The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

The two words were drawn out, like a creature trying to adapt to a new way of expression attempting to maintain the connection of that contract in its own form.

There was no further content, no requests, no promises, just a very brief, confirming name of existence.

Su Mu carefully put away the contract box and summoned a spear from the void.

At this moment, the Bone-Faced General finally looked at him properly.

For the first time, the skull's face turned completely toward Su Mu's direction, its jawbone making a very faint sound, like dry bones rubbing against each other, as it rotated.

His attention finally shifted from the Mo Yun Teng, as if confirming a fact...

The vine was no longer within his hunting range, as the human in front of him had taken ownership of it.

There was anger, and there was mockery.

He had no intention of subduing the Cloud Vine, because the best way to deal with ghosts was to devour them directly; otherwise, holding onto it would only attract their covetousness and cause unnecessary trouble.

These lowly ants...

Its empty eye sockets were aimed at Su Mu.

An attack without hesitation.

At the same moment, the blood of the ancient king surged from his body, and dark red, golden, and pure white light intertwined and rolled on his surface. His silver-white hair fluttered in the night wind, his left pupil turned gold, and his right pupil turned crimson. He took his first step toward the Bone-Faced General, and the ground beneath his feet cracked open in that instant, its edges slowly crystallizing, as if something was being transferred from his weight to the ground, changing the texture of that area.

The jaw of the Bone-Faced General snapped shut at the same moment the crack appeared, making a short, hollow, crisp sound.

He finally confirmed one thing...

This human's energy level did not match his previous assessment, which lasted less than half a second.

But the next moment.

General Boneface's jaw slowly opened and closed, emitting a deep sound that seemed to come directly from inside his skull.

He recognized a trace of human presence...

He had sensed similar residual fluctuations at the location where the Pear Garden Demon Princess had fallen, and he had also sensed the aura falling from a cable car when the original city was breached.

The scattered fragments quickly pieced together in his mind, and then he confirmed his judgment.

This is the person.

The human who killed the Pear Garden Demon Princess on the cable car.

He had always assumed that the human had been killed using some kind of device on the cable car, because based on the time it took to enter this world, it was impossible for any individual to grow to such a level.

But now he was standing in front of this tri-colored light, and the information revealed by the energy fluctuations surging on his body was significantly different from his previous speculations.

Su Mu did not wait for him to complete that confirmation.

He paused for less than half a second with the spear held horizontally in front of him, and then launched an attack.

His speed began to increase after he took his first step. Dark gold, golden gold and pure white light intertwined on his body to form a flowing halo, and each step left a brief light trail on the ground.

He needed to quickly ascertain the opponent's combat strength, because the continuously rising energy fluctuations indicated that General Boneface was also adjusting his own state in sync.

The moment the two clashed in the open space in the center of the territory, the tip of Su Mu's spear made contact with the surface of the bone armor of the Bone-Faced General.

The recoil he experienced in that instant far exceeded his previous expectations...

The spear tip seemed to have struck a self-repairing solid surface, and was bounced off the bone armor the moment it touched it, leaving only a faint scratch. The edges of that scratch were visibly closing up again.

The Bone-Faced General's fighting style was unlike any opponent Su Mu had ever encountered before.

Each of his attacks was full of variations. As his arm, covered in bone armor, lashed out, several thin bone spikes would split off from the joints. These spikes would adjust their angles in mid-air, appearing as if they were alive, and would simultaneously pierce the target from different directions.

He can detach fragments of bone from a body in the blink of an eye. These fragments don't fall after detaching; instead, they float in mid-air and recombine, forming new attack structures in an extremely short time...

Short spears, spikes, chains—each with its own unique shape—constantly shift their attack angles and forms in a relentless barrage.

In the initial rounds of combat, Su Mu was forced to dodge more than expected.

His weakness-targeting ability is still active, but there's an extremely brief gap in the Bone-Faced General's attack pattern...

After each reorganization, the direction of the bone spikes' attack will pause for a very short time, as if the reorganization process itself needs some time to stabilize the structure.

The pause was so short that it was almost imperceptible to the naked eye, but Su Mu's dynamic visual talent gradually adapted to this rhythm during the continuous battle, and he began to look for opportunities to strike during those brief pauses.

The first round of exchanges lasted approximately three minutes.

In those three minutes, the two collided repeatedly more than a dozen times in the open space in the center of the territory, each impact leaving a brief trace of light in the air.

The traces intertwined and overlapped in the night fog, like a complex pattern being drawn at a rapid pace, pausing briefly at a certain moment.

And it was after this brief pause that the battle began to show a very subtle shift.

The Bone-Faced General's attack patterns were indeed complex: bone spike reassembly, fragment locking, multi-angle penetration, close-range splitting... each of these methods was enough to penetrate the defenses of an ordinary high-level professional. However, after withstanding the initial rounds of rapid attacks, Su Mu gradually found his rhythm.

When the first wave of bone spurs came, he was still adjusting. Several grayish-white bone spurs shot at him from three directions at the same time, so fast that they were almost touching the edge of his line of sight. He managed to deflect most of them with his dynamic vision and sense of danger, but one still grazed his ribs from the side and behind, leaving a deep bloodstain.

That was the first time "Bone Spike Projection" dealt full damage.

Su Mu remained calm.

He didn't even try to memorize it, because the rules of talent were already etched into his body.

When the same bone spikes came flying in a second time, he clearly felt that their penetrating power was weaker. The number was the same, the speed was the same, but the recoil force from when he parried with the gun seemed to have been halved by some force. The sensation of the blade grazing his skin was still there, but it only left a faint white mark.

Damage is halved.

Su Mu's lips twitched very slightly. He began to lean forward on his own initiative.

General Boneface had clearly also noticed the abnormality.