Zhou Shang's Whale Swallows the Four Seas in a Beast-in-a-Dead-End Fight, Wild Fists Blasting the Mutated Flesh Apart

Zhou Shang's pressure doubled, and the shock numbed both his arms.

At last, he could hold on no longer. The thought of retreat sprouted in his mind.

This brat is strange!

I can't fight him head-on!

With a thought, he took Chen Duan's punch and retreated by borrowing its force.

He was just about to vanish into the dense fog of true qi again.

He intended to observe and maneuver from there, regrouping before making another attempt.

However.

Chen Duan had already predicted his move. The instant Zhou Shang retreated, a large hand shot out at greatly increased speed and clamped around his wrist.

A tremendous force forcibly dragged him back.

"Since you've delivered yourself to my door, how could I possibly let you escape again?"

Before his voice had even faded—

Rip!

Two arms burst from beneath Chen Duan's armpits. With all five fingers pressed together, they pierced through the true qi and plunged into Zhou Shang's stomach.

Zhou Shang was startled. He did not even have time to worry about the pain, struggling desperately to break free.

But then—

Crack-crack-crack!

Bone and flesh erupted with explosive sounds as Chen Duan's torso thundered.

Several more arms instantly grew out!

Zhou Shang's pupils contracted sharply, his heart filled with terror.

Although his Water Element Art was already strange and bizarre enough, Chen Duan's many-armed demon was clearly no less uncanny.

The next moment.

Those newborn fists attacked from every direction like a violent storm.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Chen Duan's two arms had sunk into the flesh, locking Zhou Shang firmly in place, while his other arms transformed into several trails of fist shadows that poured down upon him in a frenzy!

The fist shadows were so dense there was not even the slightest gap between them.

From the moment Chen Duan forcibly dragged Zhou Shang back, offense and defense had completely switched sides!

Zhou Shang had fallen utterly into a passive position!

At this moment, he could only circulate Water Born Flowing Cloud, constantly dissolving the terrifying force.

His body warped and caved in beneath blow after blow.

His entire face was beaten into a pig's head, while his body became like water-injected pork, battered into a loose, mangled mess. The sight was too horrific to bear.

The more Chen Duan struck, the more exhilarating it became.

This sandbag was extraordinarily tough. No matter how hard he beat it, it would not break. Such a thing was truly rare!

This was entirely a one-sided beating, giving Zhou Shang no chance to fight back.

Even breathing became difficult for Zhou Shang, and his organs churned like a river and sea.

This can't go on.

He seized a gap while the Fist Momentum shifted, summoned the last of his internal power, and opened his mouth wide as his chest heaved violently.

Whoosh!

All the dense true qi, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, was instantly drawn into his belly.

His entire body rapidly swelled, forcibly squeezing Chen Duan's arms out from inside his stomach.

His body was now several times larger than its original form, as though it were about to explode.

The true qi he had inhaled was compressed and transformed within his body!

Water Element killing move—

Whale Swallows the Four Seas!

Zhou Shang's enormous mouth expanded to its limit.

A thunderous boom rang out.

The true qi compressed to the extreme transformed into a condensed, pale pillar of energy, which Zhou Shang violently spewed toward Chen Duan.

Chen Duan crossed both arms before himself and was struck by the blow.

His entire body was sent flying backward, smashing through several walls before being buried beneath a pile of bricks and stones.

After that single strike, Zhou Shang's swollen body rapidly withered and contracted, returning to the form of a slightly plump middle-aged man.

Although he still had some strength left, he did not dare check whether Chen Duan was alive. He immediately turned and fled desperately toward the outside of the house.

If Chen Duan was still alive after that blow, he was not someone Zhou Shang could deal with.

He moved with astonishing speed, as if his body had been coated in oil.

However, just as he was about to escape the courtyard—

A figure suddenly shot out from the side and hugged him tightly.

It was Ji Canghai, who had been lying in wait for a long time!

He activated Water Has No Constant Form, winding around Zhou Shang in a bizarre posture.

Zhou Shang was startled at first, but the instant he recognized the newcomer, fury exploded within him.

"Traitorous disciple! Get away from your master!"

He swung his fist toward Ji Canghai.

Ji Canghai neither dodged nor evaded. He held on desperately, refusing to let go, and screamed hoarsely:

"Junior Brother Chen!"

The moment his cry fell—

Thump Thump Thump Thump!

