Starting as dockworkers, they swept through Chongqing.

Chapter 120 Corrupted Claw Breath, Escapes Underwater

Xilun gritted his teeth, glanced at his bloodied and mangled hands, and let out a deep breath.

"This person's strength is simply outrageous—"

He was despairingly reviewing the events in his mind.

Sislow's swordsmanship, though seemingly simple, sealed off all escape routes, making it difficult to dodge.

Moreover, its power is incredibly immense. What's even more terrifying is that it's not a short-duration burst move like the Bone-Crushing Fist, which has extremely high blood and energy consumption and special limitations.

To Sislow, it was just an ordinary slash he casually threw!

This is the pure difference in skill level; this is the terrifying allure of overwhelming numerical superiority.

Faced with such absolute power and speed, any fancy techniques seem pale and powerless.

As Sislow slowly wiped the bloodstains from the blade with a cloth, he continued in a cat-and-mouse tone, "Logically speaking, after only two rounds, you should already be able to see the vast difference in our strength. On land, you have absolutely no chance of winning."

"but----"

Sislow tilted his head slightly, a hint of doubt appearing in his eyes. "I see no despair in your eyes. Your eyes, in fact—you seem quite confident?"

"Even now, do you still naively believe you can escape from me?"

Xilun remained silent. He was frantically channeling the Great Sea Whale Guidance Technique, squeezing out the last of his vital energy and potential.

Sislow chuckled to himself, casting his gaze towards the dark sea beyond the ship's side: "Perhaps it's because you were able to dive in, that you think you're a good swimmer and can slip away like an eel once you're in the water."

Haha, young man, don't be so naive. I, Sislow, have been dealing with this sea for a full thirty years!

I know everything about the water pressure, the undercurrents, and even the monsters in the water.

Even if I force you underwater for close combat, you are no match for me.

I'm genuinely curious, where does your foolish confidence come from?

Faced with Sislow's disdain, Silen did not respond with any further words.

He took a deep breath, and slowly raised his hands, which had been hanging down, and spread them out to the sides little by little.

As some kind of hidden alien gene within him came to a complete boil, a chilling change occurred on the surface of his ten blood-stained fingers!

The skin and flesh recede, while the bones grow wildly.

Originally, white, bony claws, resembling those of an ancient giant bear, gradually appeared and pierced through the human's fingers!

Even more bizarrely, a dark golden luster, like magma, flowed continuously across the pale white surface of the bone claw.

It surged, emanating a terrifying pressure that was even more ancient and domineering than the previous desolate aura.

Seeing this, even the well-traveled Sislow was completely stunned, and the composure on his face vanished instantly.

"What...what kind of evil technique is this?! What are you?!"

The next moment, without giving the other party any time to think, Xiren did the craziest thing he did all night!

Instead of retreating, he advanced, actually closing the distance between himself and the knife-wielding killer!

Taking advantage of the moment when the other party was stunned, Xilun's figure swept across the deck like a whirlwind, and his right claw, which had a dark golden luster, pressed down on the chest with overwhelming force without any hesitation!

Sislow was, after all, a seasoned veteran. Faced with this bizarre attack, he suppressed his shock, clenched his left fist again, and with his powerful blood and qi, smashed it towards Siren's claws like a mountain, attempting to crush his opponent with force once more.

However, the result of this collision completely overturned Sislow's understanding.

"Sizzle"

There was no dull thud, only the tearing sound of a sharp weapon piercing through rotten flesh!

"Ugh!"

Sislow suddenly felt a sharp pain and let out an incredulous groan.

He withdrew his left hand as if he had been electrocuted, his face turning deathly pale instantly.

He looked down and saw that five deep, bottomless blood holes had been dug out from the surface of his hard, iron-like left fist by the dark golden bone claw!

Blood gushed out in a spray, and there were even horrible marks on the edges of the wound, as if it had been burned by some kind of high temperature. It was a strange injury that even his blood and qi could not heal instantly.

Sislow frowned, and the intense pain only intensified the fervor in his eyes.

He stared intently at Xilun's still-dripping, bizarre claw, a trembling excitement creeping into his muttered words: "This—what kind of power is this? Could it be the ultimate product of some kind of biological fusion mysticism that those mad scholars in the Upper City are researching? It's wonderful—kill you, and the secret of this body will be mine!"

