201: Chapter 200: Elemental Resistance Maxed Out! Why is this monster so hard to beat?

That massive Fusion monster fully emerged from the ruins.

Its size was half a head taller than Lin Feng's previous estimate.

Its left arm was a giant tentacle formed entirely from dark purple energy, its surface covered in fist-sized suckers that writhed slowly like dozens of mouths breathing in unison.

Its right arm was a giant battle-axe belonging to an Iron Bone Clan warrior, the dark gold scales embedded in the blade glinting with a cold, eerie light under the gloomy sky.

Embedded in its chest was a slowly rotating grayish-white Void Realm energy core, surrounded by dense, dark purple vein-like patterns that pulsed with every heartbeat, sending out ripples of energy pressure.

Its eyes were just like the Fusion monster captured alive earlier—no pupils, no emotion, only pure killing instinct.

However, it was much larger and far stronger than that one.

Just as Lin Feng drew his dragon slaying sword, the monster moved.

Instead of charging, it raised its giant left tentacle and whipped it down from dozens of meters away.

The suckers at the end of the tentacle exploded with a dark purple energy shockwave; before the shockwave even arrived, the resulting air pressure had already blown away the architectural debris on both sides of the street.

Lin Feng narrowly dodged to the side, and the shockwave grazed his chest before slamming into the exterior wall of the office building behind him.

A large patch of the grayish-white vines on the wall was instantly shattered, their fragments dancing in the air before being eroded into grayish-white powder by the residual Void Realm energy.

He stabilized himself and glanced at the impact site—the reinforced concrete of the building's wall had been punched through, leaving a hole several meters wide with broken rebar poking out like snapped bones.

The power of this single strike was already comparable to Zhou Tiannan's full-power Heaven-Burning Purple Flame during their final battle at the Zhou Family estate.

"Lin Feng, be careful! This monster's attack range is much larger than the previous one! The energy shockwave at the end of the tentacle has a splash effect; using the Taixu Shield to block will be more efficient than dodging!"

Xiao Guang urgently warned him from his shoulder, his hands already forming seals as golden light shot from his fingertips, quickly spreading a small defensive array on the ground.

"I know."

Lin Feng responded, tracing a circle in the air with his left hand as the golden light of the Taixu Shield instantly expanded.

He didn't dare be careless; if he took an attack of this level head-on, he wouldn't last long even with the Source of Life sustaining him.

Seeing its strike miss, the monster swung the battle-axe on its right arm.

The dark gold scales on the axe blade emitted an eerie humming sound as it swung, like countless tiny insects vibrating their wings at once.

The trajectory of the axe's descent wasn't a straight line, but a curve.

Lin Feng narrowly dodged again, the blade grazing his shoulder and cleaving into the ground; the asphalt was sliced open like tofu, creating a crack several meters long, with the debris at the edges eroded into grayish-white powder by the Void Realm energy.

This monster's dual-weapon attack rhythm was too fast.

Tentacle for long range, axe for close range—the transition between the two was almost instantaneous.

Moreover, despite its size, it wasn't slow; every movement was propelled by Void Realm energy, making it feel less like it was walking and more like it was being dragged forward by the energy core in its chest.

After dodging a succession of tentacle whips and axe sweeps, Lin Feng took advantage of the monster's recovery window to fire a Judgment of Light.

A golden pillar of light shot from his palm, aimed directly at the monster's chest—he was targeting that Void Realm energy core, as that concentrated energy was bound to be a weakness regardless of the monster's type.

The light pillar hit with precision.

But what happened next made his brow furrow—the moment the golden pillar hit the Void Realm energy core, the dark purple vein-like patterns around it flared up, and the light energy was absorbed directly.

It wasn't blocked; it was absorbed.

After the light pillar vanished, the energy core in the monster's chest actually grew a bit brighter, as if his Judgment of Light hadn't been an attack, but a recharge.

"Elemental resistance?"

Lin Feng's heart sank.

He immediately changed tactics—condensing a crimson Firestorm in his left hand while simultaneously forming a Freezing Technique in his right, he fired the two completely different attributes at the monster's left knee and right shoulder joint.

Since the light element was countered, he would try burning and freezing it.

The Firestorm swirled with high heat as it slammed into the monster's left leg, while the Freezing Technique simultaneously covered its right shoulder.

