59: What kind of monster are you?

Twenty meters ahead.

Grandmaster Ye knelt on one knee, his whole body trembling violently.

The old man's originally resolute face was now twisted, and bead-sized drops of sweat rolled incessantly down his forehead.

A layer of Protective Aura covered his body, resisting the impact of an unknown energy.

In front of the old man, a figure shrouded in a black robe slowly turned around.

Beneath the wide hood, a terrifying face was revealed.

Its pale skin was covered in purple-black veins, its twisted features looked as if they had been forcibly pieced together, and the corners of its mouth were pulled into an exaggerated arc.

"To think you could Breakthrough to this point..."

"Impressive."

At this moment, Grandmaster Ye seemed to notice Su Lei's arrival.

He shuddered suddenly, as if waking from a long nightmare.

A glimmer of vitality reignited in his previously hollow and numb eyes, and he struggled inch by inch to straighten his body.

"How is that possible?!" The black-robed figure's twisted face changed color abruptly.

It suddenly raised its hand to press against its temples.

The invisible Mental Energy fluctuations in the air intensified several times over, and even the surrounding sand and stones began to float eerily.

Grandmaster Ye, who had just barely managed to stand up, was forced back down.

Blood streamed continuously from his eyes, mouth, and nose.

Compared to the physical restraint, the torment to his Soul seemed even more intense.

The footsteps coming from behind were like the drumbeats of death.

Su Lei knew without looking back that the ten controlled Martial Masters were closing in; in ten seconds at most, they would form an encirclement.

Su Lei's gaze sharpened, his toes crushed the ground, and his body shot forward like an arrow released from a bow.

The black-robed figure's deformed pupils contracted violently, and it involuntarily took half a step back.

Ten meters, five meters...

One meter!

Just as Su Lei's fist was about to touch the black robe, the opponent suddenly extended its right palm, its five withered fingers snapping shut!

"Boom!"

Invisible telekinetic force poured down like a collapsing mountain.

Su Lei's charging figure came to an abrupt halt.

He felt as if a thousand-jin boulder was pressing down on his shoulders, and his knees bent uncontrollably.

With a dull "thud," his entire body was forced into the dirt, his cheek pressed firmly against the damp ground.

Eerily, the footsteps of the pursuers behind him also came to an abrupt stop at the same moment.

Su Lei struggled to lift his neck and sneered, "Suppressing both of us at the same time... is this your limit?"

"Hehehe..."

"Don't worry, he will soon submit to me."

The black-robed figure let out an eerie laugh, its deformed fingers twitching neurotically.

It suddenly leaned down, that twisted face almost touching Su Lei's, and a foul stench assaulted him.

"Just lie here obediently and witness it all."

"Once I have completely controlled him, I will come back to slowly train you."

Su Lei's brows were tightly locked as he secretly channeled his Qi and blood, resisting the increasingly intense telekinetic suppression.

"You are not a human. What exactly are you?"

The black-robed figure's laughter stopped abruptly.

It slowly straightened up, its withered, claw-like fingers resting on the edge of its hood.

As the black fabric slid down, that terrifying face was revealed.

The left side of its skull bulged abnormally, faint blue-gray scale patterns were visible beneath the skin, and its right pupil was an eerie slit.

"I am indeed not human." Its voice suddenly became abnormally calm, yet it made one's spine chill even more.

"I am... what the military created by forcibly performing a Fusion of the genes of naturally occurring mutants and Yao Beast genes!"

Naturally occurring mutants, genetic experiments...

Su Lei's pupils contracted sharply.

He couldn't help but think of the Seventh Biological Research Institute, and... Chen Corporation.

But he had no time to ponder; Grandmaster Ye's condition nearby was rapidly deteriorating.

Blood was constantly seeping from his seven orifices, and his body was swaying precariously.

The eyes that had just regained a glimmer of consciousness became dull and lifeless once more.

"I have to do something..."

Feeling the immense pressure everywhere.

Su Lei took a deep breath, and his previously calmed Qi and blood suddenly boiled, surging crazily through his body like a volcanic eruption.

The frequency of the Nine Heavens Thunder Sound vibrating in his Meridians was also getting faster and faster.

From the initial muffled thunder, it gradually evolved into a deafening roar.

"Rumble—"

Under the immense dual pressure from both inside and out,

the Spirit Medicine essence and undigested beast core energy remaining deep within his body were being refined at an astonishing speed!

A massive amount of pure energy flowed into his limbs and bones like sweet rain,

and every inch of muscle fiber and every cell was greedily devouring this power.

A blood-red mist even steamed from his skin.

Su Lei braced his hands on the ground and slowly stood up.

The ground beneath his feet, unable to bear the load, cracked layer by layer.

"You, what kind of monster are you..."

The black-robed figure couldn't help but step back a few times, a look of uncertainty flickering in its slit eyes.

The power erupting from the human before it had completely exceeded the scope of a Fourth-Order Martial Master!

"You forced my hand. I have no choice but to kill you..."

As soon as the words fell.

The scales in the center of the monster's forehead opened eerily, revealing a third blood-red eye.

A visible crimson ray shot through the air and pierced straight into the center of Su Lei's brow!

Boom!

Su Lei's whole body shook violently, as if a sharp blade had been thrust directly into his mind.

A tearing, excruciating pain came from the depths of his Soul,

and he bit the tip of his tongue hard; the metallic taste of blood brought him a brief moment of clarity, and he frantically activated his Meditation Technique.

An image of an ancient bronze bell appeared in the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.

"Clang—"

A roar like a great bell echoed in his mental world, the sound waves spreading out layer by layer like a tidal wave.

The invading crimson energy seemed to encounter a natural predator and began to retreat in panic...

Su Lei's consciousness gradually cleared.

With a violent shout, the invisible shackles pressing down on him shattered with a bang, and he sprang up like a tiger released from its cage.

"Impossible!"

The black-robed figure's three eyes widened simultaneously, its voice filled with unprecedented panic.

"What kind of monster are you! You are clearly only..."

Before it could finish, Su Lei had already surged in front of it like a ghost.

His right fist, carrying infinite might, slammed heavily toward that twisted face.

The black-robed figure hastily raised its hand to block, but heard a crisp "crack."

Its scale-covered arm was actually broken by this punch!

"Ah!" Amidst a shrill scream, the black-robed figure stumbled backward.

Purple-black slime sprayed from the broken arm, hitting the ground with a hissing, corrosive sound.

"With such powerful Mental Energy, is your physical body so pathetic?"

Su Lei sneered, his figure pursuing closely like a shadow.

Every strike carried the momentum of thunder, vibrating the surrounding air until it twisted and deformed.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Three consecutive heavy punches landed on the black-robed figure's chest, abdomen, and face.

Finally, his right hand formed a claw, his five fingers locking onto the black-robed figure's skull like iron pincers.

"It's over."

Following the cold declaration of death,

Su Lei exerted force with his right hand and crushed the opponent's head.

Purple-black fluid splattered everywhere, but it automatically deflected upon touching Su Lei's body.

He opened his palm, and a black crystal core the size of a pigeon's egg lay quietly in his palm,

its surface entwined with cobweb-like blood vessels, and one could vaguely see a dark red halo flowing within.

The crystal core felt icy to the touch, yet a strange pulsation came from deep within, as if it were a shrunken heart.

"This is..."

Grandmaster Ye's hoarse voice came from behind.

The old man struggled to stand up, bracing his knees; the bloodstains on his face had not yet dried, but his eyes were fixed intently on that crystal core.

Su Lei did not answer.

He silently stared at the crystal core and suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation—

This thing was alive.

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