Fang Yue was startled when he heard that.
There was something that useful?
Without another thought, he knocked the Anomaly aside, leaped high into the air, and caught the little bottle that had been thrown to him.
He landed, pulled the cork from the bottle, and was greeted by a rich medicinal aroma.
Analysis Pupil activated.
"Name: Scum Yuan Pill." "Grade: Mortal Grade Low-tier." "Effect: Restores a small amount of Internal Breath." "Description: A pill refined primarily from a small amount of black ash, along with a large quantity of supplementary ingredients. Its effects are poor, and it easily causes Pill Toxin to build up. Do not take too many." "Note: My advice is to eat them like candy."
Fang Yue glanced over the details, took out a Scum Yuan Pill, and swallowed it without even tasting it.
With a gulp, the pill went down, dissolving as it entered his body.
He felt a warm current well up inside him. Here it comes! Here it comes!
Excitedly, he opened his status and stared fixedly at the Internal Force Value.
Then he watched as his Internal Force Value struggled its way from 0 to 1.
Fang Yue waited for his Internal Force Value to keep rising, but it stopped moving... It! Stopped! Moving!
It was as if it had jammed. It wouldn't budge at all.
Come on, man! Aren't you supposed to be a medicine that restores Internal Force? Then restore it already!
By now, the Anomaly had charged over, but Fang Yue's mind was elsewhere. After exchanging two blows, he hurriedly put some distance between them.
He checked his Internal Force Value again. Still no increase.
Fang Yue's expression turned grim.
Why did he get the feeling Captain Lin was messing with him? Nothing he gave him was any good.
First the rusty blade broke, and now the medicine wasn't restoring his Internal Breath. Couldn't he be a little more reliable?
Fang Yue led the Anomaly on for a short distance before his Internal Force Value finally rose from 1 to 2.
Good grief! Was it seriously this slow?
Fang Yue was dumbfounded.
Lin Ling seemed to notice his bewilderment from afar and immediately shouted, "Eat a few more!"
A few more?
One Scum Yuan Pill only restored 1 point of Internal Force, and it took forever to gain another point.
If he wanted to recover his full combat strength right away, wouldn't he have to...
Fang Yue looked at the eighteen Scum Yuan Pills left in the bottle, hesitated, then poured them all out and swallowed them in one go.
The sight gave Lin Ling a fright. I told you to eat a few more, not all of them!
The others who knew about Scum Yuan Pills were just as astonished.
Eating more than ten Scum Yuan Pills all at once was far too extravagant.
But extravagance was the least of it. The most important thing was that eating too many Scum Yuan Pills at once could cause Pill Toxin to build up.
It was said that someone had once eaten more than a hundred Scum Yuan Pills in a single day and been poisoned to death by the Pill Toxin.
Fang Yue's gulp wasn't quite that extreme, but swallowing more than ten pills at once would definitely cause Pill Toxin to build up.
Fang Yue had no idea what they were thinking. At that moment, he was feeling a tremendous wave of warmth well up from deep inside him, flooding his whole body.
His Internal Breath—his Internal Breath was surging back!
Fang Yue stared at the Anomaly charging toward him again, his entire body brimming with strength!
He felt as if a song had started playing on repeat in his mind: How lonely it is to be invincible!
The sky's cleared, the rain's stopped, and I'm back in action!
Bang!
Just then, the Anomaly leaped high into the air and pounced on Fang Yue.
"Bring it on!"
You little Anomaly. Now I'll show you my full strength!
He pulled an Iron Blade from the ground...
Spark Heart Method!
+5 Might.
+5 Defense.
The reductions to his attributes from [Anomaly Curse] were completely negated.
Spark Saber Technique!
His Lifespan burned once more, and sparks ignited along the blade. With a hiss, they flared into roaring flames that wrapped around it!
The Iron Blade glowed red-hot, as if it had become a sword from hell.
The Anomaly was already about to land, both fists slamming toward Fang Yue's head.
With a booming crash, Fang Yue didn't dodge. He took the punch head-on, and a frightening -188 appeared above his head.
But he held his ground. Even as he absorbed the damage, he seized his chance.
Gripping the blade with both hands, he swung with all his might from low to high, slashing up the Maid Anomaly's body in a brilliant arc through the night.
Whoosh!
His swift blade flowed like water, striking the Maid Anomaly's belly in an instant.
-177!
Boom!!
The flames cut through the wound at once, sweeping upward from below. Amid the crackling bursts of fire, the slash ran from its belly all the way to its left shoulder...
-252!
-301!
-347!
-382!
The familiar stack of damage appeared again, each hit greater than the last.
As Fang Yue sliced all the way through the Anomaly's left shoulder and passed by it, a huge blood-red critical hit number burst into view.
-666!
That was the limit of Fang Yue's strength.
The damage Captain Lin and the others had dealt couldn't compare, but it was still terrifyingly high.
After Fang Yue passed it, the Anomaly's badly wounded body—almost split in two—crashed heavily to the ground behind him. It rolled several times, leaving a trail of black blood, then trembled and soon fell still.
The exchange had been spectacular and lightning-fast.
It had ended almost as soon as they clashed.
The crowd barely had time to react before they saw the Maid Anomaly cross paths with Fang Yue in a blaze of fire and crash to the ground.
They stared blankly at the Maid Anomaly lying there, its head pierced by a gaping hole and its upper body split open from belly to left shoulder, almost in two. Their minds went completely blank.
"W-We... did it?"
"Is the Anomaly dead?"
"So strong... Brother Ye is so strong!"
"That's great! That's great! We finally killed this Anom—"
The man had only just begun speaking when Fang Yue, after a brief, shallow gasp, immediately rushed toward the Maid Anomaly's corpse. On the way, he casually tossed aside the blade in his hand, which had somehow broken, and picked up a new Iron Blade.
When he reached the Maid Anomaly, flames sprang from his blade without hesitation. His Lifespan burned as he brought down a single strike with Spark Saber Technique.
Crack!
A flash of fire, and the Maid Anomaly's head separated from its body. Its hollow-eyed head rolled away.
Everyone was dumbfounded again.
What... what was he doing?
Torturing the Anomaly's corpse? He really hated it that much?
As they wondered what was going on, a huge blood-red number slowly appeared above the Maid Anomaly's body.
-1755!
Everyone stiffened.
"Damn! It still wasn't dead?"
"So it was pretending to be dead!"
As the crowd discussed what had happened, Fang Yue frowned, raised his blade again, and hacked repeatedly at the Anomaly's chest.
-1885!
-1456!
-1525!
-3208!
Fang Yue's damage was astonishingly high, and the final number was downright terrifying.
It wasn't that Fang Yue had grown stronger. The Anomaly had weakened after being severely wounded.
It was just like when he had killed the [Bombardment Anomaly]. Once an Anomaly was badly wounded, the damage dealt to it increased dramatically.
With Fang Yue's final strike, the Maid Anomaly's waist was cleaved in two. Only then did the system notification finally appear.
"System Notification: Congratulations to player [Night Dawn] for killing the Anomaly [Power Body Anomaly]. Reward: +8 Might, +8 Defense, +1 day of Lifespan."
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