Sun Yu had become a tireless meat grinder.
By day, he slaughtered every living thing in the swamp.
He tore open the jaws of iron-armored blood crocodiles with his bare hands, smashed venomous fire leopards' skulls with a single punch, and captured venomous mud pythons alive.
Any Devil Abyss variant with qi and blood in its body was killed by his most savage methods, then roasted on the spot and devoured in great mouthfuls.
One enormous blood beast after another turned into pure energy, filling his Five Viscera Furnace, which seemed like a bottomless pit.
At night, he returned to the beast's skull on schedule to spend his points.
At midnight on the second day, the panel changed.
[Heavenly Sword Marrow Cleansing Scripture (Proficient)]!
The pain of having his bones scraped weakened.
The newly formed Sword Marrow began to seep toward the surface of his bones. Sun Yu's bones grew harder still. With a casual punch, he cleaved the air apart.
At midnight on the fourth day.
[Heavenly Sword Marrow Cleansing Scripture (Lesser Accomplishment)]!
The last trace of mortal impurities deep within his marrow was completely crushed and expelled.
As his blood, heavy as lead and mercury, flowed through his marrow, it no longer made a dull, rolling sound. Instead, it rang with an exceedingly faint sword note.
It was not until late on the fifth night.
Sun Yu swallowed the flesh of an entire third-order blood bear and sat cross-legged.
He slammed his will against the plus sign on the panel.
"Hum!"
[Heavenly Sword Marrow Cleansing Scripture (Major Accomplishment)]!
"Ching!!!"
A piercingly clear sword note rang out from within Sun Yu!
The sound pierced his flesh and struck his eardrums.
He snapped his eyes open.
All two hundred and six bones in his body underwent a complete transformation at that moment.
Beneath his flesh, his bones—once a pallid mortal white—had turned entirely into a dark-silver metallic sheen, deep and razor-sharp in appearance.
This was no outer layer of defensive skin.
These were bones of steel and iron!
Within every bone, intensely sharp Sword Qi had condensed into a tangible form.
When he looked within, his body no longer resembled a human skeleton. It was as if he had hidden two hundred and six peerless swords inside himself!
Sun Yu rose to his feet.
Without circulating any qi and blood, he casually clenched his right fist.
The bones of his five fingers curled inward.
"Shhk!"
Several visible yet formless strands of Sword Qi shot out of the gaps between his knuckles, carving several vacuum fissures in the air before his palm!
Sword Marrow at Major Accomplishment.
Sun Yu felt that even if an ordinary Blood Washing Realm martial artist struck his bones with a heavy Mysterious Iron weapon, it would be their weapon that broke!
Hunger assailed him again.
Sun Yu strode out of camp in search of his next prey.
Ten days of indiscriminate slaughter had wiped out nearly all the high-grade blood beasts within a fifty-li radius.
He had to venture deeper.
He pressed onward.
Sun Yu dragged a four-legged blood serpent whose neck he had just snapped, preparing to tear off its skin and eat.
Suddenly.
He stopped.
His chewing abruptly halted.
From above came an ear-splitting burst of air.
The sound was so loud it seemed a colossal meteorite was hurtling toward the ground at a speed that broke the Sound Barrier.
Sun Yu looked up.
A vast, dark-red shadow plunged down from the sky, bearing a suffocating, terrifying pressure.
"Rumble!!!"
The shadow slammed into a small black hill less than thirty paces in front of Sun Yu.
The hill, made of exceptionally hard iron ore, shattered into pieces the instant it was struck!
Countless boulders weighing a thousand jin shot in every direction like cannonballs.
A violent blast of air, mixed with flying rocks, pelted Sun Yu from head to toe.
Sun Yu remained where he was, letting the rocks strike his dark-gold skin and erupt in a dense spray of sparks.
He narrowed his eyes.
The dust ahead cleared.
A giant ape, fully three zhang tall and covered in dark-red, needle-like fur, slowly straightened.