Driven to madness, Sislow unleashed his full power. He held back, his right hand wielding a black blade that transformed into a vast net of black blades, carrying an overwhelming force as it slashed madly towards Siren.

With the sharpness of his dark gold bone claws, Xilun dodged amidst the flashing blades while looking for opportunities to counterattack.

The two figures clashed violently in the firelight, the sounds of metal clashing and cloth tearing filling the air.

After several extremely brutal close-quarters combat moves, Xilun suffered several more deep, bone-revealing knife wounds, and blood stained his shark skin.

But his eyes grew brighter and more crazed.

Just as Sislow's sword missed its mark, in the tiny gap between the old force being gone and the new force not yet being generated!

Xilun let out a loud shout, and the vital energy and blood in his body from the "Great Sea Whale Guiding Technique" were instantly drained.

The dark golden light on his bone claws exploded to its extreme like a supernova, the dazzling light distorting the surrounding air.

This sudden and strange phenomenon set off alarm bells in Sislow's mind, giving him an unprecedented and extremely strong sense of danger of death!

His eyes widened in horror as he discovered that the dark golden light seemed to conceal terrifying energy powerful enough to destroy his body.

Without any hesitation, Sislow decisively abandoned the pursuit, suddenly flipping his body backward in an attempt to create distance.

At the same time, Xilun's claws ripped forward!

On the fleshy bone claw, a materialized dark golden claw-shaped energy wave suddenly burst forth!

"roar--!!!"

As the air surged, a deafening, furious roar, seemingly from an ancient wasteland, seemed to echo in the void, causing the masts of the entire ship to shake violently.

Within this extremely narrow distance, even with his incredible speed, Sislow could not completely evade this illogical attack.

"Bang!"

Sislow let out a painful groan as the sharp, dark gold claw grazes his right shoulder.

His trench coat was instantly torn apart, and the terrifying force ripped a horrific bloodstain two inches deep and half a foot long into his tough shoulder muscles.

Blood instantly stained half of his body.

It's now!

Having succeeded in his attack, Xilun didn't even bother to confirm the outcome.

He knew that this attack had exhausted all his trump cards, and that he would surely die once Sislow recovered.

He seized this critical moment of life, turned around abruptly, and with the last bit of strength in his body, he swam like a fish that had no hesitation.

"Thump—!"

With a dull thud, Xilun flipped over the high gunwale and jumped into the cold, dark, bottomless greywater river below, instantly swallowed by the dark sea.

on the deck.

Sislow, clutching his bleeding shoulder, looked out at the empty ship's side.

There was no anger in his eyes, only a cruelty and madness that had been completely aroused by his prey.

He licked the blood splattered at the corner of his mouth, feeling the strange, mysterious power lingering at the wound.

"Trying to run? In my waters, even if you hide in the underwater hell, I will still retrieve your corpse, full of secrets!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Sislow gripped the black knife tightly in his right hand, took a few quick steps, and, exuding a terrifying killing intent, leaped down as well.

"Thump!"

Another splash.

A pale ripple spread across the sea surface before returning to stillness.

Cold, piercing, and profound.

As soon as he entered the water, the perpetually gloomy and cold Greywater River felt like countless fine steel needles, frantically drilling into Xilun's bones through his pores.

The surrounding light was instantly stripped away, leaving only a faint and distorted layer of moonlight on the sea above.

Before Xilun could even adjust his diving posture in the water, before he could even open his mouth to exhale the first breath of stale air, the shimmering surface of the water above his head exploded once again.

"Thump—!"

A muffled yet violent splash followed, and a huge spray of water exploded into a cloud of white bubbles in the dark sea.

Xiren's eyes widened suddenly in the water, and through the layers of churning bubbles, he turned around in shock.

Sislow, like a maddened deep-sea shark, wielded a heavy, jet-black longsword and charged straight at him with an undisguised, brutal killing intent!

Sislow's movements were without the slightest hesitation or stagnation; his posture in the water was exceptionally agile, and his swimming skills were surprisingly good.

