Interruption

Lu Heng stood in the underground cavity covered in mud, his side injury throbbing. He didn't move, his gaze fixed on the collapsed rock gap above him.

The lingering sounds of fighting above completely disappeared within a few breaths.

A deathly silence suddenly descended upon the entire ruins.

The Bone Demon, who had been holding back the enemy in the front lines, froze instantly.

Within Lu Heng's mental connection, the originally stable and obedient Puppet feedback is being forcibly covered and squeezed by a layer of cold, viscous, unfamiliar microbial consciousness.

He witnessed the entire parasitic plundering process firsthand.

Within the cracks of the rock strata, countless dark red Mycelium flowed upwards, wrapping around the skeleton of the Bone Demon. Blood-red patterns spread and took root along the bone crevices, quickly covering the entire body.

He could detect the Bone Demon's faint, instinctive resistance. Its skeleton trembled slightly, and its jaws quivered continuously.

But this resistance is growing weaker and weaker.

The Blood Taisui, powered by the Mycelium Global Region, suppressed the Bone Demon layer by layer. The Bone Demon's remaining fighting instincts were completely crushed. Lu Heng's contractual authority was gradually pushed to the edge and eventually completely sealed.

The next instant, the dark figure leaped down from the sky.

The completely parasitized Bone Demon landed, splashing up a cloud of foul-smelling mud. Its hollow eye sockets were fixed on Lu Heng, its entire being filled with only a single, predatory will.

Lu Heng's heart was cold and heavy.

He forced this deadlock into the heart of the matter.

The relentless Mycelium destruction and continuous depletion of vital essence thoroughly enraged the Blood Taisui of Xi Li.

The opponent abandoned the energy-consuming encirclement and annihilation of tens of thousands of zombie hordes, and abandoned the crushing of the Global Region with Mycelium, choosing only the lowest-cost method—seizing his Puppet carrier.

He himself turned his only helper into a weapon to assassinate him.

The thought flashed through my mind, leaving no lingering regret.

Lu Heng's gaze hardened.

He can kill and tame living Bone Demon.

Now reduced to a carrier of microbial flora, it remains merely a skeleton.

The vessel can be taken away, and it can also be taken back by him.

The bone blade slashed straight through the air in an instant.

The moves controlled by the microorganisms were ruthless and rigid, all refined killing techniques from previous battles against the Aberrant, each aimed at the human body's fatal weaknesses.

Lu Heng slid to the side and retreated, avoiding the blow to his head. He immediately released his Mental Energy to try to dispel the parasite.

An invisible spiritual fluctuation enveloped the Bone Demon's body.

The fine, fragmented fungal patterns on the surface withered and fell off rapidly, and the superficial parasitic Mycelium crumbled, causing the Bone Demon's attack to pause noticeably for half a second.

Effective, but extremely limited.

What detaches is only the surface-attached bacteria.

The deep parasitic veins embedded in the bone sutures and rooted in the skeletal muscle structure remain completely still.

The underground main vein provides continuous energy, maintaining a stable parasitic state.

Simply using mental methods to dispel the symptoms can only cause temporary disruption; it cannot eradicate the problem completely.

After the initial pause, the Bone Demon's offensive intensified, unleashing a barrage of slashes that blocked all evasive angles.

The underground cavity was sealed off, and the silt hindered his movements, continuously compressing Lu Heng's space to dodge.

A horizontal slash was too fast to dodge; the bone blade grazed my shoulder.

The high-strength Combat Suit fabric instantly tightened and deformed, producing a screeching sound from friction, but withstood the majority of the force without tearing or breaking.

But the immense force still penetrated the protective gear and struck my shoulder, causing numbness in my skin and a sudden, dull pain in my chest.

After several rounds of close combat, Lu Heng was repeatedly struck and swept by close-range attacks.

