Chapter 54: Trashemoth
Yuan leapfrogged his way to the trashemoth and left a trainwreck of devastation in his wake.
His duel with Gayak had already given him a taste of what his Third Coil-level body could achieve, but the last few days of cycling unlocked its full potential. Where Yuan once needed momentum to fly a few meters ahead, he now had to tone down his strength so as not to fly away. He could have easily leaped over a hill with barely any effort.
Combining these immense jumps with the Recoil Fist resulted in quite the lethal combination. Yuan simply had to activate the technique upon landing on an enemy car to maximize its impact and then immediately jump away to the next target. The plastic men perished by the dozens, their vehicles shattered to pieces, their projectiles bouncing off his steel skin. They fared no better against Yuan than his old team did against Slash.
They were Scraps to him.
Many considered the Third Coil to be the moment when cultivators moved beyond the reach of ordinary men, and living through it confirmed it to Yuan. His reflexes had sharpened so much that he could see rubber bullets fly at him at what seemed like an agonizingly slow pace. Most hit him because he didn’t bother dodging. They did nothing to him. The few First Coil cultivators among their numbers were hardly a blip on his radar either. A Recoil Shockwave crushed them like their kindred, and their attempt to harpoon him simply resulted in their weapons shattering against his chest.
They simply couldn’t hurt him.
Slash had allowed himself to be shot. The realization only infuriated Yuan. His killer could have dodged his last bullet without any effort, yet decided to mock his victim by playing along and then crushing his hope.
Yuan almost sympathized with the plastic men. Though he held no hesitation at tearing through them after they’d launched an unprovoked attack against him and his allies, he had been in their place more often than not. He didn’t make a show of slaughtering his way through their forces. He simply did it.
A great shadow passed over him, and a giant claw moved down to crush him.