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Unless he could hide his presence.

Thinking of this, Jing Yuan was momentarily dazed.

Can't Dragon Bone Village use Returning to Origin to hide their presence? Why aren't they using it?

If they used Returning to Origin, would he still be able to sense them?

While Jing Yuan was lost in thought, Er Tong's kukri slashed toward him again.

Jing Yuan dodged easily as before, then grabbed Er Tong's hand with one hand and kicked him away with one foot, sending him crashing into the wall.

The moment Er Tong hit the wall, his invisibility effect flickered out.

After he landed, he entered the invisible state again.

"It's useless; I can sense your location. You might as well fight me fair and square."

As soon as Jing Yuan finished speaking, he sensed Er Tong rushing over again.

He drew his Tang sword and, with a single strike, severed the kukri in Er Tong's hand.

"Boss Bai's sword!"

Er Tong let out a cry of surprise.

Jing Yuan sheathed the Tang sword, turned, and sent Er Tong flying with a flying kick.

From the exchange just now, Er Tong's ability should be invisibility. His physical strength and durability were average.

So Jing Yuan held back his strength a bit and didn't hit Er Tong with full force.

Even so, that kick just now left Er Tong unable to get back up.

"You're just an assassin; you can't beat me!"

With a wave of Jing Yuan's hand, the boxes and clutter in the corridor flew directly toward Er Tong, pinning him down.

Afterward, Jing Yuan continued walking toward the interior of the base.

Continuing inside, Jing Yuan saw giant glass containers in some of the chambers.

And soaking inside were actually Phage Beasts.

"Could this be a research institute they use to study Phage Beasts?"

"Correct! This is our forward base for studying the ecology."

Jing Yuan looked up and saw a long-haired woman holding a bow and arrow walk out.

"I saw you last time, at Nirvana!"

"What is your purpose for breaking in all the way here?" Star Shatterer nocked an arrow to her bow and aimed it at Jing Yuan.

"I've been saying it all along, I'm here to find Bai Yuekui."

“Hmph! A Lighthouse person coming to find the Boss—surely up to no good.”

Jing Yuan was momentarily speechless.

"Should we sit down and have a good chat?" Jing Yuan looked around. "Or do we still have to fight?"

At that moment, a strong man walked out. He had a mohawk hairstyle and looked at Jing Yuan with a smile.

"I heard you defeated Sky Breaker, Amur, and Er Tong. It seems you're very strong! I'll come and face you!"

"Sure!" Jing Yuan looked at Star Shatterer above and said, "Do you want to join in?"

"No need! Star Shatterer, don't interfere!" Taciturn also said a word to Star Shatterer.

"Suit yourself." Star Shatterer then lowered her bow.

Jing Yuan looked at the mohawk man and asked, "Her name is Star Shatterer?"

"Yes!"

"Then what's your name?"

"My name is Taciturn."

Jing Yuan was taken aback and asked, "Taciturn as in 'silent and Taciturn'?"

"Yes."

Jing Yuan smiled; these names were really interesting.

Jing Yuan pointed to himself, "I'm called Jing Yuan!"

"Come on! Jing Yuan!"

Taciturn immediately rushed forward.

His speed was fast, but Jing Yuan's speed was even faster.

Jing Yuan's fist smashed into Taciturn's chest, but it produced a dull "clang."

"So hard!"

Jing Yuan felt that Taciturn's body was as hard as metal.

Taciturn grinned, seemingly having expected this, and he looked at Jing Yuan with a playful expression, as if wanting to see his surprised face.

Jing Yuan took half a step back and delivered a sweeping kick.

Taciturn raised his arm to block; his arm was still very hard, but under Jing Yuan's powerful attack, his upper body bent into an arc.

Taciturn lost his balance and took a step to the right.

"Such great strength!" he exclaimed. "It's no wonder those few lost!"

Jing Yuan looked at Taciturn, waiting for his move.

Taciturn steadied himself and rushed at Jing Yuan at high speed, his arms like heavy hammers swinging violently toward Jing Yuan.

This move was simple and unadorned.

Jing Yuan could tell that his powerful defense meant he didn't need to deliberately defend, so he could unleash his strongest power without any reservations.

Jing Yuan clenched his fist and countered with a punch.

"Bang!"

Both Taciturn's and Jing Yuan's gauntlets shattered directly.

Jing Yuan's arm was shaken numb, while Taciturn seemed to have it even worse, shaking his hand incessantly; it appeared he had been shaken quite badly.

Star Shatterer watched the battle between the two from above, and a look of surprise appeared on her face when she saw that Jing Yuan could push Taciturn back with pure strength.

At this moment, Kolova appeared beside her. "Taciturn's ability is to become stronger when facing a strong opponent, but I didn't expect the opponent to be this strong!"

Below, Jing Yuan already had a strategy to deal with Taciturn. He could see that this guy relied on his high defense and never defended during his attacks.

As long as he dodged Taciturn's attacks and used softness to overcome hardness, he could easily take Taciturn down.

After all, Jing Yuan's telekinesis talent hadn't even been used yet!

However, at this point in the battle, Jing Yuan's spirits were also very high.

He knew that these Ability Users had an upper limit to their powers.

He also wanted to see where his own upper limit was.

So he chose to go head-to-head with Taciturn.

The punches and kicks of the two were crisp and straightforward, without any regard for technique, just a collision of pure power.

A punch from you, a kick from me.

"Clang... Clang... Clang!"

Jing Yuan was wearing metal armor, while Taciturn had a body of bronze and bones of iron. As the two clashed, the sound of metal colliding echoed throughout the chamber.

"This person is really interesting, actually going head-to-head with Taciturn!"

Kolova's words instead made Star Shatterer a bit wary.

Because as Jing Yuan broke his way in, he didn't seem to have shown his limit yet.

Even now, he still seemed calm and unhurried.

Taciturn took half a step back, his face now somewhat red and swollen.

Because he was only wearing ordinary clothes, the fabric over his chest had long been shattered by the force of the punches.

At this moment, his exposed eight-pack abs and pectoral muscles all had varying degrees of redness and swelling.

On the other side, Jing Yuan retracted his helmet, revealing his face as he smiled. "Your physical defense is strong, but there's no need to fight naked, right! If you at least wore some armor, you'd be fine!"

Because Jing Yuan was wearing armor, most of the force had been dissipated.

"No need!"

Taciturn wiped the corner of his mouth and then rushed at Jing Yuan again.

Jing Yuan, however, gave a slight smile. "Warm-up's over, I'm going to get serious now!"

Jing Yuan was also exaggerating; he had been serious for a long time, he just hadn't used his full strength.

"Serious Punch!"