One Punch

Boom!

The Fire Whip split Mu Fan from the forehead down, then slammed heavily into the metal floor, sending up a brilliant spray of sparks.

Yet no one saw blood splatter, nor did they see two halves of a body fall, nor did they hear a cry of pain.

They only saw the severed figure slowly dissipate into the air.

This was... an afterimage!

Then another long, frozen afterimage whistled through the wall of fire, charging straight ahead along a single line.

Blood-red eyes carrying a cruelty close to primal instinct, Mu Fan shot toward Li Du like a bullet fired from a barrel.

The maximum temperature human skin could withstand for a short period was around 116°C. Since there was moisture on the skin's surface, when it came into contact with high-temperature flames, the moisture would rapidly vaporize and absorb heat, preventing the body's surface temperature from reaching its limit immediately.

But that applied to ordinary people and ordinary flames.

Li Du's flames were far hotter than the normal temperature at which objects burned, reaching temperatures around 2,000°C, like methane burning with oxygen feeding the fire.

But at this moment, Mu Fan was as far from the term "ordinary person" as a planet was from another planet!

Inhuman physical strength, inhuman endurance.

Thump, thump.

Amid those surging beats, immense force compressed his heart to a quarter of its size before it violently expanded again.

Four hundred and forty heartbeats per minute!

A heart rate five times faster than that of a normal human erupted at this moment.

Six Forms · Charge Step!

Gift of Liberation...!

These two terrifying martial techniques, one inherited through bloodline and the other passed down from another dimension, finally merged completely at this moment.

Mu Fan had never tried activating Charge Step while in the