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Xiang Beifei fell into a deep pit, which seemed to have once been a sewer. The city's drainage system was very comprehensive, and the sewer was quite large, so a person could walk through it without any problem.

"What on earth is this thing?"

The more Xiang Beifei walked, the more he felt that something was amiss, the fluctuation below growing stronger.

Plop! Plop! Plop!

Because the water pipes had burst, a lot of water was gushing from the ground. Every step he took splashed water, making a loud noise, so Xiang Beifei simply took out his Ronin Sword, squatted on it, and then proceeded slowly through the passage on the flying sword.

The passages below were crisscrossed, like a labyrinth, growing darker and darker the further one went. Strangely, there seemed to be not even a single rat or cockroach in this place.

Normally, sewers are a paradise for rats, and typically, one should expect to be startled by the squeaking and scurrying of rats behind them every few steps.

But there was nothing.

Rats seemed to have become extinct, not even bones were left.

The farther he walked, the dimmer his vision became. Fortunately, Xiang Beifei's eyesight was quite good, and he could still vaguely see; meanwhile, the eerie aura was becoming stronger and stronger, likely nearby.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

In the passage to the left, there seemed to be something strange moving rapidly.

Judging by the footsteps, there appeared to be many things.

Xiang Beifei quickly turned around, squatting on his sword to face the other direction, his speed extremely fast, no slower than the shadows in the darkness.

The aura seemed to be fleeing the place, and at this moment, Xiang Beifei couldn't be bothered to hide anymore. Since the other party had already discovered him, it was better to confront them directly.

Whoosh!

Flames lit up on his fist and sped through the air, chasing forward rapidly and soon illuminating the dark passage. Just then, he saw several shadows flash by at a corner!

Xiang Beifei immediately turned the corner and at the turn ahead, he found a collapsed passage. The route was blocked, and he had cornered his opponent. With the aid of the fire's glow, he could soon see clearly what was in front of him.

Then, he suddenly furrowed his brows.

It was a One-Armed Crab.

But what was strange was that it emanated an eerie red glow all over its body, especially its eyes, which seemed mutated and were abnormally protruding, with trickles of black blood flowing within, constantly dripping down.

This desolate beast was less than a meter long, its aura surging wildly, yet it exuded a sense of death as if it had entered its twilight years, with little will to live, its life force seemingly leaking away continuously.

"There are desolate beasts down here too?"

Xiang Beifei became alert, but he soon noticed this one-armed crab seemed different from the others; beneath it was a huge white belly ball from which many baby one-armed crabs were crawling out, seemingly devouring the life force from its body, and gradually, they too were becoming stronger.

In other dark corners of the sewer, more tiny one-armed crabs were crawling towards it, clinging to the old crab, their origin unknown.

Xiang Beifei's spiritual power spread out, enveloping the whole area in its grasp.

One-armed crabs are a type of edible desolate beast, which means they are allowed within the borders of Jiuzhou, perhaps this desolate beast was lucky enough to survive in the kitchen of a restaurant and escaped below, hiding in the sewers ever since.

But the question was, why did this one-armed crab look so formidable?

Ordinarily, a one-armed crab with at most Qi-Controlling late-stage cultivation now clearly possessed the strength of Meridian Opening mid-stage. Even though it was now weak with age, its aura remained profound.

However, it did not attack Xiang Beifei, probably because it was too old to move, and it couldn't even lift its massive claw.

It didn't take long for Xiang Beifei to detect that within the body of this old, dying one-armed crab, there were two strange types of auras circulating, seemingly interfering with it. This aura clearly did not belong to the one-armed crab desolate beast, and if Xiang Beifei had to describe it, it resembled the aura of other desolate beasts, mixed into the one-armed crab's own.

The old one-armed crab's aura became increasingly weak, as if something was drawing upon its power as a source; its protruding eyes seemed filled with pain, and one of them was already drooping down.

"Pupu!"

The one-armed crab emitted a pained lament, trying to move, but its life seemed to have reached its end. The red light on its body dimmed, and its vitality began to fade, while the baby one-armed crabs nearby started to become restless and scurried everywhere.

The tiny hermit crabs seemed to lack combat power, and they had no intention of attacking Xiang Beifei, merely wanting to escape the place; however, the area was sealed by Xiang Beifei's spiritual power. Realizing they couldn't escape, they started piling up together.

At that moment, the dying one-armed crab's body surprisingly began showing fissures—but Xiang Beifei quickly realized they weren't fissures. It was a bizarre reconstitution. The old crab's shell split into many small crabs that joined with those already scattered around.

As the small crabs clumped together, they reconstituted into a large white crab that seemed to be bursting with new life. Its aura strengthened continuously!

In just the blink of an eye, it had already reconstituted by half! The monstrous crab spread its claws, flaunting them threateningly at Xiang Beifei, its previously drooping eyes now bristled with sinister red light, becoming incredibly aggressive.

