Chapter 827 - 820: Life Pulse

Chapter 827: Chapter 820: Life Pulse

The strength of the Second layer Transformation Boundary provided immense advantages in both Energy and physical stamina. Once Gegula launched an attack, his offensive was terrifyingly fierce.

In the eyes of the surrounding spectators, he seemed to use Instant Teleportation, appearing directly in front of Zhou Yuanjue. They couldn’t see his movement trajectory at all.

Zhou Yuanjue felt the same. His five senses simply couldn’t keep up with his opponent’s movements. It was too fast. This was the strength of the top hundred on the main leaderboard.

Wielding his twin bone blades, Gegula slashed one at Zhou Yuanjue’s neck and the other at his waist and abdomen, striking with incomparable ruthlessness.

A thick stench of blood rushed at his face, and an intense killing intent seemed to freeze space itself. Combined with the Domain influence brought by that beating heart, Zhou Yuanjue believed that even Qingling would be instantly slain in a single encounter, then completely dismembered.

This was the absolute suppression of a higher realm.

No one in the top hundred of the main leaderboard was deadweight. Even if competing within the same realm, they wouldn’t necessarily be weaker than Qingling and the others; they were at least on the level of Anjina and Dorobaku.

However, the killing intent was far too obvious!

Zhou Yuanjue’s pupils slightly constricted. The Tianji Seal had already sensed the exact landing point of his opponent’s killing intent.

Although he was inferior in pure speed, the Tianji Seal practically possessed the ability of foreknowledge, which completely compensated for this flaw!

Based on the trajectory of the killing intent, Zhou Yuanjue reacted instantly.

His body twisted in a logic-defying manner, and it looked as though he was about to evade the attack.

Yet, just as the attack was about to land...

SWISH!

Gegula suddenly changed his moves!

The two slashes abruptly shifted over a short distance, temporarily changing their target locations.

SWISH SWISH SWISH!

The landing points of the killing intent also instantly shifted. But by this time, Zhou Yuanjue had no chance or reaction time to execute a second evasion.

SQUELCH SQUELCH!

The sound of bone blades tearing through flesh rang out. Half of Zhou Yuanjue’s left leg and half of his right arm were severed by a single strike, the wounds incredibly smooth.

He thought, "To think..."

Zhou Yuanjue’s pupils shrank. He pushed off the ground with his remaining foot, instantly pulling away from his opponent.

Gegula did not pursue. Instead, he violently plunged his two bone blades into the ground, piercing Zhou Yuanjue’s severed arm and leg. He hoisted them into the air like trophies.

Of course, this wasn’t just an act of provocation. The bone blades seemed to possess some kind of Pollution Ability. After being pierced, the severed arm and leg slowly shriveled, their skin turning a sickly crimson.

Zhou Yuanjue could feel that he had completely lost connection with his severed limbs. Originally, by relying on the attractive force between his cells, he could have commanded them to return on their own, minimizing the damage to his body.

But now, it seemed his opponent possessed specific methods to counter enemies with tenacious Life Force and potent Recovery Power.

He could feel something akin to a virus rapidly multiplying on his stumps, attempting to erode his body. However, he quickly purged it by forcefully channeling his Energy.

GASP!

Seeing this scene, the surrounding spectators burst into another uproar.

After merely a single exchange, Zhou Yuanjue had lost an arm and a lower leg. The disparity between them was visible to the naked eye.

The gap was simply too massive. Attempting to challenge the top hundred of the main leaderboard as a newcomer was pure delusion. Even a genius like Bing Zhiyue had taken more than a year to achieve such a feat.

As for Zhou Yuanjue, it had been barely half a year since he first entered Chaotic Paradise.

GURGLE GURGLE!

Zhou Yuanjue’s True Vein circulated, unleashing massive Energy. The Immortal Seal materialized on his chest, and the flesh and blood cells at his wounds writhed instantly. Within a single second, new limbs regenerated.

The injuries were nothing to him. His expression remained grave as he focused on one crucial question: why did his opponent change moves at the last possible moment?

He wondered if it was a premeditated feint.

It didn’t seem likely. If it had been planned in advance, the altered strike should have targeted his vital organs rather than insignificant arms and legs. After all, for candidates, losing limbs wasn’t a decisive injury since they could still move using Energy.

Moreover, he could sense the hastiness in his opponent’s transition, and the power of the strike had drastically decreased. It felt like a split-second decision—almost as if... he had predicted the evasive movements?

He thought, "I foresaw the landing point of his killing intent, but he foresaw my evasion?"

Zhou Yuanjue began to formulate a theory.

"Tsk, no need to make that kind of face. Like I said, you are merely prey.

"I must admit, the fact that you could keep up with my attack and almost dodged it proves you’re genuinely strong.

"But that’s where it ends. A powerful Recovery Ability comes with a terrifying Energy consumption. You won’t last long."

Gegula smiled faintly. With a flick of his arms, the severed limbs impaled on his bone blades were sent flying like trash. Pushing off the ground once more, his Energy erupted as he charged at Zhou Yuanjue at breakneck speed.

Zhou Yuanjue thought, "I need to confirm his ability. Pure Energy consumption isn’t an issue right now."

He made an instant decision. Maintaining the Tianji Seal, he overlaid the Gang Dou Seal and Immortal Seal, initiating a head-on collision with his opponent.

SWISH SWISH SWISH SWISH!

The opponent’s killing intent was incredibly obvious, and the Tianji Seal could sense it clearly. Yet, the moment Zhou Yuanjue made an evasive maneuver, Gegula would immediately alter his attack, as if he knew his movement trajectory in advance.

SLASH SLASH SLASH!

Amidst the relentless clashes, Zhou Yuanjue was completely suppressed. Countless limbs and organs were continuously severed and sent flying, only to regenerate at an unfathomable speed, seemingly without limit.

The spectators fell into a dead silence. The scattered severed limbs and organs piled up into a horrifying, gory mess, making it look as though a single person had created an entire blood-soaked battlefield.

They wondered, "Isn’t this Recovery Power far too ridiculous?" However, if Zhou Yuanjue didn’t possess such Recovery Power, he would have long since been dismembered into countless pieces like Gegula’s previous opponents, triggering the arena’s protective mechanism.

HAHAHAHA!

Gegula let out a burst of maniacal laughter, his gaze toward Zhou Yuanjue growing increasingly feverish.

He thought, "Fantastic! Absolutely fantastic! This is a toy that won’t break no matter how much I slice it! If possible, I’d love to keep him by my side as my personal collection! It has been a long, long time since I’ve slashed away with such exhilaration!"

Meanwhile, Zhou Yuanjue remained silent, enduring the onslaught. He silently analyzed the characteristics of his opponent’s abilities. Even the rapid depletion of his Energy couldn’t shatter his unwavering state of mind.

Soon, he noticed something he had previously overlooked.

THUMP THUMP THUMP!

That intense, vibrating heartbeat!

Initially, he thought the pulsation was merely an area-of-effect disruption targeting vital signs—and not a particularly strong one at that.

But thinking about it now, how could the ability of someone in the top hundred of the main leaderboard be so simple?

He concluded that all of this must be connected to that pulsation.

He wondered, "Wait, that sound has never stopped. Could it be that besides affecting the opponent, the primary effect of this ability isn’t destruction, but reconnaissance?

"Can it act like a bat’s echolocation, using bounces and echoes to detect my Energy flow and physical movements?

"Could it even be detecting my very Life Pulse?"