Ashen God

But although it was once again hit directly by the nuclear explosion, it must be said that the energy shield performed much better this time, having just increased its defensive power from 48 times to 125 times.

Therefore, although the ripples and waves on the surface of the energy shield were still very noticeable, it was indeed much better than before. In terms of shield value, the same attack reduced the shield by over twenty thousand last time, but this time it only reduced by about seven thousand.

Although it was still a lot in a sense, fortunately, it was temporarily enough. On average, each fist could only cause a little over one hundred points of damage, which was still within an acceptable range, without needing to further enhance defense urgently.

Incidentally, things like nuclear explosions, while unavoidable when directly faced, Zhang Yanhang can actually use foresight to dodge them in advance.

However, Zhang Yanhang has always been too lazy to use such abilities that come with Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil, as it's not like he's encountering a deadly crisis. If it was, Zhang Yanhang would definitely dodge it, like when the Ancestor Virus Aggregation cheats with Burst Seed to reach Sixth Tier Peak.

But under normal circumstances, like now when the Ancestor Virus Aggregation only has the strength of Sixth Tier Second Star, there's indeed really no need to dodge, since his efforts to improve his defensive power and shield value limit are not in vain.

Although the nuclear fusion burst is still not over, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed when he saw the Ancestor Virus Aggregation outside intent on a third round of nuclear fusion burst; after all, once or twice is enough, he's not here specifically to get bombed but to hunt monsters.

So, Zhang Yanhang immediately punched out, forcibly dispersing the ongoing nuclear fusion burst. Both light radiation and nuclear radiation abruptly stopped, and the surroundings fell into a surreal silence.

Unfortunately, Zhang Yanhang originally intended to unleash an air fist to test whether the blood-colored spiritual light covering the Ancestor Virus Aggregation would have any defensive effect besides attack.

However, the surroundings had already been blasted into a near-vacuum state by the continuous nuclear fusion bursts, leaving only a very small amount of inert gas.

As for oxygen and such, it was consumed entirely in the initial burst, while some other gases were forcibly displaced by the impact of the nuclear blast, and others were directly destroyed.

This explains why Zhang Yanhang's fierce punch was silent, as without a medium for sound transmission, no noise can be made, and without sound transmission, air fists are completely out of the question.

Of course, because a vacuum cannot exist naturally, the surrounding air was rushing in furiously once the nuclear explosion was forcibly extinguished, and soon it would be refilled completely.

At this moment, the Ancestor Virus Aggregation standing on the ground swung dozens of arms to strike, but Zhang Yanhang was already too tired to care about anything else and just wanted to kill the Ancestor Virus Aggregation quickly, so he casually punched repeatedly, directly breaking the attacking arms on the spot.

However, during the attack, Zhang Yanhang indeed felt a bit unusual, because he found that when his fist actually hit the body of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, the damage caused was far lower than he expected, at least reduced by more than half.

Regarding this, Zhang Yanhang felt that it was definitely due to the blood-colored spiritual light layer; he suspected there was an issue before, and now it was confirmed.

However, Zhang Yanhang is unaware of the specific working principle of this blood-colored spiritual light; he only knows it comes from burning divinity, perhaps a special ability automatically acquired after ascending to Divine.

Normally, Zhang Yanhang feels that a normal attack could not only break the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's arm but also pierce through its chest without much trouble, but with the obstruction of blood-colored spiritual light, he could only simply break the arm.

But merely breaking an arm isn't useful, since the Ancestor Virus Aggregation has dozens of arms and can regenerate at super-speed unless all arms are broken in one go; otherwise, it won't stop these arms from defending its chest.

Facing this, Zhang Yanhang decided to counter the Ancestor Virus Aggregation with its own method, immediately manifesting Three-Headed Six-Armed. His entire image instantly transformed as if an Evil God had descended, yet with the tightly wrapped Indestructible Golden Body, he instead appeared more like an angry Guardian God, both majestic and fierce.

Although he had obtained Three-Headed Six-Armed abilities for some time now, this was arguably the first time Zhang Yanhang truly used them during combat, but despite this, he certainly wouldn't have any issues with limb manipulation.

In fact, quite the opposite, Zhang Yanhang was skilled, as it's his own real limbs, how could he not be familiar with them?

Zhang Yanhang unleashed all eight arms at once, striking forward, and when the first punch landed, he felt something was wrong because the body of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation seemed particularly fragile.

But considering the 800% Physical Attack Bonus brought by all eight arms manifested, Zhang Yanhang felt relieved; it seems he might indeed have overestimated the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, perhaps not needing to use Three-Headed Six-Armed, and could have simply used Spiritual Qi Blessing on Strength to forcibly break through the arms' blockade.

At this moment, the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's arms, layered like serpents, tightly sealed off the heart position located at the chest, where its Divine resided.

From the current situation, this should definitely be a weak point, as breaking the Divine would render any regeneration speed of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation useless, causing immediate death.

Possibly the 800% Physical Attack Bonus was too fierce, as Zhang Yanhang's first punch directly broke eight arms, amid a scene of flesh flying and shattered bone fragments, propelling directly towards the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's head.

The massive head of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, dozens of meters tall, was almost defenseless, easily hit by Zhang Yanhang in the face, accompanied by the diffusion of the impact carried by the fist. The skin was forcibly torn at the first moment, followed by the pale and indistinct features being smashed and contorted.

Under such huge impact, the eyes in the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's sockets first protruded noticeably, then were rapidly distorted under the pressure unable to withstand the diffusion of the impact; Zhang Yanhang could distinctly sense the stickiness brought by the large mass of transparent liquid flowing out of the fractured vitreous body from the eye sockets.

