owlsbooks Chapter 71 Breaking the Sound Barrier
Chapter 71 Breaking the Sound Barrier
Dozens of miles away, in the mountains and forests.
"Bang!"
Li Hao's body vanished instantly, and when he reappeared, he had already punched Lie Jin in the chest.
The golden body was sent flying backward through the air.
As you can see, a clear fist-shaped indentation is visible on Lie Jin's chest, and pale golden blood is oozing from the corner of his mouth.
His golden pupils burned with shame, anger, and horror. This human's strength and speed had soared to such a level in such a short time!
The terrifying power and penetrating force of that punch caused its proud golden body to feel a tearing pain.
"Roar! Human! You have angered me!"
The golden roar shook the surrounding trees, causing the remaining leaves to fall in a rustling sound.
He stomped off the ground, causing rocks to shatter, and his two-meter-tall body, enveloped in a violent stream of golden energy, soared into the sky, heading straight for Li Hao!
This time, even more intense golden flames rose around him, scorching the air and making it crackle, his power even greater than before!
However, faced with Lie Jin's furious attack, only a cold mockery flashed in Li Hao's eyes.
Instead of directly confronting it, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and a unique bio-force field, invisible and intangible yet as heavy as a mountain, surged toward Liejin like an invisible tsunami!
Bio-force field - deterrence!
As Lie Jin charged forward, it felt as if a heavy hammer had struck his head!
Countless fears and hallucinations stemming from biological instincts instantly filled his consciousness.
That was the terror of being targeted by a higher predator, the bewilderment in the face of incomprehensible power, and the suffocating feeling of being crushed on the level of life!
It had been so long since he had felt this way; it seemed like he had only felt it when he was a child, with his own father.
His ferocious momentum suddenly faltered, and his charging motion froze for an extremely brief but fatal moment, even dimming the golden flames for a split second.
It's just a fraction of a second.
Li Hao made his move!
His figure vanished from the spot like a ghost, and in the next instant he appeared to the side and front of Lie Jin's stiff body, his right fist clenched, his arm muscles bulging, and the golden and silver light flowing under his skin instantly condensed at the tip of his fist!
There are no fancy moves, only a simple strike that perfectly blends the body's strength, speed, and the surging magic core energy with solar energy!
boom!!!
The fist landed solidly in the center of the chest where the golden light of the cracked gold was at its strongest!
Time seemed to freeze for a single frame.
"puff!"
His golden eyes bulged out, and he spat out a mouthful of golden blood mixed with fragments of internal organs!
His body, enveloped in golden flames, was as if it had been hit head-on by the main cannon of a super battleship. He was sent flying at an even faster speed than when he arrived, transforming into a golden streak of light and crashing diagonally toward the ground!
"BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!"
He first smashed a giant rock more than ten meters high, sending rubble flying like rain.
Undeterred by its momentum, it crashed into and broke three more ancient trees, each over 100 meters tall, sending wood chips flying like snow.
Its body carved a deep trench, hundreds of meters long, into a ravaged forest clearing, sending up clouds of dust like mushrooms.
Li Hao slowly withdrew his fist, hovering in the air, coldly watching the billowing dust below.
He looked up at the sun in the sky and could feel that the violent energy of the five demonic cores in his body was being absorbed, transformed, and fused at an unprecedented speed under the neutralization and guidance of the sun.
Every muscle and every bone greedily devoured this energy, undergoing deeper tempering and evolution with the sunlight in the sky.
Strength, defense, energy perception and control are all steadily and significantly improving.
"Cough...cough cough..."
Amidst the smoke and dust, the sound of Lie Jin's labored and painful cough could be heard.
He struggled to climb out of the ravine, his golden fur tattered and charred in many places, his chest more sunken, and his breath much weaker.
But the rage and ferocity in those golden eyes burned even more intensely, almost turning into tangible flames.
"Impossible... How could a mere human possess such power!"
Lie Jin looked up at Li Hao in the air, his voice hoarse, filled with disbelief and a sense of shattered faith.
