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The rain curtain parted under the greatsword. Dark red lightning coiled around the blade. The moment it touched the corpse poison, it vaporized the thick miasma that even the storm couldn’t wash away.
Baleful energy is poison to all evil creatures. It can even restrain zombies, which aren’t truly living.
The blade sliced open Feng Yi’s chest, leaving a mark on the young man’s pale skin. No blood flowed out. His blood had long since coagulated.
Countless mycelia crawled from the wound. They writhed madly. In the blink of an eye, they covered the entire cut.
These mycelia were the so-called corpse poison. According to Lu Qingtian’s experiments, this active substance destroys a living being’s vitality on contact. It might even assimilate the creature into an individual controlled by the mycelia. Not just humans, but demons too.
It sounded like a zombie virus.
After comparison, the painted skin that wreaked havoc at Lin’an University last time had traces of this stuff in its body. Actually, it had died when it was frozen on the lake. What later controlled its near-infinite proliferation was the corpse poison. Once diluted to a certain degree, this substance takes on a tar-like state.
“So you and I actually fought before…”
Two jets of steam shot from under the full-coverage Taotie mask. Various electronic alerts rang in his ears.
Xu Zhi swung his greatsword again. Dark red lightning evaporated raindrops, turning them to steam that the blade sliced through. Feng Yi’s claws extended over three feet. Crimson and dark red collided repeatedly in the white mist and black rain, sparks flying.
But Feng Yi’s ten invincible crimson claws were like a hot knife through butter before the greatsword with the Pojun Protocol activated. They were continuously minced. If the corpse poison didn’t swarm to repair his claws each time they were shattered, Feng Yi would have lost the ability to fight back long ago.
“Unknown energy reaction detected. Brace for impact!”
The greatsword broke through the crimson web of claws. Just as it was about to pierce Feng Yi’s chest, a mechanical voice exploded in Xu Zhi’s ear. A piercing alarm and red warnings flashing on his mask lit up his face.
The next second, crimson light filled his vision!
Xu Zhi only had time to stab his greatsword into the ground to block. The massive energy burst pushed him back dozens of steps. Debris flew through the rain as the sword’s tip carved terrifying grooves in the ground.
Only then did Xu Zhi see clearly: Feng Yi had used the shattered claw fragments to quietly set up a sword seal in the rain.
Could a zombie do something like this? Did he still retain his sanity? Or was it combat instinct rooted in his blood?
“Guh…” The decayed vocal cords trembled slowly. The sound, like a broken bellows, seemed to be chanting an incantation.
The crimson light from the claw fragments connected in the rain to form a seal dozens of meters wide. Within it, Xu Zhi seemed to see an ancient sword shadow.
Nine Heavens Sword Seal!
Xu Zhi pushed off with his feet, shooting through the rain like an arrow. He left a crater behind, with web-like cracks spreading dozens of meters. He raised his sword and slashed down. Dark red lightning on the broad blade flashed into wrist-thick red thunder!
Baleful energy output multiplied several times over. The burst felt like it would drain all his blood!
The Xu family bloodline automatically converts all spiritual energy into baleful energy. Six years ago, when Xu Zhi first awakened his spiritual energy, his entire body’s energy was converted into baleful energy. That was the first and only time he lost control of it.
If Xiao Mochen hadn’t helped suppress the baleful energy, Xu Zhi might have been torn to shreds by the rampaging energy then.
At the time, Xiao Mochen used Xu Zhi’s blood as a seal, sealing most of the baleful energy into his blood. This allowed Xu Zhi to learn to control the small portion that leaked out, but it also prevented him from using conventional means to trigger the destructive power hidden in his blood.
Unless he did what he was doing now: guiding blood out of his body to unleash the baleful energy. But eventually he would run out of blood. When his blood loss rate exceeded 25%, the baleful energy suppressed by Xiao Mochen would spiral completely out of control, like a beast escaping its cage.
The greatsword struck the sword seal. Red thunder raged, nearly tearing the seal apart. Dark red and crimson bit at each other in the lightning.
Blood loss rate: 11%.
“Stop interfering,” Xu Zhi gritted his teeth. Red thunder on the blade surged again, leaving web-like cracks on the crimson edge.
