Vajra Indestructible

Scraaaape... Scraaaape, scrape... Creak—

The scratching from the S-01 freezer was like cold steel needles, relentlessly piercing eardrums, carrying a sinister mental impact that attempted to dredge up the deepest fears within.

The temperature of the entire morgue seemed to drop several more degrees with the sound.

Fang Gang, carrying the Bronze Battle Halberd, stopped before the massive S-01 freezer.

The thick metal cabinet door was covered in a heavy layer of frost. Black mist seeped from the seams, tumbling like living things, thicker and more viscous than before.

That chilling, foul aura, imbued with intense malevolence, pressed down as if it had substance.

The deep black Grudge Pupil brand on his left arm was writhing violently at this moment!

The slit of the dark gold vertical pupil at the tip had already opened to the size of a grain of rice. An intensely cold, greedy intent surged out from it, its target aimed directly at the cabinet's interior!

This brand seemed to possess an extraordinary craving for whatever was inside!

"Looks like a tough one," Fang Gang's gaze was icy. Not only was he unafraid, but the abnormal reaction of the brand had instead ignited his fighting spirit even further.

Anything that could make this strange brand "excited" would surely provide plenty of evolution points!

He had no intention of finding a key, nor of slowly picking the lock. His strength instantly gathered in his right fist!

Beneath the dark golden skin, his muscles bulged like coiled dragons!

His fist, like a red-hot iron, carrying a shriek that tore through the air, smashed fiercely towards the alloy cabinet door covered in thick frost!

CLANG—!!!!!!!

The deafening metallic explosion instantly overpowered the scratching sound! The entire freezer vibrated violently, and the heavy cabinet door was smashed inward, deforming severely!

Spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread across the door panel! The frost covering it shook loose and fell!

However, the cabinet door was not completely blown open! The black mist that seeped out, like living, viscous jelly, clung tightly to the cracks, stubbornly resisting this punch that was powerful enough to shatter tank armor!

"Roar—!!!"

A roar, far more savage and bloodthirsty than that of a Purple Zombie, erupted from within the cabinet! The scratching sound immediately stopped, replaced by a spine-chilling sound like a beast grinding its teeth: "Grind, grind, grind!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Fang Gang's eyes sharpened. Without hesitation, he unleashed three more consecutive punches! Each punch landed with solid impact on the same indented spot!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

The sound of twisting, exploding metal was incessant! After enduring the fourth punch, the ultra-thick alloy cabinet door finally let out a groan of unbearable strain!

Accompanied by a screeching tear of metal, the lock and hinges completely broke apart! The entire twisted, deformed cabinet door was blasted inward by the ferocious fist energy!

WHOOSH—!!!

Thick as ink and bone-chillingly cold black mist surged out from the breached cabinet door like a breached flood! It instantly engulfed Fang Gang's figure!

The black mist carried intense corrosive and mentally polluting properties. Countless venomous curses and shrill wails instantly echoed in his ears!

The dark golden protective aura around Fang Gang was instantly activated, like burning golden flames, forcefully blocking the invading black mist three feet away!

Where the black mist met the golden flames, it emitted a violent corrosive "hiss," releasing large clouds of green smoke, but it could not advance an inch!

Under the illumination of the golden flames, Fang Gang could clearly see the scene inside the cabinet!

A body, far taller than an ordinary zombie, was slowly rising from the frost!

Its skin was a sickly pale white, covered in dense, steel-needle-like white fur!

It was the next tier above a Purple Zombie—a White Zombie (D-Class)! The ghost fire in its eyes was a cold white, filled with pure bloodlust and madness!

Most striking were its hands! The fingernails of its ten fingers were not pitch black, but possessed a strange dark green hue, reaching half a foot long, like ten bone hooks coated in poison!

The tips of the nails gleamed with a cold, eerie light, emanating an aura more sinister than the black mist from the cabinet door! This was clearly not something an ordinary White Zombie would possess!

"A weapon?" Fang Gang's gaze swept over those poisoned bone claws, his eyes glinting with even greater fervor. Good! Now this is interesting!

"Roar!!!" The White Zombie seemed to become even more frenzied, stimulated by Fang Gang's protective golden flames. Its pale body abruptly lunged out from the freezer! Its speed was nearly double that of a Purple Zombie! It brought with it a foul, putrid wind!

It attacked with both claws extended, its ten poisoned bone claws tearing through the black mist, accompanied by a piercing sound of air being ripped apart, directly targeting Fang Gang's chest and throat!

The claw wind was sharp and fierce, possessing an almost tearing quality against metal!

This lunge was fast! Ruthless! Venomous! Far surpassing any previous Purple Zombie!

