The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’

Chapter 102: Chapter 82: Entering the Second Stage Chapter 102: Chapter 82: Entering the Second Stage The energy engine of the nano-powered armor roared to life, unleashing maximum power. Zhou Yuan clenched his fingers and punched towards Yan Sheng’s chest.

Bam!

An airwave erupted, and Yan Sheng raised his arms to block the punch, stepping back three times, each step creating a large crater in the ground, with soil and stones flying everywhere.

“So heavy,” Yan Sheng commented nonchalantly.

Are you kidding me… Zhou Yuan was utterly shocked. This was a nano-powered armor with combat power comparable to a third-rank extraordinary person. A punch from it could shatter reinforced concrete, let alone flesh and blood.

The physique of a lower-rank extraordinary person hadn’t reached the level of iron yet. This punch should have penetrated Yan Sheng directly!

Something was wrong, terribly wrong!

Zhou Yuan quickly decided to use Teleportation to distance himself from Yan Sheng.

His intuition told him that if he continued close combat, he would be the one to die.

In the instant after swapping positions, Zhou Yuan had a thought, and Yan Sheng’s shadow turned into a viscous Shadow Demon Pool, creeping up and tightly binding his legs.

Yan Sheng moved his body, but couldn’t free himself from the shadow’s grip for a moment, the stickiness was frightening.

Bang bang bang!

Gunfire rang out continuously. Yan Sheng quickly swayed his upper body to dodge the incoming bullets, but because his legs were restrained, he couldn’t move, and a few blood flowers blossomed on his body.

His expression finally changed at this moment.

These bullets had special abilities. They were not only extremely powerful but also caused severe paralysis. His right arm was inexplicably frozen.

“Good, this guy really got careless,” Zhou Yuan snapped his fingers with a “snap.”

Whirr—
The roar of an engine came from the void. Yan Sheng turned his head to see a minivan crashing towards him.

This minivan was literally a bread vehicle—the entire car was made of bread, with even the wheels being round buns, emitting the hot aroma of freshly baked bread.

Bam!

The bread vehicle crashed solidly into Yan Sheng. Because his feet were firmly held by the Shadow Demon Pool, the massive impact didn’t send him flying but instead, with a crunching sound, snapped the bones in his legs. He was then run over and crushed under the wheels of the bread vehicle.

Crash!

The car door was pulled open, and a group of two-meter-tall, extremely brawny bread men stepped out.

These bread men had various types of bread for heads: hard bread, soft bread, dinner rolls, patterned bread, buttery bread… beneath the bread heads were terrifying muscles comparable to world bodybuilding champions, glistening with a sheen.

After the bread men got out, the bread vehicle slowly reversed, revealing Yan Sheng.

“Get him, brothers!” Zhou Yuan shouted.

Bam bam bam bam!!!

The bread men started beating and kicking Yan Sheng, holding various weapons made of bread: baguettes, Russian bread, mooncake hammers… Don’t be fooled by the fact that these were bread pastries; their attack power was not weak at all, brutally beating Yan Sheng to the point of being bloody and breaking countless bones.

Yan Sheng tried to resist, but Zhou Yuan controlled the shadow to firmly bind his limbs, leaving him no choice but to endure the beating.

“That’s what you get for showing off,” Zhou Yuan muttered while creating spiritual bullets. No matter how powerful you are, you can’t keep bouncing back after being shot in the head, right?

“Awoooo!!!” Yan Sheng suddenly let out an ear-piercing wolf howl. The ice on his right hand shattered in response, and he broke free from the shadow’s grip, his ten fingers turning into claws, his arms swinging, slicing through the air with sharp arcs.

With ease, he cut the bread men into pieces.

His broken legs healed at an unreasonable speed. Yan Sheng lightly tapped the Shadow Demon Pool with his toes, using an agility-like technique, and leaped lightly to an area that the Shadow Demon Pool hadn’t covered.

His appearance underwent a drastic change. His ten fingers turned into knife-like claws, saber-toothed wolf fangs grew from his mouth, a layer of gray-white fur covered his body—the fur hard and sharp, his eyes turning blood red, filled with cruelty and violence.

