The Situation Beyond the Ninth Order

Although his strength surpassed Undying Steel Claw's by a notch, and with all kinds of martial techniques added in, he could indeed gain some advantage in a head-on clash.

But his recovery ability was far inferior to his opponent's. If the battle dragged on, relying on physical combat alone, he would inevitably be the one to lose.

So after fighting for a while, Yang Mu began to flee, recovering from his injuries as he went.

Every injury was a hammering upon his flesh, making his body even stronger.

It was not that he lacked the ability to kill those two giant beasts. In his fused state, no giant beast was his match. Even if he faced three or four King-level giant beasts at once, he could still slay them.

Of course, there was no meaning in doing so. The reason Phantom Beast Civilization had left these giant beasts behind was not for him to kill them using the power of Phantom Beasts. Though each of these giant beasts possessed different abilities,

their ultimate purpose was to force him into pure hand-to-hand combat with them. Clearly, it was meant to train his close-combat ability.

Yet to Yang Mu, these giant beasts were not merely tools for honing his close-combat skills.

By dissecting these giant beasts, he obtained the structural principles behind many strange abilities. However, limited by the materials at hand, he could not manifest these strange abilities upon his own body.

For example, Undying Steel Claw's Absolute Steel Body was one of his targets. He had never seen such a constitution in the Void, nor were there any similar records in the systems of knowledge he had encountered.

As long as experiments proved that such a thing could work on humans, even at a tremendous cost, every top-tier mage would