Relying solely on the hard defense of the Combat Suit to avoid fatal wounds, he was still constantly subjected to dull pain from the shockwaves and remained passively under pressure.

Continuing to drag this out will only lead to gradual exhaustion and eventual death.

Faced with dire circumstances, Lu Heng held nothing back.

His High-Temperature Talent is essentially the high-intensity combustion and transformation of Mental Energy.

The temperature depends entirely on the degree to which one's mental energy is being exploited.

His internal spiritual energy instantly boiled and burned intensely.

A scorching wave of air exploded out, precisely engulfing the Bone Demon that was lunging at them.

The changes in Mycelium when exposed to high temperatures are visible to the naked eye.

The dark red fungal pattern rapidly scorches, turns black, and carbonizes. The stubborn surface fungal community peels off and disintegrates in patches.

Not only were the physical Mycelium burned, but the parasitic consciousness that attached itself to the skeleton and controlled the body also quickly disintegrated and dissolved under the high temperature.

Lu Heng instantly discerned the fatal weakness.

The entire microbial parasitic system of the Blood Taisui is extremely afraid of the high temperatures generated by spiritual combustion.

He immediately increased his output, using all his scorching energy to target and lock down the Bone Demon's entire body, continuously washing away and stripping away its deep parasitic veins.

Within moments, all the parasitic Mycelium in the bone crevices withered and fell off.

The Puppet contract, suppressed by the bacterial flora, instantly rebounded and reset.

Control has been completely returned to Lu Heng's hands.

The frenzied hunting suddenly ceased.

The Bone Demon shed all its ferocity, stood quietly in place, and reverted to its state of absolute obedience Puppet.

So far, only the external hunting vessel of the Blood Taisui has been removed.

It had no substantial impact on the ascension of the organism deep underground or the operation of the main vein of the microbial community.

The Blood Taisui was simply the lowest-cost hunting strategy that failed, and the pace of advancement remained steady.

Without pausing, Lu Heng immediately gave the Bone Demon a command in a deep voice.

"Open circuit."

As soon as he finished speaking, he completely exhausted all the remaining Mental Energy in his body.

No more wasting energy clearing away scattered Mycelium and stabilizing the Puppet's state.

All mental energy was burned and compressed to the extreme, condensing into a pure and scorching torrent of energy.

The Bone Demon charged forward, blocking the airspace in front of him and protecting Lu Heng's flank.

Lu Heng's target was never the Puppet, but the core of the Blood Taisui main nest, located in the deepest part of the underground cavity, where the pulsation was most intense and the bacterial community was most dense.

The next instant, a scorching torrent roared out.

The moment it struck the core, the entire giant underground cavity trembled violently.

Thousands of Mycelium spasmed and contracted violently in unison. The corpses hanging on the cave walls trembled collectively, the dark red mycelial liquid underground churned and boiled, and the surrounding silt was steamed into thin white vapor by the high temperature, distorting the air completely.

This attack was a fatal blow that landed squarely on the body's advancement pathways.

The previously smooth promotion process was abruptly and violently abruptly cut off.

The blue light on the Wristband flashed rapidly, displaying a cold system notification.

[Biology: Blood Taisui]

[Rank: Silver Tier (Promotion Interrupted)]

At this moment, the Blood Taisui's steadily accumulated advancement essence was completely disrupted, and its advancement rhythm collapsed.

A violent disturbance of the microbial community finally erupted from the depths of the earth; it was the first time this subterranean overlord had completely lost its rhythm.

Lu Heng's breathing fluctuated violently. The weakness brought about by massive mental exhaustion instantly swept over his entire body, and the combined pain in his shoulders, back, waist, and chest exploded completely.

He stared straight ahead, his eyes cold and clear.

Reclaiming the Bone Demon is merely breaking the opponent's cheap killing move.

This all-out, high-temperature blow is the key to truly shattering the trump card, interrupting the promotion, and reversing the entire deadlock.

The situation has been completely reversed.