Elder Withered Bone stood atop the congealed blood cloud. The pale skull at the tip of the Myriad Bone Wailing Staff suddenly flickered with ghostly green fire.
Below, at the center of the surging Bone Sea, the actions of that bald ant exceeded its comprehension.
Not fleeing? Not defending?
He actually dared to open that feeble Qi and Blood Furnace and actively devour the torrent of bone breath containing the laws of decay?
Courting death!
"Ignorant... arrogant... turn to dust!" Elder Withered Bone's icy divine sense shook the void as the Myriad Bone Wailing Staff slammed down heavily!
Rumble—!
The ghostly green soul flames in the eye sockets of several enormous skeletal beasts surged violently, and the torrents of pale bone breath they spewed instantly doubled in thickness!
The decaying deathly aura was so dense that it condensed into tangible black mist. Wherever it passed, even space let out mournful cries of corrosion!
The pale torrent of bone breath completely drowned Fang Gang!
The golden-red qi and blood barrier was like a dying candle in a gale. It held for only an instant before shattering with a boom!
Bone breath containing the laws of decay pierced like billions of icy poisonous needles into the dark-golden dragon scales covering his body!
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!
A piercing explosion of corrosion rang out!
Grayish-white spots instantly spread across the tough dragon scales, which groaned as though unable to bear the burden!
Bone-deep cold and agonizing pain swept through his entire body in an instant, as if his flesh and soul were about to be frozen and decayed together!
"Urgh—!"
Fang Gang let out a beastlike roar, blood seeping from all seven of his orifices! Yet his eyes blazed crimson-gold with nearly crazed flames!
Now!
He roared inwardly, his will like a red-hot branding iron as it stabbed deep into the frantically spinning Dragon Elephant Furnace within his Power Aperture!
"Devour it for me—!!!"
Buzz—!!!
The furnace phantom erupted with unprecedentedly dazzling light! The roars of the dragon and elephant on its walls seemed to become tangible!
A terrifying suction force, specifically targeting bones and death energy, erupted from the furnace mouth!
This was no longer devouring.
It was swallowing like a whale!
Its targets—the pale torrent of bone breath frantically corroding his body, and the deathly aura of the surging Bone Sea around him!
Boom!!!
A miracle occurred!
The once violently corrosive torrent of bone breath seemed to be bitten by an invisible giant maw, abruptly stalling!
Then, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, it was forcibly dragged backward and poured into Fang Gang's right arm Power Aperture!
Farther away, the decaying deathly aura escaping from countless bone claws that clawed and slashed was also forcibly stripped away by that terrifying suction, transforming into streams of gray-black air that rushed in wildly!
The ghostly green fire in Elder Withered Bone's eyes flickered violently!
It could clearly sense that the bone-breath energy it had released was slipping out of its control! Something inside that ant's body was... forcibly plundering it?!
"Impossible!"
For the first time, Elder Withered Bone released a mental shriek filled with fury. "Myriad Bone Strangulation!"
The Myriad Bone Wailing Staff in its hand suddenly pointed at Fang Gang! The skull atop the staff opened its jaw and let out a silent scream!
Within the Bone Sea, countless enormous bone claws stopped clawing and twisted around one another like giant pythons!
In an instant, they transformed into several terrifying bone dragons, twisted from thousands upon thousands of white bones and covered in sharp bone spikes!
Bearing the force to crush mountains and the ultimate laws of decay, they strangled toward Fang Gang at the center from different directions!
The compressed space let out a shrill explosive howl!
A true killing blow! Enough to instantly grind an S-rank peak expert into pulp!
"Perfect!"
Rather than being alarmed, Fang Gang was delighted!
His body shook violently beneath the impact of the bone-breath torrent. The skin beneath his dragon scales had even begun to crack and bleed, yet the light in his eyes shone with terrifying brilliance!
The agony of the furnace running beyond capacity was far inferior to the exhilaration of his power rising madly!
He could clearly feel the vast, pure yet icy energy of the Bone Sea being frantically devoured and refined by the furnace!
Under the extreme pressure, the Nine Yang True Fire inside the furnace actually gained a trace of dark gold!
Boom—!
The power fed back was no longer a stream of dark gold, but a raging torrent!
This vast new energy, carrying a heavy intent of pulverization and a trace of indestructibility, no longer merely washed over the bones of his arms. Like breached molten lava, it surged wildly into every inch of his tendons, bones, flesh, and even... his skull!
Warning! Furnace overload! Refinement efficiency: 300%! Dragon Elephant Furnace phantom solidity drastically increased! Constitution rapidly increasing! Bone jadeification deepening! Strength has broken through its limit! "True Vajra Indestructible Body" has reached the evolution threshold! Energy infusion in progress... Warning! Head energy overload! Hair root matrix incinerated irreversibly!
The system panel flashed wildly through Fang Gang's consciousness, blood-red warnings and golden breakthrough notifications reflecting off one another!
Power! Unprecedented power surged and roared through his body!
Fang Gang could even hear the bones throughout his body ringing with the resonant dragon cry of divine weapons being forged beneath the dark-golden torrent!
Not enough! Just a little more! he roared inwardly, his gaze locked on the several white bone dragons strangling toward him!
At the critical instant when the white bone dragons were about to close in and crush Fang Gang completely!
Fang Gang suddenly raised his head and released a wild roar that shook the mountains and forests:
"Get lost—!!!"
Roar—!!!
An invisible and terrifying pressure, mixed with the furnace's prison-suppressing true intent, the dragon elephant's pulverizing will, and newly born indestructible traits, erupted from him!
