Halfway through the sprint, Bai Pu leaped high into the air, launching the Wind-Stepping Slash, and crashed down with a boom!

Amid the swirling whirlwind, the two Blood Ring Elites were sent flying and floating, while the other Dead Plagues were catapulted high.

On Bai Pu’s body surface, the phantoms of the Scorpion-tailed Lion and the Giant Tuo flickered, his two accessory skills already activated! He aimed at the Blood Ring Heavy Swordsman among them, the two-handed long saber slashing down with an angry force, faintly carrying the rich glow of Blood Fighting Qi!

Shattering Mountain!

The long saber carved a ghastly wound along his body surface, even slicing a crack into the Blood Ring Heavy Armor he was wearing!

Followed instantly by the Wind-Seeking Effect’s counter-upward slash, then three blades of light blooming from the sharp long saber!

Five instances of damage were dealt in an instant, with three of them triggering critical hits!

Even with a 30% level suppression damage reduction, the Blood Ring Heavy Swordsman could not withstand such terrifying damage, leaving a deep blood scar visible to the bone from neck to chest, plunging him into a severely wounded state!

Having lost most of his combat power in this grievous state, the only fate for this Blood Ring Heavy Swordsman was to have his life taken by the Scorpion-tailed Lion’s Poison!

The other Blood Ring Heavy Hammer Warrior was the first to land, and he scrambled up, furiously launching a counterattack at Bai Pu! The heavy hammer, enveloped in a blood-colored arc of light, swung laterally at Bai Pu’s waist.

[Continuous Forging]! This formidable skill is divided into two stages of damage; if Bai Pu parries, the second stage will launch faster with the rebound force, striking Bai Pu’s head with even greater power and ferocity!

Bai Pu chose to take the first stage head-on, his body moving fluidly like a snake, reducing and diverting half of the force of this strike!

Seizing the moment when the Blood Ring Heavy Hammer Warrior exhausted his force, Bai Pu stepped forward, lightly tapped with his long saber, breaking the second stage damage of [Continuous Forging], and then kicked out, sending the Blood Ring Heavy Hammer Warrior stumbling, followed by two consecutive slashes!

Blood bloomed on the shoulder of the Blood Ring Heavy Hammer Warrior, with one slash being another critical hit, the sound of bones breaking was distinctly audible!

As for the other Dead Plagues’ attacks, Bai Pu scorned dodging them; even without a passive talent for targeted damage reduction, purely relying on Bai Pu’s current high armor, their attacks could only inflict single-digit damage.

With one sweeping circle of the long saber, a Dead Plague’s head was chopped off, and immediately following, Bai Pu parried the incoming heavy hammer from the Blood Ring Heavy Hammer Warrior, using the rebound force to retreat three steps, then slain another Dead Plague, cleaving half its body clean off!

This small Blood Ring squad of two Blood Ring Elites and ten Dead Plagues was entirely slaughtered by Bai Pu within minutes! Bai Pu also gained two Blue Treasure Chests, and some white materials and Spiritual Points dropped by the Dead Plagues.

“Noel, head in this direction.”

Bai Pu handed a horn to Noel, “Head to the coast and blow the horn; someone will come to meet you.”

Noel was not astonished by Bai Pu’s display of strength. In fact, a warrior who defeated the demonic Blood Mist Butcher and laid his son’s soul to rest, would indeed be ludicrous to lose against a Blood Ring squad. He quickly asked, “What about you?”

Bai Pu pointed toward the direction of Kalmar Fortress, where the bustling Blood Ring Army could already be seen appearing.

“I’ll cover your retreat.”

“Then… good luck.” Noel didn’t question Bai Pu’s combat prowess, nor did he act like a naive girl in a movie, insisting on staying despite being weak and dragging him down.

Noel knew he had no combat power for a frontal fight, so he took the horn from Bai Pu and hurriedly fled to the seaside.

In front of Bai Pu, the Blood Ring Army from Kalmar Fortress had already emerged from the city in pursuit! Seven or eight elite warriors clad in the signature heavy armor of the Blood Ring could be seen, along with a large number of Dead Plagues.

