. If it weren't for the exoskeleton armor's own life support system, she would probably have died here directly.

As for the invisible decree spells that were attacking, they were indeed a bit troublesome. The attacks jointly launched by the Spirit Caller and the Exchanger had actually reached the level of the Ruler rank. Even Su Zhou could not ignore them. His speed was slowed down, his defense was weakened, his thinking speed began to decline, and his control over spiritual power became less flexible. In this instant, Su Zhou was hung with at least three rows of negative states. These curse decrees, which were enough to weaken a Transcendent to less than a newborn infant in an instant, and weaken a tank into a sandcastle on the beach, surged out like they didn't cost any money.

With the superposition of multiple negative states, even someone as powerful as Su Zhou was inevitably affected extremely seriously.

He, who had just eaten dinner, even suddenly felt a little hungry.

So, he took out a蟠桃 (Pan Tao, peach of immortality) from his personal space and ate it as if no one else was around.

For a time, even though the elite of the Descending Spirit Society were still using the exoskeleton armor to continuously cast spiritual flame suppression, filling the sky with various spiritual lights, the scene was silent for a moment.

Everyone stared blankly at Su Zhou, who had finished a蟠桃 (Pan Tao, peach of immortality) in three bites and was still slowly approaching them, looking at the monster who had blocked all their attacks just by raising his blade and approaching. For a moment, everyone present didn't know what to do.

"He, he hasn't used his true form yet, right?"

"Even the Silent One's leader shouldn't be able to block it so easily..."

"Is this guy really human..."

Panic and murmurs echoed in the ranks of the Descending Spirit Society.

At this time, Su Zhou, who had consumed more than half of his spiritual power, was connecting with the surrounding heaven and earth, rapidly recovering his spiritual power.

It was naturally a good thing that the enemy didn't dare to attack. After all, even for him, it would take time to recover the consumed spiritual power.

And eight seconds later, Su Zhou, who had recovered to his full strength, prepared to launch a counterattack.

Times have changed--

That's right, he kept saying that times have changed, but have times really changed? Transcendence and technology are not necessarily opposites, right?

This was an extremely thought-provoking question.

So, facing the members of the Descending Spirit Society, who had exhausted themselves just by attacking, Su Zhou, who was well prepared, once again stretched out his hand, just like he had condensed the spiritual electromagnetic cannon before.

Countless Storm Seeds flew out of his body, floating in mid-air, condensing into a smooth gun-barrel skeleton. The thick gun body, composed of slender cannon barrels, revealed endless death energy with its ferocious appearance.

Sombre hellfire of black and white was flowing and rising above it.

--Although changing just like that would make the times lose face, that was the truth.

Facing the members of the Descending Spirit Society, who had already vaguely begun to retreat, planning to directly retreat and avoid battle, Su Zhou used his spiritual power to condense an incomparably huge killing machine.

Storm Seed mimicry, all kinds of martial arts... This is, Hellfire Gatling!

"This is not a divine power specifically used to kill people."

The barrel of the spiritual Gatling began to rotate silently, and the slowly burning black and white cold flame transformed into bullets under the shaping of will. Facing the exoskeleton armor that had already begun to turn around in unison, preparing to escape, Su Zhou calmly muttered to himself: "However, before your souls self-destruct, it might be a little worse than death."

Then, in the next instant, black and white bullets covered the entire world.

The first to be hit were the remnants of the treants controlled by the Arborist. However, the black and white bullets only penetrated them, but did not burn--after all, they were just tool trees that the Arborist had just promoted, neither good nor evil, so they would naturally not be ignited. This lethality misled the members of the Descending Spirit Society for a time, thinking that they were just ordinary spiritual bullets.

--That's all there is to it, it seems that it's not impossible to take it head-on.

However, in the next instant, the Manipulator, who had been hit because she had fainted, told everyone the consequences of underestimating the hellfire bullets with a shrill scream.

"Ahhhhh--I, I..."

Awakened from the coma caused by the magical backlash by the most extreme pain, the Manipulator saw her life in this instant--the second daughter of a large family, a happy childhood, married the man she loved, had her own children... But whether it was her son or her daughter, they were destined to leave her, go far away, or marry other men... This was absolutely not allowed! It was absolutely not allowed. They were all her children, why could they escape her control!?

