Chapter 157 - Pipe Explosion!

This azure color, it’s always been present!

Could this mean that the consecutive external stimuli caused the azure substance in his right forelimb to become a regular part of him?

Remember, the azure substance on the exoskeleton was able to resist sniper rifle bullets during the previous coastal battle!

And now it’s present in the front segment of his blade-like horns, this isn’t a simple change!

Jia Yan’s eyes brightened even more!

If his conjecture is correct, this azure substance is the effect of the deep blue crystal he obtained from the subterranean world of Huaxia on his body.

Although he wasn’t the one who initiated the fusion process with this substance, after the successful fusion, it was this substance that enabled Jia Yan to resist the attack of a sniper rifle bullet!

The anticipation in Jia Yan’s compound eyes was clear!

Watching this powerful azure substance emerge from his forelimb, he was instantly thrilled!

He had personally experienced the hardness of this substance.

Now that this hint of azure was at the tip of his right forelimb, the sharpness it brought was far from comparable to the previous blade horns!

Jia Yan raised his right forelimb!

The right forelimb that was radiating a faint azure light was particularly noticeable against the crimson magma.

Then, Jia Yan controlled his right forelimb.

And jabbed down fiercely!

This attack was explosive!

Jia Yan could feel a difference in the sharpness of his right forelimb, even the sound it made when cutting the air had changed!

Jia Yan jabbed down quickly with his forelimb, and the sharp tip of the limb was just like a bullet!

When it jabbed into the metal pipe, its color instantly changed!

The original light azure suddenly turned into a more conspicuous deep blue!

Because the target was extremely hard, more azure substance surged at the instant when the azure color touched the pipe.

It seems to have chosen to attack in the hardest and sharpest state!

Of course, all of this must be controlled by Jia Yan’s own organs!

If that azure substance could actually control its own shape, it would make Jia Yan nervous instead.

Fortunately, Jia Yan could feel that it was an organ inside his body that was in control!

The deep blue front end of the blade horn directly collided with the metal pipe!

Bang!!!

The collision started with the deep blue color making contact with the outer wall of the pipe!

At the moment of contact, Jia Yan could directly sense an indescribable hardness!

The tip of the azure forelimb instantly became even more noticeable!

Then, the front end, in deep blue, seemed to reach a higher level of sharpness and hardness!

Squeak!!!

It pierced right in!

Though it looked quite difficult, it was still able to pierce in directly!

Splat!

Boom!!!

Just when Jia Yan punctured the metal pipe, the pipe, which had a tiny crevice, seemed to contain an extremely high pressure!

This high pressure exploded!

It made an extremely loud booming noise!

“What?!”

Jia Yan was shocked.

But before he could react, an irresistible force hit him frontally.

His body was blown away by the violently exploding gas!

Boom Boom Boom!!!

The high pressure inside the pipe exploded, shaking the entire magma deep cave with a terrifying shockwave!

“I messed up!

I was just thinking whether I could find something else, but I forgot that the pipe itself could also be dangerous.”

Jia Yan’s body was thrown into the air.

But luckily, he sensed that the explosive power of this vibration was not deadly powerful!

In fact, his outer layer of Coagulate tissue could easily block it.

The magma cave shook violently for a moment and then quieted down!

Only a few pieces of magma fell from certain places, then it was no longer shaken by the explosive shockwave.

“Hold on!”

After being catapulted about ten meters away by the wild force, Jia Yan tried his best to flutter his wings!

Hum hum hum!!!

His wings were fluttering frantically, he paused in mid-air, then proceeded against the shockwave!

Jia Yan’s compound eyes darkly stared at the metal pipe up ahead!

This metal pipe, with a vent in it, was constantly jetting high pressure gas from inside.

This kind of jetting would not last long.

After the initial violent eruption, it was gradually showing signs of subsiding.

Jia Yan’s advancing body sped up and approached the pipe that was jetting gas.

The high-pressure gas gradually subsided after the initial jetting, and it became a slow airstream.

The airstream was still jetting, but the force was very small!

“It seems that I need to be careful with similar things in the future.

Although the jetting this time was not very violent, if I am not careful in the future and I encounter some traps or something with a strong explosive power, I will be in trouble!” Jia Yan, with a somewhat embarrassed face, thought to himself.

At this moment, the metal pipe that Jia Yan had jabbed, the place where he punctured, still remained the same size.

Even after such a violent explosion, it did not make the hole bigger, which showed how exaggerated the material of this pipe was!

Jia Yan’s compound eyes stared at the crevice!

But he found that the crevice was still too small to see the internal structure.

The mysterious light in his compound eyes flickered once again!

Again, he gripped the metal pipe with his five long legs!

Lifted up his right forelimb!

And jabbed down fiercely!

Splat!