With a powerful kick of his legs and a surge of power from his waist, he quickly closed the distance between himself and Xilun, like an arrow shot from a bow.

Sislow's cold face on land now appeared somewhat distorted underwater.

Crimson blood continued to seep from his right shoulder, spreading rapidly in the seawater and turning into eerie red lines. But this did not weaken his aura; instead, it completely ignited the ferocity in his bones.

"Trying to escape from my turf? Dream on!" Sislow roared madly in his mind.

The distance closed to less than two meters in an instant. Sislow's eyes turned cold. He suddenly raised his hand in the water, his back muscles tensing up like a fully drawn bowstring. He swung his right arm and wielded the heavy black knife, slashing down hard at Silen's head!

"Buzz"

The water was forcibly pushed aside by the force of this strike, forming a visible vacuum water mark.

Although the immense resistance of the seawater slightly hindered the burst of sword energy, reducing the speed and destructive power of this attack by a third compared to on land, the oppressive feeling as heavy as a mountain was still not to be underestimated.

Faced with this sudden, devastating blow, a flash of madness and determination crossed Xilun's eyes.

He did not choose to continue diving deeper to escape.

"While I may fear you somewhat on the water, are you really inferior to me underwater?!"

Xilun let out a silent, cold laugh in his heart.

He knew very well that if he kept running away, in this deep water where visibility was poor and the currents were turbulent, he would surely die if he exposed his back to such an experienced assassin.

Why not take advantage of this moment, on his home turf, and keep him occupied?

If Lord Wall's armed gunboats arrive in time, they can encircle and kill him. Even—

As Xilun felt the increasingly active and violent energy within his body in the deep water environment, an even more insane idea took root in his mind.

If Sislow really dares to fight him to the death underwater, with the special blessing of the "Great Sea Whale Guidance Technique" and the swimming talent of "Slippery Black," Sislow is even absolutely confident that he can bury this first-level senior extraordinary person forever in this seabed all by himself!

Having made up his mind, Xilun let out a low shout. Although he couldn't make a sound underwater, a very deep resonance resonated in his chest.

He decisively activated the "Great Sea Whale Guiding Technique," and the blood and qi in his body surged wildly like a flood bursting its banks.

In the depths of this water, this breathing technique, originating from the ancient deep-sea overlord, finally revealed its true terror.

Xilun's chest swelled high, and he transformed into a giant whale lurking in the abyss. He opened his mouth underwater and began to swallow the seawater surrounding him!

"Gurgle one"

A powerful suction force created a miniature vortex between Xilun's mouth and nose, frantically drawing out and filtering the free oxygen and mysterious factors in the water through his special rhythm, then transforming them into a continuous stream of energy that poured into his limbs and bones like a surging river.

Faced with the black blade slashed by Sislow, Siren was no longer the one who crumbled at the first touch and could only passively take hits on the deck.

His eyes widened, and his right arm shot out. The pale bone claw covered in dark golden light, under the extreme compression of the giant whale's power, unleashed a terrifying force that could destroy everything in its path, and slammed directly into the black blade!

"Bang!!!"

A deafening thud erupted from underwater.

The enormous reaction force stirred up a violent undercurrent in the water, instantly churning up the surrounding mud, sand, and aquatic plants.

In this collision, Xilen's body only tilted back slightly by half a meter in the water, while Xislow's right hand holding the knife trembled violently, and the blade was even shaken upwards.

With the resistance of the water flow and the support of the giant whale's guiding technique, the absolute gap in strength between the two was narrowed infinitely. In this attack, Xiren actually fought Xislow head-on to a standstill, with no difference in strength at all!

A look of extreme shock flashed in Sislow's eyes.

He never imagined that this young man, who had been beaten down by him on the deck, would suddenly become so powerful underwater!

But this brief shock did not deter him; instead, it fueled his even more ferocious killing intent.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In the dark and icy water, the two of them, as soon as they entered the water, were like two ancient beasts who had lost their minds, exchanging more than a dozen blows.

Black blade light and dark golden claw shadows clashed and intertwined in the water.

Each clash results in a burst of white, vacuum-like bubbles in the water.

The surrounding seawater was churned up by the two men's violent energy, forming deadly whirlpools like boiling water.

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