Apocalypse: My Tattoos are Ten Yama Kings-Chapter 277 - 271: Iron-Back Daoist Self-Detonates
In the dilapidated Taoist temple, Lin Yuan and the Iron-Back Daoist were locked in battle.
Both were Tier Four, yet Lin Yuan steadily held the upper hand.
Zhong Kui’s Demon-Slaying Sword swung out with a fierce whoosh, slashing onto the carapace of the colossal centipede that the Iron-Back Daoist had transformed into.
"Clang!"
"Clang! Clang!"
Each sword strike sent scarlet sword energy, mingled with demonic flames, sweeping across the centipede’s shell, shattering it to pieces, sending flesh flying in all directions.
It didn’t take long, just about ten-odd minutes, for Lin Yuan to leave countless ghastly wounds on the giant centipede.
The lantern-sized eyes of the centipede were filled with disbelief. It never imagined that at the same Tier Four, it would perform so poorly.
Anger seemed to become a catalyst for the Iron-Back Daoist’s power.
His demonic power, enveloped in toxins, fearlessly launched an assault towards Lin Yuan.
The centipede’s venomous fangs snapped towards Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan swung Zhong Kui’s Demon-Slaying Sword to parry, and with a "Clang," a resonant metallic crash sounded.
Along with the intense metallic clash came a huge rebound force.
"Humph!"
Lin Yuan grunted, and the massive Zhong Kui form of twenty to thirty meters was sent flying backwards, landing on the ground, Lin Yuan staggered, almost toppling over.
Meanwhile, the giant centipede, transformed by the Iron-Back Daoist, was rolling on the ground, letting out ear-piercing roars.
Its hundred-meter-long body kept rolling, crushing the temple behind it into dust.
Lin Yuan focused his gaze, only to discover that about tens of meters from the giant centipede lay half of a mouthpart several meters long.
Just now, when Lin Yuan’s Zhong Kui’s Demon-Slaying Sword collided with the centipede’s mouthpart, it had directly severed it.
No wonder the giant centipede, transformed by the Iron-Back Daoist, was in such agony!
It turned out its mouthpart was cut off by Lin Yuan.
You should know, that mouthpart was the hardest part of the Iron-Back Daoist’s entire body.
The damage from its mouthpart being severed far exceeded that of the carapace.
Take advantage when the enemy is weak to take their life.
While the Iron-Back Daoist was unguarded due to severe pain, Lin Yuan naturally would not miss this fleeting opportunity.
He urged Zhong Kui’s Demon-Slaying Sword in his hand and immediately charged towards the giant centipede formed by the Iron-Back Daoist.
Lin Yuan charged in, slashing one sword after another at the Iron-Back Daoist.
The sword’s edge swept past, scarlet sword energy tinged with demonic flames emitted a scorching heat, slashing at the Iron-Back Daoist’s carapace.
One sword, two swords, three swords...
All around, the sound of sword cries melded into one; sword energy flew everywhere.
At first, the Iron-Back Daoist could still resist, but as Lin Yuan’s assault grew more relentless, the Iron-Back Daoist gradually found it more difficult to withstand.
The Iron-Back Daoist’s mood was heavy; he seemed to know that today his prospects were bleak.
Thinking that his body would be taken by that so-called World Honored to refine medicine after his death, the Iron-Back Daoist’s anger went straight to his head.
Even if he were to die, he couldn’t let this person take his body for refinement.
Such was the Iron-Back Daoist’s thought, and with that in mind, he began to mobilize all the demonic power within him.
He even started burning his own flesh and soul.
This Iron-Back Daoist still showed some spirit; he was determined to take a few bites out of Lin Yuan even at the cost of his life.
The Iron-Back Daoist burned his flesh and blood, forcibly supporting himself to stand back up.
The hundred-meter-long giant centipede, with battered carapace, instead became even more fearsome.
The colossal centipede propped itself up with its lower body while its upper body reared up, roaring at Lin Yuan.
A single roar whipped up a massive gale, bringing toxic mist towards Lin Yuan.
