240 Stomping the Ground into Steel

Thinking it over, a solemn look appeared in Yuan Chen's eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, the moment Ek'Sharei crawled out of the ground, a red glow enveloped Yuan Chen's body.

His eyes blazed with fury, and his chest surged with the boundless rage of a dragon.

Compared to before, the armor of qi and blood on Yuan Chen's body surface has become increasingly solid. However, the armor is no longer as illusory as before, floating outside the body, but is now attached to the body, giving the impression of keratin formed after flesh and blood swell.

Having received the Queen's order, Ek'Sharei, whose intelligence was quite limited, did not choose to flee despite the oppressive aura emanating from Yuan Chen. Instead, he roared once again under this pressure.

"Roar!!"

Its massive forelimbs suddenly rose up, and like pillars of heaven, they crashed down towards Yuan Chen under the horrified gazes of the crowd.

Feeling the powerful wind rushing towards him, Yuan Chen's eyes flashed with a red light. Then, he swung his left arm, and accompanied by a streak of blue light, a sound like a maniacal laugh exploded in the air.

Boom!!

As fists collided, even though he was prepared, Yuan Chen still felt an unbearable pressure spreading through the bones of his arm when the recoil struck him!

However, in the next instant, a burst of azure light surged up on Yuan Chen's left arm. Under this azure light, even the Dragon Blood armor, which seemed to have materialized, grew out densely intertwined energy trajectories, like nerve circuits.

For an ordinary person, a heavy blow would be followed by a long recovery period. But Yuan Chen was different—or more precisely, Yuan Chen's left arm was different.

Even though Yuan Chen had stopped Oshirresh's power from eroding him, his right arm was still irreversibly tainted with Yuan Chen 'Oshirresh aura and origin during the battle in the Void... In fact, Yuan Chen's soul now contains ten percent of Oshirresh's will.

The material and spiritual realms influence each other, maintaining a basic balance. When the former is strong, the latter gradually lowers its guard, becomes arrogant, and may even turn into a beast in human skin.

However, when the latter is powerful enough, or twisted and bizarre enough, then even the physical body in the material realm will be affected by the material world in the spiritual realm!

Just like it is now.

The two fists collided, and the powerful impact caused Yuan Chen's eyes to widen in pain. But then, accompanied by a rhythmic pulsation from the pleasure nerves attached to the outside of the Dragon Blood Armor—first a tingling sensation that felt like it was melting his bones, then that tingling sensation transformed completely from the inside out into intense excitement.

In an instant, Yuan Chen's face flushed crimson, and blood vessels burst at the corners of his eyes, drawing out trickles of blood.

However, this blood and excitement did not affect Yuan Chen's fighting ability. In fact, with the production of large amounts of hormones such as adrenaline, oxytocin, endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin, the impact that shook the bones was transformed into an exciting stimulus.

The more intense the pain, the more intense the emotions it transforms into.

In just a few short moments, without even Yuan Chen himself noticing, his expression had changed from solemn and dignified to an undisguised ecstasy.

"Hmph, hahahaha!!"

The intense excitement surged through his nerves; this irrational emotional shift even exceeded Yuan Chen 'Yuan Chen expectations—and along with that, the power that accompanied this pleasant emotion also exceeded his expectations.

With laughter, Yuan Chen leaned forward, his once straight left arm bending once more. He didn't even need to engage his lower body muscles; he simply used the muscles in his arm to exert force. Surrounded by the swirling blue light, Yuan Chen's muscles bulged one after another.

The dark red armor, its muscles torn and bleeding, radiated heat under the scorching desert sun! Patches of muscle coiled and rose, resembling the heart of a bull. And this continuous arm, in the next instant, exploded with power, its force penetrating to the very bone, instantly causing cracks to spread across Ek'Sharei's entire arm—

Boom!!

With a single punch, Yuan Chen's fist exploded, revealing the pale bones beneath. On the other side, Ek'Sharei was struck down. Its over twenty-meter-long body, covered in thick armor, was sent flying more than two meters before crashing to the ground with a thunderous roar and a cloud of dust.

Having succeeded in his attack, Yuan Chen did not choose to pursue, but instead squatted in place, his eyes filled with ferocity as he panted heavily.

This was the first time Yuan Chen had used his left arm as his primary means of attack since waking up... Although using his right arm wouldn't increase the burden on his soul without Yuan Chen Oshirresh, it was clear that even though Oshirresh's influence on Yuan Chen was only partial, and even negligible compared to Nila's, this level of influence had already tainted his left arm with a strong pollution from the spiritual realm.

However, one thing is very obvious... that is, in terms of strength, endurance, and recovery ability, his left arm has far surpassed the rest of his body.

Thinking it over, Yuan Chen simply moved his palms. With the life force and potential stimulated by the stimulating substance, the fist of Yuan Chen's left arm quickly stopped bleeding at a speed visible to the naked eye. And in the next moment, fine granulation tissue grew directly to connect the wound.

In less than ten seconds, the external skin and flesh wounds, as well as the internal bone cracks caused by the pressure, had already healed completely.

Furthermore, due to scar hyperplasia, its strength has increased remarkably!

Sensing Yuan Chen's terrifying power, even the intellectually challenged Ek'Sharei felt a strong threat. He struggled to his feet, his right arm, which he had used for attacking, now shattered from the heavy blow. He tried to prop himself up, but with purple blood flowing out, his broken arm was unable to provide any effective support.

Terrified, Ek'Sharei roared once more, but this time it did not immediately attack Yuan Chen. Instead, it suddenly straightened up, then lowered its head and bent its back, as if it wanted to burrow underground to take advantage of the terrain and fight Yuan Chen!

Just as it suddenly burrowed into the ground— Yuan Chen stomped his foot.

From a distance, Taliyah could clearly feel the desert beneath her feet suddenly become incredibly hard and stable.

It's like the desert has transformed into a massive, unshakeable block of steel!