At the depths of the tomb river.

“Three Thousand World Hundred Thousand Myriad Gods Overlord Fist of Annihilation!”

A battle cry resounded.

From the river, several white-scaled snakes that tried to lurch at them were repelled.

The snake sovereign hissed as it rapidly slithered within the grass while approaching Gu Qing Shan and Barry.

It was quite sly, choosing to slowly circle around the two of them instead of leaping forward immediately.

“Ahahaha, it’s been a long time since I had snake soup!” Barry cracked his knuckles.

“I’ll make it” Gu Qing Shan crossed his arms and said.

“That’s great to hear, no need to worry about killing the snake——”

Barry slammed the ground with his fist.

The slithering big white snake was instantly knocked into the sky.

Barry clapped his hands.

Two rows of metal soldiers that were standing behind him raised their rifles.

Tak tak tak tak tak tak tak!

The sound of gunfire resounded.

The big white snake was juggled constantly in the air, unable to retaliate at all.

“Fresh snake meat!”

Barry roared while continuously striking the snake from the distance.

The big snake’s blood rained down like a shower, making it look like it was on its deathbed, but then it suddenly turned into a huge gust of wind that avoided Barry’s fists.

As the gust of wind flew forward, it circled several times around Barry before the big white snake showed itself again.

It plunged its teeth into Barry’s arm, refusing to let go no matter what Barry did.

“So you were venomous” Barry grinned.

He grabbed the snake’s body with both hands and ripped out a huge chunk of snake meat using his teeth.

Being hurt, the big snake couldn’t help but loosen its jaws.

“Fool, this great one has already eaten even sh——- has made a living in too many worlds to even keep count, you think your venom is actually going to do something?”

Barry ridiculed the snake.

He kept a tight grip on the snake’s body and started slamming it back and forth on the ground.

Gu Qing Shan was standing nearby, originally preparing a pot to make soup, but suddenly noticed something.

“I’ll leave this place to you, I’m going to take a look ahead” he said.

“What’s the situation?” Barry asked.

“Some uninvited guests, let me deal with them” Gu Qing Shan replied.

He stepped back into a mass of white fog and directly reappeared several thousand meters away, the pot in his hand having been exchanged for a sword.

He swung the sword.

A tidal wave of blue sword qi rushed forward, eclipsing everything in his vision.

——-Secret Art, [Torrent]!

Suddenly, a monster emerged from the tidal wave of swords.

It was wearing a suit of rock armor with magma flowing across its entire body, but even so, it appeared mostly humanoid.

A line of bloody red text suddenly popped up:

[Warning]

[You’ve encountered a former War Sequence Envoy who survived, codename: Fierceness]

[This is a high-rank War Sequence member, they lost their rationality after being trapped in the great tomb, but their battle instincts remain, please proceed with caution]

——-a high-rank War Sequence member.

Gu Qing Shan’s expression turned a bit serious.

Last time, I met a Corruption Sequence’s tree, who would have thought that I’d run into a War Sequence lunatic here?

“A living person…”

A stifled voice could be heard from inside the rock armor.

Wild killing intent began to radiate from the magma armor without holding back.

Gu Qing Shan became focused. He instantly sheathed his sword and instead threw a punch from a distance.

——[Ethereal – Grand Mountain]!

Fierceness immediately went stiff.

Gu Qing Shan’s hands swiftly turned into a barrage of punches that all struck the other party without fail.

At the very next moment, he suddenly disappeared.

Ground Shrink!

A blazing arm had appeared from the void of space and turned the place he was standing previously into flowing lava.

Reappearing a few hundred meters away, Gu Qing Shan turned back to look.

Only to see that one Fierceness remained still, but another Fierceness was climbing out from the ground.

“So that’s how it is…”

Gu Qing Shan muttered.

[Ethereal] fist techniques had a very high level of priority, so in order to avoid it, the opponent must have prepared a counter-spell beforehand that would instantly activate if they were somehow restrained.

The two Fierceness once again melded back into one, his body gradually grew larger until it became a magma giant that was several dozen meters in height.

「 Such a level of fist technique, you have the qualifications to fight me—– 」the magma giant uttered.

“Really now?” Gu Qing Shan replied.

The magma giant raised his arm into the air and abruptly struck its own face.

Red Dragon Origin Hex – Twist!

Gu Qing Shan was silently observing this, but then suddenly drew the Delimitation Divine Sword and used it to shield his side.

An immense force suddenly struck him!

Bam——–

He was violently sent flying into the depths of the tomb river, which caused a sky-high splash.

The magma giant slowly stepped towards the tomb river while declaring excitedly:

「 So it was a Dragon Hex, but I also have the Fire Ring of Shared Suffering, it seems we will have to do this the old-fashioned way 」

A beautifully patterned ring of fire then began to manifest under his feet.

