Chapter 64 - 61: The Monk Can Really Take a Beating...

Chapter 64: Chapter 61: The Monk Can Really Take a Beating...

BAM!

The monk was swatted away by Su Tan like a baseball, shooting straight into the distance. The sound of tearing air slashed through the space ahead.

Because the monk was flying at such incredible speed, the dense curtain of falling rain splattered wildly wherever he passed, carving out a distinct path that resembled a black hole.

RUMBLE!

His flight only stopped when he crashed into a stone pillar behind him. His entire body sank into the rock, embedding itself as effortlessly as a baseball sinking into tofu. Stone fragments and raindrops scattered wildly in all directions!

The Little White Wolf was instantly dumbfounded at the sight. Its expression was one of pure shock, its jaw dropping unconsciously. It gaped in utter disbelief. It looked remarkably human. In fact, its expressions were even more animated than a human’s.

Subconsciously, the Little White Wolf had always known Su Tan was strong—incredibly strong for someone in the Body Refinement realm! With his Overlord Physique, he outclassed 99.99999% of the world’s cultivators in physical attributes alone.

But it never expected Su Tan to be this absurdly powerful!

His cultivation base had clearly been halved, yet he was still this terrifying?

It had fought the monk before and knew firsthand that the man was no pushover! The Little White Wolf had assumed that a clash between the monk and a half-strength Su Tan would be a grueling, bitter struggle. If anything, the odds of Su Tan losing were higher...

Who could have guessed that Su Tan would blast the monk away with a single punch?

Instant kill! A true instant kill!

"The power of that punch... how could it only be at the mid-fourth layer of the Body Refinement realm? It has clearly surpassed the Body Refinement realm. Even an ordinary Qi Condensation cultivator wouldn’t be this terrifying!" the Little White Wolf muttered.

Could it be that Su Tan’s strength hadn’t been halved at all?

Regardless, that punch was absolutely not something a Body Refinement cultivator could deliver.

PITTER PATTER!

The rain continued to fall, growing heavier by the second. Dense, crystal-clear raindrops the size of mung beans poured from the sky, shrouding the entire Stone Forest. They fell in endless, unbroken strings, forming a breathtakingly beautiful curtain of rain.

"Cough, cough..."

Over at the stone pillar, the monk’s embedded body hadn’t moved for a long while. One would think he was dead and had been forcibly logged out of the Void God Realm. Yet, after the shattered stones fell and the dust settled, about ten seconds passed before Su Tan heard movement coming from the stone pillar.

The monk’s heart, which had stopped, began to beat once more!

"He’s not dead?" the Little White Wolf asked in surprise.

Taking a heavy punch from Su Tan that even damaged the stone pillar should have been more than any human body could withstand. Yet, the monk was still alive.

It wasn’t just the Little White Wolf; Su Tan was also somewhat astonished. He hadn’t held back at all with that strike. Let alone an ordinary person, even someone with a special physique should have been forcibly ejected from the realm. Yet, the monk was somehow still intact.

There was definitely something highly unusual about this monk!

However, compared to Su Tan and the Little White Wolf’s surprise, the monk was in an even greater state of shock! It was enough to completely shatter his worldview.

Su Tan had completely turned his understanding of reality upside down.

That person... That blind man! He looked utterly ordinary... He had already used his weakening skill to forcibly halve the blind man’s cultivation base, yet the man still possessed such terrifying power!

Terrifying! Absolutely terrifying!

What kind of freak was he? Even with his cheat-like abilities, the monk still couldn’t beat him... And not only could he not win, he was instantly crushed.

This... Was this even humanly possible?

"Who... who are you?" The monk’s body was contorted, but he forced the words out. "Why... why are you immune to my weakening skill? Why don’t the realm restrictions of the Void God Realm affect you?"

Fortunately, in the Void God Realm, as long as one wasn’t killed outright, their body would slowly regenerate. The speed of this recovery depended entirely on the individual’s capabilities.

The monk’s signature Maitreya Buddha-like smile finally vanished. It was replaced by an expression that looked as if he had just seen a ghost. He stared fixedly at Su Tan.

