Chapter 334: Chapter 222 My Growth, Far Beyond You!_1

Jiang Chen last defeated the Flesh Puppet with a power of 2.2 billion versus 3.99 billion.

Now, the strength comparison stands at 5.4 billion against 9.99 billion.

Theoretically speaking, both scenarios involved a disparity of nearly double in attributes, so Jiang Chen’s odds of winning shouldn’t have changed much—

However, that wasn’t the case.

First, the extent of the attribute changes differed.

Jiang Chen’s basic attributes had increased by 3 billion, but the enemy’s had increased by 6 billion.

This meant that the latter’s attribute gain was bigger, resulting in an even more pronounced disparity in overall power, not something that could be bridged by mere skill enhancement—

Fortunately, Jiang Chen possessed the Sundial Brain, doubling all speed aspects.

It was only with this that he barely managed to compensate for some of the difference.

Second, attribute values are just the foundation of strength.

Beyond basic attributes, factors like special traits, abilities, and techniques can affect the final combat power.

When the Flesh Puppet’s attributes rose from 4 billion to 10 billion, reaching the cusp of the 9th Rank,

the powers and moves it gained naturally also enhanced.

The Flesh Host had more abundant materials to construct the Flesh Puppet’s power systems and strength, greatly increasing its final combat prowess!

All these factors accumulated.

It might still look like a nearly double strength comparison.

In reality, the challenge’s difficulty had increased manifold.

The Flesh Host too had gone through countless ages to reach its current growth, having a very precise grasp on combat power.

It naturally couldn’t misjudge its strength.

In its view, Jiang Chen’s significant attribute growth over six days was indeed terrifying—

But to defeat the Flesh Puppet, it was still far from enough!

So, it proceeded to send out the Flesh Puppet as usual, to suppress the scope of Jiang Chen’s challenge.

It was filled with derision.

“Spending six days to increase your attributes by three billion.”

“In the end, it just reduced the number of challenges you can undertake, lessening the opportunities for tempering.”

“Ridiculously absurd.”

And yet…

At that moment, the Flesh Host’s thoughts suddenly halted, all its eyes frozen in place.

The sight of the Flesh Puppet, crafted from both Fearsome Tiger and Sea Whale, squashing its swollen body onto the field,

did not result in Jiang Chen canceling the challenge as he used to, seeking to refresh the attempts.

Instead, he unhesitatingly accepted the challenge!

Flesh Host: “?”

You really accepted it?

How dare you!

At this sight, the Flesh Host was not overly pleased; on the contrary, it suddenly became anxious.

Its belief in the 10 billion Flesh Puppet’s victory was based on [data comparison].

It was neither blind confidence nor disdain for Jiang Chen.

On the contrary,

it regarded Jiang Chen with the utmost significance, considering him the human luminary of the Purgatory level, a major threat in the Infinite Purgatory, wishing to devour him alive.

How could such a caliber of person be so foolish as to stubbornly face certain death, knowing they can’t win?

If he accepted the challenge…

Then, the answer was quite obvious.

He too believed he could win!

“5.4 billion against 10 billion, the multi-faceted disparity in numbers and skills…”

“You still think you can win?”

“What gives you such confidence?”

The Flesh Host was puzzled, focusing intently on the battlefield.

As expected,

once the challenge officially started, Jiang Chen was instantly overwhelmed by the Flesh Puppet!

The new type of Flesh Puppet equally prioritized both [strength] and [speed]—

Only with the overpowering of both aspects could it achieve “breaking skill with force,” to contend with the Extreme Battle Spirit.

Once the advantages of the Extreme Battle Spirit were suppressed,

Jiang Chen could only clash directly against the Flesh Puppet, entering a state of head-on collision.

In this state, there was no room for maneuver, purely a contest of numeric values and skill matchups.

And for that reason,

once the attributes and skills of both sides were clear,

just a moment’s exchange was enough to deduce the entire battle situation.

Just like the Flesh Host.

Having observed battles for so long, it already had an incredibly thorough understanding of Jiang Chen’s level.

Seeing him activate the Demon God Supernatural Appearance but still get severely suppressed by the Flesh Puppet, a figure spewing blood…

It felt his faint life force fluctuations,

and immediately had an epiphany.

“So that’s how it is!”

Under the 10 billion attributes, combined with various augmentations,

each strike of the Flesh Puppet had breached the “trillions” in power, truly reaching the level of 11th Rank!

Even if Jiang Chen used various traits and skills to counter and reduce the power of this attack,

he would sustain heavy counter-injury, his body fracturing.

Countless streams of blood, representing life force, spurted out like fountains, turning into swathes of blood mist.

However…

Even though the scene appeared tragic,

the Flesh Host could see that Jiang Chen’s life force was recovering at a terrifying speed—

Nearly ten billion in basic instant recovery, combined with the 24-fold acceleration, Infinite Core, Boulder Form, specialized organs, and other stacked recovery speed enhancements…

Even if by simple addition, the figure already surpassed twenty times, a truly terrifying number!

This meant that Jiang Chen’s life force was recovering at over 500 billion per second!

And even…

The Blood Demon Transformation ability, under the effect of Mythical Specialization, shifted from a fixed-value conversion to a percentage-based conversion.

The efficiency of converting life force to physical strength could reach up to 2%.

With no shortage of physical strength for the time being, Jiang Chen opted to convert physical strength into health.

This effectively counteracted the limitation unlock’s life force consumption, eliminating the need to worry about self-harm.

With such an exaggerated life force recovery speed, it nearly nullified the destructive power of the Flesh Puppet’s attacks!

Even if the might of the Flesh Puppet was strong enough and its attack speed rapid enough to just surpass Jiang Chen’s life force recovery rate…

The injuries inflicted, when compared to Jiang Chen’s overall life force limit, were still negligible.