Chapter 227: Skin and Flesh Great Completion, Tendons and Bones First Appearance, Five Metals Can Be One

Wu Pifu fought selflessly.

Martial, stopping conflict is martial—this is indeed the correct principle.

This is also a connotation given to martial artists by civilization, culture, and non-martial artists, to prevent martial artists from falling into demonic obsessions, giving them an anchor point for their spiritual will, knowing why they fight, and knowing when to raise their fists.

This is the correct principle.

But from another perspective, martial arts are actually killing techniques!

It is a technique, a means, a cultivation method that studies how to achieve the strongest destructive power with the fastest speed, the greatest strength, and the smallest self-load!!

Therefore, martial artists are addicted to battle, thirsty for battle, and look forward to battle.

In the previous dream world, there were battle maniacs like the Evil God, and martial arts fanatics like Xing Daoren. Although such martial artists were not many, their numbers were not small, but most were killed in the first few challenges. Those who could really kill their way out were probably only one or two per era.

Since Wu Pifu entered the marrow with martial arts, especially after he began to condense his "commoner's intent," he gradually began to understand this martial artist's heart. A battle like this, where he gave his all, really made his body and mind comfortable... even if the one fighting him was not a martial artist.

Wu Pifu's feet were slightly soft, and he stood in a sea of blood and corpses.

About three hours ago, hundreds of Man-Hunters began to besiege him.

These Man-Hunters were not strong, but not weak either. If evaluated seriously, the stronger Man-Hunters were close to biochemical beasts with a bounty of 100,000 tons, or had the strength of half a super-soldier armament, while the weaker ones had the strength of biochemical beasts with a bounty of 30,000 to 40,000 tons. If he wasn't careful, he would also be injured.

So from the beginning of the battle, he didn't hold back at all. Except for not revealing his trump cards like the demonic state, he could be said to have exploded with all his combat power.

The most critical thing was that after Qiuqiu sucked away the cold negative energy in this area, it was as if she had poked a hornet's nest of these Man-Hunters. No matter how many Wu Pifu killed, these Man-Hunters came in an endless stream. Because of the distance and Wu Pifu's own speed in killing, there were only one or two hundred Man-Hunters besieging him from beginning to end.

Several times in the middle, even he almost suffered heavy injuries, and his whole body naturally suffered many wounds. But at this moment of rest, even if it was only for a few seconds, the wounds on his body actually began to heal slowly.

On one hand, after he was injured in battle, he decisively put on the Titan Heart (Pseudo). On the other hand, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surging from the three spiritual machine cores was frantically stimulating his flesh.

After three hours of full-burst fighting, Wu Pifu only felt tired, but his body's blood and energy were even more vigorous. Between breaths, there was a sense of solidification of the flesh, and his skin and flesh seemed to turn into a whole, containing unimaginable and majestic power.

"Skin and flesh cultivation is complete!"

Even without letting the main brain open his personal information data panel, Wu Pifu immediately understood that this feeling was the simultaneous completion of skin and flesh cultivation. His Green Python Molting Art was probably only one step away from reaching the peak of Supreme Manifest Saint.

The changes were not just that. Under his skin and flesh, there was a slight greenish tint, not because of poison or curses, but because his tendons and bones were also rapidly becoming stronger.

Cultivating skin and flesh provides the basis for survival; cultivating tendons and bones allows this basis to evolve and strengthen.

Wu Pifu raised an arm. The muscles on this arm were not exaggerated blocks like those of a bodybuilder, but they gave a sense of being a whole, with the strength of his whole body almost integrated into one.

At the same time, the tendons and bones under the skin and flesh were also strengthening, giving the feeling that endless endurance was constantly bursting from within his body. Every breath he took while resting allowed his consumed endurance to recover rapidly. Almost every second, his physical strength and endurance recovered by ten or twenty percent. After at most a few breaths, his physical strength and endurance would return to their peak.

"Skin and flesh cultivation is complete. The conventional strength of both arms is at least twenty tons upward. Before this, it was only about twelve tons. Just in terms of conventional strength, it has increased by nearly half."

