Solar Yang Qi vs. Purple Zombie Cold Poison

Boom—!!!

Fang Gang's left fist, like an ancient wild elephant breaking free from its constraints, carried the terrifying force of an elephant's stampede. It tore through the vibrating air and, from bottom to top, slammed hard into the chest of the inverted Red Wedding Dress!

No fancy techniques, just absolute power crushing everything!

Crack—!!!

The bone-shattering sound, enough to make one's scalp explode, rang out like thunder!

The Red Wedding Dress's seemingly slender chest was as fragile as paper in the face of such savage strength!

The entire chest cavity instantly caved in, forming a massive dent!

Grayish-blue skin, broken ribs, and thick, dark red blood mixed with potent resentful black energy sprayed violently backward like a fountain!

"Awooooo—!!!"

The Red Wedding Dress let out a hideously contorted shriek, as if it came from the deepest pits of hell!

Its inverted body was violently flung upward by the devastating punch!

Like a kite with a broken string, it crashed heavily onto the ice cave's cracked dome!

Rumble!

The entire ice cave shook violently! Countless huge icicles broke off from the dome and rained down like hailstones!

Fang Gang's body's faint golden protective shield, already precarious after withstanding the Jade Comb's strike, finally let out a pained groan when hit by the giant icicle rain. It shattered like broken glass, collapsing entirely! The Minor Accomplishment Vajra Body Protection Qi had been greatly depleted!

"Pfft!" A sweet sensation flooded Fang Gang's throat, and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth as he forcefully suppressed the surging blood within him. Even the Indestructible Golden Body felt the pressure.

But a Fierce Soul was still a Fierce Soul! Despite such heavy damage, the Red Wedding Dress hadn't dissipated!

It fell from the dome, crashing onto the ice surface and sending the Jade Comb, inlaid with blood-red gems, flying.

It struggled, propping up its collapsed chest with its twisted, broken arms. Its ghastly pale, swollen ghost face turned towards Fang Gang, its empty, bleeding eyes locking onto him with hatred so palpable it was almost tangible!

Thick, resentful black energy surged madly from its mangled body, attempting to repair the damage!

"Not dead yet?!" Chen Tao and the others, having barely dodged the icicle rain, felt their hearts sink when they saw this.

"Then... let's go again!" Fang Gang's eyes burned with even fiercer intent!

Strike while the iron is hot! He mustered his strength, and the ice beneath his feet exploded again!

His body became like a golden cannonball as he lunged at the heavily injured Red Wedding Dress once more! His right fist gathered his remaining power, aiming directly for that hateful head!

"Roar—!" Just then, the horde of corpses that Captain Zhang and the others had barely contained in the hall went completely berserk!

The source of their madness was dying, sending them into a final frenzy!

Several White Zombies, deeply contaminated by Yin energy and showing greenish skin, endured the onslaught of bullets and talismans, roaring as they broke through the defenses. Like maddened beasts, they lunged at Fang Gang, who had his back to them!

Foul-smelling corpse energy, mixed with the lethal Purple Zombie Cold Poison, formed a patch of sickly green toxic mist that enveloped Fang Gang first!

"Watch your back! The cold poison!" Chen Tao screamed, his eyes about to burst. That Purple Zombie Cold Poison could instantly freeze blood, corrode bones and tendons, and even rust iron!

No matter how strong Fang Gang was, he was still flesh and blood!

Before him stood the heavily injured, dying Red Wedding Dress, its hateful backlash imminent!

Behind him, several frenzied White Zombies spewed deadly Purple Zombie Cold Poison!

Attacked from both sides! On the brink of death!

Fang Gang's eyes were as cold as ten-thousand-year-old profound ice, showing no panic whatsoever! In fact, the corner of his mouth curved into an even more ferocious arc!

"Cold poison? For me... inhale!"

He didn't dodge or evade! Facing the sickly green mist spreading from behind him, he took a deep breath!

Whoosh—!

Like a great whale drinking the sea! The dense Purple Zombie Cold Poison, enough to turn an ordinary person into an ice sculpture in an instant, was forcefully inhaled into Fang Gang's body!

"Is he insane?!" Captain Zhang and the others stared in utter horror!

The potent poison entered his body! Fang Gang felt an extreme cold, penetrating deep into his marrow, spread throughout his entire being! His blood felt like it was freezing! His meridians screamed with the agony of corrosion!

[Warning! High-intensity Yin poison (Purple Zombie Cold Poison) intrusion! Threat level: B!]

[Strongly recommend expulsion!]

Expel it? No! A flicker of madness flashed in Fang Gang's eyes! What he wanted was... evolution points! Breakthrough!

"Add points! Constitution! All to Constitution!" His mental shout was like a roar! The evolution points (approximately 35) gained from killing the White Zombie boss and numerous Purple Zombies were instantly burned!

[Ding! Consumed 35 evolution points! Constitution +35! Current Constitution: 354.5 → 389.5 (Jade Bone Initial Success + Indestructible Golden Body)!]

A stream of pure life energy surged in, like molten lava pouring into a frozen river! It erupted with a bang! His Jade Bone glowed, and his Blood Qi furnace operated frantically to its limit!

Hiss hiss hiss—!

