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Over the past few days, Nagai had conducted multiple drills with the five mercenaries.

Shimomura Izumi had also witnessed their strength firsthand.

Whether it was their tactics, coordination, combat power, or equipment—

these five international mercenaries were all top-tier!

They were soldiers even more elite than SAT.

Perhaps, as ordinary humans, they could not stand against experts wielding Magnetic Force.

But against ordinary Ajin, even veteran Ajin capable of summoning Little Black, they would never be completely helpless.

Yet now that Tanaka had snatched back the AJVX special neurotoxin, it meant that all five mercenaries had likely been killed!

That was why Shimomura Izumi was so stunned.

"You found yourselves helpers, so naturally, I gave myself a few more trump cards.

"In fact, it wasn't just Tanaka-kun. I bestowed extraordinary power upon the others as well!"

Sure enough, as Sato's voice fell—

three more people appeared from the other directions.

They were Takahashi Ryota, Utsumi Akihiko, and Okuzan Masumi!

What was particularly noteworthy was that Okuzan Masumi's legs had actually healed!

Those injuries had been sustained before he became an Ajin. Even Ajin regeneration could not restore them.

Yet now, just like a normal man, he stood on this ground with his own two legs—no cane, no wheelchair required!

Back then, Sato had promised that the Ajin who followed him would possess true power as well.

And he was a man who kept his word.

His inspiration had come from Bai Xing. Since Bai Xing could share Magnetic Force with others, why couldn't he?

After some experimentation, Sato truly found a way.

By using electric currents to stimulate the body's cells, one could push the human body to its limits for a short period while drastically overdrawing its life force.

Although Tanaka and the others had not gained Magnetic Force, they now possessed tremendous strength that could be called the limit of the human body by ordinary human standards!

The price was that they would have only three days left to live.

Of course, for Ajin like them, that was nothing.

Even if they died after three days, they could revive. Their bodies, whose potential had been drained, would be fully restored as well.

Then, they only needed to have Sato unlock their potential again to receive another three-day, limited-time "human limit" buff!

It was precisely because of this that Tanaka and the others escaped far earlier than Shimomura Izumi had expected.

They also caught sight of the five mercenaries.

After catching up to them, a fierce battle broke out.

Four veteran Ajin in their human-limit state faced five battle-hardened, fully equipped international mercenaries.

Shimomura Izumi did not know how the battle had unfolded, but the result was already obvious.

Seeing that the entire plan had come to nothing, Nagai and Shimomura Izumi's faces turned deathly pale!

And Sato no longer gave them a chance to fight over it.

He suddenly tightened his grip.

Bang!

With a violent explosion—

even the bulletproof, high-fiber reinforced glass could not withstand Sato's grip.

It instantly shattered into fragments, while the Spiral Test Tube inside was even more fragile.

The AJVX special neurotoxin instantly evaporated.

Sato, who stood closest, felt something unusual invading his body.

But with his current physical condition and Magnetic Force, he would no longer be easily brought down by the neurotoxin as he had been at Enoki General Hospital.

Blocking off the toxic gas, Sato stood firm without falling.

Nagai Kei and Shimomura Izumi were somewhat weaker, but they still far surpassed ordinary humans and could likewise resist the poison.

The others were not so fortunate.

Although Tanaka Kouji and the others had reached the human limit, they still had no power to resist such a potent toxin.

Their entire bodies went limp as their central nervous systems were paralyzed.

In merely a few seconds, their brain nerve cells failed, and they died on the spot!

However, after dying, they would undergo regeneration, and the toxins in their bodies would be broken down by the Black Particles.

But the moment they revived, the toxins dispersed through the air would invade their bodies again.

They would die once more.

It was foreseeable that, over the next twelve hours, Tanaka and the others would suffer through the agony of dying, reviving, then dying again.

The other ordinary people were even less fortunate.

Up on Tokyo Tower, the reporter who idolized Sato had already died in the aftermath of the battle.

Yet, by sheer coincidence, his equipment had not been damaged.

It had fallen to the ground, its camera pointed directly outside.

This allowed the people still watching the livestream to see the chaos engulfing all of Tokyo.

They could even vaguely make out the battle between Sato, Nagai, and the others in the park below.

Everyone's hearts were in their throats. At this moment, they hoped Nagai and Shimomura Izumi would win.

Most of them clearly hated Ajin to the bone, yet now they had pinned their last hope on Ajin.

Whether that was ironic no longer mattered. What mattered was that Nagai and Shimomura Izumi were about to disappoint them.

Not long after the battle in the park came to an end, the chaotic streets fell into an eerie silence.

As a breeze swept through, before anyone could react—

the people who had been crowding the streets, desperately trying to escape, collapsed like wheat being cut down.

This spectacular sight was witnessed by the entire nation, and even by people around the world following the incident.

Everyone suffered a tremendous shock. Even through their screens, the sight of lives vanishing as swiftly as a cascading waterfall shook them to their cores!

Takahashi Syndicate Headquarters Building.

Training Room.

Bai Xing stood barefoot in the center of the room, his eyes closed as he slowed his breathing.

He appeared to be standing completely still, yet every pore of his body continuously opened and closed, while every muscle trembled without pause.

He could clearly hear his own heartbeat, the rush of blood through his veins, the movement of his intestines, and the secretion of gastric fluid.

In his previous life, he had heard that taking Chinese martial arts to its pinnacle allowed one to reach the realm of Seeing God Invulnerability.

However, he had spent many years living in America and fighting underground black-market bouts. Aside from the master who had taught him Xingyi, he had encountered few Chinese martial arts experts.

He had never had the chance to witness firsthand what the so-called "Seeing God Invulnerability" realm was truly like.

But his master had told him about the characteristics of that realm.

So-called "Seeing God" did not mean meeting those illusory beings in the heavens, such as the Jade Emperor or Taishang Laojun.

It meant mastering every nerve and every tiny acupoint that governed the body.

In a practical sense, these things governed the functioning of the human body, just as deities governed all things between heaven and earth.

That was why it was called: shattering the void to see God!

Upon entering this realm, one could control one's body perfectly and down to the finest detail, understanding it completely.

One would know exactly what each acupoint and nerve did, and what role it played within the body.

Just as in Buddhism, where cultivation to the highest realm led one to the Western Pure Land, to ten billion Buddha lands, and to behold Buddhas as numerous as the grains of sand in the Ganges.

The Pure Land and countless Buddhas in Buddhism were, like "gods," all deities that governed one's own body.

The Pure Land was not in the west. It was one's own body!