48: Chapter 48 Penetrating Armor with Fingertips, Hitting a Cow Across a Mountain

"This is it."

In a flash, Su Chen moved.

His right fist, which had been held high above his head and clenched tightly, suddenly relaxed.

His thumb, ring finger, and little finger retracted. His index and middle fingers pressed together and thrust straight out.

Under Su Chen's mental control, the jet-black Armament Haki changed form frantically. The Haki that had originally covered his entire right arm receded like a retreating tide, rapidly compressing and gathering at the tips of these two fingers.

Extreme compression.

In the blink of an eye, the two fingers became deeper than the night itself. At the fingertips, a chilling, dark cold light emerged.

The giant beast's head was still rising, its fangs about to touch the black cloak.

Leveraging the momentum of the beast raising its head, Su Chen exerted force from his waist in mid-air. His body completed a crisp, clean somersault.

Head down, feet up.

His right arm, like a venomous dragon emerging from the sea, followed the trajectory locked by his Sharingan and thrust down fiercely.

"Die."

Su Chen shouted lowly.

Rokushiki: Finger Pistol!

"Boom—!"

An extremely dull, strange sound exploded over the swamp.

The sound didn't resemble a sharp blade cutting through flesh; it sounded more like a heavy hammer striking a rusted ancient bell, vibrating one's eardrums until they went numb.

Su Chen's two fingers pierced precisely into that tiny gap.

In the swamp.

Lei Yu stared with wide eyes.

No blood splattered. No scales shattered.

Su Chen's fingers only pierced half an inch into the giant beast's skin before stopping.

"Didn't pierce through?" Lei Yu was stunned for a moment, then let out a shrill, manic laugh, "Hahahaha! I knew it! How could a mortal body break through the Abyss Heavy Armor! He can't even pierce the skin; he's dead!"

The light in Lin Qinghan's eyes dimmed as well. She knew how monstrous the defense of those scales was; physical attacks simply wouldn't work.

But in mid-air, Su Chen's eyes showed no fluctuation.

"Who said I wanted to pierce through it?"

Within a thousandth of a second of his fingers touching the flesh.

Su Chen changed the way he outputted his Haki.

He wasn't pursuing surface penetration. He forced the Armament Haki, which was attached to his fingertips and compressed to the extreme, to inject and penetrate into the giant beast's body!

A high-level Armament Haki technique, the embryonic form of Ryuo (Internal Destruction)!

The violent power of his will detached from his fingertips.

It was like an all-pervading flow of water, directly penetrating the external metal scales that could immunize against elements.

Then, like a detonated high-explosive nuclear bomb, it exploded within the giant beast's defenseless internal organs!

"Boom!"

Destruction from the inside out.

The Mutated Wild Boar, which had been roaring crazily and acting invincible a second ago. Its deafening roar seemed to be instantly cut off by an invisible giant hand.

The sound stopped abruptly.

"Gurgle... gurgle..."

The giant beast's massive body froze abruptly in mid-air.

Its wildly thrashing limbs instantly lost all strength and hung down powerlessly.

Its pair of bloodshot, inverted triangular eyes suddenly bulged outwards. The capillaries around its eye sockets burst completely, and the bloodshot eyeballs were almost popping out of their sockets.

The next second.

"Pfft—!!!"

Dark red blood, mixed with a large amount of internal organ fragments pulverized into pulp.

Like a high-pressure fountain, it gushed wildly from the beast's mouth, nose, ears, and the corners of its eyes! A rain of blood fell across the swamp, making a "pitter-patter" sound.

The giant beast's indestructible exterior didn't have even a single large wound. The scales still shimmered with a cold metallic luster.

But its interior.

That huge mutated heart, and the central spine supporting its massive body.

Had already been completely pulverized into dust under the twisting force of Ryuo!

Its life force was instantly wiped out.

"Boom!!!"

The giant beast lost all its strength, its massive body collapsing like a toppled iron tower, crashing heavily into the muddy water.

Mud splashed in all directions like a tsunami, kicking up a sky full of black water mist. The splashing mud slammed into Lei Yu's face, directly plugging his still-laughing mouth.

The swamp trembled violently, then fell into complete silence.

In mid-air, Su Chen used the reaction force of the beast falling to flip over lightly.

He landed steadily on a piece of deadwood protruding from the swamp.

He slowly retracted his right hand.

The jet-black Haki at his fingertips receded like a tide, returning to his original skin tone. There wasn't a single drop of blood on his two fingers.

A one-hit kill.

In the Mist Forest, it was terrifyingly silent.

Only the "gurgle" sound of blood constantly gushing from the giant beast's mouth and nose echoed in the air.