Chapter 329: 【ascension】!
Seeing Chicken Brother suddenly tear through his mediocre, annoying, trash Goblin skin (real), and furiously activate berserk mode from a plain, unremarkable trash Goblin. The atmosphere at the scene immediately climbed to a new peak.
Even its opponent Yu Ren Baimu frowned, alertly freezing in place, choosing to observe.
Although the aura Chicken Brother was emitting at this moment still couldn’t bring it a threat of death, and it had full confidence in winning the fight. But the mad practice of lifting restrictions on itself and embracing pollution also stunned Yu Ren, making him reluctant to approach for a long time, afraid of getting himself dirty.
“Well done! You’re a real man.”
A Miao in the private room, at this moment, grabbed a bottle of beverage with her left hand and clenched her small fist tightly with her right. To the ‘Chicken Brother’ who abandoned life and chose to drag his opponent down with him in demonic fall even in desperation, she gave the highest recognition and praise.
Then, she turned her head to Yuan Zhu and said: “No matter the outcome, you’ve secured this fight! From now on, as long as the ‘Goblin Fighters’ you provide all have this kind of resolve, I can’t guarantee anything else, but your 【Goblin Fighting Theater】 will absolutely be a surefire hit! Fighters daring to risk their lives exist, but those who directly enter the demonic path to die are rare. If you can stably provide high-quality ‘demonic Goblins’, and occasionally recreate tonight’s classic scene, that’s the absolute wealth code! The ‘Goblin reputation’ you hope for can also be established in one fell swoop.”
Yuan Zhu was somewhat disbelieving: “‘Entering the demonic path’ is really that attractive?”
A Miao nodded vigorously and praised: “Of course! Death itself has a unique allure, and ascending to demonhood is even rarer. Especially under the watchful eyes of the crowd, this kind of professional entering the demonic path under the 【Supernatural System】, instantly bursting with potential beyond limits, more brilliant than a festival fireworks show—it’s truly hot-blooded and romantic!”
At this moment, the fully super-evolved ‘Chicken Brother’ used the crazily proliferating muscles above his neck to explode his original head. It should have lost rationality, reduced to acting solely on instinct, but unexpectedly pulled the 【Brain Eggplant CPU】 into the interior of that 1m-long spiral elastic muscle tentacle above the neck.
The built-in 《Intelligent Combat Program》 of the 【Brain Eggplant】 was thoroughly eroded, covered, and assimilated by the ‘Frog-Type pollution’ in the flesh and blood. Together with the whole body’s demonic muscles, it constructed a brand new 【Demonic Muscle Cell. Collective Martial Arts Subconscious】, which could also be understood as the polluted 【Id】.
In the private room, A Tiao, who had been obediently sitting aside and seriously observing this one-sided crushing match, suddenly straightened her body, staring dazedly at ‘Chicken Brother’ who had exploded his own brain and completely abandoned thinking, blurting out: “Martial Will?!”
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In 【Cicada City】, a cultivator proficient in multiple ‘Insect System martial arts’ often, during the bottleneck period of breaking through from 【Earth Rank】 to 【Heaven Rank】, through massive practice and combat, and deeply comprehending the true essence of the martial arts, gradually comprehends the 【Fist Intent, Sword Intent】 contained in the cultivation technique. Ultimately triggering a qualitative change in the soul, condensing the 【Martial Dao Primordial Spirit】, thereby breaking through to 【Heaven Rank】 in one go.
But the Chicken Brother on the arena at this moment, under his own cramming-style training, relying on the 【Brain Eggplant CPU】 to cheat and hack, barely reached passing standard in just one short week, then was hastily thrown onto the arena to die—a dull Goblin.
As a result, merely by abandoning the brain, abandoning thinking, abandoning life, abandoning soul, discarding his entire Frog-Type cultivation, choosing demonic fall berserk to embrace pollution, and taking the evil cultivator shortcut, he suddenly developed something extremely similar to 【Martial Will】.
