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

A crescent of purple qi flew forward like a giant swallow. Wei Yi's eyes widened at the sight of it, and he jumped aside—directly into the path of six of Liu Xing's bullets. The bullets slammed into Wei Yi's side, blooming into six explosions that severed the worm connected to his stomach and threw him several meters away. Liu Xing summoned his shield and accelerated, the wind parting around him. Wei Yi groaned in pain, six smoking 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 pinpoint it, Liu Xing was on him. He swung his stone blade down in a diagonal slash. Wei Yi rolled aside. Though he avoided the hit to his torso, the blade sliced clean through his leg 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 felt nothing like flesh.

"Where are you, you coward?!" Wei Yi roared. Black mist swirled around him, and he became more transparent. Disgusting, rotten flesh grew from his severed left knee, forming a makeshift peg leg covered in several eyes, each one scanning its surroundings as if dissecting the world.

Liu Xing jumped to the side, using minimal power to glide. He circled around behind Wei Yi, who was still frantically scanning the area. He raised his left hand, aiming his gun. He took a step toward Wei Yi. When Wei Yi didn't look back, he took another. He wanted to be as close as possible. Despite his aged appearance, Wei Yi was fast. His ability to dodge proved a superb reaction time—understandable for a former Sun Refining realm cultivator, even one regressed to the Core Splitting realm.

He needed to attack from close range. While his gun and body were invisible, the bullets were not. He could control the gun remotely, but letting go would break his invisibility. An invisible, floating gun had its uses, but not here, not now. Holding it was the only way.

Liu Xing took more steps, closing the distance. Moments later, he was right behind Wei Yi, his gun aimed at the back of a 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, his profile was stark; his eyes trembled, 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 as he held his gun steady. Then, he pulled the trigger.

A soft click, and a blue bullet shot from the gun. Wei Yi snapped his head around, but it was too late. The Lightning Palm bullet hit his head. His eyes widened as the bullet exploded into thick ropes of electricity, engulfing and paralyzing him. Instantly, Liu Xing tossed 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. A normal strike might have been enough, but Liu Xing wouldn't take any chances. This had to be a guaranteed kill.

"Die!" Liu Xing swung his stone blade. It cut through the air toward Wei Yi's neck. In the blink of an eye, it arrived, the purple glow illuminating Wei Yi's wrinkled skin before slicing through with almost no resistance. A moment later, the blade emerged from the other side, severing Wei Yi's neck completely and sending his head flying. The severed head's eyes were wide, as if in disbelief at his easy defeat. The stone blade then 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 tiny attack had actually hurt it.

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Liu Xing's eyes followed Wei Yi's head as it arched high into the sky, its expression frozen in surprise. A strong gust of wind carried 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 had tossed into the air. He then snapped his head toward Wei Yi's headless body and saw a finger twitch on one of its hands.

"Is it over?" Liu Xing muttered.

It felt anticlimactic. In his mind, Wei Yi was a boogeyman he would have to fight to the death. The man had 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 decided it must be his good fortune. As anticlimactic as it was, he preferred an easy kill to one that left him half-dead. He would rather kill Wei Yi instantly with his blade than slowly with his gun.

He turned his attention to the giant. It held the meatball in its hands, slowly bringing it closer to its face.

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

Liu Xing's heart was hammered in his chest. Of course! The bastard could regenerate!

Not wasting a second, Liu Xing loaded his gun with Lightning Palm bullets and pulled the trigger six times. Six bullets shot out, 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. Liu Xing wouldn't let it touch the ground.

He kicked the ground and vaulted above the headless body, swinging his stone blade to split it in two. Before the pieces landed, he slashed ten more times, dicing the body into small, blood-drenched cubes. Not taking any chances, he aimed his gun downward, loaded it with Exploding Fist bullets, and fired. The bullets hit the meat cubes, blooming into six explosions that destroyed most of them and scattered 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 scanned his surroundings for any regenerating parts. In a single sweep of his gaze, he spotted charred flesh sprouting feet, wings, and even fins. Some pieces were merging, 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 of adults, and still others with his own aged, snarling face.

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

"Shit," he muttered.

Every time he hit a piece of Wei Yi, most of it was destroyed, but smaller parts scattered, already regrowing limbs to flee. This would continue endlessly, he realized, until there were ant-sized Wei Yis.

As he fired Exploding Fist bullets, he knew he needed to either destroy all of Wei Yi's parts in one massive 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 far below.

"Think," he muttered. Wei Yi wasn't attacking; he was stalling. He knew he couldn't beat Liu Xing directly, so he was trying to waste his time.

The white giant was opening its mouth, ready to swallow the meatball. Liu Xing had 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 he had 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 creating a flashy attack to draw Wei Yi out. After three seconds, he sent a crescent of purple qi hurtling toward the worm and Lihuo. He didn't know if the bluff would work, but it was a win-win situation. If Wei Yi didn't appear, he would still kill Lihuo, reducing the enemy's numbers and preventing the giant from reaching its perfect form.

As the crescent of qi approached the worm, the small Wei Yis froze. Then, they swarmed the felled flesh tree. They blanketed the tree, its tumorous fruits, and the former Elder like a cloud of swirling dust, forcing the grotesque trunk upright once more. Seeing this, Liu Xing knew Wei Yi was making his move. Without hesitation, he leaped toward the rising flesh tree.

He reached the tree and saw one of its fruits glow red. A face snarled from within it—Wei Yi's face, but with only one eye. As Liu Xing swung his blade, the face snarled.

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