Chapter 1027: Chapter 555: Beauty and the Skeleton, Just One Punch_2

"Do people like you all say hello this way?"

"Too bad—you picked the wrong person."

Jiang Shu stepped out, golden radiance erupting from his body, endless blood energy surging like a long river piercing the sun.

With just a glance, he knew this woman was definitely one of the ancient freaks.

People like them all carried a kind of domineering, looking-down-on-all stance.

They looked at the new generation of geniuses as if looking at juniors.

Ordinary geniuses naturally might not be a match for this woman.

But before him, even Wind Cloud Prides had broken their spears and fallen!

Without any reply, Jiang Shu struck directly.

Boom!

It was as if heaven and earth were about to explode. One after another, phantoms surged out behind Jiang Shu, clad in golden heavy armor, wielding all manner of weapons. Arcs of lightning flickered around them, condensing into a powerful battle formation that charged toward the woman with the longbow.

"Thunder and Lightning Laws."

"Interesting indeed."

The woman’s voice was cold. Longbow in hand, the instant she drew it, even space itself toppled and began to slow and congeal, actually forming layer upon layer of defensive barriers that kept all the lightning war generals outside.

In the next instant, the woman’s figure suddenly vanished.

Arrow after arrow, without pause, a curtain-like barrage of arrows shot toward Jiang Shu.

The Chaos Thunder Pool manifested. Behind him, thirteen Law Order Origins flared with brilliant light. The thunder pool tilted, blocking all the attacks.

Jiang Shu lightly swung the weapon in his hand. A streak of halberd light flashed out in an instant, cleaving toward a patch of space that showed not the slightest abnormality.

Clang, clang, clang!

The sound of metal clashing rang out.

The woman’s figure appeared along with it.

Suspended before her was a great cauldron, mottled with verdigris, its age unknown. The gentle light it emitted was indestructible; it actually managed to block this lethal strike.

Jiang Shu’s assault was incomparably ferocious. Seeing his blow miss, he began to urge the spatial seals, wanting to cut off all of the woman’s escape routes.

As Jiang Shu rapidly closed in, the woman’s expression grew solemn. She unleashed a Great Technique, trying to escape Jiang Shu’s pursuit.

Before making a move, she had of course already investigated Jiang Shu.

She knew Jiang Shu cultivated the Law of Power, a formidable genius extremely adept at physical combat, able to fight Wind Cloud Prides to a standstill.

In close quarters, even she was far from a match.

Three pairs of light wings beat incessantly behind her back, whipping up vast waves of cloud to block Jiang Shu’s line of sight and conceal herself.

These cloud waves were not simple; they were condensed from Order Rules, also a rare Law Artifact. It seemed to have already birthed Spiritual Wisdom and tried to obstruct Jiang Shu’s advance.

"Parlor tricks, and you dare let them shine?"

Jiang Shu sneered. His pair of golden fists burst with unparalleled Fist Light. With a mere swing, he churned both cloud waves and space, brewing a terrifying might that made hearts tremble and souls quake.

Qi Swallowing Vientiane Fist.

Jiang Shu went all out the moment he struck. Under this punch, an ordinary genius might very well be killed outright.

Even being grazed by the fist wind would take a long time to recover from.

But the woman before him, as an ancient freak who had lived who knew how many years, naturally had many life-preserving methods.

Still, he wanted to see whether this woman’s lifesaving methods were more numerous, or his Slaughter Techniques were!

When she sensed the terrifying might on Jiang Shu’s fist, the woman’s face instantly turned pale. A sapling swayed its branches and leaves within a hundred-zhang of space beneath her feet, rapidly growing. In the blink of an eye it became a towering giant tree, wrapping her within.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to flee, but that she was horrified to discover that no matter where she tried to escape to, Jiang Shu’s fist would still land on her.

That could mean only one thing: in the Space Law, Jiang Shu’s attainments far surpassed hers.

Under the blessing and protection of many Laws, the space of this Secret Realm had become incomparably solid. Even ancient freaks or Supreme Geniuses might not be able to shatter it.

