66: Chapter 66 The Wolf King's Bloodshed! Su Ming, a Humanoid Beast!
Boom!
The dull sound of the collision was enough to nearly tear apart one's eardrums.
A man and a wolf collided fiercely on the wasteland of the Ash Belt.
There were no flashy techniques.
It was pure strength against strength.
A shockwave exploded outward from the point of impact, a visible ring of white air currents, carrying sand, dust, and gravel, spreading violently.
The surrounding Ash Belt mist was cleared in an instant, revealing a chaotic battlefield.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Su Ming stumbled back three steps in a row, each step leaving spiderweb-like cracks in the ground.
As for the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King that had collided with him head-on, it slid back over a dozen meters, its four sharp claws plowing four deep trenches into the ground before it could barely steady its body.
The first clash.
It was actually a draw!
Su Ming shook his numb arms, but the corners of his mouth curled up.
"Exhilarating!"
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King steadied itself over ten meters away, shaking off the dust from its body.
In its vertical pupils looking at Su Ming, besides caution, there was also the fury of being provoked.
It was a Tier 3 peak exotic beast!
Although the Source Beast brand on its forehead had not yet been fully mastered, the continuous nourishment of Source Energy had already brought its true combat power close to the threshold of a Tier 4 human.
A two-legged beast that looked as thin as a bamboo pole.
To actually fight it to a stalemate in a collision of pure strength?
Unforgivable!
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's dark red vertical pupils constricted slightly.
The mane on its neck bristled, its muscles bulged, and its limbs tensed.
It transformed into a streak of red lightning once again, lunging straight at him.
This time, it used its full strength.
"Well come!"
Su Ming, fully immersed in the battle, stomped his foot down hard.
"Mass Engine, ignite."
The ground collapsed into a half-meter deep pit, and the moment the gray-white sonic boom cloud exploded, he was already in front of the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King.
The second collision.
Once again, there was a dull sound of flesh colliding that was enough to make one's heart race with unease.
This time, the expected knock-back did not occur.
The man and the wolf remained deadlocked in place.
Terrifying power wrestled crazily through the point of contact.
Su Ming held firmly against the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's head with both hands, his feet sunk into the ground, his upper body leaning forward.
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's four claws were also dug three inches into the ground, its massive body unmoving, its dark red mane shaking wildly in the air currents.
The two forces formed a deadlock at the point of contact.
The air itself was humming.
They deadlocked for a full three seconds.
A hint of extremely human-like contempt flashed in the depths of the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's eyes.
"When it comes to absolute strength, you're still lacking!"
It opened its mouth.
It suddenly opened its blood-thirsty maw, a foul-smelling gale rushed toward his face, and its terrifying fangs bit toward Su Ming's head.
Su Ming reacted extremely quickly, shifting his hands upward to firmly resist the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's protruding fangs and lower jaw.
The violent biting force was transmitted through the jawbone.
Su Ming's feet were forcibly plowed back into the rocky ground, leaving two deep trenches.
He had actually fallen into a disadvantage!
Tier 3 against Tier 2; the tier suppression was no joke.
A hint of ruthlessness flashed in Su Ming's eyes.
"Mass Resonance, activate!"
A terrifying high-frequency vibration was transmitted from his arms into the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's jawbone.
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King felt its entire mouth of iron teeth and copper fangs go numb, and its brain even buzzed, with a few fangs actually showing signs of loosening!
The pain made the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King furious.
The dark red brand on its forehead flashed with light.
A brute force far exceeding before surged into its neck.
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King jerked its head up, and a burst of agile force erupted.
Su Ming's body, weighing over a ton, was uprooted and violently thrown toward a pile of rubble over a dozen meters away!
Boom! Dust filled the sky!
Amidst the golden-white light of Pagoda Bone Brake, Shen Qingci was splitting the spine of a Wind Blade Wolf, and catching a glimpse of the thrown figure out of the corner of her eye, her grip on her blade tightened.
This scene was barbaric, violent, and primitive.
But she no longer felt it was out of place.
This man's fighting style was never that of a human to begin with.
He was absolutely a humanoid exotic beast!
...
As the dust settled, Su Ming climbed out of the rubble and patted the dirt off his shoulders.
The strength of this Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King had already exceeded the upper limit of his current tier.
Fighting head-on in a war of attrition, it was unlikely he could wear it down to death.
However, the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King did not clash head-on again.
