Chapter 998: Chapter 287: Star Gate Opens
In the damaged space within the Earth Core Melting Furnace Power Tower.
Chen Ming finally found Thousand Faces, who had been hiding using the black mist spiritual energy after the plasmatic glow thoroughly illuminated the surroundings.
At this moment, Thousand Faces had relied on the stolen spiritual energy from An Wuping to completely enter an insectification state.
From appearance, it was almost indistinguishable from An Wuping’s insectification state, even being about half a meter taller in size.
Sometimes, the stolen spiritual energy in Thousand Faces’ hands could be even more powerful than its original owner.
But clearly, An Wuping’s spiritual energy was an exception.
Chen Ming had deliberately reduced the size of An Wuping’s insectification form to this level, and simply enlarging the size did not provide any advantage against him.
However, Thousand Faces’ understanding of An Wuping was clearly not deep enough here.
After absorbing a large amount of spiritual energy fluctuations and entering the insectification state, he directly imitated Chen Ming’s control of An Wuping’s usual combat habits, arrogantly rushing to the front of Chen Ming, throwing a punch.
Chen Ming certainly would not be lenient, meeting the assault with a punch of his own.
Neither side made any defensive move, just a simple, brutal punch towards the enemy’s face.
Chen Ming’s head slightly shook from Thousand Faces’ punch.
And Thousand Faces, at the moment Chen Ming’s fist landed, had all his shell shattered from the impact, his whole body blasted away, crashing into the side walls of the Earth Core Melting Furnace Power Tower.
The terrifying impact of the punch also caused the surrounding walls to collapse, with nearly ten stories high walls crumbling from the force of Thousand Faces being blown away.
"What?"
This was the simultaneous thought that appeared in both Chen Ming and Thousand Faces’ minds.
Chen Ming was completely surprised that Thousand Faces’ insectification form, which appeared on par with An Wuping, would turn out to be so weak in reality.
It seemed like it wasn’t an issue with Thousand Faces’ use of spiritual energy, but rather a problem with the spiritual energy he acquired.
Though Thousand Faces truly obtained this spiritual energy from An Wuping, which he himself didn’t know much about, his use of it showed that, in terms of insect queen’s spiritual energy strength, he was evidently unqualified.
The main source of An Wuping’s body strength, apart from Insect Race genes, crucially depended on the insect queen’s spiritual energy.
And Thousand Faces’ current situation clearly reflected that he only had the shape and some abilities, with a low proportion of power coming from the insect queen’s spiritual energy.
This ultimately led to the current situation.
Chen Ming now became more confused, unable to figure out whether the issue lay with Thousand Faces or An Wuping.
On the other side, Thousand Faces who was knocked flying, smashing through walls, slamming into the industrial area was also bewildered.
He couldn’t understand why, despite supposedly absorbing An Wuping’s spiritual energy fluctuations completely and replicating it, he couldn’t even last a single round of punching against An Wuping?
Why?
Thousand Faces’ mind was full of doubts.
But he could also feel the injuries inflicted by that punch were rapidly healing due to An Wuping’s spiritual energy.
Clearly, the replicated spiritual energy should not have had any issues, so why was this happening?
"An Wuping!"
Some voice suddenly echoed not far behind Thousand Faces.
Upon hearing it, he immediately turned around to see a psychic attracted by the commotion, coming over to try to seize the opportunity, with eyes locked on the severely injured Thousand Faces, who was clad in shattered armor and bleeding a great amount of gray-green blood.
The name called by the psychic immediately drew the attention of all the hidden psychics in the industrial zone.
Though many psychics were trying to fish in troubled waters on this planet, there were definitely those of the Fifth Legion, local government, and even Empire psychics mingling among them.
They were scattered from afar on various industrial building rooftops, not daring to approach rashly.
However, the current psychic had obviously grown greedy.
Seeing the heavily injured Thousand Faces, thinking about the high bounty on An Wuping, he couldn’t hold back anymore.
Spiritual energy fluctuations began to swirl around him, intending to make a move against Thousand Faces.
Thousand Faces wouldn’t show mercy either, enduring what seemed to be severe injuries, rising up, and before the psychic could react, he tore at the psychic’s throat with one claw and smashed his head with another punch.
Feeling the power within his body, Thousand Faces moved around slightly, his shattered armor quickly restoring under the support of spiritual energy.
He could easily kill other psychics utilizing An Wuping’s power, yet when facing An Wuping himself, this force seemed so utterly powerless.
Thousand Faces exhaled, deciding to forsake An Wuping’s seemingly impressive spiritual energy, only keeping the ultra-fast recovery ability he needed, and discarding the rest,.
After all, combat relied on oneself.
He once again turned to look at the direction of the Earth Core Melting Furnace Power Tower.
The dust from the collapsed building was swiftly dissipating in the rain.
The gap more than a dozen stories high quickly became clearly visible to everyone.
Although the Earth Core Melting Furnace Power Tower lost these structures, it didn’t even wobble, showing no signs of collapsing, demonstrating just how sturdy this building was.
Being able to severely damage such a building and seeing Thousand Faces heavily injured by being blown away from inside, indicated the psychic inside was definitely not one to be trifled with.