Boom!!!
The air shattered like solidified glass! A visible dark-golden shockwave spread out in an instant!
The several white bone dragons strangling toward him seemed to have struck an invisible wall of sighs, their strangling momentum abruptly halting!
The interwoven bone joints erupted with overloaded cracks!
Countless dense fractures instantly spread across their bodies!
The ghostly green soul flames in the bone dragons' eye sockets swayed wildly, transmitting waves of horrified intent!
The ghostly green fire in Elder Withered Bone's eyes also suddenly contracted! This pressure... actually made it feel a trace of... threat?!
"World Shaking Dragon Fist—Sea Breaker!"
Fang Gang moved!
His right fist, covered in dark-golden dragon scales, carried the seemingly endless vast power he had just devoured and refined as it punched without flourish toward the thickest white bone dragon before him!
Where the fist passed, space twisted and collapsed!
A dark-golden fist force condensed to the extreme, like a colossal axe splitting open chaos, hacked viciously into the bone dragon's savage head!
Crack—Rumble!!!
There was no stalemate, no resistance!
Only utterly overwhelming destruction!
The bone dragon's head, tougher than refined steel, along with nearly half its body, crumbled inch by inch the instant it touched the fist force, like snow cast into a furnace! It turned into pale bone dust that filled the sky!
The fist force did not diminish, plunging fiercely into the surging Bone Sea behind it!
Boom—!!!
The Bone Sea was forcibly plowed open, leaving behind a massive trench hundreds of meters long, burning with dark-golden flames!
Countless bone claws turned to dust in the aftershock of the fist force!
One punch! Dragon shattered! Sea parted!
"Hiss—!"
The soul flames of the surviving bone beasts in the Bone Sea flickered violently, transmitting instinctive fear!
Elder Withered Bone stood upon the blood cloud. The skull on the Myriad Bone Wailing Staff silently screamed as its ghostly green fire stared fixedly at the bald figure below. For the first time, it felt troubled.
This ant... had actually completed some terrifying transformation within its Bone Sea killing trap? It had even... turned around and plundered its power?
It stared at Fang Gang, especially at his bald head, which appeared exceptionally gleaming beneath the reflection of dark-golden qi and blood.
At that moment, the head emitted an aura of pure masculine force and indestructibility that it found intensely repulsive, yet faintly threatening?
The power of that punch far surpassed the intelligence reports!
Fang Gang slowly withdrew his fist. The dark-golden dragon scales receded into his skin, while the cracked wounds across his body rapidly healed beneath his surging vitality. The new skin glimmered with a jade-like luster and was tougher than before.
He felt the terrifying power surging and roaring within him, nearly bursting from his body. The furnace phantom in his Power Aperture had already condensed into something nearly solid, emanating a heavy aura capable of suppressing all eight directions as it spun.
Peak mid-stage Aperture Condensing Realm! Only one step away from the late stage!
That was the benefit of plundering that old bone ghost's power!
He raised his head, his gaze piercing through the surging Bone Sea to meet the two points of ghostly green fire atop the blood cloud. The corners of his mouth curled into a cold, wild smile.
"Old bones, that firewood... has quite the kick. Got any more?"
His voice was not loud, yet it carried a newborn, domineering arrogance that looked down upon all things. It clearly pierced through the shrieks of the Bone Sea and echoed beneath the congealed blood clouds.
Elder Withered Bone fell silent. The ghostly green fire flickered violently, and its icy killing intent nearly condensed into substance.
The Myriad Bone Wailing Staff in its hand lifted slightly. Countless tiny bone joints along the staff began to writhe and rearrange in an eerie manner, as an even more dangerous aura began to gather.
Fang Gang's provocation had thoroughly enraged this ancient existence.
Yet just as Elder Withered Bone was about to unleash an even more terrifying strike, the wild smile on Fang Gang's face stiffened slightly.
An indescribable scorching sensation, originating from the very source of life, suddenly erupted from the depths of his scalp—the smooth, gleaming bald head atop him—without warning!
It was not pain, but the ultimate sensation of "burning" and "purification"!
It was as though something deep within his skull was being ignited, refined, and burned away completely!
Warning! Head energy overload has peaked! "True Vajra Indestructible Body" evolution forcibly triggered! Indestructible matter forming... matrix incinerating... irreversible process initiated! Hair root matrix... completely withered!
The system's notification was icy and final.
Fang Gang instinctively raised a hand and touched the top of his head.
Beneath his fingers was still smooth, hard scalp.
But the instant his fingertips touched it—
Sizzle—!
An extremely faint wisp of pale-golden smoke, nearly imperceptible, rose gently from the very center of his gleaming scalp. It carried the scorched stench of all things ending before vanishing in an instant.
The next moment, an unprecedented feeling of clarity and solidity swept through his entire skull like an enlightening revelation, then rapidly spread throughout his body!
It was as though some invisible shackle had been completely burned apart, while the true essence of "vajra" was undergoing nirvanic rebirth amid the ashes of complete incineration!
The thin golden-red halo of qi and blood around him silently took on a faint, indestructible dark-golden hue.
Fang Gang froze.
Above the blood cloud, the Myriad Bone Wailing Staff that Elder Withered Bone was about to swing down also halted abruptly.
The ghostly green fire stared fixedly at the fading wisp of smoke above Fang Gang's head and the sudden change in his aura. A minute yet utterly real sense of "threat," born at the level of laws, coiled around its ancient, decayed consciousness like an icy venomous snake for the first time.
That bald head... seemed to have... become different?
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