Chapter 193

Originally, Wu Pifu thought that having just one more ability to fly, along with a small amount of that inexplicable energy provided by Hao Yunfeng, would offer him very limited improvement.

But who could have known that as soon as the battle began, it immediately made him feel that this was a qualitative change!

Being able to fly by controlling Qi allowed his combat space to instantly transform from a plane to three dimensions. Although this required immense spatial awareness and danger perception, it just so happened that his main cultivation art was Martial Arts, and his control and perception of his own body were outstanding; there were almost no blind spots in his level of control. As long as he used it personally, he could almost immediately use it as if it were instinct.

At the same time, the bit of energy Hao Yunfeng gave him felt like the finishing touch.

That was a highly condensed form of sharpness.

It was similar to the product of blade intent or sword intent after becoming materialized and energized. Although there was only a little, just as a diamond is to ordinary coal, it produced a certain qualitative change. From this, Wu Pifu also knew that Hao Yunfeng's cultivation art must be a high-level baseline reality art, a product of either the 0.7 or 0.6 world.

With just this bit of sharpness, as long as it was attached to the broken broadsword, he could easily cut through the body of this dragon beast. Even though the surface of its body was also condensed with an indestructible field like that giant, his broadsword still slashed through as easily as cutting tofu, with no more of that feeling of resistance.

The title of 'Commoner' was no longer enough to completely ignore the defenses of monsters of this level!

One flight, one sharpness—these directly changed Wu Pifu's combat style.

Although the speed of this dragon beast was also extremely fast, in terms of agile maneuvering, he was even more flexible. As a result, this directly changed the combat style of hard-hitting and hard-killing; he would charge forward with a slash, and regardless of whether he injured the dragon beast, he would immediately withdraw.

The five-step distance was determined according to the size comparison between him and the enemy. Relying on his danger perception, he roughly measured the five-step distance from this dragon beast to be within fifty meters. And now that he had the ability to fly, he could open up a fifty-meter distance in any direction—up, down, left, right, forward, or backward. And beyond five steps, those sprays, while seemingly terrifying, couldn't even scratch his skin.

One attacking and one defending, it became just him surrounding and fighting this dragon beast.

But the key was this flight ability; being able to fly freely and not being able to fly freely was the difference between life and death. And that bit of sharpness allowed him to easily break through defenses, which also avoided the inability to dodge quickly due to the difficulty of breaking defenses.

In this way, he had the capital to fight this dragon beast!

However, except for the dragon beast's carelessness at the beginning, which allowed him to cut off one of its heads, he really didn't find an opportunity to continue cutting off its other heads afterward. And as this dragon beast entangled with him for a moment, although its whole body was slashed dozens of times, its physical recovery speed was simply too fast. Except for that empty dragon head, other parts of its body seemed unscathed. On the contrary, Wu Pifu's sharpness was consumed by at least one-fifth, and the flowing wind on his body didn't show consumption, but this absolutely couldn't be infinite either.

At this time, the eight-headed dragon looked at Wu Pifu, who had flown fifty meters away. This time, it didn't spray again, but all eight dragon heads spoke at the same time: "You are carrying a Source-level fantasy object, right? When you were fifty meters away, your defense also entered the Source-level domain, so I couldn't cause any defense-breaking damage to you at all."

Wu Pifu didn't speak, just stood holding his blade, preparing to find another opportunity to give it a slash.

The faces of the dragon's eight heads actually wore mocking smiles: "It's too late! This world is already too late! Since you have also come into contact with the Source, then you actually have the qualifications to get a share of the spoils. Go kill, go distort, go infect, go divide! Tear a large piece of flesh and blood from this world; at least it can fill our hungry stomachs. Do you see that thing in the sky? That is a Source-level existence! Something hidden in the infinite pollution source! Its gaze is fixed here; no one can resist, no one!"

While speaking, the dragon beast leaped into the air, actually bypassing Wu Pifu directly, and charged straight toward the capital safety zone at more than three times the speed of sound.

