Lu Yuan rolled to his feet, aiming the "Flame" in his right hand at the Third Order Grey Covenant member who was emerging halfway from among the Wooden Men.
The Sealing Disk's effect had long since expired.
That clever fellow had regained his Transcendence abilities. Crouching in the Wooden Man's shadow, he pressed both hands against the ground, his grayish-white skin reconnecting with the roots beneath the floor.
He was trying to seize control of the vines again.
Lu Yuan fired the last Copper-Shell Incendiary Bomb.
Bang.
Orange-red flames exploded amid the Wooden Men. The man sprang up from the ground and scrambled toward the more distant thicket of vines. He had not been hit, but his connection to the ground had been severed.
Lu Yuan did not pursue him.
The chamber was empty.
Something else caught his attention.
The Grey Covenant member pierced through by vines.
He was still moving.
A thick vine had entered through the top of his head, piercing his skull and half his cervical vertebrae, suspending him in midair.
With the seal gone, his Third Order strength had returned to his body. He was still alive, moving in a manner that defied common sense. His limbs twitched, his lips quivered, and his eyeballs rolled erratically in their sockets.
The vines were sustaining him.
Just like the "fertilizer" on the wall, branches pierced through his body, maintaining his basic vitality and controlling his movements.
The vines flung his body.
His entire body swung toward Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan sidestepped the body itself.
But the black water followed.
A large amount of black liquid spilled simultaneously from the man's mouth and eye sockets, scattering an arcing curtain of black rain along his path.
The Grey Covenant's exclusive ability. Even from a dying shell controlled by vines, its