“Something’s not right!” Ya Long felt a faint unease in his heart.

He took a few small steps back, raised his third palm, and struck towards Li Cheng颐 like lightning.

*Bang!!!*

But this palm was blocked by an even larger squirrel paw.

The two palms, one large and one small, collided, producing a tremendous, sharp sound.

“You!?” Ya Long's expression changed drastically as he looked at Li Cheng颐, who had straightened up at some point.

“You thought you won!?” Blood trickled from the corner of Li Cheng颐's mouth, and bloody wounds all over his body were smoking. He looked as if he was on the verge of collapse. He struggled to stare at Ya Long.

“Too bad… I’m still one step ahead!!”

He grinned, revealing a hideous and unpleasant smile.

In that instant, he grabbed Ya Long’s arm and slammed him down with a backhand.

*Boom!!*

Ya Long's body was like a soft whip, smashed into the ground behind him.

The ground shattered, and rocks flew everywhere.

Li Cheng颐 didn't let go at all, continuing to grab his arm and wildly smash him around in all directions, again and again.

*Boom boom boom boom!!!*

But it was useless. His frantic smashing did no damage to Ya Long.

After the thirteenth smash, Ya Long flipped over, grabbed Li Cheng颐's arm, and with an elbow strike, loosened Li Cheng頤’s grip on him.

With a nimble flip, Ya Long was unscathed, only a little dusty.

He distanced himself, staring at the opposite side.

“There’s no way this level of physical strength has no limit!!” The other party wasn’t a Saint Body, yet he could fight him to such an extent. It was simply unbelievable!

“Power can't emerge endlessly. Your body is still constantly strengthening… This means you’re likely using some kind of forbidden technique to burn your life force!” Ya Long quickly analyzed and speculated in his mind.

“Burning life force!?” At this moment, Li Cheng颐’s chest had already begun to condense the third imprint.

The speed of strengthening hadn't slowed down during the previous battle; it was just that the immense threat of internal pressure causing him to explode had been offset.

But now that he stopped, he had to face this terrifying threat again.

“Then you can try it. Keep fighting and see who falls first…”

At this time, because he was gradually getting used to the terrifying pain of the internal pressure, Li Cheng颐 slowly calmed down.

He kept exhaling large amounts of hot air, and the breath that flew out of his mouth turned into a faint red flame.

It was a bizarre phenomenon caused by the dust in the air being ignited.

“Fall?” Ya Long sneered. “My Saint Body can withstand the myriad tribulations of the world. You think your level can threaten me? How laughable!”

“Then come kill me!” Li Cheng颐 shouted. “If you’re really as strong as you claim to be.”

The two stared at each other for a moment. Suddenly, they both leaped up at the same time, each grabbing the other's shoulders with both hands, and the other hand, without prior agreement, ferociously struck towards the other's chest.

Both sides relied on their own body's high hardness and directly chose a face-to-face brawling method.

*Bang bang bang bang bang bang!*

The terrifying vibrations exploded in mid-air, and circles of air oscillations spread out like ripples of water, shaking away everything around them.

Without holding back, both of them exerted all their strength, frantically smashing their fists at each other. At this moment, there were no moves at all. Only the skill of force exertion could still be used. All the other moves were reduced to the most primitive bare-knuckle boxing.

One second.

Two seconds.

Five seconds.

Ten seconds!!

*Boom!!*

Li Cheng颐's body was the first to be unable to withstand it. Blood seeped from his torso, and he gradually changed from a position of equal offense and defense to only defending and not attacking.

With the last punch, Ya Long used all his strength and heavily struck Li Cheng頤’s eye socket.

The enormous force carried Li Cheng颐 like a cannonball, leaving a white wave of air far behind, and slammed into the wilderness on the outskirts.

“It’s over.” Ya Long was slightly out of breath and straightened up. Although he still didn’t have any wounds on his body, the power consumed was genuinely substantial.

