"What... what is this?!"

"Wang Ye? Your hand... what happened to it?"

"There... there’s a monster!!!"

Some of the men feigned composure, while others were so scared they wet their pants.

At this moment, Wang Ye turned his head toward them,

and their faces turned even paler.

This was because Wang Ye’s eyes were filled with blood vessels, making him look fiercely terrifying,

and coupled with an extremely high unit of Primordial Qi within him,

he carried an aura that was soul-stirring.

The combination naturally made the intimidation even more formidable.

Perhaps some people think that appearance alone doesn’t leave much impact on the psyche, and when supporting characters in films are frightened to the point of absurdity by monstrous appearances, it’s merely an artistic embellishment. But the real reason audiences don’t feel the monster’s oppressive presence is simply that the camera compresses the intimidation brought on by its size and appearance.

Much like how most people can kill at will in games but dare not kill even a chicken in real life. In games, they can fight tigers, but in reality, they faint at the sight of one. This has been exemplified in historical tales from China, such as "Ye Gong Hao Long," which is a classic example of such occurrences.

Those who claim they wouldn’t be scared witless by monsters are as ridiculous as those who boast they could wreak havoc on a real battlefield based on their skills in gunfight games.

The oppressive feeling from Wang Ye’s full-fledged potential fermentation was evidently far more terrifying than any tiger or lion,

whether it be the violently bulging veins or the searing aura, or the diamond bone spurs erupting at the joints, they all brought an indescribable sense of intimidation, one rooted deep in the genes,

Wang Ye’s current genetic makeup, in terms of dimensions, already crushed any creature presently on Earth, outpacing any life form by hundreds of millions of years.

Facing such an ultimate evolutionary creature in a state of full potential, even those with the strongest mental fortitude couldn’t help but shiver in fear.

Seeing the men so frightened, Wang Ye withdrew his fermentation metabolism,

his swollen right arm suddenly vented a mass of scorching smoke,

and those terrifying muscles and veins diminished visibly.

In just a few seconds, it transformed from a monstrous arm back to his original slender arm.

But the skin that had been forcibly stretched didn’t completely recover, still bearing some reddish cracks that looked ready to spill blood at any moment,

However, these cracks were actually just in the dermal area,

like stretch marks, they wouldn’t actually bleed,

yet these dermal tears were very hard to heal,

most people would be hard-pressed to recover fully in a lifetime.

But for Wang Ye, it took just a few breaths to recover completely.

He shook his arm, the internal diamond skeleton seemed to have a few cracks, but his body was already mobilizing carbon atoms to repair them.

"It seems the extreme burst of fermentation metabolism still damages the skeleton to some extent..." Wang Ye mumbled to himself.

He thought that at his current strength level, diamonds should be indestructible, but it seemed the hardness wasn’t quite enough.

What he didn’t realize was that high hardness in diamonds didn’t equate to high strength or impact resistance. Diamonds, despite their hardness, also have a certain brittleness, which means they might shatter upon sudden impact.

This is related to their crystal structure; the octahedral structure formed by carbon atoms can easily disintegrate along specific planes under external force, leading to breakage. In terms of compressive strength, diamonds might not be as strong as chromium metal. Similarly, carbon acetylene also has this so-called "brittleness." However, the pressure required to shatter carbon acetylene would be much greater than for diamond.

During Wang Ye’s explosive fermentation metabolism earlier, it was akin to releasing excessive energy in an instant, causing the diamond arm bone to crack.

Fortunately, the diamond’s greatest strength is actually in resisting scratches. The Mohs hardness method, which assesses hardness through scratch depth, positions diamond as the unrivaled leader. In Mohs hardness testing, diamonds are the undisputed champions. And when Wang Ye dug with his nails, the test was more about material resistance to friction than compressive strength.

So the diamond skeleton remains the best choice for Wang Ye, until he synthesizes carbon acetylene, diamond is definitely the most suitable skeletal material for digging.

Meanwhile,

the men, witnessing Wang Ye’s arm return to normal,

their expressions slightly improved,

they glanced at each other for a moment, then asked:

"Wang Ye, your right arm, it’s...?"

"Just muscle congestion." Wang Ye calmly said, "Don’t you guys work out? Don’t your muscles get congested?"

"Muscle congestion?"

The men were dumbfounded. Whose muscle congestion makes them swell from a lanky 1.9-meter frame to become the Hulk? You must have gotten hit by gamma rays!

For ordinary people, muscle congestion might increase the dimensions by a few centimeters, like a 30-centimeter arm circumference swelling to 32 centimeters, or a 90-centimeter chest expanding to 94 centimeters.

But Wang Ye’s arm circumference now seemed to have expanded from an estimated 40 centimeters to 100 centimeters, more than doubling! This couldn’t merely be called muscle congestion; it was more exaggerated than inflating a balloon.