"Kaka!"

The one-armed crab's mouth snapped open and closed nonstop, its aura becoming even more robust, climbing towards a Meridian Opening late-stage trend.

Was it regenerating? And getting stronger?

Xiang Beifei's gaze grew even more puzzled; he never knew one-armed crabs had such strange mutative abilities.

Shua!

The one-armed crab reached out with its claw towards Xiang Beifei.

It carried a very powerful aura. As a desolate beast of Meridian Opening late-stage, its attack was incredibly fast. In its eyes, this weak human was no match for it. It needed but a mere thought to tear this human in half!

The one-armed crab's eyes gleamed fiercely, and just as its claw was about to seize Xiang Beifei, to assert its dominance—

Crack!

Its massive claw suddenly halted mid-air!

Shock flickered in the brutal eyes of the One-Arm Crab, unable to resist glancing at its own imposing pincer, which could even snip through steel, but now couldn't move forward even an inch!

Xiang Beifei extended his finger to knock on the One-Arm Crab's large pincer, producing a "clang clang" sound.

"Quite sturdy," he praised.

The One-Arm Crab was furious!

This ignorant human actually dared to scorn it!

It made a "puff puff" sound from its mouth, as if filled with resentment, trying to muster all its strength to break through the obstruction and then tear this arrogant human to shreds!

The One-Arm Crab exerted all its power—

"Puff?"

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Xiang Beifei had been wary of this One-Arm Crab all along. How could he simply wait for a desolate beast, with its aura rapidly increasing, to complete reassembling its body before coming after him?

Long before it had finished reassembling, Beifei had silently scattered the breath soil, turning it into fine dust, blending into the One-Arm Crab's body.

That meant the One-Arm Crab's meridians were filled with all sorts of breath soil!

"Advanced Meridian Opening stage is indeed impressive," Xiang Beifei shrugged his shoulders and added, "But that's about it."

He snapped his fingers lightly!

Pop!

The massive claw of the One-Arm Crab suddenly dropped off on its own, falling to the ground!

The crucial claw was gone!

Clearly, it too was stunned!

How could its most powerful weapon just disappear like that?

In utter shock, the One-Arm Crab couldn't help but look at the joint from which it had fallen. The broken joint was covered in grains of sand dust, which acted like saw teeth, cutting it from the inside out!

Despite having the strength of the advanced stages of Meridian Opening and very strong bodily defenses, the problem was—no matter how strong the defense, it was just a tough shell, fragile on the inside!

"I feel like you don't quite resemble a One-Arm Crab," Xiang Beifei mused as he looked at the strange desolate beast before him.

He snapped his fingers again!

Pop! Pop! Pop!

All eight legs of the One-Arm Crab dropped off on their own, leaving only the round, plump body that looked succulent and juicy.

The body of the crab fell to the ground, splashing water everywhere, swaying from side to side as if it were a roly-poly toy.

"Puff Puff!"

It spat out a series of white bubbles from its mouth, as if groaning in pain. The detached legs appeared to be driven by some force, splitting into individual smaller crabs, which began to aggregate and climb onto the legless One-Arm Crab's body, continuing to shape its body!

Xiang Beifei didn't bother with it; he just squatted on the Ronin Sword, observing these One-Arm Crabs.

After the One-Arm Crab had finally managed to reassemble its body and felt ready to restore its former glory, preparing to tear the ignorant human before it into a thousand pieces—

Pop!

Its large pincer and all eight legs broke off again!

The round crab body once again fell to the ground, swaying once more.

"You can assemble however you like; if you can pinch me even once, I lose," Xiang Beifei said as he squatted down to observe the large crab on the ground. He controlled the breath soil roaming inside the crab's body and quickly identified something abnormal within it.

The large crab wanted to reassemble yet again, but this time, Xiang Beifei waved his hand, and the breath soil inside the crab's body instantly coalesced, peeling open the crab's shell. He rummaged inside for a moment and soon discovered a heart that was still throbbing vigorously!

This heart was odd, emitting a bizarre red glow and was as big as two fists. He had attended desolate beast dissection classes in his first year of university, and Xu Yang had also dissected the heart of a One-Armed Crab during his course, and it wasn't like this; instead, it was white, with the One-Arm Crab's Beast Pill wrapped inside the white heart.

Yet, the heart of this particular One-Arm Crab was clearly mutated.

Without any hesitation, Xiang Beifei's palm turned into a blade as he chopped down, excavating the red heart!

He looked at the red heart in his hand, which was severely deformed, but just by looking at the heart, he couldn't discern which desolate beast it belonged to, but it was definitely not a hermit crab's heart.

The red heart was still throbbing in Xiang Beifei's hand, and he emitted a sharp burst of light from his fingertips, slicing open the heart to reveal its contents.

"How can this be?"

He quickly furrowed his brow.