“Next is the third punch!”
The Devil giant’s face was already shattered. Its body collapsed to the ground. It let out a terrifying roar and swiftly leaped back up. Its massive frame was countless times larger than the One Punch Heroic Spirit. Yet at this moment, that ant-like little man was brutally beating it. The Devil giant’s eyes captured the One Punch Heroic Spirit’s figure. The bald man had landed on the ground, crouching for a leap as he charged towards it.
The Devil extended its intact left arm, lunging forward to grab the One Punch Heroic Spirit.
But just as its enormous palm was about to envelop the One Punch Heroic Spirit’s body, the One Punch Heroic Spirit vanished. He vanished because he had begun his attack. Splash. Like a mountain peak crumbling, the Devil’s entire massive right arm cracked open!
The One Punch Heroic Spirit had pierced straight through the Devil’s entire arm with his formidable physique!
“Fourth punch!”
The Devil, now missing an arm and a hand, staggered, struggling to maintain balance. Its terrifying face was filled with fear. Its eyes darted left and right, searching for the bald Heroic Spirit’s figure.
Saitama, having destroyed the Devil giant’s right arm, now floated behind the Devil. He was in mid-air. He took a deep breath and punched downward.
That seemingly insignificant fist landed on the demonic turtle’s spine. The Devil giant’s form completely imitated Ye Chui’s green giant. Even its bodily structure seemed to have transformed into human bones and flesh. But when this punch struck the Devil’s massive back, bang, bang, bang. The Devil’s back continuously cracked. Bone-like objects burst out from its body.
Accompanied by countless puppet beasts and tiny puppet people that the Devil had previously swallowed and absorbed.
The Devil giant’s enormous body crashed to the ground with a boom. The earth shook. Even the Puppet God’s divine body trembled restlessly. The Devil giant’s body had directly smashed a massive crater into the Puppet God’s facial plain!
The red turtle-pattern battle armour imitating Turtle Baby’s defence on the Devil giant shattered with a splash.
“Fifth punch!”
The One Punch Heroic Spirit landed on the ground and walked towards the Devil giant, half its body buried in the earth. On his usually listless face, a hint of interest finally appeared.
The Devil giant was gravely injured. If it were truly human, such wounds would be fatal. Its spine was nearly punched out of its body. It should be unable to move. But it was not truly human after all. With its body trembling, it supported itself up once more. “Impossible. How can it be this strong? I’m controlling Land Angel. This is the Church’s most powerful weapon. Impossible…”
The One Punch Heroic Spirit had already walked beneath the Devil giant. His right fist punched upward without any momentum.
Boom!
The Devil giant’s unimaginably heavy body was lifted off the ground. Its chest nearly completely ruptured. Its body was hurled into the air, even touching the chaos in the sky.
Chaos was a terrifying thing, the opposing rule to space and order. Even something as powerful as the Devil instantly lost all resistance when its body invaded the chaotic realm. Terrifying bolts of lightning burst across the Devil’s back, dissolving its body. Its ruined form struggled against the chaos’s erosion. But at that moment, it saw the One Punch Heroic Spirit appear before it.
Chaos enveloped the One Punch Heroic Spirit. Lightning swirled around him.
That body, which should only be human, remained unscathed in the chaos.
Of course, the One Punch Heroic Spirit looked somewhat uncomfortable. He curiously examined the lightning coiling around him. But the chaos’s harm to him was, at most, discomfort. Chaos could not injure him!
Chaos was a rule-based power, the chaotic abyss rule opposing space order. The One Punch Heroic Spirit, regardless of his original attributes, after being summoned by Ye Chui as a Heroic Spirit in this world, possessed the ultimate destruction rule. That rule carried invincibility and certain-kill attributes. Thus, the chaos rule could not affect him at all.
He looked at the utterly ruined demonic turtle giant, raising his fist once more. A pleased smile appeared on his face.