This greatly shocked Younger Brother! It subverted his three views. Truly, ten years of ascetic cultivation is not as good as one thought to become a demon? It can’t be that Chicken Brother is a buried martial arts genius, instantly opening up the Ren and Du meridians in a breath, comprehending ‘Martial Will’?
Yuan Zhu didn’t know what A Tiao was thinking, otherwise he would definitely nod: That’s right! This is the power of ‘one thought to become a demon’.
Du Ling never lacks the strong; what it lacks are the weak who restrain their desire to get stronger, growing slowly and steadily. Any self-abandoning trash can, like Chicken Brother, as long as they abandon the 【Power Path】, instantly achieve demonic muscle great perfection!
This is the correct way to open 【Pollution】. All 【Supernatural Systems】 are evil paths.
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In the arena match, Chicken Brother with deeply alienated physical body, his original ‘soul’ was shattered, devoured, and reorganized by the ‘collective will’ composed of the whole body’s demonic muscle cells, and after integrating the 【Brain Eggplant】, it alienated into a new individual.
At the same time, Yuan Zhu also completely lost control over this 【Brain Eggplant CPU】, and even ‘New Chicken Brother’ was no longer under his control, thoroughly independent and free.
Although theoretically, the entire strength of New Chicken Brother, shadow pollution, and even most organ parts still belonged to Yuan Zhu’s wealth. But it’s like cash robbed by a fierce bandit, only to be squandered at will by ‘New Chicken Brother’, unable to be recovered.
Unless… he throws away all face, personally goes onto the arena to beat Chicken Brother to death, and reclaims the property.
Yuan Zhu speculated at this moment that New Chicken Brother could cut off contact with him as the master, very likely because the ‘bond’ between them was still too weak. If he had signed an 【Anti-Law. Investment Agreement】 with ‘Chicken Brother’ in advance. Then no matter how it ascended to demonhood or went berserk, he could still forcibly recover it through 【Anti-Law】.
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On the arena, ‘Chicken Brother’, who no longer showed any Goblin characteristics, with his entire body presenting a blood-red skinned muscle demonic creature form, kicked off with his foot, immediately causing large spiderweb cracks on the arena.
Not only that, the leg he used to exert force also, due to excessive force, caused large areas of muscle tissue and blood vessels to be torn and ripped by the explosive power, spraying a large patch of black-red bloodstain on the ground.
The next second, Chicken Brother who had broken through his physical body limits had instantly appeared in front of Yu Ren Baimu, unleashing a fully charged punch with violent fury. The opponent couldn’t react at all, was hit squarely in the face with one punch, and the next moment both sides suffered damage.
Chicken Brother’s right arm, due to excessive force, caused massive demonic muscles to collaborate, bursting with terrifying power. At the moment of impact, the powerful recoil directly shattered the bones that couldn’t keep up with the reinforcement speed.
The silly fat-headed Yu Ren was even smashed flat on half his head with one punch. The eyeball in his right eye socket was punched to bulge out, nearly popping flying.
The audience seats erupted in shocked exclamations: “Oh!”, “Wow!”, “Ciao!”
Boom boom boom!
Chicken Brother, who had completely abandoned thinking and exploded his brain, fundamentally lacked thinking ability and didn’t know how to analyze the situation; everything relied on instinct.
Under the intense pain stimulation of broken leg and broken arm, he fluidly used his remaining body to unleash continuous attacks, firing off three more moves.
These three moves each heavily struck different parts of the fat-headed Yu Ren—torso, thighs, back—continuously blasted.
And Chicken Brother’s own arms, elbows, wrists, knees, ankles… and other positions also, due to repeated outputs exceeding the body’s endurance limits, suffered muscle tears, tendon ruptures, fractures + blood vessel bursts, with blood mist spraying and bone fragments flying…
But this series of suicidal blasts also won sustained cheers and roars.
At this moment, the audience at the scene seemed to have forgotten ‘Chicken Brother’s original Goblin identity, their eyes only on this blood-red blackening muscle monster and that crazily whipping highly elastic spiral muscle tentacle.
