Beating Bai Xue

"You talk too much."

Su Han merely raised his right hand slowly. Blood flames gathered around his fist, forming a blazing fireball.

The fine threads in the flames became clearer.

They wrapped densely around his fist, like a layer of exoskeleton.

Then he flashed forward.

With a single step, he blasted a charred crater into the ground.

Blood flames trailed behind him as he appeared in front of Bai Xue.

He blasted out a punch!

"Bring it on!"

Bai Xue roared and met it with her mechanical arm.

She was a half-cyborg.

A half-cyborg's body was part flesh and part mechanical, using the lowest-grade cybernetic components.

But even the lowest grade was still white steel.

White steel was a special kind of steel, unimaginably strong yet very light.

A limb made from it could withstand even armor-piercing rounds fired from a heavy sniper rifle.

Of course, the true core of a cyborg was not the material.

It was the three internal templates.

The neural template, the combat template, and the energy template.

The neural template connected to the body, mimicking the nervous system of flesh and blood so that a cyborg could behave just like a normal person.

Once activated, the combat template could scan, warn of danger, predict an opponent's moves, and record various fighting styles.

The energy template was a battery, providing power.

All three of Bai Xue's templates were level one. Though that did not sound high,

the combat power they unleashed started at a minimum of one hundred thousand.

What were Secret Martial Arts worth?

What were enhanced humans worth?

Before a cyborg, they could not compare at all.

Aside from the high cost of construction and maintenance, and the inability to feel sensations through the flesh,

there were almost no other drawbacks.

At this moment, Bai Xue's combat template was fully activated.

An analysis of Su Han's fist trajectory, an estimate of its speed, and a calculation of its power appeared in her field of vision.

Su Han's fist came at her.

But Bai Xue did not dodge.

She had confidence in her white steel mechanical arm.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Their fists collided, and shockwaves burst outward!

As the qi and blood flames clashed head-on with the violent force of the attacks, countless sparks and scarlet flames exploded outward.

The ground cracked.

Streetlights, cars, and fire hydrants were sent flying and smashed apart.

Pure force, every strike lethal.

The earth trembled, the light from the sky flickered between bright and dim, and the night was burning.

Amid the explosions of fist after fist striking flesh-

"Boom!"

With the final punch, a fire dragon exploded.

Each struck the other in the chest, then both staggered wildly backward.

But Bai Xue's earlier sneer and contempt were gone.

Instead, she grew increasingly grave, her expression dark.

She had just felt her punch break through Su Han's protective astral qi and strike his flesh.

But the sensation

was nothing like hitting a body.

It was like hitting a massive wall; she had barely done any damage.

"How is that possible..." Bai Xue gritted her teeth.

Her punch could have easily smashed a massive boulder to pieces.

But Su Han had only swayed.

As for her,

nothing was obvious on the surface.

But she could feel that countless fine threads had burrowed into the flesh inside her body.

Like countless venomous snakes, they darted wildly through her blood vessels, muscles, and internal organs.

Everything in their path was destroyed.

More terrifying still, these threads also carried a horrifying scorching effect.

They burned without stopping, searing her very soul.

"Pfft!"

Bai Xue abruptly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Dark red flame embers were mixed in with it.

"This is... internal force?" Bai Xue's face was full of disbelief.

"You actually cultivate both Secret Martial Arts and Immortal Martial Arts, and you've reached this level with them?"

Zhou Ming was already horrified at the sight.

He had been standing by, on guard against Su Han escaping, having assumed that Bai Xue alone could subdue him.

But he had not expected things to turn out like this.

"Sister Xue!"

He rushed forward, ready to help her up.

"Get lost!" But Bai Xue shoved him away.

Her eyes were now filled with rage as she roared,

"Help me! Attack him with me!"

Zhou Ming immediately powered up and spread the mechanical fingers of his right hand. Sharp alloy blades sprang from the tips of all five fingers.

He was also a half-cyborg, and his combat power was considerable.

Bai Xue rose to fight again. She and Zhou Ming attacked Su Han simultaneously, one from the left and the other from the right.

Su Han's gaze was cold.

Blood flames surged up again.

This time, he unleashed his full power.

His qi and blood fused perfectly with his internal force, and the fine threads in the blood flames became clearer and denser.

It was as if the entire entrance to the residential complex had been thrown into a furnace.

The temperature soared to a terrifying level.

The streetlight poles began to turn red, and the plants in the landscaped strips withered in an instant.

"Kill!"

Bai Xue charged at him like a madwoman.

Her mechanical arm swung wildly, tearing through the air with overwhelming force.

Zhou Ming came in from the side, blades flashing as he lunged at Su Han.

Su Han narrowed his eyes slightly and moved.

He unleashed his perfected Heavenly Phenomenon Secret Martial Arts fighting style.

Combined with blood flames and internal force, every move was dazzling to the extreme and violent to the extreme.

The heavens themselves seemed about to be torn apart by his flames.

He punched Bai Xue back, then turned and kicked Zhou Ming in the chest.

"Crack!"

The synthetic skin on Zhou Ming's chest burst apart, exposing the white steel structure beneath.

But even the white steel caved in under the kick.

He countered move after move, force dancing around him.

The three moved so fast they left no trace, while threads of flame exploded and burned among them.

Su Han fought with growing ferocity, while Bai Xue and Zhou Ming were driven back step by step.

They kept spitting blood, their faces pale.

"Combat power template warning!"

"Severe damage in multiple areas of the body."

"Mechanical arm function failure."

"Flesh portions 89% damaged."

"Energy template at 7%."

"Win probability analysis: less than 1%."

"Recommendation: flee immediately!"

The notifications sounded urgently in her head.

"Impossible, this is impossible!" Bai Xue murmured.

The combat template clearly showed Su Han's combat power was only 110,000.

The two of them had a combined combat power of nearly 200,000.

Yet when they fought, they were utterly crushed!

"Run? How could I possibly run?"

Bai Xue had gone completely mad.

This was her first mission. If she failed just like that, how could she show her face in the Earth Condemnation Bureau again?

How could she face her team leader, Xu Jiang?

"Aaaah! I don't believe it!" Bai Xue charged again.

"Die!"

Her mechanical arm blasted out with all its power, and the air thundered.

Su Han's gaze turned cold.

The blood flames instantly contracted, gathering entirely around his right fist.

The dark red threads coiled wildly around it, making his fist look like the limb of some kind of monster.

Their fists met head-on.

"Boom-"

This time, the sound was even louder than before.

The shockwave tore up all the ground within dozens of meters!

"Crack!"

The next instant,

Bai Xue's mechanical arm shattered.

From her fist to her forearm, the white steel structure broke apart inch by inch, exposing the intricate wiring and modules inside.

"Pfft!"

Bai Xue spat blood again and flew backward, crashing heavily into the residential complex's perimeter wall.

The wall collapsed with a crash.

She lay in the rubble, covered in blood.

Her mechanical right arm was completely ruined, her left arm was a bloody mess, and the threads beneath her skin were still wreaking havoc.

The combat template continued to sound warnings.

At the sight, Zhou Ming was utterly terrified.

Without hesitation, he turned and ran.

As he passed Bai Xue, he grabbed her uninjured right shoulder.

"Sister Xue, I'm sorry."

The last of the energy template's power erupted as he accelerated with all his might, solely to escape.

His speed surged past the sound barrier in an instant, leaving a sonic boom behind him.