Getting Stronger By Fighting-Chapter 489 Challenge_1

It was almost here...

Here it was...

As expected.

After Wang Zhan had waited for nearly another thirty seconds, a reckless and unabashed voice finally echoed from the dark clouds, cackling sinisterly, "Kid, you had a chance at life! But you refused the road to Heaven and insisted on barging into Hell. Then don’t blame me for turning you into my next meal... KEKEKE!"

A ghastly laugh that seemed to emanate from Hell, representing death and silence, spread incessantly.

At this moment, the earth became deserted again. Among the adversaries, only Wang Zhan and the obviously dominant giant snake remained. One man and one snake, both were powerful beings at the Martial Emperor Realm. They faced each other without reservation in the wilderness, less than 150 kilometers from Quan State City. However, no one knew, and no one could witness.

This time, it was one man and one snake. The prelude to an all-out battle, with no reservations, was unfolding between these two powerful beings, both at the royal level on the Martial Arts Path.

This battle was not about winning or losing; however, it could determine life or death.

So, they no longer needed external attention. Their actions alone could serve as the curtain rising on a war!

This was a true emperor, an emperor of martial arts! With the power of a single individual, they could look down upon all beings. Their aura surged to an unprecedented height, almost peerless, naturally indomitable!

After the giant snake finished speaking, Wang Zhan, who was already itching for a fight, also began to laugh—a similar sinister cackle.

"KEKEKE, then let me see what capabilities you, a royal-level beast of the Beast Clan, truly possess!"

Compared to the giant snake’s laughter, Wang Zhan’s was undoubtedly far more immature, not even half as potent.

But for some reason, the moment Wang Zhan laughed, a nameless anger quietly surged in the giant snake’s heart—without cause, without basis. It simply felt its heart fill with utter disgust for this completely unreserved Wang Zhan.

So, the giant snake’s expression instantly turned grim. No one knew why it stopped laughing, but its voice carried clearly.

"Since you’re courting death, don’t blame me for being merciless! A mere young genius, relying on a few martial arts, dares to provoke me? Didn’t your family ever warn you to show at least basic respect to a Martial Emperor?"

Wang Zhan wasn’t annoyed; he just laughed heartily. This incredibly foolish beast. He had clearly broken one of its tails, yet it still hadn’t discerned his true strength and even remained arrogant.

So, from that one sentence alone, Wang Zhan realized a crucial point—one that might even allow him to turn defeat into victory: this creature’s mental energy clone definitely possessed an unparalleled flaw! Furthermore, the previous giant snake was perhaps also just one of this creature’s clones. But the critical issue was that their sensations weren’t shared. Instead, they were like separate individuals who, aside from their appearances, had entirely different minds and ideas, each thinking for itself. In other words, this type of clone-related martial art could naturally create one flesh-and-blood clone after another. Wang Zhan recalled that just moments ago, this creature should have swallowed about thirty-odd King-level beasts...

Therefore, Wang Zhan logically further downplayed the lingering impact from his previous battle with the giant snake, becoming increasingly composed.

"So what? Even though I’m not an emperor, you might not necessarily gain any advantage. Since we’ve met, let’s settle this with our skills. Let’s see if you lose or I win, HAHAHA..."

Meanwhile, Wang Zhan once again boldly formed a hypothesis based on the earlier clues and attempted to verify it. What if this giant snake’s clone was, in essence, formed from the flesh and blood of those innocent, unjustly killed victims? If so, it would explain why its bloodline talent could achieve such a miraculous feat as creating a flesh-and-blood clone out of thin air.

One should know, even the flesh-and-blood clone Wang Zhan later created for the mad man in the Ming State Underground City after his breakthrough, using monster flesh and blood, actually had its limits and required continuous replenishment. But this didn’t prevent Wang Zhan from then on possessing an excellent life-saving skill: at a critical moment, he could simply send his self-created flesh-and-blood clone to its death to buy himself time. Anyway, those substitutes suffering in his stead, whether emotionally or physically, were, in reality, just tools for Wang Zhan! Just like this trip to the Federal Prison, the mad man, despite his reluctance, was still herded into the prison by Wang Zhan.

