"Shh!"
The Crystal Spined Scorpion crawled forward, hissing as it drew back and swung its scorpion tail, tipped with a deadly poisonous stinger—"Whoosh!"
The tail flashed like a streak of silver.
"Pfft!"
The gleaming, terrifying stinger plunged straight into Fang Yi's chest. In an instant, the deadly poison spread through his blood vessels, destroying cells and disrupting his nerves.
Seeing its attack succeed, the Crystal Spined Scorpion flicked its tail in instinctive, bestial delight.
But it failed to notice the darkness in its blind spot.
One by one, tightly shut eyes appeared without a sound.
Suddenly—
An indescribable pain and burning sensation engulfed the Crystal Spined Scorpion!
"Shh—!"
The Crystal Spined Scorpion's scarlet eyes shifted as it scanned the parts of its body within view.
It found no injuries, nor any sign of an enemy's attack.
Instinctively, it turned its slender, sharp legs this way and that, yet still couldn't locate the source of the pain. Only when it looked at the surrounding area did it realize that at some point, a multitude of closed eyes had appeared all around it.
In an instant—
Its primal instincts warned it that those eyes were extremely dangerous!
A peculiar fear welled up inside it, as though it had encountered a threat far more terrifying than any natural enemy!
"Clack-clack-clack—!"
"Shh—!"
The Crystal Spined Scorpion thrashed its limbs and let out a wary, threatening hiss. Its venomous tail swung wildly, striking at the illusory eyes concealed in the dark space around it.
But none of its strikes met with any impact.
It was like hitting empty air.
All its movements, all its resistance, seemed futile.
Then, amid its terror, one of the eyes suddenly opened, revealing a pair of icy pupils.
The other closed eyes began to awaken as well.
One, two, three... Countless Double Pupil Eyes opened.
Within each eye socket lay a pair of pupils glowing blue and violet. They looked down at the Crystal Spined Scorpion from above, scanning, peering at, and intimidating it.
"Shh—!"
Now the Crystal Spined Scorpion's hiss carried a note of fear. Its beastly eyes darted around, watching the awakening eyes on all sides.
In less than an instant—
Countless Double Pupil Eyes snapped wide open.
The burning sensation across the Crystal Spined Scorpion's body grew even more intense. Only now did it understand where the sensation was coming from.
In reality.
Of the two Crystal Spined Scorpions that had tried to approach, one had stopped in place for some unknown reason.
The other had its tail broken. It could only swing its pincers, but still couldn't hit Fang Yi.
"Pfft!"
Fang Yi tensed his five fingers, dodged its attack, and seized the hollow beneath the Crystal Spined Scorpion's abdomen, slamming it hard against a pillar in the underground parking lot.
"Bang!"
The Crystal Spined Scorpion tumbled to the ground. The round concrete pillar cracked from the impact, and chunks of rubble fell onto its body.
Fang Yi shot forward as the Crystal Spined Scorpion stared at him in shock and terror.
He brought his foot down hard!
He poured the strength of his whole body into that stomp, using the technique of the traditional martial art Tremor Stomp.
It was brutally forceful.
Though the Crystal Spined Scorpion's outer shell was sturdy, it still struggled to withstand such an attack.
Especially since Fang Yi had already struck its shell several times. It was now badly weakened.
"Bang!"
Fang Yi stomped expressionlessly, crushing its head. Its blood and organs burst through the cracks and spilled out in an instant.
In the distance,
The female Martial Artist who was helping her two teammates to their feet watched the brutal, bloody scene, at a loss for words.
The young man before her had displayed one astonishing ability after another.
He had dispatched one Crystal Spined Scorpion with ease, while the other hadn't moved at all. Its unnatural stillness clearly meant it had been affected by something.
And now,
The final, third Crystal Spined Scorpion had been dealt with just as easily, its head crushed beneath his foot.
The whole fight had lasted only about a minute.
The two badly injured male Martial Artists, still being helped to their feet, also stared at the scene as though they were looking at a monster.
They were both in their thirties and had hunted plenty of monsters. Yet they knew they couldn't strike with the same precision and decisiveness as he did.
It was as if he could see through every attack the monsters made and react in an instant.
Against low-level monsters,
They could still rely on dynamic vision, instinctive reactions, and nimble footwork.
But against monsters of their own level or higher, they didn't have many options.
"Such a young age, yet he strikes so ruthlessly..."
"He's practically a born Martial Artist."
The two male Martial Artists spoke at the same time.
The female Martial Artist swallowed and nodded in agreement.
Just then, a commotion came from above. The three looked up at the opening and saw several figures appear.
"Are you all right?"
"We got the emergency rescue alert and came as fast as we could."
"Wait, aren't these four from the Limit Dojo?"
The men in combat gear, carrying weapons, frowned slightly. Then they jumped down through the opening into the parking lot and spotted Fang Yi in the distance.
The moment they saw him, they also noticed a Crystal Spined Scorpion nearby.
"Watch out, behind you...!"
"I'm fine." The Martial Artist had barely begun to warn him when Fang Yi replied calmly.
The next moment,
Fang Yi walked up to the motionless Crystal Spined Scorpion in full view of everyone.
He punched down from above, straight through its head.
The instant the two Crystal Spined Scorpions had arrived as reinforcements earlier,
Fang Yi had manifested the Double Pupil in his left eye. Using the Double Pupil Illusion, he had confused one of them and drawn it into an Illusion Space filled with countless Double Pupil Eyes.
The mental attacks of the Double Pupil Eyes were ferocious, far beyond ordinary mental attacks.
At that moment,
It was probably still trapped in the illusion, enduring endless torment.
"The Double Pupil Illusion is really useful... It's just that it hasn't awakened very much yet, so its power is limited. It'll only grow stronger in the future."
Fang Yi thought to himself.
He pulled his fist out of its body and flicked off the sticky blood.
"Take those two injured people outside. I still need to deal with these three Crystal Spined Scorpions."
Fang Yi waved a hand.
During his fight with the first Crystal Spined Scorpion, he had activated the emergency rescue signal on his wristwatch.
Since Fang Yi was with the Limit Dojo, the first Martial Artists to respond to the signal were most likely fellow members of the dojo.
That was why they'd been confused when they arrived and saw the female Martial Artist's team.
Fang Yi took tools from his backpack and began cutting up the scorpion to collect its valuable parts.
Only then did the Limit Dojo Martial Artists who had come to help realize who he was.
"You're... Fang Yi!"
When one of the Martial Artists said his name, the others also recognized him. They immediately remembered the rumors circulating around the Limit Dojo: back when Fang Yi was a Quasi-Martial Artist, he had punched with 2,000 kilograms of force.
And then there was his astonishing performance in the Martial Artist examination.
He was already famous at the Limit Dojo.
After that,
They didn't say much more. With injured people beside them, they immediately helped them out of the cavern and headed to the military district for treatment.
Before leaving, the female Martial Artist glanced back at Fang Yi, who was dissecting the Crystal Spined Scorpion.
She etched his face and name into her memory.
Not long afterward,
Fang Yi finished cutting off the last piece of the scorpion's tail and folded it into his backpack.
The Crystal Spined Scorpion had many valuable parts: its tail, pincers, enormous Crystal Shell, and Poison Sac. They were all worth a great deal.
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