Crazy and twisted maternal love, or other more mysterious and terrifying desires? Anyway, it was just an incentive. Because the leaders of the Descending Spirit Society were inherently abnormal lunatics, monsters in the true sense in the eyes of ordinary people, they would turn into inhuman demons with just a small incentive.

Using money to manipulate the life trajectory of other people, using power to control a person's thoughts, all of this required skill, required luck, and there was also a risk in controlling it, but if there was transcendent power, it would be different... What she could control was definitely not just her children, but also her husband, her family, and even the entire city she lived in...

The hellfire was burning fiercely, turning her into a torch in her wail. The black and white flames were gushing out from the gaps in the exoskeleton armor, making all the members of the Descending Spirit Society tremble with fear.

Immediately afterwards, it was the Reborn One, who thought that by transforming into a flaming bird, he could avoid the bullets. He tumbled rapidly in the air, trying to avoid Su Zhou's strafing, but how could his flying speed compare to the spiritual bullets with a speed of more than three thousand meters per second? In an instant, hundreds of hellfire bullets hit his entire body.

"No, no! I am immortal!"

In an instant, just the hellfire burning the meridians and destroying the elemental cycle of the flaming bird directly killed the Reborn One once, but soon, he transformed into a human form again and resurrected--but the hellfire was still like a maggot on a bone, still burning on his body. The old man screamed: "Ahhhh!! What is this thing?!"

He heard the sound of judgment, the deepest and most fearful solemnity--the old man had spent his entire life becoming the emperor of the South European underworld, but the decrepit old man didn't have much time to enjoy the pleasure of power, and soon, through various methods, he obtained a way to extend his life.

Eating one person would allow him to live a few more years, so what about eating a dozen people, eating dozens of people? As long as he continued to eat like this, wouldn't he be able to live forever?

As for only being able to eat suitable people to best prolong his life... Alas, as long as I can live, what are my wife and children, they can be regenerated after eating... No, it's that they can continue to be eaten after they are born! Their souls and bodies were originally born from me, and now it's just time for them to show filial piety to me!

He didn't know how many years had passed. The Reborn One, who had become the leader of the Descending Spirit Society, already had tens of thousands of feathers in his burning wings, which meant tens of thousands of reincarnations, tens of thousands of lives, and millions of years of natural lifespan... Was this a realm that any orthodox cultivation method could reach? Was there any inheritance more powerful than this inheritance?!

In this world, who could resist him!

Just by relying on his lifespan, he could drag all his enemies to death!

But the Reborn One didn't know, or deliberately didn't want to think--why did people who practiced this secret method in the past seem to have died.

After all, sometimes, ten thousand rebirths were just being burned to ashes in the lava ten thousand times more, being drowned in the cold spiritual water ten thousand times more, being suffocated in the molten iron, iron blocks, rocks and cement ten thousand times more.

Or, being repeatedly subjected to the fiery painful judgment of the solemn sinfire for up to ten thousand times.

The frenzied attacks, defenses, and offense-defense transitions had only lasted a few minutes. Watching this scene, all the bystanders who were not skilled enough felt dizzy and completely couldn't understand why the Descending Spirit Society's fierce attack had no effect, and why everyone in the Descending Spirit Society began to flee as soon as Su Zhou attacked.

"I feel like these people can't beat Professor Su..."

"Oh my god!"

On the Earth side, at the other end of the two-world portal, Raphael, who had watched the entire process, frowned, but suddenly heard someone gasp on the other side of the space-time channel: "True Ruler Initial Stage Peak Perfection!"

When this familiar voice sounded, the old man turned his head in surprise--the other party was actually his old partner, Heroic Soul Warrior Unero!

At this time, this Nordic peak Transcendent cultivator was murmuring to himself in a very fast voice while looking at the scene of Su Zhou's battle: "As we all know, organizations like the Descending Spirit Society have incomplete inheritances, so even at the same level, their combat power is naturally half a level lower than our regular cultivators. But recently, their inheritances have been completed, so they can be at the same level. Because the leaders of the Descending Spirit Society have secret methods, their combat power can be increased by another half a level."

"And the Silent One is a leader among them, far stronger than ordinary heretics, so he is an elite template, considered a Ruler Initial Stage Peak Perfection, and can even be considered one level higher, challenging beyond his level, or even crushing those at the same level!"

