Xu Shuangyao fell to the cold ground like a kite with a broken string, uttering a painful groan. Her crown of thorns nearly fell off. She struggled to raise her head, but her vision was blurred by the violent concussion and mental backlash.
Pei Du's eyes flashed with ferocity! His instinct for survival and the rage of being cornered instantly overwhelmed all fatigue and pain! Facing the mushroom bone hammer that was crashing down like a landslide, he no longer held back!
“Ughh ...
A soul-rending roar erupted from the depths of Pei Du's throat! He no longer resisted the destructive, excruciating power emanating from the crown, but instead actively and frantically detonated it! A far more violent and scorching torrent of energy, carrying soul-rending pain, instantly surged from the point where his spine had been pierced into his shattered body!
The cost is devastating!
“Crack…Puff!”
The dark red "asphalt" tissue covering the fractured part of his right shoulder suddenly expanded and tore apart! Several sharp, blood-red crystals, dripping with mucus and blood, suddenly pierced through the skin and tissue, growing out with a hideous force! A dark red sheen like lava flowed on the surface of the crystals, emitting a heart-pounding heat and a destructive aura! At the same time, the dark red, mutated lines on his chest and neck suddenly erupted with a dazzling bloody light. The skin around the lines began to harden and crack, revealing a crystalline stratum corneum! The mutation was rapidly spreading to his torso and neck! He felt the essence of his life being madly ignited and burned by this violent force!
Almost at the same moment Pei Du exploded!
"Pei Du... Mental... Shock... Interference... Consciousness!" Xu Shuangyao summoned her last ounce of willpower, issuing a sharp command through the connection! Ignoring the excruciating pain of her near-psychic collapse, she forcibly concentrated her mind, transforming her thoughts into an invisible, thorn-like shockwave. Through the fragile connection, it fiercely pierced the fungal leader's chaotic consciousness, dominated by madness and the will of the fungus master! This was her forced use of the crown's authority as a "creator," and also a theoretical form of mental interference coordination!
“Roar——!!!”
The fungus leader's hammer suddenly faltered! His crimson eye was instantly filled with immense confusion and agony! It was as if countless invisible needles were piercing his brain! His massive body stumbled, his frenzied attack instantly interrupted!
"die--!!!"
Pei Du seized this crucial opportunity! His intact left hand didn't clench into a fist, but instead clenched its fingers like a knife! His fingertips swirled with concentrated, dark red energy, like liquid flame! His target—the side of the fungal leader's neck, exposed by the mental shock, the incompletely transformed, relatively thinly covered with fungal armor!
The knife came out! Silently! Only a dark red blood-red light, condensed to the extreme, ripped through space!
“Puff——!!!”
Like a red-hot knife cutting into solidified grease, a dark red blood-red light flashed across the side of the fungus leader's neck with incredible precision!
Time seemed to freeze for a moment.
Then——
"Ho…ho…ho…" a meaningless roar erupted from the fungal leader's throat, like a leak in his throat. His massive body froze in place, his single crimson eye widening to its limit, filled with disbelief and a kind of... madness on the verge of liberation. His massive fungal bone hammer slammed to the ground with a clang. A thin crack, burning with dark red energy, appeared on the side of his neck, rapidly spreading and expanding!
"Coordinated attack!" The power is terrifying! The cost is equally terrifying!
"Puff!" Pei Du suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood! Mixed in with the blood were more subtly twisting dark red mycelium! The blood-red crystal piercing his right shoulder suddenly stretched a little longer, and the skin and muscles connected to the crystal's base made an even more painful tearing sound! The cracks in the keratinized skin on his chest and neck deepened, and in several places, a dark red, crystal-like substance began to ooze out! His strength receded like a tide, leaving behind even deeper weakness and excruciating pain!
“Ah——!” Xu Shuangyao let out an even more shrill scream! She held her head tightly with both hands, and blood gushed out of all her orifices at the same time! The backlash caused by the forced mental interference was like billions of red-hot steel needles piercing her brain at the same time! The Crown of Thorns flickered violently, as if it would explode completely in the next second! What was even more terrifying was that her consciousness was completely contaminated! Countless chaotic images flashed wildly in her mind: the cold rain alley in Pei Du’s tampered memory... the cold eyes opened in the incubator... the perspective of plant roots wriggling in the dark underground... and countless distorted fragments of memories that did not belong to anyone, full of blood and betrayal! She could not distinguish between reality and illusion, and the figure of Pei Du in front of her seemed to be distorted into the hideous face of the fungal leader!
Just then!
"Ugh!" A Wild Fang Fungus Puppet, which had managed to avoid the plant trap and pounced on Pei Du from the side, took advantage of the moment when he was paralyzed by blood spurting out of his body and swung its poisoned bone blade, fiercely stabbing him in the waist and ribs! The angle was tricky and the speed was incredible!
Pei Du's old strength was exhausted, and his new strength had not yet been generated. His body was slow to react due to the severe pain and weakness! The poisonous blade was about to hit him!
"No!" Xu Shuangyao screamed instinctively in the midst of extreme confusion and excruciating pain! She saw "Pei Du" (perhaps the leader of the fungi in her distorted vision) about to be ambushed and killed! A powerful, desperate will erupted! She suddenly raised her hand and pointed at the attacker! Not with a mental attack, but with the Crown of Thorns' deeper authority—forced suppression! Suppress that "threatening" action! Even if only for a moment!
"Command...force...delay!" She screamed silently on the spiritual level!
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