The Purple Zombie Cold Poison that invaded his body, under the onslaught of this suddenly increased, fiercely potent Yang Qi, let out piercing scorching sounds like snow exposed to the midday sun, rapidly melting and refining!

[Ding! Absorbed high-intensity Yin poison energy! Partially converted into Blood Qi tempering! Constitution slightly increased! Current Constitution: 389.5 → 390!]

[Remaining cold poison forcibly refined by Blood Qi! Converted into evolution points +5! Current evolution points: 5!]

Done! With the poison tempering his body, his physique increased again!

This happened in a flash! Fang Gang inhaled and refined the cold poison, his physique improving further, his speed not decreasing at all!

His pounce towards the Red Wedding Dress was even a fraction faster due to the subtle increase in his physique and strength!

And at this moment, the heavily injured Red Wedding Dress had only just managed to condense a mass of dense black energy, transforming it into a colossal ghostly claw, carrying monstrous resentment, to meet Fang Gang's fist!

"Break!" Fang Gang roared! On his fist, brute force mixed with the even more intense and savage blood energy from the recently refined cold poison, smashing hard against that resentful ghostly claw!

BOOM—!!!

The black energy ghostly claw was like ice and snow thrown into a furnace, instantly melting and dissipating! Fang Gang's fist, its momentum undiminished, carrying a will to crush everything, slammed fiercely onto the Red Wedding Dress's vengeful, horrified ghostly face!

SPLATTER!!!

Like a heavy hammer smashing a rotten pumpkin!

The Red Wedding Dress's head, along with nearly half its shoulder, was instantly blown to pieces by absolute power! Sticky gore, shattered bones, and the dense, ink-like core of resentment exploded violently like fireworks!

[Ding! Killed 'Red Wedding Dress · Hair-Combing Woman (Fierce Soul Grade/Grade A)'! Gained +500 Evolution Points!]

[Ding! Absorbed core resentment and yin energy, converted to +50 Evolution Points! Current Evolution Points: 555!]

Massive evolution points entered his account!

"ROAR—!" The few White Zombies lunging from behind were violently blown away by the shockwave of resentment from the Red Wedding Dress's death! The poisonous mist they spewed had already been completely absorbed and refined by Fang Gang!

The ice cave plunged into silence. Only the cracking of ice and the heavy panting of everyone could be heard.

Fang Gang slowly retracted his fist, standing beside the headless remains of the Red Wedding Dress.

His slightly golden bald head, untouched by blood, reflected a cold, hard sheen under the pale light of the ice cave, making him look like a war god returning from hell.

Chen Tao, Captain Zhang, and the others stared at the bald figure standing beside the remains of the Fierce Soul, utterly shocked into silence. Withstanding the Jade Comb head-on, punching the Fierce Soul to death, absorbing cold poison alive... this was no longer human!

"It's... it's over?" a team member's voice trembled.

Fang Gang did not answer. He lowered his head, looking at the grey mark on his arm.

With the Red Wedding Dress's death, the cold feeling of the grey mark seemed to have weakened slightly, but it had not disappeared.

He bent down and picked up the fallen jade comb, inlaid with blood-red gems, from the ground.

It felt bone-chillingly cold to the touch, carrying a dense resentment. On the handle, an extremely tiny, distorted emblem was carved—a vortex formed from countless pained human faces.

"Nightmare..." Chen Tao leaned closer, saw the emblem, and his face changed drastically.

Just then!

"Hh... hh..." From the severed neck of the Red Wedding Dress's headless corpse, the dense black energy suddenly churned violently!

A distorted, blurry female face composed of pure resentment appeared in the black energy, staring fixedly at Fang Gang, emitting intermittent, extremely venomous mental fluctuations:

"Hh... killing... me... what of it..."

"They... are watching... you..."

"Grudge Pupil... will eventually... open..."

"You... cannot... escape..."

Before the words finished, the resentful face exploded, transforming into a thread-like, yet extremely condensed, pitch-black beam of light. It ignored Fang Gang's protective Qi and Vajra Body Protection Qi, instantly piercing into the grey mark on his arm!

Fang Gang's arm jolted! The grey mark, which had already dimmed, instantly turned the color of the deepest night!

A malice far colder, far more ancient, and far more unnamable than before, like a cold venomous snake, burrowed fiercely towards his heart along the grey mark!

[Warning! Detected Ultra-High-Level Yin Energy Imprint! 'Seed of Grudge Pupil' forcibly implanted! Threat Level: SS (Ghost Emperor Grade)! Extremely Fatal!]

[Imprint Bound! Cannot be removed! Strong Warning!]

The system's alarm sounded with unprecedented despair and coldness!

Fang Gang's expression instantly turned extremely grim!

He suddenly clenched his fist, and the deep black grey mark on his arm seemed to writhe like a living thing. At its end, an extremely tiny, seemingly closed... dark golden vertical pupil pattern, faintly appeared!

"Seed of Grudge Pupil?" Fang Gang's voice was bone-chilling, laced with immense killing intent.

Inside the ice cave, the cold air seemed to grow heavier.

Chen Tao and the others looked at the newly appeared dark golden vertical pupil pattern on Fang Gang's arm, which exuded an ominous aura, and felt a chill rush from the soles of their feet straight to the crown of their heads.

The true terror seemed to have only just begun.