With He Xi's clone supporting her, Zhi Xin endured the excruciating pain in her abdomen and bowed her head, her face pale. "Teacher, I'm sorry. We were too reckless and disrupted your plans."
Angel Yan, Zhui, and Moy also bowed their heads, guilt written across their faces. They had meant to help, but instead ended up as Morgana's hostages, leaving the Heavenly Base King unable to act for fear of hurting them.
He Xi looked at them and shook her head gently. Her voice was calm. "It's all right. Even without you, I wouldn't have been able to keep her here today."
She paused, her gaze sweeping over the four young angels. Her tone grew more serious. "Still, this should teach you a lesson. In the past, during the wars against the demons, Kaisha personally kept Morgana in check, leaving her no chance to focus on anything else. That's what gave you the illusion that you could hold your own against her, or even fight her."
"Without someone of equal strength to restrain her, you won't last more than a few moves against a King-Tier Existence who's intent on subduing you—even with the Sacred Wings. Don't mistake luck for strength."
The four angels felt a chill and answered in unison, "Understood!"
Si Yao, watching from a distance, knew it all too well.
He understood Morgana's strength better than anyone.
When he forced Morgana to retreat in Huang Village last time, it had essentially been a battle of wits—a gamble.
He had bet on Morgana's caution and suspicion.
After all, because of the Seed of Delusion, his Dark Plane was an impenetrable fog to any external probe.
Faced with an opponent whose information was completely unknown, and who had immediately demonstrated an entirely new technological system, the naturally suspicious Morgana had been cautious. She would never act recklessly before she understood what she was up against.
Besides, Angel Yan and the others had been there too. Morgana wouldn't dare risk finding out whether the angels had reinforcements on the way. At the time, her safest option had been to run.
Put simply, last time Morgana had been "scared off" by the air of mystery and unknown threat he'd created, combined with the angels' presence.
If it had come to a real fight, he certainly wouldn't have been a match for that woman at the time.
Of course, he still wouldn't be now.
Everyone had imagined his strength for him. In reality, he was only a little stronger than Angel Yan and the others.
Even last time, Sun Wukong hadn't treated him as a sworn enemy.
Just as Si Yao decided he'd seen enough and was about to leave with Su Xiao Li, He Xi turned her gaze toward him.
The next moment, she moved, bringing her eight clones and the four injured angels with her. In an instant, they appeared right in front of Si Yao.
"Si Yao." He Xi looked at the several ailing juniors, a trace of helplessness on her face. "Their injuries—especially Moy's and Zhi Xin's—were caused by Liang Bing's Dark Silver Weapons. The Destructive Energy left in their wounds will severely hinder their self-repair. With Heavenly Base Four's current medical facilities, we can't fully heal them anytime soon. Could you help them recover?"
Si Yao understood. He could naturally guess what He Xi was thinking. She wanted to use this opportunity to observe him up close and collect data, in the hope of figuring out how his Healing Ability worked.
Of course, this was one of the main reasons he'd gone to all this trouble today. He hadn't come all this way for nothing.
He didn't refuse. He nodded.
Super Soldiers had extremely unusual Body Structures. Because of their Super Genes, especially after they evolved into Third Generation God Bodies, their bodies became so tough it was almost beyond belief. Even a direct hit from a nuclear bomb could barely scratch them.
But that came with an obvious downside.
An ordinary person's body was like a flimsy dike built from mud. If it collapsed, you could patch it with more mud and, at a push, keep the Water of Life from draining away.
But Super Soldiers, especially Gods, were like structures cast from the finest reinforced concrete, with all kinds of unheard-of Reinforcing Materials added to the mix. That was what made them tough enough to withstand even a nuclear blast.
Yet once something so indestructible was broken, both the difficulty and the cost of repairing it were on a completely different scale from those of an ordinary person built from mud.
The Dark Silver Weapons wielded by Morgana held such immense destructive power that they could pose a mortal threat to any Super Soldier below the level of a Fourth Generation God Body.
Of course, for Third Generation Gods with Independent Gene Engines and Powerful Dark Plane Defense, having their defenses broken didn't mean they would die at once. Their powerful Self-Repair Ability could still keep them going, if only barely.
Si Yao walked over to the four of them and raised a hand. A soft white glow appeared in his palm.
He infused his Changsheng Realm Divine Power with the incomplete data for Infinite Regeneration Technology he'd "scrounged" from He Xi, then unhesitatingly spent tens of thousands of True Points!
The White Light flowed over the four angels like living water, enveloping them in an instant!
He Xi watched closely from the side.
The Demonic Energy left behind by Morgana around their wounds was neutralized and dispersed almost instantly by an even higher-grade, more overbearing Life Energy!
Then the wounds pierced by the Dark Silver Chains, which had seemed nearly impossible to heal, rapidly grew back together at a Visible to the Naked Eye speed, closing up as if by a miracle and returning to normal!
In just a few breaths!
The four angels, who had been weak and pale moments earlier, were fully healed. Even most of the energy depleted from their God Bodies had been replenished!
He Xi was completely dumbfounded.
From the information she had seen, the Healing Technology Si Yao had just used was entirely different from the "Concept Rewrite" repair she had been researching, which relied on a Secondary Life Engine.
Paired with a Concept Rewriter, Secondary Life Technology could forcibly redefine something "broken" as "intact."
As long as you had the target's complete Dark Data and supplied enough energy, you could perform an "overwriting" repair.
This technology had no "process"—or rather, the process was simplified and skipped almost entirely. It simply erased the "injured" state and changed the target's definition to "intact."
But the power Si Yao had just used had a clear "process"!
It was an astonishingly rapid form of regeneration, powered by immense Life Energy and capable of drastically accelerating the Regeneration Ability of cells and even Super Genes themselves! The process had merely been accelerated to the extreme, making it look instantaneous.
But how was that possible?! Angel Yan and the others had Quasi-Third Generation God Bodies! The difficulty of repairing them and the Energy Level required were unimaginably high!
What kind of regeneration technology could achieve such terrifying speed and results?!
"What... what kind of technology is this?" Even with He Xi's knowledge and composure, she couldn't help blurting out the question.
Si Yao lowered his hand and looked at He Xi. He directly sent her some carefully selected and "gutted" information about Infinite Regeneration Technology through Dark Communication. It looked profound, but the crucial parts were missing.
"The foundation of the Phoenix Super Gene. It's a part of Infinite Regeneration Technology. Of course, I've learned a little about it."
He Xi received the Information Flow in an instant. A vast amount of data poured into her knowledge base. Its Coding Logic differed from the Shenhe Tech Tree, and the wild ideas it contained about the ultimate use of Life Energy immersed the Research Maniac at once. Her eyes lit up with astonishing brilliance!
The Phoenix Super Gene?! Infinite Regeneration Technology?!
Even this fleeting glimpse was worth far more than she'd imagined!
The fragment was incomplete, with Key Nodes missing, but the ideas and possibilities it contained were enough to keep her studying day and night for a very long time!
At that moment, everything else—the attempt to test Si Yao, the analysis of Morgana's new weapons—seemed to fade beneath this enormous Academic Surprise.
She looked at Si Yao differently now. There was less scrutiny and wariness in her gaze, and more of an indescribable curiosity... along with a hint of barely contained excitement.
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