Chapter 81: The Cyclops and the Centaur

Han Li's figure flickered, and the faint silver light flowing on the translucent membrane covering his body stabilized his form.

The immense power contained in the opponent's punch startled him, but thanks to the astonishing defense of his True Extreme Physique, it caused no damage to his flesh.

His gaze swept over, and his pupils contracted slightly.

Standing several hundred zhang away was a yellow-skinned giant, at least two to three hundred zhang tall, covered in strange spiritual patterns. His face was extremely ugly, with a flat nose and a wide mouth. Most peculiar of all, he had no eyes, only a massive vertical single eye, its gray pupil flickering with murky light.

The giant appeared dazed, but exuded a primeval aura comparable to a True Immortal, causing Han Li's eyelids to twitch involuntarily.

This had nothing to do with the depth of the opponent's cultivation; it was entirely an intuitive feeling.

Seeing that Han Li was completely unharmed after taking his punch, the Cyclops was momentarily stunned, then let out a roar. A large yellow light emerged on his body surface, and he charged through the void toward Han Li.

Seeing this, Han Li quickly chanted incantations. Golden light radiated from his body as he swelled in size, transforming into a golden-furred giant ape over twenty zhang tall.

Seven blue star patterns appeared on the giant ape's chest and abdomen, shining brightly and emitting a vast expanse of starlight, which intermingled with the golden light on its body, causing its frame to grow even larger.

Its large hand clenched into a fist, its arm suddenly thickening, and it punched through the void toward the charging Cyclops.

The void in front twisted violently, and a mountain-like golden fist shadow emerged, mixed with traces of starlight, making the fist shadow almost solid.

The giant roared, not stopping his steps, and swung a massive fist, lightning-fast, to meet the golden fist shadow.

With a thunderous roar that shook the earth and mountains!

This time, the Cyclops's massive body was sent flying backward, falling from the sky like a meteor and crashing heavily onto the island.

The entire island shook violently, a huge crater formed, and dust filled the air.

The golden-furred giant ape's figure flickered and appeared above the crater the next moment. Its two ape arms blurred, conjuring countless overlapping golden fist shadows that rained down.

The Cyclops barely managed to flip over and leap up from the ground, seemingly uninjured, but with a furious expression, he let out a low growl and stomped the ground hard.

Strange yellow patterns emerged on his body surface, emitting a crystalline yellow light that quickly spread to the surrounding ground.

Crack, crack, crack!

Where the crystalline yellow light spread, the soil on the nearby ground immediately shattered, turning into countless yellow crystal sands. They flew up as if sentient, winding around his body in circles, instantly forming a tough yellow crystal sand armor on him.

A sudden crackling sound like rain hitting banana leaves arose!

Countless golden fist shadows crashed onto the Cyclops, bursting into dense golden halos and shattering.

The Cyclops didn't move an inch, and the crystal sand armor on his body was completely unscathed.

Seeing this, the golden-furred giant ape was momentarily stunned, then quickly retreated backward.

The giant's single eye coldly watched the ape in midair. He raised his foot and stomped again, and the yellow spiritual patterns on his body flashed.

With a hum, rings of yellow ripples spread, instantly covering an area of over ten li.

The giant ape, mid-flight, suddenly felt his body grow heavy, the surrounding gravity abruptly increasing severalfold. As if pulled down by an invisible hand, he could no longer stay in the air and fell toward the ground.

Gravity manipulation! Han Li's heart skipped a beat.

But the moment this thought arose, the giant ape he had transformed into crashed heavily to the ground, sinking down, his feet plunging several zhang into the earth, sending countless stones flying.

Almost immediately, the Cyclops appeared before him, a yellow giant fist striking toward the cornered ape with earth-shattering force.

The fist stirred up a fierce gale, leaving a huge white streak in the void.

The golden-furred giant ape crossed his arms, instantly covering them with dense golden scales.

With a loud bang!

The giant ape felt a tremendous force transmitted through his arms to his entire body. His frame shook violently, sinking another zhang into the ground.

The Cyclops's figure swayed slightly, and his two massive fists blurred, sending countless giant fist shadows raining down on the ape like a storm.

Helpless, the giant ape could only wave his arms continuously to block, inwardly groaning in distress.

Although his physical body was tough and he was not afraid of the opponent's attacks, under the increased gravity, he could not break free for the moment. His body kept sinking, and now his waist was almost entirely buried in the ground.

If this continued, he would be buried alive by the opponent.

