Chapter 186: Chapter 186: White Ape Transformation

Deep within the Black Water River, dark currents surged, and the chill was bone-piercing.

Yin Zhao was now completely transformed. His limbs were covered in blue-black scales, and the webbing between his fingers was stretched taut. Every stroke of his arms stirred up a violent whirlpool.

Like a startled water lizard, he frantically darted through the murky river, leaving a long, pale wake of bubbles in his trail caused by his extreme speed.

Less than a hundred feet behind him, Su Yu’s expression was cold, his body enveloped in a faint Water-Resistant Air Membrane.

As his Bibo Fish Dragon Skill circulated, his spine rippled like a great dragon. He seemed to transform into an agile flying fish, effortlessly cutting through the immense water pressure and sticking to Yin Zhao’s tail!

One fled while the other pursued. Their speeds were incredible, churning up the riverbed and turning everything upside down.

A cluster of jagged reefs blocked the path ahead. Without dodging, Yin Zhao simply rammed into it with brute force.

BOOM!

A muffled explosion erupted in the water, and the resulting shockwave instantly spread out for hundreds of feet.

The hard, black rock of the reef was smashed to pieces. Countless fragments shot through the water like shrapnel, and along with the churning mud and sand, they made the area even murkier.

In the next moment, two figures burst through the cloud of sand, swift as startled geese. One in front and one behind, they shot off into the distance.

Wherever the two figures passed underwater, countless fish scattered in terror!

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During the chase, Su Yu’s Bibo Fish Dragon Skill Skill Level continuously increased.

[Bibo Fish Dragon Skill Skill Level +10]

[Bibo Fish Dragon Skill Skill Level +10]

[Martial Arts]: Bibo Fish Dragon Skill (First Layer) (Skilled 1350/1500)

As his Fish Dragon Skill gradually improved, he was on the verge of breaking through to the Minor Success Realm. His swimming speed also grew faster and faster.

Ahead, Yin Zhao’s expression grew increasingly grim. He had "deified" into an aquatic lizard dragon, yet he still couldn’t shake this damn guy off his tail.

Moreover, his internal injuries were worsening as he pushed his Qi and Blood to their limits to escape. He was on the verge of collapse!

A look of grim determination and venomous hatred flashed in Yin Zhao’s eyes.

"Su Yu, you forced my hand!"

The next moment, he pulled an ink-black pill from a leather pouch at his waist, gritted his teeth, and swallowed it in one gulp.

As the pill entered his stomach, his eyeballs bulged and became bloodshot, turning into two crimson lamps. A powerful aura surged from within him, and the pain from his injured organs, muscles, and bones vanished.

The Divine Mystery Pill!

This pill could overdraft one’s life potential, forcefully suppressing injuries and demonizing the body.

However, its effects would last for one hour at most. After the pill wore off, his body would fall into a state of collapse from depleted vital essence and blood.

At that time, he would have to return to his clan and recuperate in the blood pool to have any chance of survival!

"One hour is all I need to kill you!"

The next instant, Yin Zhao abruptly stopped in the water. He watched Su Yu catch up, opened his mouth, and let out an inhuman roar.

Then, a series of explosive cracks echoed from within him as his bones shifted. His already transformed body swelled again, blue-black scales grew frantically, and blade-like Bone Spikes shot out from his fingertips. A terrifying, heart-stopping aura forcefully pushed the surrounding water back three feet!

’This aura... he’s already touched the threshold of the Late-stage of the Flesh Refining Realm?’

Su Yu hovered nearby. Although his Five Senses Divine was limited underwater, he still keenly detected the wild, out-of-control fluctuations of his opponent’s Qi and Blood.

’Is he gambling with his life?’

There was not a trace of panic on Su Yu’s face.

’Now that we’re in the depths of the Black Water River with no one around, I can finally let loose and have a good fight.’

The next instant, Yin Zhao moved.

Having taken the Divine Mystery Pill, his speed had surged by thirty percent! In the dim depths, he was like a ferocious deep-sea predator, instantly becoming a blur as he circled Su Yu in a frenzied attack.

SHIIIIINK!

The water was violently torn apart.

Yin Zhao appeared behind Su Yu like a ghost, his webbed, hook-like claws stirring up a massive current as they stabbed toward Su Yu’s back!

"Fish Scale Shock!"

Su Yu reacted instantly. His Qi and Blood erupted, causing the water around him to vibrate at a high frequency.

HUMMM!

A visible ripple exploded outward, causing Yin Zhao’s claw attack to falter for a moment.

Seizing that brief opening, Su Yu kicked his legs like a fishtail and slipped away.

But Yin Zhao’s Qi and Blood was currently as wild as a dragon’s, and his combat instincts were terrifying. As soon as his first strike missed, his thick, spiked tail whipped around, lashing through the water like a steel whip!

"Wave-Piercing Stab!"

Su Yu’s expression was calm as he clasped his hands together like a blade to meet the attack.

BANG!

The two forces collided in the water, erupting in a huge splash of white foam.

Underwater, Yin Zhao’s current strength was astonishing. Su Yu felt a colossal force strike him, sending him flying backward.

’So, it seems I can’t beat him like this.’

Using the force of the recoil, Su Yu shot toward the surface like an arrow loosed from a bow.

SPLASH!

With a great spray of water, Su Yu burst out of the river.

TAP! TAP! TAP!

