583: Chapter 572: The Phantom Returns!
583: Chapter 572: The Phantom Returns!
Boom!!!
A dilapidated building collapsed, raising a cloud of dust.
After a fierce bombardment, the surrounding buildings had all become dangerous.
With Ning Fan’s body heavily slamming into one of the buildings, it ultimately became the final straw that broke the camel’s back.
Among the ruins, Ning Fan struggled once again to get up.
He breathed heavily, standing atop the rubble, and watched Apollo slowly approaching from below.
It had been a long time since he had been dominated in a fight like this, a feeling that unexpectedly made Ning Fan very annoyed.
“Asura, meet your death!”
Apollo looked at Ning Fan ferociously, fists clenched, bending over to strike at Ning Fan’s chest.
Ning Fan clenched his teeth, his bright white teeth smeared with blood, and his body was covered with crimson wounds, looking quite tragic.
Apollo’s punch was incredibly fast, creating afterimages.
Although Ning Fan’s eyes could follow the speed of Apollo’s punches, his body was always a beat too slow.
Many punches that shouldn’t have landed, ended up striking powerfully against his chest.
“Aaaahhhhh!!!!!!”
There was a certain satisfaction in Apollo’s voice, his eyes flashing with a crimson gleam, as he kept landing punches on Ning Fan’s chest, one after another.
His hands had almost lost all feeling.
Ning Fan furrowed his brows and stopped trying to block.
Instead, he forcefully endured several of Apollo’s punches.
Click, click, click—
The sound of his bones shaking rose from Ning Fan’s fists.
Then, a loud explosion resounded over the field as Ning Fan landed a punch on Apollo’s face.
With a boom, Apollo was sent flying, crashing heavily into the ruins.
Ning Fan clutched his chest, breathing heavily and continuously spitting out blood-stained saliva.
He glanced at the iron hook on his shoulder and couldn’t help but show a bitter smile.
If it weren’t for his Pipa Bone being locked, relying on his Peak True Qi Realm strength, supplemented by the Genetic Potion, he would have more than enough to handle Apollo.
But now, these iron hooks had locked his Pipa Bone, sealing his True Qi and rendering a large portion of his strength unusable.
During fights with Apollo, Ning Fan often found himself passively taking hits.
This made Ning Fan feel very annoyed, but though annoyed, he couldn’t just forcibly remove the hooks…
“Cough, cough, cough!” Apollo emerged from the ruins with a gloomy face.
The battle had been going on for dozens of minutes, and quite a few people from both the Fang Guild and the Phantom Guild had died.
However, the deciding factor of the battlefield was whose king died first; otherwise, this fight would continue relentlessly.
Apollo’s eyes were dark and grim, and he sneered, “Heh heh heh, Asura, I underestimated you…”
Originally thinking that Ning Fan, with his Pipa Bone locked, was nothing more than a lamb to the slaughter, Apollo had not anticipated that, even so, Ning Fan would still be this tenacious.
Apollo was already growing impatient.
Afterward, he planned not to underestimate Ning Fan any longer.
Continuing the fight was meaningless; one of them between Ning Fan and him had to die!
With this thought, Apollo prepared to use all his strength.
The sounds of battle were incessant.
Apollo’s voice gradually dissipated in the air, and the next second, he disappeared from his spot.
Ning Fan’s eyes darted around, and he instinctively looked behind him.
Sploosh!
Apollo’s hand plunged into Ning Fan’s chest, then he reached for Ning Fan’s heart.
Realizing what the other planned to do, Ning Fan forcibly suppressed the pain in his body and used all his strength to throw a punch at Apollo’s chest.
Thump!
Like striking a bronze bell, a dull sound echoed from within Apollo’s body.
His expression changed.
Although he was prepared, he had underestimated Ning Fan’s strength at that moment and ultimately withdrew his hand from Ning Fan’s body, retreating two steps back.
However, Ning Fan was in greater trouble at this moment; his chest was blood-red, and a bloody, gaping hole was visible on his torso, bleeding incessantly.
Ning Fan’s face turned somewhat pale, and his body couldn’t stop reeling backward.
“Hahaha, Asura, your time is up!”
Apollo screamed madly, his face distorted with madness.
With a wild laugh, he charged again, preparing to deliver a fatal blow to Ning Fan.
With a clanging sound, a great sword blocked Apollo’s wrist, but the person who intervened was pushed back about a meter.
“Asura boss, we’ll protect you.
Please force out the iron spikes inside your body!”
It was the members of the Phantom Guild.
Ning Fan unexpectedly looked at the familiar figures standing in front of him, his nose suddenly feeling sore.
“Who told you to come?
Manage the others.
Leave this man to me!”
Ning Fan’s expression darkened, suppressing the emotions in his heart, he shouted angrily at them.
They were no match for Apollo.
Although moved by their action, Ning Fan didn’t want them to die in front of him.
“Asura boss, this life was given by you; now, we are returning it to you, hahaha!”
The largest of them, a burly man, turned and laughed heartily to Ning Fan, remembering that he seemed to be called Xiao Gao…
“Damn, a bunch of ants daring to obstruct me!”
Apollo glared at Xiao Gao and the others, his eyes filled with a thick intent to kill, clenching his fist, hearing their intention to protect Ning Fan and enable him to expel the iron hooks; he became anxious.
“Since you so wish to die, then I shall oblige you!”
Apollo snarled with a cruel smirk, his form disappearing from the spot once again.
Xiao Gao and the others immediately formed a formation, enclosing Ning Fan in the middle, vigilantly looking around.
“Asura boss, hurry up!!!”
Xiao Gao roared, swinging his great sword heavily at Apollo’s afterimage.
Ning Fan’s eyes misted over, he bit his lip, sat down cross-legged on the ground, and started carefully channeling the True Qi in his body to force out the iron hooks from the Pipa Bone one by one.
Seeing Ning Fan beginning to expel the iron hooks lodging the Pipa Bone, Xiao Gao looked at his split hand and shouted, “All units, protect Asura boss!”
“If you want to get to Asura boss, step over my dead body first!”
“No regrets in life or death!!!”
“No regrets in life or death!!!”
“No regrets in life or death!!!”
Above the ruins, the shouts of the Phantom Guild erupted deafeningly, echoing through the skies, their overwhelming momentum even making Apollo take a sideways glance.
Suppressing his surprise and seeing members of the Phantom Guild untangling themselves and converging towards this location, Apollo realized he had been pushed back quite a distance without noticing.
Now, to interrupt Ning Fan, he must first deal with these people in front of Ning Fan.