Fists Collide Head-On

As these words left his mouth, Shen Bai's gaze settled on the terrifying strange man as well.

"You're the Sect Master?" Shen Bai stroked his chin and asked.

Five Hearts Sect Master's gaze was icy. "Whether I am or not, what does it have to do with you? You're merely a man about to die."

Cheng Shuang tightened her grip on the short spike in her hand, a flicker of anger appearing in her eyes. "You're the traitor!"

A traitor?

Upon hearing those words, Five Hearts Sect Master seemed to recall something. He slapped his head hard and said with a face full of disdain, "So you're a spy from the Five Immortals Sect. I was wondering why you suddenly came looking for me. It seems you found yourself quite a capable helper."

The helper he referred to was naturally Shen Bai.

Ever since Five Hearts Sect Master admitted it, Shen Bai had been sizing him up from head to toe.

A moment later, Shen Bai suddenly asked a question.

"Are you still you?"

Five Hearts Sect Master froze slightly, unable to understand why Shen Bai would ask that at a time like this.

He was somewhat baffled.

Shen Bai continued, "Look, your head isn't yours, your hands aren't yours, and even these legs aren't yours. So when you have children with someone in the future, should they call you father, or should they call the people you replaced father?"

"Or perhaps your child will have many fathers."

When those words were spoken, everyone present fell silent.

Cheng Shuang did not know whether to laugh or cry. She dearly wanted to say that Shen Bai's words had completely derailed the originally terrifying and solemn atmosphere.

Yet after thinking it over carefully, she found that it made a little sense.

Even his hands, legs, and head were not his own—then could the child he produced truly be considered his biological child?

The veins on Five Hearts Sect Master's forehead throbbed wildly. "Brat, are you trying to provoke me?"

Shen Bai shook his head and fell into thought. After a moment, he said, "When you hold your woman, is it you holding her, or the owner of your hands? You seem to have been cuckolded rather badly."

Five Hearts Sect Master's entire face went dark. "Are you here to cause trouble, or to rile me up?"

Shen Bai smiled. "Of course I'm here to cause trouble. And it'll be over soon."

Five Hearts Sect Master paused slightly, then burst into wild laughter. "You say it'll be over soon? How dare you say that? Do you see that stitched monster beside me? It is my most perfect masterpiece."

As he spoke, Five Hearts Sect Master leaped high into the air.

The gigantic Stitched Monster beside him extended its right hand and caught Five Hearts Sect Master upon its palm.

A trace of madness appeared on Five Hearts Sect Master's face. "The Five Immortals Sect's cultivation method is wrong. What Five Immortals? That is nothing more than borrowing external strength. Only my method is correct. Hands, feet, even heads—they are all our own strength. I adore this feeling of stitching things together."

"This body is the result of my tireless research, fused together again and again until now. I eliminated the flaws that came after melding different bodies, turning them into a single whole."

After speaking, Five Hearts Sect Master spread open his left hand.

An ancient scripture materialized in his palm.

"When the True Persons of old cultivated, they too emphasized cultivating oneself. I still lack a perfect torso. I could never find one, but now I have."

"So long as I fuse your torso onto my body, I will no longer suffer from having to replace myself over and over."

Shen Bai pointed at himself. "Are you talking about me?"

The madness in Five Hearts Sect Master's eyes deepened. "Of course you. Ever since you killed that old crone and Black Robe, I could sense that there was something extraordinary about you. Your qi and blood are far too powerful. You are more than enough."

Shen Bai stroked his chin. "Then when you have children in the future, they'll all have to call me father."

"Impudent!"

Five Hearts Sect Master could no longer endure it.

Everyone was discussing serious matters, so why did Shen Bai keep dragging children into it?

It was simply speechless.

He had completely muddled the atmosphere.

When others fought, they paid attention to imposing presence, but now there was no atmosphere left at all.

As Five Hearts Sect Master spat out those words, the enormous Stitched Monster finally moved.

Five Hearts Sect Master leaped high, returning to the coffin once more, while the Stitched Monster raised its left fist and smashed it down toward Shen Bai with a thunderous crash.

That fist was made entirely of arms. It looked utterly exaggerated, brimming with a nauseating patchwork quality.

The gale raised by the fist sent the surrounding stones flying into the walls.

Feeling the fist close in, Shen Bai thrust the Rusty Longsword forward.

A vast, righteous aura clung to the blade. As his qi and blood surged, the power of this strike rose to its peak.

Blood Sword Dance made Shen Bai appear as though he were strolling leisurely through a dance, yet the pressure from both sides was as weighty as mountains.

Bang!

With a muffled boom, Shen Bai's Rusty Longsword wounded the massive fist.

Shen Bai was likewise forced back two steps, his fingers brushing over the longsword now covered in cracks.

"Your strength is indeed formidable. Very interesting. This trip was worth it after all."

As Shen Bai spoke, his gaze remained fixed on the Five Hearts Sect Master's left hand.

Ancient True Scripture

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A wisp of baleful qi can speed up appraisal.

A Bizarre Item—another Bizarre Item!

To Shen Bai, this was something exceedingly rare.

Right now, all he wanted was to slaughter the Five Hearts Sect Master, seize the Ancient True Scripture, and take it back for a swift appraisal.

"Very strong."

Shen Bai caught his breath, then said no more and strode toward the Stitched Monster.

That single sword strike just now had already let him probe out the truth.

The Stitched Monster possessed immense strength, and its speed was pushed to the limit. In this karst cave, it was indeed troublesome—after all, there was not much room to evade.

But Shen Bai was not fish on the chopping block.

"Soon enough, I'll show you something even stronger."

The Five Hearts Sect Master flipped through the True Scripture in his hand and spoke slowly.

As though it had received an order, the Stitched Monster raised both fists and rained them down upon Shen Bai like a storm.

To Cheng Shuang, who stood nearby, the sight was utterly shocking.

Because of the confines of the karst cave, the Stitched Monster was half-crouched on the ground, yet its fists moved with astonishing speed. Every punch blasted a massive crater into the earth.

By rights, under such terrifying force, anyone else would have long since been beaten into a puddle of flesh.

But Shen Bai was different.

On the ground, Shen Bai put away the Rusty Longsword. Sacred golden light flickered over his fists.

Every punch collided head-on with the Stitched Monster's enormous fists.

Beyond the golden light, Shen Bai's fists carried Buddha's Voice, as though a Buddha had descended into the mortal world.

At that moment, there were no flashy techniques—only the collision of strength and speed.

Amid the collisions, the Stitched Monster's stitched-together parts vanished one by one into black smoke.

Cheng Shuang felt that being able to witness this scene in her lifetime was truly enough.

For she had never seen such a savage, feral style of head-on battle in any genius before.

It was not only Cheng Shuang. At that moment, cold sweat appeared on the Five Hearts Sect Master's forehead, unnoticed by anyone.