Republic of China era: A hundred-year-old still practicing martial arts? Is that right?

"bass!"

The tip of the gun grazed the woman's cheek, leaving a trail of dark red blood.

"roar!"

The woman roared in pain, tilting her head back, and simultaneously swung her two thick arms, attacking Lin Ji from both sides.

Lin Ji parried with his spear.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Two loud thuds struck the gun.

The shock caused Lin Ji's palm to go numb slightly, forcing him to retreat several steps.

"Sister..." The freak's skinny head on its chest chuckled shrilly, then swung its thin, dark arm and shouted, "Tear him apart! Tear him apart!"

As he screamed, the wet mud on the ground exploded with a bang, and ten more black insects swooped down on Lin Ji's face.

Lin Ji flicked his wrist, suppressing the numbness in his palm, and flicked the tip of the spear, unleashing a ring of cold light. The spear shadow instantly blasted the insect into a cloud of foul-smelling black mist.

Gu Xuan, who was in mid-air, reacted quickly and slapped the iron box behind him with his side hand.

Two bright red spheres fell from the sky.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The sphere exploded the moment it touched the black mist, bursting into a ball of crimson flame.

"Watch out for its arms on its chest." Gu Xuan hung on the hook, his eyes fixed on the freak's changes.

Lin Ji was already on guard; long before Gu Xuan reminded him, he had already noticed the unusual appearance on the other person's thin, dark arm.

After the fireball.

Wisps of light emanated from his slender, dark arms.

The thin, withered arm swung with a whooshing sound as it struck Lin Ji.

That's it!

Lin Ji suddenly understood.

He finally understood why his opponent had such great strength!

It turns out that the conjoined twin brother was practicing martial arts!

He's actually at the Transcendent Realm! These Japanese have really put a lot of effort into this old man!

Lin Ji twisted the tip of his spear, his eyes narrowing slightly: "Since that's the case, the old man has no choice but to reveal another trump card!"

"Hidden Dragon Abyss!"

"roar!"

A dragon's roar ripped through the night sky.

The tremor shook the dense forest leaves, and half-yellowed leaves fell in a rustling sound.

Even Gu Xuan, who was hanging in the air, stared wide-eyed at Lin Ji on the ground, whose aura had suddenly changed.

……

What was that sound?

Gu Yanzhao, who was rushing out of the dense forest in the distance, suddenly turned around and exclaimed in shock.

"A dragon's roar?" Everyone looked over, their faces filled with surprise.

Even Li Shuwen frowned.

Only Su Wanning clenched her fists; she recognized the voice—it came from Lin Ji.

Please, please don't let anything happen!

As Su Wanning continued forward with the group, she couldn't help but clench her fists even tighter.

……

Facing the black arm that was flashing with energy, Lin Ji neither dodged nor avoided it.

He lowered his stance and stepped forward, the tip of his spear pointing diagonally at the ground.

The moment the arm came crashing down, he moved swiftly, dodging the opponent's claw with ghostly grace.

But suddenly the gun in his hand stiffened and pressed against Wu's arm, the gun barrel sliding up his arm and the tip heading straight for the other man's chest.

"Sister...stop it! Stop it!"

The skinny guy screamed.

The woman suddenly crossed her arms, forcefully blocking her chest.

"Pfft—"

The spear tip pierced half an inch into the flesh of his arm, splattering out a torrent of black blood, but just like last time, it could not go any further.

"snort!"

Lin Ji snorted coldly, his eyebrows slightly raised. The landscape pattern on the spear seemed to come alive, reflected on half an inch of the spear shaft, and even faintly audible the sound of flowing water.

He twisted his wrist, and a "crack" sound suddenly rang out.

The weirdo sister's arm is cracked.

"Die!"

Lin Ji thrust the spear forward with one hand, the tip of which, through the freak's arm bone, pierced straight into that withered head.

"Clatter!"

