Starting as dockworkers, they swept through Chongqing.

Immediately, he exerted force with both arms.

Clang, clang, clang! That's the sound of bones and muscles rubbing together under excessive strain.

Despite the excruciating pain of his flesh being pierced in his waist, Xilun remained fearless.

He stared intently at the blood-red tortoise eyes so close to his own, his own eyes also gleaming with madness, and he actually managed to intimidate the giant tortoise.

The powerful pulling force caused the giant tortoise's jaw to creak as it dislocated under the strain, and its massive body convulsed violently in pain.

It was already in excruciating pain because its mouth had been pierced and bled, and now a human was using pure brute force to grab its upper and lower jaws and forcefully pry them open. The tearing sensation made it let out a desperate whimper.

"Kill!" Encouraged by the sight, Leon plunged his knife in again.

In that brief stalemate, Leon and Hughes had already gone mad, stabbing the other six or seven times with harpoons and long knives.

Their attacks deliberately extended the wounds left by Siron's gunshots, causing black blood to gush out like it was free.

Even Diano, in order not to reveal his true intentions, could only step forward and pretend to launch a fierce attack.

The giant tortoise finally succumbed to the deadly injury and excruciating pain.

It had no choice but to release Xilun's waist, its limbs thrashing wildly in the water, swimming desperately towards the darker depths without looking back.

As it swam, its massive body bled continuously.

The twenty or thirty large and small wounds stabbed into his back and abdomen were bleeding, but at an eerie speed they were slowly wriggling and scabbing over.

Despite its severe injuries, it still seemed to be moving extremely fast, thanks to the terrifying vitality of its species, and swam more than ten meters in the blink of an eye.

The three of them, panting heavily, stopped in place, no longer daring to continue the pursuit and obstruction.

If this dying behemoth were to retaliate, it could easily drag them down with it.

Hughes watched the giant tortoise's departing figure with anxious eyes and sighed:

"It would be such a pity to let it escape! But this beast has dived into deep water, and we simply can't catch it."

Leon ignored the fleeing giant tortoise and quickly swam towards Xilun, looking at him with concern.

When he saw Xilun's condition clearly, he gasped again.

He discovered that although Xilun's body bore extremely gruesome bite marks from the giant tortoise, his clothes on his abdomen were completely torn, and his flesh was indeed rolled up.

However, the wound was not fatal; it seemed to have only damaged the surface flesh and blood, without harming the internal organs or spine!

Lyon was finally relieved, his awe of Xiren reaching an unparalleled level.

Siren's expression was cold. He casually wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and nodded lightly to Leon to indicate that he was alright.

Then, his gaze, like a lingering affliction, was fixed on the giant tortoise that had fled into the abyss, his eyes blazing with murderous intent.

"You think you can just run away after you've hurt me?"

With a powerful kick, Xilun propelled himself through the water like a deep-sea torpedo, instantly cutting through the murky surface and pursuing the enemy at an incredibly terrifying speed.

He's determined to kill that giant beast single-handedly today!

The underwater world was dark and deep. Xilun's figure, like a black lightning bolt, instantly disappeared into the cold darkness ahead.

Leon, Hughes, and Diano stood still, watching helplessly as Siren relentlessly pursued them, unable to stop him.

At this point, they had reached their limit in holding their breath underwater, their lungs felt like they were on fire, and they could only awkwardly kick their legs to float to the surface of the lake to breathe.

"Splash!"

The three of them broke the surface of the water one after another, greedily breathing in the cold air mixed with snowflakes.

Lyon wiped the lake water from his face and said anxiously:

"The Governor has already caught up! The water temperature is even lower and the pressure is much higher down there. We must hurry and go help him, lest something happen to him!"

Hughes was panting heavily, his face filled with surprise and uncertainty:

"I need to catch my breath... It's unbelievable, how can the Governor have such a strong aura?"

The underwater battle was so intense and exhausted him that he didn't need to surface for air at all!

Could it be that his lungs are different from ordinary people, and he's really such a good swimmer?

Diano leaned against the lake, wading through the water, his eyes sparkling. He was overjoyed inside, but on the surface he looked thoughtful as he reached out to stop Leon.

"There's no need to go down," Diano said hypocritically. "You've all seen our strength just now. How could we possibly defeat that dying, desperate beast?"

Continuing will only be a burden to the Governor. If the Governor runs out of breath, or knows he is no match for him, he will naturally retreat.

"It's safest for us to provide backup here."

Lyon frowned deeply, displeased with Diano's passive attitude.

He gritted his teeth, ignored Diano, took a deep breath, dived underwater, grabbed the fallen harpoon, and desperately searched for the direction where Xilun had dived.

Seeing this, Hughes hesitated for a moment, then followed up with:

"That's not right. How can a subordinate stand by and watch their superior risk danger without doing anything?"

We must prioritize the Governor's safety.

After saying that, Hughes took a breath and dived back into the water.

