Su Yang's Blood

Su Yang's eyes turned cold, and he gritted his teeth and kept swinging his saber.

He refused to believe the monsters could really resurrect endlessly.

His long saber flashed again and again, reflecting the flickering light of the Suffocation Screen.

Beneath the Suffocation Screen, chunks of flesh flew through the air.

But as soon as the chunks of flesh, large and small, hit the ground, they squirmed back together.

To Su Yang's shock, he swung his saber for dozens of minutes on end, yet the three monsters could still keep reassembling themselves.

Su Yang's attacks had done nothing. They hadn't suffered a single wound!

Nor did Su Yang see any sign of them weakening. They were still eating frenziedly.

After the three monsters finished eating the pile of mangled flesh on the ground, Su Yang could clearly feel that they had regained much of their speed, though they still hadn't returned to their previous peak.

The three monsters ignored Su Yang, letting him hack at them again and again as they continued roaring and searching for other pieces of flesh on the ground.

One piece after another—even the clods of bloodstained earth were swallowed by the three monsters!

But they still didn't seem satisfied. The monster that resembled a green-haired, boneless snake crawled toward another gravestone and used its teeth, exposed to the air, to dig into the soil!

Su Yang focused his gaze on it. It was the gravestone he had first seen.

The words etched on it were still fresh in Su Yang's memory: I finally don't have to be afraid of ghosts anymore, hahaha!

It wanted to devour the corpse beneath the gravestone!

To devour its former friend, its former comrade-in-arms!

"Stop!"

Anger surged in Su Yang's heart. He charged at the monster again, swinging his saber at it with all his might!

One slash after another! Su Yang hacked away wildly, putting all his strength into every blow!

His saber flashed incessantly, and the monster that had lost its spine was chopped into a puddle of mush by Su Yang.

But it was no use. In the space of a single breath, the corpse Su Yang had chopped to mush squirmed back together again.

It crawled once more toward the corpse buried beneath the gravestone.

Watching this, Su Yang fell silent.

He had already done everything he could. All he could do was watch in silence.

The gravestone fell, the soil was dug open, and roars echoed in Su Yang's ears.

He saw the man buried beneath the gravestone.

That colleague from the Soul-Capturing Bureau.

The young man whose epitaph said he was "no longer afraid of ghosts."

He lay there peacefully, a faint smile still on his lips, perfectly serene.

But the green-haired monster had destroyed it all! It had been destroyed by the friend who had once braved life and death alongside him!

The monster began to devour his hands, his eyeballs, his spine!

Perhaps he could never have imagined that the friend buried alongside him would one day burst from the earth and become an ugly monster that knew only how to eat!

In life, he had fought for justice and all that was good in the world, only to become food for his mutated comrade after death.

He couldn't even enjoy peace in death...

Su Yang loosened his grip on the Black Longsword, and it fell to the ground.

He turned away, no longer watching the green-haired monster devour the corpse.

Su Yang felt an inexplicable heaviness in his chest, more unbearable than any wound he had suffered before.

"This fucking contamination..."

"If gods really exist in this world, why would something like this still happen..."

In the distance, the other two monsters were still searching the ground for scraps of flesh and blood to consume.

Su Yang knew that once they finished eating, they would become agile again, fearless in the face of death.

When that happened, another fierce battle would be inevitable.

He now had a rough idea of what Zhao Shengshen had intended!

Just as Zhao Shengshen had said, this was a chance to practice! The Soul-Capturing Bureau had given him, Su Yang, a chance to practice!

Lina's Sequence Ability guaranteed his safety, while the monsters' undying nature allowed him to keep fighting.

Indeed, during this hour of fighting, Su Yang had become fully familiar with his power and mastered it.

Over the course of that hour, Su Yang's mastery of his power had advanced by leaps and bounds.

The old Su Yang had been like a young child who had gained an adult's strength overnight, unaware of how strong he was or how fast he could move.

Now things were different. Su Yang clearly understood how powerful a blow with his full strength was and knew how high he could jump when he exerted himself.

But the price was that the corpses of several colleagues, who had devoted their life's blood to countless compatriots, had been devoured by monsters and stripped of their final dignity.

Was it worth it?

Su Yang didn't know.

But Su Yang felt terrible now, oppressed by an indescribable gloom.

Suddenly, a pained howl from the distance seized all of Su Yang's attention.

Su Yang looked up and saw the monster that had lost both arms frantically gnawing at its own body, as though something inside it was causing it excruciating pain.

Like an ordinary person who had fallen into a pool of sulfuric acid, the monster was giving off clouds of black smoke as its entire body dissolved.

"What's going on?!"

The sudden change shocked Su Yang. He picked up his saber, and his leg muscles tensed as he charged toward the monster.

But before Su Yang could reach it, the monster had completely melted away, like a block of ice in a blazing furnace!

The monster's form evaporated into thin air!

The other two monsters continued eating frenziedly, unaffected in the slightest.

Carrying the Black Longsword, Su Yang carefully approached the place where the sudden change had occurred.

"How could this happen? Wasn't this monster impervious to weapons just now, able to resurrect endlessly no matter how it was attacked?"

"Why did it suddenly die?"

Su Yang frowned and carefully examined the surrounding area.

A clod of earth stained with bright red blood caught Su Yang's attention.

Judging by the tooth marks on it, the monster had been gnawing on this bloodstained clod just before it suddenly dropped dead.

"Is this... my blood?"

Su Yang suddenly realized that this was where he had landed after the monster first sent him flying.

At the time, Su Yang had been so badly injured that he had coughed up a large mouthful of blood.

Could the monster have suddenly dropped dead after consuming his blood?

As soon as the thought surfaced in Su Yang's mind, cold sweat poured down his back.

"If that's true..."

"I'm afraid the people from the Soul-Reaping Bureau will capture me and use me as a blood pump..."

The next moment, Su Yang turned his gaze to the other two monsters, which were still frantically searching for food.

Outside the Suffocation Screen, Zhao Shengshen kept an eye on the time as he smoked.

After his phone gave a ding, Zhao Shengshen stubbed out his cigarette.

"Let's go, Lina! Two hours are up, and the Enhancement Ability you placed on Su Yang is about to wear off."

"Let's go in. We don't want Su Yang to actually die at the hands of those Mutation Monsters."

Beside him, Lina nodded as she applied lipstick in a mirror, then put the lipstick and the small mirror into a pocket at the side of her skirt.

"Let's go see how our little brother Su Yang is doing. I can't wait to see his expression!"