Sixfold Kaio-ken!

If viewed from satellite imagery, the cloud cover above Antarctica would have been seen vanishing rapidly in an instant. The terrifying thunderstorm was bright enough to be visible even from high above the planet.

Frenzied currents flashed endlessly through the air, streaks of electricity slithering through the atmosphere like enormous serpents.

This was an unprecedented World-Shaking Thunder Roar. Standing in a special place like Antarctica, Bai Cangshu felt his control over the magnetic field becoming stronger than ever before.

This was nearly the first time he had twisted such a massive magnetic field. Rather than relying entirely on his own strength, he directly distorted Antarctica’s magnetic field, combining it with the terrifying currents accumulated in his heart and acupoints.

He unleashed an incomparably terrifying thunderstorm.

Under the stimulation of that intense current and thunderstorm, the black symbiote flesh within Bai Cangshu nearly lost all activity and detached from his body entirely.

Bai Cangshu watched the massive dragon head above him billow with green smoke. After swaying a few times, it was about to fall.

His left hand curled into a claw. His Cloud Dispelling Palm had already reached perfection, and a powerful pulling force instantly dragged the enormous dragon head toward him.

As the most powerful symbiote dragon, Grendel possessed near-top-tier immortality. Relying on the traits of the Living Abyss, even after being defeated by an ancient Thunder God, it still could not be killed.

It could regenerate countless times.

But after enduring millions of years of sealing and losing its connection and resonance with Nal, the God of Symbiotes, it had already weakened to the extreme.

At this moment, its power to drain was nearly gone as well.

Bai Cangshu seized the enormous dragon head, his smile nearly twisting out of shape. He liked that chaotic feeling from earlier. He had a premonition that that chaos was the power he should truly pursue.

It was an untouched pure land, one that had never been polluted!

Then Bai Cangshu bent forward slightly. The muscles of his more than three-meter-tall body bulged one after another as the ki within him and Satsui no Hado began to rise simultaneously.

In an instant, golden ki and scarlet Satsui no Hado burst from his body, surging skyward like a massive jet.

The limits of power were shattered in an instant. His body, energy, and spirit all surpassed their limits at the same time.

Kaio-ken, activate!

Bai Cangshu’s black hair, which had been writhing like long snakes, first froze before blasting upward in a violent reverse sweep.

The symbiote flesh clinging to the outside of his Kirin Armor was the first to tear apart and shatter. A tremendous burden descended, far exceeding anything it had experienced while parasitizing him.

It was as if anything connected to this body was now inside a massive furnace, being smelted alongside it and turned into fuel.

Bai Cangshu trembled from head to toe. He was going to push Kaio-ken to a new realm, using it to turn the flesh of the symbiote Grendel completely into a part of himself.

Under that immense pressure and burden, he would combine the intense vitality forged from the Life Furnace with the Anti-Life matter that had emerged from the Living Abyss.

"Urgh… Aah~!"

An unconscious howl escaped Bai Cangshu’s throat and grew louder and louder. The muscles and veins across his body began to rupture as well.

A bloody mist emanated from within him, quickly dyeing the golden ki shooting into the sky golden-red.

Sixfold Kaio-ken!

Bai Cangshu had actually practiced Kaio-ken within the Swirl of the Root. With his current Lv4 Kaio-ken, he could theoretically push it as high as eightfold, but his body could not withstand it.

Even after activating the First Threshold Release, it was still insufficient to support Eightfold Kaio-ken.

This was the first time he had activated Sixfold Kaio-ken. The horrifying burden and pressure were simply not something an ordinary mortal body could resist.

His agitated ki seemed ready to explode, battering every part of Bai Cangshu’s body from within. His internal organs were nearly destroyed in an instant, his skin turned completely red, and his capillaries almost entirely burst.

But Bai Cangshu, who possessed instant self-healing, paid no heed. It was as if he had detached from his own body. So long as it allowed him to enter a new realm and touch the ultimate power—

No matter how painful it was, he did not care!

"Ha!"

He spread his arms, his entire body seeming to be pierced through by the ki erupting from inside out. Ki possessed both exaggerated outward destructive power and the ability to strengthen its user.

However, when applied to one’s own flesh, it generated an immense burden. If it had to be described, it was like using a road roller to compress one’s flesh and blood bit by bit until it became extremely dense.

If the body’s strength was insufficient, entire chunks would explode.

Bang!

Bai Cangshu turned his head and watched his right arm explode into a cloud of blood with a bang. His flawless control of force fell into disorder, and large amounts of bloody mist soon burst forth from all over his body.

He waited no longer. His already nearly distorted smile twisted further as he opened his mouth, his jaw seeming to dislocate and allowing it to open to an unbelievable extent.

Roar!

Grendel sensed his intentions, but it could only let out an unconscious roar now. The next moment, it was bitten in one mouthful!

Crunch!

Bai Cangshu bit into the black symbiote flesh. It probably tasted no different from clay figurines, except its texture was icy cold.

If Grendel could be killed, allowing him to use the Chef skill on its symbiote tissue as an ingredient, he would probably have spent some time making Grendel taste better.

That thought surfaced in Bai Cangshu’s mind. In truth, the Chef skill had an extremely high ceiling, but Bai Cangshu rarely considered improving his abilities in such areas.

Nearly all his resources had been turned into nourishment for this body and its terrifying destructive power.

Crunch!

Bai Cangshu chewed great mouthfuls of Grendel’s flesh, actually intending to forcibly eat back the massive dragon head that had been pulled from his body!

The tissue that had appeared on the surface of his body after being parasitized had already been continuously dying and falling away under the terrifying burden of Sixfold Kaio-ken. Yet now, it was being replenished through this method.

Crunch! Crunch!

Bai Cangshu swallowed with immense force. Rather than a human, his more than three-meter-tall body now resembled some alien species.

Grendel’s enormous dragon head finally fell into Bai Cangshu’s hands. His exploded right arm had regenerated, and perhaps because it had received new nourishment, Bai Cangshu’s newly formed right hand was entirely black.

After he directly granted the Haki system to Parker, his flesh had become black once more.

This flesh tissue completely fused with his body, displaying a new level of strength.

It was as though a biological alloy had been added to his flesh.

Bai Cangshu felt that this new right arm, whether in hardness or toughness, far surpassed the old one.

Boom!

The might of Sixfold Kaio-ken erupted completely. Ki shot into the sky, directly scattering all the clouds above Antarctica.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

A tremendous sound like pounding war drums echoed above Antarctica.

Bai Cangshu spread his arms and tilted his head back slightly. Feeling the peerless violence within his body, he was more satisfied than ever before.

"This is… power~"

Then a crimson radiance appeared in Bai Cangshu’s hand. It was the Origin Substance known as Crimson Hymn.

It was a foundational power of the true infinite multiverse.

Holding it in his hand, he seemed able to feel that power capable of purifying everything.

Warning, Special Reincarnator Ex051, you have consumed an unknown active substance. This will cause irreversible effects on your body.

Would you like to use the Special Creation: Origin Substance: Crimson Hymn to repair the damaged Life Ladder?

Attention: If you use Origin Substance: Crimson Hymn, you will be marked by the Primordial Dragon Court and the Life Court. This action is irreversible.

Bai Cangshu sneered. Just how badly did the space want this Origin Substance? It gave so many warnings every single time.

"Use it."