Footsteps sounded like an elephant trampling the earth.

The bricks scattered across the ground were crushed into powder.

A figure burst madly from the smoke and dust.

Chen Duan's arms had already been withdrawn, and all his strength was concentrated into his right fist.

True qi was compressed to a high degree, gathering at his knuckles and forming a rapidly spinning drill.

Black Tiger Heart Extraction!

Pfft!

Flesh was forcibly torn open.

Chen Duan's right fist pierced through both Zhou Shang and Ji Canghai at once.

The fist entered through Ji Canghai's back and emerged from Zhou Shang's back, his five fingers gripping both hearts.

Zhou Shang's body stiffened, and blood poured from his mouth.

In this state, he had truly reached a Desperate Situation.

No matter what, he had never imagined that he would ultimately stumble because of this "traitorous disciple."

From the corner of his eye, he glimpsed Ji Canghai's face, brimming with satisfaction.

Traitorous disciple, what a fine traitorous disciple you are~

You're willing to drag your master to his death even at the cost of dying together?

Zhou Shang's eyes reddened, and his heart hardened.

Although it was not yet mature, there was no time left. He was going to die anyway, so he could only make one final gamble.

He opened his mouth, grew sharp fangs, and bit down on Ji Canghai's neck.

Ji Canghai's eyes widened. He realized what was happening.

"Not good! He's going to Break Apex..."

He wanted to warn them, but before he could finish—

In the blink of an eye.

All of Ji Canghai's blood and qi was drained by Zhou Shang. In less than a moment, he had become a dried corpse.

The sudden turn of events startled Chen Duan as well.

He immediately pulled his arm free.

Zhou Shang's body began swelling wildly once more after absorbing all of Ji Canghai's blood and qi.

His entire body grew larger and larger.

Even with his heart cavity gouged open, he could still forcibly Break Apex?

Seeing that something was wrong, Chen Duan naturally could not let him have his way.

He immediately erupted with his full internal power, and fists of true qi repeatedly pounded the mass of flesh.

At this point, Zhou Shang had no techniques left. He was merely relying on instinct to continuously grow new flesh and blood.

Wherever the fist landed, flesh flew in all directions.

The sight of that crazily proliferating flesh reminded Chen Duan of Gan Chi Tiger, giving him the same impression of an "anomalous monster."

But Chen Duan's fists did not stop.

He no longer knew how many punches he had thrown.

The "mass of flesh" convulsed, swelling to its limit.

Then—

It burst apart.

A rain of blood and flesh suddenly descended.

The entire ground was dyed red.

Afterward, everything returned to silence.

Chen Duan wiped a hand across his face.

Not far in front of him, a lump of flesh about half a person's size remained.

Its surface was covered in blood vessels and nerves. It throbbed ceaselessly like a heart, but it showed no further signs of growth.

Chen Duan did not deal with that thing first. Instead, he slowly turned and walked toward the corpse in the corner.

The body had become a dried corpse, but its eyes were still opened wide.

Chen Duan crouched down and reached out to close its eyes.

Only then did Chen Duan slowly walk toward that strange lump of flesh.

He crouched down and carefully examined it.

The lump of flesh was dark red, its texture twisted. Aside from its regular, heart-like throbbing, it made no other movements.

After observing it for a while, Chen Duan discovered traces of internal power within it.

It had to be said that this ghastly thing had given Chen Duan the impression of an "anomalous monster" from the very beginning.

What in the world was it?

A trace of doubt rose in Chen Duan's heart.

But this was not the place to investigate it thoroughly.

Forget it. I'll bring it back and study it slowly.

Once everything had settled.

Not long afterward.

Qi Baorui hurried over with several people.

When Qi Baorui stepped inside and saw the devastation covering the ground, everyone drew a sharp breath, as though they had entered hell.

However, when he began collecting Ji Canghai's corpse, his expression became exceptionally complicated.

Unlike Chen Duan, he knew Ji Canghai's true circumstances well.

For the sake of the sect's greater good, and to kill "Zhou Shang," this man had first turned himself into another "Zhou Shang."

That contradiction and struggle in the depths of his soul, that pain hovering at the edge of despair—Qi Baorui could sense a fragment of it.

But he could never truly empathize with it.

At last, Qi Baorui's gaze fell on Chen Duan.

"Chen Duan, we have you to thank for this."