“What the—what’s going on?”
Sun Li asked, utterly bewildered.
Sure, the sword was extraordinary, but was it really impossible to pull out?
With his strength, he had nearly exerted his full force, yet it wouldn’t budge?
“Elder, don’t panic. This is a sword that defies common sense—it can even block the Black Domain. It’s only natural that ordinary methods won’t work,” someone nearby chimed in, trying to reassure him.
“Fair point.”
Sun Li nodded.
He glanced around nervously, afraid that the white-robed lunatic from earlier might return and interfere again.
To avoid complications, he wanted to pull the sword out and leave as quickly as possible.
“Come on, all of you—channel your energy and lend me your strength!”
Sun Li barked.
Hearing this, the group immediately began circulating their power. Waves of formidable energy surged toward Sun Li like a wellspring of force.
Instantly, Sun Li felt invigorated.
He gripped the hilt once more.
“Hrrrgh—!”
With a furious roar, Sun Li unleashed his own strength, amplified by the combined power of the others.
Crack!
The ground split apart as the sword was finally wrenched free.
But what left Sun Li and the others stunned was that along with the sword, they had also pulled out a skeleton.
“H-how did we end up dragging out a skeleton too?” someone gasped in shock.
The rest were equally dumbfounded—none had expected the sword to be embedded in a corpse.
What baffled them even more was that, given the sheer force applied, the sword should have separated from the skeleton. Yet, the entire body had come along with it.
It seemed the sword was inextricably bound to the skeleton.
“This person must have been a powerhouse in life,” one person speculated.
“Must’ve been!” another agreed. “No ordinary person would be struck down by such a divine sword.”
“Hmm.”
Sun Li nodded solemnly, agreeing with the assessment. Then, stroking his chin, he added, “But the placement of this sword… is downright perplexing.”
“Right? I was just thinking that. Why stab it in the butt? Shouldn’t it be in a vital spot?”
“Maybe… his weakness was in his rear?”
“What kind of freak has a butt for a weakness?”
“Who knows? Maybe he cultivated some unorthodox technique or wanted to mislead his enemies by hiding his weak point there.”
“Enough! Stop bickering!”
Sun Li snapped impatiently. “Just pull the damn sword out so we can leave.”
“But the sword seems fused to the skeleton. It won’t come loose easily,” one person pointed out hesitantly.
“If we can’t pull it out, then smash the skeleton to pieces,” Sun Li growled. “It’s just a pile of old bones. How hard can it be?”
With that, he flicked his wrist.
A massive energy sphere materialized in his palm. He eyed the skeleton coldly, ready to blast it apart.
“Elder, this was once a formidable expert’s remains. Isn’t this… a bit disrespectful?”
One person stepped forward, voicing their concern. “A warrior slain by a divine sword deserves some dignity. Destroying his corpse after death… that’s just tragic.”
“What do I care about his corpse?”
“Dead is dead. No need for pointless formalities.”
“No time for gentle pulling—just smash it and take the sword.”
Sun Li snorted and hurled the energy sphere straight at the skeleton on the ground.
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ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
