Invincible

The Armor Monster had stopped chasing them, but Feng Ling was unwilling to let it go and insisted on luring it over.

Once the Armor Monster followed her around the corner and ran into the group, she finally struck back, aiming at the joints in its armor. Her Steel Blade Tentacles swept out—slash! Every joint was severed!

The Armor Monster was chopped into eight pieces, its head separated from its body.

Thin feelers poked out through the gaps in the armor, like long, translucent enoki mushrooms, attempting to reassemble the armor.

Feng Ling picked up a metal leg and tossed it to the left. Clang!

Then she picked up an arm and threw it to the right. Clang!

Perhaps because she had thrown them too far away, the feelers lost their sense of direction. More feelers crawled out of the armor; some writhed across the ground, while others stretched into the air, searching for something.

Ye Zheng looked disgusted. "Whatever you're doing, hurry it up."

Feng Ling was full of interest. "Let me study it."

She lifted the armored head and gave it a shake. Finding it empty, she casually tossed it aside, then picked up the Armor Monster's breastplate and shook it hard again—

A familiar lump of flesh wrapped in countless feelers fell from the breastplate, then bounced in midair from the pull of its feelers.

"It's that organ-like thing again." Feng Ling was not surprised in the slightest. Her silver-scaled fingers closed around the organ, and ignoring the struggling feelers, she crushed it in one squeeze.

The surrounding feelers instantly shriveled, drooping limply as all life left them.

"Just like the city outside that was contaminated by the Maze, only the organs have parasitic power." Ye Zheng paused, then frowned. "Thinking about it the other way around,