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"Xiaofei, don't be rash! Come back quickly!"

Chen Xiuqin saw Xiang Beifei charging out alone and shouted anxiously.

Lu Hong and Kong Daming also grew tense, for this desolate beast was no joke!

Kong Daming had never treated Xiang Beifei as an outsider; he was the son of a comrade-in-arms, someone he was supposed to look after. How could he just watch the young man take such a risk alone!

Lu Hong felt the same way. He was still grateful to Xiang Beifei and knew that this kid would be extraordinary in the future, but the desolate beast they were facing now had the strength of the late Meridian Opening stage! If something happened to the boy, he would feel guilty for the rest of his life.

Neither the Kong couple nor Lu Hong knew what Xiang Beifei had encountered in the outer domain's desolate wilderness. The alliance had not made the situation in the Withered Forest public, so no one else was clear about Xiang Beifei's abilities.

Xiang Beifei had encountered even more sinister desolate beasts before, let alone this One-Armed Crab.

Whoosh!

Without any hesitation, Xiang Beifei rushed forward swiftly and instantly landed in front of the One-Armed Crab, smashing his fist down on it!

The One-Armed Crab, seeing another human approaching, disdainfully raised its pincer to block Xiang Beifei's punch!

Boom!

A booming sound erupted!

Firelight shot into the air, exploding into terrifying flames. These flames were extremely volatile, igniting upon the One-Armed Crab's body, quickly spreading along its form, the blaze reaching to the sky, illuminating the entire ruins.

The One-Armed Crab seemed to sense something; it rapidly spat out streaks of white venom, like foam, covering itself and swiftly erasing Xiang Beifei's flames.

It retreated warily a couple of steps, its two huge eyes vigilantly watching Xiang Beifei. The flame had made it feel a hint of a threat!

But Xiang Beifei's punch hadn't injured the One-Armed Crab; his fist might as well have hit a mountain. The pincer didn't budge, but Xiang Beifei used the rebounding force to leap upward.

The defensive power of the late Meridian Opening stage One-Armed Crab was still terrifying!

However, Xiang Beifei was no longer the rookie who had just stepped into the early stages of Meridian Opening and had to run from later-stage desolate beasts. Months of continuous cultivation and meridian development gave him a very strong ability to respond!

And no matter how powerful this crab's cultivation became, it was still a One-Armed Crab; every attack it made continued to retain the habits of the late Qi-Controlling stage. Its cultivation was forcibly enhanced, but it was still not truly at the late Meridian Opening stage.

As for how to evade it, how to cope, and how to attack—the "Learn by Analogy" savvy Xiang Beifei knew it all by heart.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Countless white spikes detached from the crab's legs, following Xiang Beifei in an attempt to halt his advance, but he nimbly dodged through the air, ignoring the white spikes.

Xiang Beifei didn't attack the One-Armed Crab's eyes, because he knew that even if his fist landed on the crab's eyes, he still wouldn't be able to kill this desolate beast. The One-Armed Crab had long since surpassed the mere late Qi-Controlling stage of a desolate beast; it could still reconstitute itself.

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Xiang Beifei landed on the joint of the One-Armed Crab's large pincer, and subsequently, a flash of light passed, the Spirit Gathering Book appeared in his hand, and in an instant, the Spirit Gathering Book automatically flipped to the Basket Constellation.

As the Basket Constellation was revealed, a misty breath spread out, led by Xiang Beifei, enveloping the breath soil!

Return to the Original State!

This power was incredibly peculiar, anything it touched was forced to revert to its initial state!

Currently, Xiang Beifei was incapable of fully controlling this breath. If he tried to deliberately do so, he would also suffer backlash, and there was the risk of losing control; thus, he could only let it rest on the breath soil. The breath soil itself was very special; Return to the Original State couldn't affect the breath soil, but once the breath soil was tainted with this breath, it became different.

At this moment, Xiang Beifei had no need to deliberately control it. He just let the breath of "Return to the Original State" spread freely! Whatever it wanted to do, just let it free itself.

Buzz!

The breath of Return to the Original State swept along the breath soil, falling upon the One-Armed Crab's limb. Without Xiang Beifei's control, the breath couldn't return it to a specific state, which meant that Xiang Beifei couldn't determine to what state it would revert; it was all up to the breath itself.

But the issue was that the One-Armed Crab had reconstituted its body just five minutes earlier!

Reverting to the state before reconstitution was an easy feat!

Crack!

The joints of the One-Armed Crab, affected by "Return to the Original State," began showing crack after crack, each resembling the shape of a small crab. It was the state of small crabs not yet fully merged with others!

Simultaneously, Xiang Beifei's breath soil dispersed into streams of sand, which in the blink of an eye burrowed into the cracks and disappeared within the One-Armed Crab's body!

The breath soil, carrying the breath of Return to the Original State, rampaged inside the One-Armed Crab, which, after being battered for a moment, had its solid body compelled to revert to the small crabs' form, with many small crabs peeling off within the body of the One-Armed Crab.

