"Heh... hehehe... good... good!"
The Flesh Tai Sui's ugly, misshapen face was twisted with frenzy. It didn't back down from Wu Dao's challenge, but rasped out its words in a hoarse, sawing voice:
"You're... a tiger... but I... I'm a tiger now, too. I'm not... not afraid of you!"
Two tigers couldn't share one mountain.
When two tigers met, one had to die!
The shadow of being preyed upon by a tiger while it was weak had haunted it for hundreds of years.
Even after it grew strong enough to kill that tiger,
it had still retreated back then.
When faced with a powerful predator,
it had run away with its tail between its legs, like a stray dog!
Humiliation!!
The Flesh Tai Sui's transformation was incomplete, and its intelligence was stunted. It didn't know what obsession or inner demons were.
It only knew this:
If it fled again, it might never become the king that roared through the mountains and made all creatures bow. It might never truly make its own voice heard in this cruel world!
Kill him!
Kill this tiger!
Trample his corpse!
Bathe in his blood!
Chew his flesh and bones!
Roar its own majesty to this world, to every living creature!!
Bestiality!!
Feeling the Flesh Tai Sui's primal savagery swell ever higher, Wu Dao smiled in satisfaction.
Compared with battles born of grudges, the seven emotions and six desires, bitter hatred, or racial allegiances,
he preferred to see all things return to nature—
If the world was a cage, then you and I were all beasts trapped inside!
For survival!
For evolution!
For dignity!
Let the purest, most primal slaughter begin!
Gulp...
It swallowed down the last mouthful of flesh.
The young "tiger" flexed its muscles, growled, and slowly straightened its back.
Crack-crack—
Its bones popped, and its fleshy armor shuddered.
The one-zhang-tall, crimson Devil Muscle Man appeared once more, ten sharp claws, each half a meter long, glinting with a cold light!
"ROAR!!"
The Flesh Tai Sui's weariness vanished. It roared at Wu Dao like rolling thunder, its monstrous, evil aura crashing across the wilderness like a mountain-quelling tsunami.
It was telling Wu Dao:
This was its perfect hunting form!
It would hold nothing back. It would fight to the death!
Whoosh—
A stench-laden gale swept over Wu Dao, stirring his dormant bloodlust and the powerful heart in his chest, like the core of a volcano!
Thud!!
A heartbeat!
Like thunder, like a drum, like the prelude to a volcanic eruption!
Gather!
Roar!
Erupt!!
Thud-thud-thud—
The drums of war thundered, and lava burst forth!
"Wuuuu..."
A rhythmic breath, mingled with the eerie murmurs of weeping gods and ghosts, whispered across the battlefield and shook the soul.
"ROAR!!"
The Flesh Tai Sui wasn't to be outdone. It hunched forward and roared, its voice blasting in every direction.
The roar of demons and monsters.
The whispers of gods and ghosts.
Their fighting spirits surged with boundless force, rising madly like two floods rushing together!
Whoosh—
Wu Dao exhaled a long stream of blood-red mist.
His tyrannosaur-like physique was now covered in searing, crimson skin, thick blue veins coiling across its surface like black snakes.
Every muscle in his body seemed like red-hot steel, coming alive, surging as it frantically drained his life force.
Clang, clang, clang—
Within his brain,
one protective shackle after another snapped open.
His vitality surged wildly!
In the blink of an eye—
His eyes shone like a god's!
His face was like an evil ghost's!
His bodily functions were unleashed at two hundred percent!
God-Ghost Heaven had returned!
This time, Wu Dao's bodily potential was already nearing the Heroic Domain. Releasing this state again made him more than twice as strong as he had been at the Red Fire Mine.
He felt as if a volcano were hidden inside him. His limitless strength was the magma held back within it, and keeping it from erupting left him unbearably oppressed!
Then—
Let the volcano erupt!!
Thud!!
He stomped down!
The force hit like an exploding cannon shell, blasting the ground apart!
The earth heaved like waves. Within a five-meter radius, bat-flesh fragments, sand, stones, and bloody water all shuddered and rose, suspended half a zhang in the air!
Rumble!!
The crimson, hulking figure shot forward like a fire dragon, smashing through the airborne scraps of flesh and blasting them into a cloud of red mist.
Ten meters!
Less than the snap of a finger!
The demonic Wu Dao was already in front of the Flesh Tai Sui, his fist clenched. His savage grin, stretched to his ears, stood out sharply in the creature's rapidly contracting pupils!
Fast!
Too fast!
His strength was on a level no one they had faced before could match!
In the flash of an instant,
the Flesh Tai Sui barely managed to turn both arms into a wall before its chest.
BANG!!
In the next moment,
it felt as though a savage whale that ruled the open sea had slammed straight into it. An irresistible force shattered the fleshy armor it had been so proud of, and its bones suffered pulverizing fractures!
Rumble!!