This time, no explosion occurred because the pressure inside the pipe had been completely drained!

With the help of that bit of azure at the very front of his blade-like horn, Jia Yan’s right forelimb managed to pierce the surface of the metal pipe yet again but only by a slight depth!

Don’t underestimate this slight depth.

It should be known that Jia Yan previously was only able to leave a little indentation!

Now, the added touch of brilliant blue has caused such a profound impact, it’s nothing short of staggering!

Jia Yan kept staring at his foreleg, then gave up using the right one!

Next came the lift of the left foreleg!

You don’t come across many things this tough!

If he missed his chance now, who knew when he might get azure tips on his left foreleg!

Jia Yan’s calculations were turning out to be spot on.

His left foreleg also needed to shine with this brilliant blue!

Clang clang!!

His left foreleg smashed down ruthlessly.

But, as expected, this attack only left a faint indentation.

If you didn’t look closely, the metallic pipe wouldn’t seem to have changed at all!

But Jia Yan didn’t get the slightest bit disheartened!

The attack continued!

His left foreleg slammed down wildly!

Clang clang clang clang!

Clang clang clang!!

The sound of his left foreleg smashing down gradually changed!

Finally, at some point, this sound reached its limit!

Snap!

Jia Yan noticed that when he drove in his left foreleg, the sound changed — it got a bit different!

The counterforce didn’t get fed back onto his foreleg!

It was as if it had penetrated in!

A thought filled Jia Yan’s heart!

Then his gaze was drawn to the metallic pipe below where his leg had thrust in.

His left foreleg was jabbed into the metallic pipe above.

When Jia Yan looked over, sure enough, he found a bit of the tip of his left foreleg had penetrated into the metallic pipe!

He did it!

He actually did it!

Jia Yan pulled out his left foreleg, and saw that like the right foreleg, it too now featured the same blue texture with a hint of deep azure within it.

A smile finally caught the corners of his mouth.

Now that he has two super sharp forelegs, nothing else is a concern!

The speed could be doubled!

Jia Yan began working his right foreleg too!

Instantly, in this space, the two forelegs danced violently, relentlessly slamming down with rhythmic ‘clangs’ on the metallic pipe!

The sounds kept ringing out.

Jia Yan was incredibly fast, undisturbed within this space.

His only opponent was himself, competing against his own stamina and endurance!

“Well, it seems my energy is being depleted a bit too rapidly.

Ever since I entered the Wa Kingdom, I haven’t refueled at all; I’m getting a bit peckish now!”

Jia Yan expressed his resignation.

To be honest, he was feeling a bit weak.

After a journey of thousands of miles to reach the Wa Kingdom, he hadn’t ingested the fresh blood of any creature!

He’d already pushed the limits of his body’s hunger endurance!

A mosquito can normally survive a few days without feeding, but that doesn’t imply that Jia Yan was similar to an average mosquito!

His larger body required energy at a level, which would have drained countless ordinary mosquitoes!

So, the fact that Jia Yan could go a few days without eating was already quite an achievement.

Going beyond that was like enduring starvation.

By that point, his power would have decreased significantly!

However, that time had not yet come.

Jia Yan put those thoughts aside — feeding on blood was for later.

His swinging forelegs showed no signs of stopping!

Clang clang clang!

In stroke after stroke, both his forelegs!

Striking the metallic pipe repeatedly!

Jia Yan noticed that under his attack, a fairly large hollow had slowly formed in the metal pipe!

And the azure substance shimmering on his forelegs grew even more conspicuous!

This implied his blade-like keratin had undergone another kind of mutation and strengthening!

This was not like the previous mutations that resulted from consuming various fluids and substances.

This change was entirely self-directed!

Jia Yan’s compound eyes brightened even more!

“Stab stab stab!”

A pair of forelegs, striking relentlessly!

Finally, when Jia Yan was able to see the inside through the hole in the metallic pipe, he ceased his assault.

In the metallic pipe, which Jia Yan had struck countless times, a massive hole formed about twenty centimeters across!

Beneath this hole, shards of metal were scattered everywhere.

This type of metal, humans probably couldn’t even manufacture!

Yet this pipe made of such metal was now pierced by Jia Yan using a pair of forelegs, creating a large hole in it.

Jia Yan had no idea just how sharp and robust his blade-like keratin had become!

“What is this?…”

Jia Yan looked inside the pipe, but the interior held something of a disappointment for him.

It was nothing but an ordinary pipe.

However, on the edges of the pipe’s wall, there seemed to be some kind of track.

This track was very smooth, and many new marks indicated it was still in use.

Click click click click…

Hum hum hum.

Just as Jia Yan was inspecting the interior of the pipe, he suddenly noticed something.

A rudimentary-looking machine was making a noise beneath the pipe, approaching from below, slowly edging towards the hole…

To be continued.

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