Chapter 457

"Red lass, your father's grave has been dug up!" The ant lion stopped tens of thousands of zhang away, its massive body lazily sprawled on the stone beam between two great mountains.

A figure shot out from the ant lion's head, her icy voice overwhelming the roar of over a hundred waterfalls, like a cold needle piercing deep into one's ears, forcing you to hear her words clearly.

Wu Tie looked toward that figure.

What a... strange woman.

This woman's visage is absolutely beautiful; her bearing and figure are no less than Pei Feng's and the red‑clad maiden's, and her whole being exudes a pure, rustic wildness that blends seamlessly with the mountains and forests.

Her head was full of dark, glossy hair, but it was a messy tangle tied into a thick braid at the back with a thin vine as a hairband; what she wore was astonishingly clothing woven from large green leaves and fine vines.

Over the green leaf garment, the girl draped a beast pelt much longer and wider than her body.

Judging by the pattern and color, it was clearly the hide of a huge, striped tiger, stripped whole, not carefully tanned, merely rinsed with water to wash off the blood, slightly dried, and then thrown over her.

The girl's face was only palm‑sized, small and endearing, but a pair of jet‑black large eyes shot forth cold light, instantly dispelling her cuteness and making one involuntarily feel a chill from the heart.

Unknown what mineral was ground into a fine powder like rouge, the girl smeared three thin red streaks with her fingers on her left cheek, from the side of the nose to the ear, which somehow added a full measure of wildness to her aura.

Thick, long eyebrows, a rosy small mouth, the girl showed no trace of spiritual power; with pure bodily strength she stepped across tens of thousands of zhang in a single stride and then landed with a heavy "thud" on the mountain peak.

"Boom!"

The mountain where Wu Tie stood shook violently; a peak tens of li high trembled, and runic seals flared across the mountainside, as if the force from the girl's landing might shatter it.

The girl landed right in front of Wu Tie, hands on hips, eyes narrowed as she scrutinized him from head to toe.

"You, shameless, at your age, running around without clothes?" She shook her head, furrowed her brows: "Hmm, they say people like you are vulgar street ruffians and scoundrels?"

"Although I don't know what 'vulgar street ruffians and scoundrels' means... but it's nothing good!" She thrust out her right fist, which slammed into Wu Tie's chest with a heavy "thud": "I'll break ten of your ribs first, then we'll talk!"

Amid a humming sound, Wu Tie's ribs, rapidly transforming and strengthening, slightly indented, then a tremendous rebound force shot back.

The girl raised her eyebrows in surprise, glaring fiercely at Wu Tie: "What hard bones... these corpses lying on the ground, over the past few years I've broken at least three or four thousand ribs altogether... yours are the hardest!"

She let out a long whistle to the heavens; a semi‑transparent surge of energy shot up behind her, and a colossal phantom ant lion appeared, opening its fearsome mandibles and emitting a terrifying sound wave.

"But my fists are the hardest!" The girl let out an angry, urgent roar like an provoked leopard cat, her double fists trailing streaks of blinding light as they howled toward Wu Tie's chest.

"Thud thud thud," the dull booming resonated like a thousand war drums beating in unison.

Wu Tie's chest repeatedly caved in and rebounded; his glowing, heating, rapidly strengthening sternum and the girl's heavy fists collided and recoiled violently, the immense force distorting the surrounding space.

The girl's fists became a blur, only countless fine streams of light whistling in to strike.

In the snap of a finger, hundreds of punches…

In the snap of a finger, thousands of punches…

In the snap of a finger, tens of thousands of punches…

In the snap of a finger, hundreds of thousands of punches…

The girl's fists grew ever faster and heavier; the Avoid‑Dragon Pillar blazed with blinding light all over, barely managing to stay in place instead of being blown backward by her heavy blows.

"Ya, ya ya ya!" Bright light of delight sparked in the girl's dark, lustrous eyes, like a cat seeing a new toy; she threw punches madly, sweat pouring like rain, while shouting with joy.

"Ha ha, ha ha, you can really take a beating! Ha ha, ha ha, what a good person, what a good person!" She bellowed: "These weaklings under Red Lass, who usually boast and act mighty, are actually quite impressive!"

"No one can take one of my punches without crying to heaven and earth! Hahaha, your bones are hard, your body solid… haha, using you to train my fists will surely be exhilarating, haha, haha, hahaha!"

