The black blood that had gushed out suddenly seemed to receive some kind of command. It reversed course in midair and rushed toward Lin Ling, swallowing him whole and transforming into a blood-red egg.
Black blood flowed across the surface of the blood-red egg, which rose and fell as if breathing, like living water.
Before Fang Yue and the others could react,
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Cracks spread across the enormous blood-red egg, and pieces began to fall away.
A person slowly emerged from inside.
He was a humanoid creature who looked like an anomaly, his entire body shrouded in black blood, with only his right eye glowing.
The black blood covering him clung to his body like flowing magma, giving off an intense aura of the uncanny.
"Lord Han...?"
Fang Yue asked hesitantly.
Lin Ling had said he would awaken Lord Han, but the figure before him looked nothing like Lord Han. Fang Yue couldn't help wondering whether Qing Chen and the others' experiment had failed—and whether the thing they had awakened was really Lord Han.
The blood-soaked man had just emerged from the egg. He was still looking down at his own body in confusion when Fang Yue spoke. In an instant, he jerked his head up.
"Lord... Lord Han?"
The blood-soaked man repeated the name, his expression bewildered. He murmured it over and over, repeating those three words.
Something seemed on the verge of surfacing in his mind.
Buzz!!
The next instant, a fierce stab of pain shot through his brain. Fragments of scattered memories flooded into his mind.
The blood-soaked man clutched his head and fell to his knees in agony. Blood-red spikes burst from his body, blazing like magma, and thrust out in every direction!
Fang Yue's expression changed. He grabbed Jing Yan with his left