"..."
Xu Wenwu felt he had been humiliated.
The martial arts he had painstakingly honed for over a thousand years had been more than half learned by you in less than a few minutes, yet you were actually saying that my thousand years hadn't been lived in vain.
Was this adding insult to injury?!
The veins on Xu Wenwu's forehead throbbed violently, the blue light of the Ten Rings on his arms surged, and the Ten Rings simultaneously detached from his body, forming a ring array in the air and spinning wildly as they crushed toward Peter!
The power of this strike was at least three times stronger than before.
The Ten Rings formed a blue energy storm as they spun at high speed, and wherever they passed, the ground was plowed into a trench half a meter deep.
But facing this dazzling attack from the Ten Rings, Peter simply used his hands and feet in a flurry of strikes, knocking all the incoming Ten Rings away.
He then curled his finger at Xu Wenwu:
"Come again, let me see some new tricks."
Hmm, a true master always keeps the heart of an apprentice, indeed~
...
The battle between the two lasted for nearly twenty minutes.
Meanwhile, the chaotic battle on Daisy's side was also coming to an end.
There were two shallow abrasions on her face, a wound on her left arm deep enough to see the bone, and multiple wounds on her body were oozing blood.
But her state at this moment was surprisingly good.
She had gained another growth spurt~
The Vibration Ability is a combat ability that is extremely dependent on actual combat experience.
And right now, she was rapidly evolving amidst the moves fed to her by these three experts!
The passive perception of the vibration force field, the precise interference of muscle resonance, the precise detonation after injecting the Quake into the enemy's body...
All the ideas Peter had shared with her previously, she had transformed into reality!
Bang!
Daisy and the Death Dealer's figures crossed.
The moment they steadied themselves, a large spray of blood erupted from Daisy's side waist.
Correspondingly, the Death Dealer's back exploded, a huge hole was blasted through his chest, and he fell to the ground, dead with his eyes wide open.
Daisy looked at this respectable opponent, thought for a moment, and reached out to close his wide-open eyes:
"You are a respectable opponent. If not for you, I wouldn't have progressed so quickly. May you rest in peace, and may you be reincarnated as a good person in your next life."
After finishing all this, Daisy looked back at Peter, took a deep breath, and said:
"Alright, Brother Peter, I've finished up on my end, you don't need to keep playing with him anymore."
Hearing this, Xu Wenwu was so angry he almost spat out another mouthful of old blood.
Fine, fine, fine, so while I'm here exhausted enough to vomit blood, in your eyes I'm just playing, right!
His gaze turned cold, and he wanted to kill Daisy to let her see how formidable he was.
But before he could make a move, Peter jumped out of the battle circle and flashed him a smile:
"Sorry, old Xu, since my companion has finished up, you can log off now."
Xu Wenwu's fighting techniques had indeed benefited him greatly, especially those transitional techniques that integrated the essence of multiple schools, which gave him many new ideas on how to flexibly switch between offensive and defensive rhythms in martial arts combat.
But that was all. This was all he could teach Peter.
On the other side, Xu Wenwu was so angry he almost bit through his steel teeth.
He recalled all the Ten Rings to his arms, the blue light surging to its limit.
His whole body was enveloped in energy light, and the Ten Rings on his arms spun wildly.
"You think you've won?!"
With a roar, he concentrated all the energy of the Ten Rings onto his fists and blasted the strongest strike of his life toward Peter.
The blue energy torrent roared out, blowing away all the remaining stone slabs in the plaza.
Peter looked at this strike and did not choose to dodge.
The next second, pale blue lightning flowed across his body, and his aura in that instant climbed to a height that made Xu Wenwu feel fear from the depths of his soul.
Lightning Release Chakra Mode!
After covering himself with the Lightning Release Armor, Peter did not hesitate, raising his hand and throwing a normal punch.
No flashy techniques, no complex energy circulation.
Just a simple punch.
Pure, overwhelming power.
The moment his fist collided with the energy torrent, the blue energy disintegrated instantly like thin ice meeting boiling water.
Clang~!
The energy field shattered instantly.
Following that, the wind from his punch pierced through the energy torrent and landed on Xu Wenwu's chest without losing any power.
The defense of the Ten Rings couldn't even last a single breath in front of this punch.
The force of the punch poured into Xu Wenwu's body.
Xu Wenwu's body flew backward as if he had been hit by a train.
His consciousness began to blur the moment he left the ground, the scene before his eyes became fragmented, and the sounds grew increasingly distant.
He was wrong.
It turned out that such a person really existed in this World—just standing there was an insurmountable chasm, making all the means he had accumulated over a thousand years seem absurd and ridiculous.
In the last second before his consciousness completely plunged into darkness, only one thought appeared in Xu Wenwu's mind:
I got up, and got one-shot.
What is there to say?
Boom!
Finally, his body smashed into the distant wall, creating a massive crater spanning tens of meters.
Debris splattered, and smoke and dust rose everywhere.
When the dust settled, Xu Wenwu had no signs of life left.
Peter walked over.
He crouched down and removed the Ten Rings one by one from Xu Wenwu's arms.
After leaving the host, the blue light of these metal rings gradually dimmed, but they still emitted a faint humming sound.
They felt neither too heavy nor too light in his hand, warm, as if they still retained the body heat of the deceased.
By Peter's ear, the system's notification sound rang on time:
[Detected sacrificable purple item: Ten Rings]
[Ten Rings: A mysterious weapon of unknown origin, ten in total. The wearer can gain extraordinary boosts in strength, speed, and durability, while stopping the body from aging, and even slightly reversing aging, theoretically achieving immortality]
[Sacrifice can obtain points: 10000, sacrifice?]
Ten thousand points.
Not too many, not too few.
Peter thought for a moment and chose no.
Three reasons.
First, the Ten Rings are the key to opening the Dark Gate of Ta Lo village. Behind that door is locked the Soul Eater, and he still needs to go in to collect gene samples.
Without the Ten Rings, that door might not be able to be opened.
Second, he really doesn't lack sacrifice points right now.
Before, in the two big battles against Laufey and the Inheritors, everyone contributed a generous amount of sacrifice points to him.
Currently, his account balance is over 150,000, and an increase of 10,000 points is of no consequence to him.
Third, and the most critical point—
He took a fancy to the Ten Rings' 'eternal youth' function.
Uncle Ben is sixty years old this year.
Although Aunt May is well-maintained, she is already fifty-five years old.
The power of the Ten Rings can help Uncle Ben and Aunt May prolong their lives...
Just this point alone is enough for him to keep the Ten Rings.
Besides this, he had an even bolder idea in his heart.
The effect of the dog talisman is to restore a person's body to its peak state.
And the Ten Rings can make a person's body stop aging, and even slightly reverse aging.
If he combined the two...
First use the dog talisman to bring a person's body back to its peak, then use the Ten Rings to lock this state and reverse aging.
Could he exploit a bug, pull off a 'reversing the electric meter', and let a person maintain a rejuvenated state even if they lost the Ten Rings and the dog talisman?
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