Diano remained on the surface of the water, watching the two dive into the water, a sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Two fools," he sneered inwardly. "You're trying so hard to please a dying man, but you might not get much in return."

In such deep water, with the extreme species struggling for its life, that kid would be badly injured even if he didn't die.

He naturally hoped that Xilun would be left at the bottom of the lake forever by that giant turtle, so that the power of the North District could naturally fall into his hands.

However, the killings that took place at the deepest depths of the water were completely contrary to Diano's malicious expectations.

A deep abyss at the bottom of the water.

Although the giant tortoise was frantically trying to escape, its speed inevitably slowed down under the heavy water pressure.

In just three breaths, Xilun swept past like a ghost and bit the giant tortoise's tail.

As he approached the giant tortoise, Xilun was once again enveloped in a surge of violent pale blue electrical charge, illuminating the surrounding lake water.

He abandoned all his weapons, formed his five fingers into claws, gathered his strength at his fingertips, and suddenly thrust them out!

puff!

The bone claws, imbued with terrifying power, slid down the soft spot at the base of the giant tortoise's hind legs and dug deep into its flesh.

The giant tortoise shook violently, emitting a piercing scream of extreme pain.

It wanted to turn around and bite back, but Xilun clung to it like glue, sticking to the blind spot in its vision, making it difficult to retaliate.

The enraged giant turtle went berserk, its massive body churning wildly underwater before crashing into the muddy lake wall beside it.

The hard tortoise shell smashed the protruding rocks to pieces, attempting to grind Siron into mincemeat.

Xilun's eyes were cold, and at the moment of impact, he nimbly dodged to the side.

He pulled out his claw, which was covered in bits of flesh, and then suddenly thrust out with his waist and abdomen!

boom!

The claw breath, belonging to the "Great Sea Whale Guiding Technique," erupted violently underwater, breaking through the defenses and penetrating more than two inches into the turtle's flesh.

When it was pulled out again, a large chunk of flesh and blood connected to the fascia was torn off.

The giant tortoise was in even greater pain. It desperately rolled its body, trying to use the force of the rotation to turn its head and tear at Xilun.

However, this was exactly the flaw that Xiren had been waiting for!

Like the most cunning deep-sea hunter, Xilun keenly seized the moment when the giant tortoise was turning over and exerting force, and suddenly stretched out his arms, gripping the gaps on both sides of the giant tortoise's shell.

"Turn it over...!"

Xilun's eyes were wide open, and his muscles were grinding together at their limit, making a teeth-grinding sound.

Using the inertia of the giant tortoise's flip, he unleashed all his power with a roar.

Underwater, attempting to overturn a massive object weighing several tons by human power would normally be an extremely absurd and difficult task.

However, at this moment, the giant tortoise was already at its limit, seriously injured, and its core had lost its balance due to the force it had used to grab Xilun's body.

Under the extreme force of Xilun, which was like an ancient tyrannical dragon.

Boom!

The giant tortoise was forcibly flipped over! It was now facing down with its shell down and its vulnerable belly up, struggling desperately in the water.

Taking advantage of this fatal opportunity, Xilun, like the Grim Reaper, stomped out with a heavy kick, stomping hard on the giant tortoise's chin like a pile driver.

Crack.

The already fragile wound, which was punctured and bleeding, burst open and expanded instantly under the heavy pressure of this kick.

The turtle head, in pain, instinctively opened its mouth wide.

Without the slightest hesitation, Xilun's right arm moved with lightning speed, plunging his blood-soaked claw deep into the unsuspecting depths of the giant tortoise's throat.

In an instant, the pent-up, violent charge erupted from his fingertips!

Shila-

A blinding blue light exploded inside the giant tortoise's body. The tortoise's massive body instantly froze, all its movements forcibly interrupted by the paralysis caused by the lightning.

Then, Xilun's claws penetrated deeply, shattering its life force.

Finally, the Extreme Ironclad Turtle that roamed the bottom of the lake only twitched violently a few times before its originally ferocious crimson eyes gradually lost their luster, like a candle flickering in the wind.

Disorganized.

dim.

With a mournful whimper filled with resentment, the colossal creature stopped breathing and collapsed completely, like a sunken island.

Leon and Hughes, who had just arrived at the underwater location panting, were completely stunned by this mythical scene from afar, even forgetting to paddle.

Fighting an Extreme Armored Turtle bare-handed underwater!

There are such terrifyingly ruthless people in this world!

At this moment, Xilun stood on the giant tortoise's corpse and suddenly felt a strange fluctuation.

On the giant tortoise's corpse, a black line, barely perceptible to the naked eye, emerged and instantly disappeared into Xilun's body, as if drawn by a magnetic force.

On Siron's retina, a pale red data stream flickered wildly:

[Talent: Golden Tortoise Shedding Its Skin (Active)]

[Source: Mutant Armored Turtle]

[Note: Like a cicada shedding its skin, it can quickly heal itself after being injured, consuming energy, and its skin and flesh become more resilient.]