"At the same time, tendon and bone cultivation has also entered the door. Only now do I know that in the Human Immortal Martial Arts, skin and flesh cultivation increases physique and basic strength, while tendon and bone cultivation enhances endurance, physical strength, and the recovery ability after flesh consumption. Although the tendon and bone cultivation stage also enhances physique and basic strength, the focus is different."

Wu Pifu stood in place, silently feeling his own enhancement. He took a deep breath, feeling as if he were swallowing the stars, as if one breath could suck all the air on Earth into his lungs. This was, of course, an illusion, but this thought filled his whole body. Just this one breath swept away all the fatigue on his body, and even the wounds and scars all over his body seemed insignificant.

"Good!"

Wu Pifu roared at the sky, his voice rolling like thunder. At the same time, he felt that the Iron Refining Record also seemed to have reached a critical point.

In his middle dantian, the iron refining furnace was burning fiercely, and streams of heat surged out of his chest, circling his whole body, and then returning to his chest.

This was the feeling that the Iron Refining Record had been cultivated to the point where it could accommodate the first of the five metals of heaven and earth. At this time, he only needed a thought to absorb a piece of metal from the super-machine beside him, and then turn it into a concept and integrate it into himself, thereby refining the first of the five metals of heaven and earth.

However, Wu Pifu did not do so, because his intuition told him that even the alloy on the super-machine was still a kind of "mortal" metal. Forcibly refining it into the five metals of heaven and earth would significantly reduce his future growth limit.

Wait a little longer, wait a little longer, and very soon, the five metals of heaven and earth most suitable for him would automatically appear before him.

Wu Pifu suppressed the thought of immediately refining the five metals of heaven and earth. He roared loudly: "What are you waiting for? Come up! Aren't you waiting for me to be both defeated and injured? Now that they are all dead, what are you strongest Man-Hunters still watching for?"

Following Wu Pifu's roar, more than thirty Man-Hunters appeared from all directions.

These Man-Hunters looked different from the ones besieging Wu Pifu. The human part of them seemed more prominent. If one had to describe it, the Man-Hunters besieging Wu Pifu were more like monsters with human organs, while these Man-Hunters were like humans with monster organs or limbs.

Among them, Wu Pifu saw Amida.

His upper body was human, but his lower body seemed to be a tank track vehicle, with the upper and lower bodies embedded and linked together. This could no longer be considered human.

"My lord, we are not the strongest... the strongest Man-Hunters have long been killed by you," said a Man-Hunter whose two-thirds of his body was embedded in a huge missile rack, smiling bitterly.

Wu Pifu said nothing, just looking at them.

This group of Man-Hunters dared not flee, nor did they dare to attack, and could only stop hundreds of meters away from Wu Pifu. Compared to those who besieged him earlier, the remaining thirty-plus Man-Hunters actually had reason.

Another Man-Hunter said: "The more grotesque we become, the weaker our consciousness, and the longer our madness lasts, but at the same time, the stronger our strength. The ones killed by you earlier were like that; they only wanted to destroy everything, or be destroyed by something. And the reason we dare not come forward is actually because we still harbor fear—fear of death."

Wu Pifu looked around silently, then looked at Amida, and only then did he open his mouth: "Who turned you into this? Did you modify yourselves?" All thirty-plus Man-Hunters looked at each other. Some cried, some lowered their heads in gloom, and Amida said in a rough voice: "No, no one modified us. The rumors outside are actually all false, smoke bombs thrown out by the three major guilds. We changed naturally... First, metal traces grew on some parts of our bodies, then the flesh and blood in our bodies were replaced by metal. Gradually, our spirits also began to go wrong, and then when we came to our senses, we had already begun to slaughter the people around us..."

Another Man-Hunter said: "Dozens or even hundreds of Man-Hunters are born every year. Most of them are cleared and executed by the three major guilds in the early stages, but occasionally some Man-Hunters escape. As we change more and become stronger, we are eventually driven into this mountainous area by the three major guilds."

Wu Pifu was silent for a long time, then suddenly asked again: "Then what about you running to human territory to slaughter and hunt civilians?"

All the Man-Hunters were silent. Amida was the first to speak: "If you dare to do it, you must dare to take responsibility. That's right, we Man-Hunters who still retain our sanity are different from those who have completely turned into monsters. We rush into human territory every once in a while to slaughter, because this makes us feel better."