The recent nourishment of Source Energy had caused its intelligence to skyrocket, and it also realized that this man was very troublesome.
It began to move at high speed around Su Ming, kicking up gusts of wind.
Its speed was more than a notch faster than those Wolf Guards from before; its gray figure appeared and disappeared in the dust, leaving only afterimages.
Suddenly, the dark red brand on its forehead flickered.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Three [Annihilation Wind Blades], several times more solid than the Wind Blade Wolf's previous wind blades and colored a ghostly blue, formed a triangle and, with a sharp whistling sound, slashed simultaneously from three extremely tricky angles toward Su Ming's neck, heart, and knees!
Striking three vital points at once.
At such extreme speed, Su Ming could not dodge in time.
Clang! Clang!
The two wind blades aimed at his neck and heart, the moment they touched his skin, were like hitting a superalloy, exploding into two sparks before shattering, leaving only two shallow white marks.
But the third wind blade aimed at his knee actually accelerated and rotated a second time upon contact, its power increasing sharply!
"Rip—" A sound like fabric being torn rang out.
Su Ming looked down.
He saw a half-finger-long gash had appeared on the outside of his knee, and blood was slowly seeping out from the wound.
This was the first time since his awakening that he had been "injured" in the true sense.
Inside the Pagoda Bone Brake domain, Shen Qingci decapitated two Wind Blade Wolves with one strike, and catching a glimpse of the blood on Su Ming's leg out of the corner of her eye, her hand holding the blade tightened abruptly, a look of disbelief flashing in her eyes.
In her heart, Su Ming was already synonymous with "absolute defense."
A defense that even her [Extreme Edge · Atomic Line] could not break had actually been breached by this Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King...
Da Huang, protected within the light membrane by the talisman, also let out a low whimper, its golden pupils filled with worry.
They finally realized intuitively that this Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King was a terrifying existence capable of causing substantial harm to Su Ming!
However, in the center of the battlefield, Su Ming's reaction caught everyone by surprise.
He slowly crouched down, looking down at the wound on his leg as if he had seen some novel toy.
He extended a finger, dipped it in a bit of his own warm blood, brought it to the tip of his nose to smell it, and then... stuck out his tongue and licked it.
The expected shock and anger did not appear.
Instead, he grinned, letting out a low and exhilarating laugh that grew louder and louder; it was the excited, manic laughter belonging to a predator.
"Damn it, it finally hurts a little!"
"Hmm, so blood is salty after all..."
Shen Qingci stumbled, nearly tripping over her own domain.
The veins on her forehead throbbed violently!
Damn! Damn! Damn!
What are you licking?!
Can your brain be normal for once!
...
Since transmigrating to this world, Su Ming had been burned by Zhao Kuo, rammed by the robot, and bitten by various exotic beasts.
After his density exceeded twice that of steel, these attacks only left a dull sensation.
It was like being beaten through a quilt; there was force, but no pain.
But now it was different.
This wound was telling him: the thing in front of you can kill you.
Strangely, fear did not come.
What came was excitement.
The feeling of pain and bleeding was like a key, opening the door deep within his soul, the door to the primitive bestiality that had been tightly suppressed by modern civilized society.
Su Ming raised his head.
Something in the depths of his pupils lit up.
Seeing that its attack had worked, the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King proudly raised its head.
It had regained control of the battlefield and was about to launch a more violent offensive.
As long as it didn't clash head-on and instead used wind blades to kite him, it could cut him to death one slash at a time.
The Source Beast's intelligence told it that in a war of attrition, it would definitely win.
Wind-type Source Energy gathered under the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's feet, and its speed increased again.
It circled Su Ming, with ghostly blue wind blades slashing in one after another from different angles.
It wanted to drain this human's blood!
Su Ming reached out to grab it but missed.
He reached out again, and missed again.
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King was like a loach, simply not giving him a chance to get close.
Su Ming kept blocking and dodging, and soon a few more wounds of varying depths were added to his body.
One of them, slashed across his thigh, bled profusely.
"Damn it, all you do is circle around!"
Su Ming cursed inwardly, having already cursed the [Inertial Drift] skill eight hundred times in his heart.
If only he could turn.
If only he could brake.
Damn linear fighter.
Today he was a living target!
No matter how expensive it was, he would definitely buy it in the future!
...
