CHAPTER 36: CHAPTER 36: LIFE GHOST·NAVEL EVIL

The slippery blue-brick wall was seeping with mildew, and rainwater formed trickles on the puddled stone slabs.

Puddles reflected the distant fragments of streetlamp light.

Two people faced each other in the alley.

"Are you crazy?"

Fang Qingyu was first surprised, then puzzled, finally looking silently at the other party.

He had considered many possibilities.

The mixed martial arts fighter whom he had previously beaten up badly, or people from the Le You Commerce Association seeking revenge after Fang Qingyu rejected them.

In a more absurd twist, his biological parents’ family from this life might send someone to kill him.

But what he hadn’t considered was...

The person opposite him was Ying Kai!!

Both disciples of the Martial Arts Hall, the other party must clearly understand that Fang Qingyu had at least restrained two parts of his power with the Mountain Pressing technique that evening.

Moreover, he had always felt quite favorable towards fellow disciples of the Martial Arts Hall.

Everything was amicable competition.

Never had he faced underhanded tricks.

Now, suddenly he encountered a madman who wanted him dead.

"I’m not crazy. You don’t know what the Le You Commerce Association means to me."

Seeing the confusion in Fang Qingyu’s eyes, Ying Kai seemed transformed, becoming increasingly frenzied in his gaze, slowly drawing the long knife from his waist.

"What does it mean?"

Fang Qingyu slowly assumed the opening stance of the Baji Fist.

Since things had escalated this far, there was nothing left to say. The other party clearly intended a fight to the death!

But Fang Qingyu was indeed curious about why Ying Kai sought him with such deadly intent.

"Heh..."

Listening to Fang Qingyu’s question, Ying Kai didn’t answer, only let out a cold laugh, his eyes filled with desolation.

Only the sight of Fang Qingyu brought him a glimmer of brightness.

"Die!!!"

Without further words, Ying Kai leaped down from the car.

The long knife in his hand sliced through the curtain of rain directly towards Fang Qingyu’s face.

Fang Qingyu instantly entered the Dragon Sting Breath state, slightly sidestepping, the long knife brushing his clothes as it sliced down, while his left hand pressed onto Ying Kai’s knife-wielding right hand, pushing the blade down.

His right hand bent upward, a Top Heart Elbow pounding into Ying Kai’s heart.

In the life-and-death duel, each move was lethal!

Bam—

Ying Kai was knocked back several meters by the elbow.

Yet once regaining his footing, he merely rubbed his chest, the corners of his mouth curling.

"You thought I hadn’t prepared at all?"

Fang Qingyu slightly frowned and withdrew his right hand, his elbow bone throbbing with pain.

Gazing at Ying Kai’s chest.

An iron plate?

No, even if it were an iron plate, this elbow would have caved it in.

More likely a type of soft armor capable of absorbing kinetic energy?

But...

This isn’t enough.

Fang Qingyu adjusted his breath; before Ying Kai could act, he was already launching his own attack.

Though unclear about the reasons behind all this.

But as long as he subdued the opponent, everything would be resolved.

"Arrogant!"

Seeing this, Ying Kai glared angrily, brandishing his knife and charging forward.

As the silver serpent-like blade pierced the rain curtain, Fang Qingyu’s backbone abruptly arched.

He sidestepped three inches before the blade touched his lapel, his right forearm sweeping towards Ying Kai’s wrist holding the knife like a steel whip.

His five fingers precisely inserted along the gap between the radius bone.

"Let go!"

With a loud shout, Fang Qingyu twisted his waist and hips, the rain-soaked shoes spinning out a semicircle of water traces on the blue-brick ground.

Ying Kai’s entire right arm was twisted into a braided shape, his knuckles instinctively loosening the sword handle due to intense pain.

But Fang Qingyu’s actions didn’t stop, he seamlessly brought the seized long knife across his chest, heavily slamming down with all his Power!

"Clang—!"

The metallic wail pierced the rain curtain.

Water exploded into white mist between the two.