His Saint Body was indeed indestructible, but his strength wasn't infinite.

The Third Generation had been beaten by him until all his internal organs were shattered and rotten. He shouldn't be able to survive this, right?

Ya Long suppressed the fatigue in his heart and hurried forward.

In any case, he had to personally watch the Third Generation breathe his last and die completely!

But as soon as he approached, he saw that Tai Su Qing was standing behind Li Cheng颐 at some unknown time.

“It’s over,” Ya Long said, looking at Tai Su Qing.

“This guy is simply a monster!” Tai Su Qing sighed. “But in any case, I want this body!”

“As you wish, but I must see him breathe his last and die completely!” Ya Long said coldly.

“Okay.” Tai Su Qing nodded, approached Li Cheng颐 lying on the ground, and suddenly softened his right hand, twisting it into a mass of tiny white tendrils, which burrowed into Li Cheng颐's body through his wounds.

Before long, a large amount of white smoke emerged from the wounds.

That was the virus being scorched to death.

But Tai Su Qing's expression remained unchanged, having expected this long ago.

He raised his other hand slightly.

“Come!”

Immediately, on the periphery of this area, a large number of infected people frantically approached.

Soon, the first person to approach grabbed Tai Su Qing's hand, and countless Tian Ren viruses in his body flowed into Tai Su Qing's body like a swift current.

At the same time, the intensity of the original virus in Tai Su Qing's body was also rapidly increasing.

From not being able to withstand the high temperature at the beginning, to slowly being able to adapt as more people gathered.

After a full ten seconds, the Tian Ren original virus was finally not burned to death and deeply burrowed into Li Cheng颐’s body.

The recovery power of the original virus was much stronger than that of the ancestral virus before.

It quickly began to repair Li Cheng颐’s damaged organs.

“It’s done!” A hint of excitement appeared on Tai Su Qing’s face.

His biggest trouble had always been the strength of his physical body. Before, when facing nuclear bombs, he had relied on being reborn in his sub-bodies to avoid the nuclear attack.

And now, he was finally able to find a body with such an exaggerated level of physical strength.

Looking at it this way, it was simply a gift from—

*Bang!!!*

Without any warning.

Li Cheng颐, who had just been lying on the ground unconscious, suddenly got up and punched Tai Su Qing right in the forehead.

In the blink of an eye, the enormous punching force shattered his head into powder and minced meat.

Red and white splattered all over the ground, and countless viral brain matter were still wriggling, trying to heal and recover.

*Poof.*

Li Cheng颐 stepped on the brain matter, crushing it, and turned around under Ya Long's stunned gaze.

“You thought it was over??” A ferocious smile appeared on his face.

“Die!!” Ya Long no longer wasted words, stepped forward again, grabbed his shoulders, and his fists rained down.

The huge thunderous collision sounded again.

“Since you’re not dead, I’ll beat you to death again!!” He felt that he had been mocked and teased, and this time he exerted all his strength to swing his fists.

The killing moves of the Saint Tribulation Fist Technique were used madly as if they cost nothing.

At the same time, while calculating, he also carried Li Cheng颐 towards the warehouse where the Tai Su Qing Group stored weapons and ammunition.

The two of them crashed straight through a path in the wilderness.

Everything in their path was broken and shattered.

Finally…

The ammunition depot on the outskirts arrived.

Ya Long plunged into the warehouse door without stopping. The tremendous squeezing friction and Li Cheng颐's already high body temperature of six hundred degrees instantly detonated the entire warehouse.

*Rumble!!!!*

A huge gray-white mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

The earth shook. Centered on the warehouse, the entire yellow-green wilderness suddenly had a huge pit with a diameter of hundreds of meters.

White, red, yellow, and even gray-black flames were mixed together, burning fiercely.

The continuous burning flames, reaching up to tens of thousands of degrees, completely engulfed Li Cheng颐 and Ya Long.

