175: Chapter 175 A Twenty-Meter Gorilla? That's hilarious!

The Lava Demon Ape's two blood-red giant eyes locked onto the direction of the sound.

It had been sleeping on this lava plain for three months.

The last time it was woken up was when two exploration teams composed of Level 5 Martial Kings passed through its territory.

That time, it solved the problem with just two slaps.

But this time was different.

The sound that woke it up this time was even more annoying than those two exploration teams combined.

"Ding ding ding! Wake up! Your takeout has arrived!"

The sound of the megaphone echoed across the lava plain, lingering and refusing to fade.

The Lava Demon Ape stood up from the pile of black rocks.

The ground shook throughout the entire process.

After its twenty-meter-tall body stood fully upright, a stream of magma erupted from The Rift on its back, flowing down its coarse, dark red fur.

Scalding steam rose between its two curved black horns.

It lowered its head to look in the direction of the sound.

About two hundred meters in front of it stood a shirtless human.

One. Just one. And he was holding a megaphone.

The Lava Demon Ape wasn't very bright, but its instinct told it that this thing shouldn't be here.

The temperature in this area had already exceeded three thousand degrees.

Even a Level 5 Martial King would need to use spiritual energy to protect their body here.

But this human, shirtless and without any protection, had a faint golden luster shimmering on his skin.

And he was smiling.

"Whoa!"

Lin Fan put away the megaphone, placed his hands on his hips, and looked up at the twenty-meter-tall Lava Demon Ape, clicking his tongue in wonder.

"Good grief, you're even sturdier than the Bone King I met in the abyss."

"These arms, these legs, the magma flowing on your back—tsk tsk, professional."

"Brother, what level are you again? Level 7 intermediate?"

"That'll do, that'll do."

The Lava Demon Ape obviously couldn't understand human speech, but it could sense the aura emanating from the little thing opposite it.

Not fear. Not hostility. It was something that made it very unhappy.

Provocation. Naked, blatant provocation.

"Roar!"

The Lava Demon Ape let out a deafening roar, causing the entire lava plain to shake.

It stomped its foot heavily on the ground, magma burst forth from The Rift, and it charged toward Lin Fan.

Its speed was extremely fast.

With its twenty-meter-tall physique, every step it took covered over a dozen meters, and it crossed most of the plain in just a few strides.

Lin Fan stood still. He even stuffed the megaphone back into his spatial ring.

"Come on, come on." He spread his arms, striking a pose as if to embrace it.

"Harder! Hit me with everything you've got!"

The Lava Demon Ape's giant fist smashed down.

That fist was larger than Lin Fan's entire body; the door-sized palm carried a temperature of over three thousand degrees, and hot magma flowed across its knuckles.

It possessed power on the level of one hundred thousand tons.

"Bang!" A dull thud. No, "dull thud" couldn't describe it. It was an explosion.

The moment the fist hit the ground, with Lin Fan at the center, the ground within a fifty-meter radius collapsed by a layer.

Magma splashed, debris flew, and the shockwave spread in all directions.

Three hundred meters away, Mu Qing raised a spiritual energy shield with one hand, blocking the oncoming heatwave.

Her lips were pressed tight, and her heart rate accelerated.

A full-power strike at the one-hundred-thousand-ton level. One punch like this would shatter even a Level 5 Peak Martial King into smithereens.

Her body was already prepared to signal a retreat.

Then, she heard a voice. It came from beneath the giant fist.

"Mmm! Refreshing! This force is decent!"

Mu Qing's hand froze in mid-air.

The dust settled. The Lava Demon Ape's giant fist was still pressing into the ground, having smashed a two-meter-deep crater beneath it.

In the center of the crater, Lin Fan's feet were buried in the rubble, and his hands were still in an open, embracing posture.

There wasn't a single scratch on him. His skin wasn't even red.

On the contrary, that faint golden luster was even brighter.

The system notification sounds in his mind were flashing frantically.

[Ding! Sustained full-power physical attack from the Level 7 intermediate monster 'Lava Demon Ape'!]

[Defense + 85!]

[Sustained high-temperature burn damage! Fire Resistance EXP + 120!]

[Sustained magma adhesion damage! Fire Resistance EXP + 95!]

[Pain Conversion triggered! All attributes temporarily increased by 20%!]

Eighty-five points! Eighty-five points from one punch! Lin Fan almost shouted out on the spot.

When he fought the Bone King in the abyss before, one of its slashes was only a few dozen points. And that was a Level 7 low-tier monster.

This Lava Demon Ape was a Level 7 intermediate, a power-type fighter, with fists that were large and fierce, plus it came with magma burns. Composite damage.

The cost-performance ratio was off the charts.

"Good man, this one punch of yours is worth half a day of the lizard pack hammering me."

Lin Fan climbed out of the crater and brushed the rubble off his body. "Again! Use both hands this time!"

The Lava Demon Ape looked down at the human before it who was still completely unscathed, a flash of confusion appearing in its giant pupils.

It was certain that it had used its full power just now. At least seventy percent of its strength.

Seventy percent of its strength could smash a Level 5 Martial King into a meat patty. But this human was completely fine.

And he was still shouting "Again."

"Roar!" The Demon Ape was enraged.

