Between Inches, a Fist-to-Flesh Duel!

The referee's sharp whistle, like a scythe swung by the Grim Reaper, instantly sliced through the heavy air of the Black Boxing Arena.

The moment the whistle sounded, Jiang Yue moved with it.

His opponent's normal burst strength was nearly eight hundred kilograms, his flesh and skin, tempered for five or six years, like solid armor, and his mass more than double Jiang Yue's own!

Even though Scar had just endured the impact of Shen Qing's Hidden Power and suffered some loss, his vast foundation of blood and qi still stood firm.

From any conventional tactical perspective, the odds of this battle were heavily tilted toward the veteran Scar.

"Can't fight a war of attrition."

A flash of absolute rationality and ruthlessness passed through Jiang Yue's deep eyes.

He knew well that his current limit punch force was 718 kilograms. If he chose to kite and exhaust, not only would his opponent's massive frame compress his space, but more critically, in terms of total blood and qi, he was clearly inferior—fighting a war of attrition was unwise.

Moreover, Scar had just withstood Shen Qing's Ancient Martial Arts finishing move, appearing unharmed, but his internal qi must now be in a state of "excitement yet extreme instability."

This was the only opening!

No dodging! No evading!

Fight speed with speed, use the most extreme violent exchange to send him off!

Just as everyone thought Jiang Yue would follow Old Cripple's example and use his size advantage to kite and circle, Jiang Yue moved.

Not only did he not create distance, but his legs violently shattered the alloy floor beneath him. Using the terrifying reaction force, he shot forward like a cannonball, charging straight into Scar's absolute attack range!

No probing, no positioning.

From the very first second of the fight, it escalated directly into the most brutal white-hot phase!

"Looking for death!"

Seeing Jiang Yue dare to engage in close combat, Scar grinned savagely, his fist, the size of a clay pot, tearing through the air with a piercing sonic boom, slamming hard toward Jiang Yue's chest.

Facing this heavy punch, enough to break the ribs of an ordinary Quasi-Martial Artist, Jiang Yue's eyes were icy cold. He completely abandoned all blocking and defense!

He didn't dodge or evade, stiffly taking the punch to his chest, while his right arm, like a fully drawn strongbow, sent a powerful straight punch in the opposite direction toward Scar's face!

Bang! Bang!

Two muffled thuds, like heavy hammers striking thick leather and steel plates, exploded almost simultaneously!

Jiang Yue's chest took the punch solidly. He grunted, and a thread of crimson blood instantly seeped from the corner of his mouth.

But under the perfect Force Unloading of the [Smooth Breath] trait and the freakish physical resistance of [Tough Skin], this terrifying impact was instantly dispersed across his entire skeleton, barely holding against the lethal damage!

Scar didn't fare well either. His hard brow bone was hit by Jiang Yue's fist, the skin and flesh splitting open instantly, blood streaming down!

"Come on!!"

Scar, provoked into a frenzy, roared and swung both fists.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang—!

In just ten seconds! The ring erupted with a terrifying barrage of thunderous impacts, dense as raindrops!

The two were like completely unhinged meat grinders, abandoning all defensive techniques. You punch my shoulder, I punch your jaw!

In that confined space, they crazily exchanged dozens of heavy blows!

Blood sprayed wildly! Sweat and blood mingled into a blinding mist under the ring's high lights!

The recruits below were utterly stunned.

After a brief silence, the recruit camp erupted into a frenzy of roaring that pierced the dome, nearly lifting the roof off!

"Brother Jiang, awesome!!"

"My god... he's actually trading blows with Scar?!"

That was Scar! The infamous Heavy Bulldozer of the entire Floating Continent 17 Veteran Camp!

Jiang Yue's seemingly thin frame, with far less weight than his opponent, dared to fight Scar in close quarters, and in those ten seconds of frenzied exchange, he stood like a steel nail driven into the ring, not a single step back!

On the other side, the veterans who had been waiting to collect their bets had their smug smiles completely frozen.

Baldy and Red Hair were drenched in cold sweat, staring at Jiang Yue on the stage like he was a monster: "What the hell... what material is this kid made of?!"

"Scar landed a solid dozen punches on him. Anyone else would have their bones shattered to dust. How can he not even flinch?!"

They simply couldn't understand how terrifying the defensive power of Jiang Yue's nascent Tough Skin was!

"This kid..."

On the ring, Scar grew more shocked with every exchange, a creeping dread rising within him.

He felt that his proud eight-hundred-kilogram heavy punches, when hitting Jiang Yue, didn't bring the satisfying crunch of broken bones and torn tendons. Instead, it felt like punching an extremely tough rubber tire!

The force was mostly unloaded the moment of contact by some strange rhythm within his opponent's body!

"Tough as nails! But what kind of freak is this?!"

The pride of a seasoned veteran stirred an unprecedented humiliation in Scar.

He, a heavyweight giant with eight hundred kilograms of strength, couldn't take down a scrawny recruit in a direct exchange?!

"Get the hell off!!!"

Scar was completely enraged.

He decided he would no longer engage in this meaningless entanglement with Jiang Yue. With a deafening roar, he sucked in a breath, every muscle in his body swelling to its absolute limit in that instant. He poured all his blood and qi, along with eight hundred kilograms of devastating power, without reservation, into his right fist!

The very air seemed to be drained dry by this punch. Like the crushing weight of Mount Tai descending, this ultimate heavy fist carried the wind pressure of death, blasting straight toward Jiang Yue's face!

This was the same absolute killing blow that had just shattered Shen Qing's arms!

"Not good!"

Below the stage, Shen Qing, leaning against the iron mesh, felt his pupils contract sharply, his heart leaping into his throat.

He had just been defeated by this very move. No one in the entire venue understood better than him just how terrifying the power of Scar's all-or-nothing punch truly was!

"Can't block it! Defense absolutely won't stop it! The bones in his hand will shatter!" Shen Qing screamed inwardly, veins bulging on his forehead.

Yet, facing this punch that descended like a meteor, Jiang Yue's eyes on the stage were as deep and still as dead water, not a single ripple stirring within them.

He did not retreat.

He did not dodge or evade.

He didn't even raise his arms in a defensive cross-block!

"He's giving up on defense?!" The veterans below the stage were ecstatic.

But Shen Qing's eyes suddenly burst with two beams of extreme terror! He understood! He understood completely Jiang Yue's maddeningly extreme intent!

Jiang Yue wasn't giving up on defense. He was deliberately leaving his center wide open to trade for an absolutely perfect point of attack!

To break this deadlock, conventional dodging and blocking were utterly useless. The only way was to trade injury for injury, life for life!

At the very instant Scar threw his punch, Jiang Yue would strike the flaw at the core of his navel, forcibly disrupting his already unstable center of power!

"Is he really going to use that move?! After seeing the theory just once, he can execute Inch Power?!" Shen Qing's breath completely stopped.

On the stage.

The violent wind of the fist had already scraped Jiang Yue's face raw, but under everyone's gaze—

Jiang Yue's right arm, hanging at his waist, suddenly contracted in an extremely strange, almost unnatural posture.

The power wasn't in the arm!

It was in the spine! In the hips!

Jiang Yue's entire spinal column erupted in a series of dense cracks like popping beans. All the strength in his body was instantly drawn up from the soles of his feet, passing through joint after joint, and ultimately, compressed by his formidable physical control into the tiny space of his right fist!

In the moment Scar's heavy fist was still less than half a foot from his face—

Jiang Yue's right fist shot upward from below, trailing a sharp, piercing afterimage, and slammed viciously into Scar's completely undefended core below the navel!