Before the icy alloy door, Fang Gang stood like a mountain.
His gleaming pale-gold bald head reflected a cold, hard sheen in the dim light. The prototype of the Indestructible Golden Body made even the air around him warp slightly.
Savage Elephant Power surged and roared through his tempered jade bones like a suppressed volcano.
Beyond the door, the viscous, freezing Sound of Combing Hair, laden with endless resentment and venom, drew closer and closer. Every "scrape" of the comb teeth through hair was like an ice pick raking across the soul, carrying intense mental erosion.
"Roar!"
"Hah..."
The remaining purple zombies and white zombies in the hall were stirred by the source's aura, letting out even more frenzied roars as they began to stir.
Fang Gang's gaze was icy and utterly calm. These small fry did not even count as an appetizer.
"Brother Fang! We're here to help you!" Chen Tao and Captain Zhang rushed in with several elite team members. Seeing the zombie fragments scattered everywhere and Fang Gang's mountain-like back, they were both shocked and invigorated.
They quickly formed a defensive formation behind Fang Gang, their gun barrels aimed at the corpse horde behind them.
Fang Gang did not turn around. All his focus was locked onto the alloy door before him.
The gray mark on his arm sent out needle-like stabs of pain. The source was behind the door!
"It is... watching you..." Chen Tao's earlier words echoed in his mind.
"Then let it... get a good look!" Hostility rose within Fang Gang as he slowly clenched his right fist, his knuckles cracking like thunder!
His jade bones shone as Savage Elephant Power gathered! He was going to blast open this gate to hell with one punch!
Just as he had gathered his strength but had yet to strike—
BOOM!!!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The heavy alloy door was violently blasted open from within by an unimaginable force!
Countless frozen ice spikes shattered in an instant!
A deathly chill far denser than before, thick as ink and carrying a piercing scent of blood and rouge, surged out like the waters of an underworld river bursting through a dam!
"Watch out!" Chen Tao and the others felt as though they had fallen into an ice pit, their very souls on the verge of freezing. They cried out in alarm!
Fang Gang bore the brunt of it! The raging torrent of yin energy slammed viciously into him!
His minor-achievement Vajra Body Protection Qi was instantly activated. The pale-gold qi barrier rippled violently, groaning under the unbearable pressure!
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle—!
The yin energy clashed violently with the pure-yang qi, producing a piercing sound like red-hot iron searing ice!
The golden light over Fang Gang's body flickered wildly. His feet seemed rooted to the ground as he forcibly withstood the terrifying impact!
His terrifying defensive power was fully revealed at that moment!
As the torrent of yin energy eased, the scene beyond the door came into view.
It was a vast underground space covered in solid ice, like a frozen tomb.
At its center stood a massive black ice coffin covered in bizarre blood-red runes, its lid thrown open. Sitting atop it was a figure.
She wore an ancient wedding dress as scarlet as blood, embroidered with intricate golden threads.
Her jet-black hair cascaded down to her ankles.
With her back to the doorway, only her slender yet straight silhouette could be seen.
One blue-gray hand, with long, pointed black nails, held a jade comb inlaid with a blood-red gemstone. Again and again, extremely slowly and intently... she combed through her thick black hair.
Scrape... scrape...
The sound of comb teeth passing through hair rang out with crystal clarity in the deathly silent ice cavern, carrying a bizarre rhythm that made one's scalp tingle.
With every stroke, dense black mist visible to the naked eye seeped from her hair and merged into the surrounding frost.
Warning! Target locked: 'Red Wedding Dress · Hair-Combing Woman (Vengeful Soul-class/Grade A)'! Threat Level: Grade A! Extremely dangerous! Traits: Extreme Cold Domain (dual physical/mental freezing), Grudge Erosion (Mental Pollution/control), Mirror Domain Core (???)!
The system's warning had never been so shrill!
"It's her! It's her!" Chen Tao's voice trembled with fear. "The source... Uncle Wang saw!"
Fang Gang's pupils contracted as he stared fixedly at that blood-red back and the bizarre jade comb.
The gray mark on his arm seemed to come alive, writhing madly as it brought pain that scorched his soul—and a... sickening craving!
"Roar—!" The corpse horde in the hall behind them was completely ignited by the source's aura and charged forward madly!
"Open fire! Hold them back!" Captain Zhang rasped out the order! Gunfire erupted, and talismans exploded, temporarily blocking the zombie tide.
Fang Gang took a deep breath. The frigid air carried bone-piercing cold. Vengeful Soul-class, Grade A!
This was the strongest enemy he had encountered so far! But... it was also the greatest source of Evolution Points!
"Whatever kind of demon or monster you are..."
"I'm a man who can 'add points' now!"
He took a step forward! The solid ice beneath his feet instantly exploded!
His body turned into a golden bolt of lightning that tore through the freezing chill. Ignoring the domain that could freeze souls, he shot straight toward the Red Wedding Dress atop the ice coffin!