It raised its other fist, and with its fists alternating, it smashed down continuously toward Lin Fan's position.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!"

Five punches. Each punch had over one hundred thousand tons of force. Each punch carried three thousand degrees of magma burn.

The ground was smashed into a giant crater with a diameter of twenty meters. Magma welled up from the bottom of the pit, filling the entire crater.

Lin Fan stood in the magma, his feet stepping on the scalding lava, the expression on his face could be summed up in one word: blissful.

[Defense + 80!] [Defense + 82!] [Defense + 78!] [Defense + 85!] [Defense + 79!] [Fire Resistance EXP + 110!] [Fire Resistance EXP + 105!]

After five punches, his Defense value had risen by over four hundred. This efficiency, this speed, this quality.

Lin Fan felt like he had struck gold.

"Good man, you really are the most professional one I've ever met."

He stood up from the magma pit; his whole body had been soaked in magma, and not only were there no signs of burns, but the golden luster on his skin was even more pronounced.

"Compared to you, those previous bathhouse attendants were all amateurs."

"Your force, this temperature, this after-sales service—five-star review."

The Lava Demon Ape was completely enraged.

It clasped its hands together, tore a large chunk of flowing magma from its back, and compressed it in its hands into a magma ball with a diameter of five meters.

The temperature soared instantly to over five thousand degrees. The surrounding air was distorted.

Even Mu Qing, three hundred meters away, could feel that terrifying heat, and her spiritual energy shield emitted a "hissing" sound.

"It's charging a big move," Mu Qing muttered to herself.

"Magma Giant Bomb, the innate attack of a Level 7 intermediate monster, with a hit radius of one hundred meters and a landing temperature exceeding eight thousand degrees."

"That madman isn't actually planning to take it head-on, is he?"

Before she could finish speaking, she saw Lin Fan spread his arms.

"Throw it, throw it! Don't hold back!"

Lin Fan shouted at the Lava Demon Ape, "Throw it here! Aim well!"

"Roar!" The Demon Ape smashed the five-meter-diameter Magma Giant Bomb down fiercely.

The whole world lit up. The magma ball of over five thousand degrees smashed into Lin Fan and exploded instantly, melting the ground within a hundred-meter radius.

A sea of fire. Mu Qing was pushed back over a dozen meters by the shockwave, and her spiritual energy shield cracked in several places.

She stumbled and steadied herself, staring fixedly at the center of the explosion. She couldn't see anything there, only churning magma and heatwaves shooting into the sky.

Five seconds. Ten seconds. Twenty seconds. Then, from the very center of the sea of fire, a voice came.

"Whew, a bit hot." "Is that it? I'm only just starting to feel it."

Mu Qing's mind went blank.

The magma slowly receded, revealing the ground in the center.

Lin Fan stood in the center of a thirty-meter-diameter lava crater, steam still rising from his body.

A thin film of golden light covered the surface of his skin, slowly fading away.

There wasn't a single injury on him. He looked down at himself.

"My pants are still here, not bad."

The last time he fought an Abyssal Demon, his clothes were all burned off, and he ended up being caught red-handed by two women when he came out naked.

He had learned his lesson this time. Before setting out, he had specifically asked logistics to reinforce his pants with fireproof material.

Although the pant legs had been burned short by half, at least the critical parts were still covered.

The system notification sounds in his mind had scrolled through a long list.

[Ding! Sustained innate attack from Level 7 intermediate monster 'Magma Giant Bomb'!]

[Defense + 150!] [Fire Resistance EXP + 280!] [Pain Conversion triggered! All attributes temporarily increased by 20%!]

[Thorn Armor triggered! Reflecting 300% true damage! Additional Soul Shock!]

One hundred and fifty points! One hundred and fifty points from one big move! Lin Fan was so happy he could fly.

Then he heard a scream. "Awooo!"

The Lava Demon Ape let out a pained howl; several deep cracks appeared on its right palm, and dark red blood flowed out from the fissures.

The recoil from Thorn Armor. When it punched Lin Fan, it took the damage of three punches itself. The same went for smashing the magma ball.

The five-thousand-degree magma ball smashed into Lin Fan, and what rebounded was fifteen thousand degrees of true damage. Plus the Soul Shock effect.

The Lava Demon Ape's massive body swayed, its head clearly dazed.

"What's wrong?" Lin Fan looked up at it, his tone concerned.

"We were fighting so well, why did you stop? Keep going! Don't slack off!"

The way the Lava Demon Ape looked at Lin Fan changed. From anger to confusion. From confusion to fear.

An unkillable human. The person who hits him gets hurt instead. What kind of monster is this?

But it was a Level 7 monster. A Level 7 monster had the dignity of a Level 7 monster. It couldn't be scared off by a puny human.

"Roar!" The Demon Ape roared again, its fists smashing toward Lin Fan frantically. No more technique. Pure, violent output.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!" Ten punches. Twenty punches. Thirty punches. Each time a punch landed, a system notification sound rang in Lin Fan's mind.

[Defense + 82!] [Defense + 79!] [Defense + 85!] [Defense + 76!]

The EXP was skyrocketing. The EXP bar for LV43 was advancing rapidly.

Lin Fan closed his eyes, enjoying this "top-tier SPA" from a Level 7 monster.