Chapter 891 — Energy Bomb
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"Oh, Sister Yaoyao, you're such a hypocrite — you were scared stiff just a moment ago!" Shen Yushu called Gu Mengyao out on her lie right then and there.
"!" Gu Mengyao shot Shen Yushu a glare and ignored her.
Zhen Yingjun was dumbstruck. Ma Zhu? Where had Ma Zhu gone? A Golden Bell Shield expert at the peak of the middle Xuan rank — how could he just vanish like that? At the thought, Zhen Yingjun's eyes went wide and he scanned the field, but aside from Wei Zhao, the only person left standing, where was there any sign of Ma Zhu?
After a long while, another figure finally crawled up out of the rubble. It was Ma Zhu — though the Ma Zhu of this moment was a truly horrifying sight.
Half of his arm was gone entirely, his ribs had caved in completely; his entire right side, one might say, had been reduced to a pulp of ruined flesh — even the right half of his face no longer looked human! Had anyone else been present, they might not even have recognized this man as Ma Zhu!
At his wounds, blood gushed and pooled, and gleaming white bone could faintly be seen!
"Holy crap? That's insane — the guy got blown to bits like this and he still isn't dead?" Shen Yushu marveled, somewhat astonished at Ma Zhu's tenacious vitality.
Ma Zhu's eyes were filled with a look of utter horror; the arrogance and swagger of before were gone without a trace. He could scarcely believe that he had actually been injured — and injured so grievously. It was truly a wretched state. How could this be possible?
He was a master of the external school at the peak of the middle Xuan rank, one who had cultivated the Golden Bell Shield to the eighth layer. How could Wei Zhao, an internal-school expert only at the peak of the early Xuan rank, have wounded him? Ma Zhu could say without the slightest exaggeration, and with pride, that ordinary bullets could not even touch him — and yet now, he was wounded, and wounded badly!
The entire right half of his body had been blown to ruin. His right arm was gone, and even his whole shoulder was gone! The right side of his face was a bloody smear, and of his right leg only bare bone remained. That he could stand at all now was nothing but sheer force of will.
"Impossible... impossible... this isn't real! You can't hurt me!" Ma Zhu refused to believe the truth of it. He truly refused to believe it!
"Idiot." Wei Zhao gave Ma Zhu a faint glance. "I told you I was about to unleash my big move. You didn't dodge or block — what, did you think you had health to spare?"
"Impossible... this can't be..." Ma Zhu had gone half mad. He could not accept the reality before his eyes! Though Wei Zhao looked rather battered too, and though Wei Zhao's body bore many wounds, the man still had all his limbs — whereas he himself...
Ma Zhu could not accept it. His eight layers of Golden Bell Shield — in that single instant, all of it was ruined! The power he had cultivated for years, the dreams he had harbored since childhood — in this moment, all of it was shattered...
The body of an external-school master was as vital as the meridians of an internal-school expert. Once the body suffered grave injury, even after recovery it could never again reach its former strength! Especially in Ma Zhu's case, where his whole body had been blasted to pulp, or even blasted away altogether — his Golden Bell Shield martial arts were thoroughly broken!
Even if he nursed his body back to health, the newly grown flesh and skin would be different from before — no different, in fact, from an ordinary person's! Even if a bit of the Golden Bell Shield's conditioning remained in the left side of his body, what damn good would it do? When he went out to fight, could he make his enemies promise not to attack his right side?