Chapter 168: Frenzied Evolution
However, Saitama was still sent flying high into the sky with a single kick.
At this moment, his entire body was ablaze.
That long-lost sense of tension, that breathtaking battle intent!!!
Saitama had only ever felt this way in his dreams. For the first time since becoming invincible, he had once again stepped into the realm of the weak.
"Ah, you're really strong. What's your name?"
Saitama genuinely didn't recognize the opponent in front of him. He also had no idea why this person had attacked him the moment they met, nor how he knew his name.
"Chang Wei."
Chang Wei responded, now eagerly anticipating how far Saitama, the bald demon king, could push the limits of the Divine Light Virus.
From the very beginning, the Blacklight Virus had already displayed this ability to adapt and evolve. The Divine Light Virus was simply its ultimate manifestation.
Saitama threw a punch.
He got stronger again?!
Chang Wei was in disbelief. You've gotta be kidding me... Forget it.
"BOOM!!!"
Their clash shattered the ground, sending shockwaves across millions of square kilometers. Even though they were no bigger than insects in comparison, their battle was enough to devastate an entire continent. If they were at normal proportions, they probably would have already destroyed the planet—though, of course, this wasn't Earth.
"Asura Mode!!!"
With a furious roar, Chang Wei sprouted additional arms from his shoulders and underarms.
"Feel the wrath of my punches!!!"
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!!"
With a sudden surge in attack frequency, Saitama was instantly pummeled deep into the earth. But Chang Wei didn't let up, relentlessly hammering him down with punches stronger than modern tunnel-boring machines, while Saitama's body was even tougher than any drill. Each strike drove him dozens of meters deeper!
"This is cheating!!!"
Saitama finally adapted to Chang Wei's sudden increase in attack speed. He countered with a single punch, blasting Chang Wei through the earth in the opposite direction, carving out a tunnel with his body.
Chang Wei was sent flying, his body grinding violently against layers of rock. But he remained unscathed—instead, his path left behind a wide-open passage.
"Ptui!"
Spitting out bits of metal ore, Chang Wei's Divine Light Virus surged within him, tearing apart his old cells and generating new, stronger ones.
This evolution was a complete and total enhancement. After all, it was outright replacing his cellular structure.
The discarded cells were devoured and recycled by the virus, so on the surface, he appeared unchanged. But internally, his transformation was nothing short of drastic.
Ordinary opponents might have been overtaken by Chang Wei in a prolonged fight, but Saitama's growth was too rapid—even the Divine Light Virus struggled to keep up.
Saitama clawed his way out from the rubble, charging forward.
"You okay?"
Saitama was genuinely worried that his punch had killed Chang Wei.
"I'm fine..."
Taking a deep breath, Chang Wei gathered an explosive energy in his hands.
"Lightning Speed Punch!!!"
Six arms launched a barrage of energy-infused punches. The attacks formed beams of light, layering into an intricate web of destruction. Saitama's eyes widened.
"Consecutive Normal Punches!"
To Chang Wei's surprise, Saitama blocked everything with just one hand, shattering all six of his arms in the process.
"Whoa! Are you okay?!"
Saitama was startled—had he just crippled him?!
Chang Wei felt stifled. He knew Saitama wasn't showing off, but with that blank expression, rough art style, and casual tone, it really seemed like he was mocking him.
"I'm fine!"
His arms regenerated instantly, and he lunged back into battle.
Chang Wei's strategy was simple: exhaust the potential of the Divine Light Virus, then replicate Saitama's mode.
Saitama sensed Chang Wei growing stronger again, and that delighted him. But he also held back, careful not to go overboard and accidentally kill him.
Chang Wei caught Saitama's punch—and it felt like the entire sky had collapsed onto him!
His whole body sank abruptly, his arms trembling under the force.
The bald demon king had powered up again, as if he had no limits.
Chang Wei abandoned all advanced combat techniques. He was here to evolve and grow stronger—any flashy attacks would only push Saitama further ahead, widening the gap between them.
Thus, he committed to pure, unrelenting hand-to-hand combat.
Deep underground, the clash of their fists rang like metal striking metal.
In just a few breaths, Chang Wei had grown stronger by an unknown magnitude.
Saitama, excited, threw a punch—one that was exponentially stronger than before.
Suddenly, a distant rumbling echoed through the cosmos. It was as if the entire planet trembled in that instant!
Chang Wei staggered backward under the shockwave. Even though he had locked his molecular structure in place to resist energy transmission—essentially making himself indestructible—it was pointless. Even Vibranium could be shattered; what chance did his simulated Vibranium structure have?
A powerful shockwave erupted from Chang Wei, distorting space itself and turning the battlefield into a chaotic maelstrom of destruction.
The underground cavern, once narrow, was now a vast hollow spanning nearly a hundred kilometers—a massive rift running from south to north.
The residual tremors cracked Chang Wei's body open, but the Divine Light Virus healed him almost instantly, replacing his cells with even stronger ones.
He had once thought the Underdog Power-Up trope, like what happened with Mumen Rider, was pure suffering. But now he realized—he wasn't much different.
Locking onto Saitama, Chang Wei threw a punch from a distance.
At their level, distance was meaningless. Gravity had become the best medium for transmitting power, amplifying it severalfold, even dozens of times over!
Like a cosmic giant's fist crashing down, the immense pressure swept forward like a tidal wave, as if the entire galaxy were collapsing.
Saitama's eyes lit up. He threw a punch in response—one so powerful that it made the world tremble. The bedrock above them instantly disintegrated into dust.
Saitama's fist surged like an ocean, generating tsunamis of power that rebounded off the earth.
Each successive wave of force pressed down on Chang Wei.
He was forced backward continuously. The land within a hundred miles shook violently.
It felt just like standing before the vast ocean as an ordinary person—no, even worse! It was like trying to stop a raging tsunami with his bare hands!
And it wasn't over yet.
Just as Chang Wei was still fending off the relentless pressure, a dark blur tore through the air and appeared before him in an instant.
"BOOM!"
Saitama's punch was like a divine thunderclap, its sheer force utterly unstoppable.
Chang Wei's body spiraled uncontrollably, piercing through the earth like a cannonball before bursting out the other side of the planet's surface!
The ground crumbled, and space itself seemed to collapse.
The Divine Light Virus evolved once more—but this time, Chang Wei felt his energy depleting.
If before, his energy was an infinite blue bar, no matter how much he used…
Now, for the first time, he could see it running out.
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