Chapter 340_2
"Come on, take another punch from me, if you win, then I lose."
Li Suisui's lips twitched.
What the fuck is this nonsense.
He didn't pay much attention, the two had been fighting up to now, countering each other's moves back and forth, and now it could almost only be considered the start of the second round.
Having already gotten a rough idea of Xue Jing's strength, he didn't pay too much attention to the upcoming punch, thinking it was just one of the countless ordinary attacks he would face in the ongoing fierce battle.
But soon, he realized something was wrong.
Xue Jing, who had dashed close by, burst forth with an aura that shot up into the sky like a pillar of blood, piercing through the lead-grey sky and tearing a huge hole in the metallic iron mist clouds above.
His entire being surged with momentum, emanating a sense of irreversible courage and imposing spirit.
In an instant, Li Suisui instinctively got goosebumps all over, his scalp tingled, and his hair stood on end.
With All Things Myriad Phases Flow operating at full power, Li Suisui shouted loudly and brought his hands together to meet Xue Jing's fist.
Then—
"Thump—!"
A dull sound.
Time seemed to freeze for a few seconds, and all the onlookers felt as if the sky had suddenly darkened.
Immediately following—"Boom—!!!!"
An explosion far greater than any previous shockwave caused by the two fighters suddenly erupted, as if an actual nuclear bomb had detonated.
The metallic surface cracked layer by layer, as if invisible blades that could shave iron as if it were mud scraped across incessantly, a terrifying vacuum impact spread with unimaginable speed, everything within a five hundred meter radius, whether metallic plants, living beings, or onlookers, were all forcibly uprooted and thrown farther away.
Screams erupted everywhere. Directly in front of where Xue Jing had thrown his punch, which was behind Li Suisui, two fan-shaped lines spread, extending a kilometer away, and within this vast fan-shaped area, everything was completely obliterated, leaving a wide-open space, as if a parting had been combed into the earth.
Several examiners who were too late to escape, within the range, didn't even manage to cry out before they were reduced to nothingness, not even leaving a piece of bone behind.
...
Somewhere in the steel jungle, far from the battlefield.
The students from Mr. Xue's class gathered, looking somewhat disheveled due to the blast from the battle between Xue Jing and Li Suisui.
"Hey, do you guys think Mr. Xue can win?"
A student asked with some concern.
"Although Mr. Xue is strong, his opponent is that Li Suisui... Could he lose?"
He Han opened his supplies bag, took out a compressed biscuit to chew, and upon hearing the remarks, curled his lip and said:
"Mr. Xue might indeed lose, but it's unlikely that he will."
"What the heck are you talking about, He Han."
"Why is your head so pointy."
Ye Jingqiu said with certainty, "Mr. Xue won't lose."
"That being said, although we've known for a while that Mr. Xue is a monster, I really didn't expect him to be able to fight with that Li Suisui to this extent..."
"I thought Mr. Xue was joking when he said he was invincible, but it turns out he was seriously not kidding..."
"What should we do next? Should we wait for Mr. Xue, or continue to area B2? But ahead is where Mr. Xue and Li Suisui are fighting, it's too dangerous for us to go straight through, we need to take a big detour..."
The students chattered away, and Chen Xingyan, seeing this, said:
"Fighters like them, with almost endless strength, who knows how long they'll fight; we..."
He hadn't finished speaking when the ground suddenly began to shake violently, making it hard to even stand.
Soon after, a continuous booming sound came from nearby, a whole fan-shaped area's impact kept sweeping forward, obliterating everything in its path.
"Wow!?"
"What's happening?"
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The students struggled to resist the fierce current of the riot, barely managing to open their eyes to glimpse the shocking scene where the earth had been parted down the middle, and they immediately widened their eyes.
"Is this... Mr. Xue's Serious Punch?"
...
In the battlefield, the dust settled.
Metal debris turned into an iron fog, the intense kinetic friction heating the entire Steel Land, the ground faintly glowing red, with white mist steaming all around.
All the spectators hurried back to check the outcome.
And so, they saw.
At the starting point of the massive fan-shaped divided area, the only figure still standing was a godlike figure of great stature.
His upper body clothing had all but vanished under the intense backlash, revealing exquisitely chiseled and attractive muscles, his red hair dancing without the wind, just like a Demon God.
In front of him, the broken and battered Li Suisui lay on the chaotic ground, lifeless.
At this moment, Li Suisui had both arms gone without a trace, two-thirds of his chest missing, the heart vanished, his abdomen nearly reduced to a single layer of skin connecting to his lower body, his neck missing a chunk, and his head missing the left half of his face, exposing the cross-section of his mouth and nasal cavity.
He looked as if he had been savagely bitten by a Nonexistent Beast.
Without doubt, the winner was clear.
Everyone stared silently at this scene, speechless.
In the silence, Xue Jing took a step forward with a stride.
Like waking from a dream, everyone, startled as birds by a bowstring, scattered and fled in terror.
"Go, get out of here!"
"Absolutely cannot approach the area where Xue Jing is!"
"Damn it, why isn't there a rule that the examiners can't fight back, letting such a monster in means there's no chance to compete!"
"Even Li Suisui was no match for him, no one can control him in this joint examination. If he wants... we're all finished!"
"We can only try to run, must not get caught by him!"
Xue Jing paid no attention to the commotion around him, just as people aside from boredom, don't intentionally notice what ants are doing.
He walked over to the battered Li Suisui and checked his condition.
"Still alive, huh... the life force of a Limit Breaker is indeed different."
Xue Jing nodded.
He had previously faced Jiao Hongyuan, who was an incomplete Limit Breaker who had achieved his status through special methods but already possessed the formidable life force able to move even with his head severed.
Li Suisui, being a genuine breakthrough person, naturally was much stronger than Jiao Hongyuan, missing a few hearts and other organs, and having half of his brain smashed was not a fatal injury—it was merely knocked out.
"Being hit by my Serious Punch while in 'True Red' state and merely getting knocked out is impressive, not disappointing me."
Xue Jing acknowledged the kid's strength.
Even under normal circumstances, his punch still maintained a terrifying lethality close to a Second Breakthrough Level, and with True Red enhancement, it was outrageously powerful.
Although not entirely clear on the specific values, at the very least the power was also more than ten times the normal state—Li Suisui still being alive was a testament to his exceptional strength.
"Next..."
Xue Jing looked around, then his figure flashed, arriving in front of the pale yellow currents that had been blown far away, summoning the Nonexistent Beast, and along the way, he collected all the pale yellow currents, taking roughly ten minutes.
"Done, another Wind of All Beginnings."
Holding the pale yellow orb in his hand and seeing the 'Divinity being absorbed' prompt on the panel, Xue Jing nodded in satisfaction.
An unexpected gain... if I offer this to Youqing A Dream, asking her for another kiss wouldn't be too much, would it?
Xue Jing stroked his chin, thinking somewhat indecently.
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