Bai Ya turned her head in astonishment and found that someone else was beside her, looking at her with a sunny smile.

The dozens of tentacles were still in place, just inches away from her scalp.

"Is this the Dimensional Shackle?" Bai Ya murmured. "Did he save me?"

"Sister, are you okay?"

Wangwang was still in shock and asked nervously.

"I'm fine!"

Bai Ya shook her head and looked at Ling Jiu as she said solemnly. "Thank you."

"You're welcome!"

Ling Jiu waved his hand, and then looked at the dozen or so tentacles before him, as he slowly said, "Shinra Tensei!"

Baaam!!

The dozen-odd tentacles suddenly flew backward.

After that, Ling Jiu appeared above the tortoise monster's head and used his Tungsten-Form Arcana. In the blink of an eye, he had transformed into a silver giant.

"Eightfold Thunderclap!"

Ling Jiu punched out.

The sharp iron fist pierced through the air and struck the tortoise monster's thick shell like a lightning bolt.

With a crack, the monster's thick shell cracked opened like a walnut being smashed by a sledgehammer. First spiderweb-like cracks appeared before it burst open.

Vooosh voosh!!

Pieces of shell fragments were scattered in all directions.

...

The entire place fell silent, before breaking into a massive uproar.

"It... shattered?"

"He smashed it with one punch?"

"WTF? Is this still human?"

"This power..."

"Who is that guy?"

"Ling Jiu! He's Ling Jiu! I've seen him before. He was the one who had smashed that centipede dragon's head and then monopolized the dozens of energy crystals inside its body."

"Ling Jiu?"

"He's that Ling Jiu?"

All of the onlookers were shocked, and the discussion voices came one after another as their eyes looked at Ling Jiu with horror, awe, and terror.

They had the most say in how hard that tortoise monster's shell was.

Even with so many Arcanists attacking it, they could not do much damage at all to its shell, and even Bai Ya's Annihilation Thunder could only rip open a pit little more than ten centimeters wide.

And Ling Jiu smashed it open with just a fist?

Is this person still a bloody human?

"Sister, he's amazing!"

Wangwang covered her small mouth as she looks at Ling Jiu with an incredulous expression.

Although her figure was not as stunning as Bai Ya's, she was also almost 180cm tall, and she was curvy where it should be curvy and was no lesser than any supermodels.

Bai Ya was expressionless, she did not say anything as she just looked at Ling Jiu quietly.

On the other hand...

Ling Jiu could not be bothered to pay any attention to the crowd's shock. Even after breaking open the tortoise monster's shell, it was still not dead. Instead, it hurled a dozen tentacles over as it attacked Ling Jiu in a frenzy.

It had clearly felt the threat of death and was now fighting desperately.

"Futile struggle!"

Ling Jiu smiled and his figure flickered, easily dodging the oncoming tentacle volley.

No matter how much the tentacles flailed around, they could not even touch him. He strolled all the way and walked slowly to the tortoise monster's head.

"You can die now, bruh."

Ling Jiu slowly raised his right hand and pressed down hard. "Hundred-Fold Gravity!"

Buzzz!

A hundred times gravity force crashing onto the tortoise monster's body. As a result, the monster was instantly squished into meat paste.

"As I expected!"

"Converting my Gene Arcana into Dark Bio-energy, the power of my Arcana has really increased!"

"For example, gravity. I can control up to 120 times the gravity without even using my Arcana Field. That's damn terrifying!"

Ling Jiu muttered to himself. The Dark Bio-energy was high-level energy and ten times more powerful than Gene Arcana, which causes the power of his Arcana to increase by ten times.

For example, his Gravity Arcana:

Ling Jiu was now a Level 6 Arcanist, and even without using his Arcana Field to buff himself, he could apply 12 times the gravity.

For example, his Tungsten-Form Arcana:

Without his Arcana Field, he could have exerted 500 times the normal strength.

But when replaced with Dark Bio-energy, and without the influence of the Arcana Field, he could exert 5,000 times the strength instead.

Ten times!

A whole ten times!

"Is this the true power of the Dark Bio-energy?"

Ling Jiu muttered to himself, "This is just like Sage Mode, not even more outrageous than that!"

"Hmmm?"

Ling Jiu suddenly raised his eyebrows, as he suddenly caught sight of a shadow approaching quickly from a distance and got under the turtle monster in a blink of an eye.

As it was close to dusk, and the light was dimmer, the blob of shadow was like fish in the water. If he didn't look closely enough, he would not have spotted it.

"A thief?"

Ling Jiu slightly c.o.c.ked the corner of his mouth as he waved his hand, and put away the tortoise monster corpse, and sure enough, there was a hole in the ground.

At this moment, the dark shadow had already reached the hole and was about to go in.

"Hmph! Petty tricks. You dare to use that in front of me!"

Ling Jiu snorted and grabbed the void. The black shadow instantly froze in place and then turned into a small-statured Arcanist.

"You dare to make such sneaky moves under my nose, who gave you that courage, huh?"

Ling Jiu grabbed the air and brought the Arcanist before him.

The Arcanist with wicked brows and rattish eyes panicked. "I'm sorry... I was just..."

"You just want to steal the energy crystals, right?"

Ling Jiu sniggered.

"I... I dare not!"

The Arcanist shook his head in terror.

"If it weren't for the ban of killing in this competition, you'd been dead! But even so, I won't let you go so easily!"

Ling Jiu casually tossed the Arcanist far far away like a rock. Falling from such a height, if he wasn't dead, he would've been maimed.

"Whether you can survive or not depends on your own ability."

Immediately after, Ling Jiu blinked to the ground and looked at the hole. Sure enough, he saw a dozen of energy crystals sitting quietly inside the hole.

Ling Jiu put away the energy crystals and glanced at everyone casually with a playful look in his eyes.

Noting Ling Jiu's gaze, many of the Arcanists lowered their heads knowingly.

Ling Jiu had just destroyed that tortoise monster so casually and putting his terrifying strength on display.

So, they dared not have any unnecessary thoughts, especially when many of them had heard of the news of Ling Jiu suppressing nearly a hundred Arcanists by force earlier on. None of them dared to have any objections.

"Sister, it's the energy crystals!"

Wangwang pointed to the energy crystals in Ling Jiu's hand with a look of excitement.

"That's his and has nothing to do with us." Bai Ya was expressionless.

"Okay then!"

Wangwang pouted.

"Seventeen energy crystals, not bad! Plus the 68 I got earlier, I have 85 now! Heh, that's at least 850,000 contribution points!"

Ling Jiu put away the energy crystals happily and then appeared beside Ling'er to tell her something before leaving. At this moment, Bai Ya stopped him.

"Pretty lady, you have something?"

Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows and could not help but to take another gander at her. Heh, her figure sure is stunning. Just looking alone made his eyes happy.

"I would like to ask from you a favor!"