Strength-Grade Ferocious Oddity

Smack!

No one knew how many times he smashed him. Only when the ground in every direction had been battered into a pitted ruin, without a single intact patch, did Jiang Dao finally stop. His face was cold as he casually tossed aside the limp, mangled Eerie Youth.

Even after hitting the ground, the Eerie Youth was somehow still alive. His flesh was a bloody mess as he wriggled and struggled across the ground with difficulty. One of his eyeballs had exploded, leaving only one behind. Covered in blood and reeking of stench, he stared at Jiang Dao in utter horror.

"You... you aren't human either?"

Jiang Dao said nothing. He suddenly bent down, grabbed one of the other man's arms, and yanked hard. No one knew how immense his strength was. With a wet rip, he tore the arm straight from its socket.

Black, viscous fluid seeped from the severed end of the arm, sickening beyond words.

"Ah..."

The Eerie Youth let out an incomparably shrill scream and rolled wildly across the ground, trying to struggle free. But Jiang Dao stomped directly onto his chest. With a tremendous bang, like a bronze pillar crashing down, he pinned him firmly in place.

"What exactly are you? Neither human nor Malevolent Spirit—what are you?"

Jiang Dao casually threw away the arm and asked coldly.

After exchanging so many blows, he could already tell clearly that this was definitely not a human!

But neither was it a Malevolent Spirit!

The manner of this creature's existence was unbelievably bizarre, beyond anything he had anticipated.

He even wondered whether monsters truly existed in this world.

"You... aren't you the same as me? Wh... why are you asking that?"

The Eerie Youth spoke in agony.

Even now, he still believed Jiang Dao was like him—not human.

Jiang Dao's burst of strength just now had simply been too terrifying.

Upon hearing those words, a chill flashed through Jiang Dao's eyes. He bent down again, seized the other arm, unleashed his strength, and tore hard.

With another wet rip, he ripped off an entire arm at the root.

"Ah..."

The Eerie Youth screamed even more miserably.

Thick black blood poured from both shoulders, a sight so ferocious it chilled the heart.

"I'm asking you questions. Answer whatever I ask. If you dare question me even once, I'll tear off another part of you!"

Jiang Dao's tone was icy.

The Eerie Youth was horrified, his gaze trembling as he looked at the youth before him, who resembled a demon god.

By now, regret had turned his intestines green.

Had he known this would happen, how could he have dared provoke Jiang Dao?

This fellow was a hundred times more vicious than he was.

"Hu... humans like to call us Ferocious Oddities."

The Eerie Youth said painfully.

"Ferocious Oddities? What are those?"

Jiang Dao frowned. "How are they different from Malevolent Spirits?"

"We exist on a different level of life from Malevolent Spirits. Both are nonhuman creatures, but Malevolent Spirits have weaker life levels than we do. Only certain great Malevolent Spirits are incomparably terrifying. We... we are ferocious creatures that have gained sentience. Our lifespans are long; even the weakest among us live for centuries, while some powerful ones can live for thousands of years."

The Eerie Youth said.

Jiang Dao's heart surged.

So they really were a kind of monster!

This world was becoming more and more dangerous.

Spirit Eliminators, Malevolent Spirits, Ferocious Oddities—none of them were normal humans!

When ordinary people faced them, there was simply no way out.

"Then compared with Spirit Eliminators, which of you is stronger?"

"Our strength... our strength is about the same. It depends on our grades and the specific circumstances. Under normal conditions, whoever strikes first has the better odds of winning. But nothing is absolute—it depends on each side's realm and the timing of their attack."

The Eerie Youth answered.

"How do human martial artists compare to you?"

Jiang Dao asked.

"Human martial artists? A... a few individual martial artists can indeed threaten us or even kill us, but such people are extremely rare. Most people cannot do anything to us."

The Eerie Youth's face was deathly pale. "Among Ferocious Oddities, I am only the most basic kind, not some high-grade Ferocious Oddity. Our power is something we are born with; no martial art or cultivation technique can compare. As long as I grow even a little stronger, martial arts will become useless against me."

