Impossible. I must have been seeing things. Li Yunyao was clearly unconscious. How could she have woken up?
And her strength was wrong, too.
"Alice, keep watch for me." Xu Ye came back to his senses, hoping the commotion just now had not attracted anyone nearby.
He looked at the flesh and blood strewn across the ground, covering the graves, and frowned slightly.
"Fuck, that bastard dared to stab me! If I don't drain him dry today, I'll take his surname!" The Bandit Lord writhed furiously, using his own energy to repair the wound in his heart.
"Xu Kid, I'll burn some extra energy today and show you what I can do. Extend your tentacles."
Hearing the near-rampage fury in the Bandit Lord's voice, Xu Ye wasted no time. Using medical knowledge conjured up through other people's imaginations, he gave the wound in his abdomen some basic treatment while extending his tentacles.
Whoosh-
As the tentacles moved, the Bandit Lord's special energy began to writhe along with them. The instant a tentacle touched Father Hall's corpse, it was absorbed.
At the same time, Xu Ye sensed an extremely strange energy surging through the air. It gathered around one tentacle, as though something were slowly taking shape.
"What's that?"
The Bandit Lord grinned viciously. "That old bastard's sequence talent. I've condensed it. Normally, when someone dies, their sequence talents either transfer or dissipate, but I have a way to preserve one. It just takes a hell of a lot of energy."
"But he brought this on himself. With my current abilities, I can only preserve one at random."
"This will take a while. Use Soul-Seizing first."
"Also, what happened just now has given me a new understanding of the Land of Exiles. We'll talk about that later."
Xu Ye froze for