Yet before he could remain excited for long, a voice that sounded ice-cold to him suddenly came from behind.
"Why are you clutching your chest?"
The instant he heard that voice, Bangu's already aged face seemed to grow decades older, and even a deathly aura began to spread across it.
"Life Sacrifice Secret Technique. As expected, they're all monsters and fiends."
With a wet squelch, before Bangu could unleash his strongest move, a palm had already pierced through his chest. A living heart appeared in that palm, and then, with another wet squelch, the palm crushed it without the slightest hesitation.
Bangu tried to speak, but before he could, his neck had already become a mangled mess.
The palm embedded in his chest shook, and in an instant, Bangu's entire corpse exploded into powder, leaving behind only his twisted head, frozen in astonishment.
Samlet held his head up and appeared before Cang Xiao the next instant.
At this point, Cang Xiao no longer looked human in the slightest. He was indistinguishable from a mountain demon, his eyes filled with nothing but ferocity and savagery.
He raised the Secret-Metal Club in his hand and merged his Dao Fruit into his body. In an instant, he transformed into a gigantic mountain demon dozens of zhang tall and swung the club down at Samlet.
Yet Samlet, holding Bangu's head in one hand, showed not the slightest tension. He extended his empty palm and slapped it toward Cang Xiao's Secret-Metal Club.
Seeing this, the savage grin on Cang Xiao's face grew even more ferocious.
Yet in the next moment, with a bang, the Secret-Metal Club—cast entirely from solid secret metal and possessing durability comparable to a divine artifact—was snapped in two by a single palm strike from Samlet.
Then, without losing any of its