Inside the Pagoda Bone Brake, Shen Qingci slashed three wind blades to pieces with one strike, stepping forward to try and break out of the battle circle to provide support.
But the wolf pack also understood the situation.
More than thirty Wind Blade Wolves howled and threw themselves at her, using their bodies to block her path.
They didn't seek to injure her, only to hold her back.
Shen Qingci slashed two down with one blade, and three more took their place.
It was endless.
Da Huang in the talisman let out a mournful cry, its golden pupils reflecting Su Ming's kneeling figure, its four claws digging into the ground frantically, but it was trapped by the space barrier.
Shen Qingci gritted her teeth.
"Su Ming..."
...
Su Ming knelt on the ground, blood flowing all over.
But there was no fear in the depths of his eyes.
Only the calmness of high-speed operation.
This was it!
He suddenly jumped to the left, making a feint to dodge.
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King indeed fell for it, moving preemptively to the right to prepare to block his path.
This was the moment!
The moment Su Ming's feet hit the ground, all his power was poured into the earth.
[Mass Resonance] activated!
Boom!
With him as the center, the ground collapsed directly; the rock layer within a ten-meter radius instantly shattered into powder, sinking two meters deep.
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King, currently moving at high speed, felt the ground vanish beneath its feet, and it experienced a brief moment of suspension!
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King secretly thought something was wrong.
But it was already too late.
"Ignite!"
A bright light flashed in Su Ming's eyes, and [Mass Engine] activated!
Boom!
His entire body transformed into a blurred gray shadow, ignoring the wind blades spat out by the terrified Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King, and in a suicidal posture, he firmly hugged the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King in mid-air!
"You motherf***er... are you done yet?"
Su Ming laughed wildly, using the most primitive, most unreasonable move—a bear hug!
His weight of over a ton pressed down firmly on the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King.
[Mass Mastery] activated and the 1.5x kinetic energy bonus, the muscles in his arms knotted into terrifying shapes.
The pure squeezing force made the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's steel-like bones and iron-like muscles, which it took such pride in, emit an unbearable "creaking" sound.
Su Ming didn't even use his fists; he just held it like that and smashed his own head violently against the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's head!
Clang!
A dull thud!
[True Damage] triggered!
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's entire skull shook violently, stars danced before its eyes, and it actually experienced a brief moment of dizziness!
It shook its head frantically, and in the vertical pupils looking at Su Ming, for the first time, a clear sense of... fear and horror appeared.
What kind of monster was this?
After losing so much blood, not only was he not weakened, but his strength was even more terrifying than before?!
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King struggled frantically, wind blades cutting several bloodstains deep enough to see bone on Su Ming's back, but it could not break free from that steel-like confinement.
For the first time, it felt the threat of death from this "food."
This was not a human at all!
This was an exotic beast wearing human skin, one that was higher-level and crazier than itself!
Fear surfaced in the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's vertical pupils for the first time, and it let out a whine containing a desire to retreat, attempting to break free from Su Ming.
A beast cornered!
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King whipped its head around and bit down on Su Ming's left shoulder!
Sharp canines instantly pierced through skin and flesh, embedding firmly into the bone, but they couldn't advance even half an inch further!
"Roar!"
In pain, Su Ming was completely enraged.
His eyes bloodshot, he actually opened his mouth and bit fiercely into the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's thick neck artery!
Splat!
A mouthful of fishy, sweet beast blood!
In the moment the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King stiffened from extreme pain and shock, Su Ming exerted force with his legs, nimbly flipping over to ride on its neck, released his arms, and with his left hand's five fingers like hooks, firmly pinned the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's head and smashed it violently against the ground!
His right fist clenched tight, charged with one and a half tons of kinetic energy, he struck the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's head—one punch! Another punch! And another!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's limbs kicked wildly, emitting shrill screams.
The occasionally triggered [True Damage] caused its skull to crack inch by inch.
Man and beast had abandoned all techniques, engaging in a bloody wrestling match in the most primitive way!
Su Ming landed another heavy, powerful punch, accompanied by the sonic boom of the air!
[True Damage]!
This punch directly caved in half of the Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King's skull.
The Red-maned Wind-blade Wolf King was finally dying!
It let out a desperate and unwilling howl toward the sky.
At this very moment, a sudden change occurred!
The hideous old scar on its forehead burst open!
Endless dark red Source Energy gushed out like a volcano, and a terrifying aura, far exceeding Tier 3, soared into the sky!
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