The One-Armed Crab quickly realized something was wrong with its body and let out an angry roar, its demonic power surging explosively, sending forth tumultuous waves that shattered the breath of Return to the Original State!

Xiang Beifei lacked the strength to control "Return to the Original State," and the One-Armed Crab was also very strong, so the Return to the Original State was broken by the One-Armed Crab, who was at the later stages of Meridian Opening, in less than two seconds.

But Xiang Beifei wasn't concerned, for the breath soil had already entered the body of the One-Armed Crab!

For him, that was enough!

Whoosh!

The One-Armed Crab, once again enraged, clamped down towards Xiang Beifei's body. This time, Xiang Beifei did not dodge; he simply watched calmly as the unchallenged large pincer moved towards him.

"Xiaofei, dodge quickly!"

"Beifei! Be careful!"

From afar, Lu Hong and Chen Xiuqin, as well as her husband Kong Daming, witnessing Xiang Beifei stopping without dodging, also cried out in alarm. They had each fought the One-Armed Crab just moments before and knew well the might of this desolate beast; not only was its body impervious to blades and spears, but its large pincers were extremely sharp, able to shatter steel made during the Meridian Opening phase without effort.

With that pincer strike descending, Xiang Beifei's small body was definitely done for!

All three of them had their hearts in their throats, sweating nervously; had they not been completely drained of energy to move, they would have gone to pull Xiang Beifei back long ago.

However, just when they were all horrified and worried, they noticed that the pincers in the air actually stopped an inch away from Xiang Beifei's body!

It was as if it was suddenly fixed in place, or as if time had come to a halt, and the air instantly became still.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The wind blew scraps of paper dancing around the streets, and the dust of the ruins rolled and drifted, showing that this place was still suffering a massive upheaval.

"How come—it stopped moving?" Lu Hong said, surprised.

"Was it frozen in place?" Kong Daming too was stunned.

Their hearts were still hanging in their throats because Xiang Beifei was still within the grasp of the One-Armed Crab's sharp pincers, still threatening Xiang Beifei's life. A slight clamp now would probably spell disaster for Xiang Beifei!

But the previously rampaging massive desolate beast had suddenly stopped!

The three of them couldn't even understand how Xiang Beifei managed to do it!

Not just them, but the One-Armed Crab itself was also shocked!

It rolled its massive eyeballs, trying desperately to muster the spiritual power within its body, trying to launch an attack to clamp Xiang Beifei.

But it was futile!

Xiang Beifei gazed at the One-Armed Crab indifferently, as though lost in thought.

Soon, the One-Armed Crab seemed to feel threatened, its eyes growing ever more fearful.

Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!

Violent explosion sounds erupted from various parts of the One-Armed Crab's body!

Every joint on the One-Armed Crab's body was as though it had bombs installed that suddenly went off collectively, blasting out clouds of dust.

The huge body of the One-Armed Crab trembled like a sieve, and then, its large claw and eight legs dropped off from its body in an abrupt fashion.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In the astonished gaze of Lu Hong and wife Kong Daming, the previously unstoppable One-Armed Crab had its large claw and eight legs directly dismembered!

And the pincers that were about to clamp Xiang Beifei fell from his body, not even touching a corner of Xiang Beifei's clothes!

Boom!

The body of the One-Armed Crab landed on the ground like a small mountain, smashing a huge pit into the ground, throwing dust into the air!

The whole street vibrated slightly, buzzing with noise.

——

"This..."

Lu Hong and wife Kong Daming were dumbfounded!

Dead?

The One-Armed Crab, which had mangled all three of them, was actually finished off by Xiang Beifei just like that?

There was a moment when they even thought, was the One-Armed Crab too weak? How could it be taken down by a young man who had only been in college for a few months?

But when they thought about their own injuries and the scene of being chased by the giant crab—it was a genuine desolate beast in the late stage of Meridian Opening, no joke at all!

Or was it that they were too weak themselves?

All three were astounded in their hearts!

Xiang Beifei was actually able to defeat a late-stage Meridian Opening desolate beast!

Initially, they were worried that Xiang Beifei, who had awakened his system only half a year ago, was being too reckless going out alone, and they thought of telling Xiang Beifei to come back and not overexert himself.

But unexpectedly, the One-Armed Crab, which was rampaging irresistibly, was dismantled by Xiang Beifei in the blink of an eye! It was as if Xiang Beifei—wanting to eat a crab bigger than a house—simply broke it apart.

If they could have added a bit more fire, they could have started eating directly!

The most terrifying thing was, from the moment Xiang Beifei made his move to the downfall of the One-Armed Crab, the entire process took less than a minute!

"Is he... is he still the Xiaofei I know?" Kong Daming couldn't help but exclaim.

"Beifei, he's actually... he's actually this strong?"

Lu Hong was equally stunned beyond measure!

Last May, that kid was clearly just a teenager in the Qi-Controlling stage who needed his guidance to learn Rapid Flame; but in just seven or eight months without seeing him, he had grown to this terrifying level!

He was even more powerful than Lu Hong himself!

What kind of genius was this?