"Wei Yi!" Liu Xing shouted, anger lacing his voice. "Prepare to die!"

His crescent purple qi flew forward like a giant swallow. When Wei Yi saw it, his eyes widened, and he jumped to the side, right into the path of three of Liu Xing's bullets. The bullets hit Wei Yi's side, blooming into three explosions. One accidentally hit the worm connected to his stomach, severing it. The remaining explosions threw Wei Yi several meters away.

Liu Xing summoned his shield and accelerated, the wind parting around him. He could see Wei Yi groaning in pain, three holes dotting his black and white robes.

Wei Yi's eyes darted left and right, trying to determine Liu Xing's position. But before he could, Liu Xing arrived right in front of him. He rotated his body and swung his almost three-meter-long stone down, aiming to slash him diagonally. Wei Yi, as if anticipating the attack, rolled to the side, successfully dodging the potentially fatal blow. However, the attack still grazed him, but instead of his torso, the blade sliced through his leg, severing it below the knee. The stone blade then buried itself deep into the ground—or rather, the skin of the white giant, which was surprisingly hard and didn't feel like flesh at all.

"Where are you, you coward?!" Wei Yi roared. Black mist swirled around him, and Liu Xing noticed Wei Yi becoming more transparent. Disgusting, rotten flesh began to grow from his severed left knee, forming a makeshift peg leg covered in several eyes, each looking around as if dissecting the world.

Liu Xing jumped to the side, this time using minimal power to glide. He arrived behind Wei Yi, who was still scanning his surroundings.

Liu Xing raised his left hand, aiming his gun. He took a step toward Wei Yi, and when Wei Yi didn't look back, he took more steps. He wanted to be as close as possible. This Wei Yi, despite looking like an old man, was fast. His ability to dodge Liu Xing's attack proved his superb reaction time, which is understandable, since he is a former Sun Refining realm that has regressed back to Core Splitting realm.

He intended to attack from close range, because while his gun and body were invisible, the bullets were not. Also, while he could remotely control his gun, he would lose his invisibility if he let go. An invisible, remotely controlled gun had its uses, but this time, it was more beneficial for Liu Xing to hold it.

Liu Xing took more steps, closing the distance. Moments later, he was right behind Wei Yi, his gun aimed at the back of his head, covered by white hair streaked with red. The stump of the flesh tree on his hunched back still trickled blood.

Wei Yi's head swiveled left and right. When he looked to the side, Liu Xing saw his profile. Wei Yi's eyes were trembling, and large beads of sweat dotted his forehead. Liu Xing had thought he might try to escape, but it seemed the still-squirming Lihuo inside the worm's belly was too precious to leave behind.

Liu Xing's heart beat fast but steady. He couldn't mess this up. It was a golden opportunity he couldn't afford to waste. For a moment, there was no movement besides the wriggling Lihuo. The wind blew Liu Xing's invisible hair, and he held his gun steady. Then, when Liu Xing deemed the moment right, he pulled the trigger.

A soft click, and a blue bullet shot from his gun toward Wei Yi's head. Wei Yi turned and snapped his head back, but it was too late. The Lightning Palm bullet hit the center of his forehead. His eyes widened as the bullet exploded into thick ropes of electricity, surrounding and paralyzing him.

At this moment, Liu Xing threw his gun into the air and gripped the stone blade with both hands, charging it with potent qi.

"Y-you!" Wei Yi stammered.

Liu Xing stared daggers at him. "Yes, me."

The purple blade shone, growing heavier with each passing second. Liu Xing was sure his normal stone blade could cut Wei Yi, but he wouldn't take any chances. He would ensure Wei Yi's death. He would use an overpowered attack for a guaranteed kill.

"Die!" Liu Xing swung his stone blade. The blade cut through the air toward Wei Yi's neck. In a blink of eyes, it arrived, the purple glow illuminating Wei Yi's wrinkled neck before slicing through with almost no resistance. A moment later, the blade emerged from the other side, severing Wei Yi's neck completely and sent his head flying. The severed head's eyes were wide, as if in disbelief at his easy defeat. Then the stone blade released a ten-meter-long crescent of purple qi that shot toward the giant's neck, which, up close, looked like a small hill. The crescent qi struck, shining so brightly it illuminated the world in purple before fading. The giant groaned, as if the attack, not even as high as its pinky, had hurt it.

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Liu Xing's eyes followed Wei Yi's head as it arched high into the sky, his expression frozen in surprise. A strong gust of wind blew it far away, like a ball thrown from a high building. Seeing the head fly off, Liu Xing inhaled deeply while catching the gun he'd tossed into the air. He then snapped his head toward Wei Yi's headless body, noticing a finger still twitching on one of his hands.

