Biochemical Martial Arts: Supreme Heavenly Venerate

Beneath the cavern, Ji Xueying was frantically escaping.

She was surrounded by fiend demons and demonic cultivators, all intent on capturing her.

The demon types created by Zhu Lingshi seemed utterly fearless.

Since entering the cavern, Ji Xueying had slain seventeen demonic cultivators and twenty-five fiend demons, including five from the fourth realm. Yet these demonic cultivators and demons still charged forward fearlessly, desperately blocking her path.

The County Magistrate may have used some forbidden techniques or drugs on these fiends, turning the inherently fierce creatures into obedient servants.

They often disregarded their lives, seeking only to delay Ji Xueying for a moment.

Under normal circumstances, Ji Xueying wouldn't have been afraid.

As long as Zhu Lingshi couldn't control her with the golden seal, Ji Xueying could annihilate these demons one by one with minimal cost.
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The complex environment below the cavern actually suited her combat style perfectly.

The problem was her current condition was dire, especially with two horrific penetrating wounds in her chest and abdomen that left her internal organs exposed.

Odd powers twisted around her wounds, making recovery extremely difficult for Ji Xueying's physique.

The injuries were sustained during a fight with Zhu Lingshi's uncle Zhu Tianmao.

Unbelievably, Silver Moon County had attracted a dual cultivator of the fifth realm in both mechanical techniques and martial skills. Ji Xueying barely managed a hundred moves against him before escaping with severe injuries.

The County Magistrate Zhu Lingshi's cold, sinister voice then drifted from behind, as if coming from the deepest hells, "Still running? How long can you run? Where can you possibly go?"

"Don't you care about your mother's life anymore? Look, she's not even 40 yet, skin soft and tender, quite the beauty too. What a pity it would be for her to die."

Just then, a painful wail escaped from behind.

Ji Xueying's face turned pale as she recognized her mother's voice.

It belonged to her mother, who had cared for her tirelessly and without complaint while she was bedridden for several years.

What had that beast Zhu Lingshi done to her mother to cause her such pain?

Ji Xueying was heartbroken, but she did not slow down her desperate run.

She knew that stopping would be playing right into the enemy's hands.

As long as she was alive, her family would not be killed, but if she were captured, then her parents and siblings would surely be doomed!

These beasts wanted to use her parents' blood to create demons.

"I've chopped off her little finger," Zhu Lingshi said mockingly, "Next will be her thumb."

Zhu Lingshi spoke with scorn, "Oh, she's in great pain! Just like when Lin Shier severed my arm, goddamn his grandmother, I really wanted to slaughter him! If that guy wasn't burned alive, I'd flay him alive, chop him into pieces! And you, you just stabbed me three times earlier, nearly killing me!"

At that moment, the woman's voice shrieked agonizingly.

Zhu Lingshi laughed heartily, "Hear that? I've just chopped off your mother's thumb!"

Ji Xueying's eyes blazed red as her thoughts raced frantically.

She had to find a way to fight back, she had to somehow kill that County Magistrate Zhu Lingshi!

Just then, she spotted a familiar figure standing at the entrance of a tunnel ahead.

It was the arrest officer Jiang Hanzhang, armed with a pair of iron clubs, ready for battle at the tunnel entrance.

Behind him stood the two arrest officers surnamed Wang and Jin.

But what caught Ji Xueying's attention even more was the towering figure next to Jiang Hanzhang.

It didn't seem human. Standing about nine feet tall, a head taller than Jiang Hanzhang, it had claws for hands and held two spiked hammers. Its body was covered in white bone armor, and its head donned a beastly bone helmet, complete with a tail made of sharp blades.

Critically, its aura was very similar to that of the fifth realm eunuch.

A horrifying thought surged in Ji Xueying's mind, could that possibly be a "dragon"?

But how could that be? At the fifth realm, dragons were still in metamorphosis, how could Zhu Tianmao possess a dragon?

"Ji Xueying, I advise you to give up,"

Jiang Hanzhang crouched low, his eyes fierce. "You no longer have a chance! Surrender now, and at least your mother won't suffer anymore; she might even survive."

Ji Xueying ignored him. Her figure suddenly accelerated, cleanly decapitating two third-order demons on the road ahead.

As she charged towards the cave entrance, Jiang Hanzhang, who had awaited her with imposing and fierce readiness, suddenly shrank back and retreated behind the bone-armored creature.

