Naked Sword Art

'There's no way it expects me to fight whatever is in that swamp.'

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Just when he thought of retreating, Xiao Fang saw the Abnormal Cannibal Beast break down a tree and hold it over its head. It then began to aim it as if it were going to throw it into the swamp.

Xiao Fang thought the Abnormal Cannibal Beast had lost its mind, but he still stuck around to see if its attack would work.

In the next moment the Abnormal Cannibal Beast threw the tree like a spear, making it travel as fast as the speed of sound.

Boom!

The tree travelled deep into the swamp hitting whatever beast was down there.

'Did it work?' Xiao Fang wondered.

Suddenly, a loud screeching sound could be heard coming from within the swamp, it seemed the beast was hurt.

Xiao Fang was surprised since the attack didn't seem very strong, but he was aware that a few beasts naturally had weaker defenses despite their high tiers. Xiao Fang no longer thought that the fight was hopeless.

In the next moment, several beasts began to emerge from out of the swamp, and they all had terrifying decomposed appearances. Xiao Fang hadn't been able to see for very long, so these beasts were by far the most hideous creatures he had ever seen.

Xiao Fang's sword radiated a chilling aura, making the Abnormal Cannibal Beast unconsciously take a step away from him. While the Abnormal Cannibal Beast was distracted by Xiao Fang's sword, a venomous snake with a mouth that was 2 meters wide shot straight towards the Abnormal Cannibal Beast.

[ Divine Sword Cutting Air ]

The Divine Sword Qi was unexpected and too fast for it to dodge, luckily it just barely missed the Abnormal Cannibal Beast, but it cut the venomous Snake-like beast behind it in half.

Seeing that Xiao Fang had saved it, it once again felt indebted to him, but more importantly, it knew that Xiao Fang didn't see him as an enemy.

Since becoming a Cannibal beast, it had tried several times to regain its authority in the forest, but seeing its red eyes, none of the other beasts wanted to serve it. They would all rather die than ally themselves with it. Xiao Fang was the only person that didn't treat it like an enemy, so it felt a small bond towards him. Also, Xiao Fang had saved its life more than once, so it knew he wanted to form some kind of alliance with it too.

Xiao Fang's body shifted then disappeared. When he reappeared again, he began cutting away at the numerous tiered beasts that were coming out of the swamp.

It seemed that it wasn't just the abnormal beast that had a weak defense, all the beasts that were coming out of the swamp, all had incredibly weak bodies as well. Xiao Fang assumed that their poisonous attacks compensated for the lack of defense, but Xiao Fang didn't want to test it out.

Seeing Xiao Fang kill the poisonous beasts left right and center, the Abnormal Cannibal Beast also went into action. However, before it could throw another tree, Xiao Fang sent it another spirit transmission.

["Aim for the big one in the swamp."]

The Abnormal Cannibal Beast understood what he said, so he began to aim it back at the swamp. After spotting the large abnormal beast, he threw the tree trunk at it again, but this time Xiao Fang didn't hear it screeching like before.

'Did he kill it?' Xiao Fang thought, but then he could see it moving within the swamp.

The Abnormal Cannibal Beast quickly cut another tree down and was about to throw it.

Suddenly, toxic gas began to rise up from the swamp and it permeated the air. Xiao Fang coughed as he inhaled some of it, so he held his breath, but it still made his eyes water. However, the most frightening thing about the gas was that it was invigorating the 8th and 9th tiered beasts coming out of the swamp. It seemed that they only thrived in toxic environments.

Xiao Fang had to attack less as more energy was used for dodging. He already had a bit of the toxic gas in his lungs and it brought him so much pain, he didn't want to risk getting hit by another poisonous attack. He could only hold his breath for so long, so one way or another, he needed to end this quickly.

Seeing that the Abnormal Cannibal Beast was prepared to throw another tree trunk, Xiao Fang quickly returned to it then cut the end of the tree into a sharp point before jumping on top of it.

["Throw it,"] Xiao Fang said.

The Abnormal Cannibal Beast didn't understand why he was telling it to throw the tree trunk while he was still on it, but he only hesitated for a moment before doing as he said.