The girl's entire body turned into a hazy phantom.

The next instant, that phantom exploded, thousands of silhouettes racing around Wu Tie back and forth, flashing in an instant, each silhouette bursting with countless streams of light, each delivering a frantic heavy punch at Wu Tie.

The sound of heavy fists pounding his body merged into a continuous roar; soon the intervals between blows could no longer be distinguished, and the nearby mountains and forests echoed only a prolonged, unceasing boom that spread outward in waves.

"Hahaha, so exhilarating!" The girl threw her head back and whistled; behind her the ant lion phantom grew clearer, its aura more terrifying.

Wu Tie was shaken like a blossom in the wind; fortunately the Avoid‑Dragon Pillar held his body in place, otherwise, with him merely taking blows and not striking back, he would have been blasted who knows how far.

The girl's fists grew heavier and heavier.

At first it merely gave Wu Tie a slight numbness, but later, when the girl threw her head back and whistled and the ant lion phantom behind her roared in fury, he felt the power of her heavy punches.

Pain, then excruciating pain, followed by pain that pierced to the marrow.

When the girl's fists ignited with a dim flame that grew brighter, each heavy blow brought anguish that pierced the heart and soul, an excruciating pain!

Wu Tie stared in shock at the girl's flickering, shifting silhouette nearby; such heavy punches, each strike exceeding the might of Nine‑Refined Immortal Weapons, would easily shatter an ordinary peak Body Cultivator of the Embryonic Storage realm with a single blow.

No wonder she called those youths lying on the ground weaklings!

With such heavy punches, hardly anyone could withstand them, right?

That is, Wu Tie!

That is, Wu Tie whose bones are undergoing violent transformation.

That is, Wu Tie whose heart's five‑element essence blood is exerting divine effect.

That is, Wu Tie whose whole body's cultivation is leaping forward and constantly surging.

Replace him with anyone else, even if it were a true indestructible vajra body placed here, it would already have been pulverized by the girl's frenzied fists!

"Ya, ya ya, ya ya ya!" The girl let out a crazy roar; her heavy fists grew ever denser, raining down from head to toe, striking Wu Tie's entire body from all directions without pattern or restraint.

The raging heat currents within Wu Tie's body, under such heavy‑fist bombardment, continually merged perfectly throughout his physique.

The girl's heavy fists were indeed a first‑rate catalyst of heaven and earth, forcing Wu Tie's body to rush toward a better, stronger realm.

Gradually, the girl's fists striking Wu Tie no longer produced dull "thuds" but rang like two hard metals clashing, "clang clang"; each heavy blow striking him sent up showers of sparks.

"Boom!" a tremendous roar!

Inside Wu Tie it seemed a valve had been broken; his Nine Revolutions Mystic Art's bodily realm forcibly broke through a bottleneck, his flesh becoming stronger and harder, while his bodily potential turned vast and boundless.

"Hey, enough?" Wu Tie growled low.

"Where, just where? Hahaha, it's rare to meet a living target that can endure my heavy fists; I must have my fill of fun!" She laughed "hahaha", sparkling sweat dripping from her forehead, then she launched a fierce kick, slamming hard into Wu Tie's forehead.

Not only fists, but feet, knees, elbows, shoulders…

Every part of the girl's body turned into a terrifying weapon, emanating a dreadful aura as she bombarded Wu Tie wildly.

The booming continued, sparks flying everywhere; on the girl's skin appeared patterns of supreme power, the dao markings flowing like living tattoos that surged rapidly across her, each of her attacks drawing the surrounding heavenly and earthly forces to follow and respond.

The power of her heavy fists surged a hundredfold out of nowhere.

Each punch deformed Wu Tie's body visibly; if it landed on his soft abdomen, each punch almost pierced through his body, coming out his back.

Wu Tie's bodily strength was still soaring in rapid, leaping progress.

The essence of the Nine Dragon Furnace had already been completely devoured by his body, and now it was frenziedly absorbing and merging.

The Five Elements Essence Blood in his heart, each drop of essence blood integrating about five units of energy into Wu Tie's body.

Every pore of Wu Tie's body turned into a tiny black hole; the girl's heavy punch rolled up a torrent of heaven-and-earth immense force, howling as it slammed into him, equivalent to directly pouring vast streams of heaven-and-earth primal energy into his body.

