Dark-gold barbs pierced Luo Ye's chest.
Scrape!
A grating screech of metal rang out.
A huge hole tore open in Luo Ye's clothes.
The spikes broke through his skin's defenses.
They sank an inch deep.
The moment the main vine sensed that it had pierced flesh,
it immediately began secreting torrents of green slime.
The slime contained tens of thousands of tiny black parasitic seeds.
They followed the wound,
burrowing madly into Luo Ye's blood vessels.
They wanted to rush straight into his brain,
to take over this prime body and bloom.
A gleam of fervor flashed in Luo Ye's pitch-black eyes.
"Home delivery, huh?"
Not only did he leave the vine where it was,
he reached out with both hands
and seized the vine, which was as thick as a water barrel.
All ten fingers sank deep into its skin.
"Today, your boss is going to teach you"
Luo Ye's voice dropped to a menacing rumble.
"what a real reverse pump looks like."
The black Specialization Nen within Luo Ye, which had remained quiet all this time,
erupted with a boom.
Combat Adaptive Evolution activated instantly.
The black seeds that had burrowed into Luo Ye's blood vessels
didn't even have time to sprout
before black Nen surged from his cells and engulfed them.
Strangled... pulverized...
These calamity-level parasitic seeds
were forcibly digested into the purest Life Energy.
But that was nowhere near enough.
Luo Ye's hands, clamped tightly around the vine,
unleashed a terrifying devouring suction.
Black vortices formed in his palms.
The main vine sensed a deadly threat.
It began writhing and struggling frantically,
trying to pull its spikes free and flee.
But Luo Ye's hands held steadier than hydraulic clamps.
He gave it no chance at all.
"Since you're already here,"
Luo Ye grinned.
"stay until I've