The woman's bloodstained hand gripped the tip of her spear, abruptly halting the momentum of the "Mountain and River Calming Waves" spear as it charged forward.

"No...no! You can't hurt my brother! He's...he's His Majesty..."

"Sir, here you go!"

In mid-air, Gu Xuan swung his arm, and the hook and chain were nailed to the big tree behind the woman. He flew up and, as he passed over Lin Ji's head, dropped a tube wrapped in kraft paper.

Lin Ji took it from his hand. His eyes flashed as he saw the woman's mouth gaping open in pain. He then reached out and stuffed the mouth into her mouth.

"Just what I wanted!"

The iron box behind Gu Xuan opened again, and another grappling hook was pinned to Lin Ji's body. He suddenly turned in mid-air and charged towards the two people fighting.

Gu Xuan landed in an instant. As he landed, the broad blade in his hand gradually turned crimson, as if it had been scorched by flames.

"boom!"

Gu Xuan swung his broadsword sharply.

A wave of scorching fire traced an arc behind the freak.

He shot the grappling hook again, and it flew into the sky once more.

"what……"

A sharp, painful scream rang out from the freak's shriveled head in front of its chest cavity.

The freak's entire body burst into flames, along with the tubular explosive in the woman's mouth.

A cold glint flashed in Lin Ji's eyes. He exerted force with both hands and pulled the Mountain and River Stabilizing Spear back from the woman's arm bone.

He spun around, and the Mountain and River Stabilizing Spear whistled through the night sky, carrying with it the force of the rotation, and slammed into the freak's body at the waist.

"Bang!"

The freak was transformed into a ball of crimson fire and sent flying several meters away, finally coming to a stop after crashing into a tree so large that it would take one person to encircle it.

next moment.

"boom!"

A loud explosion rang out.

The crimson flames illuminated the entire sky.

Even the large tree behind the freak let out a creaking sound as it could no longer bear the weight, breaking off at the roots and toppling backward.

"Ah... Sister... Sister!"

Lin Ji turned his head to look at the area under the big tree.

The freak woman was missing half of her head.

His chest cavity, now shriveled and stained with gushing black blood, was dangling, and his broken, thin arm swayed and struggled in the air.

It roared and struggled to crawl out of the woman's chest cavity. In the shadows, another hand emerged from the woman's flesh, and... half of her bloody body.

Lin Ji's gaze sharpened.

What is this thing? We can't give him another chance!

With a slight flick of his wrist, he used the last bit of power from the Hidden Dragon Abyss to pour all the Yin and Yang energies within his body into the Mountain and River Stabilizing Spear.

"call out!"

The Mountain and River Stabilizing Spear suddenly shot out from Lin Ji's hand, and the landscape pattern on it was reflected even more brightly, making it look like a real landscape painting in the night.

In the landscape painting, a winding green dragon suddenly plunges towards the freak in the distance.

"Pfft!"

In an instant, the Azure Dragon pinned the freak to the ground through its gaping maw.

From the air, Gu Xuan looked at the landscape imagery on the ground, then at the freak that crawled out of the corpse.

"Damn it!" he cursed, as a grappling hook shot out from behind him, flying over the freak pinned to the ground and still struggling.

The iron box and hidden compartment behind him suddenly opened.

Including the explosives on his body, more than thirty tubular explosives were thrown down.

After a few breaths.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

Explosions rang out continuously, shaking the ground.

The crimson flames scorched the surrounding area, and countless trees were affected by the aftershocks of the explosion, becoming stained with the intense heat.

Lin Ji's true understanding of martial arts is still unresolved.

He stared intently at the freak on the ground.

Amidst the ensuing explosions, the freak finally disintegrated into pieces of ethereal flesh, which then turned into wisps of rising smoke in the surrounding scorching flames.

"call out!"

Gu Xuan hooked his iron chain around the ground beside Lin Ji, and his body "whooshed" down:

"Old sir."

Lin Ji nodded, his ears twitching slightly, when a commotion arose behind him.