Wu Pifu paused slightly, immediately charged up, and slashed the dragon beast's back. But at the same time, one of the dragon beast's eight heads turned back, opened its mouth, and sprayed at its own back. Right there in the high sky, a thunderbolt exploded. Wu Pifu's whole body began to fall to the ground, charred black. As for the charred patch on its back, it healed again in an instant.

"Stupid mortal thing!"

The dragon beast actually didn't pursue Wu Pifu, but continued to spread its wings and fly toward the capital circle. And looking down from this ten-thousand-meter altitude, the edge of the capital safety zone was already clearly visible.

"Wail, destroy, be in the eternal tranquility of death!"

"This is the greatest mercy I give to you mortals!"

The eight-headed dragon beast roared to the sky, accelerating as it charged forward.

Just at this moment, a violent wind struck from beneath it. The dragon beast didn't even look, just roared lowly: "... Instead of blocking me, why not snatch a larger share and escape before the Source pollutes this world? That way, your civilization might at least have a glimmer of a chance."

But what greeted it was a ten-meter-long broadsword. The skin surface of the charred humanoid was peeling off, revealing the tender new muscles underneath. At the same time, its muscles and bones were rapidly undergoing fine-tuning to better adapt to this aerial combat. Just as the dragon beast was mocking, this broadsword fiercely picked upward from bottom to top.

The eight dragon heads sprayed downward simultaneously, but at the moment of their spray, Wu Pifu suddenly stopped and retreated, just happening to retreat fifty meters away. Then, at the very moment the spray ended, the broadsword slashed out again against the gap in the spray. A snow-white streak of light flashed by, and the eight dragon heads tilted back simultaneously, their faces wearing mocking expressions. However, this streak of light suddenly surged another ten meters in distance, the broken blade edges connected by inexplicable power, and Wu Pifu's control of his Jin had also reached its peak at this time.

"Immortal Instant Thousand Strikes!"

A blade streak cut through the long sky, slashing horizontally at least twenty meters away. The mocking expressions on the faces of the eight-headed dragon beast hadn't even stopped when three dragon heads fell off. The remaining five dragon heads saw dense blade fragments surrounding Wu Pifu, and then in a flash, they gathered again into that broken broadsword.

"Mental negative backlash rate: twenty percent!"

The dragon beast stopped abruptly in mid-air. It stared at Wu Pifu, who was fifty meters away, for a few seconds, then suddenly roared to the sky: "Good, good, good. It seems that if I don't kill you, I won't be able to get over there... Ant!"

Amidst the roaring, thunder, flames, ice, poison mist... and many other anomalies erupted from the dragon beast's body surface. Its body actually began to shrink, from fifty meters to forty, thirty, twenty... In the blink of an eye, a "pocket-sized" dragon beast only fifteen meters long appeared in front of Wu Pifu. In the next instant, the dragon beast's body erupted with a shockwave, and the five heads plus its body slammed straight into Wu Pifu.

A ripple exploded. Wu Pifu could only slightly dodge the front of its body. Then, the arm holding the blade on his upper body and one thigh on his lower body were bitten by two dragon heads, the dragon teeth piercing into the bone, while the other three dragon heads all bit down. In this life-and-death moment, Wu Pifu released the blade with one hand and kicked the broadsword with the leg that wasn't bitten. The broadsword landed on the arm that wasn't bitten. Just as the other three heads were biting down, Wu Pifu's arm suddenly thickened, grew larger, and lengthened. The muscles and several bones from other parts of his body actually twisted onto this arm.

"Mental negative backlash rate: twenty-five percent!"

"Immortal Instant Thousand Strikes!"

A huge force was swung out from this arm. The arm extended by a full five meters, slashing out. The broken broadsword also extended nearly twenty meters away. The three heads that were biting down were immediately cut off, two of them. The remaining head immediately retracted, but half of its long neck was still cut off.

"Damn it, damn..."

This dragon head roared loudly, but while it was still roaring, Wu Pifu suddenly roared as well, biting down on the mouth of the dragon head on his shoulder, tearing off a large piece of flesh and blood. While devouring it, his abnormal arm rapidly shortened and shrank. At the same time, his intact thigh thickened, grew larger, and lengthened. This leg suddenly retracted and kicked forward.

