Chapter 546: Chapter 41 Indomitable Spirit_2

“Stop looking down on people, you scum!”

The raider’s roar was like that of a giant beast; his heart harbored not a shred of reason, only destruction, attack, and a motherfucking intent to kill! He was determined to use every means necessary to thoroughly kill the woman who dared to provoke his dignity!

“Haahh!”

The resurgent girl let out a clear scream. She too went all out, leaving no room for retreat. She said she would bring this enemy down, and so she would shatter his will, fighting honorably until he was utterly defeated!

The bicolor chain lightning emerged once more, as both fighters in the intense battle surpassed their previous limits. Budman used every trick at his disposal, no longer deploying his deciphered Annihilation Cannon to conserve strength; instead, he used the techniques he had just plundered.

Attack, punch, a relentless offense completely abandoning defense. The force of his fists shattered the glass on either side of the road but was dodged in advance by the girl. Devious attacks were countered by even swifter moves, Budman’s three consecutive strikes missing their mark!

“You…!”

He realized the reason. Rashamon had grown stronger!

Rashamon’s physical strength was greatly diminished, just as weak as he had been before his regeneration. But her technique had altered, becoming more refined, more vicious, more swift. Just like he had taken Rashamon’s special skills…

This woman was also plundering his techniques. Not by power, but by her natural talent!

“—Don’t be joking!”

Budman clenched his fists and swung them like hammers in a horizontal strike. Qin Qianbai leaped up on one foot, using the raider’s wrist as a fulcrum. Four black darts appeared between her fingers, and in an instant, they were embedded in Budman’s shoulders. Blood burst from the girl’s shoulders as well, but her movements didn’t halt!

Her right leg chopped down fiercely again, hitting the shoulder, driving the darts deeper, and breaking the raider’s stance! Budman’s hands parted from the pain, and seizing the momentary opening as she landed, her fists struck like lightning, hitting Budman’s chest three times. The mystical force did not affect the surroundings but hammered deeply into Budman’s flesh. Then the girl spun around, kicking the burly man away with her left foot!

Qin Qianbai’s series of movements flowed smoothly, but the damage equally reflected back on her, causing her injured body to pause slightly. Budman’s huge form flew toward a temple-like building, and with continuous booming sounds, he broke through eight load-bearing columns in two seconds, immediately shattering the stone roof overhead and burying him.

Budman burst out of the rubble, just beginning to heal himself when he saw the blur of the girl’s charging figure.

Having sustained the same damage, Qin Qianbai’s reaction speed was faster than his.

Budman understood the reason. It was simple: synchronized damage meant he could anticipate where he would be hit. Therefore, by being prepared to take the hit, he could turn the tables and use this mechanism to seize the initiative!

“Alright! Then let’s fight to the death!!!”

Budman slowed the rate at which he healed his body, concentrating the little energy he had left on synchronizing damage and counterattacks. Striking, pounding, hammering—the speed of the attack frictions against the air, generating heat, evaporating the curtain of rain into steam, transforming the battlefield into an inferno of fiery red. The fierce gale scrubbed at everything, leaving no remnants of any buildings, turning bricks, trees, and all into charred ruins amidst the high temperature!

Under the rapidly increasing temperature, both parties’ attacks hit each other’s bodies simultaneously. Qin Qianbai’s straight punch sent Budman flying five meters, and she herself took an elbow strike from him. The synchronized damage ability activated, doubling the pain and pressure on the girl’s delicate frame, subjecting her to agony and stress far beyond what she had previously endured.

But she didn’t cry out in pain, nor did she fall; she merely gritted her teeth, enduring it in silence, throwing punches, stepping forward, ready to fight again!

Because to her, this was nothing at all.

From early childhood, she had been practicing martial arts, getting injured while learning, getting injured during sparring, enduring injuries while researching techniques, and getting injured while conditioning her body. She endured the pain under waterfalls, fell from cliffs, survived in the forest, and walked in the deep sea. Bearing the pain, she turned it into nourishment for growing stronger.

Then came fighting in the ring, where every fight had to be won. Her opponents were much older and far more cunning than her. Each time she encountered different techniques, often struck by those unfamiliar skills, and she had withstood attacks more powerful than hidden strikes. It was by overcoming all these hardships that she was able to possess the power she had today.

Merely pain and pressure…

“I’ve long since, gotten used to it!”

The battle continued relentlessly! It had started in the center of the district, but now they were at the edge of the Fixed Wing District. Budman howled as he unleashed the Annihilation Cannon in a sneak attack, and the girl who couldn’t control the refraction of the air quickly dodged to the side. The raider’s light and fire went out in a flash as his long-charged right uppercut came from below, aiming for the girl’s head.

This was a precisely calculated sneak attack, and Budman was utterly confident that this punch could break through any barrier. Air strengthening would be useless to stop it, and the only interception possible would be with her body!

The uppercut connected, but the girl didn’t fly away; she spun in place like a windmill! The feel of the punch informed Budman of a fact he’d never anticipated—Rashamon had not altered air or other materials; she applied her ability to her own body. Seconds before, Qin Qianbai had altered the properties of her skin and bones… With a near self-destructive recklessness, she achieved an almost perfect deflection!