High-level martial arts: Starting with a heart of steel, stats crush everything.

"When will this thing be able to move around in the outside world?"

Gao Xing frowned; he had only heard of this terrifying creature.

Logically speaking, this kind of creature can only move around in places with extremely high energy in the abyss.

If the brain-eating worm stays in a place with low energy for a long time, it will die quickly.

The energy in the shallow abyss is insufficient to sustain the Abyss Queen for extended periods; only the area near the Sea of ​​the End...

"Something's wrong! Notify the commander immediately!"

"This place might be the entrance to the middle-level abyss!!!"

Xu Gengtian threw away the Abyss Mother Worm in his hand and plunged his sword into the ground.

"roar!!!"

An angry roar resounded, and a giant claw, as large as a mountain, emerged from the ground.

"It's over..."

Gao Xing and Xu Gengtian quickly retreated, their faces turning ashen.

"Northwest Military Command, retreat immediately! A Level 14 Imperial Beast is attacking!"

"Immediately notify headquarters and have the commander come to provide support!"

"Let's hold him off!"

Gao Xing's weapon is a longbow of qi and blood, from which sharp arrows formed by the condensation of qi and blood and the essence of a grandmaster are fired!

Each arrow was as powerful as a cruise missile, but when it landed on the claws of that level fourteen imperial beast, it only blew off a few hairs!

For ordinary soldiers in the Northwest who were just ordinary people, escaping from this place under the oppressive power of the imperial beast was already the limit.

"What about those people underground?"

At this moment, Gao Xing was holding nothing back, and his Grandmaster-level essence gushed forth as if it were free.

"We can't control him now, we can only stall him for time!"

The longsword in Xu Gengtian's hand hummed, and a dazzling sword light flashed, forcing the giant claw back.

"This imperial beast cannot emerge from the immature abyssal rifts of the middle layer of the abyss!"

With this single strike, the desert within a radius of tens of kilometers was ripped up.

Beneath the swirling yellow sand, two grandmasters confronted a giant claw, with tens of thousands of Northwest Army soldiers behind them.

"If we stall him, there's still a chance."

Xu Gengtian's expression changed drastically, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, which was full of wriggling brain-devouring worms!

"Holy crap, I've been infected!?"

"When?"

"Old Xu, can you hold on?" Gao Xing turned around and looked at Xu Gengtian with some worry.

"It's nothing, it's just a brain-eating worm. You can endure it for half a year without any problems."

Xu Gengtian ignited the qi and blood within his body, causing his overall temperature to rise rapidly.

Although brain-eating worms are not afraid of high temperatures, they will enter a dormant state in high-temperature environments, at least they will not reproduce more.

"Go! The commander has already been informed. Once the Imperial Beast is unleashed, the entire Northwest will fall."

Xu Gengtian jabbed his thumb into his heart, and a massive amount of blood and qi, along with the essence of a grandmaster, surged forth, quickly forming a set of golden-patterned blood armor.

"I understand. We need to at least stall until the commander arrives."

Gao Xing nodded, and with a flick of his wrist, countless streams of qi and blood, along with the essence of a grandmaster, surged into the longbow.

The longbow ignited with surging blood energy, and a golden arrow forged from the essence of a Grandmaster appeared in Xu Gengtian's hand.

His condition quickly deteriorated, and he then threw the longbow and arrows in his hand to Xu Gengtian.

"Ten arrows, you have ten chances to stop him from coming out. My life force and Grandmaster essence have been drained."

"I'll find a safe place to rest for a while. I'm leaving it to you."

He was pleased that the scene before him had become blurry; this always happened whenever he used this trick.

The last time he used this move... it seems like it was when he and Lao Xu fought sixteen Grandmaster-level Beast Kings alone, right?

Hehehe, it's been so many years since I last used it, I wonder if Lao Xu still has that same sharpness he used to have.

"I know, how could I not have made any progress after all these years?"

Xu Gengtian smiled; it had been a long time since he had used their combined attack technique.

He and Gao Xing grew up together, and their parents were both military personnel.

Warriors who grew up in the military share a common trait: an instinctive ability to cooperate with each other.

