School Beauty's Personal Crazy Young Master

Chapter 434: Chapter 488 Danger

The Golden Core, which concentrated all the True Qi of a cultivator.

If one were to self-detonate their Golden Core, it could unleash in an instant about three times the usual power, and it was the ultimate killing move every cultivator reserved for a life-and-death battle with an enemy.

Of course, not all cultivators had the courage to self-detonate.

After all, once the Golden Core was self-detonated, it meant certain death.

Just like yesterday in the Qianzhong Mountain Range, none of the three cultivators dared to self-detonate until their last breath.

Yuan Dong was also driven to desperation today, knowing that all his magic treasures were destroyed and his mere physical body was no match for Chen Nan’s Martial Body attacks, so he chose to self-detonate his Golden Core to perish together with Chen Nan.

Seeing Yuan Dong not only refuse to back down but instead, like a madman, rush toward him, Chen Nan felt somewhat puzzled, but he didn’t know Yuan Dong’s true intentions.

”You’re seeking death!”

Chen Nan coldly shouted, fiercely slashing down with his sword.

”If I die, you won’t escape either!”

Yuan Dong sneered, his entire body’s True Qi instantly pouring into the Golden Core, self-detonating.

”Boom...”

Yuan Dong’s body instantaneously shattered, and as flesh and blood flew in every direction, an incomparably violent energy swept around, like a thousand-layered tidal wave, surging and tumbling toward Chen Nan.

Chen Nan’s face drastically changed.

This was only the second time he had fought a cultivator, and he had no idea they possessed such a desperate move as self-detonation.

Faced with this violent energy attack, it was too late for Chen Nan to retreat; he could only brace himself and swing his sword to split the energy in two, but the power of the Golden Core’s self-detonation surpassed the greatest strength he could resist.

”Pu...”

Chen Nan was blasted back, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and his body flew backward more than a hundred meters, breaking through more than a dozen large trees before tumbling and falling to the ground. The Hunyuan Sword fell from his hand and ended up embedded in the ground dozens of meters away, slanted against the earth.

”Cough cough...”

Chen Nan fiercely coughed as he lay on the ground, vomiting two more mouthfuls of fresh blood, his internal organs feeling as if they were shattered in pain.

”Damn it, if it weren’t for my body being tempered by the Life Essence Fruit, I probably would’ve died here today.” Chen Nan wiped the fresh blood from his mouth and shakily stood up.

Using the Absorption Star Method to retrieve the Hunyuan Sword into his hand, he was about to leave when—

”Chen Nan, your life is mine!”

Jiang Haotian’s voice suddenly came through, and Chen Nan felt a violent surge of Hand Power striking from behind. He hastily countered with his sword, striking back.

”Boom!”

Without the time to use the Crack Sky Hand, the pure white sword light that Chen Nan unleashed collided with Jiang Haotian’s dark True Qi, and the white sword light instantly shattered. Chen Nan was shaken back more than a dozen steps, blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.

”Jiang Haotian, you’re courting death!”

Chen Nan’s body wavered as he leaned on his sword, staring coldly at Jiang Haotian.

Although he spoke with force, he was quite shocked inside. He had only injured Jiang Haotian with the Darts that afternoon, but unexpectedly, within a few short hours, not only had Jiang Haotian’s injuries healed, but his Cultivation had also increased significantly. He had already broken through the barrier of Eighth Layer Heaven and stepped into the realm of Qi Dao Ninth Layer.

”Big talk for someone in your condition. Now that you’re drained, killing you is as easy as slaughtering a chicken,” said Jiang Haotian with a cold smile, completely disregarding Chen Nan.

Having absorbed the residual power of the Ancient Corpse of Yu Dao, Jiang Haotian’s strength had reached the Ninth Layer Heavenly Realm. He didn’t expect that on his way through this area, he would come across Chen Nan locked in fierce combat with Yuan Dong.

