No time left!
Shui Miao had no choice but to dodge desperately, but he was too slow. The fist was already upon him…
“Bang!”
Shui Miao was sent flying sideways, crashing heavily onto the ground.
“Shi Kuaiwang, you ambushed me! My brother clearly wasn’t ready yet. How could you do this?”
Shanxiao suddenly shouted furiously.
Huangshan Jing quickly covered Shanxiao’s mouth with his hand, nodding and smiling apologetically toward Shi Kuaiwang.
The scene fell silent.
“It’s okay, I can still stand!”
To his surprise, Shui Miao found his body wasn’t as weak as he had imagined. Apart from some scraped skin and aching bones, his internal organs were unharmed, and he could easily rise to his feet.
“I didn’t expect your body to have been transformed—you really are a worthy opponent!” Shi Kuaiwang nodded approvingly.
Suddenly, Shui Miao recalled that when he forcibly refined the Dao of Nature, his physical body had indeed been destroyed. It was only through sheer willpower that he had reformed his body. In other words, this new body wasn’t an ordinary human body, but one shaped by the Dao of Nature!
“You brat, you’re still spacing out! Are you looking down on me? I didn’t use my full strength just now. Now you’d better be careful!”
“Whoosh!”
Shi Kuaiwang threw another punch.
This time, Shui Miao quickly dodged.
But just as he moved aside, a second fist suddenly sprouted from Shi Kuaiwang’s arm, striking Shui Miao and sending him flying over ten meters, crashing heavily to the ground.
The punch struck Shui Miao’s chest with a force of several thousand jin.
His head buzzed, his whole body ached, and he felt as if all his bones were broken. He couldn’t move at all.
“Excellent, excellent! My Forked Fist used only half my strength, yet you survived being hit by half my power—that’s already a miracle.” Shi Kuaiwang proudly rubbed his fist. “Boy, admit defeat, and I’ll spare your life. But from now on, never step foot here again.”
“Another underhanded…”
Shanxiao struggled free from Huangshan Jing’s grip, just managing to say two words before Xuehu covered his mouth again. “Don’t talk nonsense. Fighting is like this—winning is what matters. There’s no such thing as a fair or unfair strike. Didn’t this friend here just use the same move to defeat the Bat Demon King? Besides, Shi Kuaiwang held back his strength. If he used his full power, he could reduce an entire mountain to dust, let alone an ordinary human?”
“But he said he used only half his strength—wasn’t that true?” Xiaobai approached Xuehu, whispering in confusion. She knew Shi Kuaiwang never lied—if he said he used half his strength, then he definitely did.
“That’s right. This Shui Miao is no ordinary person either.” Xuehu nodded, sensing with her spiritual awareness, only to encounter a strange force emanating from Shui Miao that blocked her perception. “Hmm? It seems he’s recovering quickly?”
“Hehehe…”
Lying on the ground, Shui Miao suddenly chuckled.
“Boy, are you out of your mind?” Shi Kuaiwang stared in disbelief.
Shui Miao laughed and said, “I’m not crazy. I want to thank you—thank you for helping me realize the nature of my body! I didn’t know my physical form was like this. I’m no longer an ordinary mortal with a mortal body. My body is a manifestation of the Dao of Nature. You can never kill me unless you cut off all my spiritual energy.”
Suddenly, memories flooded back to Shui Miao—recalling the moment he had reformed his body within the Stone Tablet of the Dao of Nature.
To his delight, Shui Miao realized that as long as he followed the same method used to reform his body back then, he could absorb surrounding spiritual energy to rapidly heal his injuries.
Suddenly, Shui Miao stood straight up, his injuries instantly healed, though his spiritual energy was significantly depleted.
The area was rich in spiritual energy, so Shui Miao had no fear at all.
That’s why he dared to speak so boldly.
“How is this possible!?”
Xuehu was shocked. Her eyes flickered, and she quickly whispered to Xiaobai, “Quickly, go fetch our eldest sister!”
Xuehu’s eldest sister was none other than the lover of the Mountain God—the white fox fairy whom Shanxiao had referred to as the Mountain God’s younger sister, a fox spirit who had cultivated to the state of a half-immortal.
“Yes!”
Xiaobai immediately vanished.
“Very well, very well! Since you’re so strong, don’t blame me for being ruthless!”
Shi Kuaiwang, filled with battle intent, immediately threw a punch. This fist not only elongated and expanded but also split into multiple attacks aimed at Shui Miao. Suddenly, Shui Miao fully activated his Wind-Control Technique, dashing behind Shi Kuaiwang and kicking toward the back of his head. However, Shi Kuaiwang’s skull was particularly hard—Shui Miao didn’t gain any advantage from the kick and instead hurt his own leg.
“Interesting!”
Shi Kuaiwang turned around, both fists striking out simultaneously, transforming into hundreds of fists blocking Shui Miao’s escape routes.
“It’s my turn now!”
Shui Miao roared, directly using his Spirit-Devouring Force to manifest a massive black blade, slicing off one of Shi Kuaiwang’s stone arms!
However, Shi Kuaiwang’s stone arm quickly regenerated.
Taking advantage of the situation, Shui Miao swung the black blade formed from his Spirit-Devouring Force, cutting off Shi Kuaiwang’s other arms while rapidly explaining, “You are a stone spirit. Inside this stone-filled belly, I can never defeat you because you can continuously draw on the energy of the earth. That’s why you confidently allowed me three moves. But you mustn’t forget the principle of mutual generation and restraint among the elements. No matter how hard stone is, it’s still earth. Even without using my Spirit-Devouring Force against you, I can still defeat you. Now, witness my Wood Element power!”
At that moment, Shui Miao suddenly activated his Wood Element energy mixed with Spirit-Devouring Force, which quickly attached itself to Shi Kuaiwang’s arms. It simultaneously absorbed his energy while rapidly spreading toward his body.
“You cunning little brat! You’ve hidden your strength well. Then I’ll have to use my three ultimate techniques!”
Seeing his spiritual body being corroded by the Wood Element energy, Shi Kuaiwang couldn’t help but panic.
But Shui Miao coldly smiled, “You’ve already lost your chance!”
“What?”
Shi Kuaiwang was greatly shocked. He watched as Shui Miao, gripping the black blade, charged directly toward him.
“Because you are a stone spirit, as long as I sever or devour your source of spiritual energy—your spiritual essence—you will be completely defeated, even destroyed!”
Shui Miao had already reached Shi Kuaiwang’s side, directly swinging the blade toward his stone head!
Too fast!
Shi Kuaiwang was naturally slow to react. While Shui Miao kept talking and attacking, Shi Kuaiwang was simultaneously listening and pondering, making his reaction even slower!
“Crack!”
Shi Kuaiwang’s stone head was severed by the black blade formed from Spirit-Devouring Force, immediately wrapped in Wood Element energy infused with Spirit-Devouring Force!
“She actually won!”
Xuehu stared in disbelief at Shui Miao.
“What’s going on!?”
A particularly gentle and melodious female voice suddenly sounded.
A fairy-like woman suddenly appeared not far from Shui Miao. She wore a flowing rainbow-colored dress, her long hair cascading, her skin as smooth as jade, and her face charmingly beautiful…
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