"It really was... an almost unbearable pain..."
Xu Yanwu rose from the ruins, the changes in his body still continuing.
Perhaps because they were his own cells to begin with, Xu Yanwu could clearly sense the changes his cells were bringing to this body.
Starting from the injection site, his cells released immense power, flowing with the bloodstream toward every part of this body.
The Honkai Energy in the surroundings also decreased slightly.
That Honkai Energy was converted by Xu Yanwu's cells into harmless energy and injected into this body's cells.
Catalyzed by that energy, Xu Yanwu's current body cells began to divide, absorbing vast amounts of the converted power to strengthen themselves.
It was precisely that massive cellular division that caused Xu Yanwu's body to swell.
Not only that, after swelling, those cells continued to absorb large amounts of energy, while the Honkai Energy outside was blocked by that power and could no longer erode the body's cells.
Led by Xu Yanwu's cells, the cells of this body gradually began to grow stronger, even becoming capable of surviving within Honkai Energy.
But...
Xu Yanwu could sense that this transformation had not ended.
This transformation... could not be stopped at all.
Xu Yanwu could only feel those cells continuing to absorb the converted energy even after reaching their limit, until... they completely burst apart.
Thus, cellular division and rupture formed a bizarre balance.
By now, Xu Yanwu had swollen into a giant over four meters tall.
If this body had previously been nothing more than a soldier who could rely on equipment to tangle with Honkai Beasts and zombies, then after receiving those cells, Xu Yanwu felt that this body could now wrestle a Honkai Beast head-on.
That frenzied division filled this body with explosive power and sufficient regenerative ability.