At the beginning, we see the Bear Beast suddenly appear right in front of Shen Luo. The beast gathers a red aura around its paw and is just about to strike Shen Luo.
Yet, even in such a dangerous situation, Shen Luo remains standing calmly.
We then see that one of Shen Luo's hands has already been clenched into a fist.
A voice can be heard.
"I can't keep living like this forever… as a normal mortal. Otherwise, I will never be able to protect myself. I won't make the same mistake again."
The one saying these words is Shen Luo.
"So even if I die today, I will fight like a strong person."
With those words, Shen Luo throws his fist toward the Bear Beast's paw.
The two attacks collide.
But within just 0.2 seconds, the bones inside Shen Luo's hand are completely crushed. His hand twists unnaturally, as if every bone inside it has been shattered into powder.
The force sends Shen Luo flying a great distance, and he falls unconscious.
The Spirit panics.
"What happened?!"
He immediately rushes toward Shen Luo.
But at that moment, the Bear Beast moves toward the Spirit, preparing to attack him.
As the Spirit watches the beast getting closer and closer, he realizes that he cannot escape.
He closes his eyes, as if accepting that this is the end.
But suddenly, someone appears in front of him.
After a moment, the Spirit slowly opens his eyes.
He is shocked to see Shen Luo standing in front of him.
"How…?"
The Spirit cannot understand what he is seeing.
"How can Shen Luo stop this beast without using spiritual energy or martial arts?"
Shen Luo is holding the Bear Beast back with both of his hands.
The Spirit is completely confused.
"His hand was already broken… so how is he still able to stop it?"
Shen Luo suddenly drives his knee into the beast's stomach.
However, the attack has almost no effect on the Bear Beast.
Shen Luo then suddenly takes a strange posture. He twists his body around and thrusts his finger directly toward the beast's eye.
The Spirit immediately starts screaming.
"AAAAAH!"
The Bear Beast loses its balance when Shen Luo delivers a deadly kick to its leg.
As the beast begins falling, Shen Luo jumps high into the air and lands directly on its face.
BOOM!
The beast's face crashes into the ground, and its head is driven deep into the earth.
The Spirit is completely shocked.
"He isn't even fighting a Level 5 Beast anymore… he's beating it down!"
But the Bear Beast is still alive.
Shen Luo places both of his hands on the ground beside the beast's head and supports his entire body with his arms. His body becomes suspended at an unusual angle, almost like a 360-degree movement.
Then—
BOOM!
Shen Luo uses his legs to slam the beast's head even deeper into the ground.
Yet, even after all of this, the Bear Beast still refuses to die.
While lying on the ground, the beast suddenly reaches out with its enormous hands and grabs Shen Luo.
The beast stands up while holding Shen Luo and then throws him away like a ball.
Shen Luo flies backward through the air.
But in mid-air, he manages to regain his balance and lands upside down on a tree.
Using the force from being thrown, Shen Luo gathers momentum through his legs.
Then, using that force, he launches himself toward the Bear Beast once again.
His left hand is clenched into a fist.
The Bear Beast sees Shen Luo charging toward it and prepares its own strongest punch.
The two fists are just about to collide.
But suddenly—
SLASH!
The Bear Beast's hand, which was about to strike Shen Luo, is instantly cut apart into countless pieces.
The beast screams in agony.
"AAAAAAAH! AAAAAAH!"
Blood pours from its severed hand, and its broken bones can be seen through the wound.
The Spirit is stunned.
The one who cut the Level 5 Bear Beast's hand into countless pieces…
is Shen Luo.
Even Shen Luo himself is shocked.
"What just happened?"
But the exhaustion finally catches up with him.
Shen Luo drops down onto both knees.
He looks toward the Bear Beast, which is still screaming.
Shen Luo slowly straightens one knee and places his hand against it, using it to support himself as he struggles to stand.
His eyes fall on the piece of wood in his hand.
He begins imagining that piece of wood as a sword.
Then he calls out the name of a strange sword technique.
Suddenly, a completely different kind of energy begins flowing through his body.
Shen Luo raises the wooden sword toward the sky.
A sword domain begins to form.
Soul Realm: Infinite Swordfall.
A huge black space appears.
Both Shen Luo and the Bear Beast are swallowed into the domain.
Then Shen Luo says—
"Infinite Sword Slash."
Countless sword slashes rain down upon the Bear Beast.
Slash after slash tears through its body.
The Bear Beast is gradually erased until nothing remains—not even its soul.
Outside the domain, the Spirit watches everything in complete shock.
"How…?"
"How does Shen Luo know this technique?"
"And how is he even capable of doing something like this?"
"I didn't know he possessed swordsmanship. I don't understand anything anymore…"
The black domain slowly begins to disappear.
Shen Luo finally starts coming out of it.
But then the Spirit notices something strange.
"Wait…"
He looks carefully at Shen Luo.
"He's still unconscious?"
Shen Luo slowly walks toward the Spirit.
Then, in a seemingly casual voice, he says—
"Game over."
The moment he finishes saying those words, Shen Luo collapses directly onto the ground and becomes unconscious again.
The Spirit stares at him in disbelief.
"Wait… what happened?"
"He suddenly came over here and then just collapsed!"
"And what did he even say?"
"'Game over'?"
The Spirit looks at Shen Luo's battered body.
"Has he gone crazy?"
"He just fought a Level 5 Beast by himself, and he was already severely injured before this."
"Looking at his condition, it seems like almost every bone in his body has been broken."
"I think I need to tell the Martial Arts Master that Shen Luo cannot fight for some time."
"That means he shouldn't train either."
"For now, resting is more important. If he keeps pushing himself, his body will suffer even more damage. He has already taken far too much damage."
The Spirit then picks up Shen Luo and begins carrying him out of the forest.
After reaching the place where they had been before, the Spirit puts Shen Luo down there.
He looks at the unconscious Shen Luo and says,
"For now, I can only wait for the Master to come."