Just then, a sudden change occurred!

A hundred zhang behind the Cyclops, a spatial fluctuation arose, and a hundred-zhang-tall half-human, half-horse beast silently leaped out, its entire body wrapped in a green gale.

Its body was dark green, the lower half like a fine horse, but without hair, covered instead with thick green scales. The upper half was a muscular naked man, and astonishingly, on its shoulders were three identical heads lined up side by side.

As soon as it appeared, still in midair, one of its muscular arms raised high, holding a several-dozen-zhang-long blue lightning spear, and hurled it fiercely toward the Cyclops's back.

Blue arcs of electricity danced wildly on the spear like boiling water. With a flash of light in the air, it stabbed abruptly behind the Cyclops.

The giant was focused on fighting the ape Han Li had transformed into. When he sensed the change behind him, it was too late to dodge.

He let out a fierce shout, and the spiritual patterns on his body simultaneously shone with yellow light. The earth within several li trembled violently, and the yellow crystal sand on the ground behind him flew up, intertwining to form a brown sand wall behind him.

With a soft thud.

The blue lightning spear easily pierced through the sand wall and stabbed into the Cyclops's body.

Then came a loud boom!

The blue lightning spear blazed with light, countless arcs of electricity shot out, and it exploded directly.

The Cyclops let out a miserable roar. A large hole was blasted in his upper abdomen, with large amounts of reddish-brown blood splattering around the wound.

The half-human, half-horse beast flashed backward and landed several hundred zhang away. All three faces showed a hint of joy, but it quickly froze.

Because he found that the lightning spear had not pierced the giant's heart as he had expected, but had gone through his upper abdomen. Even after exploding, it failed to deliver a fatal blow.

It turned out that the moment the lightning spear pierced the sand wall, the Cyclops had raised the ground by several zhang by controlling the crystal sand, barely avoiding the vital spot.

Even so, the giant was still seriously injured. Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and large patches of crystal sand fell off his body, revealing irregular patches, making him look like a dilapidated old wall weathered by erosion.

Due to this sudden turn of events, the gravity field surrounding the area suddenly relaxed. Without a word, the giant ape Han Li had transformed into leaped out of the pit and, with a few flashes, landed several hundred zhang away.

When his gaze swept over the centaur beast, his pupils contracted slightly.

From the aura emanating from the opponent, combined with its talent for concealment, it was likely related to how he had been knocked into this bubble space earlier.

He did not act hastily but focused his attention on the two monsters before him.

At this moment, the centaur beast leaped forward with its four hooves, a gale swirling around it, and charged toward the Cyclops. In its hands, it had recondensed a lightning spear, thrusting it rapidly toward the giant's back.

A look of brutality flashed in the Cyclops's eye. He suddenly roared, and light blazed from his entire body.

Countless yellow crystal sands filled the air and gathered together. The moment the centaur beast approached, they transformed into hundreds of dark yellow spikes that shot toward it.

Loud sounds of air being rent!

A flicker of surprise passed through the centaur beast's six eyes. Green light radiated from its body, and it swung the lightning spear horizontally in front of itself. Countless lightning threads shot out, instantly forming a huge lightning net to block in front.

Bang, bang, bang...

The yellow spikes continuously struck the blue lightning net, producing a series of collision roars. Pushed back by the impact, the centaur beast retreated a hundred zhang.

But after this attack, the Cyclops couldn't help opening his mouth wide and spitting out a mouthful of reddish-brown blood. The anger in his single eye intensified.

He warily glanced at the golden-furred giant ape on the other side, then twisted his massive body and retreated a hundred zhang, forming a triangular standoff with the ape and the centaur beast.

At the hole in his abdomen, a swirling vortex of earthy yellow light slowly appeared. As it rotated, the color of the flesh around the wound gradually changed from red to black, directly turning into rock, reflecting a faint light.

Not only that, as the vortex continued to rotate, the area of rock at the wound grew larger, like ice forming on a lake, quickly sealing the hole completely.

Seeing this, Han Li's body flashed with golden light and rapidly shrank, reverting to human form. With a twist of his wrist, a purple Taiyi Purification Talisman suddenly appeared between his fingers.

With a flash of purple light, his figure gradually became blurry and then disappeared on the spot.

The Cyclops was momentarily stunned at this sight.

The centaur beast, seeing Han Li suddenly vanish, rolled its six eyes and simultaneously showed a strange expression. Then, turning its six eyes, it looked at the Cyclops, a fierce light flickering in them.