Stepping into the Perfected Circle Realm

As the tomb door slammed shut, everyone's hearts pounded violently!

Although Su Ti had warned them before, it was only at this moment that they truly confirmed the existence of other creatures within this tomb!

After the door closed, the sound of fingernails scraping against the ground echoed, a rustling sound that lingered around them.

And it seemed to be getting closer and closer from a distance...

A black shadow suddenly flashed by, and everyone lowered their torches, their faces changing drastically.

"Did anyone see it? What was it?!"

"I don't know, I didn't even see a shadow!"

"There's more than one of them, and they're getting closer to us!"

Everyone looked nervous, huddling together cautiously.

Whoosh!

Just then, a black shadow suddenly leaped down from above, its dark claws flashing with a chilling light, grabbing towards Xu Lao's head as he held his gun, scanning the surroundings.

Xu Lao was completely unaware. By the time he heard the sound of rushing wind, it was too late. The claws were less than thirty centimeters from his face, and he had no time to react.

Just then, a swollen fist let out a sharp crack. Before the claw could land on Xu Lao, a punch sent the thing flying!

After a sharp shriek, the thing flew into the surrounding darkness, rustling and scurrying away into the shadows.

Only then did Lao Li and Cao Man react, belatedly asking in a hurry.

"What was that?!"

"Did you kill it?!"

Xu Lao clutched his chest, gasping for breath. He was terrified, having almost lost his life.

Su Ti retracted his fist, shaking his head with a heavy expression.

"That thing wasn't big, but it was extremely agile. When I punched it, it felt like hitting a piece of paper, completely without resistance. It used my force to get away. But don't worry, although it's fast, I can still react. Stay closer to me."

Hearing this, everyone quickly huddled together again, backing against each other for defense.

"Xu Lao, can you identify what kind of Evil Spirit this is?"

Su Ti asked in a low voice.

Xu Lao trembled.

"I, I can't identify it either. I don't recognize every type of Evil Spirit. I can only recognize some that I've seen in books. If this is an Evil Spirit I've never seen in a book, then I wouldn't know."

Xu Lao tried his best to calm down, but he was still shaking and trembling.

Su Ti nodded.

"Be wary of these things from above. They seem to be able to climb walls and attack from above. Don't stray too far from me."

"Okay."

Holding their torches, filled with fear and unease, everyone stared intently at the dark surroundings.

The current situation was too disadvantageous for them, especially since their line of sight was only a short 1.5 meters. They had no idea what might jump out of the darkness, or from which direction.

"How about we retreat back to the entrance?"

Lao Li's face was pale. He couldn't bear the pressure anymore and suggested.

Su Ti, however, rejected his idea.

"No, we can't go back. It's too far from here to the entrance, a full twenty to thirty meters. We'll be ambushed halfway."

Su Ti remained very calm. The five layers of Bodhisattva Practice gave him extremely strong willpower, allowing him to think calmly even when facing unfamiliar monsters in the dark.

"Let's go up and use King Mu's coffin to protect our rear. Maybe we can fight them there."

With a backbone, everyone backed against each other and walked up the steps one by one.

There were a total of 9 steps, and at the top was a small platform. On the small platform was the tomb king's giant coffin.

As everyone approached King Mu's coffin, the things in the darkness seemed to become agitated, making rustling sounds.

Swish!

A monster in the darkness, seemingly unable to bear it any longer, suddenly charged and pounced towards the crowd!

Su Ti's eyes widened. Under the torchlight, he saw the monster's appearance for the first time.

This thing wasn't big, only about 1.4 meters tall. Its body was covered in fine black scales, its claws protruded several centimeters long, it had vertical pupils, a forked tongue, a protruding face, and a long tail, like a large lizard standing upright!

Boom!

Before the lizard monster could get close, Su Ti threw a punch.

The power of the five layers of internal training erupted. The air was visibly pushed away by his fist. The powerful punch wind even pressed the torch flame against the wooden handle, as if it were about to be extinguished.

Just as he was about to hit the lizard monster with a punch, the monster suddenly flipped over in mid-air. Without anything to leverage against, it twisted its body with its muscles, directly climbing onto Su Ti's arm and avoiding the punch.

"It's actually this agile!"

Su Ti was startled. Just as he was about to retract his arm, he felt a pain in his arm, and the monster agilely jumped away.

Looking at his arm again, several bloody scratches had appeared on it, even breaking through his Copper Skin Skill.

And the attack of this lizard monster was just a starting signal.

Next, from the darkness, a large number of lizard monsters, one after another, surged towards the crowd!

Su Ti's face changed as he faced the group attack of these lizard monsters. Feeling the danger, he immediately unleashed his full power.

He threw down the torch, and in an instant, a sky full of fists, palms, and foot shadows continuously attacked the incoming lizard monsters.