Only then
did the air compressed by Wu Dao's supersonic movement suddenly burst outward behind him!
The violent, surging wind swept up the airborne scraps of flesh and the muddy bloodwater on the ground, blasting them away like waves and clearing the area in an instant. It was as if the sea of blood had been split in two!
RIP!!
After shattering the flesh and bones in its arms, the terrifying brute force still hadn't spent itself.
The Flesh Tai Sui's legs furrowed the earth like plows, carving two foot-deep trenches into the ground.
Its heavy, one-zhang-tall body was dragged five or six meters before tumbling away like a rag doll. It smashed into a Rooted Stone twice a person's height, sending thousands of cracks through it.
"Hehehe... that didn't have enough oomph!!"
Wu Dao's low, devilish voice conveyed his displeasure.
A twisted, evil-ghost grin hung on his face.
He cracked his neck, bent his legs, and exerted force, collapsing the ground beneath him. Then he sprang forward, blasting through the air as his right leg swept toward the dazed Flesh Tai Sui's head like a whale's tail!
Whale Cleaving Stance!!
BANG!!
Crack, crack—
The boulder exploded and shattered. Fragments shot in every direction like bullets, cutting through the woods and leaves before thunking into the surrounding tree trunks.
Whoosh!!
Out of the billowing dust,
Wu Dao's evil-ghost-like figure surged forward, tearing through the cloud. He gave the Flesh Tai Sui no chance to catch its breath and held nothing back, crashing into it like thunder as it narrowly escaped the attack!
He had given the Flesh Tai Sui a chance to recover
to make sure this chunk of "meat" didn't lose too much of its nutritional value.
If he were greedy,
he could have taken advantage of the Flesh Tai Sui's weakness and killed it then and there.
But that would leave him with "meat" of little nutritional value, not enough to satisfy his appetite!
So
he needed to ensure his prey's nutritional value justified the effort, while making sure it couldn't bristle up and hurt him, the hunter.
The Flesh Tai Sui now
was exactly what Wu Dao had in mind.
Meng Qingshan and the others had already pulled most of its fangs.
All he had to do was overwhelm it with absolute strength and end the hunt quickly, before too much of its nutritional value drained away.
Honestly,
if his Potential Liberation progress weren't so low and his body weren't so fragile,
Wu Dao would have unleashed the Second Day Secret Technique from the Stealing Heavenly Secrets Breathing Technique and killed the Flesh Tai Sui in one blow.
What a shame...
Thud, thud, thud—
Rumble, rumble—
Within the Dark Forest,
the earth crumbled and stones exploded; massive trees shook and fell!
Clouds of dust surged and roared in waves.
After initially dodging,
the Flesh Tai Sui grew ruthless, too. It stopped evading and fought Wu Dao in a wild, brutal melee, trading blows and smashing into him as it relentlessly wrecked the surrounding terrain.
"Roar, roar, roar—"
"Hahaha, that's it, that's it! Hit me, hit me! Don't you dare dodge!!"
Wild roars.
Manic laughter.
It was as if two primordial savage beasts were battling for supremacy.
Their horrific, murderous auras swept through the darkness and across the wilderness.
In the distance, beast after beast trembled. Under the oppressive might of these absolute apex predators, they didn't even have the courage to flee.
Roar!
Suddenly, the Flesh Tai Sui's roar grew louder, brimming with pride and excitement!
Rumble—
BANG!!
In the darkness, Wu Dao's Lava Demon-like figure flew backward, slammed into the ground, and blasted out a crater before tumbling and soaring onward, kicking up clouds of dust.
Thud!!
The Flesh Tai Sui's massive body compressed the air and crashed to the ground, missing Wu Dao's head by a hair's breadth.
Ten meters away,
Wu Dao's flesh was a bloody mess, with hardly an uninjured spot left. Blood poured from him, gathering at his feet in streams like little rivers.
At that moment, he was deeply displeased!
Not because he couldn't beat the Flesh Tai Sui.
It was because that bastard had once again drawn on the Demon Core's source power, keeping himself at his peak!
He was hitting him where it hurt!!
"Roar—"
The Flesh Tai Sui let out a pained roar, brimming with boundless hatred.
Its condition was poor too. Its left arm had been smashed to mush by Wu Dao, hanging limp at its side.
Its towering frame was riddled with fist-sized craters, deep enough to expose bone. Torn flesh was mixed with splintered bone and meat, a horrifying sight.
If not for the Demon Core sustaining it,
in this condition,
it wouldn't just be unable to fight—it wouldn't be able to move a single inch!
However,
it wasn't in a hurry. It even felt rather pleased with itself.
Because
it could sense that the "tiger" before it was nearly finished.
The longer this went on,
the more fiercely his life force would burn.
If it kept dragging things out with the Demon Core,
the tiger would have the life drained from him by his own power, burning himself to ashes!
By then,
victory would be entirely its own, and it would undergo a true transformation!
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