Shu!

Right as Gu Qing Shan leapt out of the water, he looked down at his feet.

Only to see a similar ring of fire also manifesting under his feet.

The magma giant grinned ferociously and muttered: 「 It’s over 」

“Why?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

「 —–This Fire Ring is the essence of the War Sequence, insect, you definitely cannot endure as much damage as I can, so you’re going to die first 」the magma giant answered.

Gu Qing Shan sighed and commented: “The one lucky thing for me is that you’re already insane, so you actually answer everything I ask”

Yellowish sword phantoms started to manifest from inside his iris.

—–[Forgetting River Slash]!

Clang clang clang clang clang——-

[Realm Spirits Descend] automatically activated, which summoned clusters of blood-colored light from the sky.

“GO!”

With a single thought, Gu Qing Shan’s sword had unleashed three consecutive strikes:

[Parting Fire], [Freezing Frost], and [Sun Moon Eclipse]!

A gigantic but invisible gust of sword-infused wind rushed forward and struck the magma giant’s chest, which sent it flying.

At the same time, Gu Qing Shan was also sent flying and crashed into a nearby mountainside.

The entire mountain crumbled into debris and dust.

「 Gahahaha! 」

The magma giant laughed maniacally while sporadically boasting: 「 I have countless means to take your life, but what I enjoy the most is to use the Fire Ring of Shared Suffering to torture my enemies to death while watching the desperate expression on their faces 」

Gu Qing Shan’s gaze became sharp.

A blood-colored giant manifested.

「 YAAAAA——–」

It uttered a resounding roar and punched the magma giant’s head into the ground.

Gu Qing Shan was similarly knocked into the ground.

The blood-colored giant couldn’t help but stop and asked from a distance: 「 Oy, youngster, are you ok? 」

No answer came from the distant hole in the ground.

The blood-colored giant hesitated.

Although it was summoned to attack the enemy, it was not simply a weapon, so it knew how to be flexible.

The magma giant’s mind was still completely chaotic, so he continued to laugh maniacally: 「 Ahahaha, come and kill me if you dare, although you’re still going to die first! 」

Their surroundings suddenly fell into silence.

A second later.

A dull harrowing voice sounded from inside the hole that Gu Qing Shan fell into:

「 Do you really think I can’t endure attacks as much as you can? 」

Rumble———

The ground started to shake.

A huge black shadow leapt into the sky and eclipsed the sun.

Creation from the Age of Old, the supreme Soul Artifact of War——

Demon Dragon!

It opened its vertical iris and stared straight at the magma giant on the ground.

The magma giant didn’t expect such a thing at all, so he was stunned.

The Demon Dragon took a deep breath and uttered a resounding roar that echoed through the entire region:

「 Hey you, that magma giant over there—— 」

Its voice was suddenly interrupted.

The magma giant suddenly jumped up from the ground and screamed in horror: 「 A dragon! Why didn’t you just say that you were a dragon!? 」

He immediately jumped into the tomb river and transformed back into humanoid form as the water was heated into steam, before transforminginto a streak of fire as he ran away in the blink of an eye.

—–as if he saw some sort of vengeful devil that was going after his life.

The Demon Dragon was completely shocked as it hovered mid-air, unable to even continue its Azure Dragon Origin Hex.

After a while, it finally turned back to human form and slowly landed on the ground.

That Fierceness fellow…

Has he perhaps tasted the bitterness of fighting a dragon before?

——otherwise, why would he run even faster than a scared rabbit?

Gu Qing Shan felt a bit embarrassed.

I shouldn’t have stopped my Hex, otherwise, whether that Fierceness had been able to flee or not would be questionable.

The actual process of the battle doesn’t matter.

What matters is the fact that I lost a good target for [Entropy Solution], so I can’t make another transaction with Primal Chaos.

Sha… sha… sha…

Footsteps could be heard.

Barry slowly emerged from inside the forest while dragging a dead snake with one hand.

“You’re done?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

“Uhm, this is for dinner” Barry handed the big snake’s corpse to Gu Qing Shan before heading back into the nearby bushes.

“Where are you going?” Gu Qing Shan called out.

“The snake’s venom was too potent, I need to excrete it the old-fashioned way” Barry calmly replied.

“…” Gu Qing Shan.

From what I’ve seen, there really was a very good reason why you and your sister used to frequently have diarrhea in the past.

He fell into deep thought.

The Delimitation Divine Sword emerged from the void of space and circled around the dead snake before flying back.

「 I suggest you two speed up 」it said.

“Are we still very far away?” Gu Qing Shan asked.

「 With your speed, you’ll arrive in about 5 minutes 」

「 —–My sword hilt is nearby 」