Under Su Ti's frantic attack with all his strength, the resulting storm-like assault barely managed to stop the group of lizard monsters.

But it was only just stopping them. These lizard monsters were extremely fast and agile. Most of Su Ti's attacks were dodged by them, and even if a fist or foot occasionally hit these monsters, their smooth scales and light bodies deflected most of the force, preventing decisive damage.

On the contrary, Su Ti himself was covered in wounds from such attacks, being scratched by the monsters' sharp claws again and again in the gaps between attacks. Although the defense of his Great Accomplishment level Copper Skin Skill prevented serious injuries, the accumulation of small wounds quickly led to blood flowing profusely.

The others weren't just standing by either; they also tried to help.

Cao Man swung her long whip and threw swallow darts coated with neurotoxin.

But facing these incredibly agile monsters, nine out of ten of her darts missed, and the one or two that did hit were bounced off by their scales.

As for the whip, it was even worse; she basically couldn't hit them.

If Cao Man, a Tongli Stage martial artist, was like this, let alone Xu Lao and Lao Li, two ordinary people. They could barely even see the monsters' figures, let alone attack them. They could only rely on the King Mu's coffin to protect the rear, barely managing to maintain their defense.

"This won't do!"

After knocking away another lizard monster, another bloody scratch appeared on Su Ti, and he shouted loudly.

With his current physical fitness and fighting style, in an environment where these monsters had the advantage of terrain, he could only passively defend.

He needed energy, energy to break through the limitations of his martial arts.

Because his fighting style had now reached the Minor Accomplishment stage, Su Ti believed that if he broke through to Great Accomplishment and reached the Perfected Circle Realm, his combat power would definitely have a qualitative improvement!

"I'll cover you, quickly open King Mu's coffin and get the Cursed Antique inside for me!"

Su Ti roared.

Although he said this, he was actually unsure if there was a Cursed Antique in King Mu's coffin. After all, even the Cursed Antiques on King Mu's concubines in the side chamber and the sacrificial victims in the side tomb had been taken by that mysterious snake demon. The probability of the Cursed Antique in King Mu's coffin being taken was also very high.

But at this point, Su Ti could only hope for the Cursed Antique inside the coffin. If there wasn't one... he could only rely on his martial arts to force his way out, and then he wouldn't be able to protect Xu Lao and the others.

The result of that would be that he could escape alive, but Xu Lao and the others would definitely die in this tomb.

The fact that the few of them had made it this far was also the result of mutual help. Although Su Ti had saved the lives of Xu Lao and the others multiple times during this adventure, Cao Man had also saved Su Ti's life when they encountered the Mountain Wraith at the cliff before. Their relationship was no longer just a chance encounter, but one of life and death. Unless they were truly at their wit's end, Su Ti would never abandon them.

Although Xu Lao and the other two didn't understand why Su Ti was still fixated on that Cursed Antique at this critical moment, they could only trust Su Ti at this time.

The three of them worked together to push open the huge stone coffin lid of King Mu.

The scene inside the coffin made their eyes widen!

It wasn't empty, nor was it just King Mu's corpse with nothing else.

A large amount of blood was stored in the coffin!

A strong smell of blood rushed towards them, almost overwhelming them.

A red bead about the size of a pigeon's egg floated on top of the blood, emitting a faint red light! It looked extremely evil!

Although they couldn't understand at all why King Mu's corpse had disappeared, why there was so much blood stored in his coffin, and why there was a bead floating on top of this blood, Xu Lao and the others didn't have time to think so much at this moment!

This bead was soaked in this blood, in the King Mu's coffin, at the source of the Yin energy! There was a very high possibility that it was a Cursed Antique!

Xu Lao reached out and scooped out the bead. A powerful sense of coldness and ominousness surged into his hand, making him shiver violently.

It was this feeling that made Xu Lao confirm that this was a Cursed Antique, one hundred percent a Cursed Antique!

Moreover, the fact that even an ordinary old man like him, with weak perception, could feel the Yin energy field within it, meant that this Cursed Antique was extremely fierce, even among all the Cursed Antiques Xu Lao had seen!

He picked up the bead. At this time, Su Ti was blocking the crowd, constantly resisting the lizard monsters' attacks and had no time to pay attention to him. Xu Lao directly stuffed the bead into Su Ti's pants pocket.

"Here!"

Although he didn't know why Su Ti was still thinking about that little Cursed Antique at such a critical moment, Xu Lao still chose to trust the other party in this crisis.

As the blood-red bead entered his pants pocket, even through a thin layer of fabric, the energy from it entered Su Ti's body.

At this moment, a powerful cold energy began to continuously surge into Su Ti's body from the pocket.

60%, 80%, 180%, 300%!

