"Sever!"
After the woman in white sent Jiang Dao flying with a palm strike, her eyes turned pitch-black as she let out a piercing shriek.
Screech! Screech! Screech!
Dozens of strange black forces instantly appeared in the air, crisscrossing and dancing as they swiftly tangled around Jiang Dao's flying body. Each strand was like the toughest steel wire, capable of cutting through anything.
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
The black forces netted Jiang Dao within them, tightening his skin. Even though he had fused Iron Shirt with Golden Bell Body Protection Art, his skin instantly split open, blood seeping out.
Jiang Dao roared and unleashed all his strength. He no longer spared the internal energy from his 240 years of Life Nurturing Art. In an instant, it spread through all four limbs and every bone, causing his strength to surge by another great margin.
That dense internal energy even seeped out through his pores, directly forming a cicada-wing-thin protective barrier over his body.
The barrier was tough and resilient, blocking every strand of black force.
Boom!
Jiang Dao shuddered violently, snapping all the black mesh wrapped around him in an instant.
The moment he broke the black mesh, the woman in white let out a sharp scream. Moving at the utmost speed, she tore toward Jiang Dao again.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
She was as swift as lightning, launching a rapid barrage of attacks at Jiang Dao.
For a time, Jiang Dao had no ability to fight back at all. He simply could not see the woman clearly.
She was far too fast, utterly unlike before.
While using the membrane formed by the Life Nurturing Art to withstand her attacks, Jiang Dao rapidly retreated, searching for an opportunity.
During this process, his internal energy was being consumed at a terrifying rate.
It was as though rivers and mountains were running dry, the speed beyond imagination.
The woman in white suddenly thrust out a hand and viciously stabbed toward Jiang Dao's back. Her tough fingernails pierced straight through the barrier around his body, tearing into his flesh as they reached for his heart.
Yet Jiang Dao's muscles abruptly contracted, like diamond and mystical iron, clamping down tightly on the woman's hand and preventing it from going any deeper.
"Got you!"
Jiang Dao's voice was terrifying. His enormous body suddenly spun around, his five fingers hooked like claws.
Pfft!
Jiang Dao seized the woman in white by the forehead. She let out a piercing scream and tried to pull her hand free, only to find his muscles unbelievably tough. For the moment, she could not pull it out at all.
Jiang Dao fiercely clenched his five fingers, pushing Eagle Claw Art to its limit.
Bang!
The woman in white screamed again. Jiang Dao crushed her skull until it caved in and burst apart, blue smoke rising directly from the top of her head.
Her gaze was venomous. Suddenly, she swung her other hand toward Jiang Dao's body in a vicious grab.
Jiang Dao turned around, one hand gripping her head tightly while his other palm activated the Wind Thunder Poison Sand Palm, blasting strike after strike into the woman in white.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
His Wind Thunder Poison Sand Palm was currently only at thirty years of mastery, so not every strike could produce Thunderfire. Even so, every palm landed solidly on flesh, each one incomparably terrifying.
The two bodies were like ferocious beasts.
At last, the woman in white violently yanked her hand from Jiang Dao's muscles. Her body flew backward and smashed heavily into the distance.
Jiang Dao staggered as well, drenched in blood. He took two steps back, his eyes icy as he looked toward the woman in white.
The woman in white was battered and torn beyond recognition. Many parts of her body had been punched straight through, black blood flowing from within and melting away with sizzling sounds. Her wounds could no longer heal.
All of it had been inflicted by Jiang Dao's Wind Thunder Poison Sand Palm.
Her body swayed unsteadily, her face twisted in a horrifying expression. Smoke constantly rose from her body as she stared fixedly at Jiang Dao.
"You're not human?"
Her voice was shrill.
"Weren't you going to kill me? Hehe, weren't you going to eat me? With that little strength, you're not even worthy to lick my feet! Hahahaha..."
Jiang Dao's terrifying muscles rippled as he laughed wildly.
He was deliberately provoking her with his words, intending to kill her completely here.