The bone-armored creature silently stepped forward, swinging its pair of spike-headed hammers towards Ji Xueying like a tempest.

"Ding Ding! clang! clang!"

The area between them continuously exploded with lightning and thunder, and the sound of metal clashing was ear-splitting.

Once Ji Xueying crossed swords with this bone-armored creature, she knew it was not a true 'dragon' but a construct mimicking a 'dragon', likely crafted predominantly with sorcery, combining Mechanical Techniques and techniques from extraterrestrial demons.

The bone-armored dragon's strength and speed were both close to the fifth realm, and it fought aggressively, attacking without defense, its twin spike-headed hammers ferocious and unstoppable.

Fortunately, its response time was slow, and its adaptability in combat was far inferior to that of a true human, who would be more agile and sharp.

Ji Xueying only clashed with the bone-armored dragon nine times before deftly breaking through its defense, striking its left shoulder with her blade.

Her war blade, 'Shock Frost', easily cut through the bone armor. However, in the next instant, a metallic sound emanated from the bone-armored dragon's left shoulder.

Ji Xueying's expression shifted slightly: "Steel bones?"

The skeleton of this bone-armored dragon was made of extremely strong metal.

Her war blade, 'Shock Frost', forged by the Yuan family with a hefty price, was made of material not inferior to her nurtured 'Thunder God' blade, which was also a fourth-realm divine weapon, yet it could only make a tiny breach in the iron bones of the bone-armored dragon.

Having failed to inflict a significant injury with her strike, Ji Xueying realized the gravity of the situation. Just as she prepared to retreat, the bone-armored dragon swung its hammers furiously at her, striking back with the ferocity of a prehistoric tyrannosaur.

As Jiang Hanzhang, hiding behind the bone-armored dragon, also charged out at this moment, wielding a pair of iron maces furiously pounding down on Ji Xueying.

He took advantage of Ji Xueying's distraction while she battled the bone-armored dragon. With two consecutive strikes, he hit her right hand and shoulder, causing her flesh to fly and her blood to spray.

Even the arrest officers took this chance to attack Ji Xueying; although they didn't hurt her, they made her position increasingly dire.

At this moment, more demons and demonic cultivators charged at her, surrounding Ji Xueying completely and causing new wounds to emerge across her body.

She gritted her teeth, appearing ragged as she defended and parried, but her eyes smoldered with intense fury.

It was just three breaths later when she nearly had her thigh muscle crushed by the bone-armored dragon's spike-headed hammer. She was forced to stagger backwards once again. Just then, the figure of County Magistrate Zhu Lingshi finally appeared behind Ji Xueying.

He had changed into clean clothes, and his injuries had largely healed, though his left sleeve was still empty and fluttering.

Zhu Lingshi was still cautious, his right hand holding a sword as he stood on the outskirts, looking for an opportunity to strike, his face twisted into a cruel sneer. "What a pity. I just wanted to take off your mother's hand, and now I can't? I thought you would last longer—"

Just at that moment, as he saw Jiang Hanzhang's iron mace hit Ji Xueying for the third time, causing flesh to fly, Zhu Lingshi's speech abruptly halted, his figure suddenly darting into the fray to slash at Blood Blade Ji's back.

Hate and rage filled his eyes. That cut he had received in the courthouse from Ji Xueying had really hurt!

But in the moment he neared her, sudden demonic fire blazed violently around Ji Xueying, and countless red lightning bolts exploded from beside her.

"Slice!"

Ji Xueying swung her blade fiercely, her war blade Shock Frost tracing a brilliant arc of red light.

This stroke not only decapitated a fourth-realm demon besieging her but also severed a limb of the bone-armored dragon! Shockingly, with an unstoppable force, she cleanly sliced through the metal bones of the bone-armored dragon.

Clerk Jiang Hanzhang was startled and swiftly pulled his head back, but in the process, his hat and hair were caught and sliced off, his scalp bombing with blood from the red lightning.

Luckily for him, Ji Xueying's true target was not him or the nearby bone-armored dragon, but the eunuch Zhu Lingshi standing behind.

The dazzling arc of blood light continued, slicing down and severing Zhu Lingshi's left leg.

Then, Ji Xueying swung her blade a second time, despair, rage, and a will to die glowing in her blood-red eyes.

She knew she had no way out now; she only wanted to take one person down with her.

Even if it meant death, she was determined to make Zhu Lingshi, the mastermind behind her misery, pay!