Its arms were extraordinarily long, and its nails resembled five curved butcher's knives.
Most unnerving of all, a massive vertical eye sat in the very center of its brow!
The Three-Eyed Blood Ape.
The true overlord of the outer reaches of the Devil Abyss.
The terrifying qi-and-blood fluctuations radiating from its body far exceeded the limits of a Blood Washing Realm grandmaster.
It was a great demon on the verge of taking human form, its aura infinitely close to the Fetal Transformation Realm of humans!
Sun Yu's frenzied slaughter over the past several days had finally roused this overlord from its long slumber beneath the earth.
The Three-Eyed Blood Ape lowered its head and fixed all three eyes on Sun Yu.
The vertical eye in its brow glowed with a wildly bloodthirsty red light.
It opened its cavernous maw, baring a jumble of fangs, and let out a deafening roar.
"Roar!"
The sound wave turned into a tangible vortex, churning the surrounding swamp without end.
Sun Yu casually tossed aside the carcass of the four-legged blood serpent.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
Facing this terrifyingly powerful great demon, Sun Yu's eyes held not the slightest trace of fear.
On the contrary.
A feverish battle lust, impossible to suppress, exploded deep in his eyes like a barrel of gunpowder set alight.
"I was just worried I'd run out of meat."
Sun Yu let his arms hang at his sides.
His Blood Washing Realm blood, heavy as lead and mercury, roared wildly within him.
The icy blue of Extreme Cold and the crimson of Extreme Yang, both forms of Internal Breath, clashed and intertwined across his skin.
He stomped, shattering the mud beneath his feet.
His body became a dark-gold streak of furious light. Instead of retreating, he charged straight at the Three-Eyed Blood Ape!
The Blood Ape saw the puny human dare to attack first and flew into a rage.
Its thick hind legs pushed fiercely against the ground.
Its enormous body became a red cannonball, hurtling toward him with overwhelming force.
A man and an ape.
On this land of death, they launched into the most primitive and savage hand-to-hand battle!
Straight-on collision!
"Bang!!!"
Sun Yu's right fist slammed squarely into the enormous fist the Blood Ape swung at him.
Two forces of monstrous strength collided with a thunderous crash.
A ring of visible white air exploded around them, instantly sweeping away a layer of swamp across an area dozens of zhang wide.
Sun Yu's body shook violently.
The difference in their realms showed itself at that moment.
The Blood Ape's terrifying brute strength, nearing the Fetal Transformation Realm, poured down Sun Yu's arm and surged through his body.
Sun Yu's feet plowed two furrows half a chi deep through the swamp. He slid back more than a dozen paces before finally steadying himself.
The skin on his right arm went faintly numb from the impact.
But his bones—
The bones of his right arm, gleaming with metallic luster and infused with Sword Marrow at Major Accomplishment—
Under this monstrous force, strong enough to shatter an ordinary Blood Washing Realm martial artist's arm, they didn't develop even the tiniest crack!
Unbreakable!
Sun Yu regained his footing and shook out his right arm.
His joints rang with a clear sword note.
The Blood Ape had also been forced to pause by Sun Yu's punch. It stared at its faintly trembling right arm, disbelief flashing in all three eyes.
Then boundless fury swallowed its reason.
"Roar!"
The Blood Ape swung both arms high, like two enormous pillars holding up the heavens.
It strode forward, moving far faster than its massive frame should have allowed.
In the blink of an eye, it was right in front of Sun Yu.
It spread the five fingers of its right hand, which shrieked as they tore through the air, then brought them down on Sun Yu's chest like a five-fingered mountain!
This blow carried the great demon's ultimate physical strength.
There was nowhere to dodge.
Sun Yu had no intention of dodging.
He crossed both arms in front of his chest.
"Boom!"
The Blood Ape's enormous palm struck Sun Yu squarely in the chest.
The immense impact sent Sun Yu flying backward.
