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Chapter 496: Surpassing His Former Self!

Song Yu did not expect that the Black Soul Meng Chao wore was the best piece of technology Agricultural University had produced, and its defensive properties were at least 150% better than of normal nano fighting suits.

He also did not expect that after practicing the Ultimate Style, Meng Chao could use his muscles, skin, and even hair at will, so he could distribute and absorb his enemy’s attacks to the utmost and minimize damage.

The slight pause resulted in him being surprised by a burning comet charging at his face.

Song Yu felt scared out of his wits. He could only flap his wings desperately and evade pathetically in the air.

Meng Chao did not care about that. Since he missed hitting Song Yu, he decided to just crash into him. There was no way he would not get into a fight with him.

The tactic of holding him back which would result in both of them being badly injured was a plan he specifically tailored for Song Yu.

Ghost Eagle Song Yu might be an infamous fierce villain on the Supernatural Tower’s bounty list, but before his reputation was ruined, he was just a researcher in the monster research center.

His strength mainly came from the essence of monster cells and the interferons from human genes, not from practical fights.

After he gained his power, he had only dared to use it on normal citizens to vent his rage and brutality.

Ghost Eagle Song Yu was a cowardly person with a twisted heart. Meng Chao was certain that he did not have the courage to fight to the death with him.

If he were someone like Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang, a truly brutal person who had fought in hundreds of fights and did not care about his life and the lives of others, Meng Chao would definitely not dare to use such a simple and crude plan.

Just as he expected, the seemingly rash tactic was perfect for Song Yu.

Ghost Eagle did not dare to fight him.

He knew very well that since hunters had appeared everywhere, Meng Chao was definitely not alone. Once he engaged him in a fight, regardless of who won, he would definitely end up surrounded by more hunters.

Even if sacrificing his life would mean that he could drag one hundred hunters down with him, Song Yu would not do it.

Hence, even if he had the chance to attack Meng Chao, he chose to dodge in a pathetic fashion, all so that he could preserve his strength and do his best to widen the distance between them so that he could escape.

Unfortunately for him, Meng Chao predicted his actions.

He moved and dodged in the air, but got injured multiple times by Song Yu’s feathers just so he could stick to the man like glue to feathers.

Because of it, Ghost Eagle Song Yu turned into a meat shield and blocked the other two criminals’ vision and attack angles.

Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang and Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun exchanged glances.

They did not care that Ghost Eagle Song Yu was still fighting against Meng Chao in the air and released destructive spirit energy magnetic fields at the same time.

Gao Yang’s scimitar glare and Wan Zhuiyun’s ripples—formed by making the air tremble—instantly surrounded the space where Meng Chao and Song Yu were.

Song Yu screamed. More than one hundred feathers fell off his wings, and he fell down like a fly that was struck by a mosquito racket.

But Meng Chao multi-tasked. He had been paying attention to the other two criminals’ actions.

In fact, turning Song Yu into his meat shield was just him using Song Yu as bait for the other two criminals.

He knew that criminals had no sense of brotherhood.

As long as they could kill their target, Gao Yang and Wan Zhuiyun would definitely not care about Song Yu’s survival.

Hence, at the moment the two criminals attacked, Meng Chao fired his chains in the direction Song Yu was most likely to move, and as if he had the power of foresight, he bound his ankles.

Then, with a vicious yank, he used Song Yu’s momentum to barely dodge the two criminals’ attacks. He then sped up and landed beside them.

Whoosh!

At the moment he landed, Meng Chao spun like a high speed top and released a nearly round saber glare that went straight for Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun’s waist.

Wan Zhuiyun was about to face the attack when Song Yu crashed into him viciously after being dragged down by his chainbound ankle.

When the powerful fought, the victor was decided within an instant.

Song Yu and Wan Zhuiyun’s cultivation realms were about the same as Meng Chao’s, but before they started committing crimes, they were researchers, so their cultivation was done in Dragon City’s cultivation centers and virtual reality spaces.

Once they were up on the bounty list, both of them immediately fled into the lair and hid inside it. They did not have a lot of experience fighting with their lives on the line.

Because of this, Meng Chao was more than ten times stronger than they were because he had his memories from the apocalypse!

Meng Chao’s saber could cut through everything, and his gaze was ten times sharper than saber glares. When the two criminals saw this, they were scared out of their wits, and chills went down their backs. They could not react to the situation.

During that critical moment, Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang attacked again.

He did not care about Song Yu and Wan Zhuiyun’s lives.

But if his two companions were instantly killed and he was left alone, it would be difficult for him to escape being surrounded by dozens of hunters.

He was a true elite.

When he brought his scimitars up, their glares had already gone to cut Meng Chao from dozens of angles. They were like whips and came at him from all directions!

Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting!

A saber glare that looked like the tide surrounded Meng Chao.

The two sides exchanged more than one hundred blows in just a second, which created more than one thousand sparks and deafening explosions.

