The Power of Belief

"Do you know what three times means? Even 1% is a complete crush! Let alone 300%!" Ye Chuan said.

Lan Xiaoke immediately clenched her boxing gloves to pump herself up and boost her courage.

"Bring it on! I've been buffed, I'm not afraid of you, big crab!"

And for some reason, Lan Xiaoke also felt that her strength was incredibly high.

That's right, she had been buffed!

Just as she finished speaking, the Giant Pincer Crab swung its claws and smashed viciously toward her again.

Lan Xiaoke let out a terrified scream and instinctively swam to the side, unexpectedly managing to narrowly dodge it thanks to her evasion buff.

"Wow! I really dodged it!" Her eyes lit up, instantly gaining a bit more confidence.

Before she could get too proud, the Giant Pincer Crab's other claw swept over, bringing with it a massive current of water.

Lan Xiaoke was almost swept up by the current, hastily steadying her posture and retreating.

Ye Chuan watched the show from the sidelines. "Careful now, don't get flattened into dried crab meat."

"Ye Chuan, you're still laughing! Hurry up and help me!" Lan Xiaoke said.

Of course, Ye Chuan wouldn't help Lan Xiaoke. Otherwise, it would be over in an instant, and that wouldn't align with his original goal.

She took a deep breath, clenched her pink gloves, and charged forward during the gap between the Giant Pincer Crab's claw swings.

"Hah!" She threw a fierce punch at the Giant Pincer Crab's shell, producing a muffled thud.

But the Giant Pincer Crab's shell was as hard as black iron. Her fist was only jolted numb, while the opponent showed no reaction at all.

"Why is it so hard!" Lan Xiaoke frowned.

But thinking about it carefully, she had increased her strength by three times, so this big crab couldn't be feeling too good either.

That's right. Although she usually slacked off a bit, no matter how strong the enemy was, it couldn't be stronger than a three-times multiplier, right?

The Giant Pincer Crab was enraged. It suddenly lowered its head and slammed its body toward Lan Xiaoke with astonishing speed.

Lan Xiaoke's vision went dark, and she instinctively closed her eyes. As a result, it brushed right past her, as if she had dodged sideways relying on a luck buff.

She steadied her body in the water, feeling endlessly lucky in her heart. Not daring to linger, she hurriedly circled to the side of the Giant Pincer Crab.

After a flurry of punches and strikes, Lan Xiaoke only felt her fists go numb.

And since she didn't know any spells herself, she could only rely on her rabbit gloves to fight head-on.

"If I had known, I would have learned more spells from Qian Shuang," Lan Xiaoke muttered.

At this time, Ye Chuan reminded her from the side, "Attack its joints and eyes. Those are its weak points and are softer than its shell."

This idiot Lan Xiaoke, who fights a crab monster by hitting its shell?

Lan Xiaoke's eyes lit up, immediately understanding. Staring at the joints of the Giant Pincer Crab's claws, she charged over once again.

She used all her strength and smashed a punch into the joint of the Giant Pincer Crab's claw!

The Giant Pincer Crab let out a muffled roar, and the movement of its claw paused.

"It's working!" Lan Xiaoke was overjoyed and instantly became energized, landing several punches in a row on the same spot.

It really was a three-times strength multiplier!

I'm so strong!

Lan Xiaoke was full of confidence at this moment.

Little did she know that Ye Chuan hadn't given her any attack-boosting buffs at all. It was entirely her "I think" and "I can" mindset dealing with the monster in front of her.

Sure enough, one must believe in the power of belief.

"Stinky crab, we're having a feast tonight!" Lan Xiaoke waved the gloves in her hands.

The Giant Pincer Crab went completely berserk, waving its two claws and smashing wildly, causing the entire sea area to tremble.

Lan Xiaoke grew increasingly confident, shuttling nimbly through the gaps in the Giant Pincer Crab's attacks, not daring to be the slightest bit careless.