This art style, this image, was too grotesque! Unforgettable at first sight, intensely uncomfortable, bound to cause nightmares.
Chicken Brother himself, due to the Frog-Type pollution in his body exploding at extreme speed, caused unprecedentedly vigorous vitality and power of pollution. The moment injuries appeared, rapid self-healing began.
But this healing was completely unreasonable, not abiding by the original biological tissue structure. Therefore, when the broken arms and thighs were reassembled and repaired, they didn’t follow biological structure; the broken bones were simply wrapped and connected by more tendons and muscle tissue, growing together carelessly and randomly.
Thus, Chicken Brother’s regenerated body became increasingly deformed, twisted, and illogical. Joints like wrists, ankles, knees were directly fixed together, unable even to make punching motions.
In addition, because of falling into berserk, the ‘Frog-Type pollution’ in his body surged dramatically, uncontrolled, unable to be refined and mastered by the body, and unable to precisely reinforce and transform muscle tissue; instead, it presented mindless proliferation and accumulation.
One could see ‘Chicken Brother’s 【Pollution Index】 crazily rising, strength showing little increase, even declining instead; but the appearance was grotesque and exaggerated enough, shocking to the heart.
At this time, Baimu, with one arm and one leg broken, staggered up again from the edge of the arena, staring dazedly at ‘Chicken Brother’ in the center of the arena, whose whole body was crazily oozing blood.
Stunned by the opponent’s manic roar, he halted his movements, dumb watching ‘Chicken Brother’ who had also stopped attacking, painfully kneeling on the arena on one knee, continuously whipping the ground with the spiral muscle tentacle (head) in rapid succession, restlessly roaring, as if enduring indescribable pain.
After seeing this scene, Yuan Zhu vaguely felt something was off, and asked in a low voice: “What’s the situation?”
At the same time, the 【Frog-Type pollution】 in Chicken Brother’s body had exceeded a certain threshold. Meanwhile, the rapid proliferation of 【Pollution】 (entering demonic path) obtained by overdrawing ‘life, soul, supernatural system’ had also reached its end.
【Demonic transformation】 is not something that can infinitely upgrade just by self-abandonment.
This kind of reinforcement depends on potential. For example, Chicken Brother, as a Goblin Strongman, judged by its current cultivation achievements, assuming the maximum it can reach is [Muscle Demonization 90%]. Then, after it abandons everything to enter the demonic path, the instantaneous overdraft “pollution amplification” can probably reach 75%-80% completion.
The current “Muscle Demonic Creature (Chicken Brother)” has arrived at the peak moment of blazing fire boiling oil. At the same time, the “pollution degree” within Chicken Brother’s body has also touched the standard of the present world’s “ascension impulse.” The entire world, the space belonging to the entire martial arts hall, begins to faintly reject the demonic Chicken Brother.
Thus, a scene that made the audience even more frenziedly cheer appeared: Chicken Brother abandons the fight, its whole body convulses violently, the “spiral tentacles” above its neck wildly whip and flail, it opens its mouth wide, emitting a maddened roar of unclear meaning.
Within its body, a large amount of evil black mist (shadow) bursts out. The lone demonic creature kneels prostrate in the center of the arena, beginning ultimate sublimation, constantly confronting the [rejection force] that appears around its body.
Looking at its irritable and restless appearance, it seems to be instinctively resisting [ascension].
Soon, that mass of muscle-formed demonic creature is squeezed by an invisible force, its spine bends violently, and the bones wrapped in muscle also emit “crack crack” fracturing sounds.
Yuan Zhu is puzzled but deeply shocked. Like those ignorant audience members, he is deeply attracted by this eerie and painful scene. He only feels that Chicken Brother, who is no longer fighting at this moment, is even more captivating than when it was brutally beating Yu Ren earlier. That is a kind of “life infectiousness” that is going all out, striving hard to live.
Yuan Zhu: “What’s the situation? It seems to be fighting against something?”