Facing this fatal pounce, Fang Gang's expression was as cold as iron, and he didn't dodge or evade at all!

The Bronze Battle Halberd on his shoulder wasn't even lowered!

"Vajra Indestructible!"

A low roar exploded in Fang Gang's mind!

The Indestructible Golden Body was pushed to its absolute limit! The dark golden hue beneath his skin instantly turned into tangible metal!

A heavy, solid, and impervious majestic will radiated from his body!

Simultaneously, the newly formed golden-red Nine Yang Inner Breath within his dantian was fully mobilized!

Though weak, its extremely yang and extremely hard nature instantly merged with his protective aura! The dark golden protective aura suddenly surged, with golden-red light flowing within it, emitting a scorching aura that incinerated yin and evil!

He was actually going to use this recently perfected Vajra Indestructible Body at its peak state to head-on receive the White Zombie's full-force attack with its poisoned bone claws!

In a flash of lightning and sparks!

Screech, screech, screech—!!!

Ten poison-coated bone claws fiercely stabbed into the dark golden protective energy on Fang Gang's chest and throat!

A grating, teeth-aching friction sound erupted instantly! Like ten red-hot iron nails scraping against the hardest alloy!

Sparks erupted at the contact points between the claw tips and the protective energy! Dense, dark green zombie poison madly corroded, attempting to penetrate the energy!

However!

The dark golden protective energy, infused with the Nine Yang Inner Breath, was like an eternal, indestructible barrier!

The poison-coated bone claws had only penetrated less than half an inch into the energy before hitting billions of stacked titanium alloy steel plates, unable to advance further!

The rampaging zombie poison collided with the flowing golden-red light, like boiling water thrown onto snow, emitting even more intense "screeching" sounds as it was rapidly vaporized and purified!

"Roar?!" The cold white ghostly fire in the White Zombie's eyes flickered violently, revealing disbelief for the first time! Its specially refined, poison-coated bone claws were capable of tearing apart ordinary magic weapons! Yet they couldn't break through this bald man's protective energy?

Now!

A sinister glint flashed in Fang Gang's eyes! He had been waiting for the moment when the opponent unleashed their full power, the instant between expending old force and generating new force!

"Get lost!"

With a furious roar! His empty left fist was already charged, erupting like a dormant volcano!

On his fist, the dark golden protective energy was compressed to the extreme, vaguely condensing into the illusion of a roaring barbarian ox!

No fancy moves, just a pure, violent straight punch! Late, but arriving first! It fiercely slammed towards the White Zombie's exposed, white-furred chest revealed by its pounce!

Bang—!!!!

A terrifying muffled sound like a heavy hammer striking a drum! The White Zombie's chest, tougher than steel, caved inwards with a massive dent under the pressure of absolute power! A rapid burst of bone cracking sounded like popping beans!

Screech—!!!

The dark golden protective energy, compressed to its limit and mixed with the scorching power of the Nine Yang Inner Breath, was like billions of red-hot steel needles, forcibly piercing into the White Zombie's body along the collapsed chest!

Wherever it passed, the dense white fur instantly charred and burned! The tough muscles and bones let out grating sounds as if being melted by high temperatures!

"Aooooo—!!!"

The White Zombie let out a heart-wrenching, piercing howl mixed with pain and the burning of its very essence! Its massive body, as if struck by a high-speed train, was sent flying off the ground! It slammed fiercely into the cold wall behind it!

Rumble!

The wall cracked like a spiderweb! The White Zombie was embedded in the wall, its chest a charred and messy scene, with viscous, dark green zombie blood mixed with shattered internal organs spewing from its mouth!

The white ghostly fire in its eyes flickered wildly, filled with pain and... primal fear!

Its proud, poison-coated bone claws now hung limply, with fine scorch marks and cracks appearing on their tips!

One punch! Just one punch! A D-class White Zombie, critically injured and on the verge of death!

Fang Gang shook his left fist, feeling the terrifying suppression of the Nine Yang Inner Breath against evil energies, and the absolute defense brought by the perfected Vajra Indestructible Body, a sharp light growing in his eyes.

This feeling... felt good!

He strode forward, walking towards the White Zombie embedded in the wall, still twitching and roaring.

"Nice claws," Fang Gang's voice was icy. "Too bad they were a bit brittle."

"Next time, remember to take some calcium supplements."

Before his words fell, he raised his right fist again, aiming the dark golden fist at the White Zombie's white-furred skull!

Just then!

Woo—!!!

That eerie flute music, inexplicably, sounded again!

