Chaotic Battle

The fuse that ignited this "powder keg" was remarkably simple—almost laughable.

Two groups of Transcendents, fresh from an arduous bout of training, full of youthful vigor and ravenously hungry, had simultaneously set their sights on the last Diamond Lizard spine at a certain cafeteria window.

In truth, the Diamond Lizard was not some one-of-a-kind Hell Beast, much less a Doomsday Beast.

Though its spine was hard as iron, with a large pressure cooker infused with crystal materials, the next batch of braised spines, soft enough to melt into mush, would be ready in just another five minutes.

Besides, the neighboring windows had plenty of monster meat richer in Spiritual Energy and even more delicious than Diamond Lizard spines.

And yet, the two groups of Transcendents started arguing over one tiny spine like rival gangs of street punks.

Of course, what they were fighting over was not a single spine.

The deeper reason was that the elder brother of this Transcendent from Cosmos Group had just used a newly released Gene Serum in a ring match that morning. He had unleashed an unprecedented Sure Kill Skill, knocked a grassroots officer of the Crimson Dragon Army from the ring, and left him unconscious. He still had not awakened.

The furious Transcendent standing on the other side of the Diamond Lizard spine happened to be the unconscious officer's closest comrade—the kind who had saved each other's lives countless times through the fierce battles of the past six months.

Nor had the Cosmos Group Transcendent's elder brother gotten off well.

Though he had won the match and forcibly seized the mining rights to a Crystal Mine Branch from the Crimson Dragon Army for Cosmos Group,

the new Gene Serum had been extremely unstable, and he had overstimulated his Life Magnetic Field to execute his