A "Fight to the Death" Promise from Gouki

The old fruit seller never wasted words. The moment he spoke, he went straight to the heart of the matter.

Before anyone aboard the Scorching Sun could figure out how to leave through the mushroom pods and support him, Gouki had already assumed a special stance that only Cheng Tian understood.

"One! Instant! Thousand! Strikes!"

As his words fell, Gouki vanished from everyone's sight, while Cheng Tian's vision plunged into darkness.

Immediately afterward, the sensation of countless punches and kicks striking nearly every potentially fatal spot on Cheng Tian's body appeared all at once... Yet strangely, Cheng Tian's health bar did not fluctuate at all. It remained at 600.

Cheng Tian found it difficult to explain this situation where he felt only pain but suffered no injury.

In the blink of an eye, Gouki reappeared behind Cheng Tian, a blood-red character for "Heaven" emerging behind him.

At the same time, however, an identical character for "Heaven" appeared on Cheng Tian's back as though reflected in a mirror. As it surfaced, it even erupted with the distinctive blood aura that only true Killing Intent possessed.

In that instant, Cheng Tian's eyes turned crimson, and his mind was instantly filled with the word "kill." There was no room for any other thought.

Cheng Tian, who possessed Orochi Power, had somehow activated Killing Intent!

"My eyes were not mistaken after all. There truly is a seed of Killing Intent left within your body."

Gouki, who had already turned around, watched the Killing Intent rising from Cheng Tian's body, his eyes full of scrutiny.

As for the so-called Killing Intent within Cheng Tian, its origins could be traced back to the Armor Hero dungeon.

In that dungeon, Cheng Tian had mutated Zero Haogui through Night Parade of a Hundred Demons. While piloting Zero Haogui,