However, judging by the scale, this force likely wasn’t the main garrison of Kalmar Fortress, numbering only about a hundred men.

Bai Pu stepped forward with long strides, holding the long saber.

On Bai Pu’s body surface, a layer of blood-colored shield quietly activated—the [Unstable Shield] was preparing to unleash explosive power!

As if sensing the threat, the speed of a few elite warriors slightly slowed. But Bai Pu also activated [Flesh Armor] at the same time!

The Gravity Ball special effect took effect! The incoming Blood Ring Army was passively drawn towards Bai Pu’s location!

Bai Pu sank his hips into a horse stance, the energy of the Blood Shield converging entirely on his right fist! His right fist glowed with an intensely rich blood-colored light, looking at it even gave the illusion of eyes being burned!

Then, Bai Pu thrust a punch into the void.

With a boom, a low, resonant sound reverberated, like the roar of cannon fire.

A blood-colored Fist Gang, several meters wide and ten meters long, roared out with the sound of cannon blasts!

The two Blood Ring Heavy Hammer Warriors directly in front of the fist toppled backward like small stones, their chest armor caving in along with their breastbones, coughing up blood incessantly!

The Dead Plagues directly ahead of the fist were shaken to death in a single blow.

Due to this [Unstable Shield – Cannon Bombardment], whether the medium was a fist or sword, the area in direct front always had the highest damage, the most potent power.

Within the Fist Gang’s covered area, the other Blood Ring soldiers shook, stumbling backward!

They were all affected by the powerful shock wave, thrust into a slowed state. This slowdown’s priority was as high as 6 points, even canceling out the resistance reduction brought by their own high levels!

Seizing the remaining duration of the Scorpion-tailed Lion’s Sting accessory, Bai Pu charged into the crowd with his saber, launching a slaughter!

For those severely wounded Dead Plagues on the ground, he didn’t even need to deliver finishing blows. With the [Flesh and Blood Spell] dealing 9 points of dark attribute magic damage per second (against severely wounded enemies), they would be drained of life in seconds.

Bai Pu’s main targets were still elite-level enemies like the Blood Ring Heavy Swordsmen and Blood Ring Heavy Hammer Warriors.

Although the combat specialization of Blood Ring Elite Soldiers was 1 level higher than Bai Pu, the continuous suction force from [Gravity Ball] hampered their adaptation, inherently reducing their combat efficiency!

According to Bai Pu’s estimation, the 24 speed influence of the Gravity Ball could at least offset one or two levels of combat specialization’s technical advantage.

More crucially, Bai Pu was a tank, and an even more resilient tank with activated professional skills! On his body surface, the shield formed by the Flesh and Blood Spell was impressively thick, and continuously replenishing.

The attacks from Blood Ring Elite Soldiers merely created ripples on the shield’s surface, completely incapable of breaking this perpetually replenishing shield!

This meant Bai Pu could completely disregard their attacks, capitalizing on the stiffness when they struck to unleash damage with no reservations!

Within the mere two-minute duration of the Flesh Armor, Bai Pu had already slain most of these enemies.

And as the cooldown of the [Unstable Shield] just ended, Bai Pu immediately deployed the second one.

Within the 3-second wait before detonation, Bai Pu used the shield accumulated by the professional skill [Flesh Armor] to fend off attacks, not wasting the shield value of the [Unstable Shield].

This time, Bai Pu chose a horizontal slash with the long saber!

A blood-colored Sword Qi swept across, slicing the three remaining Blood Ring Elite Soldiers into six segments, blood flowed and organs spilled all over the ground.

However, before dying, a Blood Ring Heavy Swordsman blew the magic bone whistle, its piercing sound echoed around the outskirts of Kalmar Fortress.

The entire Kalmar Fortress became agitated like a stirred beehive, more Blood Ring soldiers began to muster.

“Time to go.”

Bai Pu snatched up the treasure chest and activated the sprint speed boost of the [Elk Hide Boots] to make his escape.

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