When was the last time he could fight this exhilaratingly? I’m so happy. Big red tall monster, please don’t die too easily.
“Sixth punch!”
In the control room inside the Puppet God’s head, the scenes on the light screens left everyone speechless. Shock? Frustration? Or simply awe at this battle?
Green subconsciously wiped his bald head, trying to make it as shiny as One Punch Man’s.
Fazhe clenched his fist tightly. His aged face tensed. At this moment, he felt like a frog at the bottom of a well. He had once thought himself so powerful, even regretting not leaving the Tidal Empire to challenge other experts in the world. But now he realised what the Tidal Empire’s top expert meant. The Tidal was just a small island nation. The world’s ultimate power was like this!
In his old age, he had tasted love’s flavour. Now he had found his next goal to strive for. He would work to become stronger. This youthful feeling made him so happy he nearly teared up!
Neil, Evans, Bart, Fiore, Kerrigan, and the others had felt unspeakable anxiety and worry when the red Devil giant appeared. They thought the enemy was too powerful. How could Ye Chui win?
Now their thoughts were: The enemy is too pitiful. Isn’t this bald Heroic Spirit Ye Chui summoned a bit excessive?
The atmosphere at the scene was solemn.
Then.
“Crunch!”
Everyone instinctively looked towards the sound from Guni. It was Guni biting into barbecue.
“So delicious. This sea magical beast’s bones are even soft,” the big-eating girl said with a greasy mouth.
“Suddenly feel hungry. Give me a piece too,” Fazhe said sheepishly.
The battle in the Puppet Graveyard continued. In the outside world, a day and night had passed. It was now the evening of the second day.
Due to the various events in the capital, the Heavenly Emperor and Empress dead, over half the Ancestral Temple destroyed, the capital’s citizens were filled with worry. They spontaneously gathered outside the Ancestral Temple, kneeling in prayer, hoping to invoke the Ancestral God’s mercy and calm the capital’s unrest.
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Mad Dragon Clan Leader Sheras’s injuries had mostly healed. He led many dark swordsmen and guards from the Mad Dragon Institute to guard outside the Ancestral Temple. Fazhe’s puppet army also stationed around. Several top imperial space grandmagisters busied in the Ancestral Temple ruins, seeking the truth of what happened.
The several witch attendants had long been detained and interrogated, but the terrified women could say nothing.
In this tense moment, the originally clear sky suddenly clouded over. Thunder flickered among the clouds, bringing a great ominous feeling.
Sheras narrowed his aged eyes at the muffled thunder in the sky, sensing something.
“This is heavenly punishment triggered by violating forbidden rule power! I’ve seen it when Teacher Fazhe fought. Someone is entering the forbidden realm! Who? Not Teacher Fazhe. The punishment from Teacher Fazhe’s emergency realm is far from this powerful…”
The Puppet Graveyard was a separate world space, isolated from the greater world outside.
In the greater world, if power reached or exceeded this world’s forbidden rule limit, heavenly punishment would descend. Some separate world spaces were strong enough to block this forbidden punishment, like fragments of the divine realm. In those fragment worlds, forbidden rules could not affect, so Gordo in the Buried Sword Land could grow into a Sword Saint.
But some worlds were not as strong as the divine realm. The Puppet Graveyard could not.
In the Puppet Graveyard, merely touching the forbidden realm was not enough to trigger the outside world’s punishment, like Fazhe’s level. But when violating the forbidden was too powerful, the outside world’s forbidden rules would be fully triggered, as now.
Boom.
A massive thunderbolt nearly enveloping the entire Ancestral Temple range descended from the sky, carrying void-shattering might!
Several space grandmagisters searching in the Ancestral Temple sensed the overhead thunder. Their faces turned deathly pale. Under that terrifying power, they could not even muster resistance will. But the massive thunderbolt ultimately did not strike them. Because at the last moment before descent, space finally shattered. Glass-like cracks appeared overhead. A rift opened there. Thunder poured in.