"Immortal Instant Thousand Strikes!"

Hundreds of different types of Jin erupted on this leg, kicking the lower jaw of the dragon head that was biting his other thigh, forcefully shattering the dragon head's lower jaw directly. The bitten thigh was immediately liberated. Both thighs thickened, grew larger, and lengthened simultaneously, fiercely clamping onto the dragon head that was biting his single arm, both legs clamping down with force.

At the same time, this dragon head roared and sprayed a stream of acid. Wu Pifu could only try his best to turn sideways, but this acid still poured onto half of his body, immediately dissolving his skin and flesh, revealing the bones and a small part of his internal organs beneath the muscles.

"Die!"

The dragon beast and Wu Pifu roared simultaneously, the three remaining dragon heads biting and spraying at the same time, the remaining ones being fire, acid, and crystal powder. And half of Wu Pifu's arm had been completely dissolved, along with a small part of his lung exposed. His flesh and blood were rapidly squirming all over his body, and his bones were constantly changing positions along with the flesh and blood. While these three dragon heads were spraying extraordinary powers, Wu Pifu fiercely shook the broadsword, distributing the fragments of the broadsword as much as possible to block them, while his body hid beneath the dragon beast's body.

!

Although he dodged in time, a large piece of flesh and blood on his back was still evaporated by the flames.

"Face me, you mutt..."

Wu Pifu, who had arrived beneath the dragon beast, saw his body and single arm rapidly becoming thinner and thinner, while one of his thighs rapidly expanded. In an instant, just as the dragon beast intended to flip over and continue spraying, this foot kicked fiercely into the dragon beast's belly.

"Immortal Instant Thousand Strikes!"

"Mutt..."

"Immortal Instant Thousand Strikes!"

"Immortal Instant Thousand Strikes!"

"Immortal Instant Thousand Strikes!!"

In an instant, Wu Pifu kicked at least thirty times, each kick being a mixed explosion of his whole body's Qi and blood, all using the advanced Immortal Strike technique he had just comprehended. With each kick, part of his flesh and blood collapsed and flowed out, and with each kick, the dragon beast's internal belly had flesh, bones, and organs shattered.

The two were entangled, both falling. By the time the thirty-plus kicks were delivered, Wu Pifu was already as thin as a skeleton, with only one arm and one leg left. And the dragon beast's belly to its spine was kicked broken, along with the spine of both its front and back halves. The two, mixed together, were already a hundred meters off the ground. At this final moment, the blade handle of the broadsword Wu Pifu was holding shook forcefully, all the broadsword fragments rapidly condensed, and he used his last bit of strength to scrape it across the dragon body, then pulled with all his might, flipping his whole body above the dragon body's flesh and blood, and fell to the ground together with the dragon beast's body.

With a muffled thud, the two masses of dragon beast body fell to the ground almost simultaneously. Wu Pifu lay on its flesh and blood, also landing, smashing a deep pit into the ground. Half of the dragon body had turned into meat paste.

"... Truly a warrior."

Of the three dragon heads, one was still alive. It bent its neck to look at Wu Pifu, who was like a skeleton on its back.

This dragon head actually didn't spray again, but instead showed appreciation on its face.

"Truly a warrior, it reminds me of the time I fought side by side with the King..."

The dragon head's face revealed a certain memory and pain. It stared at Wu Pifu for a long, long time, its body and head beginning to rot gradually, before it said: "I reward you, mortal... We will always have a time to meet again. When that time comes, I will let you see my true form."

Amidst the sound of its words, the entire dragon beast rotted into mud. However, within this rotting flesh and blood, there was a piece of intact flesh the size of a basketball, crystal clear, like a red gemstone. At the same time this flesh appeared, a strange fragrance began to spread.

At this moment, Wu Pifu's eyes were a mix of black and red, his whole body as thin as a skeleton, his blood and Qi exhausted, almost at his limit. But when he smelled that strange fragrance, he instinctively crawled toward this flesh that looked like a red gemstone, and used his last bit of strength to bite into it...

Above the sky, infinite brilliance shattered one-fourth of the moon, and a large number of meteorites were falling toward the Earth.

(End of chapter)