"Slaughter God bloodline!"
The ones monitoring this physical training session were not only the various department supervisors led by Lu Chuan. The leaders of the Imperial Chinese administrative center were also quietly observing the training process of this year's recruits in the inspection conference room of the administration building. Because of this year's physical training reforms, the conference room was nearly full.
"I never expected the Yu family to produce such a young girl with the Slaughter God bloodline. Congratulations, Patriarch Yu!"
In the dark conference room, many people wore expressions of immense surprise at Yu Xiaoxiao's transformation—or rather, at the sight of her sharp silver eyes.
However, one of the men seated in an important position at the conference table was also intently scrutinizing the little girl on the screen. His face was obscured, but he revealed a complicated smile.
"She's only at the Rook Stage of growth, yet she can fight an evil spirit of this level to a standstill with her physical body alone. It seems we'll have to pay special attention to this little girl in the future. She's a talent rarely seen in a thousand years... This evil spirit is no ordinary one. In terms of growth potential, it's enough to rate as 'high quality,' and it already shows signs of advancing to D-class. If this continues, this sapling will be in danger."
The leader who spoke was already proposing that the people present launch a rescue operation.
Patriarch Yu, hidden in the shadows, immediately waved his hand to indicate that no action was necessary. His voice carried a hint of interference as he said:
"It's only the lowest-grade ghost spirit. Just watch quietly. If she needs help from others even for this, then I'd say the Slaughter God bloodline is being wasted on her. She might as well die early, so she doesn't disgrace the Yu family."
There was not the slightest trace of emotion in Patriarch Yu's words, even as he watched his own flesh and blood die before him.
However, aside from focusing on Yu Xiaoxiao, who had just awakened her bloodline and was fighting the evil spirit with one hand, Patriarch Yu had also noticed the young man nearby whose limbs had been severed, with plants writhing around his wounds.
It was her first awakening because of her emotions. It seems I've been too lenient in disciplining her. Is it because I haven't returned home in these past few years? It seems my wife isn't very good at educating our descendants. Wearing black leather gloves, Patriarch Yu rolled a coin across his fingertips.
In a spacious basement.
An emergency message appeared before the seriously wounded Yu Jing:
--The symbiotic host's overall health saturation is at 31% and continues to decline. The host is expected to enter complete shock in three minutes and suffer physical death in five minutes. The host is in an extremely dangerous condition. It is strongly recommended to absorb a powerful life-form to replenish vitality energy and repair the host through external means until the host reaches a 60% sub-healthy state--
The warning was not merely informational. Yu Jing's own nerves were also being stimulated, and a powerful desire to absorb spread throughout his body.
Within the enclosed cubic space of the basement, the greatest source of vitality energy was the stitched giant corpse created by Shen Yixuan. Human desire could fundamentally change a person. At that moment, his intense desire caused Yu Jing's bones to twitch faintly when he saw the giant corpse, just like a man who had gone three days and three nights without a drop of water in the desert upon seeing an oasis.
His right arm, lying not far away, formed a connection with Yu Jing. Vines grew from the arm on their own and crawled over, eventually joining with the opening where Yu Jing's arm had been severed.
"Absorb... absorb..." These were the only two words continuously echoing through Yu Jing's mind.
Relying on his lone right arm, he dragged his body toward the giant corpse.
At the other end, although Yu Xiaoxiao had cut off the stitched giant corpse's legs along with the rest of its lower limbs, the giant corpse still crawled across the ground like Yu Jing, heading off to carry out its master's order.
When Yu Jing's mutilated body drew near, the giant corpse obeyed the order to capture him alive. Its enormous palm immediately slammed down from above, pinning Yu Jing's body to the ground as it prepared to seize him and hand him over to its master.
"I've made contact!"
Pinned beneath the palm, Yu Jing finally came into contact with the enormous stitched corpse.
Driven by its extreme desire to absorb organic energy, a large number of vines grew from Yu Jing's remaining right arm. The arm forcibly pierced through the giant corpse's palm, sinking roots into the dead flesh of its arm.
As it absorbed corpse energy, the vines rooted inside continued growing through the energy they took in, gradually spreading throughout the stitched giant corpse's body. The enormous corpse could no longer move at all. Its flesh was completely eroded, and its powerful, massive body slowly caved inward.
The energy within Yu Jing's body was increasing at an unbelievable speed.
This stitched giant corpse was not merely a patchwork of five men's limbs. The torment those five men had suffered during their lives was beyond anyone else's imagination. When their consciousnesses collapsed, their bodies had been cut apart while they were still alive and fused together, after which they were kept as pets beside Shen Yixuan.
On ordinary days, after Shen Yixuan killed the other men she captured, any flesh she considered to be of poor quality would be used directly as food for this beloved pet, constantly strengthening the stitched giant corpse's body.
Yet the power accumulated by the stitched giant corpse over the past twenty or thirty years was now, at this very moment, being transformed entirely into nutrients and sent through Yu Jing's arm into his whole body.
At the wounds where Yu Jing's left arm and both legs had been severed, plant matter continuously intertwined. Fresh human flesh secreted from the plant vines and assembled his body.
--Absorbing corpse energy. Grass Clone's current evolutionary nutrients increased by 31.7%--
Endless energy surged into Yu Jing's body. Large bulges moved beneath his skin, making his body tremble slightly. Even through Yu Jing's eyes, one could see green vines writhing within him.
Thirty seconds passed, and the stitched giant corpse's body had become an empty shell.
Yu Jing, who had been pinned to the ground beneath the palm, had completely recovered. His body twitched, his eyes closed for a second, and then opened again.
Within the projection on his retinas, lines of green text appeared in Yu Jing's eyes.
--Fully absorbed low-grade corpse. Grass Clone's evolutionary nutrients increased by 40%. Corpse energy cannot provide the plant body's source energy. Plant-body energy enhancement cannot be obtained. All current corpse-energy essence has been used to strengthen the host's physical system--
"Physical strength... I haven't felt this way in a long time."
During his time at the Intermediate Potential Institute, Yu Jing had participated in sports meets and won awards. However, some experiences at the Advanced Potential Institute had turned all of Yu Jing's accumulated physical foundation into injuries, leaving his body even weaker than that of some ordinary disciples.
Because he had once trained his body, Yu Jing's current physique was able to bear such a large amount of corpse-energy enhancement.
He still appeared slightly over 1.7 meters tall and rather thin, but upon close inspection, the muscles throughout his body had become compact.
Even more striking was that Yu Jing had replenished the Grass Clone's energy within his right arm. Large amounts of green grass-like vines now writhed and bulged beneath the skin of his right arm, seeming as though they might burst out from beneath the surface at any moment.
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