Pei Du let out an even more shrill roar! This time, the roar was filled with a violent will that had been forcibly awakened, like a volcanic eruption!
Xu Shuangyao's fear ignited his anger that was suppressed by a sense of nothingness!
Xu Shuangyao's obsession with protection tore apart the "worthless" lies woven by the Fungus Master Whisper!
Xu Shuangyao's alertness on the verge of death made him see her tiny and fragile figure under the shadow of the falling giant claw!
She's still here! She's still trying to... protect him?!
This realization was like a spark thrown into boiling oil, instantly igniting all the remaining emotions in Pei Du's heart, a mixture of violence, unwillingness, anger, and a trace of complex emotions that he himself could not understand and was forcibly awakened!
“Get out of here—!!!”
Pei Du's eyes were instantly consumed by a crimson glow! That wasn't a light of reason; it was the utterly insane, beastly light of a burning life force! All the excruciating pain! All the changes! All the erosion! At that moment, it all turned into fuel!
He no longer resisted the fusion crown! He actively, frantically, as if opening the gates of hell, he poured his remaining vitality, willpower, and the equally violent power contaminated by the Fungus Master into the thorn-wreathed twin crowns on his head without reservation and completely!
“Buzz——!!!”
The Fusion Crown erupted with an unprecedented, dazzling, crimson light, like a supernova explosion! That light was no longer a flowing glimmer, but had condensed into a substantial, liquid-flame-like energy torrent! The entire dark passage was illuminated in a blood-red glow!
The cost is devastating!
“Crack…Crack…”
The dark red lines under the skin of Pei Du's completely mutated right arm surged and lit up like lava! The skin instantly became like a red-hot iron, showing a translucent dark red color! The muscles and bones groaned under the heavy burden, as if they would completely collapse in the next second! The mutated lines rushed across the shoulder blade like greedy vines, spreading rapidly towards his right chest and neck! Wherever they passed, the skin bulged and cracked, revealing the dark red and shiny muscle tissue underneath, like molten metal! You can even see a few tiny crystals like ruby fragments condensed on the edges of the cracked skin!
The excruciating pain emanating from deep within his spine reached its peak! It was as if the thorns that had penetrated him were growing and branching wildly, threatening to completely pierce and tear him apart from the inside! He felt as if his soul was being ignited and burned by this violent force!
"Ughh ...
Blast it hard!
The goal - to carve out a path to survival! Even if the price is to be torn to pieces!
“BOOM!!!!!!!”
A terrifying noise that cannot be described in words!
That was not just a simple physical collision, but the ultimate collision of energy and life forms!
From the tip of Pei Du's mutated right arm, crimson energy, condensed to its extreme, surged out like an angry dragon! It slammed fiercely into the ever-squirming and thickening barrier of activated plant roots, covered with a metallic cuticle and dripping with corrosive mucus!
The moment the dark purple vine made contact, it convulsed violently, as if struck by a high-voltage electric shock of hundreds of millions of volts! The incomparably tough metal cuticle cracked with a piercing sound, cracking and shattering like shattered glass! The sticky, corrosive sap instantly vaporized under the intense heat of the scarlet energy, emitting a sharp hissing sound and thick white smoke! The thick roots were forcibly torn, carbonized, and shattered by the violent energy! A huge hole, the edges of which were still burning with dark red energy flames, was blasted open!
The army of fungus puppets drawn in from the back of the tunnel bore the brunt of the impact! The first few puppets, swept by the violent aftermath of the energy, barely had time to scream as they instantly melted and vaporized like wax figures thrown into a steel furnace! Those further away were also violently blown away by the shockwave, slamming into the tunnel walls, breaking bones and tendons!
The fungal leader, who bore the vast majority of the impact head-on, had his massive metal claws slammed down less than half a meter from Pei Du's head before being savagely torn apart by the raging energy surge! The immense force backfired, causing his massive body to stumble backward like a sandbag struck by a giant hammer, shattering the debris behind him!
Desperate! This life-burning blow tore a bloody gap open!
"Go!!" Pei Du swayed violently in the aftermath of the energy explosion, like a dying candle in the wind. Dark red blood oozed from all seven orifices. His mutated right arm drooped limply, the dark red muscle tissue exposed through cracked skin like charred charcoal, emitting wisps of green smoke. Several dark red crystals gleamed ominously. Using his last remaining consciousness, he unleashed a bestial roar at Xu Shuangyao, whose connection with him was also on the verge of collapse.
Xu Shuangyao was briefly shaken awake by the earth-shattering explosion and the violent energy shockwave. She saw the hole in the plant barrier ahead, and the faint glimpse of the even more dilapidated, yet vaster, ruins of the city beyond! The instinct for survival overwhelmed everything! She didn't know where to squeeze out the last bit of strength, but she rolled and crawled towards the hole!
Pei Du stumbled forward, each step like treading on the tip of a red-hot knife. His mutated right arm brought soul-wrenching pain, his body feeling hollowed out and burning. He took one last look at the fungus leader, who had been thrown back by the energy shockwave and was now roaring even more furiously, struggling to pounce again, and at the fungus puppets surging behind him. His eyes were devoid of emotion, only a smoldering ember.
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