The tree travelled much faster than before because it was pointed, and it cut much deeper into the swamp when it hit. The Abnormal Beast within the swamp tried to avoid the attack again, but it was too fast it couldn't avoid it.

The attack not only hit, but it had also pierced through its body. Once again, the abnormal beast screeched, but this time it was even louder. The sound was painful to Xiao Fang's ears, but it told him exactly where the abnormal beast was.

[ Solid Clone ]

The abnormal beast had 9 tentacles, but a proportionally small head. Since the tree trunk had pierced one of its tentacles, it was easy for Xiao Fang's Solid Clone to grab it. The moment it did, it immediately started to electrocute it to paralyze its body, but that wasn't the reason why he made the clone grab it.

In the next moment, Xiao Fang swung his sword down, severing the part of the tentacle that was pinned down by the log. At the same time, his Solid Clone used all its might to throw the abnormal beast up out of the swamp.

Despite only putting its hands on the abnormal beast for less than a second, the solid clone's hands were quickly dissolving back into Illusory Qi. Seeing that gave Xiao Fang a slight chill because it gave him an idea of how terrifyingly poisonous the abnormal beast's skin was.

The gargantuan squid-like abnormal beast attracted all of the beast's attention as it was thrown high up out of the swamp and towards the forest. At the same time, Xiao Fang could be seen jumping up after it.

Xiao Fang held the hilt of his sword tightly, as a fierce look could be seen in his eyes. He didn't execute his Divine Sword technique right away because he wanted to get closer to it. If it were any other abnormal beast, perhaps killing it in one blow would've been impossible, but he knew it had a weak body especially when it wasn't in a toxic environment, so he knew he could kill it in one blow if he got close enough.

However, a purple orb of light began to form out of its mouth as if it were charging an attack.

The Abnormal Cannibal Beast could guess what was coming just like Xiao Fang did, so it quickly cut a tree down to help Xiao Fang, but it was too late.

In the next moment, a powerful beam of toxic swamp Qi shot straight towards Xiao Fang. Since he was in the air, it was impossible for him to dodge what was coming. So the Abnormal Cannibal Beast could only watch as Xiao Fang's inevitable end quickly neared.

Suddenly, Xiao Fang changed the hold on his sword as he twisted his wrist slightly to a certain degree. Despite the hopeless situation he seemed to be in, there was no fear in his eyes. Only the look of a predator staring down a prey.

[ Divine Sword Cutting Sea ]

A flash of lightning came out of his sword before a terrifyingly powerful projectile cut right through the liquid poisonous Qi and the Abnormal beast. The attack was so powerful, the Cannibal Abnormal Beast couldn't believe what it was seeing.

Since the poisonous abnormal beast's defenses were so low, the attack might've been overkill, but it was necessary to avoid getting even a single drop of poison on his body.

While the [ Divine Sword Cutting Air ] technique had a limited range of 5 meters, his [ Divine Sword Cutting Sea ] technique was a projectile attack, so it could reach almost 10 times further.

When the poisonous abnormal beast's body crashed into the trees, Xiao Fang landed next to it soon after.

The Abnormal Cannibal Beast, in its 2 meters tall humanoid form, had an almost human-like expression of shock on its face. It didn't think Xiao Fang could cut through liquids, or else he wouldn't have been able to survive against him in their first encounter.

Although, the Abnormal Cannibal Beast was right. Xiao Fang had recently learned this technique so that he could use it against the Abnormal Cannibal Beast in case he wanted to retreat under water like the first time they fought.

Xiao Fang didn't entirely trust the Cannibal Abnormal Beast, so he didn't want to use this hand, but since he had no other choice, he was forced to use it. Luckily, it didn't seem like he needed to worry about the Abnormal Cannibal Beast betraying him after working so well with it in this fight.

Xiao Fang cut the abnormal beast to find the core. Once he did, he created a [ Solid Clone ] to extract it out of the Abnormal Beast. Almost immediately after the clone touched it, its hands once again began to dissolve back into Qi. Not only that, but Xiao Fang began to notice the ground around the beast begin to turn black and decompose.

'Scary,' Xiao Fang thought.

After cleaning away the blood from the beast core, his eyes widened in surprise by what he saw.

"It's..."