Chapter 1160: A Bunch of Illiterates, Unleash All Your Strength and Entertain Me!!

As he spoke, Lu Ding raised his hand and caught a club swinging toward his head, his terrifying grip instantly crushing the weapon into splinters that snapped in two. He held one half in his grasp, turned around, and drove it directly into another villager's chest, the blood-stained end protruding from the man's back. Lu Ding followed up with a kick that caved in the man's ribcage and sent him flying backward.

At that moment, Du Zhong, who had been on the hillside moments ago, had already closed the distance and appeared behind Lu Ding. He swung a high roundhouse kick aimed at Lu Ding's neck.

Lu Ding ducked low to evade, raising his arm to block, and Du Zhong followed up with a heavy punch.

BANG!!!

Fist met flesh with a dull thud, but Lu Ding stood utterly motionless, completely unharmed. All Du Zhong felt was the solid sensation of punching a wall, the recoil alone making his hand bones ache.

"You haven't been fully suppressed?!!!"

He voiced his confusion. Only this doubt could explain why his punch hadn't budged Lu Ding at all. Though this possibility was equally inconceivable, compared to the fact that this outsider, who looked about his age, actually had a tougher body than a native-born Niuxin Village resident like himself even under suppression, the former explanation was far easier for Du Zhong to accept.

He possessed natural godlike strength, after all, and held the home-field advantage. Having grown up in Niuxin Village his entire life, to borrow Village Chief Grandpa's words: "Sure, we don't cultivate Spiritual Energy in the village, but the moment we step outside and receive the world's feedback, unlocking our self-imposed limits, we become something absolutely terrifying."

Du Zhong had been waiting for that day, so he refused to believe his physical body could lose to some outsider standing before him.

Lu Ding didn't answer. He simply threw a punch straight at Du Zhong's face. Fast, accurate, and ruthless, executed to perfection, even producing the crack of air compression.

The strike hadn't even landed yet, but the sonic pop of the punch's wind pressure made Du Zhong's scalp tingle and his spine run cold. He stepped back to dodge.

Lu Ding lunged forward half a step, extending his arm without retracting it, hooking it in a fluid motion to snag Du Zhong's neck. He yanked him back and slammed his knee upward!!!

Du Zhong reached down to block.

But he severely underestimated Lu Ding's strength. There was no stopping it. The knee strike landed dead center on Du Zhong's abdomen. Intense pain surged through him, unbearable, and he instinctively doubled over.

Lu Ding raised his hand, elbow striking like a blade, and directly shattered Du Zhong's lower jaw, leaving a gruesome wound that gushed blood.

At that moment, the sound of air whistling came from the side.

Lu Ding halted his assault, raising his arm to shield his head.

BANG!!!!

A solid wooden pickaxe handle slammed heavily against Lu Ding's forearm, splintering on impact.

Du Zhong took the opportunity to break free from Lu Ding's chokehold, retreating and spitting out a mouthful of blood as he said in a garbled voice: "You definitely haven't been fully suppressed!!!"

Lu Ding shook his arm. It was a bit numb. That hit just now was solid as hell!!!

Lu Ding turned his gaze to the young man who had swung the pickaxe at him, now standing beside Du Zhong: "You motherfucker, I'll beat your bastard ass to death in a minute!"

"Answer me!!! Are you or aren't you!!?"

Du Zhong's voice rang out again.

Lu Ding scanned his surroundings. He was completely surrounded now, by both people and demonic creatures. Facing this situation, he had been holding himself back for way too long back at Lü Mountain. Since these people were asking so earnestly, he figured he'd entertain them a bit, and also show some mercy, so he said: "You illiterate stragglers, before I educate you with modern knowledge, I want you to understand this. If I hadn't been suppressed by the rules, one punch from me, and you'd be lucky to still have a single piece left of yourself."

The young man who had swung the pickaxe at Lu Ding shouted indignantly: "Stop bragging! So what if you've read more books!?"

Lu Ding: "I am better than you. Not only have I read more, I'm a college student. What you people call the human body's limit is just muscle utilization and recruitment at around eighty percent. My recruitment and utilization is at one hundred percent, and I can even reach two hundred, three hundred percent or more through special angles, leverage, and borrowing force. That's why I'm stronger than you."

This wasn't something that could be made up for with mere technique and training. For the human body, first, it can't recruit all its muscles at once due to the brain's self-protection mechanism, and second, even if it could, doing so would cause the body to collapse. But Lu Ding's [White Snake Shakes Scales] allowed him to utilize one hundred percent of his bodily muscles while providing recovery, flexibility, and other properties. Combined with [Heaven-Man Unity], which helped him utilize force in an idealized manner and execute corresponding practical movements, including the leverage and borrowed force Lu Ding had mentioned, this was all made possible.

Of course, this also involved what Taoist classics referred to as "deflecting a thousand pounds with four ounces," which was precisely the principle of leverage and borrowed force.

Moreover, Lu Ding stood over one meter ninety tall. Under normal conditions, his body density was who knows how many times that of an ordinary person. Even the blood flowing through his veins was thick and viscous, completely reshaped by heaven and earth. He was essentially playing on cheat mode. He was more monstrous than a monster.

Going up against someone like Lu Ding in a contest of physical limits was simply a joke. So for Lu Ding, this kind of law suppression and rule restriction was nothing more than building him a fighting ring to vent his emotions. Pure suicide for anyone who challenged him. The fact that Du Zhong had taken several hits and survived already proved he had real mettle. One could absolutely say he was gifted by nature with godlike strength.

At this moment, Du Zhong and the young man listened to Lu Ding's words, exchanging bewildered glances, their eyes filled with confusion.

What college student? What recruitment rate? What percentages? They were completely lost, couldn't understand a word. Every single term, taken individually, they could comprehend, but strung together, it might as well have been a heavenly script. What the hell was he yapping about, all this gibberish?

Seeing the baffled expressions on those two, and then scanning the surrounding people encircling him who all wore the exact same dumbfounded look, Lu Ding was speechless. Explaining any of this to them was a complete waste of emotion. A bunch of illiterates.

Because the rules in Niuxin Village had erased the very concept of Spiritual Energy, and worried about his scholar-warrior sleeves getting damaged, Lu Ding chose to take them off directly, revealing his chiseled upper body. With an extremely low body fat percentage, thick, well-defined veins crawled across his muscles, showcasing every striation without any bulkiness. He casually tossed the sleeves up onto the hillside and said to She Shilan, who was still recovering from the wind knocked out of her earlier by Du Zhong's kick: "Hold my clothes for me, thanks."

Though he didn't know who she was, her earlier actions and her out-of-place attire were enough to prove she wasn't on the same side as the Niuxin Village folk. So Lu Ding felt relatively at ease entrusting it to her.

He spread his hands into a fighting stance, one forward, one back.

"Alright, still thinking? Stop thinking, you dumb fucks. Without an education, you'll never figure it out. Today, at the end of your lives, the only thing you can do is unleash all your strength and entertain me!!!"

A savage, brutal aura radiated from Lu Ding's body.

Du Zhong and the young man exchanged glances, both gritting their teeth. Staring at Lu Ding before them, they shouted in unison: "GET HIM!!!!"