Chapter 1052: Chapter 1040: Golden Cicada
The two of them simply charged at each other.
Song Yun clenched his fists; he always preferred direct, brute force confrontations, while the Ghost King waved his hand, and something snake-like suddenly flew out from his arm.
"The same old tricks! Insignificant little tactics!" Song Yun snorted disdainfully, directly swinging his fist at the blue Xiao She, but the snake fearlessly opened its fangs to bite Song Yun.
Harden!
Song Yun’s fist muscles instantly tensed.
The snake bit directly onto Song Yun’s hand, but with his muscles hardened and supported by Inner Qi, Song Yun was already upgraded from a shotgun to a cannon. Those seemingly sharp, bloody fangs bit into his fist and made a crisp sound, like biting into sand while eating.
The venomous snake’s teeth were shattered by Song Yun’s fist!
Yes, shattered!
This shows how powerful Song Yun’s fist is now. It’s truly a top-notch weapon, a famous piece among fists!
After its teeth shattered, the snake was then instantly blasted into a blood mist by Song Yun’s fist!
Remember, it was a blood mist, not that Song Yun knocked the snake away.
Because of Song Yun’s immense power, the force did not penetrate the snake’s body but spread directly within it, immediately shattering its flesh into powder, with its blood turning into a beautiful mist in the air, spreading around.
However, the Ghost King seemed unfazed; the snake’s purpose seemed to only be to distract Song Yun.
Their distance narrowed from over ten meters to less than one meter.
The Ghost King grabbed something that looked like a Xie zi from his body, then stabbed the scorpion’s tail directly into his own arm.
The black Xie zi suddenly turned white.
Song Yun had heard of a kind of scorpion that could turn from black to white, residing deep within the Sahara Desert, changing color when injecting venom into its target.
Was the Ghost King losing his mind, self-mutilating?
Though Song Yun thought so, he remained mentally vigilant.
Sure enough, after the scorpion turned white, the Ghost King hid it in his clothing, then raised the stung hand high, striking towards Song Yun, and that hand, originally about as thick as a normal arm, suddenly swelled upon contact with Song Yun’s arm.
Of course, one could also say it was swollen, because bites by scorpions or snakes often make the wound swell.
However, the Ghost King’s swelling was completely different from that of ordinary people.
This sudden swelling made the Ghost King’s hand appear hardened!
The two hands collided in mid-air, their energy scattered so violently that it tore Song Yun’s clothes and ripped open a section of the Ghost King’s robe, sending it flying backward.
The two hands did not separate!
Song Yun squinted, showing no intent to dodge, instead unleashing all his arm strength in a direct power-to-power struggle with the Ghost King!
The blood vessels on both their arms swelled, though Song Yun’s were more reddish, while the Ghost King’s were thoroughly dark blue.
Their hands were locked in a stalemate, as if all movement had frozen, and the ground beneath them weakened under their intense power, sagging quite ignobly.
But sagging seemed insufficient to relieve the strength of their bodies.
Bang, bang, bang.
Cracks began appearing in the sagging area under their legs.
The cracks radiated outward, and then something truly wondrous happened: a Heavenly Pearl Transformation.
The Ghost King’s side spread towards Song Yun, and Song Yun’s side spread towards the Ghost King, then the ground around them suddenly sank!
That sinking ended up lowering them by about ten centimeters, turning all the surrounding soil into fragments.
How strong this power must be!
Though this ground was mostly soil, to create such a pit in a dirt surface would, in Dragon Ball terms, at least require half a Turtle Style Energy Technique.
Almost the moment they sank, the two separated.
"You’re stronger than before!" the Ghost King said seriously.
Song Yun smiled and said, "So are you."
"Seems like I can’t go easy on you," the Ghost King twisted his neck, almost turning it 180 degrees, then showed a comfortable expression and said, "No more pointless probing, let’s get to the main event."
"What main event?" Song Yun asked with a smile.
The Ghost King turned his head back, showing a strange smile, then suddenly opened his mouth.
A golden cicada crawled out of the Ghost King’s mouth.
"Damn, that’s disgusting!" That was Song Yun’s first reaction, and the second was, "Damn, a Golden Cicada? What’s going on?"
Song Yun had heard of this Golden Cicada, of course mainly in fantasy works, particularly the legend that Master Tripitaka’s previous life was that of a Golden Cicada who was banished to the mortal realm by the Tathagata for disrespecting the Buddhist Law, becoming the legendary Tang Seng.
And the rumor of why eating Tang Seng’s flesh grants immortality? It’s mainly due to the effects of the Golden Cicada, a mythical creature said to be incredibly powerful, beyond compare.
Of course, these are just legends; at least in reality, Song Yun had never seen a Golden Cicada, though he’d heard about it. To him, it seemed more like something edible, known as "pa-zha", with high nutritional value. He’s skeptical about its effects of granting immortality, though there might be some special functions.
"This Golden Cicada is a sacred object our tribe has bred for many years." The Ghost King grinned, holding the Golden Cicada in his hand. This entirely golden cicada fluttered its wings but did not take flight.
"It has been soaked for many years in our tribe’s special venom, finally emerging as a cicada. After my return to the tribe, I successfully tamed it. Today, you are my first opponent since obtaining the Golden Cicada. Even in death, you should be proud!" the Ghost King declared arrogantly.