The monster looked down at its burning left leg, then at its freezing right shoulder, and then simply shook its body—yes, it just shook itself, like a dog that had been splashed with water.

The flames and frost were shaken off simultaneously; the fire died out, ice shards flew everywhere, and the monster remained unscathed.

"This monster's elemental resistance is ridiculous,"

Xiao Guang blurted out.

"Fire and ice have almost no effect on it. The Void Realm energy on its body is like a flowing shield that can directly neutralize elemental attacks."

"Light is absorbed, fire and ice are neutralized... what other weaknesses does it have?"

Lin Feng thought rapidly while dodging the monster's counterattacks.

He recalled his experience capturing the small Fusion monster at the TV tower—though that monster was also tough, at least a sword could cut it.

Physical attacks were effective against the carapace formed from Void Realm energy because the carapace itself was solidified energy; once shattered by a weapon of the same level, it couldn't be instantly reconstructed.

"Physical attacks work!"

He made his judgment, retracted the Taixu Shield, and gripped the hilt of the dragon slaying sword with both hands.

With a powerful flap of his Wind Wings, he charged at the monster like a golden cannonball.

The monster raised its left tentacle to whip him, the suckers at the end exploding with another shockwave.

Lin Feng didn't dodge this time—the moment the shockwave was about to hit, he suddenly dropped his altitude and slid along the ground right under it.

The shockwave passed over his head and slammed into the ruins behind him, exploding into a cloud of debris.

Using the speed from his low-altitude dash, he reached the side of the monster's left knee—the spot where he had noticed the carapace was thinnest at the joint.

The dragon slaying sword slashed upward diagonally, striking the joint's carapace seam with all his strength.

The blade cut into the carapace with an ear-piercing screech, and grayish-white mist billowed out from the wound.

It worked!

But the blade got stuck after cutting about a third of the way in—the monster's muscle tissue wasn't just solidified Void Realm energy, but actual biological muscle with extremely high density and toughness.

The dragon slaying sword could cut through armor, but it couldn't slice through the muscle.

The monster glanced down at him, its eyes still filled with hollow killing instinct, but its actions were clever—it didn't use the axe to strike Lin Feng, as the axe was too long to be effective at such close range.

Instead, it raised its right foot and stomped down hard, its sole covered in a layer of Void Realm energy carapace, the pressure bearing down on him.

Lin Feng narrowly pulled out the dragon slaying sword and rolled away; the massive foot grazed his back as it crushed into the ground, leaving a deep footprint and creating a shockwave that threw him several meters away, slamming him hard against a broken lamppost.

The lamppost bent into a V-shape with a loud screech.

"Lin Feng!"

Xiao Guang shouted anxiously.

"I'm fine."

Lin Feng struggled out of the deformed lamppost and rolled his shoulder, which was numb from the impact.

The star gauze armor's ability to absorb impact was better than he had expected; any ordinary person would have been killed or crippled by that hit, but he only felt a bit of aching in his shoulder.

However, that strike with the dragon slaying sword had told him one thing—this battle was going to be difficult.

Light, fire, and ice were all suppressed by its resistance, and while pure physical attacks could break its armor, they couldn't reach its vitals.

Normally, he could have used the Law of Heaven and Earth to overpower it, but his Meridians hadn't recovered yet, so that technique was unavailable.

He only had one option left—Fusion skills.

If a single element was countered, he would fuse several elements together.

The damage type of Fusion skills was composite, not just simple light or fire, but new types like 'Light-Fire Composite,' 'Light-Earth Composite,' or 'Ice-Fire Composite' that possessed the characteristics of two or more elements simultaneously.

When he fought the Taotie in the Secret Realm, it also had elemental resistance, but it still couldn't withstand Fusion skills.

"Xiao Guang, buy me one minute,"

Lin Feng said in a low voice.

"Understood."

Xiao Guang formed seals with both hands, and a golden light net rose from the ground—a miniature version of the Six Harmonies Heaven-Sealing Array, specifically designed to trap a single target.

The light net rapidly constricted around the monster, pinning it in place.

The monster swung its axe against the net, but a triple backlash of lightning, frost, and fire exploded simultaneously, bouncing the axe blade back.

It let out a low grunt and turned to repeatedly whip the light net with its left tentacle, each strike leaving dark purple corrosive marks on the net.

Xiao Guang gritted his teeth to maintain the array seals.

"Its strength is too great! I can hold it for one minute at most!"