“Kid…” Chen Junnan asked with some worry, “How long can your Echo last?”

“A long time…” Jiang Shi answered. “If my conviction is strong enough… it could even last a whole day.”

At this moment, Chen Junnan relaxed a bit. After all, without needing to consider the time factor, they just needed to see if Earth-Rabbit would voluntarily give up this slaughter.

Jiang Shi held his own head facing Earth-Rabbit, leaving the tall Earth-Rabbit before him momentarily without any countermeasures.

This kid’s head came off and he still wouldn’t die… would other methods even be useful?

“Seeking death.” The head in Jiang Shi’s hands slightly opened its mouth. “Demon, why did you stop?”

Hearing this, Earth-Rabbit steadied his mind again and extended his stone-pillar-thick leg to kick toward Jiang Shi’s abdomen. Having lost his normal vision, Jiang Shi’s judgment of this kick was slightly off. His whole body, holding his head, was kicked flying and crashed straight into the wall beside Chen Junnan.

The skinny Jiang Shi hung on the wall like a poster for a while before slowly falling to the ground. The sound this time seemed even more ominous. The sound of bones cracking kept coming from his body—anyone else would have certainly died.

Could there really be someone in this world who could be continuously beaten by an Earth-level Zodiac without dying?

“Oh my goodness…” After landing, Jiang Shi’s head rolled to the side. His body trembled a few times while his head coughed several times, spitting out many unidentifiable objects. “Cough cough… that hurt so much…”

Chen Junnan frowned as he looked at Earth-Rabbit and shouted from afar: “Big Brother Rabbit Boy, how about we set a time limit? I’ll give you another thirty seconds. If you still can’t beat him to death, we’ll consider it your loss.”

“Admit defeat? If I’m merciful to Participants, why would I hold this ‘Penglai’?” Earth-Rabbit laughed coldly. “The Eight Immortals had to display their divine powers to cross the sea. Naturally, you all will also activate your Echoes to survive. To me, there’s no difference. I’m just the icy cold sea that wants to take all your lives.”

“You damn well have all sorts of sayings…” Chen Junnan knew Earth-Rabbit had no reason to give up, but when would this beating ever end?

Would he have to beat Jiang Shi until he couldn’t move at all?

“You… close the door…” Jiang Shi braced one hand against the ground and very reluctantly lifted his upper body. The head beside him also spoke. “I look too wretched like this. There’s no need to watch me.”

“No…” Jiang Shi picked up his head from the side and said, “The Zodiac’s attacks are much more fierce than I imagined… Qi Ge probably couldn’t withstand them… Among everyone here, probably only I…”

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Shi’s head once again spewed a large mouthful of fresh blood, with the blood again mixed with shattered organs.

“Oh no, oh no, oh no…” Jiang Shi controlled his body to wipe his mouth, then set his head aside and reached out to poke at the organs on the ground. “You need to remember what things I’ve lost… I’ll have to tell Wu Ge later… If I lose them, I’m dead for sure.”

“Kid…” Chen Junnan held his forehead and said, “How about this—throw your head over here first? That way, no matter what awful state your body gets beaten into, at least we can keep your head, and when I go back, I’ll have Little Qian Dou reshape your body.”

“That won’t do!!” Jiang Shi’s eyes instantly widened. “Body, hair, and skin are received from one’s parents. How can I abandon my own body?”

“Huh?” Chen Junnan was completely out of ideas. “You’re quite stubborn, aren’t you?”

“Stop talking, close the door quickly.” Jiang Shi wanted to get up from the ground but always felt something was off. One of his legs hurt terribly, as if it had completely lost sensation.

Chen Junnan also discovered the clue in an instant: “Kid, what’s wrong with you?”

“Seems I got beaten a bit too hard…” Jiang Shi smiled bitterly, placed his head on the ground to use as eyes, then his body rolled over on the ground. Using his distant eyes to look at his right leg, before long he made a surprised sound. “Oh no! My right leg is fractured! Oh no… this is such a headache! Head… huh? Where’s my head?”

Jiang Shi frantically felt around for his head a few times before remembering that his head had long been knocked off.

Chen Junnan no longer knew how to respond. He knew he had seen many people in the Land of the End, but never once had he felt this speechless.

“Leg, leg’s broken…” After a long silence, Chen Junnan still spoke. “You, kid, why don’t you lie on the ground and rest for a bit? I said earlier that this game was mainly aggressive, but you can’t be this aggressive…”

“No, no, no…” Jiang Shi’s hands kept groping around his back. “I’m not being aggressive. I feel like my leg is just twisted… it should be able to be twisted back… you… wait a moment…”

Jiang Shi reached out in a very awkward posture to touch his right leg, then reached out to pinch the flesh around the fracture. The head not far away also grimaced in pain from time to time. Because the situation was too bizarre, even Earth-Rabbit in the same room fell into a speechless state.

Before long, a deep breath came from Jiang Shi’s head, then both hands gripped his broken leg bone and suddenly twisted it with a scream.

Then his right leg completely lost all sensation.

Chen Junnan had at least seen people set their own bones on TV, but he had never seen someone scream this miserably.

“You… why does your bone-setting sound like slaughtering a pig? Are you really okay?”

“Oh no…” After Jiang Shi’s miserable scream, the head on the ground widened its eyes. “What should I do… oh my goodness… I twisted it the wrong direction…”

Chen Junnan covered his eyes, feeling it was really too embarrassing to watch.

“What… what the hell…” He said somewhat anxiously. “Do you even understand joint structure, kid…? What the hell is ‘twisted the wrong direction’…?”

“I could have twisted it correctly!!” Jiang Shi also said anxiously. “But this is the first time someone’s knocked my head off. Now looking at my own body, it appears reversed… oh no, oh no, what should I do?”

“How should I know!!”

“How about I twist it one more time… wait a moment…” Jiang Shi continued reaching out to find that misaligned section of leg bone.

“Give me a break!”

Chen Junnan was about to start arguing with Jiang Shi through the door, thinking to himself that this “Indestructible” which sounded incomparably grand was even less reliable than “Scapegoat.”

“Oh right, get me a crutch…” Since Jiang Shi couldn’t turn his head, he could only use the head on the ground to look sideways at Chen Junnan. “Isn’t it ‘Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea’? Is there a crutch from ‘Iron-Crutch Li’? As long as I can stand up, I can still fight…”

Chen Junnan curled his lips and pulled out from his pocket a chopstick-sized, entirely black small hairpin with traces of black mud at the top.

“Kid, will a mini version work?”