"Positioning, positioning, in my hands..."

Finding the right moment, she sprinted onto the back of the Giant Pincer Crab and smashed towards its eyes!

Its eyes were huge, but Lan Xiaoke's punch landing on them was no less devastating than a rock spike viciously piercing into an eye.

But the Giant Pincer Crab violently shook its body, and Lan Xiaoke was almost thrown off its back.

She desperately grabbed onto the crevices of the Giant Pincer Crab's shell, steadied her posture, and finding the right moment, smashed another punch beside its eye.

The Giant Pincer Crab struggled frantically in pain, but it still couldn't do anything to Lan Xiaoke.

Lan Xiaoke gathered all her strength and landed several consecutive punches on its eyes in one breath. There was no method, no technique, just a flurry of wild, uncoordinated swings.

What did she rely on? Purely on stats.

Dark green blood seeped from the Giant Pincer Crab's eyes. Its movements became increasingly sluggish, and its aura weakened.

Lan Xiaoke took the opportunity to jump down, circled behind it, and continued attacking its other eye.

Watching this scene from afar, Ye Chuan couldn't help but shake his head.

She was a cultivator after all, but Lan Xiaoke's combat style was still a bit too abstract.

However, it was also because this girl didn't practice spells at all; otherwise, she would have at least some ranged methods.

By this time, Lan Xiaoke had punched so much that she could barely lift her arms. Fortunately, her stamina was constantly recovering, allowing her to barely hold on.

Finally, the Giant Pincer Crab's body was blown apart by a spiritual energy punch from Lan Xiaoke. Its eyes had been smashed into a bloody pulp, and the tissues inside were pulverized by the spiritual energy. It completely lost its life force, and its body began to sink, dyeing the surrounding seawater green.

"I-I won! I won!" Lan Xiaoke's face was full of joy.

She just wanted to swim over, but because she was exhausted, her body began to fall along with the crab. Fortunately, Ye Chuan teleported over in time to support her.

"Not bad, you actually won." Ye Chuan smiled and rubbed her head.

Lan Xiaoke leaned into Ye Chuan's embrace. "I was almost smashed to death by it. I'm so tired."

"You worked hard," Ye Chuan said. "I'll give you a reward later."

"What?"

"Anything is fine." Ye Chuan shrugged. "After all, what I said earlier about the three-times buff was fake."

Lan Xiaoke froze for a moment.

Fake?

"Ye Chuan, you lied to me?!!!"

"What's wrong with that? Didn't you also feel like you got stronger?"

"You..."

"Be more confident in the future. Don't just hide all day whenever you encounter something."

She was a total coward.

After Lan Xiaoke found out Ye Chuan had lied to her, she muttered to herself, full of resentment.

Bad Ye Chuan.

I'll sit on him to death later.

Suddenly, as if Lan Xiaoke remembered something,

"I need to get its inner core! It must be very valuable and can be exchanged for lots and lots of money!"

Hearing this, Ye Chuan took Lan Xiaoke and swam down together, quickly finding the massive corpse.

Ye Chuan casually sliced open the monster's corpse, and Lan Xiaoke dug out a huge, dark green inner core.

The inner core gave off a faint luster. It was larger than a human head, looking extremely precious and highly valuable at first glance.

"So the inner core of such a big monster is actually this small... Ye Chuan, look! We're rich!" Lan Xiaoke cheered, holding up the inner core.

Ye Chuan nodded, his gaze turning behind the Giant Pincer Crab, where there was faintly a glowing stone door.

"It seems this is the entrance to the fourth floor."

Ye Chuan had more or less figured out the pattern. The guarding monster shouldn't be far from the entrance to the next floor, which was why the entrance to the third floor was actually at the bottom of the sea.

If one had to evade so many deep-sea monsters, an ordinary superhuman martial artist really might not be able to make it here.

"Let's go," Ye Chuan said, watching Lan Xiaoke messing around over there.