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Chapter 784 All-Out Siege
Gao Ming never expected to see true fist intent in this dark shrine. The extreme destruction and darkness intertwined together, like a vast ocean, inescapable.

If that punch lands, Gao Ming will probably have to leave the shrine prematurely.

With his arms crossed in front of him, layers of ghostly patterns flowed around him. Gao Ming tried everything he could to stop him, and even the malice hidden deep in Li Sansi's heart began to cooperate.

Even so, Gao Ming remained uneasy. The mountain lord was fierce and domineering, and he was unstoppable. Before they even made contact, Gao Ming felt that all attempts to stop him were futile.

The force of the punch swept past, scraping a layer of skin off Gao Ming's face. He gritted his teeth and shouted loudly as the mountain lord drew closer: "An Luan!"

The earth shook and the mountains crumbled. Scarlet eyes seemed to light up like red signal lights. The crackling sound of electricity from the station's broadcast gradually became clearer. A hideous and ferocious flesh worm crawled out from in front of Gao Ming and bit straight at Shan Jun.

"Like a mantis trying to stop a chariot." The mountain lord has already locked onto Gao Ming; anything that stands in his way will be pierced through.

The fist tore through the worm's skin, and soon the mountain lord sensed something was wrong. An extremely powerful force erupted from the worm's body!
The boundless ocean seemed to have collided with the majestic mountains!
The flesh worms exploded in all directions, and the flying chunks of flesh turned into bloody ribbons that gathered at the feet of a person. The person's temperament was very similar to that of the mountain lord, but he had no human face. His whole body had been mutated by the forbidden zone and was completely composed of deformed and twisted chunks of flesh. Only the shape of a human could be barely made out.

"An Luan?" The mountain lord's attack was blocked, and the cracks on the bronze mask widened again: "I didn't expect you to be mixed up with these outsiders."

Gao Ming used himself as bait to create an opportunity for An Luan to launch a sneak attack. However, An Luan's personality was almost identical to that of Shan Jun. He disdained sneak attacks and did not attack Shan Jun's wounds. Instead, he chose the most direct method of exchanging blows.

"Stop wasting your breath on him! Kill him! Get your body back!" Gao Minggang was quite frightened, and Li Sansi also became lively again: "Kill him! Kill him!"

Shan Jun and An Luan stood face to face. The once living people had become monsters, while the ghosts in the forbidden area had changed into human skin.

“An Luan, I helped you tear apart your shattered life and solved all your problems. This body was given to me by yourself, and now you want it back?” The Mountain Lord was covered in wounds, but his fighting spirit remained undiminished. “Weak, lowly, pathetic, have you forgotten who you were before you met me?”

His large veins throbbed, and An Luan's strange body struck the most standard Bajiquan Hunyuan starting stance. He was not good with words, but he excelled at offense.

"How could you, who have already been mutated, possibly defeat the strongest body in this city? Have you forgotten how this body was forged? Have you forgotten how much tiger bone soup you drank to build your martial arts foundation?" The Mountain Lord was extremely arrogant, adopting the same stance as An Luan, completely ignoring defense, attacking with attack, fists clashing, malice flying, blood splattering everywhere.

"This is outrageous." Gao Ming's eyelids twitched. The first forbidden zone had been taken over by Gui Yuan. The rules here suppressed Shan Jun in every way, preventing him from using the power of any forbidden zone. Just now, he and Gui Yuan joined forces to use the Dream Demon's ability to force him into an endless nightmare, severely damaging his mind and forcing out the malice in his core. Gao Ming had also received news from Black Crow in advance that Shan Jun's foundation had been damaged by the nine Night Watchers, leaving him with two wounds that could not heal.

He had meticulously planned every step, yet even so, the Mountain Lord's true form was still holding its own against An Luan, and the hungry tigers formed from his malice were still locked in combat with the illusory figures of flesh and blood demons.

With his eyes now completely black holes staring at the Mountain Lord, Gao Ming was getting anxious. He and Li Sansi were merging even closer. If they couldn't destroy the Mountain Lord and shatter the will of the "god" here, and Li Sansi was going to erode his mind and the Dark Shrine was going to completely suppress the flesh and blood ghost god phantom, then the invasion of the Vast Sea Blood City would end in complete failure.

The master of the Dark Shrine will devour the power of the flesh-and-blood demons, shattering the fragile balance between the three dream demons and the Dark Shrine, and tipping the scales of victory toward the deepest darkness.

"We must kill the Mountain Lord here! Crush his will!" Sensing Gao Ming's resolute determination, Gui Yuan fully manipulated the rules of the forbidden zone, and one after another, life trains turned into chains, which, driven by the power of will, wrapped around the Mountain Lord's malice.

"Is that all you know? Just how weak are you to always be thinking of crooked ways?" The speed of his punches slowed down, Shan Jun bit his tongue hard, and all the terrifying and bizarre humanoid tattoos on his body converged towards his heart. The blood color was like a sunset glow, reddening the forbidden area. He dragged the failed lives of countless citizens, and his movements were wide and powerful as he fought An Luan in close combat.

His body was incredibly strong. An Luan's mutated monster body was covered in more and more wounds, but An Luan was no ordinary person either. No matter what kind of attack he suffered, he would not fall down.

"We can't afford to waste any more time." Gao Ming lit a birthday candle, gently blew it out, and made a wish in his heart.

At the same time, countless feathers of light fell, and a beam of light shone directly on the mountain king's head.

The light feathers that could heal the wounds of the citizens felt like a branding iron on the mountain lord, burning with malice.

Li Sansi's resurrected mother held a forbidden bottle in her hand, and at Gao Ming's prompting, she opened the seal on the bottle's mouth.

Shan Jun, who did not dodge the attacks of An Luan and the flesh-and-blood demons, unusually began to retreat. An Luan immediately launched a fierce attack at close range, and all the trains of life in the entire First Forbidden Zone converged on Shan Jun.

The countless failed lives of the citizens, filled with resentful struggles and hatred for power and violence, clung tightly to the mountain king.

"It's now!"

The forbidden bottle, engraved with tiny hands, is tilted. This forbidden bottle contains all the kindness that has been grasped in the world: the love of holding a lover's fingers, the happiness of holding a parent's hands, the joy of embracing a child, the harvest, the satisfaction, and the fulfillment. Those tiny, withered hands seem to have grasped all the beauty of the world.

The malice above the mountain king's head dissipated, but more malice began to surge forth. Li Sansi's mother knew that the beauty within the forbidden bottle could not touch the mountain king, so she made an unexpected move. As if to save her child who was being swallowed by darkness, she embraced the forbidden bottle and leaped into the mountain king's ocean of malice, using her body to protect the bottle and quickly approach it.

Her radiant feathers withered continuously, her face was corroded and aged, her skin emitted a putrid stench, and even her heartbeat slowed down.

"It's no use. My will has perfectly merged with this body. An Luan is no more in this world, only me, only Shan Jun!"

With a roar like a tiger's howl, terrifying power surged forth. The mountain king endured the excruciating pain of his burning wounds, channeled his energy, and punched Li Sansi's mother. The chains formed by the trains of life were torn apart, and flesh worms exploded into fragments.

Blood mist filled the air; if Shan Jun's punch landed, Li Sansi's mother wouldn't even be left with a corpse.

(End of this chapter)