His right fist carried the will to crush everything as it slammed fiercely toward her combing back!
"Die for me...!"
Just as his fist was about to touch the Red Wedding Dress—
The Red Wedding Dress, who had been facing away from Fang Gang and focused on combing her hair, abruptly stopped!
She did not turn around.
But on the smooth, mirror-like ice walls surrounding the cavern, countless identical ghostly faces were instantly reflected—deathly pale and bloated, their hollow eyes streaming bloody tears!
Every ghost face stared fixedly at Fang Gang, their mouths splitting into identical bizarre smiles filled with the utmost resentment and venom!
At the same time, the Red Wedding Dress before Fang Gang rippled like water and blurred!
The true danger came from above!
Whoosh—!
A bone-chilling yin wind pressed down! Fang Gang suddenly looked up!
On the dome of the ice cavern, another Red Wedding Dress was hanging upside down, though no one knew when she had appeared!
Her long hair hung down like a black waterfall. That pale, swollen ghost face streaked with bloody tears faced Fang Gang from only a few meters away!
A blue-gray ghost claw gripped the jade comb inlaid with a blood-red gemstone. Carrying a chill that froze souls and a shriek that tore through space, it stabbed viciously down at Fang Gang's bald head, glowing faintly gold!
The target was clear! Straight for a vital point!
"Watch your head!" Chen Tao's cry was swallowed by the yin wind!
Too fast! Too bizarre! This was a displacement of space and reflections!
Fang Gang's old force had just been spent, while new force had yet to arise! A fatal strike hung above him! His pupils shrank sharply!
Dodge? Too late! Before a Vengeful Soul-class ambush, he was still not enough!
Take it head-on? It was an enraged strike from a Vengeful Soul-class enemy! And its target was his head!
In that split second, ferocity flashed in Fang Gang's eyes! He did not hesitate in the slightest!
"Golden Body Protection! Hold the line for me!" he roared, driving the divine ability of his minor-achievement Vajra Indestructible Body to its limit!
The pale-gold protective qi over his entire body instantly boiled as though it were burning, especially above his head! His hardened pale-gold scalp erupted with blinding metallic radiance!
Hum—!
An incomparably solid hemispherical qi barrier, several inches thick and seemingly forged from gold, instantly formed around Fang Gang's bald head! It enveloped his entire body!
The next instant!
CLANG—!!!!!!!
An indescribable, terrifying explosion rang out in the frozen tomb, as if tens of thousands of enormous bells had been struck by giant hammers at once!
The tip of the jade comb stabbed viciously into the pale-gold qi barrier!
No, more accurately, it struck the point at the very top of the barrier corresponding to Fang Gang's hardened scalp!
Sparks! Blinding, searing white sparks like those from welding burst forth wildly! A violent energy shockwave spread outward in a ring!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The smooth, mirror-like ice walls around them were instantly covered in spiderweb cracks beneath the terrifying sound waves and energy shockwave! Countless ice crystals rained down!
"Urgh!" Chen Tao, Captain Zhang, and the others were violently thrown back by the shockwave, slamming into the ice walls. Blood spilled from their noses and mouths, and their faces filled with horror!
At the center of the storm!
The solid ice beneath Fang Gang's feet exploded, and both feet sank deep into the ice layer!
The golden barrier around him rippled violently, its light flickering as it emitted a teeth-grinding creak, as though it could shatter at any moment!
The point atop his head where the jade comb had struck glowed the brightest gold—and was also the thinnest!
The enormous impact passed through the barrier, making every bone in Fang Gang's body groan! His physique was being rapidly consumed!
But the jade comb inlaid with the blood-red gemstone was ultimately... stopped! Its sharp comb teeth hovered a hair's breadth above his pale-gold scalp, unable to advance even an inch!
"Roar!!!" The upside-down Red Wedding Dress let out a shriek of extreme fury, seemingly unable to accept that her fatal strike had been forcibly blocked by a "bald head"!
Fang Gang suddenly raised his head. Through the violently rippling barrier, his pale-gold pupils locked onto the resentful ghost face above him. The corners of his mouth split into a savage grin fiercer than any evil spirit's.
"You female ghost... nice hairstyle!"
"Too bad... your skull isn't hard enough!"
Before his words had faded, his right foot, buried in the ice, suddenly lifted and then stomped down like a battle-axe!
BOOM—!!!!
The ice layer beneath him completely exploded! Violent recoil surged through his tempered jade bones and spread throughout his body!
Savage Elephant Power mixed with his suppressed fury, all of it pouring into his tightly clenched left fist!
His left fist! Like an ancient savage elephant breaking free of its restraints!
With terrifying momentum capable of crushing mountains, it tore through the trembling air, ignored the jade comb close at hand, and blasted upward at the upside-down Red Wedding Dress's... chest!
"Get down here for me...!"
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