After reaching 300%, the plus sign next to Su Ti's Golden Python Four Forms lit up with a faint light. This was the energy prompt from the modifier, indicating that it could be upgraded to the next level.

In a critical moment, Su Ti didn't hesitate. His gaze focused, and a large amount of energy was injected.

The proficiency of Golden Python Four Forms began to increase wildly!

Minor Accomplishment 30%, Minor Accomplishment 60%, Minor Accomplishment 99%, Golden Python Four Forms Great Accomplishment!

Along with the Great Accomplishment of Golden Python Four Forms, Su Ti felt a cool energy surge throughout his body at this moment. A large amount of memories flooded his mind and body, as if in this instant he had experienced a large number of life-and-death battles and gained new insights into his fighting style at the brink of life and death! This caused his fighting style to break through to a completely new realm!

And a divine light flickered in his eyes. With the double Great Accomplishment of internal training and fighting style, a new term began to appear after his Golden Python Four Forms.

Martial Arts: Golden Python Four Forms (Great Accomplishment) [Perfected Circle]

The Perfected Circle Realm was a realm that could only be reached with the double Great Accomplishment of both fighting style and training method.

In this realm, martial artists are not only highly sensitive to their bodies but can also control the movement of every single muscle throughout their bodies using perfected qi and blood techniques, exerting force from various parts of their bodies for attack or defense.

The saying, "a feather cannot be added, nor a fly land," describes this realm.

Because of their heightened sensitivity to their bodies, they can perceive many things that ordinary people cannot.

At this moment, Su Ti had this feeling. He could hear the strong breathing and rapid heartbeats of Xu Lao and the other two behind him, sensing their fear.

He could also feel the cold gazes of the lizard monsters in the darkness, and the hissing and squeaking sounds they made when they flicked their tongues.

The sound of their claws scraping the ground, the slight whooshing sound their movements made, and the faint sound of their breathing – he could hear it all!

Just then! A lizard monster lunged at Su Ti from the side!

Su Ti had already spotted it before it entered the range of the firelight and punched out without a second thought!

Seeing the punch coming, the lizard monster displayed astonishing agility in mid-air. It used its waist and abdomen to adjust its body posture without any leverage in the air, intending to grab Su Ti's arm.

But just as its hands and feet grabbed Su Ti's arm, they suddenly slipped, and it lost its balance and fell.

A hint of human-like shock and confusion appeared in the lizard monster's cold pupils.

It could climb on the ceiling, which was almost parallel to the ground, so why couldn't it grip a human arm?

And at this moment, if time were slowed down and magnified, one could see...

On Su Ti's arm at this time, every muscle was rippling, like smooth snake scales.

This was the Scaled Python Armor.

In the Perfected Circle Realm, one can unleash power from every part of the body. Only upon reaching the Perfected Circle Realm does the true power of the Scaled Python Armor fully manifest.

Su Ti no longer needed to activate the full Scaled Python Armor to defend against small-scale attacks as he did before. Now, he could activate a partial range of the Scaled Python Armor in the area being attacked for defense.

And the second after the monster fell, boom!

Su Ti suddenly kicked out, a black leg shadow carrying a sharp whistle, hitting the monster squarely in the chest!

The monster grunted, flying out like a cannonball. After flying seven or eight meters, it fell heavily to the ground, twitching uncontrollably, blood spilling from the corners of its mouth, unable to stand up again.

Its naturally smooth scales, combined with its small size, could originally dissipate most of the impact force from an attack, causing little damage even when hit.

But after reaching the Perfected Circle Realm, although Su Ti's strength itself hadn't increased, it had become more concentrated and precise, and the instantaneous explosive power had also become stronger. Even hitting smooth scales wouldn't be easily deflected.

This was like using the same amount of force, but one side was throwing a punch, while the other side was using that force to draw a bow and shoot an arrow. Even if the force used was the same, the explosive power and concentration were vastly different, thus directly leaving this monster on the verge of death!

But at this moment in King Mu's Tomb, there wasn't just one monster!

Seeing Su Ti's outburst, these lizard monsters were not afraid. Instead, they all let out sharp shrieks, displaying astonishing teamwork. In an instant, they all rushed towards Su Ti simultaneously, wanting to unleash their strongest power in an instant to finish him off!

Feeling seven or eight monsters rushing towards him from the darkness at the same time, a cold light flashed in Su Ti's eyes.

"You all cover your ears and lie down!"

In this moment of crisis, everyone did as they were told without thinking.

Just then, a large number of monsters had already rushed towards Su Ti. The claws of the closest one were only twenty centimeters away from Su Ti's body...

At this critical juncture, Su Ti raised his hands, his chest puffed up high, his neck swelling a circle and turning red, like a giant python about to spit something out.

The next second.

Boom!