He activated Seven Fiends Thunder Collapse Step. Treading on the water’s surface as if walking on waves, he skimmed across at extreme speed, reaching a distant mangrove shoal in the blink of an eye.

"Where do you think you’re going?!"

Behind him, a massive wave exploded into the sky.

Yin Zhao burst out of the water right behind him. Running on all fours like a giant lizard, he sprinted across the water’s surface at an astonishing speed.

"Brat! You think you can survive just by getting on land?"

"I could crush an ant like you with ease right now!"

Yin Zhao laughed sinisterly as he charged into the mangroves, his eyes filled with cruel delight as he looked at Su Yu, who had stopped up ahead.

"Daring to chase me all by yourself... you’re one arrogant kid. You thought you could hunt me down just because I was injured?"

In the mangrove forest, Su Yu slowly turned around.

He looked at the dripping, inhuman monster, his expression placid.

"Fleeing? You’ve misunderstood."

Su Yu slowly raised his head. A stream of dark gold light now shone in his once-pitch-black eyes.

"I just wanted to find a more spacious place... to kill you."

"White Ape Transformation!"

BOOM!

An ancient, boundless, and utterly domineering aura erupted from within Su Yu!

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

Su Yu’s height instantly shot up, his figure becoming taller and more slender, like a perfectly sculpted statue of Gold proportions.

His skin turned a deep, dark gold, as if his entire body had been plated. His black hair instantly grew out, cascading down to his waist like a waterfall and dancing wildly despite the lack of wind.

At this moment, Su Yu no longer seemed human, but rather a primordial White Ape demon god!

"What!"

Seeing Su Yu’s body change, Yin Zhao looked as if he had seen a ghost.

"You... you... how can you deify too? No, no, this isn’t deification. You don’t have divine blood or a Cultivation Technique, how is this possible!"

"It’s fake! It must be fake, just some cheap trick! I’ll test it myself and see how many of my blows you can withstand!"

"ROAR!"

Yin Zhao fell into a frenzy, the ground beneath his feet exploding to form a large crater. He leaped high into the air, and using the momentum of his descent, his giant, transformed claw came smashing down toward Su Yu’s head with a piercing shriek!

This strike gathered all his Qi and Blood, a vow to smash this trickster brat into a pulp!

A bloodthirsty glint flashed in Su Yu’s dark golden pupils. At this moment, the rampaging Qi and Blood and the frenzied will to fight inside him could no longer be suppressed.

"Too weak."

Su Yu clenched his right fist.

There were no extraneous movements, just a simple, straightforward punch.

BOOM!

Fist met claw.

There was no stalemate.

Su Yu’s iron fist, gleaming with a dark golden luster, shattered Yin Zhao’s claw with the force of a landslide, broke his forearm, and finally slammed viciously into his skull!

SPLAT!

With a muffled thud like a watermelon bursting.

Yin Zhao’s head was directly blown apart in mid-air! A spray of red and white matter flew everywhere. He didn’t even have time to scream.

One punch, a headshot!

The headless corpse flew over a hundred feet from the inertia, crashing heavily to the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust before falling completely still.

At the same time, a wisp of red baleful energy flew from the corpse and entered the space between Su Yu’s eyebrows.

’He’s dead already?’

Su Yu retracted his fist. A tyrannical red light flashed in his eyes as he looked at the corpse on the ground.

It seemed the White Ape Transformation brought not only power but also ferocity and a will to fight. A strong desire for destruction churned in his chest, making him want to tear apart everything in sight!

"Trash!"

Su Yu strode forward, grabbed Yin Zhao’s massive headless corpse, and ripped the leather pouch from its waist, tossing it aside.

Then, like swinging a ragged sack,

SLAM! SLAM! SLAM!

he smashed it violently against the ground until it was reduced to a pile of mush.

’Still not enough!’

The violent energy inside him was not yet spent. Su Yu spun around and charged into the nearby mangrove forest.

CRACK! SNAP! BOOM!

In the blink of an eye, a large swath of the mangrove forest broke like rotten wood under his fists. An area hundreds of feet across was razed to the ground, a scene of utter devastation!

Only then did Su Yu feel the destructive urge within him subside a little. He quickly suppressed the desire and deactivated his White Ape Transformation.

"Hah... Hah..."

As the transformation ended, a familiar wave of hunger washed over him, though it was much better than the after-effects of the Violent Ape Blood Fury.

Su Yu didn’t dare delay. He quickly took a sixty-year-old wild ginseng from his own leather pouch and devoured it in a few bites, crunching on it like a carrot.

As the immense medicinal power entered his stomach, the feeling of hunger finally eased slightly.

[Breakthrough Progress +2%]

[Breakthrough Progress +2%]

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’Not bad. It can even contribute to my Breakthrough Progress. This means my body has some excess energy right now and doesn’t need all of this nourishment.’

’It’s mainly because that Yin Zhao was too weak. The White Ape Transformation only lasted for a moment, so it didn’t consume much energy. If I had faced a strong enemy, it might have been a different story.’

Su Yu wiped the ginseng residue from the corner of his mouth and looked at the pile of gore on the ground.

’Then again, it’s not that he was weak, but that my power increase is truly terrifying. A mid-stage Flesh Refining Realm transformed Martial Artist, whose strength had already touched the threshold of the late-stage, was killed by my punch in a single instant!’

After resting for another moment, Su Yu walked over to the deerskin pouch. ’Let’s see what spoils of war this Yin Zhao left behind!’