After the teeth fractured, nasal cavity collapsed, and eyes shattered, the face of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation could be said to bear no recognizable feature, but Zhang Yanhang's fist continued to advance.

Subsequently, the cheekbones, maxilla, mandible, nasal bone, and frontal bone almost concurrently shattered, and were forcibly compressed against the backward pressing skin and muscle layers, becoming excellent mediators for the transmission of the impact.

Under the effect of the immense impact force, these flesh and blood mixtures are crazily compressing the brain's production space backward.

Yet, the fragile brain couldn't resist or defend with any ability, and could only be directly minced into a pool of brain matter like a meat grinder under the huge impact, then exploded backward, soaring high into the sky along with other flesh mixtures as they broke through the skull.

Watching the Ancestor Virus Aggregation with only a neck left and a chin, Zhang Yanhang did not let his guard down.

As expected, just as anticipated, even though the entire head was almost smashed just now, in the next instant, the jawbone had already begun to regenerate. Human-shaped pale teeth began to erupt like bamboo shoots after rain, while the upper jawbone continued to regenerate.

In almost an instant, the bone part of the head, which had just been smashed, was already fully regenerated, immediately starting the process of brain tissue filling inside.

But Zhang Yanhang could clearly feel that the head was indeed different from other positions like the palm and other areas, with a slower regeneration rate.

Zhang Yanhang had long expected that smashing the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's head wouldn't kill it, after all, previously, the Fifth Tier God of Sun Crotena had already shown some of these qualities.

"It seems that unless its divine power is exhausted, or its divinity is destroyed, the physical weak point is no longer the weakness of a divine being."

Indeed, Zhang Yanhang just wanted to test again, which is why he chose to attack the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's head.

But now that the test results were out, Zhang Yanhang had no more qualms, and his eight arms immediately went on full throttle, relentlessly pounding the body of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation. Due to the fast attack speed, a mass of afterimages appeared, making it seem as if hundreds of arms had suddenly emerged from Zhang Yanhang's body.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Huge sounds of flesh colliding were heard as Zhang Yanhang's fists continuously penetrated through the Ancestor Virus Aggregation's body, but often, the moment his arm was lifted, the opponent had already regenerated.

Though his somewhat fanciful dream of punching through flesh was inexplicably realized to a certain extent, Zhang Yanhang became a little irked after pummeling for several seconds without any response from the Ancestor Virus Aggregation, which even kept using its tentacles for counter-attacks.

Without further ado, Zhang Yanhang kicked it over and continued his assault; the ground continuously shook, and huge fissures began to appear, as though a ten-level earthquake's shockwaves were constantly transmitted through the body of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation onto the ground below it.

Gradually, enormous chasm-like fissures spread rapidly, with towering cliffs hundreds of meters deep appearing.

The ground beneath the Ancestor Virus Aggregation couldn't withstand such intense continuous bombardment and had long since been pounded into an enormous pit, with its inner soil layers forcibly compressed by the impact to the density of steel.

"It truly has a lot of divine power."

After bombarding for nearly half a minute, Zhang Yanhang silently marveled; perhaps he had thrown tens of thousands of punches, but the Ancestor Virus Aggregation still seemed unphased and continued regenerating rapidly.

However, this was just how it appeared on the surface; in reality, according to Zhang Yanhang's scan results, the divinity within the chest of the Ancestor Virus Aggregation was actually on the verge of collapsing due to excessive extraction of divine power.

Meanwhile, the originally raging divine fire had weakened back to a small golden flame as it had been at the start, seemingly ready to extinguish anytime.

During this period, although the Ancestor Virus Aggregation attempted to self-destruct directly, it was prevented by Zhang Yanhang during the brewing stage through quick body destruction and further divine power extraction to block the use of the so-called Magnetic Field Disorder, indeed a self-destruction ultimate skill.

Feeling the Ancestor Virus Aggregation seemed to be at its limit, Zhang Yanhang decided to end its suffering quickly, silently activating Spiritual Qi Blessing, doubling his strength.

By this time, the surrounding environment, which was close to a vacuum, had already been filled by the air rushing in, so each punch swung by Zhang Yanhang formed massive nuclear-explosion-like shock waves spreading outwards.

And due to the combined strike speed of thousands of punches per second with his eight hands, the shockwaves were now almost materialized, continuously spreading out and forming solid wave circles as they swept the ground dust, looking as though the earth suddenly had a heartbeat.

Simultaneously, massive dust was sent high into the air by the shockwaves, forming enormous dust clouds that obscured the sky, expanding constantly every moment as the shockwaves spread and fluctuated.

Due to the extremely high frequency of shockwaves, in just a short moment, it had already covered more than half of the suburbs, wrapping the original sky entirely, leaving only a misty, grayish expanse as if the world had suddenly entered an apocalyptic setting.

But such tangible, incessant high-frequency shockwaves also inevitably caused the pre-existing spreading seismic waves on the ground to further intensify upon conducting onto it.

Therefore, in a brief time, the crust changes were exceedingly severe, with some crustal plates abruptly rising while others abruptly descended.

As for the originally encompassing, continuous mountain ranges, they were now mostly obliterated by the endless high-frequency shockwaves.

Initially shattering into massive chunks of rock, followed by progressive reduction under the impact of subsequent shockwaves, as if in high-speed weathering, shrinking from hundreds of meters to tens, then a few meters, even down to numerous tiny fragments spanning a few centimeters to several centimeters.

Reaching this step, these erstwhile towering mountains were immediately engulfed within the shockwaves, either being carried into the distance, thrust into the skies, or used to fill nearby fissures and depressions under the push of shockwaves.