With a cracking sound, the enormous flower bud slowly opened, thin Red Mist seeping out bit by bit. The atmosphere was completely different from before.
Everyone except Feng Ling held their breath, staring fixedly at the flower bud in the center of the plaza.
Pei Xianjue was so focused that she failed to notice a flesh seed in the grass wriggling to her feet. Its slender roots grabbed her pant leg, and it used the leverage to spring forward! It quickly stuck to her trouser leg!
"Ah!" Pei Xianjue jumped in fright. Too nervous to think, she instinctively raised her hand to slap at it, trying to knock the flesh seed off her pants!
As a result, the lump of flesh immediately transferred to her hand!
"Don't move!" Feng Ling barked, her Steel Blade Tentacles sweeping out at lightning speed!
Pei Xianjue's pinky, along with part of the flesh of her palm, was sliced away!
The flesh seed wrapped around her finger and fell to the ground, immediately leaving blood all over the ground.
Only then did Pei Xianjue cry out in pain, clutching her wound tightly!
Ling Feiran stepped forward to treat her. The pain in the wound eased considerably, and Pei Xianjue's breathing finally steadied. She looked at the lump of flesh on the ground, her eyes full of disbelief.
The flesh seed was now growing rapidly. Pei Xianjue's finger had stimulated it with external genes, and it began sprouting fingers nonstop! One after another, each finger resembled Pei Xianjue's pinky. Before long, more than a dozen had grown, all the fingers crammed together in a tangled mass!
Feng Ling's Steel Blade Tentacles swept through again, slicing the mutated mass to pieces with several swift cuts.
"What are you standing around for? Burn it with your fire," Feng