"The pain of a Man-Hunter's change is indescribable, and that's just the physical pain. The spiritual pain is even more intense. Some kind of indescribable emptiness invades us. This pain is ten thousand times worse than the physical torture, as if there is an invisible giant mouth swallowing our souls bite by bite from the void!"

"As long as we kill, we can greatly alleviate this pain, so yes, we killed, we killed many people!"

The Amida of this world also had this kind of unyielding personality. As he said this, he actually drove the tracks of his lower body, talking as he came toward Wu Pifu.

"Come, kill me!" Amida stared at Wu Pifu with red eyes, roaring as he rushed forward.

Wu Pifu did not kill Amida immediately. He reached out and pressed on the track armor of Amida's lower body. Amida was actually forced to stop on the spot, his body unable to even move.

"Since you don't want to live... then why don't you commit suicide?" Wu Pifu asked in confusion.

The other thirty-plus Man-Hunters looked at each other, and they actually rushed toward Wu Pifu together.

!

"Because we cannot harm ourselves, nor can we harm other Man-Hunters. As long as we have this thought, our bodies will immediately be occupied by a malice, and then use more terrifying means to torture our flesh and souls..."

A Man-Hunter shouted loudly, and blood and tears actually began to well up in his eyes... blood and tears mixed with machine oil.

"Kill us, please, kill us!"

"Kill, kill, kill..."

"Kill!!"

Amida and the other thirty-plus Man-Hunters shouted at the same time. They had no resistance, and didn't even raise their weapons, just rushing toward Wu Pifu with their respective deformed bodies.

Wu Pifu looked at Amida's crazily roaring face and whispered: "... Go well."

The next second, Wu Pifu raised the broken broadsword, held the handle with both hands, and slashed forward, backward, left, and right...

A moment later, Wu Pifu, covered in blood, walked into the super-machine. He said to Daphne: "You help me drive the super-machine."

The Samoyed pointed at her dog head with her front paws, but Wu Pifu ignored her and closed his eyes.

A moment later, the super-machine started, and Wu Pifu just sat there with his eyes closed.

He had roughly understood what the root cause he had to face was, and at the same time, he knew why the mysterious person said time was running out.

It wasn't that time was running out... but that it was already too late.

Twenty years ago, or even ten years ago, perhaps exploring the truth would still be in time, but now it was already too late. Once the truth was revealed, the survival rate of humans in this world would probably not even be one percent.

That afternoon, Wu Pifu returned to the base building. Looking at the more than one hundred people gathered before him, especially Li Xianchun standing at the very front, Wu Pifu said to them seriously: "I have understood part of the truth, so I will tell you the truth: once the truth is revealed, the entire human civilization will inevitably be destroyed. Of the tens of millions of people currently alive, I am afraid not even one percent will survive."

"So even so, do you still choose to reveal this truth?"

The crowd looked at each other, and Li Xianchun asked on their behalf: "Then if we don't reveal the truth, what will happen to us humans twenty years later?"

Wu Pifu fell silent.

If everything remained the same, it wouldn't even take twenty years. Just ten years later, the vast majority of humans would turn into the kind of negative yin energy that Qiuqiu swallowed, leaving only endless pain and curses, information residues without even a trace of self-consciousness. A small number of humans would turn into the unconscious Man-Hunters he slaughtered, wandering in endless pain, never to be liberated.

"I understand."

Wu Pifu didn't say anything more. He said: "Early tomorrow morning, we will go to reveal the truth, but there are a few things you need to prepare. First... accommodate all newborns under six years old into the shelter you think is the most solid, prepare fresh water and food for them, then lock the door and set it to open in a month."

"Second, prepare the fastest plane you have and send me to Hawaii."

"Third... for one night today, you can talk to your relatives, partners, or anyone you want to say goodbye to, and spend time together properly."

After speaking, Wu Pifu turned and walked toward his floor.

The crowd became more panicked and desperate the more they heard. Someone couldn't help but roar: "Mr. Wu, do we really have no hope left?"

Wu Pifu thought about what he saw when he killed the Man-Hunters, especially when the last Man-Hunter revealed that secret, and he shook his head.

A giant mouth...

A mouth bigger than the entire Earth!!

Sucking on the human world from within hell!!

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 228 =====