Stitched Giant Corpse

'If I hadn't put my right arm in front of me, my whole body would probably have been torn apart.'

Yu Jing leaned against the wall, the torn wound on his right arm being connected and healed by green plant bodies. The wound was repairing itself at a relatively slow pace, while Yu Jing's internal injuries were also slowly being regulated and recovering.

On the other hand, Yu Xiaoxiao's right arm, which had been stitched and repaired and hung from her chest with a fixing device, had been severed by the evil spirit.

The wound on her arm seemed to have been cauterized with a hot iron, and residual heat still lingered, indicating it had happened not long ago. Yet, Yu Xiaoxiao could endure such pain without showing any physical discomfort or expression of distress on her face.

"Your arm..."

"Don't worry about my arm. As long as I have one hand, my combat power won't decrease. When you've finished repairing your body and are ready to fight, you're responsible for telling me the opponent's location! You'll be my eyes, and I'll kill him."

Yu Xiaoxiao's determined tone conveyed her resolve to kill the woman here.

Yu Jing placed a hand on Yu Xiaoxiao's shoulder. "The opponent moves very fast. If we communicate verbally, the time delay will be fatal... I'll find a way to engage her and try to root my plant bodies into her spirit. Then, the rest of the fight will be yours."

"Okay."

Yu Xiaoxiao looked at Yu Jing, whose mouth was still bleeding, and felt a sense of obedience bloom in her heart.

In such a critical situation, Yu Jing, who had been resurrected after dying in District 19's research, remained exceptionally calm.

Just as the two were preparing to act, a resentful woman's voice echoed from the surroundings.

"Let me play with you. The harder the prey is to catch, the greater the sense of accomplishment when I finally get it. A man like you would take ten years to play with in my hands without my interest waning."

In Yu Jing's vision, the female ghost sat on the edge of the bed, staring directly at him.

The bell in the woman's hand was rung again.

The bell's sound had no effect on Yu Jing and Yu Xiaoxiao. The sound of the bell in the woman's hand was muffled, different from the bell Yu Jing possessed.

A creature in this room was awakened by the shaking of the bell.

From the center of the floor, a heavy coffin made of ebony slowly emerged from the ground. The coffin was a full three meters long, and whatever was inside was violently striking the coffin lid with the shaking of the bell.

"Crack!"

The coffin lid was broken open from the inside, turning into sawdust and fragments that fell around.

Two hands of unequal length rested on either side of the coffin opening, and a corpse aura emanated from within.

A man of strange build sat up stiffly from within. His enormous body and head seemed mismatched, and there were numerous obvious stitching marks on his body, with even distinct color differences on the skin of his chest and abdomen.

"These are the five best hunters I've collected. I like He Hengliang's personality the most, Gao Yong and Luo Yuefeng's upper bodies, Gao Liangsheng's lower body, and Sheng Ke's appearance.

I want them to accompany me forever, so I've kneaded together the most perfect parts of their bodies to create my most perfect doll. However, the main body controlling them is still my favorite, He Hengliang, the brave man who endured the most torture.

Ever since I was captured by a special force, my beloved doll hasn't eaten fresh blood and flesh for a long time. Look, his stomach is a bit deflated. You look like you want to eat something, right, A Liang?"

Supporting his somewhat awkward, massive body, the strong physique, standing two and a half meters tall, rose from the coffin. His steps were slow as he walked towards the two, as if he had been lying in the coffin for too long and needed time to adjust to his body.

"Yu Xiaoxiao, let's deal with it together..."

Yu Jing felt a slight blockage in his heart when he saw the behemoth appear before him. After all, dealing with one Spirit Ghost type evil spirit was already difficult enough, and this stitched monster was clearly more troublesome than the old woman before.

"No, I'll deal with this big guy. According to your previous plan, Yu Jing, you find a way to implant your plants into the evil spirit's body to make her visible. Once I kill this big thing, I'll come and kill the woman evil spirit behind it."

"Alright." Yu Jing nodded helplessly, looking at Yu Xiaoxiao's cold and indifferent gaze.

With the whereabouts of Jiang Pengyu and Men Qian unknown, the final battlefield had turned into a two-on-two battle. Regardless of whether Yu Xiaoxiao or the stitched giant corpse was stronger, Yu Jing was left alone to face the evil spirit that controlled the 'Deep Mountain Inn's' root. The vast gap between them was insurmountable.

"Find a way to stall for time. Trust your teammates."

As the stitched giant corpse reached them, Yu Xiaoxiao moved with extreme agility and speed, pushing off the giant corpse's body and the wall behind it. She dodged the massive palm and landed on top of the giant corpse's head. Her silver dagger stopped at the edge of its neck, her movements skillful and without any hesitation.

"Swish!"

"Hurry, dealing with this thing is still a bit troublesome."

When Yu Xiaoxiao cut off the giant corpse's head, she discovered that its body could still move freely. It seemed that there were other brains controlling it within the stitched body, or perhaps there was no brain at all. Only by destroying a certain core within the body could it be truly killed.

Yu Jing seized the opportunity to pass through the giant corpse's body. The root of a plant grew from his right hand, absorbing the organic nutrients from the head. He had intended to recover some physical energy, but an unexpected event occurred.

First, he felt a surge of powerful energy flow into his arm. Then, in the images projected onto his retinas, a line of text appeared.

—Absorbed a small amount of corpse energy, Grass Clone's evolution nutrients increased by 2.1%—

"Corpse energy!"

Not only did his evolution nutrients increase, but Yu Jing felt subtle changes in the plant bodies within his right arm, and his physical fitness also slightly improved.

"Maybe I should absorb this stitched giant corpse first, and then... it seems too late."

Because Yu Jing absorbed the giant corpse's head, the woman in white saw it. A resentful voice immediately reached Yu Jing's mind: "You actually destroyed the most handsome Sheng Ke's head! I'll have to take your head as a replacement. But before I kill you, I'll torture you until you wish you were dead."

Sensing the danger, Yu Jing used his right arm to grow a large number of vines to seal himself off.

However, slender fingernails imbued with Yin energy tore through the vines.

Shen Yixuan, the evil spirit, lunged at Yu Jing's neck with her four limbs, her claws reaching for him. In the next second, his head would be severed.