Chapter 78: A Tiger Among Sheep

Upon seeing the disheveled Blood General and Chen Chong in hot pursuit behind him, Tie Shan and Li Bao’s expressions both changed drastically.

“General! You…”

Seeing Tie Shan, Li Bao, and the large group of underlings behind them, a wild joy suddenly erupted in Blood General’s eyes. He swept past his reinforcements like a gust of wind, leaving behind only a frenzied roar.

“Stop him!”

Huh?

Chen Chong’s assassination target was Blood General, and he had absolutely no time to waste on these underlings. Spotting Tie Shan and the others coming to provide reinforcements ahead, he did not stop or change direction. As he sprinted, he raised his arms to shield his face while keeping his body low, continuing to charge forward fiercely like a speeding car!

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

Without waiting for Tie Shan’s orders, the three or four underlings at the front immediately fired their homemade guns. The spreading iron pellets instantly blanketed the entire narrow alleyway!

Although the effective firing range of their homemade guns was only twenty to thirty meters, the spreading iron pellets made them terrifyingly power ful in close combat and maximized the chance of hitting the target.

Clang, clang, clang, clang!

Countless iron pellets shot from the guns struck Chen Chong’s body as if hitting a wall of bronze and iron, sending sparks flying everywhere!

However, in this volley, most of the iron pellets only pierced through Chen Chong’s dark, greenish skin before losing all momentum and getting stuck in the surface layer of his muscles, causing only minor injuries that made Chen Chong merely furrow his brows. He continued charging forward with an unstoppable, domineering momentum, arriving right in front of the interceptors like Tie Shan.

The remarkably effective Body Tempering Iron Body displayed astonishing results. It was foreseeable that if Chen Chong cultivated the Body Tempering Iron Body to the stage of great completion, these crudely made homemade guns would not even be able to break through his outer defense unless fired at point-blank range.

Is this guy even human!?

Only now, facing Chen Chong directly, did the two Awakeners, Tie Shan and Li Bao, finally experience the terror of their opponent. They had never imagined that Chen Chong would neither dodge nor retreat, but instead charge at them in such an unreasonable manner. Their scalps tingled, and with a unified roar, one wielding a short axe and the other a large saw, they both hacked down at Chen Chong, who was barreling towards them like a tank!

As they slashed, their muscles bulged and veins throbbed; they were already using all their strength. With their strength of over a thousand jin, if the strikes landed solidly, even if Chen Chong were truly a solid iron man, he would be cut open!

Boom!

The sharp blades were difficult to meet head-on, but Chen Chong suddenly changed direction, smashing through the wall beside him as if it were tofu and entering the dilapidated building.

With their slashes hitting empty air, Li Bao assumed Chen Chong was fleeing under their combined might. His triangular eyes filled with excitement and smugness as he roared.

“After him! Don’t let him get away!”

Among all the combat personnel present, besides Tie Shan, Li Bao was the most eager to kill Chen Chong. Whether it was to prove his loyalty to Blood General or his personal grudge with Chen Chong, he was determined to eliminate this threat no matter what, otherwise he would not be able to eat or sleep in peace!

Boom, boom, boom!

However, in the next instant, the wall beside them seemed to suffer the impact of a giant hammer, abruptly bursting apart as large amounts of earth and stone were violently hurled out by immense force!

“Ah!” “Ah!”

Amidst the screams, the shattered stones flying from the side smashed into the underlings, leaving their faces bloody. They sprawled on their backs, wailing incessantly. Tie Shan and Li Bao looked around furiously, only to find the entire narrow alleyway filled with swirling dust, making it impossible to see anything clearly!

“Oh no!”

Compared to Li Bao, Tie Shan was undoubtedly the strongest. He immediately sensed a terrifying threat lurking right beside them.

Whoosh!

In the chaos, Tie Shan suddenly heard the explosive sound of wind from within the dust cloud. At the same time, a chill ran through his body, and cold air shot up the back of his head!

The next moment, a tall, burly, blurry figure appeared at his side. Then, in his peripheral vision, a fist with bulging veins, faintly gleaming with a dark greenish luster, swept up a large amount of dust and shot towards his chest and abdomen with a thunderous boom.

Why should I fear you! I am also a high-level Awakener!

Tie Shan’s facial muscles twitched, his body vibrated, and he fiercely raised his axe, seemingly wanting to force the attacker back before the strike landed. Li Bao also spotted Chen Chong ambushing them from within the dust cloud and thrust his large saw straight out.

Unfortunately, it was futile!

Bang!

The next moment, the booming sound transferred from Chen Chong’s iron fist into Tie Shan’s body. The overwhelming fist force rampantly charged into Tie Shan’s insides, even producing the sound of flesh and muscle rupturing! The leather jacket on Tie Shan’s upper body was directly blasted apart by the punch. Blood spurted from his mouth and nose like a fountain. His entire body lifted off the ground, and his nearly one-hundred-kilogram strong body was sent flying like a straw dummy, sweeping up a huge cloud of dust as it soared high and then crashed down heavily!

The wind howled past his ears. Tie Shan’s consciousness scattered, and aside from the omnipresent, agonizing pain, he could no longer feel his body’s existence.

Chen Chong’s punch had directly broken the intestines in his abdominal cavity. His internal organs and bones were all cracked and shattered.

Even though Tie Shan was an Awakener known for his strength and physique, under Chen Chong’s ferocious punch, he was completely crippled, left with only a single breath of life!

Clang!

After crippling the strongest, Tie Shan, with one punch, Chen Chong crouched down like a ravenous tiger. He swatted away the thrusting saw with one palm and pounced straight at Li Bao.

Witnessing Tie Shan, arguably the strongest Awakener in the territory, reduced to a dead dog in the blink of an eye, and realizing he had just subconsciously attacked the human tyrannosaurus that was Chen Chong, Li Bao felt as if he had fallen into an icy abyss. Regret surged within him like a raging tide, sweeping through his entire body.

I’m such a damn idiot!

Why didn’t I turn around and run!

At this moment, Li Bao realized that he and everyone else in the territory had been wrong, terribly wrong.

Chen Chong’s strength and physique were absolutely not at the level an Awakener should possess. Yet they had all assumed Blood General’s defeat and flight were due to Chen Chong’s sneak attack. Only after experiencing it firsthand did he know what kind of monster he was truly facing!

But it was too late for regrets.

Just as Li Bao violently swung his arm and twisted his body, trying to force Chen Chong back with his large saw and create distance to flee, his vision went dark, and then boundless agony accompanied the sudden onslaught of darkness!

Bang!

Chen Chong’s thick arm, with a wingspan over one meter, swept up a fierce wind and lightning-swiftly slammed down onto the top of Li Bao’s head, like a massive pillar holding up the sky crashing down. Li Bao staggered, his neck bones instantly snapping. His head deformed with a boom before being smashed straight down into his chest cavity!

Boom!

The headless corpse slammed into the ground under the inertia of the immense force, causing the earth and stone to crack once more as the soil was dyed red with blood. Seeing such a brutal death, the dozen or so underlings who witnessed this through the dust cloud felt their souls flee their bodies, their livers and gallbladders torn with terror!

One punch, one slap. Chen Chong was like a tiger entering a sheep pen, shocking the entire scene with absolute violence.

However, he had no time to bother with the frightened underlings. With a single stomp of his foot, his powerful body burst forth again in a charge, crashing into the underlings he passed, breaking their bones, snapping their tendons, and causing them to vomit blood as he continued pursuing in the direction Blood General had fled.