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"Residual Fire Touch."

Chen Qi whispered softly, gently pressing down, concentrating Spiritual Power into the blue gemstone.

Crash! The sound of the gemstone shattering.

The blue gemstone instantly melted, turning into a great tide that surged towards his limbs, back, and heart, expelling the attacking Shadow Hands.

Then, the blue tides slowly congealed, forming countless tiny black tentacles that adhered to his clothing and skin.

Lastly, they became a ragged dark hunter\'s garment.

Within just an instant, Chen Qi had equipped the Residual Fire Touch.

From the outside, it looked like a rusty, tattered hunter\'s cloak covering his entire body.

Inside, numerous tentacles had already entwined around his arms, thighs, and other important parts, providing him with a continuous supply of strength and speed.

Chen Qi felt the flow of strength in his body.

Due to the danger of the Residual Fire Touch, he had only worn it twice before, in the White Tree territory.

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Chen Qi raised his right hand.

His constitution had reached 25 points, meeting the minimum requirement for using the Residual Fire Touch.

In theory, upon donning the Residual Fire Touch, the equipment skill Residual Fire Entwining should have been automatically activated, quickly generating a furious emotion, consuming his own stamina, and greatly enhancing his strength!

However, now the garment only had a very small consumption...

"Why? Could it be broken?"

Chen Qi wondered in his mind.

Upon reflection, it wasn\'t impossible for a rare, forbidden relic to have issues after a hundred years.

But he wasn\'t given time to react.

"Human! Join me in eternity!"

The Crack Lost One manipulated twenty Shadow Hands from above the roof, smashing down.

These Shadow Hands continued their assault even as he was equipping his gear.

Bang bang bang!

The Shadow Hands struck like spears, stabbing fiercely!

Chen Qi instinctively dodged backward, easily evading these shadowy spears.

"It\'s not broken."

Chen Qi could clearly feel that his speed had increased under the enhancement of the Residual Fire Touch.

At that moment, he suddenly realized something.

It was because of Deep Sea Affinity.

As flesh implants, the Residual Fire Touch had undergone a complete containment process and was a piece of equipment without consciousness.

Despite this, due to its remaining properties, when Chen Qi put it on, it still demonstrated a certain level of affinity.

Normally, an ordinary user would immediately enter Residual Fire Entwining mode upon wearing the touch due to its characteristics, consuming stamina.

But because of Chen Qi\'s Deep Sea Affinity, the Residual Fire Touch did not immediately enter the Residual Fire Entwining state.

Simply put, he could wear this garment of the Residual Fire Touch in a normal state, consuming a small amount of stamina, to gain specific attribute enhancements.

Bang bang bang!

As he kept dodging, nearly a hundred Shadow Hands cornered Chen Qi in the dead angles of his compartment.

"It\'s over, human. You will spend this century with me," said the Crack Lost One, its mouth curling into a smile, determined to turn its opponent into another corpse within the compartment.

"This is troublesome... I hope Residual Fire Entwining works properly."

With no room left to retreat, a fierce look flashed in Chen Qi\'s eyes as he expanded all his Qi Power to his garment.

Residual Fire Touch was a Blade Phase equipment, requiring strong combat desire to drive it.

Accompanied by the infusion of Spiritual Power and a fierce desire to fight.

The tiny tentacles beneath the cloak grew sharply, emerging from the bottom of the garment.

At the same time, more and more tentacles began entwining around his limbs, providing an unceasing supply of strength!

And in an instant, blue residual fire burst forth violently!

Residual Fire Entwining, activated!

Chen Qi\'s eyes flashed with crazed fire, and his lips curled into a mad smile.

At this moment, he felt only the unceasing flow of strength and unfathomable speed!

And a raging emotion surged within him, an urge to smash everything in sight into pieces!

"What in the world is this..." The Crack Lost One instinctively increased the frequency of its attacks and roared loudly:

"Shadow Hand Binding!"

At this moment, the Crack Lost One abandoned the idea of capturing Chen Qi alive.

Shadow Hands were born at the same time from the ground, the roof, and the windows.

Chen Qi tossed aside the black Blade and resorted to a more brutally primal form of combat:

Fists!

Without any skill or weapons, relying solely on strength, he could pulverize the monster before him!

Shadow Hands attacked like torrential rain from all around!

"Not enough, not enough, not enough!"

Chen Qi kept throwing densely packed punches like a downpour!

With the speed of his fists, he countered a hundred shadowy tentacles!

In the blink of an eye!