Yet under Jiang Shu’s punch, this incomparably solid space was like glass struck by a great hammer—easily smashed apart. The hard Divine Wood blocking his front exploded into countless splinters, and the powerful impact surged along the trunk toward the woman at the center.

"Puff!"

The Divine Wood withered at incredible speed, and the woman’s figure was once again exposed before Jiang Shu.

Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth. Her face was ashen, her body trembling—she was clearly heavily injured.

Just one punch had inflicted extremely serious wounds on this woman. Her five vital organs churned violently, and half her body had almost been crushed by a single blow.

However, Jiang Shu had not the slightest intention of pitying the fairer sex. He stepped forward and unleashed another punch.

After crossing hands with a Wind Cloud Pride, his understanding of the Law of Power had risen another level.

In addition, he had the Panwu Great Strength Dao Book. Verifying both against each other, though his Realm had not advanced, his combat strength had increased by more than just a notch.

"I admit defeat, I admit defeat!"

Seeing this, the woman’s expression turned to panic. She hurriedly waved her hand to indicate she had already surrendered, asking Jiang Shu to pull back his fist.

"Which faction are you from, and why did you attack me?"

"Boom!"

Jiang Shu’s Fist Light remained razor-sharp, with not the slightest intent of pulling back. His voice rang out, and even the surrounding space seemed to solidify under it.

"I heard you’re very powerful, that even Bei Jue is thinking of marrying into your line. So I wanted to come take a look at you..."

The woman’s face changed. She abruptly manifested a phantom body and forcibly took Jiang Shu’s blow in its place.

Her true body quickly opened up some distance. After only a few exchanges, the look she gave Jiang Shu was already filled with dread.

Jiang Shu remained unmoved. He stepped forward and kept punching.

Since she had made a move, she should be prepared to be beaten to death!

"You... you’re really going for the kill!"

The woman’s voice shook. She had originally wanted to suppress Jiang Shu and make him her vassal, but now it seemed this Jiang Shu was even stronger and more terrifying than the rumors.

Her beauty was coveted by who knew how many in the Star Ruins Realm.

But in Jiang Shu’s eyes, she was like a powdered skull.

Go!

Without the slightest hesitation, she gritted her teeth. Streams of light burst from her body as she fled into a rift she tore open in the space behind her.

She had no doubt that if she hesitated for even a moment, Jiang Shu’s fist would descend again.

"Every ancient freak has extremely high-level life-saving means. The Star Ruins Realm truly is different from the Cang Mang Domain. If this were the Cang Mang Domain, even a True Inheritor absolutely couldn’t display such speed."

Jiang Shu drew back his fist and stood still, not giving chase.

Although he was confident he could catch up and cut down this nameless genius,

right now the finals and finding the area where the mist was cut off were more important.

His aura gradually subsided. Jiang Shu stepped forward one step at a time, as if strolling in the Void, but his spiritual power was spreading out in all directions.

Searching for places where the mist thinned.

Among the thousand geniuses, naturally there were some who shared the same idea as Jiang Shu.

They all traversed the Void, one Sky Escape Technique after another deployed.

"Shoo!" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"Shoo!"

"Shoo!"

These geniuses were not blinded by the minor opportunities on the boundless seawater and sped toward more distant places.

No one knew how long they flew.

A vast Abyss slowly came into view.

The Abyss was bottomless, and scattered Supreme Geniuses and ancient freaks had already arrived, probing its surroundings.

"Your Highness!"

A figure flashed over to Jiang Shu’s side, pleasantly surprised.

It was a genius of the Jiuyu Commerce Alliance, who had just stepped into the Tenth Realm.

His condition was not good; it seemed he’d been injured in the preliminaries.

"This is where the finals will be. Restore your condition first."

Jiang Shu waved his hand and took out two stalks of Treasure Medicine. These were given to him by the Business Association, asking him to look after the other geniuses of the Alliance in the Deep Space Sea.

"Many thanks, Your Highness."

This genius wasn’t exactly lacking such things; it was just that the situation wasn’t stable yet, and he didn’t dare casually pick a place to recuperate.

Fortunately, Jiang Shu had arrived.