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Boom! Boom!

Powerful bursts of light swept across the street, shattering a building. The One-Armed Crab's gigantic claw was frantically waving, having already turned the whole street into rubble.

In the sky, eight figures were joining forces to deal with this One-Armed Crab!

All eight were at the Meridian Opening stage, martial artists who had rushed over from nearby to help.

"The weak point of the One-Armed Crab is its eyes!"

Kong Daming stood on a building that had been half destroyed, shouting to the others. Enjoy exclusive content from My Virtual Library Empire

Just moments ago, he had been in the kitchen checking the ingredients when he heard the commotion and ran out, only to find his shop destroyed. Normally, desolate beasts were dealt with quickly, and he didn't mind, but he hadn't expected this slain desolate beast to come back to life.

Formerly a pioneer, although retired, Kong Daming, seeing the desolate beast wreak havoc, didn't hesitate and rushed over to help Lu Hong fight the creature.

"There's something wrong with this One-Armed Crab! Why does it have the strength of midterm Meridian Opening?" Chen Xiuqin said gravely.

She had been doing a customer's hair at the hair salon when the desolate beast suddenly appeared, and she too rushed out to fight alongside her husband to protect the area.

The other five at the Meridian Opening stage, like Kong Daming, stood up to fight the desolate beast together, all S-class Awakeners who happened to be nearby. As martial artists, it was their undeniable duty to resist the desolate beasts.

"Never mind for now, let's join forces and kill it first!" Lu Hong called out.

Actually, there were quite a few S-class System Awakeners in this area, at least forty or fifty, but, like Lu Zhiwei, about a dozen of them were still late-stage Qi-Controlling students, and among the twenty-plus remaining S-class Awakeners, only a few had combat capabilities.

In a society dominated by literary Dao, each year, half of the S-class Awakeners chose literary Dao because it allowed them to achieve fame and live comfortably without resorting to violence.

Normally, in this kind of inland city, there's no need for martial power; desolate beasts are hardly ever encountered, so most S-class literary Daoists are elite professionals in various industries, but they are completely clueless when facing desolate beasts.

They have no experience fighting desolate beasts at all; even if their cultivation had reached the Meridian Opening stage, they could only run in fright or use their system abilities to evacuate the masses, with very limited actions at their disposal!

When a formidable desolate beast caused chaos in the residential areas of the city, the only S-class martial artists who could stand up to it were these eight!

However, with the addition of the others, Lu Hong felt much less pressure.

"You guys distract it! I'll attack!" Lu Hong said to the others.

This One-Armed Crab was very strange, with extremely high defensive power; he couldn't kill it alone, so he needed the help of Kong Daming and Chen Xiuqin to cover him while he took the lead in attacking.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The white fur on the One-Armed Crab's sharp legs suddenly fell off, transforming into a sharp spike that shot towards them!

One of the Meridian Opening martial artists saw the white spikes coming and clasped his hands together, Spiritual Power surging from his palms, creating a solid steel wall in the air, shielding everyone.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

The wall of condensed steel blocked some of the white spikes, but the remaining spikes continued towards the others.

"Hide behind me!"

Chen Xiuqin jumped up high, standing in the front. She calmly faced the incoming white spikes, her hair suddenly unraveling and each strand bending forward, pointing straight ahead.

Hum!

Each strand of her hair turned into a black snake!

The green eyes of these black snakes met the white spikes, and the spikes struck by the green light from the snake's eyes turned directly into stone!

As a pioneer, Chen Xiuqin's most powerful ability was—Medusa's Gaze!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Two golden scissors appeared in the air, which sharply cut through the petrified white spikes.

The One-Armed Crab looked extremely furious, roaring as a large swath of flames enveloped it, blurring its vision. Lu Hong turned into a streak of light and hammered his fist directly into the eyes of the One-Armed Crab, smashing its eyes to pieces!

Bang!

The gigantic One-Armed Crab fell again, crushing a row of buildings.

"Thank goodness, even though its defense and strength were stronger, luckily, it was only midterm Meridian Opening," Kong Daming breathed a sigh of relief.

However, no sooner had he spoken than the fallen One-Armed Crab suddenly started rustling, and many small crabs appeared. These small crabs reassembled and once again formed into a gigantic One-Armed Crab.

Not only that, the aura on the One-Armed Crab crazily surged, rising to late-stage Meridian Opening!

Everyone's faces changed drastically!