The punishment thunder pierced space, forcibly tearing open the Puppet Graveyard’s separate world space, irrigating terrifying power into it!
“What kind of power could trigger such a phenomenon!?” Mad Dragon Sheras watched the thunder pouring into the shattered space, his face full of shocked awe!
“Seventh punch!”
When endless thunder suddenly tore space and appeared over the One Punch Heroic Spirit’s body, he was raising his fist to deliver the final punch Ye Chui had redeemed.
The Devil giant’s body had turned into a puddle of mud, trembling as it tried to crawl from the ground. Its Devil face was utterly ruined. Its two massive Devil horns completely broken. Its face full of fear and unwillingness. When its red eyes reflected the descending One Punch Heroic Spirit delivering the seventh punch, and the endless thunder behind him, it felt despair at this moment.
Yes, with endless life, born from void, nearly unkillable, the Devil that caused the Gods Clan’s fall felt despair at this moment.
That punch descended.
Carrying terrifying punishment thunder.
Boom boom boom.
Compared to the Puppet God’s body, the thunder was not huge. But if someone watched the Puppet Graveyard as an outsider now, it would be like pressing a cigarette butt directly onto a half-foot-tall figurine’s face.
Gilga’s golden sword energy enveloped Ye Chui, Debbie, Turtle Baby, desperately preventing fallout. In the dazzling thunder light, they saw the Devil giant’s body collapsing, dissipating. Every part of its body crumbled. Cracked fragments turned to ash under thunder and one punch power. Ash turned to void.
When everything finally settled, a large chunk was directly missing from the Puppet God’s divine body face. Severely disfigured. Exposing underlying puppet components and flickering magic runes. To disfigure the Puppet God of the Gods Clan showed how terrifying the attack was.
Ye Chui scanned the magic book screen, searching for the Devil’s figure, unsure if the battle had completely eradicated it.
The One Punch Heroic Spirit, clothes tattered, lightly landed beside Ye Chui. He looked somewhat dishevelled but absolutely uninjured. Just tired. Ye Chui’s unlocked power was exhausted. He was now no different from an ordinary person. He looked at the slowly healing rift in the sky, somewhat puzzled why he had been struck by lightning just now.
“It’s been a long time since I had this much fun. Your place here is really interesting,” he said candidly to Ye Chui. In his world, he was set as invincible. That was truly lonely.
“There are plenty more guys at that level here. I’ll call you again next time for help,” Ye Chui said with a chuckle.
“It’s a deal,” the One Punch Heroic Spirit said expectantly.
But at that moment, Ye Chui’s expression suddenly changed. He saw a red dot rapidly moving on the magic book map. It was the Devil!
The Devil was not dead yet!
Too fast. Before Ye Chui could react, a small clump of red jelly-like slime monster suddenly rushed over. It landed on the One Punch Heroic Spirit and rapidly enveloped him.
“Hahaha.” The Devil’s hoarse, weak yet arrogant voice rang out. “I swallowed him. Now his power is mine. Hahaha. This sturdy body, and that utterly unreasonable terrifying power. You’re finished. You’re finished. Even if he’s your Heroic Spirit, once swallowed by me, you can’t summon him again. Haha, hahaha.”
“”
Watching the slime layer envelop the One Punch Heroic Spirit, then wriggle, slowly turning into a red One Punch Teacher form. Bald head with twin horns, looking utterly evil. The shock on Ye Chui’s face slowly turned to amusement. “So it was just swallowing.”
“This powerful force I can’t imitate. But swallowing is enough. This power, hahahaha.” The One Punch Devil laughed triumphantly, examining its body.
Ye Chui had already walked towards it.
The One Punch Devil immediately raised its fist, preparing to attack.
Then, slap. Ye Chui slapped the One Punch Devil’s body, sending it spinning away!
“Not every bald guy is that strong.”
