Capítulo 608: Chapter 530: Palm

In an instant, the rolling blood filled the floor of the church. Claudia, like Jesus, stood above the river of blood, her hands reaching down, and suddenly arms extended from beneath the water, pulling at the priest’s limbs.

Although the Blood River Technique is primarily a forbidden sorcery targeting souls, it cannot fully exert its power on the priest, who is clearly not a living being and whose soul status is questionable,

yet the sinister force contained within can still rapidly corrode metal surfaces, creating wisps of smoke.

“Take action!”

No need to wait for Claudia’s sharp reminder, the Mushroom King’s feet surged with a fierce wind, and his massive body shot forward like an arrow, swinging two machetes horizontally towards the priest.

Bam bam bam!

The priest’s mechanical joints actively separated, first avoiding the horizontal chop of the machetes, then the metal python inside his torso abruptly lashed out, biting the Mushroom King’s wrist, its fangs conducting high voltage electricity.

The fibers of the Mushroom King’s arms rapidly carbonized. Moreover, the priest’s separated joints simultaneously released surging thunder, briefly repelling the resentful spirits of the blood river,

and at the moment of breaking free from the restraints, all limbs recombined, his palms facing Claudia, with the signature plasma stream preheating glow shining from his palms.

At the critical moment, Li Cheng swiftly flashed forward with Demon Exchange, grabbed the priest’s wrist, and bent it upward.

Buzz!

The plasma stream slanted upwards, slicing through the church roof like a hot knife through butter, piercing the entire sky, and striking the metal dome, scorching it red.

Excess waste heat traveled along the contact surface to Li Cheng’s hands. Despite the super high defensive power of the Insect Transformation Form, it still couldn’t withstand it, causing the hand armor to dissolve.

However, this posed no major problem for him; with a thought, he reclaimed the melted armor and took out a pair of clean, disinfected stone giant arms from the three-dimensional warehouse,

wearing them like gloves on his hands, continuing to clamp the priest’s wrist.

Theoretically, after receiving a large number of friendly genetic library donations, Li Cheng could completely control the direction of nerve system growth, allowing nerves to drill out of the skin,

and along with [Assembled Puppet·Modified], install numerous limbs of fantasy creatures on himself, directly connecting nerves to the brain for perfect control.

In combat, using and discarding instantly, without worrying about injury.

The reason for not doing so: firstly, most fantasy creatures are weaker than the Insect Transformation Form,

secondly, turning oneself into a limb-assembly monster would greatly reduce the charm attribute, affecting negotiations and communications with NPCs.

Pa!

Li Cheng firmly clamped the priest’s wrist with the stone arms, preventing its rotation, while attaching a goblin small hand to the stone arms and waving a round nuclear bomb photo with the small hand.

Mian Yue continued with speed, still drawing the bow and shooting arrows, wrapping each metal hydrogen mini-missile with gel to prevent explosion, and couldn’t help but wonder aloud: “What’s he doing?”

“Trying to lure the priest using the Hiroshima nuclear bomb ‘Little Boy’ photo, maybe,”

Wanli Sealed Blade, who had adapted to Li Cheng’s style (privately suspecting if he had awakened some chaos system), remained unfazed, releasing the Dragon Slayer Sword, stabbing straight into the priest’s right leg.

Swish—

In an instant, Brother Blade approached, holding the sword handle with his right hand, grabbing the priest’s ankle with his left, pushing him towards the rushing blood river. The Mushroom King also shook off the carbonized layer on his arms, clasping the priest’s left leg, pushing with full force.

Li Cheng immediately understood, while controlling the plasma stream direction from the priest’s wrist, he leaned down and sprayed Dragon Breath, using White Dragon Ice to cover the priest’s mechanical joints, preventing them from disassembling again.

The three players, like burly men.

The priest, completely restrained and unable to move, accelerated the engine in his chest, emitting increasingly intense light.

“Inhale, exhale.”