Sharper and more rapid than before at the chemical plant! Like countless needles piercing directly into the mind! Carrying intense mental interference and the manipulation of willpower!

The White Zombie, previously critically injured and only fear left in its eyes, instantly saw its white ghostly fire surge violently upon hearing the flute music!

A ferocious, chaotic, and utterly reckless aura of destruction erupted from its body!

It forcibly broke free from the wall's restraint, its internal organs and shattered bones spraying, like a maddened beast in its final moments, opening its fanged maw flowing with foul blood, and lunging to bite Fang Gang's throat at point-blank range!

Its speed was faster than before! It was a complete all-out attack!

At the same time, the deep black Grudge Pupil brand on Fang Gang's left arm violently trembled the moment the flute music sounded!

The dark golden vertical pupil slit at its end instantly expanded to the size of a mung bean! An intensely cold, intensely greedy thought surged out like a breached dam!

This time, the target was no longer the White Zombie, but... the direction from which the flute music originated!

A cold light erupted in Fang Gang's eyes! Killing intent boiling!

"You're asking for death!"

His right fist continued its trajectory, even faster! The power of the barbarian ox erupted without reservation! The dark golden fist was like a falling star, smashing fiercely towards the White Zombie's biting skull!

Simultaneously, his empty left hand splayed its fingers, with the momentum to tear everything apart, lightning-fast clawing towards the poison-coated bone claws of the White Zombie! He intended to break them off by force!

Boom!!!

Squelch!!!

A punch to the head! Bone claws shattered!

The White Zombie's skull exploded like a rotten watermelon! Fang Gang also forcefully snapped its venom-coated bone claws off its wrists! Filthy blood and bone fragments sprayed violently!

[Ding! Killed 'White Zombie (D-Class)'! Gained Evolution Points +20!]

[Ding! Absorbed pure Yin Sha energy, converted to Evolution Points +8! Current Evolution Points: 25 + 28 = 53!]

The flute music stopped abruptly the moment the kill was completed! Only a trace of cold, resentful intent remained, coiling like a venomous snake in the morgue for a moment before completely dissipating.

Fang Gang didn't even glance at the completely wrecked White Zombie corpse on the ground. He abruptly raised his head, his icy gaze like a tangible blade, piercing through layers of walls and space, fixing onto a location above the ground of the crematorium – the direction the flute music had last come from!

The Grudge Pupil branded onto his left arm, after the flute music vanished, writhed and slowly calmed. However, the opened slit did not fully close, and the cold, greedy sensation contained within it firmly locked onto the source of the flute music!

"Found you..." Fang Gang licked a trace of cold, filthy blood from the corner of his mouth, his voice low and filled with immense killing intent.

This flute music controlling the Corpse Puppet, and this bizarre brand, had finally given him a sliver of a clue!

Outside the old West City Crematorium.

An inconspicuous black SUV was parked in the shadows of a street corner.

Inside the car, a woman dressed in a black, form-fitting combat suit was staring at a specially made, palm-sized tablet.

The screen displayed several split-screened images, showing the last footage transmitted from surveillance cameras in several key locations within the crematorium!

The images flickered violently, with static flashing, clearly indicating they had been subjected to a strong energy impact.

But one frame clearly captured the earth-shattering scene at the entrance to the underground morgue – the heavy alloy fireproof door blasted inward as if by an explosion!

Amidst the swirling dust and smoke, a figure carrying a Bronze Battle Halberd and sporting a striking dark gold bald head stepped in like a demon god!

Another frame showed the end of the corridor on the second underground level, where the heavy iron door marked "Morgue" was punched through like a cardboard box by a fist covered in a dark gold sheen!

The woman watched the bald youth in the footage tear through alloy cabinet doors and smash a White Zombie's head with a single punch in his berserk state. Her cold, beautiful face was devoid of expression, only a subtle seriousness and... surprise flashing deep within her eyes.

Her gaze finally settled on the youth's bald head, whose skin shimmered with a metallic luster in the dim light, and the scene of him taking a venom-coated bone claw from a White Zombie without any damage.

"Vajra Indestructible Body?" the woman's red lips parted slightly, uttering a few cold words with a hint of uncertainty, "No... it seems even stronger..."

Her fingers rapidly slid across the tablet, bringing up an encrypted file. The photo in the file was none other than Fang Gang! Beside it was the annotation: Codename: 'Iron Head' (Suspected Body Refiner, Danger Level: B+).

The woman looked at the file, then at the human-shaped monster in the surveillance footage. Her fingertips lightly tapped Fang Gang's bald head photo on the screen, her eyes sharp as a hawk's.

"It seems the file needs an update..."

"Codename: 'Ming Wang'?"