The Behemoths are born powerful and are the absolute overlords of their world, worshipped as gods by countless human tribes.
He is a golden behemoth, one of the most powerful beings in his race!
Now, he's been beaten so badly by a human!
"Nothing is impossible."
Li Hao's voice came from the air, calm and undisturbed, yet carrying an indifference as if looking down on ants.
"Your so-called nobility is nothing but the bullying of the weak. When faced with true power, you are just as vulnerable."
"Shut up! The majesty of the gods cannot be desecrated!"
Lie Jin was completely enraged, his remaining rationality consumed by his fury.
He no longer cared about his injuries and unleashed all the golden energy within his body without reservation!
"roar!!!"
He roared to the sky, his voice shattering the clouds. Golden flames shot up from his body, expanding several times in size and completely enveloping him, as if he had transformed into a golden fireman more than two meters tall!
A violent aura suddenly erupted, causing the surrounding vegetation to shake violently.
The Golden Behemoth's ultimate life-or-death technique—the Wrath of Burning Gold!
Burn your life essence to unleash an extreme burst of power several times over in a short period of time!
The cost was enormous, but the power was also terrifying!
"die!!!"
Lie Jin transformed into a humanoid golden sun, the ground beneath his feet shattering, and with a terrifying speed exceeding the speed of sound, carrying the power to incinerate everything, he crashed into Li Hao!
Wherever it passed, it left a golden stream of energy in the air.
Faced with this desperate attack, a trace of seriousness finally flashed in Li Hao's eyes, but more than that, there was a burning fighting spirit and ruthlessness.
"I'll send you on your way now!"
He held nothing back, and the surging power within him completely boiled over!
The golden, silver, and black light shone brightly, creating a strange resonance with the sunlight falling from the two suns in the sky. Strands of even purer and hotter solar energy were forcibly drawn down and merged into his body.
He too transformed into a streak of light, neither dodging nor avoiding, but meeting the attack head-on!
Thump! ...
This collision was far greater than any before!
It was like two asteroids colliding in mid-air!
A terrifying shockwave, visible to the naked eye and a mixture of gold, silver, black, and white, suddenly spread out in a perfect sphere!
Wherever the shockwave passed, all the trees within a radius of hundreds of meters below, regardless of their thickness, were snapped in half and then pulverized into a cloud of wood chips and dust by the ensuing energy turbulence!
The earth was as if it had been ruthlessly plowed by a giant, with soil layers turned up and rocks crushed!
At the center of the impact, the light was so blinding that it was impossible to look directly at it!
The stalemate lasted only a moment.
The next moment, the golden sun-like light flew out at an even faster speed, like a golden javelin thrown by a god, and pierced through the mountain in the distance, causing a landslide with a "boom"!
Li Hao's figure only drifted back a few dozen meters, his surrounding light dimmed slightly, his chest rose and fell slightly, and a trickle of golden blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, but his eyes remained as sharp as a hawk's.
Sit down!
"Cough cough cough... Pfft!"
Lie Jin struggled to crawl out of the mountain ruins, the golden flames on his body already mostly extinguished.
His breath was extremely weak, his life force flickered like a candle in the wind, and his golden eyes were filled with confusion, fear, and a deeper bewilderment.
The wrath of burning gold, in the end, still failed.
Such a complete defeat.
Li Hao slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. Under the stimulation of the extreme battle just now, the efficiency of his body in absorbing and converting the magic core and solar energy seemed to have broken through a small bottleneck.
He could feel his power approaching a new critical point.
As Lie Jin gazed at the demon-like figure in the sky, for the first time, fear from the depths of his soul overwhelmed his anger and pride.
Run! We must run! This human is a monster!
The Behemoths may have provoked an unimaginable being!
He turned abruptly, burning his last bit of strength, transforming into a dim golden light, and fled desperately towards the deep mountains in the opposite direction from the tribe!
"Trying to leave?" Li Hao's eyes turned cold.
Just as Lie Jin turned to flee, the power accumulated within Li Hao's body finally broke through an invisible gate!
"boom!"