In a critical moment, Mian Yue felt calm like water, kneeling on one knee, holding the bow with her left hand, drawing a transparent arrow from the void with her right hand, scraping the ground and causing sparks to splatter, steadily resting on the bowstring.

The surrounding sand, blood droplets, were lifted and shattered by invisible forces, ground into powder.

[Skill Name: Broken Arrow·Invisible Kinetic Energy Hand]

[Type: Shooting]

[Special Effect: Invisible Hand. Can only be used on targets at a constant relative distance from oneself, charging for 3 seconds, impacting the target with massive kinetic crush upon hit]

[Consumption: 300 Spiritual Power Value, 300 Physical Value]

[Cooling Time: 30 seconds]

[Use Conditions: Archery reaching Grandmaster level or higher]

[Note: I have an arrow that can move mountains, break rivers, overturn seas, subdue demons, calm spirits, command gods, pluck stars, demolish cities, and open the heavens]

In the blink of an eye, charging was complete, Mian Yue passively released her fingers, letting the bowstring bounce back, propelling the invisible arrow straight towards the mechanical priest’s chest.

Li Cheng, Mushroom King, and Wanli Sealed Blade, just hearing the sound of the charging, knew this strike was extraordinary, almost releasing the restraints simultaneously as the arrow hit.

Invisible violent force crushed the priest’s entire body. Through the distorted blood river, the shape of the transparent force looked like a giant hand with five fingers.

Li Cheng glanced briefly, with the palm lines clearly visible, the life line and emotion line were much longer than the wisdom line.

Under the enormous pressure, the mechanical joints shattered and exploded, spraying golden powder, crushed into the church’s brick floor. The degree of devastation compared to an ideal i8 collision with a main battle tank.

As the immense force slowly dissipated, Claudia timely supplemented, controlling the blood river to engulf the remaining metal fragments, corroding and dissolving them.

The entire battle lasted just over a minute, the fatigue felt like it had been an entire century.

All players collapsed together, gasping heavily, Wanli Sealed Blade twisting open a bottle of iced red tea-flavored ice cube energy supplement, sipping as he dragged his weary body, searching for the Dragon Slayer Sword under the receding blood river.

He suddenly noticed a large number of bubbles were gushing from the gaps between the floor tiles, his expression dramatically changed, and he shouted: “This place is going to explode, run!”

Li Cheng was the first to respond, releasing [Riding the Tide, Wind, and Waves], stirring up a fierce wind to push other players out of the church, and followed them leaping out.

In the next second, the church floor exploded with a roar, hundreds of tons of bricks and wood were flung high into the sky.

Dust filled the air, Wanli Sealed Blade holding Dragon Slayer Sword coughed and walked out of the dust cloud, looking like a battered shrimp coated in flour.

Claudia expressed disbelief: “Even melted like that, the mechanical priest can still self-destruct?”

Li Cheng, holding his knees, stood up, “It wasn’t him self-destructing, but rather at the church’s deep underground, there’s a naturally formed high-pressure gas chamber. The church used a gas well to pump filtered high-pressure gas into metal cylinders, creating ‘lungs’ for the town residents.”

“The explosion just now was the remaining gas of the high-pressure chamber, the last silent fart.”

Wanli Sealed Blade ignored Pifu’s quirky metaphor, honing in on the subtle emotions in Li Cheng’s tone, seriously asked: “Did you discover something?”

Li Cheng shook his head: “A hypothesis about the mysterious connection between Astronaut Will and Alpha Python, but it’s not comprehensive yet.”

Claudia sighed, “Say whatever you’ve guessed, the combined wisdom of three laymen can still equal one Zhuge Liang.”

“Sharing immature thoughts prematurely can disrupt teammates’ judgment. Years ago, I was a junior officer, reported finding the site of a serial murder case with over thirty corpses, only for the superior to inform me it was a hospital morgue.”

Li Cheng casually remarked, waving his hand: “Let’s go, time to report back to the store.”