Enhanced Ashen Spiral Spear

"Eat, eat, eat! Go on, keep eating! I'll scatter every last scrap of your food!"

Ma Lou cursed as he frantically mowed down the lesser monsters.

Meanwhile, Pure-Love Warrior and Bossy Guy faced their toughest battle yet.

"Here comes fortune!"

[Passing Pure-Love Warrior] braved the flying scraps of flesh and slid straight beneath Flesh Fusion's feet.

He raised his spear, coated in black blood, with both hands and smashed it down on a thick tentacle that was sucking up lesser monsters!

"Bam!"

The blow dented the tentacle but failed to sever it. Instead, it lashed out like a whip, sending [Passing Pure-Love Warrior] flying sideways.

"My turn!"

Bossy Guy followed right behind him. Holding a huge fragment of bluestone with razor-sharp edges in both hands, he chopped down at the damaged tentacle as though splitting firewood.

"Rrrip!"

Thick black blood splattered all over Bossy Guy as the tentacle was finally hacked clean off.

"Roar!"

Flesh Fusion let out a low roar of pain. Though it was pouring everything into breaking through the barrier to the second tier and could not move, its counterattacks were still lethal.

The dozen or so remaining tentacles thrashed wildly, instantly strangling Bossy Guy to death as he approached.

"Keep going! It's a stationary target now!"

[Ji Luo] seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Standing at a distance, he squeezed his mental energy to its limit and hurled three Ashen Missiles in succession, blasting the monster's compound eyes and the fleshy tumor in its chest with pinpoint accuracy.

The white light over the Resurrection Array barely stopped flashing.

Pure-Love Warrior and Bossy Guy were like two emotionless flesh-grinding machines.

Revive, charge, land a hit, get killed instantly.

Revive again, charge again, land another hit, get killed instantly again.

They abandoned defense entirely, using this almost gruesome "death-rush tactic" to wear down the monster's tentacles bit by bit and disrupt its energy absorption.

"Almost there! It's absorbing energy more slowly!"

[Ji Luo] keenly detected the change in the monster.

With Ma Lou and Jiahao having cleared out nearly all the surrounding lesser monsters, and Lu Ziye and Bossy Guy recklessly interfering, the pressure mounted.

Flesh Fusion's energy absorption finally stalled.

The terrifying pressure radiating from its body as it approached a tier breakthrough began to fluctuate violently.

"ROAR!!!"

The monster unleashed a crazed roar of utter defiance.

It tried to force its way through the barrier, but the sudden loss of its energy supply, coupled with the chaotic energy inside it after repeated interruptions, finally triggered a horrific backlash!

"Boom!"

The monster's enormous body jolted violently, as though a bomb had exploded inside it.

More than half of the flesh and bone spikes that had been trying to re-form collapsed in an instant!

Huge quantities of bloody pus gushed from its eye sockets and chest, corroding the surrounding ground with a sizzling hiss.

[System notification: Target's advancement forcibly interrupted!]

[Target has suffered severe backlash from the laws!]

[Current level: Lv.19 (peak of the first tier).]

[Status: Extremely weakened. Defense greatly reduced!]

"It worked! We knocked it back down!"

The monster's body, which had swollen to nearly five meters tall, now shrank by almost half like a deflating ball.

Even its terrifying tentacles drooped limply, and [Passing Pure-Love Warrior] roared with excitement.

"We didn't just interrupt it-the backlash seriously injured it!" [Ji Luo]'s eyes gleamed.

"It's a toothless tiger now!"

"Guys, kill it while it's weak! That boss monster's experience is ours today!"

"Here comes fortune!"

At [Ji Luo]'s furious shout, the five members of the fourth catastrophe descended like sharks scenting blood, launching one final, frenzied assault on Flesh Fusion, now severely weakened by the backlash.

Though the monster remained at the peak of the first tier, the backlash from the laws after its failed forced advancement had thrown the violent energy of the Evil God inside it into complete chaos.

Cracks covered its once-impenetrable shell, and its depleted energy left it unable to unleash the storm of blood spikes it took such pride in.

"Eat my Fortune Bone-Crushing Club!"

[Passing Pure-Love Warrior] led the charge, leaping high like a hunting leopard.

The Ash version of the Spiked Club in his hands whistled through the air and slammed with perfect accuracy into the already fractured shell on the monster's head.

"Crack!"

With a teeth-grating crunch of bone, the monster's featureless head snapped backward.

"Roar..."

Flesh Fusion let out a weak, agonized cry.

It tried to swing its few remaining tentacles in retaliation, but compared with before, they moved at a turtle's pace.

"Still trying to fight back? Get down!"

Bossy Guy charged in from the side, clutching a huge block of bluestone in both hands, and hammered it down on one of the monster's supporting legs as though playing whack-a-mole.

"Bam!"

The monster's knee shattered instantly. Its enormous body lost balance and dropped to one knee, splashing black mud everywhere.

"Ma Lou! Jiahao! Blind it!" [Ji Luo] shouted.

"Got it!"

The two behind him had already squeezed their remaining mental energy to the limit.

Two Ashen Missiles screamed through the air and once again exploded squarely inside the huge fleshy tumor in the monster's chest!

Sparks flew everywhere. The Ashen Missiles' shameless blinding and disruption effects drove the monster into its final desperate struggle.

"Time to send you on your way!"

Taking advantage of the monster's kneeling position, [Ji Luo] stepped onto its thick thigh and climbed up.

He gripped his Flint Spear, its edge already chipped in several places, and aimed at the center of the fleshy tumor in the monster's chest!

That was the core of all the energy fluctuations in its body, and its most poorly defended fatal weak point!

"DIE!!!"

Gripping the spear with both hands, [Ji Luo] used his falling weight to pour every last ounce of strength into its tip and drive it viciously toward the monster's enormous fleshy tumor!

"Ashen Shaping!!!"

The other four activated Ashen Shaping simultaneously, attaching a layer of rapidly spinning, pitch-black Ash to the front of [Ji Luo]'s spear!

"Squelch!!!"

The enhanced Ashen Spiral Spear pierced the monster's fleshy tumor with ease!

A jet of black blood, reeking with a pungent stench, shot skyward like a fountain and drenched [Ji Luo].

Flesh Fusion's enormous body suddenly went rigid.

The fleshy tumor inside its chest convulsed violently several times, and it released a long sigh filled with defiance and venom.

Then its horrifying body, stitched together from countless chunks of corpses, collapsed with a crash as though every bit of support had vanished.

At last, it dissolved into a pool of foul-smelling, black-and-red sludge!

"We won..."

"Did we finally win?"

[Ji Luo] leaned on his broken spear, half-kneeling before the pool of black-and-red sludge and gulping down air.

He had almost exhausted even the strength to lift a finger.

"Holy shit, we actually won! We really hacked that bastard to death!"

[Passing Pure-Love Warrior] plopped down on the ground, waving the half-spear left in his hand and babbling with excitement.

During the fight, all he had thought about was charging forward. Now that his taut nerves had relaxed, he could not even stay on his feet.