The foul-smelling poison mist swept in with the wind, but just as it was about to reach Lin Yuan, demonic flames surged up, incinerating the poison mist completely.
Alas!
As a creature who had become a fiend through poison, his most proud toxin was restrained by Lin Yuan’s demonic flames.
After losing this lethal toxin, his power was reduced by at least fifty percent.
On the old locust tree outside the temple, Liuyu Heaven, in the fish tank, watched this scene with a heart as dead as ashes, yet with a hint of clarity.
His little scheme hadn’t gone off; this Iron-Back Daoist was completely restrained by Lin Yuan, oppressed from start to finish.
"Just how many trump cards does this Lin Yuan have?"
"He can actually perfectly counteract poison!" Liuyu Heaven thought with helplessness.
By this point, the battle between Lin Yuan and the Iron-Back Daoist had already reached a fever pitch.
The entire temple had been turned into ruins.
All around the temple were remnants and rubble.
Tens of thousands of scarlet sword energies, laden with scorching demonic flames, had enveloped the Iron-Back Daoist.
Sword energy continually slashed against the Iron-Back Daoist, almost as if flaying him alive.
The giant centipede, formed by the Iron-Back Daoist, lunged left and right, but could never break through the range of sword energy.
In contrast, Lin Yuan grew stronger as the Iron-Back Daoist weakened.
Amidst the encompassing ocean of sword energy, the giant centipede formed by the Iron-Back Daoist was being dismembered by scarlet sword energy.
Death had become a foregone conclusion.
The Iron-Back Daoist seemed to have foreseen his end.
At this moment, the Iron-Back Daoist seemed to give up resisting, reverting from his demonified form back to his gaunt Taoist form.
"World Honored has wronged me!"
"World Honored has wronged me! World Honored has wronged me!"
The Iron-Back Daoist roared to the sky three times; these three roars echoed between heaven and earth, audible to the myriad demon fiends and spirits within hundreds of miles.
Just after the Iron-Back Daoist’s three shouts, all the demon fiends and spirits within a hundred-mile radius turned their gaze towards Iron Back Mountain.
They knew it was the voice of the Iron-Back Daoist.
Iron-Back Daoist’s cry of being wronged by the World Honored, could it be that he was battling someone from the World Honored?
However, the World Honored’s reputation was so formidable that, for now, no one dared to spy on the situation.
After shouting three times, the Iron-Back Daoist’s eyes displayed a resolute look.
"Since you want me dead, then let’s all die together!" the Iron-Back Daoist roared, and then, his body rapidly swelled.
"Self-detonation?"
Lin Yuan’s eyes flashed with surprise, then immediately summoned the Four Departments to enshroud him.
Since reaching Tier Four, Lin Yuan rarely used the power of the Four Departments.
The Tier Four combat style somewhat means returning to the basics, with great simplicity in Tao.
There was no longer a need to deliberately use the power of rules in battle; every move he made naturally carried the power of rules.
Usually, he could do without the power of the Four Departments.
But, the Iron-Back Daoist’s self-detonation could not be underestimated.
The self-detonation of a Tier Four expert should not be taken lightly.
The Four Departments were formed by the power of rules, and at the moment of the Iron-Back Daoist’s self-detonation, Lin Yuan summoned the power of the Four Departments to enshroud himself.
If using a Tier Five analogy, Lin Yuan’s one department would be equivalent to a Deceitful Demon.
This was equivalent to being cloaked in four layers of Deceitful Demons.
For the Iron-Back Daoist’s self-detonation to harm Lin Yuan, it would first have to break through his four layers of Deceitful Demons.
It was true that Lin Yuan took cover, but left at the mercy of the situation was Liuyu Heaven, stranded on the old locust tree outside the temple.
The self-detonation of the Tier Four Iron-Back Daoist could very well blow the entire Iron Back Mountain to dust.
He was right there on the old locust tree outside the temple.
Even at his peak strength, there would be no escape route.
Now, the only safe place left was beside Lin Yuan.
"Lin Yuan, save me..."
"Save me!" Liuyu Heaven couldn’t care about his dignity anymore, quickly pleading for Lin Yuan’s help.
