“小 bastard, since William Clark didn’t beat you to death, I will!”

Before Ethan Brooks had time to check on the burly man’s condition, Adam Carter had already charged in a rage, bringing with him a terrifying momentum as he lunged forward.

“Dragon Fury!”

As he threw a punch, the force of his fist collided with the air in the void, seemingly producing a dragon’s roar. He himself transformed from a martial artist into a rampaging dragon, his murderous aura soaring to the heavens. Coupled with the powerful image he had long imprinted in Ethan Brooks’s mind, it almost had the effect of overwhelming him with the sheer intent of his punch.

“Punch intent intimidation!? I can do that too!”

In Ethan Brooks’s spiritual world, a ferocious ancient thunder beast was quickly visualized. The thunder beast roared wildly, like thunder from the nine heavens, bursting forth from his suddenly widened eyes.

“Boom!”

In Adam Carter’s mind, it was as if a thunderclap exploded, shaking his thoughts and abruptly halting his murderous momentum. Deep within his heart, a faint sense of fear began to rise!

It was a fear as if a mortal faced a natural disaster!

“Not good, it’s punch intent! Spirit-refining punch intent!”

Adam Carter’s expression changed dramatically as he desperately tried to muster his willpower to dispel the terror in his heart.

At this moment, Ethan Brooks’s body twisted sharply as he strode forward again. With each step, his bones crackled, thunderous force surged, and the power erupting from within had already strained his muscles. But such pain was nothing to him.

As Ethan Brooks charged up to Adam Carter, he exploded with force underfoot. His right leg was like a battle sword dragging along the ground, stabbing straight up through his body, merging with his spine, and as it reached his shoulders, the trapped dragon soared to the heavens. With a swing of his right shoulder, the force was transmitted through his arm’s muscles and bones, launching a fierce punch.

“Whoosh!”

A blast of air erupted.

It was also a thrusting punch, like a stabbing sword!

This punch was fearless and relentless, this sword unstoppable!

“Bang!”

The force of their punches collided head-on in midair, without any flourish.

One’s momentum was overwhelming, carrying the invincible, unyielding force of his punch straight upward; the other’s spirit was shaken, his face full of terror, his murderous aura dissipating in an instant.

Victory and defeat were decided in a flash.

“Crack!”

Bones broke!

Not only did Adam Carter’s bones fracture.

Ethan Brooks’s scaphoid, trapezium, trapezoid, and phalanges also cracked.

The violent force not only injured the opponent upon impact, but also rebounded on himself.

However...

One was cracked, the other was shattered!

The penetrating force shattered Adam Carter’s fist, pierced through his palm, and drove further into his radius and ulna, causing the ulna to dislocate under the strain, piercing through the skin at his elbow, tearing it open and exposing the bone. The intense pain made Adam Carter widen his eyes uncontrollably.

“Ah!”

A miserable scream echoed.

“Kill!”

Ethan Brooks let out a low roar, his voice thunderous, as if he wanted to tear apart the dark cloud of death that had weighed heavily on his heart for the past month and a half.

After his right fist pierced through Adam Carter’s punch and shattered his momentum, his left hand suddenly swept across, like another sharp sword drawn from his waist. With a twist of his waist, it carried a fierce gust of wind as it slashed from the side.

A slash!

The most basic slash!

But even the most basic slash, after being practiced over forty thousand times, became as swift as thunder!

Especially when...

It struck the neck!

“Crack!”

With a powerful blow, Adam Carter’s neck twisted sharply, and the sound of his cervical vertebrae shattering could be faintly heard. The tremendous force of the slash caused his upper body to lose balance and tip uncontrollably to the right, finally crashing hard onto the ground.

“Bang!”

The sound of his body hitting the ground rang out.

“You... how is this possible...”

Adam Carter stared wide-eyed at Ethan Brooks.

He remembered clearly that a month and a half ago, this person was just a bystander, completely unskilled. Now, after only a month and a half, he could actually defeat him in a head-on fight!?

It was absurd—how could ordinary martial artists survive like this!?

Unfortunately, Ethan Brooks had already broken his cervical vertebrae. The center of the cervical spine is filled with nerves, and their severance had paralyzed his entire body below the neck, making it hard to breathe.

“Help... help me...”

Adam Carter said with difficulty.

Ethan Brooks said nothing, just looked at him.

Just stared at him.

Watching as the look in his eyes changed from shock, to venom, to panic, fear, despair, until... there was no more life.

Adam Carter, dead.

Chapter 0009: The Future

“Oh my god...”

The remaining slovenly man, seeing how fierce Ethan Brooks was, and that the invincible Mr. Long of South City in his mind, as well as the even stronger Master Carter, had been injured and killed in the blink of an eye, screamed in terror, turned, and ran, without the slightest courage to face Ethan Brooks—this living demon.

“He’s dead.”

Ethan Brooks ignored the man.

He looked at his right hand, then at his left.

Breaking Adam Carter’s arm head-on, then immediately slashing with his left hand, were both instinctive reactions in a life-or-death struggle.