“Ah, yes.” Cui Shisi nodded with an embarrassed expression. “If a Zodiac’s head comes off, they’ll die… but Shi Ge should be fine.”

Hearing this, Chen Junnan could only reluctantly turn back to look in Jiang Shi’s direction, only to find that the situation was indeed somewhat strange.

Jiang Shi hadn’t shed a single drop of blood.

A few seconds later, Jiang Shi’s hands moved slightly as he slumped on the ground, then he began to continuously grope around his body, as if searching for something. Before long, he found his head.

“Ah ah…?” Jiang Shi’s voice emerged from his throat. “That strong, huh…? You knocked my head clean off.”

Seeing this scene, both Chen Junnan and Earth-Rabbit’s mouths dropped open at the same time.

Jiang Shi kept groping around his head with his hands, trying to reattach his broken neck, but after several attempts, he failed. After all, a person’s joints aren’t like puzzle pieces—once broken, it’s impossible to force them back together with brute strength.

“Didn’t hold back at all…” Jiang Shi could only stand up with one hand holding his head and the other bracing against the ground. “What should I do… go back to see Wu Ge while holding my head?”

“Hey… k-kid…” Chen Junnan called out somewhat incredulously. “You’re really okay?”

After hearing this, Jiang Shi turned his head back in a very bizarre manner. Since his neck wasn’t connected, when his head turned around, it couldn’t stop and rotated an extra half turn.

“I’m fine, idiot leader.” Jiang Shi said while straightening his head. “It’s just troublesome right now… I can’t free up my hands… I need to keep holding it…”

Only now did Chen Junnan notice that the left side of Jiang Shi’s face had completely caved in. The skin and muscle on it had been knocked off, exposing the yellowish-white bone.

“Uh…” Chen Junnan swallowed. “It’s… it’s good you’re okay… Take care of yourself… Your complexion doesn’t look too good…”

“Complexion?” Jiang Shi reached up with his other hand to touch his half-face that had completely disappeared. “I can still have a complexion with this?”

As soon as the words fell, Earth-Rabbit, who had come back to his senses, attacked again.

A swing punch came flying. Chen Junnan shouted “Be careful!” and Jiang Shi immediately reacted, slightly turning his body and once again performing his signature backflip.

He leaned his body backward and braced both hands against the ground behind him. However, this time the situation was a bit special. Although he dodged Earth-Rabbit’s attack, his neck stretched during the roll and his head hit the ground.

Before the roll was complete, Jiang Shi immediately let out a muffled groan and fell to the side.

Every time, Chen Junnan thought Jiang Shi had died, but he never had.

Earth-Rabbit’s expression at this moment was also very ugly. The kid’s neck before him was clearly broken. He could barely tolerate that he could still speak, but why could he still attempt a backflip?

Whose first reaction after breaking their neck would be to do a backflip?

“Ouch… that hurt like hell…” Jiang Shi lay on the ground holding his head. “You rabbit demon are truly rampant… As the saying goes, sweeping the ground doesn’t harm even the ants, cherishing the moth that illuminates the silk lamp… You knocked my head off and still pursue relentlessly… I’ll definitely find that demon-subduing Daoist to subdue you…”

“Oh no!” Chen Junnan slapped his thigh. “This kid’s been beaten silly!”

“You’re the idiot leader…” Jiang Shi stopped his muttering words and got up from the ground with difficulty while holding his head. “It seems I can’t do backflips anymore in this condition… easy to lose my head…”

“Lose…” Chen Junnan swallowed. “Right now you’ve got more problems than just losing your head, don’t you? Don’t you feel pain, kid?”

“How can I not feel pain?!” Jiang Shi turned around, and Chen Junnan clearly saw that his eyes were already full of tears. “My head came off!! And you’re asking if it hurts?!”

“Al… also true… Then you should still take care of yourself…”

Earth-Rabbit felt like the one big and one small before him were humiliating him. He could only take a deep breath, calm himself down, and suddenly swing his fist, sweeping it horizontally toward Jiang Shi’s head. Jiang Shi’s eyes and hands were quick—he gave up on the backflip and directly hugged his head with both hands, pulling it to his chest and narrowly dodging this strike.

Earth-Rabbit considered himself to have killed countless people, but had never seen such a bizarre dodging posture. Who would move their own head to their chest to avoid an attack?

“Hey… why are you still hitting the head?” The human head in Jiang Shi’s arms asked somewhat puzzled. “Can you hit somewhere else? It’ll be very troublesome for me if my head gets knocked away!”

“You’re truly a monster…” Earth-Rabbit muttered.

“Hey, that’s about enough!” Chen Junnan also fanned the flames from the side. “You’re an Earth-level Zodiac who’s been chasing and hitting a kid for this long. Now that you haven’t killed him, you should give up early. It’s too embarrassing if word gets out.”

“It’s fine…” Earth-Rabbit shook his head. “As long as you all die here… then no one can spread the word…”

Earth-Rabbit stopped wasting words with Jiang Shi and directly threw an uppercut toward the human head in his arms. This attack was extremely swift—Jiang Shi couldn’t dodge at all.

Bang!

A light, crisp sound rang out. Jiang Shi’s head lost all connection and was solidly knocked flying to the ceiling, knocking some dust off the ceiling. Then it fell back down, while Jiang Shi’s body walked forward two steps and caught his own head in his hands.

This scene once again left both Chen Junnan and Earth-Rabbit’s faces filled with hesitant expressions.

After Jiang Shi caught his head, he somewhat heartachingly wiped his own face with his hand, then clamped the head under one arm like holding a basketball and turned to look at Earth-Rabbit.

“Your strength is way too much, trying to hurt someone to death…” Jiang Shi clamped his head and deeply sighed. “I’ve told you so many times not to knock my head off, why won’t you listen?”

Chen Junnan nervously held his breath and looked at Jiang Shi’s torn neck area. After all, you could only see someone walking around holding their own head in horror movies.

But if you looked carefully, you would find that Jiang Shi’s current state was very strange—there didn’t seem to be a single drop of blood anywhere on his body.

The flesh at his neck had been torn apart by Earth-Rabbit using the most violent method, but the broken wound looked pitch black—it didn’t look like flesh and blood, nor did it look like white bone.

Instead, it was like a dead, withered tree.

“What kind of Echo is this of yours…” Earth-Rabbit’s lips trembled as he spoke. “How come I’ve never seen anything like you before?”

“Me?” Jiang Shi blinked. “My ability is too special. I have to use it together with Wu Ge, otherwise when the Echo ends, I’ll die too. And I’ve never participated in games before, so it’s normal that no one knows about me.”

Hearing this, Chen Junnan also seemed to understand something.

Earlier, Song Qi had said that Jiang Shi’s ability was to be indestructible “for a certain period of time.” It seemed his Echo also had obvious weaknesses.

If his guess was correct, when the Echo ended, Jiang Shi would return to his normal body state, and at that time, all the fatal injuries he had suffered would strike together, causing him to die instantly.

What an absurd Echo this was!

His flesh hadn’t become stronger, nor could he be immune to pain. He would even be scared by his own appearance. During the Echo period, no matter what kind of damage he received, he was merely “undying.”