Their weapons were made of superalloys and high-grade monster materials. They also had destructive supreme-grade crystals embedded in them.

Even if an armor-piercing shell came at them at high speed and they cut them in half head-on, their weapons might not have a single chip.

But now, in just three seconds, Meng Chao’s Bloody Soul got three chips the size of grains.

The exchangeable crystal embedded in his saber was also covered in intersecting cracks that looked like a spider’s web.

But Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang’s scimitars were in an even worse shape than Meng Chao’s Bloody Soul.

The scimitar in his left hand had more than ten cracks that looked like dog bites.

Since he had been using more strength in his right hand, the tip of the scimitar had been cut off, and the three crystals embedded on the back of the scimitar shattered completely.

‘What a powerful saber! He’s strong!’

Even if Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang was brave, when he faced the surging flames from Bloody Soul, he had to retreat.

Meng Chao might have an advantage because of his weapon, but the infamous criminal had to admit that this seemingly young hunter was definitely one of the most terrifying opponents he had faced during the ten years he was a fugitive.

However, the more terrifying an opponent was, the more it aroused his killing intent, and it could help him break his limits and become something that surpassed humans. This was the cultivation path of Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang!

He spat out a mouthful of hot spit and tossed the Deification Capsules on his back to Ghost Eagle Song Yu. Then, he brought his cracked scimitars up in Meng Chao’s direction again.

Meng Chao’s purlicue and arms might have a few wounds because of the tremors, and the bones in his arms as well as his joints might be in so much pain that he felt like he was suffering from comminuted fractures, but the excitement and fighting spirit in his heart exploded forth like a volcano eruption.

Gao Yang was different from Song Yu and Wan Zhuiyun.

Behind his infamy was a true first-class elite.

Even when Meng Chao fought against him head-on, he never found himself at a disadvantage.

This was a state Meng Chao had never managed to reach even by the end of the apocalypse in his previous life.

‘Finally, I’ve surpassed my previous self. Next, I’m going to surpass all the mighty powerful fighters in my memories, the powerful people who stand above me, the peerless legends, and even the extraordinary beings!’

Meng Chao smiled.

His smile made even Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang feel a chill down his spine.

Bang!

At that moment, a gunshot rang!

Gao Yang’s pupils shrank. He quickly used all his strength to twist his neck.

But he used too much strength, so his spine let out a clear crack.

An armor-piercing shell had been fired from an anti-material sniper rifle targeting his forehead to blow his brains out.

But due to him turning his head, it grazed his head instead of piercing his head. Even though he had a black, bloody line on his head, and his white skull could be seen, he managed to avoid his brain being blown apart.

“Sniper!”

Ghost Eagle Song Yu and Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun’s expressions turned really dark.

They knew that they had been fighting too long against Meng Chao and the enemies had already surrounded them. They no longer had the chance to flee.

Gao Yang gritted his teeth. His gaze turned ten times colder than before.

He nearly had his head blown apart by a sniper. This was something that had never happened to him during his ten years of fleeing.

Even though he loved killing to a crazy degree, he was not reckless. He was even more sensitive to danger than normal hunters.

Normally, he would have sensed it the moment he was targeted. To his surprise, his whole focus was trained on the overly young hunter to the point that he did not notice the sniper’s existence.

Wait. He had seen people who had even stronger killing intent and were even more skilled in terms of fighting than this hunter in front of him, but he had never been distracted.

Could it be?

‘A mind attack?’

Gao Yang was stunned for a moment, then understood what had happened.

The young hunter in front of him did not just have fierce saber techniques and strange tactics, but was also skilled in a rather terrifying mind attack related skill, which had made him fall into a trap.

‘Just who is he?’ Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang could not believe it. ‘I’ve only been hiding in the lair for a few years. Since when did Dragon City gain such a terrifying fighter!’

But the situation did not allow him to think about it.

Since the sniper, who was at a high spot, did not manage to hit him, he decided to change his weapon and fire a shower of bullets.

But even though he was shooting from a heavy weapon, his accuracy had only decreased by a little bit.

Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang, Ghost Eagle Song Yu, and Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun felt their vitals being pierced as if they were stabbed by burning steel needles.

The sound of wind breaking rose continuously, and the spirit flames of Heaven Realm superhumans’ vitality magnetic fields tore through the fog that filled the air.

The three criminals gritted their teeth and retreated into the building.

“Meng Chao, you managed to make the three criminals retreat? Even Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang?”

Bullet Xue Rui’s gasp of amazement came from the communication channel.

The one who had fired the armor piercing shell at Gao Yang’s forehead from the high spot was him.

Even though he did not manage to blow his brains up, he left an irreparable mark on Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang’s forehead, and that was already something worthy of praise.

Bullet Xue Rui knew very well that it was because Meng Chao had attracted Gao Yang’s attention that he was able to get the hit in.

Compared to when they just started the mission, this veteran who had been in the hunter circle for nearly twenty years saw this youngest Heaven Realm superhuman of Dragon City in another light.