All incoming force was accepted without refusal, utterly devoured by Wu Tie's body.

Within a radius of a thousand li, the mountain forests erupted in raging winds; heaven-and-earth primal energy howled as it surged here, attracted to the girl's fist, then heavily smashed into Wu Tie's body.

The girl's heavy punch drew a response from heaven and earth; ultimately, all heaven-and-earth primal energy was absorbed by Wu Tie.

Wu Tie's skin became increasingly smooth and lustrous, his whole body inside and out flawless, like a mass of light, with no gaps or barriers anywhere.

"Enough!"

The girl's heavy punch had already reached the level of throwing an unknown number of millions of punches in the snap of a finger.

When a heavy punch roared toward the center of Wu Tie's chest, he felt his body had reached a certain limit, unable to breakthrough further in a short time, and he finally let out a furious shout.

Wu Tie's chest strangely split left and right.

All his bones, muscles, and so on split left and right, then rapidly caved in, giving the sensation that Wu Tie's chest had divided into two pieces.

The girl's heavy punch slammed into where his chest had been, now a void.

The immense force lost its target, instantly backlashing; the girl's right arm emitted a series of crack crack crack sounds.

Wu Tie's chest suddenly snapped inward, then a loud boom came from within, like a heavy cannon blast; his chest sprang upward, his breastbone slamming heavily into the girl's fist.

With a crack, the girl was recoiled by Wu Tie's chest; from shoulder blade to fingertips, each joint was instantly dislocated and twisted, her whole arm twisted like a pretzel.

The girl groaned, staggering back two steps.

Her whole body burned with transparent flames, caused by the sudden high temperature from intense friction between her body and the air.

Her leaf clothing and that big tiger skin were burned to ashes; on her tall figure she wore only a tight-fitting inner armor made of unknown leather, which perfectly showcased her flawless physique.

"Ha… you crafty bastard, why not take a beating properly?" The girl gave a violent shake to her twisted right arm; crack sounds continued nonstop as all her joints instantly snapped back into place, returning to normal.

She cocked her head to look at Wu Tie, laughing excitedly: "It doesn't count, this is a sneak attack—you caught me off‑guard while I was in the habit of punching, punching smoothly, then blindsided me; it's a sneak attack, it doesn't count… hahaha, you're very crafty, far more crafty than the lackeys of the Red Lass!"

She wiped a handful of sparkling sweat from her forehead, flicked it away, and the sweat landed on the faces of several nearby youths; with a hiss, her sweat was like molten hot iron, burning the unconscious youths' handsome faces until the skin split and flesh tore, quickly forming large patches of blistering sparkling burns.

"Hmm, are you a subordinate of the Red Lass? You haven't been seen before? Tsk, why not ditch that stingy guy of the Red Lass and instead join me?" The girl widened her eyes, staring fixedly at Wu Tie like a weird uncle luring kids with candy, and said amiably: "Follow me, and you'll eat and drink your fill every day, as long as you spar with me."

Spar with you?

You mean take a beating, right?

Moreover, is it just about eating and drinking your fill? Wu Tie's face drooped; this girl even digs a wall foundation so crudely, she has no ulterior motive at all. Where did she come from?

"Wild girl, you're causing trouble again?" came the voice of the red‑skirt girl from within the wooden building.

Her scarlet long skirt flew out like a blaze; the red‑skirt girl glared furiously at the hundreds of youths sprawled haphazardly on the ground, then at the girl, and without a word she left an afterimage and charged straight at her.

"Bring it on!" the red‑skirt girl slammed a fist down onto the girl's chest.

"Haha, fight!" the girl's eyes sparkled; she let out a loud roar, cheerfully thrusting her chest forward to meet the red‑skirt girl's heavy punch, then threw an identical punch at her chest.

Two thuds boomed.

The two girls' fists were fair, pure, tender, and cute; their tiny fists looked completely harmless.

Each girl slammed a heavy punch into the other's chest; their equally tall, slender bodies flew backward simultaneously, tracing long, straight lines in the air, then with two thuds they nearly simultaneously struck mountain peaks dozens of li away, blasting the peaks with radiant scatter and causing unknown numbers of rapidly trembling seal symbols to erupt on the mountainside.