That sound of something shattering seemed to come from the biting point. No one knew whether it was the steel teeth that shattered, or the indestructible tungsten pillar that broke.
Gluttony was absolutely certain—he would rather die than admit his teeth had shattered.
Even as crimson blood continuously streamed down from the corner of his mouth.
The Divine Messenger was equally convinced. The density of this tungsten was forged under pressures impossible to generate on this planet—it simply couldn't break!
Both remained equally steadfast, but Lu Ce completely disregarded the consequences, continuously exerting force, while the Divine Messenger, without even realizing it, watched with growing tension.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The pillar kept pounding up and down, carrying the biting figure below with it, rising and falling.
Again and again, it lifted that person into the air before smashing them into the ground!
But this pillar had clearly become significantly different from the surrounding ones, appearing somewhat unstable and ready to collapse.
Unconsciously, fewer viewers were typing in the public chat, as if everyone was holding their breath, anticipating something about to happen.
Perfect Life was flipping on his constantly rotating mountain of blades. When he saw this scene, he couldn't help but stop to watch that room.
This resulted in numerous small cuts from the sharp blades across his body, and the pristine white room began to be tainted with blood.
It was like a signal—once the first wound appeared on your body, the tenth, hundredth, and thousandth were already waiting in line.
Death by a thousand cuts!
Yet even so, he temporarily ignored his own condition, waiting instead for an unknown outcome.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment, listening to the pounding sounds of Mortar and Pestle Hell.
...
Crack!
A crisp sound finally shattered the silence. Large cracks instantly spread across the tungsten pillar, then the bottom third exploded with a thunderous roar.
The shattered fragments transformed into the world's sharpest blades, scattering explosively in all directions. Large pieces shot into Lu Ce's body below.
Instantly, blood gushed out like a fountain.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Yet at the same time, Gluttony's boisterous laughter erupted. His injuries didn't affect him in the slightest—blood was never something the Chosen of Agony needed to worry about.
He climbed up the pillar, reaching the top, then took another forceful bite at a spot where cracking sounds were coming from.
The entire pillar instantly lost all support, breaking with a thunderous crash and falling from above.
BOOM!
The tungsten pillar collapsed, landing to the side and lying still. The other pillars above continued pounding down on it, one after another, creating metallic clanging sounds from the collisions.
And where Lu Ce stood, above his head, there was now one less pillar!
From this moment on, Mortar and Pestle Hell became ineffective against him. As long as he stood in this gap, no pillar could crush him.
The execution game room, responsible for punishment, actually couldn't withstand the force and had been forcibly opened with brute strength.
What kind of solution was this?
Perfect Life was utterly stunned. For those few seconds, he allowed the mountain of blades to roll over his body, forgetting the pain entirely.
Forget about him—the other players were even more dumbfounded.
Perfect Life felt that once again, this person had become the one to break the deadlock, but others wondered: wasn't this guy basically invincible now?
If he just stood in this gap, recovering to his peak condition, wouldn't he be permanently undefeatable?
Xie Antong watched the screen, her tightly clenched fists subtly relaxing.
Extreme hardness leads to breakage—she knew the danger he'd just faced. In his Gluttony state, he would definitely keep biting, and could only keep biting.
Fortunately, it was the pillar that shattered!
At this moment, Lu Ce's red face resembled a door god, adorned with a ferocious smile as he chewed something vigorously.
What he was chewing was the tungsten from earlier.
A sound like an angle grinder came from his mouth, the entire lower half of his face drenched in blood from this brutal chewing, but the unstable energy aura around him grew stronger.
The energy absorbed by Gluttony was temporarily stored and automatically repaired his wounds.
So he didn't need healing potions, and didn't dare use them—if he took out any potions in this state, he'd probably drink them all in one go.
He stood quietly there, surrounded by countless thundering pillars crashing down around him. Amidst this forest of pounding shadows, he chewed his morbid fruit.
His eyes fixed in one direction, and that room happened to be exactly at the center of every hell player's screen.
As if he was watching them.
They had tried destroying execution tools and rooms before, but all failed.
Like Xie Antong—even her epic-level weapon had developed cracks, while the restraining devices remained unchanged.
But he succeeded.
That bloody, smiling chewing gave everyone a chilling feeling deep in their hearts, as if he was chewing their own flesh and blood.
Even Club Ace trembled his lips slightly, ultimately unable to say anything.
In another screen, Perfect Life was the first to react, suddenly erupting for some reason.
His eyes burst with bright golden light, terrifying energy sweeping through all the blades in his room.
Then he pressed a red button.
To pass this round, he needed to deal with the blades in his area while recovering his body.
If "Sin" could accomplish something like this, then he didn't need to struggle so hard either...
Players in other rooms reacted similarly, growing somewhat silent, actively pressing gray buttons, their faces gloomy as they sought other ways out.
Xie Antong's psychological tactics made them afraid to only press red buttons.
While "Sin" used action to show them that "Sin" couldn't die in this room right now!
The game's progress suddenly accelerated, but not in the way the Divine Messenger had hoped for.
Yet Lu Ce wasn't satisfied. After shocking everyone, he took advantage of a gap, leaped out, and grabbed the fallen pillar from the ground.
Using it as a weapon, he charged through the mortar formation, swinging the pillar like wind as it collided with other pillars, rushing toward where he wanted to go.
Where there's a first time, there's a second—if he wanted, in extreme circumstances he could chew up and eat all the pillars.
But now, he wanted to check out that gray button again.
BANG!
The pillar smashed violently against the gray button.
[Special effect triggered.]
Nothing happened in the room.
However!
One of the eighteen red lights above suddenly turned green!
He passed?!