That man, standing tall and unyielding amidst the curtain of rain.

"I have no interest in explaining anything to you," Su Tan replied calmly. "Mountain Lean Strike!"

If one punch couldn’t finish the job, then he would just throw another! And this punch was exponentially more powerful than the last. Because Su Tan’s previous strike had knocked the monk unconscious, the weakening skill had been broken.

This was a strike at his absolute peak!

Su Tan moved as fast as a bolt of lightning. As his physical strength and physique grew, so did his speed. Even a common Martial Technique like the Mountain Lean Strike, when executed by Su Tan, possessed power that rivaled the world’s top-tier Martial Techniques.

His raw strength was simply too overwhelming.

The forty-seventh layer of Body Refinement. Who in this world could possibly achieve such a feat?

Su Tan’s body became like a towering mountain. He tore through the curtain of rain, barreling toward the monk with a suffocating, oppressive might.

"You... you..."

The monk’s pupils constricted. He could feel the sheer, unadulterated power bearing down on him. Goosebumps erupted all over his body. Every inch of his skin screamed in terror.

Yes, terror. The monk was paralyzed with fear. It was a primal fear that stemmed from the very depths of his soul.

RUMBLE!

Before he could utter another word, Su Tan’s fist slammed into his body. Instantly, it felt as though an entire mountain had crashed into his chest.

The stone pillar violently trembled. The monk was driven even deeper into the solid rock.

"How is this possible!"

"Your strength... how could it be..."

On the verge of death, the monk truly experienced the full extent of Su Tan’s terrifying power. He suddenly realized something. Su Tan’s first punch hadn’t been at full strength. That punch had indeed been weakened. This punch was his true, unadulterated strength.

He had that much power even when weakened?

Was he a monster?

"Could it be... you’re... you’re a monster that escaped from that place?" he murmured, right before he lost consciousness once more.

That place?

Su Tan pondered for a moment. What place was the monk talking about?

"DING! The stone pillar has dropped Cultivation Technique [Grass and Wood Technique] x1, [Burning Fire Body Refining Technique] x1, [Great Wilderness Technique] x1..."

These were Cultivation Techniques dropped from the stone pillar. Su Tan had discovered last time that destroying the stone pillars would yield Cultivation Method Manuals.

But that wasn’t what surprised him. What surprised him was that he had actually knocked items out of the monk!

What in the world?

"DING! The monk’s body has dropped Cultivation Technique [Giant Stone Body Refining Technique] x1, Martial Technique [Demon-Suppressing Finger] x1..."

Beating people up could drop Secret Manuals too?

Su Tan never would have imagined this.

"No... that’s not right. Beating people up shouldn’t drop loot," Su Tan muttered. "When I fought Chen Huangbei last time, he didn’t drop anything. And his subordinates were beaten horribly by the Little White Wolf, yet they didn’t drop any loot either!"

One could argue that Chen Huangbei’s group hadn’t been beaten severely enough to drop loot. However, since entering the Void God Realm, Su Tan had seen others beaten so badly they were forcibly logged out, yet he had never seen anyone drop a single item.

"Cough, cough..."

Just as Su Tan was pondering this, the monk beneath his fists—who had taken two consecutive heavy blows and had clearly lost his heartbeat—let out a faint cough. His heart began to beat once more. He was alive again!

Su Tan furrowed his brows. Something was very wrong.

With Su Tan’s immense strength, he didn’t even need to go all out; a casual punch was more than enough to send a person packing back to the real world. Yet, the monk had taken two direct hits. Both times he had stopped breathing and lost his heartbeat, but moments later, he would simply revive!

This monk was absurdly resilient. Su Tan admitted that the monk was stronger than an ordinary person, but he definitely wasn’t that strong.

So how was he reviving time and time again?

"Weird. This is really weird. Logically speaking... once someone is killed in the Void God Realm, they’re forcibly logged out," the Little White Wolf said, thoroughly baffled. "Why hasn’t this guy been logged out? He just keeps reviving!"

This was the first time it had ever encountered such a bizarre situation.