Blood loss rate: 14%.
“Crack!”
Red thunder raged, and the greatsword finally shattered the sword seal. The seal spanning dozens of meters cracked, falling in pieces like broken glass. It shattered into specks of red light in the puddles.
But Feng Yi had already grasped the ancient sword shadow. The illusory shadow solidified into a bronze longsword in his hand. Sword energy burst out and shredded the surrounding raindrops. It created a waterless space nearly a hundred meters wide.
The young man stood in the center of the waterless space, sword in hand. The stiffness was gone from his body, replaced by the agility and flexibility of a sword master.
He swung his sword to cut the mycelia spreading from his wound. The madly writhing mycelia melted on contact with the blade, like icicles under the summer sun.
“Is this phase two?”
Xu Zhi split the chaotic sword energy and swung his sword horizontally. “Is your next line going to be ‘So you’ve been with me all along’?”
The ancient bronze sword clashed with the mechanical greatsword. Sparks flew where the blades met. In an instant, the ancient sword erupted with moonlight-like radiance that shot out in all directions. The light was like blades, slicing through the surrounding buildings.
“Yeah, yeah, moonlight greatsword. I’ve played that game.”
Xu Zhi leaned back to dodge the radiance. Buildings crumbled, debris flying through the rain. This scene, this plot, was extremely similar to a boss from a game he’d played about hunting monsters in dreams.
Red thunder and moonlight intertwined. Sword light shredded everything around them. The meat-grinder clash of swords lasted thirty seconds. In those thirty seconds, rain and rubble were ground to dust by the stray sword light. The dark red lightning on the mechanical greatsword flared, biting hard into the moonlight drifting from the bronze sword. The blinding light nearly blinded Lu Qingtian, who was providing sniper support hundreds of meters away.
But Feng Yi’s swordsmanship seemed to grow more proficient, like a sword master who hadn’t used a sword in a long time gradually awakening rusty muscle memory in battle.
In an instant, the bronze sword glowing with moonlight fluttered like a butterfly. Xu Zhi retreated, gun barrels extending from his shoulder armor and firing continuously. Blue bullet chains wove into a net.
The moment the sword light faded, the rain crashed down.
“Boss, your blood loss rate is nearing the critical point!” Zhou Xuan’s warning came through the earpiece.
Xu Zhi glanced at the blood loss meter on his HUD. His blood loss rate was now at 22%.
“Shut up! There’s still 3% margin, that’s enough!”
Dark red flames shot from the thrusters on his back and calves. With a powerful push, Xu Zhi shot toward Feng Yi like a cannonball, swinging his greatsword.
“Time to say goodnight!”
The broad blade suddenly split open. Red thunder surged within. The light from that burst spread for dozens of kilometers!
Xuan Shu Sequence: Pojun Protocol, Overclock Mode!
Facing the thunderous sword light, Feng Yi didn’t block or dodge. He thrust his sword forward. The moonlight drifting on the ancient blade shot out like a silver dragon emerging from the sea!
“Boom!”
The blast wave nearly uprooted the surrounding street trees. Xu Zhi’s greatsword flew from his hand. The red thunder blade pierced Feng Yi’s body like a spiral drill. The terrifying force carried him flying for kilometers, smashing through countless buildings.
But the silver dragon strike, just as it was about to reach Xu Zhi’s face, suddenly veered off. The radiance exploded, blasting apart half of the library behind Xu Zhi. The shockwave shattered the Taotie full-coverage mask on his face.
“Feng Yi has completely stopped moving! Boss, we did it!” Lu Qingtian was so excited they nearly jumped.
They had successfully executed Feng Yi, and the Xuan Shu Sequence had passed its live combat stress test. This was a great merit for the Demon Suppression Bureau! No, two great merits!
“No! Boss’s condition is wrong!” Zhou Xuan suddenly gasped. On the tablet’s life detection system for Xu Zhi, the blood loss rate had skyrocketed to 50%!
Dark red ominous energy seeped from the seams of his armor. In the rain, Xu Zhi’s eyes gleamed with a terrifying, beast-like light.
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