A Miao raises her eyebrows in admiration, somewhat surprised yet excited as she says: “What a surprise, it is [ascending]! Tonight’s match is absolutely worth the ticket price! You’ve made a profit this time, your goblin has made you famous, it didn’t die in vain, it’s practically a hero!”
“[Ascension]? It?! Its current ‘purity’ isn’t high either!”
Yuan Zhu never expected that Chicken Brother would suddenly start ascending on the spot halfway through the fight?! Its current “pollution degree” is only about the same as those veteran earth rank “magic worms.”
To be honest, he could easily take down the current Chicken Brother with his [holy light] at full power. And you’re telling me Chicken Brother is going to ascend? Is it worthy!
A Miao explains: “Different creatures, due to differences in ‘physical body, potential, strength,’ and the [supernatural system] they cultivate, have their own [ascension] standards. From the goblin’s standard, this demonic goblin’s ‘pollution concentration’ unexpectedly reached the ascension standard it meets, so it is forced to undergo tribulation.”
Yuan Zhu widens his eyes: “Undergo tribulation?! How to undergo it, what tribulation?”
A mere berserk goblin also has the face to call it “undergo tribulation”? I suspect you’re insulting this term!
Seeing Yuan Zhu getting emotional, A Miao quickly changes her wording: “Put it another way, this out-of-control demonic creature has threatened the safety of ordinary people on Du Ling Star, so it is now enduring the spatial teleportation pressure of being rejected by the real world to the ‘different time and space’ that best matches its body full of ‘pollution power’ and is the closest. As long as it endures the test of its physical body shattering the void, it can smoothly ascend to the upper realm.”
Candle then feels much better: “Then what if it can’t endure?”
A Miao clenches her fist, raises it in front of Yuan Zhu, then suddenly opens it. Her mouth makes a “boom!” sound: “Directly explodes and shatters, turning into heaven-granted Flesh and Blood Nectar, descending and sprinkling into the different time and space it belongs to, nourishing the beings of another dimension. This is none other than [Emperor Flowing Pulp]!”
Yuan Zhu is completely speechless, just how much have the native residents of Du Ling butchered the traditional culture from the Celestial Dynasty’s hometown? Is [Emperor Flowing Pulp] explained like this? All failed ascenders, “ability users, mutated demonic creatures,” rejected (teleported) and squeezed to burst by time-space, turning into Flesh and Blood Nectar?!
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At this moment on the arena, with the last unwilling wail ringing out, Chicken Brother’s spine is thoroughly crushed and broken by the “ascension repulsion force,” its limbs also crushed by invisible forces, ultimately compressed by Du Ling Star’s erupting [ascension rejection] into a ball of flesh.
With a “boom!” sound, it does not burst open and turn into [Emperor Flowing Pulp] sprinkling into the otherworld. Instead, in an extremely twisted form, it is squeezed and stuffed into a black spatial rift.
In the last second before the fleeting spatial rift closes, half a “muscle foot” fails to shatter the void in time and is directly severed by the re-healing real world space, exploding into a puddle of blood and flesh muck emitting intense pollution, spreading out on the arena.
Alright, Chicken Brother still produced a puddle of [Emperor Flowing Pulp]. But the impurities and quality are too poor, fundamentally unable to be refined by orthodox [frog-type supernatural beings].
The scene fell silent for a moment, then erupted into deafening cheers: “Awooo…!”, “Chicken Fighter!”, “Chicken Fighter!”, “Chicken Frog!”, “Oh~ digging mud Chicken Frog!”
“Rare, truly rare!”
A Miao in the private room also stands up to applaud, excitedly praising: “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a contestant [ascend] live on the arena match! Though it’s just a goblin, and the [ascension] phenomenon is pathetically weak. But this match will surely stir up topic heat, becoming the talking point of this period. Your goblin is completely famous now!”
Hearing A Miao’s enthusiastic praise, Yuan Zhu isn’t happy at all, instead sitting silently on the sofa, his face showing expressions of confusion, shock, weirdness, incredulity…
Facial expressions change like a horse lantern in rapid succession, completely ignoring the external noise, immersing in his own world, lost in thought.
