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Words were no longer necessary.

The light and shadows from their weapons were already the main tune in the hell on earth they found themselves.

In three seconds, they had already fought more than ten rounds and exchanged more than one hundred slashes.

They were like tidal waves stirring up tornadoes and howling shooting stars crashing into each other.

Their vitality magnetic fields attracted and repelled each other to release a destructive power that caused the frames supporting the whole building around them to continuously crack.

The hole above their heads became bigger, and the reinforced concrete from thirty floors above fell down like burning mud from a landslide.

The venomous, black smoke reached their chests.

And as they gasped for breath, they sucked in the smoke. It burned their tracheas and invaded their lungs.

Normal people would have already started feeling dizzy from staying in the poisonous smoke for a few minutes. Even if they held their breaths, they would end up fainting.

Even normal superhumans would not dare to continue using their powers in such a terrible environment. Otherwise, if they sucked in too much poisonous smoke, there was a high chance that they would end up with irreversible consequences.

Even powerful fighters like Meng Chao and Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang saw stars and felt their organs burn.

Soon, the collapsed ruins and the thick poisonous smoke swallowed them whole like a swamp.

But they did not even blink.

Instead, they hoped that the other would have a desire to test their luck and get distracted in this extremely terrible battlefield, then choose to leave the place for real.

In this horrible, hellish battlefield, the one with the stronger desire to survive would have a weakness, and that person would be the one to die!

Unfortunately, both of them were people with willpower that was as firm as steel.

Even if they looked conflicted, agitated, and full of despair, that was just an act for their opponent. They were just baiting them to fall for their lies.

As the building continued collapsing and debris gradually filled up the space around them, the area they could use to fight became smaller. They were forced in very close proximity, which made the brutal fight with their sabers more dangerous.

Boom!

A deafening explosion occurred just four floors above them, and it shot out from the darkness like a roaring dragon.

The citizens this deep below had been using spirit energy of the lowest quality which had the most impurities.

Their spirit energy ducts were filled with large amounts of impurities that could not be dispelled fully with regular methods.

As they accumulated over time, they gathered together to form substances similar to crystals at the sides of the pipes.

At that moment, as they were scorched continuously by heat that was thousands of degrees Celsius hot and affected by the shockwaves of the explosions above them, the impurities within the pipes underground went through fierce reactions that were similar to sympathetic detonations.

They instantly pierced five levels of floorboards.

The reinforced concrete above Meng Chao and Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang collapsed. The structure of the entire building swayed violently, as if the entire planet was shaking.

Between them, Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang was in a worse situation. There was a rebar with a very sharp end above him, and it was about to pierce through his skull.

Gao Yang seemed to be ignoring it, but Meng Chao saw that his eyeballs had inevitably turned upward by ten degrees.

Meng Chao finally summoned his full strength.

The spirit energy in his 108 main meridians and 1,024 branch meridians circulated at maximum speed, and he brought forth all of his power. He then spat out hundreds of steel balls from his mouth, and with spirit energy added to them, they were like a storm from a heavy machine gun, interfering with the enemy’s line of sight and taking up their attention.

Then, he raised Bloody Slaughter with both hands and moved like a phantom. He slid forward and swung his saber upward, creating a perfect arc.

The thick back of the saber clashed against the thin edge of the Tiger Fang Saber and sent it flying!

When powerful fighters fought, the most important thing to them was rhythm.

Before that slash, Meng Chao had made sure that his average damage output was around 70% of his maximum fighting strength.

Even if he was suppressed time and again by Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang and the shocks caused his skin to tear and blood to gush out, his greatest damage output was never more than 90%.

It was to make his enemy think that he was heavily injured.

It was only at this moment that he burst forth with his full strength. Once he knocked away the Tiger Fang Saber, he threw his chain saber forward, and it moved like a hissing snake to bind his enemy’s shadowless saber.

Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang no longer had any weapons to use.

After Meng Chao knocked Tiger Fang Saber away, he brought Bloody Soul high above his head and pointed it at Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang’s neck artery.

The peerless criminal finally revealed fear, as if he was truly terrified.

But the next second, that seemingly real fear turned into great excitement and ill will.

Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang’s Tiger Fang Saber had clearly been knocked away by Meng Chao and his cloak had long since been ripped apart by spirit gas, so he had no pockets or anything else that could hide things.

But as if he was performing a magic trick, a sharp blade that was as thin as shadows and curved like a snake appeared in his empty right hand.

When he sent spirit energy into it, the sharp, black blade became longer.

Meng Chao had Bloody Soul high above his head, so his front was wide open.

The two of them were close to each other, and since the continuously collapsing reinforced concrete continued interfering with their fight, Meng Chao had no room to dodge.

Thud!

The sharp, black blade struck Meng Chao’s heart.

It easily tore apart his spirit energy armor and his steel-like muscle armor. Then, it sank deep into his heart.

Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang narrowed his eyes, and a satisfied smile appeared on his lips.

That slash was an accumulation of all his experience from counterattacking while he fled for nearly ten years and retreated with all his body parts intact despite countless hunters chasing after him.

Even people like Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong would die if they had their hearts pierced.

Yet when he wanted to release spirit energy and burn Meng Chao’s heart to a crisp, Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang suddenly felt a chill. Something was not right!

… The feeling of his blade stabbing Meng Chao’s heart was not right.

Since he had killed many people, he could tell the most minute difference between the muscles in the heart and normal muscles.

He seemed… to have missed his target.

But that was impossible, he had clearly stabbed Meng Chao’s heart.

Besides, during the fight, he had heard Meng Chao’s heartbeat countless times and sensed his powerful vitality magnetic field being released into the area from his heart.

It was impossible for Meng Chao to have something as strange as a deformed heart or it being on the right side of his chest.

He had locked down on Meng Chao’s heart, so why?

The thoughts had only appeared for a brief moment in his head.

Then, shock took over Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang’s features.

‘Run! I have to run, no matter the cost!

‘Even if I lose an arm— No, even if I lose both arms and have to cut off half of my body and cough up my organs like monsters, I have to give up on everything and run!

‘I HAVE TO RUN!’

The veteran hunter of the past and the peerless criminal who had killed countless hunters only had one thought left in his mind.

It was strange. The enemy did not seem to have stopped his attack. He was just staring at him coldly.

But why did he lose all his strength, as if he had been encased in invisible ice?

Wait, when did Meng Chao bring that burning saber down by his thigh from high above his head. It’s as if… he had already completely a fatal slash.

Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang suddenly felt that his throat was a little itchy.

Bang!

Meng Chao fell to the floor on his back before Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang did, and the sharp, black blade was still stuck in his chest.

It was as if the slash had forced him to use up all his strength, spirit energy, and vitality.

Fortunately, his eyes were still as bright as the stars in the sky.

Inch by inch, he carefully pulled out the sharp, black blade from his chest.

Even though there was no blood on the blade or his wound, his face was stark pale, and his heart hurt like crazy. He was in urgent need of spirit energy to repair his wound and could not move for the time being.

Meng Chao was in his weakest state.

If Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang moved even a single finger, he could kill him.

The peerless criminal widened his eyes, and a violent as well as greedy light shone in his eyes.

But even though they were so close to each other, it was as if the river of death separated them, and he could not cross it.

“Hiss… Hissssssss…”

Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang opened his mouth, and hissing that no one could understand came out from the depths of his throat.

Yet Meng Chao seemed to have understood it. While he treated his wounds, he nodded and said, “Yeah, I knew right from the start that you had a third saber with you.”

Disbelief shone in Bloody Slaughter Gao Yang’s eyes.

“It’s true. The reason is simple. The first time I fought against you, you used two scimitars,” Meng Chao said. “At that time, through the clashes of our blades, I noticed that there is a slight difference in terms of the arc of your scimitars, weight, and the distribution of the center of gravity. They should have been specifically tailored to the characteristics of your hands.

“In other words, you’re used to fighting with two sabers. You didn’t just randomly prepare two sabers as weapons.

“But based on your strength, the quality of the two scimitars was a little lacking. They shattered after a slight clash.

“Even though you have been chased by the entire hunter circle and might not be able to get any treasures while fleeing and hiding, since you joined the monster civilization, no matter what, they will definitely offer you weapons to bribe you, because that’s the only way it will make sense.

“And just as I expected, during our second fight, the weapon in your left hand turned into a shadowless saber that is as thin as a cicada’s wing, has no shadow, no form, and no presence, but can pierce through reinforced concrete as easily as a newspaper. This saber might be thin and light, but it never let you down when it fought against my Bloody Soul.

“Only a weapon like this is suited for your fighting prowess.

“But here’s the problem. The weapon in your left hand is outstanding, so why are you using the Tiger Fang Saber that you obtained from Sword Teeth Tiger in your right hand?

“Tiger Fang Saber is a good weapon, but it is not your weapon, and at most, you’ve only obtained it two hours ago. You aren’t used to its weight, length, and center of gravity, so you can’t bring out its full power.

“When powerful fighters fight, the victor is decided in an instant. Our weapons must be understood to perfection, since even the slightest oversight might end up killing us.

“It’s hard for me to believe that a veteran who has been mingling in a hellish battlefield for decades would use a weapon he is not familiar with to fight against an enemy in a life and death situation just because he longs for the power of the weapon.

“And since you’re used to dual-wielding incredible weapons like the shadowless sabers, you wouldn’t have prepared just one.

“This made me certain that the fierce Tiger Fang Saber is just a cover. Your real killing move is the third saber that you’ve been hiding!”