Chapter 123

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This battle was the first of its kind that Wu Pifu had encountered since waking up... a battle where one only needed to survive for a certain amount of time, rather than defeat the enemy or escape with one's life.

One minute... survive for one minute!

As the hundred-meter giant sword came down, Wu Pifu swung his blade to meet it. At this critical moment, a strange thought suddenly popped into Wu Pifu's mind.

He was currently a hundred meters away from the Kong Que King descendant's skeleton, so did this count as within five steps? Or outside five steps?

The moment the blade and sword made contact, Wu Pifu knew the answer... within five steps!

The jade-colored great blade sliced through several barriers like paper, then finally collided with the hundred-meter giant sword.

With just one strike, Wu Pifu felt like he had been hit by a heavy thunderbolt. A force so immense it could not be neutralized was transmitted from the bone sword. In an instant, the skin on the arm holding the blade cracked inch by inch, blood sprayed out, and then this force began to destroy the muscles of his arm.

At this critical moment, Wu Pifu decisively abandoned his blade, rotated his arm, and struck the bone sword with his Dan Jin-wrapped palm. After the palm strike, a corner of the bone sword shattered, while Wu Pifu's arm was left dripping with blood, with multiple muscles torn, nearly crippled.

But Wu Pifu didn't even pause for a second. He flicked his foot, kicked the falling great blade upward, grabbed it with his other arm, and charged forward along the side of the bone sword.

Even though he was a hundred meters away from the Kong Que King descendant's skeleton, because the opponent's size was so massive, the distance between them still counted as within five steps. This meant he could not enjoy the multi-judgment defense bonus for being outside five steps, but instead counted as having the attack bonus for being within five steps.

Under these circumstances, whether it was dodging or defending, after the first clash, Wu Pifu knew he absolutely could not survive for a minute.

Too powerful!

They weren't even on the same magnitude of existence!

Not to mention the height of one hundred and fifty meters, the power transmitted from the bone sword was so great that even touching it would cause severe injury. Moving mountains and overturning seas might be an exaggeration, but destroying cities and breaking strongholds would be easy.

Cannot dodge, cannot defend!

The only way to survive was to rush forward and engage in close-quarters combat!

The opponent was one hundred and fifty meters tall, while he was only one point eight or one point nine meters. In the opponent's eyes, he was about the size of an ant. In this situation, the further away he was, the more clearly the opponent could see him, and one sword strike would cost him half his life. It was better to rush under the opponent's feet and entangle with it. If he was lucky, he might just survive this minute!

That was what Wu Pifu thought, and that was what he did. But he had only rushed halfway, when he was about fifty meters away from the Kong Que King descendant's skeleton, a huge sense of palpitation suddenly struck him. He stopped abruptly, and because he stopped so fast and suddenly, his feet subconsciously continued to rush forward.

Danger, danger, danger, danger...

A certain premonition made Wu Pifu bite his tongue hard, not even caring about the chaos of his Qi and blood. He forcibly used his Dan Jin explosion to reverse the force on his feet, stopping at the edge of a patch of white light by a hair's breadth.

The Kong Que King descendant skeleton held the bone sword in one hand and the bone Vajra pestle in the other. At this moment, it was raising the bone Vajra pestle, and a bone-colored white light fell from the sky, landing exactly where Wu Pifu had been. This light flashed by, and a deep pit twenty meters wide and long appeared in front of Wu Pifu. The pit was bottomless, and his feet were only a few millimeters away from it.

In the split second Wu Pifu was stunned by the emergency stop, the bone sword moved again, changing from a vertical slash to a horizontal sweep. As it swept across, Wu Pifu felt the massive wind pressure almost blow him away. The hundred-meter giant sword produced a sonic boom, and in the blink of an eye, it was about to strike Wu Pifu.

Facing this unstoppable sword, Wu Pifu could only jump up from the ground, attempting to dodge by leaping over the bone sword. But just as he jumped, a violent shockwave followed the giant sword. The immense power of this shockwave made it impossible for Wu Pifu to even control his body in mid-air; he could only be swept along in the trajectory of the giant sword's slash.

With a series of booming explosions, Wu Pifu was flung by the giant sword and slammed into the ground.

A sword mark stretching at least a thousand meters appeared on the ground, and the shattered rocks flew thousands of meters away. With one strike, a thousand meters were devastated, and Wu Pifu was blasted by the shockwave onto this shattered ground. His whole body was slammed into a pile of rocks, then he was launched into the air from below, fell and rolled again, rolling continuously for fifty or sixty meters before sliding to the ground and lying motionless.

Unstoppable, unrivaled, unimaginable...

Wu Pifu was knocked unconscious immediately after landing, but he was only out for less than a second. The burning of the Sleepless Spiritual Light allowed him to regain consciousness.

Just one sword strike, and it wasn't even a direct hit. After losing the multi-judgment attack reduction for enemies outside five steps, he couldn't even withstand a single strike from this Kong Que King descendant skeleton!

The two sides were not even on the same magnitude!

This was an existence that had walked out of mythology. To him, this was an immortal, a god, a demon, a saint...