Of course, with this realization, the value of the giant snake’s bloodline talent naturally plummeted in Wang Zhan’s mind, no longer seeming so mysterious! But, rather than it being something mysterious, Wang Zhan clearly leaned more towards his current theory. Because, if it truly possessed such heaven-defying skills and bloodline, how could the giant snake have been reduced to such a state, seemingly homeless? It even had to personally snatch merits for itself, only then could it feel they were securely its own.

Hence, the corners of Wang Zhan’s lips lifted slightly, an involuntary, faint smile appearing.

However, the giant snake standing before him, already gloomy from Wang Zhan’s retorts, now saw that smile on Wang Zhan’s face—a smile that, no matter how one looked at it, felt somewhat sarcastic and awkward. Its mood instantly grew even more somber.

Insolent brat! Courting death, yet he dared to despise it—a powerful existence that had already reached the royal-level realm? Simply courting death!

Thus, the nameless anger in its heart finally ignited, like a spark falling on dry tinder. It spoke in a deep voice, "Very well, since that’s the case, let me see your capabilities. Come out! My... brothers and sisters!"

BOOM! The atmosphere in the area abruptly shifted again.

Perhaps even Wang Zhan hadn’t expected that this creature would actually regard its clones as its brothers and sisters! One could only imagine. Though it was a sufficiently powerful royal-level beast, it must have lived such a stifled and lonely existence—so lonely that it had even begun to madly deceive itself.

But the problem was, disdain and mockery aside, after a series of violent, rumbling air blasts, Wang Zhan, who was already on high alert and prepared for the arduous, relentless battle to come, saw the scene unfold before him. His face instantly turned pale, his lips twitched slightly, and a shiver went through his heart. Because he was the one who would have to endure the wrath of this giant snake, whose loneliness had become pathological.

It turned out that before Wang Zhan’s very eyes, the giant snake, which had originally been a massive dark cloud, now seemed to be kneaded like rubber as it split directly into thirty-three pieces. Afterward, the 33 equally-sized dark clouds, writhing arduously, transformed into blurry serpentine shapes. Gradually, they began to grow bones, flesh, and skin... The legendary feat of ’bringing the dead to life and fleshing out bare bones’ would, at best, only describe a process of this extent.

Then, all the dark clouds in midair were absorbed into the bodies of these ferocious, enormous giant snakes, vanishing completely in an instant. All that remained in midair was this astounding number of astonishingly identical giant snakes!

A quick count revealed thirty-three of them in total! Each was a powerful, high-tier King-level beast, and every one of them was astonishingly lifelike. Then, all of them began to stare at Wang Zhan with their pairs of eerie, green eyes, like beings in Hell gazing upon the mortal world!

No one knew which among them was its true body. But clearly, there was no time left to discern this truth, because immediately following the appearance of these 33 giant snakes came wave after wave of heavy roaring sounds.

RUMBLE... RUMBLE...

The sound was deafening, resounding to the Sky, likely audible for several miles around. Anyone unaware of the situation might have mistaken it for some fool who valued money over life, mining in this desolate, uninhabited land. Otherwise, why would there be such a tremendous commotion?

However, in truth, these roaring sounds, emerging one after another as they continuously struck the air, were essentially nothing more than the vibrations caused by the air trembling under the extreme speed generated as these giant snakes’ tails slammed heavily through midair! One could only imagine what an inhuman level of power this was! To be able, in mere bodies of flesh and blood, to achieve something approaching the kind of extreme performance that human-developed machines could reach.

In other words, these 33 identically sized giant snakes, due to their individual realms and power, had all reached a terrifying level—capable of causing intense sonic booms—making their strength utterly unfathomable! The destructive force they possessed was equivalent to that of 33 swift and astonishingly powerful fighter jets.

Therefore, Wang Zhan’s face truly turned pale. Because he never would have imagined that in the blink of an eye, his situation would transform from a one-on-one duel with the giant snake to this utterly unimaginable scene. A one-on-one duel with the giant snake, indeed!