"How did it become stronger?" Chen Xiuqin asked in amazement.

The difficulty of dealing with the One-Armed Crab when it was just at midterm Meridian Opening was already significant, and they had barely managed to kill it through their combined effort, but unexpectedly, after dying, the One-Armed Crab revived and even advanced to late-stage Meridian Opening!

The surge of energy shocked all eight martial artists present.

Lu Hong was also surprised. Although he was a martial artist, his awakened ability was the "S-rank Investigation System." He usually dealt with criminals rather than desolate beasts. Now that he finally encountered one, it was under such bizarre circumstances!

But not even the couple Kong Daming, who had originally pursued the career of pioneers, could explain this situation.

At that moment, the One-Armed Crab, raising its pincers to the sky, unleashed a ferocious aura and charged at them again!

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In the sewers, Xiang Beifei was still crouched on the Ronin Sword, pondering over the heart.

Creak creak creak!

After the heart was removed, the small crabs that had originally intended to rejoin the big crab's body began to lose their leader and fell apart, buzzing around aimlessly for a while before they lay motionless on the ground, seemingly dead.

Xiang Beifei ignored these small crabs and looked doubtfully at the Beast Pill he had extracted from the heart.

To be precise, it wasn't one Beast Pill, but two!

This One-Armed Crab had two Beast Pills inside its body?

Xiang Beifei had never anticipated such a situation.

It is impossible for a normal desolate beast to have two Beast Pills.

He did know of a desolate beast called the "Twin-Tiger Wraith," composed of a tiger and a white ghost. They normally acted independently, each hunting its own prey. They were special because the Beast Pill could be transferred between the tiger and the wraith.

That is to say, if the tiger was mortally wounded, its Beast Pill would quickly transfer to the wraith and vice versa.

But even these dual-natured desolate beasts had only one Beast Pill.

So why did the One-Armed Crab have two Beast Pills?

Xiang Beifei carefully identified them, and he quickly recognized one of the white Beast Pills as a legitimate late-stage Qi-Controlling pill, which meant it belonged to the One-Armed Crab.

But the other Beast Pill was at the late stage of Meridian Opening!

"What's the deal with this Meridian Opening-stage Beast Pill?"

Even Xiang Beifei, who had a solid grasp of Desolate Beast Studies, found this situation beyond his understanding!

"Wait! If that's the case… this is not good."

Something came to Xiang Beifei's mind, and he instantly turned around and sped back the way he had come!

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The street had turned into a pile of ruins, unrecognizable from the bustling city area it was just half an hour ago. It looked as though it had been bombed, terribly ravaged.

"Everyone together! Attack from different directions!"

Lu Hong, the highest skilled among them, took the lead, attracting the One-Armed Crab's attention. Rapid Flame burst into intense light, his entire being ablaze with Spiritual Power, as he punched towards the crab's eyes.

The One-Armed Crab shifted its eyes to the side, dodging Lu Hong's fireball. It raised a jade-white leg, its sharp crab leg swiftly stabbing at Lu Hong, who dodged and tried to use it as leverage to leap upwards.

However, sharp white bristles suddenly stood up on the crab's leg, like fine needles, piercing through Lu Hong's palm!

"Hiss!"

Lu Hong gasped in pain, his form faltering as he uttered a low cry.

He hadn't anticipated this development; just moments ago, his Spiritual Power had been enough to shield him from the spikes, but the resurrected crab's white spikes had powerfully escalated, and this time he couldn't block them!

Whoosh!

Seeing that its spikes had penetrated Lu Hong's palm, the One-Armed Crab swiftly swung its sharp pincers like a giant cutting machine, clamping down towards Lu Hong's body.

If he were caught, Lu Hong would surely be bisected!

Lu Hong suddenly shouted, flames circling him in a fiery shield, catching the huge pincers temporarily. But they quickly shattered his shield.

However, this brief delay allowed Lu Hong a moment to send a punch flying, sweeping his foot from the tough crab leg with a massive surge of Spiritual Power.

Agonizing pain shot from his palm, but Lu Hong couldn't afford to be reckless, narrowly dodging the giant pincer at a precarious moment!

He quickly landed on the remains of a shattered building wall, looking down at his foot, wrapped in a strange white mist that was drilling up his body through his Qi vessels.

Lu Hong's face turned pale. He hastily used his Spiritual Power to fight the toxin and sealed his wound, but the poison began to spread inside him, causing his Spiritual Power to become chaotic.