"But Professor Su Zhou... he is not only a Ruler Initial Stage Peak Perfection, but also a genius, and even an extremely powerful genius, who can even crush ordinary geniuses, and can add one and a half levels--and his own level is already higher than others, which is close to an entire two major stage level crushing! Although he is still Ruler Initial Stage, even if he faces an ordinary Ruler Intermediate Stage Peak, he can still fight!"

"I call this level, True Ruler Initial Stage Peak Perfection!"

"...What the hell is all this."

Although Raphael had long known that his old partner was a fanatical data enthusiast, and even his own cultivation was calculated in this way, he didn't expect that with the revival of spiritual Qi, this strange symptom would actually worsen.

"It's good that you're here, Unero, are there any other people from the Concordance Bureau coming?"

Shaking off the strange thoughts, Raphael, who had directly reported to headquarters for reinforcements after learning about the Descending Spirit Society's large-scale attack, said seriously: "Although it doesn't seem necessary, if possible, go in as soon as possible and help Professor Su!"

However, just as the two were talking.

On the other end of the screen, a sudden change occurred.

Because there weren't many hellfire bullets, Su Zhou withdrew his spiritual Gatling after firing for a while, but even so, he left behind ten corpses that were completely ignited and burning fiercely.

The flames were hot and vigorous, proving how sinful the owners of these corpses were, even they themselves felt that they were not worthy of being human at all and should be judged.

There was even an old man who fell from the sky and fell into the dust, and now his whole body was still burning vigorously, making a miserable scream, not knowing when it would burn out.

The smoke was very thick, the sound was very loud, the struggle was very fierce, and it looked like they were leaving very unpeacefully.

But Su Zhou didn't care about the screaming person.

Because, he saw, directly in front of him, in a ball of black and white cold flame, there was still one person standing tall.

Even, gradually walking towards him.

"Oh, you're not afraid of hellfire?"

To this, Su Zhou, who shook the long blade in his hand, was quite surprised.

Because those who are not afraid of hellfire burning are either saints who are truly pure in heart and have never done anything against their conscience and evil deeds in their lives, or madmen who have no regrets even when they do evil, and believe that this is a just act and that heaven and earth should be like this.

The former's karma does not touch them, while the latter, even if karma burns them, will die without regret. Having long been extremely painful, they are just going to stubbornly walk to the end of their path.

"Pain is just the essence of life."

The soul vibrated, and behind the exoskeleton armor, came an indifferent and calm soul sound: "Look, how painful these people are before they die... Although it's all thanks to you, it's also their own doing."

"What's gratifying is that all painful endings will return to the rest of寂灭 (ji mie, extinction, nirvana)."

The crimson exoskeleton armor broke free from the black and white cold flames. Although there were still flames burning in the cockpit, there was some humanoid figure inside acting as the source of the hellfire burning.

But facing a monster who frankly accepts all his sins, and is not afraid of any pain, and does not make any repentance, even hellfire can only burn like this.

"Interesting."

Su Zhou narrowed his eyes. From this guy, who had never moved from beginning to end, and had remained silent except for the voice just now, he felt a trace of danger.

Very rare... The last time he felt it was when facing the God of Wind and the God of Water, a kind of danger called 'will be injured, even die'.

Having been plowed by artillery fire several times, and bombarded by Su Zhou's spiritual giant hand, Blade of Annihilation, and hellfire, the two-world portal, the original fortress ruins, had been transformed into a turbulent land filled with high-temperature distorted air. The air was still flowing violently, even driving away the distant miasma and flowing clouds.

The youth carrying a long blade, and the exoskeleton armor being burned by hellfire, were confronting each other on this land.

At this time, the incomprehensible soul sound could still be heard from this armor: "I can clearly feel that you have received countless injuries--fierce battles far more than anyone imagined, and you even almost died because of it..."

"But why... Why can't any trace of pain be left in your actions?"

To be honest, Su Zhou didn't quite understand what the other party was talking about.

If he was talking about when he was injured in the past, he did feel a lot of pain, but where did the bitterness come from?

This guy had been talking nonsense about this all the time, obviously he was crazy.

Don't reason with crazy people.

So, Su Zhou, who never talked too much during battle, and only opened his mouth when he wanted to stall for time, placed the Blade of Annihilation horizontally in front of him.

With his legs slightly bent, he showed a smirk.

Then, in the next instant, the earth shattered layer by layer in a roaring explosion, and countless pieces of soil and rock flew into the air.

In the continuous thunder, Su Zhou pounced towards the Silent One.

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