With the combination of Qi Power and strength, each punch emitted a sharp sonic boom.

In a flash, the shadowy tentacles were reduced to pieces.

"???"

The crack wanderer tilted its head, watching the scene before it in disbelief.

It couldn\'t even make out the previous punch\'s speed!

However, before it could recover from its shock, a hand pressed against its neck.

"Had enough, little guy?"

Like grasping a frail squirrel, Chen Qi grabbed the neck of the crack wanderer and then—toward the hard window above—

Slammed it fiercely!!

The overwhelming force caused the entire carriage to shudder violently!

The crack wanderer howled:

"You can\'t..."

Enough nonsense, Chen Qi\'s right hand pinned the crack wanderer against the wall, and his right hand gathered Qi Power again.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Three punches were thrown, and a heavy, muffled sound spread from the chest of the crack wanderer.

Before the crack wanderer could finish speaking, bones shattered, and flesh splattered!

The crack wanderer\'s body was splashed with copious amounts of blood, it raised its hand, and at this moment, it had no strength left to resist!

Its roars grew weaker and eventually turned into feeble whimpers.

Pure power suppression!

It looked at Chen Qi with terror in its eyes.

Beneath the dark black cloak, half-black tendrils kept emerging.

From beneath the cloak, it only saw a pair of eyes, eyes that burned like a monster\'s.

Like the legendary deep-sea monsters told of by sailors.

It should have been the monster of the carriage, having absorbed Shadow Phase power from the Era of Darkness and the train, its body long since departed from human form.

In this world, they were called monsters!

In the time the crack re-emerged into the world, it displayed its monstrous strength, watched many powerful Hunters show desperation in their eyes, and killed them while they were still alive.

Now, the crack wanderer felt the despair, as if it were the weak human who had fallen into a trap.

[Crack Distortion Increase by 3%, the Crack Wanderer falls into despair! The power of its Shadow Phase within increases again!]

It released its Shadow Power in an outburst of despair and roared:

"Coffin Hand!"

Above the roof behind Chen Qi, a gurgling sound was heard, and once again, a gigantic Shadow Hand emerged.

Its enormity, capable of firmly grasping a bear and then crushing it to smithereens!

"Residual Fire blooms."

Chen Qi did not turn around, but softly said.

Behind him, from the cloak, eight giant transparent tendrils burning with Residual Fire emerged.

Accompanied by the flames igniting!

Like swatting a fly, the Shadow Hand was casually slapped away by the tendrils spreading from the cloak.

Boom!

The massive impact turned the crack wanderer\'s attack into dust.

"Is that all the strength you have..."

Chen Qi laughed wildly.

Now, it had been less than twenty seconds since he had activated Residual Fire Touch.

And under the barrage of continuous heavy punches, even the core of the wanderer\'s heart had been revealed.

"The final blow!"

Chen Qi adjusted his breathing, feeling the pain in his bones, and channeling Qi Power throughout his body.

With his current constitution and Residual Fire Touch, he could only last for a maximum of 30 seconds...

"I can\'t... stay here any longer... I will make you..."

The crack wanderer tried to use the blade in its hand to attack Chen Qi, to break free from the constraints.

However, all its struggles were automatically blocked by the eight tendrils of Residual Fire Bloom.

Under absolute power, resistance was futile.

In that moment, Chen Qi felt its desperate aura.

A young man acting on impulse, wanting to become a legend above the vast sea, ending up tragically confined in this narrow train, waiting painfully for death.

Eventually, this aura of despair resonated with the train, turning into the monster it was now.

Although it spoke human language, in essence, it was merely a stack of despairing emotions.

As instructed by the Navy Admiral, he needed to bring the body back as intact as possible.

Defeating the core was the best approach.

"It\'s time to send you home!"

Chen Qi clenched his right fist, which was concentrated with Qi Power.

As his words fell, the struggles of the crack wanderer suddenly became slower.

In the end, unexpectedly, it gave up on resisting.

Boom!

Without hesitation, he delivered the explosive punch that violently shattered the heart of the crack wanderer, which had been accumulating Shadow Phase power in its chest.

With the breaking of the crack wanderer\'s heart, the previously restless carriage once again quieted down, and the crack wanderer, trapped here for ten long years, finally closed its weary eyes.

"Finally, it\'s over..."

Chen Qi, feeling the pain from the tendrils wrapped around him, exhaled deeply.

[You have defeated the Crack Wanderer...]

Defeating the crack wanderer also meant the completion of Train Car No. 8.