"How are your realms divided? And where do you think my strength ranks among martial artists?"

Jiang Dao narrowed his eyes.

"Like Malevolent Spirits, we are divided into five grades: God, Dragon, Nightmare, Annihilation, and Strength. I am merely the lowest-ranking Strength-Grade Ferocious Oddity. Against an Annihilation-Grade Ferocious Oddity, I would have no ability to resist at all,

"As for the Malevolent Spirits I controlled, they do not even count as Strength Grade. Generally speaking, a Strength-Grade Ferocious Oddity already rivals a Blood Tempering Realm expert among humans. Your strength... a... among humans, you should count as being at the peak of the Blood Tempering Realm..."

The Eerie Youth answered honestly.

Jiang Dao's gaze darkened. "Are you deliberately deceiving me? With your strength, you can only be considered a Strength-Grade Ferocious Oddity? Since the Sacred Artifact appeared in Hengzhou City, how could only a minor character like you have come? Where are all the big players? Were they unwilling to come?"

The Eerie Youth gave a bitter smile. "There were no signs in advance that the Sacred Artifact would emerge in Hengzhou City, so every faction could only urgently dispatch their nearby overseers to investigate. The true experts were too far away and simply could not arrive in time!"

Jiang Dao suddenly fell silent.

"What happened in the city last night? Did that Sacred Artifact emerge?"

"Yes. In the end, the Sacred Artifact was taken by the people of Spirit Child Palace. Every faction is hunting Spirit Child Palace now. Only I... I remained behind."

The Eerie Youth stammered.

"You stayed behind to deal with our Jiang Family?"

Jiang Dao sneered.

"Spare me! I failed to recognize Mount Tai before my eyes. Spare my life!"

The Eerie Youth wailed in pain.

"Now that Spirit Child Palace has obtained that Sacred Artifact, does that mean Hengzhou City will become safe again from now on?"

Jiang Dao asked.

"Yes. Hengzhou City will become as it was before. No more Malevolent Spirits or Ferocious Oddities will come here."

The Eerie Youth said.

"Then I killed one of Spirit Child Palace's Spirit Children earlier. Do you think they will retaliate against me?"

Jiang Dao suddenly asked.

"Th... that, I don't know either."

The Eerie Youth was filled with bitterness. "Spare me, please. Both my arms have already been torn off. I am no longer a threat. Please, spare my life."

Jiang Dao looked down at him, narrowing his eyes. Suddenly, a horrifying icy gleam flashed through them. His broad palm abruptly came down over the Eerie Youth's face. His five fingers clenched around his head, and he yanked fiercely.

Rip!

The Eerie Youth's entire head was torn straight off, black blood dripping everywhere and spreading a rotten stench.

The Eerie Youth's face was twisted in agony. Even after his head had been ripped away, his body was still wriggling with difficulty.

But after writhing for a moment, it finally died completely.

Jiang Dao casually tossed aside the head, his heart growing heavy.

Terrifying creatures!

Even after having its head torn off, it could still struggle.

And both the Old Daoist Changbai and this Eerie Youth had said that human martial artists could barely affect them... The composition of these creatures' lives was simply unfathomable!

He had already modified several martial arts to the realms they would reach after one hundred and twenty years, yet fighting them was still so difficult. If he encountered a stronger one, death would likely be the only thing awaiting him.

The Eerie Youth had only been the most basic kind of Ferocious Oddity!

Jiang Dao opened the panel and looked over it again.

After killing the Eerie Youth, the words indicating that the five martial arts could be modified had actually reappeared.

"Like Malevolent Spirits, these Ferocious Oddities can let my martial arts continue to be modified once they are killed..."

Jiang Dao's eyes flickered.

This was the only good news so far!

They all said human martial artists were useless against them, but Jiang Dao refused to believe in such evil.

Once he modified all these martial arts to the realms of one thousand or two thousand years, what would he have to fear from even stronger Ferocious Oddities?

For now, this panel was his greatest trump card.