Her speed was too strange. Even wounded as she was now, if she chose to flee, he would never catch up to her.
So he had to find a way to keep her here.
Sure enough!
After Jiang Dao spoke those words, the woman in white's face twisted even further. Red light flickered in her single eye as she fixed her gaze on Jiang Dao, then suddenly let out a shrill scream and pounced toward him at tremendous speed.
Jiang Dao shouted, "Blade!"
Everyone in the distance felt their hearts jolt.
Guo Dutian reacted quickly and hurriedly threw out a steel blade.
The woman in white abruptly looked toward the steel blade. Moving with terrifying speed, she instantly swept over and grabbed for it.
But just as she caught the blade, Jiang Dao's body suddenly appeared behind her. Carrying a terrifying aura, his two enormous palms slammed viciously toward the woman in white's head.
As if swatting a mosquito.
Boom!
The sound was horrifying, and the air exploded.
The woman in white let out a scream. Blood sprayed from all seven orifices, a sight too tragic to describe.
The steel blade she had grabbed also slipped from her hand.
After striking her, Jiang Dao grabbed the woman in white's long hair with one hand and snatched up the steel blade with the other. Every muscle and vein on his body bulged as his strength condensed to the extreme. He roared:
"Godslayer Slash!"
Screech!
A strange current instantly appeared over the steel blade. It tore through the air with terrifying force, as though breaking through the limits of space, and swept viciously toward the woman in white's neck.
Pfft!
The terrifying slash passed through in an instant.
It was like cutting through tough leather, drawing a miserable scream from the woman in white.
For the second time, Jiang Dao severed her head. With a fierce yank of his five fingers, he tore her head off again.
Thud!
Jiang Dao kicked her headless corpse away. It smashed heavily into the distance, twitching weakly as black blood flowed from its neck before it soon stopped moving.
But Jiang Dao did not dare relax in the slightest. He stared fixedly at the head in his palm.
That woman had just regrown her body after he bit off her head.
Whether she could revive this time or not, he would not give her another chance.
"Playing dead? Whether you're truly dead or only pretending, I'll make sure you can never be reborn!"
Jiang Dao's voice was icy. He suddenly turned to Guo Dutian and said, "Prepare a large pot. Fill it with butter and boil it over a fierce fire!"
"Yes, Hall Master!"
Guo Dutian and the others were all horrified, but they hurriedly nodded.
They quickly rushed out.
Before long, a great fire was lit in the courtyard and a large pot was set up. The hot oil inside boiled furiously, gurgling as huge bubbles rose.
Jiang Dao wore a cruel smile as he looked at the motionless woman's head in his hand. "I'll throw you into boiling oil and see whether you can still survive. Hehehe..."
The woman's eyes suddenly flew open, and she let out a piercing scream.
But Jiang Dao directly threw her head down.
Thud!
"Ah..."
The woman's head immediately let out a miserable scream in the boiling oil. It bobbed up and down in the pot, struggling frantically as the oil gurgled. Her entire skin rapidly fried golden and crisp.
Everyone watched the horrifying scene in utter terror.
The woman in white did not last long. Screaming miserably in the boiling oil for more than a minute, she finally stopped reacting altogether.
The fierce flames continued to blaze.
The entire pot of boiling oil was relentlessly cooked.
It burned through the entire night.
Jiang Dao watched it all coldly.
Day broke.
Jiang Dao's body swayed. At last, he could no longer hold on and collapsed onto the ground, his face deathly pale as he gasped heavily.
His taut muscles instantly began to shrink, rapidly returning to normal. Intense pain spread throughout his body, along with a chilling, sinister sensation.
This was already the result of running the Life Nurturing Art through the night. Otherwise, his injuries would have been even worse.
"Hall Master! Hall Master, how are you?"
Guo Dutian, Du Feng, and the others turned pale in alarm. They hurried over and quickly helped Jiang Dao up.
"Fish around in the pot and see if she's dead!" Jiang Dao said in a low voice.
Several people soon gathered their courage, fetched some tools, and began fishing through the oil pot.
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