Li Xinling looked at Ruan Yin.
His swollen muscles trembled unnaturally.
A sense of helplessness he had never felt before finally washed over him.
The woman slowly paced toward him.
Her voice carried a cool, detached question.
"The pheromones on your body have changed somewhat."
"This feeling of helplessness... does it mean you have no other tricks left?"
Ruan Yin looked at Li Xinling.
The current strongest man in Great Abyss.
There was no mockery in her voice, only an ordinary question.
Li Xinling said nothing. He did not even have [Hundred Beasts] in hand now, and the Hundredfold Muscle fibers in his body were already on the verge of collapse.
He could not imagine how he was supposed to defeat a Plague Exterminator capable of restoring herself completely.
Especially a monster as powerful as this one.
"What exactly was that move?"
Li Xinling asked in a low voice.
Ruan Yin, wearing white knee-high boots, answered, "Simple [protein] denaturation. The underlying principle is actually similar to cooking an egg at high temperatures, except one is physical and the other pathological... Li Xinling, you should be able to understand a little of that."
"Though I added... just a tiny bit of self-replication."
Ruan Yin never remembered the names of ordinary NPCs, but Li Xinling and Tu Luming were qualified to be remembered.
Li Xinling fell silent.
He understood it, but not much of it.
"All right... if you have no other abilities left, then this is over."
Ruan Yin spoke flatly, moving her hand wrapped in white gauze. "Under normal circumstances, you would have qualified for my [Do Not Kill] list. But... the cells in your body have already suffered widespread necrosis because of your stacked muscles. Not even Zhou Zhi can save you."
Ruan Yin extended her right hand, about