The same applies to Gao Xing and Xu Gengtian, who grew up together.

The two use one person as the main body while the other uses all their means to strengthen the main body; this is their ultimate move when facing a powerful opponent.

For a Grandmaster of the Great Xia Dynasty, one plus one doesn't simply equal two...

Xu Gengtian stepped into the void and soon stood on the clouds.

He drew his longsword, and the golden arrow quickly merged with it.

The crimson-gold longsword rested on the bowstring forged from blood and the essence of a grandmaster, and Xu Gengtian's arm muscles bulged instantly.

The veins flowed with steel blood with a density comparable to mercury, and even the steel skin, which was many times stronger and tougher than S-grade alloy, showed cracks.

The golden, indestructible bone gleamed, and the silvery-white steel marrow adhered to the crimson-gold longsword as the bowstring was pulled.

"The Bow of Annihilation!"

Xu Gengtian's expression was ferocious as he pulled the longbow to its limit!

"go!"

Bang!

The shockwave, visible to the naked eye, shattered the white clouds in the sky, and the crimson-gold longsword shot out like a meteor!

The moment the longsword struck the giant claw, the world fell silent.

The air stopped moving, and a burst of intense golden light suddenly erupted!

The desert melted, the earth evaporated, and everything within a radius of tens of kilometers was transformed back into its most primitive molecular state by this single arrow!

A huge wound appeared on the giant claw, and pale golden blood flowed out from the wound.

"Is it that hard?"

Xu Gengtian frowned. This was already their strongest attack after combining their powers, yet it had only evaporated a tiny bit of flesh...

The body of a level fourteen imperial beast... is it no longer flesh and blood?

"Nine arrows remain."

Xu Gengtian touched the quiver at his waist, which contained nine arrows forged from pure Grandmaster essence.

"The commander is quite fast; it seems that's enough."

Xu Gengtian glanced at the ever-expanding abyss rift and the pair of crimson eyes within it, and his expression turned solemn.

"Even if I die here today, I won't let you out!"

"The Bone-Dismantling Arrow!"

Xu Gengtian stabbed himself in the chest and pulled out a golden rib.

"Go back here!!!"

Based on the indestructible golden bones and forged with the essence of a grandmaster, this strike is still terrifyingly powerful!

......

In the underground cave, Gu Feng and his two companions found Chen Mo, who was now just a skeleton.

No, it should now be a golden skeleton that has grown some flesh and blood.

"Chen Mo!"

Ma Wanglin's eyes widened, her legs went weak, and she knelt down next to the skeleton.

"No way..."

Gu Feng's eyes gradually lost their luster, and he could no longer even carry He Miao on his back.

That invincible Chen Mo... actually died in a place like this?

He Miao took off her full-coverage helmet, ignoring the bleeding from her seven orifices, and used her remaining mental energy to try to repair Chen Mo's body.

However, the effect of mental power is ultimately limited.

You can repair a damaged body, but you can't create a new body out of thin air.

"What exactly happened?"

Zhao Lianqi looked at the skeleton on the ground and found it all very strange.

How come this skeleton... has a stronger life force than these children?

"Sigh, wake up."

Zhao Lianqi squatted down next to Chen Mo and poked his shiny golden skull.

"Try touching him again!"

The feather, sharp as a blade, struck Zhao Lianqi's neck, sparking orange-red embers.

The feathered serpent-transformed Ma Wanglin was filled with rage. What was wrong with this person? Why did he have to insult the dead?

"Little girl...you don't actually like this guy, do you?"

Zhao Lianqi chuckled. Of all these people, this little girl had the biggest reaction; she was incredibly excited.

"It's none of your business!"

Ma Wanglin's feathered serpent transformation is becoming more and more complete, and his hands are showing signs of turning into sharp claws.

Its tail, covered in colorful scales, kept slapping the ground.

She swore that if Zhao Lianqi dared to touch Chen Mo again, she would risk her life to bleed him!

"Don't worry, this kid's as tough as a rock in a latrine, he's not dead."

Zhao Lianqi waved his hand, knowing that if he continued teasing her, this little girl would really fight him to the death.