Hands Mutation

Memories faded, but anger still filled Zhen Jin's chest.

Zhen Jin felt like this emotion was about to burst him apart!

Ahhhhh! He let out a terrifying roar.

I cannot die.

How can I fall here?!

I still have to protect my fiancée, I want to leave here alive, and then take control of White Sand City, ultimately revitalizing my Hundred Needles Family!

My Knight's Path... how could my Knight's Path run aground here?

The youth roared in his heart.

At this moment, the blood all over his body seemed to be boiling.

The blood flowed rapidly, resembling a surging great river, then transformed into a waterfall, fiercely crashing into the youth's hands.

The mutation happened at this very moment!

The youth's hands swelled rapidly, becoming thick and large. His ten fingers continuously elongated, and his fingernails turned pitch-black, transforming into sharp, iron-hard claws.

The sharp claws were incomparably keen, resembling ten daggers!

Zhen Jin tried to slash with the claws, and with just a slight exertion, the spider web was easily torn apart!

The sharp claws now turned crimson and scorching hot, looking like a branding iron that had been roasted for a long time.

Zhen Jin didn't think at all, relying entirely on instinct as he thrust his dual claws toward the spider chieftain.

The Eight-Legged Spider chieftain was originally very close to Zhen Jin, their faces separated by only the distance of a palm. When Zhen Jin's hands mutated, it was also concealed by the spider silk.

When Zhen Jin's pair of claws thrust forward, the Eight-Legged Spider chieftain was completely caught off guard and difficult to dodge.

Squish!

The twelve-inch-long crimson claws stabbed deeply into the spider chieftain's body.

Zhen Jin let out an explosive battle cry, exerting more force until almost the entire palm was submerged inside the wound.

The spider chieftain suffered the attack and seemed struck by lightning, its body stiffening like stone.

A breath of time later, a large amount of spider blood and milky-white brain matter flowed out from the wound.

This Silver-level Eight-Legged Spider chieftain died on the spot!

The chieftain died, and the remaining Eight-Legged Spiders quickly fled in disarray.

The youth and maiden immediately turned danger into safety.

Zhen Jin wore a dazed expression, slowly withdrawing his hands from the spider chieftain's roasted body.

More accurately, they were dual claws.

Incredible!

His hands had completely turned into something resembling those of a giant ape, the entire hand shape swelling several times and growing a large amount of dense black fur, making his forearms appear very slender.

The front sections of the ten fingers extended into long claws that were sharp, hard, and emitted high temperatures, like iron bars just taken out of a furnace.

Th-this, what is going on?!

Just as Zhen Jin was in deep shock, the mutation happened again.

First, the crimson iron claws rapidly cooled down, then turned like charcoal ash, quickly disintegrating and drifting away.

Subsequently, his hands also rapidly shrank, reverting to their original human-hand form.

The black bear fur also fell off completely, revealing human fair skin.

Zhen Jin's body suddenly swayed violently.

Weakness—a describable sense of weakness—conveyed itself to the bottom of his heart.

This was not only a deficiency in physical strength, nor was it merely mental exhaustion; it felt as though a certain fundamental essence of his body had been abruptly hollowed out.

The surrounding flames were still burning, and the bushes made crackling sounds.

Lacking the support of its sharp claws, the Eight-Legged Spider could only lie flat on the ground playing dead.

Everything was like a dream.

"My lord, Sir Zhen Jin!" Zi Di's call seemed to come from far away at the horizon, growing clearer and louder.

Urged by this voice, Zhen Jin finally snapped back to reality.

"Hiss..." The youth immediately gasped, two of the Eight-Legged Spider's palps still impaled in his back.

Clenching his teeth, he pulled the palps out, immediately bringing forth fresh blood.

Fumbling out a potion and randomly splashing it onto the wound, Zhen Jin immediately hurried to Zi Di's side.

There was no dagger, but the spider's palps were even sharper.

Using the palps, Zhen Jin cut open the spider web and rescued Zi Di.

"My lord, did you awaken Battle Qi?!" Zi Di asked with extreme pleasant surprise.

A thought stirred in Zhen Jin's heart: Just now, Zi Di was lying on the ground, and I had my back to her; she didn't see the mutation in my hands.

"No. I used the spear tip to pierce through the spider web." Zhen Jin didn't think much and subconsciously concealed the secret.

The mutation just now was extremely abnormal, and it seemed that in the youth's subconscious, he did not want to speak of it either, lest his fiancée worry because of it.

"That hateful Huang Zao ran away! We must find him and ruthlessly deal with him!" Zi Di said viciously.

If Huang Zao hadn't fled in the face of battle, the youth and maiden would never have fallen into such a perilous situation.

Zhen Jin nodded, just about to speak, when a loud boom rang out—it turned out that a large tree, bathed in flames, had collapsed to the ground.

Sparks flew in all directions, and the fire subsequently expanded by another fraction.

"Let's leave here quickly." Zi Di wanted to bandage Zhen Jin, but was stopped by him.

Although the wound was deep, the bleeding had already stopped.

With his current vitality, getting away from the fire was the most urgent matter.

"Wait, this is good stuff, we absolutely cannot lose it." Zi Di pointed her finger at the Eight-Legged Spider chieftain's corpse, the bright light shining in her eyes even hotter than the firelight by a few degrees.

Thus, the youth and maiden jointly dragged the Eight-Legged Spider and rapidly retreated from the fire zone.

Just as they retreated to a safe distance, the two heard a dull buzzing sound.

Subsequently, countless Fire Poison Bees flew into the sea of fire, their scale so massive that it simply blotted out the sky.

The number of Fire Poison Bees was too large, and the fire spreading for miles was quickly contained, then slowly extinguished.

Zhen Jin and Zi Di had suffered deeply from the fire poison; seeing this scene, how could they dare linger nearby? They ran for several more miles of mountainous terrain before stopping to rest.

Very fortunately, they discovered an ideal habitat at the bottom of a cliff.

For the next three days, Zhen Jin and Zi Di both rested here.

Utilizing the scant remaining body fluids of the Eight-Legged Spider, Zi Di concocted an Aura Potion, disguising themselves with the aura of a Silver-level magical beast, which greatly increased the safety coefficient of the habitat.

Zhen Jin's miraculous vital essence manifested once more; the piercing wound on his back recovered at an astonishing speed, and coupled with Zi Di's potions, the wound was already covered with fresh, tender skin and flesh.

Zhen Jin had once worried that the Eight-Legged Spider's palps carried corrosive poison, but it turned out not to exist.

Taking advantage of this time, Zi Di dismembered the Eight-Legged Spider; although the conditions were extremely crude, she still tried her utmost to gather the usable parts.

Using these materials, she concocted several bottles of Corrosion Potion and Strong Adhesion Potion.

These were all very basic potions, but because the materials used were relatively high-end, the medicinal effects were worth anticipating.

Regarding this, Zi Di felt deeply regretful, and for the past three days, she would occasionally nag: "If the conditions were slightly better, I could completely concoct an Agility Potion. What a pity, these materials can only be used for a sledgehammer on a nut, and I ended up just concocting these little trinkets."

Zhen Jin would then smile and comfort her, acknowledging the value of these little trinkets she mentioned.

The Combustion Potion and fire-retardant potion that Zi Di had previously concocted using the Monkey-Tailed Brown Bear and mountain cave ores had both played massive roles.