"Is it over?" Liu Xing muttered.

It felt anticlimactic. In his mind, Wei Yi was a boogeyman he'd have to fight to the death. He'd transformed thousands into abominations, subdued a peak Sun Refining realm emperor, and created a giant over a kilometer tall. Common sense dictated Wei Yi should be harder to kill. Still, after a full second of waiting and nothing happening, Liu Xing thought perhaps it was his good fortune. As anticlimactic as it felt, he'd rather have an easy kill than one that left him half-dead. He regretted not using his gun, but he couldn't complain. He'd rather kill Wei Yi instantly with his blade than slowly with his gun.

"Alright, I think it's time to deal with this giant." The giant held the meatball in its hands, slowly bringing it closer to its face.

As Liu Xing turned his attention to Lihuo, still struggling inside the worm, he heard a sizzling sound. He snapped his eyes to its source: Wei Yi's headless body. Red blood bubbled from the severed neck like boiling water, and red mist swirled around it.

Liu Xing's heart beat faster again. Of course this guy can regenerate!

Not wasting any time, Liu Xing filled his gun with Lightning Palm bullets and pulled the trigger six times. The bullets flew, but the headless body reacted, jumping to the side before they could all connect. It was a fraction too slow, however, and one of the bullets struck its eye-covered foot. When the bullet exploded, thick ropes of electricity crackled around the body, paralyzing it in mid-air. It was about to land in an awkward position, but Liu Xing wouldn't allow it to touch the ground. He needed to obliterate this body as soon as possible!

He kicked the ground and arrived above the headless body, swinging his stone blade to split it in two. Before it landed, he slashed ten more times, cutting it into small, blood-drenched cubes. Not taking any chances, he aimed his gun downward, filled it with Exploding Fist bullets, and fired. The bullets hit the meat cubes, blooming into six explosions, destroying most and scattering the rest.

Landing near the center of the explosion, he quickly glanced at his gun. The absence of glowing green stripes confirmed that Wei Yi wasn't dead yet. He scans his surroundings for any regenerating parts. In a single sweep of his gaze, he spotted charred flesh sprouting feet, wings, or even fins. Some pieces were merging together, slithering along the ground like grotesque snakes. Each of these regenerating fragments bore a miniature Wei Yi head—some with the faces of children, others with the faces of adults, and others with his aged, snarling face.

Liu Xing aimed and shot each one, firing more than ten times in under a second, destroying the fleeing pieces. Each time, he glanced at his gun, but the stripes never glowed.

"Shit," he muttered.

Each time he hit a Wei Yi, most of it was destroyed, but small parts scattered and regrowing organs to move. Now, there was even a Wei Yi smaller than a thumb, fleeing on two chopstick-like limbs. He had a feeling this would continue endlessly, until there were ant-sized Wei Yis.

As he fired Exploding Fist bullets around, he realized he needed to either kill all of Wei Yi's parts in one large attack or find a specific part to destroy. Probably a combination of both. He suspected the most crucial part was Wei Yi's head, which had flown somewhere below.

"Think," he muttered.

He realized Wei Yi was using tricks and hiding his true intention. He knew he couldn't beat Liu Xing, so he wasn't attacking directly, probably trying to waste his time.

The white giant was opening its mouth, trying to swallow the main core. He needed to stop it, and that gave him an idea. Wei Yi had said there were three ingredients to make the giant perfect. The meatball was one, he didn't know the second, but the third was Lihuo.

Glancing at Lihuo, still twitching inside the worm, he knew the perfect lure.

Turning, he aimed his blade at the worm instead of the scattered Wei Yis.

"Wei Yi, since I can't kill you right now, I'll stop your plan by killing your precious ingredient!" He charged his stone blade with qi, intentionally using a flashy attack to draw Wei Yi out. After three seconds, he sent a crescent of purple qi toward the worm and Lihuo. He didn't know if it would work, but even if Wei Yi didn't appear, he would at least kill Lihuo. That meant reducing the enemy's numbers and preventing the giant from becoming perfect. It was a win-win. The only downside was that he wouldn't get qi from killing Lihuo with his stone blade.

As the crescent of qi approached the worm, the small Wei Yis froze. Then, they swarmed the felled flesh tree, where Elder Yang Zhaoyan's body was being absorbed as a branch and covered in pustules. They blanketed the tree, the tumorous fruits, and the former Elder like a cloud of swirling dust, making the tree stand once more. Seeing this, Liu Xing realized that Wei Yi was attempting something, and without hesitation, he leaped toward the rising flesh tree.

He reached the tree and saw a fruit glowing red, a snarl forming within it. It was Wei Yi's face, but with only one eye; the other was replaced by a red gem. As Liu Xing swung his blade, the face snarled.