And his martial arts system, even if it reached the Dan Jin level, was just a physical technique created for mortals and humans. Facing such a holy existence, let alone him, even if Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng came, they would have to kneel.

And this was only less than one-ten-thousandth of its power while alive... In fact, that was indeed the case. Apart from this power, only the bone Vajra pestle had erupted once. Other than that, no other supernatural powers had been used. And Wu Pifu suspected that this power wasn't even its full strength during its prime...

Wu Pifu slowly crawled out from the rubble. He was covered in blood, his bones and muscles were broken in countless places, and he was almost unrecognizable. He looked like a bloody person, his Qi and blood were in complete chaos, and the pain in his body had reached a state of numbness.

(How many seconds? Has it been thirty seconds? Forty seconds, fifty seconds, or... has only a few seconds passed?) Wu Pifu looked up at the huge skeleton. Everything in his eyes was blood-colored; blood had already stained his eyeballs.

And the huge skeleton remained unmoved. He saw the giant bone sword, with a tiny chip at the tip, raised again, slashing down toward Wu Pifu once more.

Wu Pifu closed his eyes for a moment, forcibly controlling the chaotic Qi in his body to surge up from his spine, rushing into the spiritual platform in his mind.

Entering the demonic path!

Mental negative feedback rate: twenty percent!

The next instant, Wu Pifu kicked the ground hard, shattering the rocks and kicking up dust, shrouding the spot where he stood.

The giant sword fell, and a huge trench appeared on the ground, piercing through at least five hundred meters. The rising dust spread to the surroundings. The skeleton raised its sword with one hand, and the bone Vajra pestle in its hand emitted bone-colored radiance once again. A massive force from thin air pressed down, and all the rising dust was immediately suppressed to the ground. However, Wu Pifu's figure was no longer on the ground.

The skeleton looked around the ground. It seemed to be puzzled, and then the next second it immediately looked at the bone sword.

Sure enough, on the side of the bone sword, exactly on the back where the skeleton couldn't see when it was raised, Wu Pifu had stabbed one hand into the sword body and was hanging his whole body on it. As the bone sword was raised, he was also lifted into mid-air. At this time, the skeleton was holding the sword diagonally upward, and Wu Pifu began to slide down along the back of the sword.

When the skeleton looked at the bone sword, Wu Pifu was only twenty meters away from the skeleton's face.

At this moment, the skeleton raised the bone Vajra pestle again. At this time, Wu Pifu's eyes were already blood-red. He crouched down on the bone sword, his muscles wriggling like living things, his bones quickly correcting and changing, bone fractures forcibly closing, muscles forcibly reconnecting, and the bones of his feet slightly deforming, turning into the form most suitable for jumping, and then...

!

Wu Pifu felt everything around him go still, and then the whole world seemed to begin various evolutions and simulations in his eyes...

The light of the Vajra pestle dissolved his body...

The light of the Vajra pestle dissolved half of his body...

He dodged the light of the Vajra pestle...

He brushed past the light of the Vajra pestle and lunged forward...

He was flicked away by the skeleton's giant sword...

He was smashed into meat paste by two arms that suddenly extended from the skeleton's waist...

He was thrown off by the skeleton's sudden upward leap...

Countless changes, countless deaths, countless failures...

The whole world turned into hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of variations in Wu Pifu's mind. Then, he didn't jump straight toward the skeleton's face, but at the critical moment, he slammed both palms onto the hilt of the giant sword. While making the giant sword tremble, Wu Pifu jumped out diagonally downward.

The light of the Vajra pestle fell from his side to the ground. At the same time, a pair of arms suddenly appeared from the skeleton's waist and slapped the space inches above him. Amidst a booming explosion, the shockwave carried Wu Pifu at an even faster speed diagonally downward toward the skeleton's thigh bone.

(This... is not the power of entering the demonic path, this is...)

Super Brain!

In this gap of less than 0.01 seconds, this thought suddenly flashed in Wu Pifu's mind, and at the same time, he remembered the Super Brain ability described by Chu Minghao and Xu Shilan.

(So that's it. That's why my mental negativity is so terrifying, because this is not the void negativity accumulated over six or seven hundred years, but...)

This thought of Wu Pifu's only flashed by. From him hiding on the giant sword, to him exploding into a jump, dodging the light of the Vajra pestle, dodging the two suddenly appearing arms, and then lunging forward—it was complex to describe but happened in an instant, truly like a flash of lightning. Immediately after, he thrust both palms forward, slamming all his own power and the kinetic energy of this impact onto the skeleton's thigh bone.

The Kong Que King descendant's skeleton was as white as jade, even carrying an indescribable golden-green color. It didn't look like bone at all, but rather like some kind of gemstone or metal, appearing indestructible. Especially before Wu Pifu's palms were about to touch the bone, layers of energy inscriptions appeared on its surface. Ordinary objects could not possibly cause any damage to it.

But Wu Pifu had been keeping within five steps of this Kong Que King descendant's skeleton the whole time. In other words...

Bang!

The thigh bone, which was much larger than Wu Pifu, shattered, exploded, and snapped the moment Wu Pifu's palms touched it!

Wu Pifu flashed past, and the Kong Que King descendant's skeleton tilted to one side and fell heavily to the ground!

(End of chapter)