Chapter 567: I Held My Ground (4/5, Bonus for 'Feng Lan')

As Fang Yue frowned in confusion, the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】 came into view ahead, standing ready.

In haste, the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】 could only drag up thirty-odd iron chains to meet the enemy.

Fang Yue's mind stirred; he accelerated his sprint while trying to recall the previous sensation, his spirit intensely focused.

Gulu gulu.

With this thought, he felt something within his body flowing, burning.

Fang Yue carefully sensed it, and was momentarily stunned.

For the thing burning inside him was unmistakably the effect of the 【Sea Corner Pill】.

The medicinal power, once circulating through his blood, organs, and body, now burned furiously under the force of Fang Yue's will.

The 【Sea Corner Pill】's effect, which should have lasted much longer, burned away more than half in an instant.

Like a steam engine consuming coal, as the medicinal power burned, Fang Yue's heart thudded—thump thump thump—like a roaring engine, faintly audible even to the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】.

Alongside this, Fang Yue felt something most fundamental, most essential within him slowly evaporating.

At the same time, the image of the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】 flinging its thirty-odd iron chains suddenly seemed to slow slightly.

This feeling was like an illusion—slightly slower, yet not quite slowed, existing in a hazy Schrödinger-like state.

But this "illusion" triggered the system prompt once again.

"System Prompt: Player 【Yese Liming】 has overdrawn potential; Comprehension is subtly declining."

The illusion had received official validation.

The illusion had become reality.

The 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】's movements, and even the iron chains hurtling toward him, had truly slowed—slightly. Even the falling rain of 【Night Rain】 seemed to descend a fraction slower.

Fang Yue smashed through the falling raindrops with his face, moved preemptively, and dodged with precision.

Time, in that instant, seemed to snap back to normal.

Sssssss—

With a few light steps, maintaining his forward momentum, Fang Yue precisely evaded each iron chain by mere centimeters.

Not a single one of the thirty-odd iron chains struck Fang Yue!

Before the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】 could register its shock, Fang Yue had already used 【Shadow Step】 to close the distance.

"Dark Moon Blade Technique!"

The two-meter black blade vanished into darkness, carving a crescent moon.

Bam!!

The blade slammed hard into the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】's shoulder, accompanied by the crackling crunch of shattering bone.

The 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】's black shoulder bone was driven halfway in, lodged against its sternum and ribs.

67291!

As the stunned 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】 staggered back, recovering from the pain, Fang Yue, having passed the 【Dark Moon Blade Technique】's recovery lag, kicked its face and yanked backward.

Crrrrrlll!

The two-meter black blade, as it was pulled out, scraped away most of the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】's black bone, scattering shattered fragments across the ground.

When Fang Yue withdrew the two-meter blade and swung it backward in a reverse strike, he slashed directly into the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】's left shoulder.

"Roar!!"

Enraged, the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】 drove iron chains up from the ground, piercing Fang Yue's right leg.

The 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】 intended to immobilize the agile Fang Yue this way, then overwhelm him with relentless chain attacks.

But Fang Yue now grinned, baring his sharp fangs.

"Do you think I need to run?"

As the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】 stared in shock, Fang Yue reached out and seized half its black skull, dragged the two-meter blade free with his right hand, then brought it down in a massive slash upon its half-human head.

92761!

But this was not the end—he kept slashing, kept slashing!

Pull the blade, slash! Pull the blade, slash!

Slash wildly!

Like a mad butcher hacking at a slaughtered lamb.

The strongest techniques are often the most unadorned—blade rises, blade falls, bone shards fly.

Chop!

Chop!

Chop!!

65256!

78625!

68629!

Each strike made the 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】's body shudder violently.

Its black bone was extremely hard; Fang Yue's black blade could not sever it with a single blow.

But the relentless, repeated strikes, all focused on the same spot, accumulated damage.

The accumulated wounds and destruction mounted.

The damaged sternum finally gave way under Fang Yue's assault, cleaved cleanly in two by a single slash.

The torso, already reduced to its upper half, now became only a half-section of its left side.

The half-human, half-bone head was pitted and scarred beyond recognition.

The 【Pulling-Coffin Apparition】 was stunned into silence.

Can it even do this?!

What kind of battle is this??

Isn't this just stomping on pig bones??

Coming to his senses, it roared—and immediately, iron chains pierced Fang Yue.

"Oh come on, you've got some spirit!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Amid Fang Yue's taunts, three iron chains burst from the ground and all pierced his other leg, pinning him firmly in place.

Logically, any ordinary martial artist, pierced by three iron chains and enduring constant Night Rain, should already be dead.

But Fang Yue wasn't. Fang Yue's abnormal resilience left the 【Pulling Coffin Ghoul】 stunned.

Even this assault still left him unharmed!

Even as the 【Pulling Coffin Ghoul】 prepared to counterattack…

Boom!!!

The 【Pulling Coffin Ghoul】's head took a heavy blow, its entire skull ringing with vibration.

Looking over, it saw Fang Yue hacking at its head—with a mad look, as if he'd gladly sever his own left hand, still gripping the 【Pulling Coffin Ghoul】's limb, just to kill it.

The 【Pulling Coffin Ghoul】 panicked, rushing to control the chains for retaliation—but Fang Yue's relentless strikes caused its thoughts to stutter and fragment.

At the very moment the 【Pulling Coffin Ghoul】 drove its fifth iron chain through Fang Yue's body, Fang Yue brought down one heavy slash—shattering the 【Pulling Coffin Ghoul】's head, severing it clean, and splitting its head from its body entirely.

Half of the black bone's skull remained attached to part of its upper left torso; the human half of the skull was cleanly chopped to the ground.

This time, the 【Pulling Coffin Ghoul】 grew extremely weak. After Fang Yue stomped on the human skull and hacked it into unrecognizable ruin, he turned again to the black bone's head and began slashing wildly.

But it had no strength left to fight back.

With one final, crushing blow, the 【Pulling Coffin Ghoul】's skull—long trampled and battered—was shattered into black bone fragments.

157826!

The massive damage ended the 【Pulling Coffin Ghoul】's life.

Fang Yue finally stopped, his trembling hand falling still. He collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath.

"Finally—I took care of it before the 【Haijiao Pill】's effect wore off!"

Fang Yue let out a deep sigh, smiled, and looked up at the sky.

Plop.

Plop.

Fat raindrops struck his face, triggering dense health-loss prompts.

This—was no longer Medium Rain. It was heavy rain!

Torrential rain poured down, thunder cracked and lightning flashed—but Fang Yue laughed aloud.

Qingsi County—I held it!

(End of Chapter)