Chen Nan had already been severely injured previously, and now facing Jiang Haotian, he truly felt overtaxed.

”Bring it on.”

Chen Nan’s Killing Sword pointed diagonally at the sky, staring coldly at Jiang Haotian.

”Die!”

Jiang Haotian stomped on the ground, his body shooting forward like a flicker of dark light, reaching Chen Nan in an instant, throwing fists to strike.

Chen Nan knew his injuries were severe and that he couldn’t afford a drawn-out battle, so he launched his strongest attack as soon as he engaged.

The power of the Crack Sky Hand propelled the Hunyuan Sword, slashing head-on at Jiang Haotian.

”Snap...”

The collision of black and gold True Qi shook the sky.

”Thud thud thud...”

Chen Nan was jolted back over ten steps, his internal blood and Qi roiling.

Although Jiang Haotian was also at the Qi Dao Ninth Heaven, he was likewise a genius with the strength to kill across ranks, not to be underestimated.

Under this strike, Chen Nan’s injuries worsened.

But he had not a trace of fear—

”Kill!”

Chen Nan roared, lifting his sword to strike once more.

At this moment, he was in a severely wounded state and couldn’t afford a prolonged fight; he needed a swift battle, or else his worsening injuries would lead to unimaginable consequences.

Jiang Haotian’s face was suffused with a cold sneer.

He had been secretly watching while Chen Nan fought Yuan Dong.

If Chen Nan had not been injured, he knew he was no match for Chen Nan, but now that Chen Nan was grievously wounded, he had no concerns and was confident he could finish him off in this forest.

With a swing of his fist, Jiang Haotian was enveloped in a layer of black True Qi, resembling a devil emerging from hell, his whole appearance ominously dark.

”Crack Sky Triple Strike!”

Chen Nan leapt into the air and with the force of Splitting Mount Hua, he brought his sword down hard on Jiang Haotian’s head.

”Boom!”

After the strike, Chen Nan’s body shook violently.

On the second strike, blood spilled from Chen Nan’s mouth, while Jiang Haotian was forced to retreat hastily, his face pale.

”You’re going to die!”

Chen Nan roared and delivered the third slash.

”Rumble!”

Chen Nan was sent flying backward, coughing up blood, while Jiang Haotian was similarly struck by lightning, blood spraying from his mouth as he was hurled backward, crashing heavily to the ground.

He hadn’t expected that Chen Nan, despite his severe injuries, could still unleash such powerful combat force.

Suppressing his injuries with his Inner Strength, Jiang Haotian stood up, swayed toward Chen Nan, and sneered, ”What’s the use of fighting to the death? You have ultimately lost.”

Chen Nan sat against a big tree on the ground.

His hand tightly clutched the Hunyuan Sword, but he could no longer muster any trace of Inner Strength in his body.

The just-performed Crack Sky Triple Strike had depleted all his True Qi. Now, unable to suppress his injuries, his whole body was in excruciating pain. It wasn’t just fighting he couldn’t do—even standing up was difficult.

”It’s not certain yet who the deer will fall to!”

As Jiang Haotian approached with a killing aura, Chen Nan gripped a Flying Knife in his hand.

When he last went to the Qianzhong Mountain Range, the old man had given him two Flying Knives. He had only used one at that time, and there was still this one left.

Chen Nan might have depleted his Inner Strength, but this Flying Knife contained Xuan Tianji’s sealed power. Killing Jiang Haotian would be just a matter of one strike; however, Chen Nan felt some reluctance, for it seemed a waste to use this treasure that could slay a Taoist Master on Jiang Haotian.

As Jiang Haotian closed in, Chen Nan was about to smear his own blood on the Flying Knife to activate the sealed power within it, but just then—

”Whoosh...”

Sword Qi howled as a woman in black burst forth diagonally, wielding a Golden Soft Sword and thrusting straight at Jiang Haotian’s face.