Chapter 1086
Chapter 1086 - 1172: Natural Enemy
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"Professionals are much more difficult to deal with than demons of the same tier..."
Bones filled the sky, some like broken stones, some like enormous pillars, some like spider legs, some like needle rocks... When the myriad of bone fragments moved, the suffocating sensation and inescapable fear they brought about were extremely deadly.
The terrifying scene before him, in Lu Ping’an’s "eyes," was a "treasure trove" brimming with endless wealth.
"...No wonder some people say that demons and professionals are not at all the same existence. Demons that lack sufficient ’Order’ are nothing but a movable material library. Heh, watch my Life Resonance."
After understanding the bone structure before him, Lu Ping’an used his core ability as a fourth-tier Fighter—the Life Resonance.
[Life Resonance (Silver Lower Professional Ability): Choose one to several specific ’pollutants’ to undergo deep life fusion, integrating them as a part of your own flesh and blood and directly utilizing them. Note: The prerequisite for using this ability is having the All Things Breathing Technique.]
Taboo items can, Zhi Xi’s metallic limbs can, then what about the bones in front of him that are imbued with "contamination"? Can they as well?
"It worked."
The erosion was easier than Lu Ping’an had expected. Through the Fighter’s core ability, Lu Ping’an was instead using his own Tamer’s erosion assimilation characteristic.
The enormous bones that the Bone King had tossed out were now under his control and had become a part of him.
And the target that Lu Ping’an was controlling was "bones," and the core component of his profession, the Pale Hand, was precisely the bone pins that were becoming thicker and sharper on their own.
The next moment, he hurled them out.
They returned back to their source doubled over, hitting the opponent precisely at the forehead.
Was it a scream? Was it pain? Perhaps now Sarla had lost any concept of pain.
More than the physical pain from the attack, what he couldn’t understand was why his "flesh" had lost control, why it had become the opponent’s "weapon"!
"Resonance."
This time, as the dispersed bone pins fell while flying, Lu Ping’an had already stepped on the Skeleton King’s head.
He bent down gently to touch, and then...
𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
The Giant slapped its own head, almost directly knocking its skull off, but it couldn’t hit the agile youngster... Having a too massive body might not be entirely advantageous.
"Why, why... Ahhhhhhhhhh!"
The inarticulate Skeleton King let out a wail, probably unable to understand why its own head had lost control, as if it was no longer its own.
"Order and Chaos, central authority versus local chaos, that’s probably the difference between professionals and ordinary demons. It may seem strong, but in reality, it’s just a loose sand."
And Lu Ping’an, who had landed on the ground, seemed to have come to a realization.
If it were still the previous Sarla, not to mention eroding and controlling the opponent’s bones, even using his abilities to tug at them would have been extremely difficult.
And that’s because those were "owned," controlled by a professional’s consciousness as "Quasi-contaminated Material," while the present Sarla seemed powerful but actually was nothing more than a pile of chaotic rubbish.
He indeed had expanded, but the "total amount" had not increased that much. That expansion of his volume by many times was the result of him inhaling and enlarging with more external ownerless contaminants...
"Your purity, is too low."
Lu Ping’an didn’t bother to explain; he simply silently stepped over those bones, then stained them with his own color.
If the White Bone King were a true quasi-rule demon with a stable body, Lu Ping’an still wouldn’t be able to do this... but now, this jigsaw of white bones, this giant inflated toy person, was revealing "false plumpness" everywhere.
Lu Ping’an could even feel it, the opponent’s martial destiny had dissipated... Sarla was already dead, and the newborn individual had no right to inherit everything from him.
This might still be Lu Ping’an facing headwinds, or maybe a seemingly invincible monster that could kill with a slap, or perhaps, just a chest filled with precious materials.
"... Our compatibility really is terrible, maybe you thought it was your luck when you saw I was from Pale Hand. After all, when professionals with similar abilities fight, the stronger crush the weaker, but now..."
The huge bone fist was right in front of him, and Lu Ping’an’s extended hands stopped it effortlessly.
Understand it, assimilate it, erode it, transform it...
"... Now, who is the weaker one?"
Facing the smiling youth, the giant beast lost its arm and once again let out a powerless, enraged scream.
Embodying both human intelligence and the body of a beast, in Lu’s eyes, neither attribute seemed reliable, both were fragile and full of flaws.
He... It, in the face of Lu Ping’an, who had overcome the "hardship," was destined to become nothing more than materials.
"... It’s over."
Lu Ping’an merely touched them calmly, transforming them.
And in this process, he was also continuously attempting "forging," constantly practicing.
Each bone was transformed by him into bone pins, and then into other bone molds.
His understanding of the Tamer profession deepened continuously, and more importantly, his understanding of the "bone" essence became ever clearer.
"... It, too, is a material of life, is sediment, is the ’scaffolding’ that supports life. But..."
The hard sediment, Lu Ping’an understood more and more why the "bone residue" from the Green Planet was explosive, and why the bones in front of him were incredibly hard.
"... More importantly, it protects the delicate nerves, links together pieces of muscle, it is the foundation of life, the root... So, if I..."
That was the part of life hardest to dissolve, the part that interacted least with other life components, but also the part that supported life at its beginning and end.
"Maybe, I can... extract... bone."
Somehow, Lu Ping’an realized a strange new Professional Ability.
It was a product of both Tamer and Fighter professions, but its origin was still fundamentally tied to Lu Ping’an’s very essence - the Life system.
[Bone Extraction (Silver Mid-tier Professional Ability): Touch life, understand life, then casually extract its ’support’.]
With his vile self-developed ability, bolstered by martial destiny, it became a new decree for Lu Ping’an, allowing him to easily control this trait and disassemble his "work" at a much faster pace.
In the clash, Lu Ping’an easily dismantled the already unstably linked bones of his opponent and completely stripped them away.
In the end, as the battle reached this point, it was no longer a fight to the death, but a butcher’s "processing" of livestock.
"The victor, Lu Ping’an!"
When the emcee in the sky finally confirmed the disappearance of the demon, standing on the ground, apart from Lu Ping’an himself, was a neatly piled stack of bone pins.
And the Pale Hand, which originally controlled life through "bone pins," found itself facing an unexpected "divergent advancement" because of this deadly battle.
"A profession that merges the Fighting Series path, destroys life by attacking, controlling, and even plundering the opponent’s bones... interesting."
— End of Chapter 1086 —