harleyscars Chapter 24 Ultimate Gains
Chapter 24 Ultimate Gains
Pei Qi looked the drooling beast in front of him up and down.
"By now, you probably don't even have much wisdom left, do you?"
"Besides eating and killing, do you even remember who you are? Do you still remember your dream of becoming the perfect being?"
In that TNT nuclear explosion powerful enough to destroy the Earth's surface, Muzan didn't have a [Totem of Immortality] like Pei Qi, which could take his place, nor did he have a full set of Netherworld alloy armor enchanted with [Explosion Protection IV] for protection.
Explosions, tearing, shattering, high-temperature carbonization... Muzan's body was repeatedly destroyed in microseconds.
Each time a layer of skin and flesh is regenerated using the demon's regenerative abilities, the next shockwave will peel it off and carbonize it again.
That was true torture. In just a few minutes, Muzan endured more physical torment than he had in the past thousand years combined.
In this cycle of extreme suffering, Muzan's mental defenses crumbled first. His consciousness shattered completely amidst endless explosions, driving him insane.
However, miracles, or rather curses, in life often arise from desperate situations.
Although consciousness collapsed, the cellular instincts of the "progenitor of demons" took over the body.
That obsession with "surviving" was so strong that it distorted reality.
In order to survive the explosion, his cells began a frantic, chaotic, and autonomous evolution.
To withstand temperatures of several thousand degrees, he grew a thick, rock-like keratin layer.
To reduce physical impact damage, his internal organs began to liquefy and shift, transforming into this cushioned fluid structure.
To replenish the enormous energy consumed during regeneration, he even evolved bizarre energy-absorbing organs that can directly extract heat and radiation from the air.
This is a wonderful irony.
For thousands of years, Wuzan's relentless pursuit of "evolution" and "perfection" was achieved in such an extremely ugly and lowly way when he lost consciousness and became a beast.
It was this desperate, self-destructive mutation that allowed him to cling to life and, when the explosion caused the ground to collapse, he was fortunate enough to fall into this indestructible obsidian palace, thus escaping the subsequent barrage of bombings.
"However, surviving is one thing, but whether you can continue to live is another."
Pei Qi lightly touched the ground with his toes, once again increasing the distance between himself and the monster.
The monster responded to Pei Qi's mockery with an even more ferocious roar.
The massive body activated once more, and several bone whips intertwined to form a large net, blocking all of Pei Qi's escape routes.
"Now that the prey is in the net, things will be much easier."
Faced with this overwhelming attack, which could instantly kill any pillar-level swordsman, Pei Qi appeared unusually calm.
The new Nether Alloy armor, shimmering with light, covers the entire body, each piece gleaming with top-tier enchantments of Protection IV and Durability III.
At the same time, a bottle of light blue potion appeared in his hand.
"call!"
A sharp gust of wind swept in, and a thick bone whip swept towards Pei Qi's waist.
Just as the bone whip was about to touch him, Pei Qi tilted his head back, gulped down the medicine in his hand, and casually tossed the glass bottle aside, causing it to shatter in mid-air.
[Swift II] Potion.
"Glug."
As the medicine went down his throat, Pei Qi's vision was instantly stretched, and everything around him seemed to be slowed down.
Muzan's bone whip, which was as fast as lightning, now appeared to him as slow as a waving noodle.
He lightly touched the ground with his toes, and his body instantly became a blur.
"brush!"
The bone whip swept across, but only shattered the afterimage left by Pei Qi. His true form had already appeared like a ghost on the other side of Muzan.
"Too slow, too slow."
As Pei Qi spoke, he slowly took out a second bottle of potion, a bright red [Strength II] potion.
The monster was thoroughly enraged by the slippery worm. Its countless eyeballs spun wildly, and the mountain of flesh sprang up, attempting to crush Pei Qi with the force of a mountain crashing down.
"So eager to get yourself killed?"
Pei Qi smiled slightly and drank another bottle of bright green [Jump Boost II] potion.
Faced with the mountain of flesh falling from the sky, he did not retreat but advanced, leaping lightly to a height level with the dome of the underground palace.
He flipped in mid-air, avoiding the monster's gaping maw full of fangs.
At this moment, Muzan had completely gone mad. His last remaining instincts told him that this prey was toying with him! Humiliating him!
Why can't I hit it? Why is it that even though it's just an insect, it's faster than me?
"roar!!!"
All the tentacles, bone spikes, and even the fangs in that giant mouth swarmed out at this moment, determined to completely strangle Pei Qi.
Pei Qi, however, calmly took out the last item from his backpack.
An Enchanted Golden Apple, shimmering with an eerie purple enchanted aura.
In this world, this is truly divine food, an absolute benefit that defies the rules.
"Click, click."
Pei Qi strolled leisurely through the gaps in the tentacles, munching on the golden apple as if on a picnic.
Every time a tentacle was about to strike him, he managed to dodge it by the narrowest of margins, as if he knew the trajectory of all of Muzan's attacks.
As soon as the golden apple was swallowed, colorful particle effects burst forth on Pei Qi's body.
"call……"
Pei Qi clenched his fist, feeling the terrifying power within him that seemed capable of shattering mountains with a single punch.
At this moment, Pei Qi felt stronger than ever before. This peak state gave him the illusion that he could sweep everything aside.
"It's almost time."
Pei Qi suddenly stopped in his tracks.
He stopped dodging and stood there straight, looking up at the thickest bone whip that was now charging up again, carrying thousands of pounds of monstrous force as it crashed down on him.
"Come on, Muzan. Let me see if your ugly, evolved body can break through my defenses!"
"BOOM—!!!"
A loud bang shook the underground palace.
The bone whip slammed solidly into Pei Qi's head, the force of which even blew away obsidian fragments around him, and dust instantly engulfed Pei Qi's figure.
However, when the smoke cleared, that figure remained standing there motionless.
Pei Qi's feet sank deep into the ground, but his body remained ramrod straight.
His Netherworld Alloy Armor only flashed a faint red light and emitted a dull metallic clang.
Next, look at the status bar in the upper left corner of Pei Qi's field of vision.
The row of golden [Damage Absorption] hearts trembled and dropped by half a bar.
"this one?"
Pei Qi reached out and patted the disgusting slime on his shoulder armor, his tone filled with disappointment and disdain.
"Is this the power you gained by abandoning your dignity and reason? Muzan, with each of your attacks..."
Pei Qi slowly raised his head, and the two longswords of [Undead Slayer V] in his hands slowly rose.
"...It's like they're giving me a gua sha treatment."