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“Bang, bang, bang!”
Amidst the heavy sounds of punches, Xu Taiping unleashed the Charging Bull Formation, each punch hammering down on the golden-haired Martial Demon’s head.
From a distance, Xu Taiping looked like an enraged bull, pinning the Martial Demon to the ground and pounding away.
“Junior Brother Taiping’s Charging Bull Formation seems to have grown stronger.”
“This power… it must be over ten thousand pounds. Could it be that Junior Brother has broken through to the supreme level of martial arts?”
Feeling the tremors from the ground, the Senior Sisters of the Sixth Peak were somewhat stunned.
However, Xu Ziyan and Lin Buyu could sense that Xu Taiping was using some kind of self-damaging technique to fight the Martial Demon.
“Zheng!”
Lin Buyu swallowed an elixir, then suddenly activated the True Qi within her body, harnessing the power of the Cloud-Breaking Sword Formation, and slashed heavily at the demonic flood dragon.
“Quickly defeat this demonic flood dragon and go support Junior Brother Taiping,” Xu Ziyan shouted, snapping the distracted group back to attention.
“Boom!”
On the other side, after a hundred consecutive punches, Xu Taiping clearly felt the toll of using power beyond his limits on his body.
With each punch now, his muscles and bones creaked like an old, dilapidated house.
In contrast, the golden-haired Martial Demon’s body, though repeatedly beaten into a bloody mess by Xu Taiping, always managed to recover in a very short time.
“Hehehe…”
The golden-haired Martial Demon clearly noticed this. After struggling to raise his hand to protect his head, he let out a strange laugh.
“It’s useless. Without an invincible physique, even if you can break the shackles of your soul with willpower, you can’t defeat me!”
With a roar, he stood up against Xu Taiping’s punches, a powerful aura almost knocking Xu Taiping’s fists aside.
But Xu Taiping had not only increased his punching power but also his control over his punch momentum. So even then, his punching momentum remained unbroken.
“Bang!” With a dull thud, Xu Taiping’s punch once again sent the golden-haired Martial Demon reeling backward, giving him no chance to gather strength for a counterattack.
“Roar!”
Just as Xu Taiping was about to elevate his punch momentum to the peak with four or five consecutive punches, the golden-haired Martial Demon suddenly let out a roar. Another pair of arms sprouted from his back, and then all six arms struck out, meeting Xu Taiping’s 106th punch.
“Boom!”
Six fists against one.
Although the golden-haired Martial Demon staggered from Xu Taiping’s punch due to his lack of momentum, he finally managed to break free from Xu Taiping’s punch momentum.
“An eye for an eye, taste my punch!”
With a roar, he once again struck out with all six arms, his fists raining down on Xu Taiping.
“Bang!”
With a massive shock, the golden-haired Martial Demon’s two arms were directly shattered by Xu Taiping, but his body remained firmly standing.
This was the 107th punch of the Charging Bull Formation.
“Nothing more, nothing more!”
Despite losing two arms, the golden-haired Martial Demon laughed.
Although he had just lost two arms, he had gained time to gather strength and momentum from Xu Taiping’s punch.
With a laugh, his punch intent, like a raging sea, suddenly condensed into a single force, channeling the power stored in every inch of his bones and flesh into the four fists he was now aiming at Xu Taiping.
“Boom!”
The moment his fists struck out, the immense power caused the ground to tremble violently.
But Xu Taiping’s punch momentum was equally formidable.
Accumulating over a hundred punches, his punch momentum peaked at this moment, making it undoubtedly the strongest Charging Bull Formation punch Xu Taiping had ever unleashed.
But he knew very well that this punch alone wouldn’t be enough to defeat the golden-haired Martial Demon.
Or rather, relying solely on his former strongest punch would be futile.
Because even if this punch could injure the Martial Demon, he would ultimately die at his hands due to exhaustion.
“Stronger power, stronger punch intent, stronger punch momentum.”
With this thought, he suddenly bit down on a Dragon’s Teeth Fruit he had kept in his mouth, and the entire layout of Dew Garden appeared in his mind.
He needed to borrow the power of the Dragon’s Teeth Fruit, the momentum of Dew Garden, and the will of his future self.
With the will to slay demons and seek the Dao with a mortal body.
“Boom!”
In an instant, the Dragon’s Teeth Fruit made Xu Taiping’s blood boil, and the entire Dew Garden’s every blade of grass, tree, brick, and stone converged into his punch momentum. Finally, the power transformed by his boiling blood, the momentum borrowed from Dew Garden, and his mortal will combined into a grand, invincible force that merged into his punch.
“Bang!”
With a massive shock, the golden-haired Martial Demon’s six arms were all shattered, and his chest was pierced through by Xu Taiping’s punch.
Even the ground behind him was gouged out by Xu Taiping’s punch, creating a huge trench.
“A mere mortal, a mere cultivator, how could you possibly harm me?”
The golden-haired Martial Demon looked at the hole in his chest, his face filled with disbelief.
“So that’s it. That punch just now, you overextended your blood and divine essence. You were gambling your future against me.”
Seeing Xu Taiping’s weakened state, the golden-haired Martial Demon suddenly laughed again.
“You are still no match for me.”
As he spoke, he took out a blood pill and swallowed it.
Immediately, the hole in his chest began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“I am indeed no match for you. Even with all my effort, I couldn’t kill you with that punch. But it was enough.”
With a pale face, Xu Taiping smiled and then suddenly pressed his left hand against the golden-haired demonic cultivator’s forehead.
With a “boom,” the demonic energy within the golden-haired demonic cultivator began to flow into Xu Taiping’s palm like water, absorbed by the Ghost-Sealing Talisman.
From the beginning, Xu Taiping’s goal was not to kill this demonic cultivator.
His plan was to temporarily incapacitate the golden-haired demonic cultivator, making him unable to resist the sealing of the Ghost-Sealing Talisman.
“You won’t seal… me!”
The golden-haired demonic cultivator violently shook his head, trying to break free from the Ghost-Sealing Talisman.
Xu Taiping immediately used the last of his strength to grip the golden-haired demonic cultivator’s head tightly, preventing him from escaping.
Judging by the current situation, his decision to severely injure the golden-haired demonic cultivator before attempting to seal him was correct. If he had used the Ghost-Sealing Talisman from the start, it would have been easily broken.
“Ugh!…”
However, Xu Taiping miscalculated one thing: although the Ghost-Sealing Talisman could seal demonic cultivators, it also consumed his blood energy.
And it was a massive amount of blood energy.
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