Fu Hua began recalling memories of the past. Meanwhile, Xu Yanwu continued fighting Himeko.
Now that he was in an ordinary human body, Xu Yanwu could only feel that the Herrscher, which he had never personally experienced before, was now unimaginably powerful.
"So this was what ordinary soldiers in the previous era felt when they made their final stand against a Herrscher?" Xu Yanwu grimaced as he swung a massive concrete pillar, smashing it down with all his strength at Himeko as she dodged through the ruins as though he were playing whack-a-mole.
A pair of blazing wings of fire beat behind Himeko's back as she flew through the sea of flames. While evading Xu Yanwu's attacks, she also controlled the flames to strike back at him.
The skin all over Xu Yanwu's body, including his cheeks, was gradually melted away by the scorching flames. Then, under the effects of his rapidly dividing cells, his injuries slowly began to recover.
In fact, under the effects of the massive influx of energy, the cells in Xu Yanwu's current body began adapting to the surrounding environment as well.
A thick carapace appeared around Xu Yanwu's body.
In the end, it completely transformed Xu Yanwu's appearance into that of a monster.
Otto excitedly recorded the changes occurring in Xu Yanwu.
"Has he begun to mutate?" Otto muttered excitedly as he wrote. "A carapace has grown over his exterior? It resembles the ecology of Honkai Beasts. Is it indeed an adaptation to the surrounding environment of high temperatures and dense Honkai Energy?"
"There were examples in the past of humans mutating toward Honkai Beasts... I never expected Xu Yanwu's cells—no, Xu Yanwu's power itself—to produce a similar effect."
Otto recorded, "Based on Xu Yanwu's earlier description and the information gathered before this, this appears