Xilun seemed to be deep in thought.

This seems to be an extremely powerful passive talent that allows for rapid healing and repair of the skin and flesh.

He lowered his head and looked at the large wound on his waist that had been torn open by the giant tortoise.

An astonishing scene unfolded.

Xilun felt as if an extremely dense layer of tissue had appeared out of thin air beneath his skin.

Beneath his normal skin tone, there was a faint, extremely dull, deep iron-gray hue, like the texture of an ancient mud turtle's belly in deep water—cold and indestructible.

He no longer has the soft, fragile subcutaneous fat of a normal human being; instead, he has a layer of "blue fascia" that is like thick rubber.

The waist that had been bitten to pieces by the giant turtle was now exposed in the water as not the gruesome red flesh, but a thick, dark blue membrane that had been forcibly torn open.

This membrane exhibits terrifying contractility and vitality!

Almost the instant it came into contact with the icy lake water, the edges of this blue membrane seemed to be forcibly pulled by countless invisible needles and threads, and with a "hiss," it contracted and closed frantically inward!

The wound, which had been gushing blood, was instantly sealed within seconds, and the massive bleeding stopped abruptly.

The rolled-up flesh was forcefully pulled flat, eventually becoming a taut, thin, bluish line, like an ugly yet sturdy weld mark.

Xilun stared wide-eyed at the wound healing so quickly, defying all logic, and was genuinely taken aback.

"This is outrageous!"

He pinched the skin on his side hard and found that apart from a slight loss of strength, the fatal wound that would have kept him in bed for half a month was slowly scabbing over and healing at a visible speed.

This healing speed is not much slower than his recovery speed when he used the extreme cold ice waterfall to squeeze out the medicinal power at the Daewoo Dojo!

Hughes and Leon, who were not far away, stared wide-eyed.

What kind of monstrous physique is this?

Xiren calmly glanced at the two people in the distance, ignoring their shock.

He turned to look at the giant tortoise carcass at his feet.

As the black line was drawn away, the giant tortoise's massive body began to slowly shrink, its flesh and blood essence being gradually concentrated by something.

Then, the thick tortoise shell slowly emitted a dim, ghostly light. The extraordinary properties that the rest of the giant tortoise's body had not yet lost seemed to automatically absorb and condense onto this tortoise shell, forming a natural, top-quality, extraordinary material.

Xilun grabbed the tortoise shell, which weighed several hundred pounds, with one hand and tore it off.

He swam back to the rock wall where the large hole had been made, pulled out the alloy spear and held it in his hand. Then, with a kick of his legs, he rose to the surface of the water like a dragon.

……

at the same time.

Outside the Changqing Lake compound, some furtive figures have appeared on the high walls.

Aside from a few audacious lone wolves lurking in the shadows, the majority of the informants were from the two gangs entrenched nearby—the Iron Fist Gang and the Bone Crusher Gang.

A baptized member of the Iron Fist Gang squatted on the wall, watching the churning motion on the lake from afar, pondering to himself:

"Judging from the way it's making a fuss, it's probably a low-level alien species at the extreme level."

There's not a single one of these fraternity members who can fight; they probably can't handle this mess.

The members of the Shattered Bone Gang were even more arrogant and domineering.

A bald, burly man stood atop the wall and shouted towards Diano and the others in the courtyard from afar:

"Hey! Brotherhood, you shouldn't force yourself to handle this matter!"

Hand this giant tortoise over to my Shattered Bone Gang, and we'll kill it for you!

Afterwards, you only need to prepare two top-quality ice lotus roots as payment, and hand over the extraordinary relics and materials shed by the giant tortoise. Then we'll consider this matter settled!

Clearly, a giant tortoise at its peak level would most likely shed extremely precious extraordinary relics or extraordinary characteristics, enough to drive all the surrounding forces mad with envy.

Moreover, the lotus root produced in Changqing Lake has always been a strategic resource that they covet.

The Broken Bone Gang immediately raised their price, preparing to take advantage of the situation.

The Brotherhood members surrounding the lake on both sides looked ashen-faced, and none dared to speak.

They also thought that although the governor was powerful, how could one person fight against that behemoth in deep water?

This time, it seems the Brotherhood will not only suffer a hidden loss, but its foundation at Evergreen Lake will also be severely eroded.

Just when everyone was preoccupied with their own thoughts and the atmosphere was extremely tense.

"Splash!"

Someone pointed at the water in fear.

The water surface suddenly burst open.

The next moment, a tall and slender black figure emerged from the water like a demon god.

With one hand holding the dripping alloy spear and the other dragging a heavy tortoise shell as large as a door panel, shimmering with a dark, eerie light, Xilun leaped up and landed steadily on the shore.

boom!

He casually tossed the incredibly heavy Extreme Tortoise Shell onto the bluestone slab, creating a thunderous crash.

He coldly and authoritatively ordered, "Send it to the warehouse and keep it under strict guard."

A suffocating silence instantly fell over the surroundings.