This was a wolf transformation!

[I told you before, this guy has a “beast heart,” be careful. He’s entered the second stage.]
Yan Sheng, current status: Frenzied Beast Transformation.

Special status effects: 100% All Attributes Amplification, super regeneration, bloodthirsty berserk.

A foreboding feeling like a shadow spread in Zhou Yuan’s heart.

The scene before his eyes was clearly the one foretold in the old man’s prophetic painting.

Everything depicted in the painting was coming true, which meant…

As Zhou Yuan was momentarily distracted, a face filled with malice appeared in front of him.

Clang clang clang!!!

A continuous series of sharp sounds rang out. Yan Sheng’s claws danced wildly, frantically slicing through the nano-powered armor’s shell. After the wolf transformation, his speed increased. The nano particles were consumed by a third in an instant; they couldn’t even keep up with the rate of destruction!

In a hurry, Zhou Yuan used Teleportation to distance himself. Moments later, intense pain radiated from various parts of his body.

At the moment when the nano particles failed to reconstruct the armor, Yan Sheng had injured him.

“Detected wounds, would you like to use nano particles for treatment?” the armor system asked.

“Treat,” Zhou Yuan ordered.

Just as he spoke, a claw came towards his face.

He leaned back sharply, barely avoiding the wolf claw that tore through the air, and suddenly used Teleportation to dodge Yan Sheng’s subsequent frenzied attacks. Simultaneously, countless black tendrils emerged from the shadow, tightly binding Yan Sheng.

Thunk.

Something Zhou Yuan tossed before swapping positions fell to the ground.

It was a high-explosive bomb, counting down.

Boom!

Flames shot to the sky, stirring up a turbulent wave of air.

But amid the explosion, Yan Sheng walked out unscathed, a transparent barrier around him shattering with a crack.

The next moment, Yan Sheng locked onto Zhou Yuan’s position. Ignoring the pain of tearing muscles and blood vessels, he unleashed boundless strength. His entire right leg suddenly exploded, flesh and blood flying.

Like a volcanic eruption, power burst from under his feet. Using this unparalleled speed, he killed his way to Zhou Yuan in an instant.

This time it wasn’t claws but a punch.

The heavy wind noise mingled with thunder, accompanied by a burst of power. Zhou Yuan’s nano-powered armor exploded into countless pieces, his chest caving in, skin splitting open, becoming a bloody mess.

Zhou Yuan swiftly entered ghost status, nullifying the follow-up force of the fatal blow, then used Teleportation to distance himself, manipulating the Shadow Demon Pool to bind Yan Sheng.

He appeared in the distance, spitting out a mouthful of blood mixed with bits of organs.

That punch almost ended his life. His chest had a gaping wound, you could even vaguely see the heart beating inside.

The salty and metallic taste of blood filled his mouth; the excruciating pain attacked his nerves. Despite being on the brink of death, Zhou Yuan felt an unusual calmness in his heart.

The whole world seemed to slow down, his consciousness unprecedentedly clear. He had never felt so strongly that he was alive.

His heart pumped vigorously, sending hot blood and the will to live to every corner of his body, rushing fervently.

Every cell was crying out with a desire to live, every nerve transmitting the signals of life.

In a daze, it seemed as though something had changed.

Zhou Yuan took out an Ultra-Luxurious Delicious Crab Burger and lightly bit into the bun.

Instantly, his injuries healed, spirituality restored, he resurrected with full health on the spot.

Yan Sheng, who was controlled by the Shadow Demon Pool, was incredulous. What in the world?!

“Watch out, I’ve entered the second stage,” Zhou Yuan whispered, his spirituality surging and burning, squeezing every ounce of his potential.

A large amount of dark matter spread on the ground. Moments later, six sinister beasts slowly emerged from the dark swamp.

Feral wolf, lion, cheetah, tiger, fierce ape, grizzly bear…

The Zhou Yuan who could only control at most two shadow demons at a time before, now unleashed his potential under the stimulus of near-death, raising the number of shadows he could control to six in one go.

He even evolved a new form of shadow—beast shadows!