Li Cheng颐's body was almost charred, but under the squeezing of the huge shock wave, the strength of his body was still increasing, and his body temperature had reached thousands of degrees.

And a temperature of tens of thousands of degrees could only carbonize the surface skin and hair.

What really caused him serious damage was the enormous high temperature at the moment of the ammunition depot explosion.

That was a terrifying instantaneous temperature of tens of millions of degrees.

At the center of the flame, everything around was red.

Ya Long was holding a charred corpse in one hand, panting, and squatting down tiredly.

The Saint Body had not been harmed, but he would still get tired.

“This time, he’s definitely dead.” Ya Long was covered in sweat, dragged up the more than five-meter-high charred squirrel-man, and prepared to check.

*Snap!*

Suddenly, a charred hand heavily grabbed his arm.

Countless new flesh grew rapidly from under the charred remains, replacing the carbonized skin.

"!!!?" Ya Long's goosebumps trembled, frantically trying to shake off the opponent's claws.

But it was to no avail.

The other party's strength was much greater than he had imagined.

He looked along the hand claws, and Li Cheng颐 was slowly sitting up, new flesh growing madly all over his body.

In the blink of an eye, he was restored to a five-meter-high dark red flesh and blood squirrel-man in the flames.

Not only that!

He stood up, and his body actually began to expand, grow, and become larger again.

From more than five meters, he quickly grew to six meters!!

*Poof!*

Suddenly, a mass of pale white tendrils burst out from a wound on Li Cheng颐’s waist, and Tai Su Qing's twisted face appeared on the surface of the tendrils.

With a *bang*, the tendrils transformed by Tai Su Qing landed and rapidly grew into a complete human form.

As soon as he recovered, his face turned pale, he took a few steps back, stood with Ya Long, and gasped heavily.

“Oh? You can actually break free from my body and escape.” Li Cheng颐 used the virus to restore his body, and his condition was better than ever.

The recovery power of the original virus really didn't disappoint him.

His physical strength at this time was completely covered by the recovery power, and he couldn't detect any internal pressure at all.

Such a harmonious state was simply perfect!

“This guy’s body cells are too strong… He’s not human at all!!” Tai Su Qing roared with a twisted face. On average, he mobilized more than a dozen viruses to fight a single body cell, but he couldn't win and was instead beaten.

Even more exaggerated was that when he tried to invade the other party's body, his own virus group was actually constantly being turned against him!

Those powerful body cells forcibly kept the Tian Ren viruses in captivity and even made them cooperate to break away from his control.

It should be known that the connection and control between viruses are mainly affected by pheromones.

And in Li Cheng颐's body, the interference to pheromones was unimaginably great.

Moreover, the reason for being able to escape control was likely because the virus believed that the other party's body was more suitable for survival and evolution than his!

“Be careful, something’s already wrong with him!” Ya Long also felt more and more that something was wrong. At this time, he observed carefully and slowly retreated.

“I know.” The more Tai Su Qing thought about it, the more dangerous he felt. “His body is getting stronger every moment, and haven't you noticed that he’s constantly devouring the surrounding air and matter, and excreting very little? It's just that he devoured very little at the beginning, but now… It's becoming more and more obvious!”

“You mean…” Ya Long quickly reacted, his expression changing drastically.

“That's right!” Tai Su Qing nodded, his expression solemn and ugly. “If we don't find a way to stop him and continue to strengthen him like this, he can devour and destroy the entire world just by devouring air and matter!”

“!!!” A flash of lightning seemed to flash through Ya Long's mind instantly. He thought of a supreme existence in the Black Sea that he had fought with His Majesty. That guy seemed to be in a similar situation!

Could the Third Generation have obtained the inheritance of that guy!? A hint of hair-raising fear rose in his heart.

“He’s getting stronger again!! Think of a way quickly!!” Tai Su Qing said anxiously.

He just wanted to rule the world, not completely destroy everything.

(End of this chapter)