An even more powerful, purer, and hotter aura erupted from his body!
The golden and silver light around him instantly transformed into pure and dazzling gold, his hair stood on end, moving without wind, and a foot-long solid golden flame burst forth from his eyes!
The bones inside his body crackled and popped, his muscles expanded and solidified again, and a faint golden light flashed beneath his skin.
He felt lighter than ever before, yet also filled with explosive power.
A thought crossed my mind.
"boom!"
His figure vanished instantly, leaving behind only a slowly spreading white sonic boom cloud and shockwave!
Breaking the sound barrier!
Almost simultaneously, he appeared directly in front of Lie Jin, who was frantically fleeing!
Liejin only saw a flash of golden light before its eyes, and before it could react, a fist burning with golden flames, seemingly made of pure energy, magnified infinitely in its rapidly contracting pupils!
"No!!!" Lie Jin only managed to let out half a desperate roar.
Bang—snap!
The fist slammed into the center of Liejin's incredibly hard head without any fancy moves.
Like a ripe watermelon being smashed by a hammer, the golden head, which had been cracked open, shattered instantly!
Red, white, and gold were mixed together, and most of them were instantly vaporized under the high temperature energy of the golden fist flame!
The headless remains froze in mid-air for a moment, then fell helplessly into the forest below like a tattered sack.
A magic core the size of an egg, perfectly round and translucent, radiating a powerful golden aura, shot out from the shattered skull.
Li Hao reached out and summoned an invisible force field, drawing the golden magic core into his palm.
He could sense that it contained a vast energy far more refined and powerful than that of the Silver Magic Core.
"very good!"
Without the slightest hesitation, he threw the golden magic core into his mouth and swallowed it.
"Gulp."
The demon core entered his stomach, as if he had swallowed a miniature sun!
A golden torrent, even larger than when it devoured five demon cores, yet gentler and more substantial, exploded out and rapidly surged into every part of the body!
This time, the body felt very little rejection and pain, as if the energy of the golden magic core was naturally more compatible with his physique and the sun.
The golden torrent, the silver-black energy that had not yet been fully absorbed within the body, and the continuous flow of solar energy intertwined, merged, and purified wildly!
Golden energy flames floated around him.
Li Hao couldn't help but roar to the sky, the sound waves like a dragon's roar, shaking the surrounding mountains!
The golden flames around him intensified, his eyes transformed into two blazing golden suns, and his hair stood on end like burning golden flames!
A terrifying aura that made the world lose its color swept outwards from him like a storm, with howling winds, flying sand and stones, and swathes of forests below collapsing!
He felt that he had reached a whole new level in the absorption and control of solar energy.
His internal power surged, and the range, strength, and control precision of his bio-field also skyrocketed!
"ha!"
He casually threw a punch at a surviving grove of trees below.
There was no fist wind, no energy beam.
An invisible yet vast and powerful bio-force field radiated outwards in a fan-shaped area like a tsunami.
Rumble! ...
Ahead, a large grove of trees, hundreds of meters tall, regardless of their thickness, seemed to have been swept away by an invisible giant hand at their roots, all leaning backward and breaking apart!
Wood chips and dust filled the air, instantly clearing out a huge fan-shaped blank area!
Amazing power!
"Ha ha ha ha."
Li Hao smiled and withdrew his hand, the golden light in his eyes slowly receding, his aura remaining as deep and imposing as a mountain.
strength.
Formidable strength.
This is the powerful force he snatched back from the clutches of death through his own perseverance!
He leaped onto the corpse of the golden Behemoth, looking at the body with its shattered head, from which golden blood flowed.
They are so dead they cannot be dead any further.
A cold smile crept onto Li Hao's lips. "This is what happens when you mess with me!"
He gazed toward Dawn City, his eyes seemingly piercing through space.
The situation in the community is not optimistic; we need to get back quickly.
With a "boom," he didn't delay any longer, and his figure once again transformed into a golden streak of light, shooting towards Dawn City!
It was even faster than when it came, and the shrieking sound of breaking the sound barrier continued, leaving a long white trail of air in its wake!