A cruel glint flashed in the Blood Ape's eyes. It was absolutely certain that this blow had crushed the human's breastbone—and his heart along with it—into a pulp.
However.
At the instant the Blood Ape's palm made contact—
Inside the breastbone it had struck—
The Sword Marrow, newly brought to Major Accomplishment, was compressed by the outside force and instantly rebounded with explosive force!
"Ching!!!"
A piercing sword note rang out from inside Sun Yu.
A formless, razor-sharp, terrifying wave of counterattacking Sword Qi erupted from deep within his breastbone like a volcano!
This Sword Qi was no ordinary release of True Qi. It was a tangible backlash from the very depths of his marrow!
The Sword Qi surged straight up the Blood Ape's palm!
"Squelch! Squelch! Squelch!"
A bloodcurdling sound of flesh being sliced apart rang out.
Before this rebounding Sword Qi, the thick flesh of the Blood Ape's palm—tough enough to withstand a spirit weapon's blow—was like a scrap of rotten cloth shoved into a meat grinder.
In an instant, it was shredded into a bloody mess!
Its bones were sliced apart, and its sinews were ground to pieces.
Huge splashes of crimson demon blood and torn flesh burst through the air.
"Aaargh!!!"
The Blood Ape let out an utterly agonized scream.
Half of its massive right palm had been ground away by the Sword Qi erupting from Sun Yu's body!
The pain sent the Blood Ape's enormous body stumbling backward uncontrollably as it frantically shook its ruined arm.
In midair.
Sun Yu's flying body abruptly stopped.
Sword Marrow at Major Accomplishment had perfectly withstood the blow.
He gave the Blood Ape no chance to catch its breath.
The sinews in Sun Yu's legs suddenly contracted, and dark-gold patterns flashed brightly.
"Rumble!"
Sun Yu stomped hard against empty air.
The air exploded beneath his feet with a deafening blast.
Riding the violent force that propelled him forward—
Swimming Dragon Steps activated in an instant.
Sun Yu's figure tore through the Sound Barrier and became a streak of red and blue.
He crossed the distance in a single step.
In an instant, he covered dozens of paces and landed right in front of the retreating Blood Ape.
One man and one ape stood within arm's reach.
Sun Yu's cold, utterly unmoving eyes stared fixedly at the third eye between the Blood Ape's brows, still wide with terror.
He clenched his right fist.
Drew it back behind him.
His waist and abdomen tensed, and his spine snapped straight.
Extreme Yang Blood Qi surged without restraint into his right fist.
In an instant, his fist turned a fiery red, radiating a terrifying heat like a miniature sun.
The strength of the Blood Washing Realm, the foundations of the Extreme Devil Body, the boost of Major Accomplishment Sword Marrow.
Everything converged in this single punch.
There were no flashy moves.
Sun Yu aimed at the Blood Ape's most vulnerable, most vital third eye.
With savage brutality, he drove home a crushing punch!
"BAM!!!"
A dull crack rang out, like a watermelon smashed by a sledgehammer.
Sun Yu's Extreme Yang punch landed squarely on the Blood Ape's vertical eye.
The eyeball burst instantly.
Terrifying Extreme Yang Blood Qi poured through the eye socket and straight into the Blood Ape's brain.
Its sturdy skull, assaulted by immense heat and force from within, blew open in a gaping hole.
Brain matter, red and white, mixed with boiling demon blood and sprayed from the back of the Blood Ape's head like a fountain.
The Blood Ape's shrill scream cut off abruptly.
Its massive body suddenly went rigid.
Then,
it toppled like a collapsing mountain.
"Rumble!"
The Three-Eyed Blood Ape crashed heavily into the mire.
Mud and water splattered everywhere.
It was dead beyond a doubt.
Sun Yu landed steadily on the mire.
He lowered his right fist and flicked the brain matter from his knuckles.
His breathing was even, his heartbeat unchanged.
Looking at the great demon's corpse beneath his feet, he let a smug smile curl his lips.
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