Chapter 1688: Part 1: The Fifth Opponent (2nd Challenge)

Night Cell Tower

I walked up to the next door. I circulated the shock force power within my body. My whole body was covered in webs of shock force power as I arrived in front of the door.

Creak!

Next, I turned the doorknob and stepped inside. My gaze immediately fell on the next creature. I didn’t know what the creature was this time, but I saw the frame of a massive four-legged beast.

"It’s not a Dead Fang," the ancient spirit said.

Hearing the ancient spirit’s voice, my gaze deepened. I could confirm that it was not a Dead Fang. This was because Dead Fangs have massive scales all over their bodies.

The four-legged beast in front of me didn’t have such scales; instead, it had rock-hard skin. However, their frames were very similar.

I walked toward the middle of the room. The foreign creature was over three meters tall. While I observed it, the creature was also looking at me.

"Human warrior, you are too young," the foreign creature commented.

The four-legged creature felt threatened by the young warrior because it could see the dense red mark energy around him. It couldn’t believe a young-looking warrior could be this dangerous.

Boom!

The next moment, it opened its mouth. A large tongue stretched out. The tongue was long and strong. Unlike the Venom Maw, the creature’s tongue was fleshy and had many small needles all over it.

A single attack from this creature could severely hurt a human warrior.

Swoosh!

The four-legged creature’s sudden attack was not surprising to me. I could easily track it. When the attack was about to hit me, I moved backward and evaded it.

Boom!

The long tongue landed on the ground, and a huge explosion occurred. The shock force spread outward. In the blink of an eye, the shock force collided with the wall.

The elite creature missed its first attack. It was not surprised by my fast reflexes; it had expected this much from the young warrior.

I put the black sword back into my storage ring. Next, I decided to focus on my blood energy. The blood rune in my mind began to throb.

I began to circulate the blood force energy within my body. The energy traveled along its path and, in the blink of an eye, reached my arms. The blood rune in my mind continued to throb.

The ancient spirit became more interested in the elite creatures.

It was coming across more and more top-ranked creatures in the enemy ranks. Top-ranked elite creatures had family members who were above the Quasi-God Rank.

The current four-legged creature was among the top ranks as well.

Swoosh!

The creature then launched another attack. This time, the long tongue arrived before me in a flash.

"Blood Fists!"

My right hand, covered in blood energy force, snapped out. Both of our attacks came into contact with each other. The blood energy tried to penetrate the tongue, but the tongue easily destroyed it.

I also felt the recoil force in my hand. The impact made me step backward. I stabilized my movement and withstood the recoiling force.

Once the recoil force dissipated, the four-legged creature was surprised. Next, it launched a series of tongue attacks.

Swoosh!

The long tongue struck at me again and again. I used similar punches for my counterattacks. The blood energy from my fists tried to penetrate the flesh of the tongue.

However, it failed to pierce the skin of the long tongue.

Fortunately, my physique had been tempered three times due to my earlier Red Mark breakthroughs in lightning, sealing force, and shock force power.

My body could easily withstand the power of the elite creature’s Red Mark Strength, so I was not afraid to use physical strength against it.

On the other hand, the elite foreign creature was stunned. It had unleashed more than a hundred strikes, yet none of the attacks had caused any injury. Not even a small cut appeared on my skin.

"What’s your inheritance power?" the elite creature asked. "It is not as strong as Red Mark Strength."

Hearing that, I was stunned. The four-legged creature hadn’t used its true ability yet. It had yet to use any serious attacks against me.

"Enough talk. Use your real strength against me," I said to the creature.

The foreign creature felt insulted by the young man. Abandoning the conversation, the elite creature began to use its ability. Dark origin power surged within its body.

In the blink of an eye, the power covered the creature’s entire back. The hard skin on its back hardened even further. So far, it has only used its long tongue to test me.

This time, its whole body lunged forward. In a flash, it used its large paw to strike.

Boom!

Seeing the new move from the elite foreign creature, my fists snapped out, covered in red blood energy.

In the blink of an eye, our attacks collided. This time, when my fist made contact, I felt the opponent’s skin had grown much harder. Forget about the blood energy penetrating the creature’s skin.

I felt severe pain; my fists were hurting. My gaze fell on the hard skin of the foreign creature, which was now covered in dark origin power. But I didn’t want to give up.

As time went by, I continued to unleash a barrage of strikes.

One after another, my red blood energy fists tried to break the hard skin of the creature. But the elite creature’s dark origin power was too strong.

At the same time, my skin began to tear from the repeated blows. If this had been before my breakthrough, my flesh and bones would have shattered.

Right now, I could keep fighting for an hour. If there was no improvement from the blood energy rune by then, the injuries on my body would only increase.

Meanwhile, the elite creature was taken aback. The young man was actually withstanding blows infused with dark origin power. It was shocked.