Chapter 127: Are Gut Organisms Without Pain?

Thick clouds hung endlessly over the sky; the once brilliant sunlight, filtering through them, grew grim and pale, making this boundless forest even more terrifying.

The towering canopies and dense foliage formed a natural dome, completely blocking the sunlight that pierced the clouds, plunging the forest beneath into perpetual darkness, never seeing the light of day.

The sky's light broke through the clouds.

A brilliant meteor suddenly slashed across the dome.

But unlike ordinary meteors, the unknown object was wrapped in wild, deep-blue flames, blazing fiercely and directly, plummeting with unimaginable speed and fury into the forest teeming with countless gut organisms.

BOOM!!!

The meteor smashed a circular crater into the lifeless earth.

In that instant, distant peaks and giant stone stelae tilted slightly from the immense shockwave.

In the region where the "fiery meteor" had struck, countless towering trees had once provided cover; now, the ground, once blanketed in lush vegetation, bore a deep wound—hundreds of thousands of tons of soil, stone, trees, and unknown tissues had been flung outward, forming a ring of debris, and at the very center, the deepest point of the crater over fifty meters wide…

lay crushed, layered masses of flesh oozing purple blood, and a towering figure rising slowly, his upper garment half-destroyed, his powerful torso bare.

Ziiiiing—

The world suddenly turned a lurid crimson. Invisible to the naked eye, imperceptible to humans, a powerful fluctuation spread from Jia Qi's "Solomon Ring" across the heavens and earth.

!!!

"Ziiii—" All fluctuations twisted into a tangle, coalescing into writhing, fanged serpents that surged toward a certain direction, a certain presence.

BOOM!

This was a summoning, an invitation, a call—and an unambiguous provocation.

But before meeting a world-class boss, aren't there always some lowly minions in the way?

Before facing the first Zodiac Beast, Jia Qi still had a few minor nuisances to deal with.

Countless grotesque, monstrous creatures, drawn by the deafening noise and tremors, turned their attention to that intruder in their domain—the delicious-looking 【prey】.

Ordinary animals could not survive here; the air and water were saturated with gut organism bodily fluids. A normal human staying here even briefly would be infected with every breath, their internal erosion rate rising.

Thus, what now emerged here were primal, savage beings that had endured countless cycles of slaughter, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest—creatures that had honed their hunting and killing skills to perfection, the ultimate survivors.

Massive gut organisms stomped the earth with thunderous force, creating sensations like minor earthquakes; trees were crushed and toppled, carving chaotic paths as they rushed toward the human in a frenzy.

"Aaang!"

A serpentine neck lifted, crowned by a head the size of a lion-tiger hybrid—but a hundred times more terrifying—letting out a roar as a blood-dripping maw snapped toward Jia Qi, the stench of gore radiating from its teeth, evolved solely for slaughter.

The next instant, a lightning-fast hand-blade descended from above.

Six milky-yellow eyes bulged outward, then exploded, smashing into distant trees like dying fish; the first Stage-3 gut organism's mouth remained wide open, frozen in its original pose.

Northern Dipper Hand-Blade: Decapitation Technique!

Its head had been severed by a hand-blade wreathed in blue radiance; the brain tissue controlling regeneration was obliterated in an instant by the surging battle qi.

"From now on."

Jia Qi tossed the grotesque, monstrous head aside, facing the sea of monsters, and the man wearing the iron mask grinned with eager anticipation.

"Where I stand is the center of the world."

Northern Dipper Battle Qi activated at full power; the Northern Dipper Fist stance of the Break-Disrupt Style was readied.

Before him: a wave of monsters.

Ten days had passed since Jia Qi arrived in this world; during that time, he had been killing—but it wasn't combat, not the battle he craved, merely pure slaughter.

Killing creatures no better than pigs and dogs was like crushing an ant—it brought him no pressure, no breakthrough, only endless annoyance and irritation, but he could not be content until every last one was gone.

But now, having wiped clean every last dog-like thing that stood in his way, it was finally his turn to enjoy his own battle.

A heavily armored rhino charged toward him, roughly ten meters long, thunderous in its advance—its hoof alone could crush a war chariot to dust.

"Someone once told me… that after becoming a gut organism, you lose the sense of pain…?"

Jia Qi's lips curled into a cruel smile.

He stomped the ground, powered his legs, twisted his waist, raised his shoulder, gathered, compressed, and unleashed all his strength through his clenched fist!

The solid earth beneath his foot seemed to sink like water, rippling with visible waves; vast, oceanic waves of azure battle qi surged outward like crashing tidal waves along those ripples.

The accelerated Break-Disrupt punch sent expanding ripples through the air, then shattered into countless visible shockwaves that churned the atmosphere, then pierced the monster's hardest skull with even greater speed than the escaping air.

Hard against hard!

"Ooow!"

Purple, filthy blood gushed forth like a geyser.

It let out a piercing, furious roar—but it could do nothing more; that right fist wreathed in blue radiance had plunged straight into its brain, driving onward without pause, shattering three stomachs and two thoracic cavities, nearly tearing its spine from its body.

The monster's terrifying kinetic energy was halted dead in its tracks by his fist; its house-sized body collapsed slowly to one side, adding another corpse to this restless forest.

The remaining monsters devoured its remains, then turned their bloodthirsty gazes toward the man who had just obliterated their comrade—and launched a simultaneous, unhesitating attack.

Could the failed genes, defeated by humanity over eons, now unite and win?

He didn't know—but he knew one thing.

"The Northern Dipper Fist is invincible under heaven—"

Come! Come! Come! Come!

Lowly gut beasts, pitiful lifeforms—die beneath my Northern Dipper Fist!!!

(End of Chapter)