"Now, continue."

Fang Qingyu discarded the sword handle, looking at Ying Kai who had been forced back.

Not good...

Ying Kai gasped for breath, looking at Fang Qingyu as if seeing a monster.

How in just a few days.

This kid’s strength on the stage was so vastly different from before!!

He couldn’t defeat him.

Ying Kai couldn’t help but have this thought.

Even wearing Scale Armor, he couldn’t defeat him...

But I must survive!!

Ying Kai suddenly abandoned his guarded posture, the frenzy and killing intent in his eyes dissipating, as if surrendering, speaking in a helpless tone.

"Do you know what it means to join the Le You Commerce Association?"

Fang Qingyu paused upon hearing this, his pupils subtly enlarging.

Goosebumps erupted over his skin.

In the Dragon Sting Breath state, behind Ying Kai seemed to be immense terror!!!

Still, he instinctively asked a question.

"What?"

"It means a chance to step into the Extraordinary..."

"The Martial Arts Hall’s formal classes require a Power of 300KG to start practicing the Observation Method. As long as you practice the Observation Method, there’s a chance to step into the Extraordinary!!!"

Ying Kai spoke more and more excitedly.

"But three years, a full three years, I couldn’t reach the 300KG threshold!!!"

"So I could only join the Le You Commerce Association... in a bid to glimpse at a world not belonging to me..."

"But now I understand, that world is for you geniuses... not a place I can touch, can you understand me?"

"Yes..."

At this moment, Fang Qingyu didn’t step forward, instead continued to retreat slowly...

"Could you let me go just this once?"

Ying Kai’s face lightened with joy upon hearing this.

"I can give you however much money you want, plus killing me would cause complications..."

"I can, goodbye!"

As a shadow faintly appeared in the darkness, a black series of titles became visible under the car lights...

Leaving those words, Fang Qingyu turned and fled.

[Life Ghost·Navel Evil]

There was indeed a black title!!

Yet this thing was entirely different from what he had imagined!!!

Just one look made it deep-impression on Fang Qingyu.

Approximately 1.5 meters high, with skin showing a drowned-like bloated gray-white, covered in black stitching lines, the head retained a human contour, the mouth ripped vertically down to the sternum, with barbed milk teeth densely packed within the split.

The most disgusting part was the navel still dragging a not-yet-detached lump of flesh.

Is this even human!!?

Must run.

Or else die!

This was the limit of Fang Qingyu’s third-level Guard Skill.

"Ah——"

After running only tens of meters, a scream rang from behind.

Fang Qingyu currently had no Attribute Points.

Else he would add them to Speed.

It’s been less than three minutes since Ying Kai stopped him.

It’s likely the police couldn’t arrive so quickly.

So to survive now.

He could only rely on himself!!

In retrospect, he hadn’t mistaken after finishing his bar shift...

There was indeed a black title.

Old Li’s video from dinner with several deliverymen was true!!!

The pant in his chest exploded with the sound of wind, rain, and the splash of shoes across puddles.

And a certain relentless ghastly presence...

Soggy, like the gurgle of grinder extrusion.

Fang Qingyu suddenly braked hard.

The streetlamp ahead burst into electric sparks, in the bluish-white arc, the navel’s flesh lump clung to the lamp wriggling.

Life Ghost hung upside down, its mouth ripped to the sternum, with purple-black mucus dripping between its barbed milk teeth, suddenly the lump swelled and contracted like a heartbeat.

Inside came the sound of bones snapping.

Ying Kai was dead.

His corpse was now being devoured by the flesh lump of the Life Ghost.

"Huh..."

Fang Qingyu’s nape hairs stood on end, his Dragon Sting Breath state activated instinctively.

Curse the rain still falling.

Listening to the normally tranquil rain.

Fang Qingyu suddenly took a deep breath.

This moment was a bit like his childhood.

So many instances of bullying, nowhere to run even if he wanted.

Since it’s like this...

Then fight!!!

But this time, it wasn’t about subduing, scaring...

But killing!!