Chapter 169: Immortal?

Extreme danger!!

Without a moment’s hesitation, Lu Chen’s consciousness shifted slightly, and a thick layer of black mud armor covered his body. Instantly, he dashed, attempting to retreat to a safe zone a hundred meters away, but crashed heavily against a transparent barrier of light.

The entire spatial zone had been sealed off!

"Damned reptile, today this prince will let you know the consequences of disturbing the resting place of the divine beings! How dare you refuse this prince's goodwill!" The Lizard King roared, chanting an unfamiliar language from his mouth.

In an instant, countless runes fluttered within the light barrier.

"Coo... coo..." At that moment, the surrounding lizard monsters emitted painful, shrill cries.

Their skin appeared to be slashed by invisible steel blades, blood spraying wildly as it converged toward a certain point, ultimately transforming into a rushing river of blood that drilled into the interiors of the surrounding pyramids.

Looking at their bodies, they rapidly shriveled, and within the span of a few breaths, they lost all signs of life, turning into decaying skeletons.

This pattern was unmistakably some form of evil blood sacrifice.

Only then did Lu Chen understand what had happened to the animal skeletons he had previously found around the pyramid graveyard.

He did not know what would happen next, but he also understood that he could not allow the Lizard King to continue.

A compressed energy bomb blasted out... Boom!

A massive explosion rang out once more, and the surrounding air violently trembled.

The Lizard King’s figure abruptly vanished, reappearing the next moment elsewhere, completely unharmed.

He had clearly hit the target, yet the opponent was fine—did this guy possess spatial abilities?

At that moment, Lu Chen clearly felt his limbs treading on soft earth, yet he had an unreal sensation.

The scenery before his eyes rapidly shifted.

"Clack, clack..."

Those towering stone pyramids rapidly collapsed, revealing their original bronze alloy material.

As the gates at the base of the towers opened, Lu Chen could even see jackal-headed corpses lifting their coffin lids and crawling out from within, weapons in hand.

Swish, swish, swish!

One squad, two squads...

Jackal-headed soldiers stepped forth from their tombs, resembling ghosts awakened from a slumber of a thousand years.

In the blink of an eye, there were already over a thousand of them!

They stood densely packed in a massive formation, their eyes glowing with a bloody, crimson light.

An ancient, decaying aura of the undead, spanning countless ages, permeated the space. Mysterious and eerie... it made even the sunlight in the sky dim significantly.

At the very center of this jackal-headed soldier formation stood a bronze chariot pulled by two horses. Inside the carriage stood an alien humanoid wearing armor, holding a serpent-headed scepter, wearing a golden mask, and with wings sprouting from his back.

Clearly, this fellow must be the commander leading the military formation.

Things had completely exceeded Lu Chen’s expectations. In his wildest dreams, he never imagined that the Lizard King would carry such a bizarre spiritual artifact capable of summoning alien humanoids to descend.

If his guess was correct, the jackal-headed soldiers should be the mummies he had previously seen inside the pyramids. They had been dead for at least a thousand years, and had remained undecayed solely due to the rune arrays inside the pyramids.

And now, they had been resurrected?!

Before Lu Chen could figure out the crucial point of this phenomenon, he saw the commander in the chariot chanting incomprehensible syllables and pointing his serpent-headed scepter forward.

Immediately, those jackal-headed soldiers roared in unison and charged forward with heavy strides.

Lu Chen did not dare to hesitate. His claws touched the ground, and his energy laws outputted wildly.

Rumble...

Countless swamp mud churned, instantly expanding across an area of several thousand square meters.

The advancing jackal-headed soldier formation had no time to react before they were swallowed up by the mud one after another.

Boom, boom, boom... The next moment, explosions echoed continuously.

The combined use of the "Earth Swamp" and "Compressed Energy Bomb" mutant abilities multiplied their destructive power several times over.

In theory, enemies dragged into the swamp could not possibly survive.

Yet at this moment, Lu Chen clearly sensed that he had bombed absolutely nothing.

Those jackal-headed soldiers seemed as if they didn't even exist...

Sure enough, a dozen seconds later.

The gates at the base of the pyramids opened, and squads of jackal-headed soldiers, weapons in hand, stepped out from within.

Unkillable, or just an illusion?

Lu Chen was genuinely startled.

Refusing to believe it, he took the initiative to launch an attack this time, directly condensing an oversized compressed energy bomb.

Boom!!

The ground beneath his feet shook violently.

Dust flew into the air, and thick smoke billowed.

Over a thousand jackal-headed soldiers once again turned into nothingness...

Yet within a few breaths, their figures reappeared.

When Lu Chen eliminated these bizarre creatures for the third time, he finally confirmed that they were truly unkillable.

That being the case, he would change his approach.

Lu Chen decided to endure a wave of attacks head-on to see what kind of consequences they would actually cause. Anyway, his hide was tough, his health pool was high, and with abundant energy points as backup, he theoretically shouldn't be easy to kill.

Having made up his mind, Lu Chen stopped attacking, letting the enemy approach step by step.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

When these creatures reached a distance of over ten meters, they raised their weapons in unison and attacked.

Streaks of blood-red light fell, seemingly accompanied by countless rune arrays, piercing straight into the black mud armor.

It felt painless and ticklish, disappearing in utter silence... and Lu Chen’s unease grew even stronger.

Because he smelled the decaying scent emanating from his body, which seemed to be brought by those bloody rays of light.

He wasn't injured at all, so why was he rotting?

Before he could figure it out, he heard a rustling sound.

The black mud armor, which had originally been viscous and as tough as alloy, began to rapidly disintegrate and dry out, subsequently exuding an aura of decay.

What the hell... what is going on here.

Lu Chen felt the stench of decay growing increasingly intense, and even the moisture in his body began to drain away rapidly. It seemed that in just a few more minutes, he would completely turn into a shriveled mummified saltwater crocodile.

Meanwhile, the jackal-headed soldiers continued to endlessly swing their weapons, thrusting streams of blood-red light into his body.

Lu Chen noticed that the surrounding vegetation and the ground itself had also begun to dry up and wither.

An aura of dead silence continuously spread throughout this area.

He couldn't let them keep going like this... With a roar, Lu Chen activated the mode of frantically adding energy points. The next moment, his body rapidly retreated toward a farther distance.

Unsurprisingly, his body collided with the transparent light barrier once again.

Boom, boom... Taking advantage of the momentum, he spat out several compressed energy bombs. Since he couldn't kill the jackal-headed soldiers in the short term, he would first destroy the protective shield and escape this bizarre space afterward.

However, Lu Chen had underestimated the hardness of the defensive barrier.

The attacks of the compressed energy bombs still had no effect.

Meanwhile, those jackal-headed soldiers marched with steady paces, drawing closer step by step.

With no other choice, Lu Chen could only condense a black mud flying boat and leap into the empty air twenty meters above the military formation.

Swish, swish, swish!

Simultaneously, countless black mud flying birds flapped their wings and plunged downward.

Explosions erupted.

Unsurprisingly, once the jackal-headed men were killed, they quickly regenerated.

Were they immune to energy law attacks, or truly unkillable??

Lu Chen understood in his heart that he had to come up with a solution as soon as possible, or if this continued, he might be worn down to death inside this place.

He had originally thought that having the two mutant abilities of "Compressed Energy Bomb" and "Earth Swamp" would allow him to easily handle any enemy he encountered.

Only now did he realize that he had been far too presumptuous.

The attack methods of intelligent races from different dimensions far exceeded his imagination.

He wondered if attacking purely with physical strength would have any effect...