Trapped in the Cube
Chapter 48

Immortality and Change

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What kind of move was that?

Mo Ling braced himself and stared intently at Prophet Bai Xiang in the center of the temple.

However, what happened next shocked everyone present.

The Ram-Headed Man hoisted up its own rack, raised it over its head with both hands, and hurled it with all its might at Prophet Bai Xiang, who was gathering power.

The rack spun through the air and smashed heavily into Prophet Bai Xiang's forehead.

Prophet Bai Xiang's move was interrupted on the spot, and the fury on its face became even harder to contain.

It no longer paid any attention to the squad nearby, instead glaring savagely at the Ram-Headed Man.

The Ram-Headed Man stood where it was, still wearing that lawless expression.

Mo Ling had already been preparing to counterattack, but the Ram-Headed Man's actions left him stunned as well.

What was it trying to do?

The Ram-Headed Man appeared to have chosen Prophet Bai Xiang as its new target.

Its body bent slightly as it charged straight downward.

As it rushed forward, it summoned two enormous chainsaws from its arms and swung them at Prophet Bai Xiang.

Prophet Bai Xiang's fighting spirit was stirred as well. The liquid in its left hand began to ripple, transforming into a thick turtle shell that blocked the attack.

The Ram-Headed Man's chainsaws struck the turtle shell, and the Chainsaw Chains instantly snapped apart, but it did not stop attacking.

The toothless chains reentered the Ram-Headed Man's body. When they emerged again, they had already been repaired, scraping against the turtle shell once more.

Prophet Bai Xiang did not allow the Ram-Headed Man to keep wearing it down.

The turtle shell glowed faintly and began to soften, embedding the chainsaws within it like mud.

Then two long Bone Spurs grew from either side of the turtle shell, bypassing the Ram-Headed Man's arms and plunging straight into its ribs.

But it was not over. The Bone Spurs transformed into tentacles, swelling from inside the Ram-Headed Man in an attempt to burst it apart from within.

Just as the Ram-Headed Man was about to be torn apart, black chain patterns unexpectedly appeared beneath its skin.

Like parasites, the chains wriggled through the Ram-Headed Man's body and forcibly severed the foreign objects inside it. Then they suddenly burst out, splattering onto Prophet Bai Xiang's head.

The shooting chains pierced Prophet Bai Xiang's skull, but the head suddenly liquefied and vanished, causing the chains to fall to the ground.

Prophet Bai Xiang shoved hard, and the rehardened turtle shell knocked the Ram-Headed Man away.

The severed tentacles remained inside the Ram-Headed Man's body, but it ignored them and continued attacking until its healing flesh squeezed them back out.

The battle between the two monsters left everyone present dumbfounded.

Neither cared whether it was injured. They cared only whether their attacks had any effect on the other.

There was no defense, only relentless offense.

Fine Fungal Filaments grew from Prophet Bai Xiang's body again and stabbed into the Ram-Headed Man as it charged forward once more.

With a swing of its hand, the Ram-Headed Man severed the filaments and drove a chainsaw into Prophet Bai Xiang's abdomen.

The broken Fungal Filaments suddenly turned into black threadworms. One end kept extending, dangling from the Ram-Headed Man's body before burrowing into the ground.

Then the threadworms gradually tightened, dragging the Ram-Headed Man toward the ground.

The chainsaw deeply embedded in Prophet Bai Xiang's abdomen slid downward from inertia, tearing open a wound that reached all the way to its thigh.

Transparent Liquid slowly filled the wound and covered it again. In the blink of an eye, there was no trace of injury left.

Prophet Bai Xiang raised a foot, transforming it into a massive thorn-like plant leaf that covered the fallen Ram-Headed Man.

The leaf wrapped directly around the Ram-Headed Man, and serrated spiral patterns grew along its inner surface, spinning violently.

But a streak of black light flashed past. The leaf split into two, and the bloodied Ram-Headed Man leaped out.

It healed at high speed while raising its chainsaws again to slash at Prophet Bai Xiang.

"How long are they going to keep fighting?" a soldier could not help asking.

One was completely impossible to kill, while the other changed endlessly. It seemed this battle would never have a result.

But Mo Ling did not see it that way at all.

He had noticed a subtle variable in the battle.

The Ram-Headed Man's healing ability was still growing stronger!

And it was finding more and more ways to use its chainsaws.

Gradually, the Ram-Headed Man no longer limited itself to extending chainsaws from its arms. It began summoning them from every part of its body.

Prophet Bai Xiang's attacks found it increasingly difficult to harm the Ram-Headed Man.

This experienced war machine seemed to realize that as well.

Wings suddenly grew from its back, and it flew into the sky, distancing itself from the Ram-Headed Man.

Then it transformed into those Flying Insects capable of igniting blazing flames again and sent them toward the Ram-Headed Man.

The Ram-Headed Man neither dodged nor evaded. Instead, it continuously shot out chains to attack Prophet Bai Xiang in the sky.

The Flying Insects reached the Ram-Headed Man, and flames erupted, turning it directly into a charred mass.

Knowing the Ram-Headed Man's recovery ability was extraordinarily powerful, Prophet Bai Xiang transformed countless more Flying Insects and added even more fire.

After several rounds, the figure within the flames no longer moved.

Had the Ram-Headed Man been destroyed?

No matter how badly it had been battered, Mo Ling, who understood the traits of the Red String Worm, did not believe the Ram-Headed Man would be destroyed.

It would only grow stronger.

Sure enough, the figure in the flames slowly began to move.

The crimson Ram-Headed Man walked out of the flames.

It had actually summoned miniature Chainsaw Chains over every part of its body, covering itself entirely.

Once its flesh adapted to that extraordinary heat and its healing ability reached an equilibrium with the flames' destruction, it could move again.

Prophet Bai Xiang unleashed all kinds of abilities at once.

Magma, acid, thunderstorms, freezing temperatures, toxins, and unknown energies with all manner of effects...

The Ram-Headed Man stood in place and endured every attack head-on.

At first, it could not fight back at all. Then it gradually became able to endure them, until it was finally completely immune and launched a counterattack.

Every attack from Prophet Bai Xiang gave the Ram-Headed Man another form of protection.

The Ram-Headed Man's healing ability had also reached an utterly terrifying level.

Even if it were reduced to ashes, it could reappear in an instant.

And its methods of using chainsaws became increasingly difficult to comprehend.

The Ram-Headed Man even fired countless chains straight from its chest, reaching for Prophet Bai Xiang in the air and nearly dragging it down to the ground.

Prophet Bai Xiang hurriedly transformed to evade, but by then, it seemed to have no way of dealing with the Ram-Headed Man.

It could only fly around in the sky. Its methods of attacking the Ram-Headed Man also began to repeat, and it had surely realized that its attacks could only make the Ram-Headed Man stronger.

Seeing Prophet Bai Xiang suffer in front of the Ram-Headed Man just as he had, Mo Ling suddenly felt much better.

The Red String Worm was truly astonishing.

As Prophet Bai Xiang flew through the sky, it suddenly performed a strange action.

It moved directly above the Ram-Headed Man. When the Ram-Headed Man launched its chain attack, it transformed into liquid and fell downward.

Countless streams of Transparent Liquid poured over the Ram-Headed Man, but no attack followed.

What was Prophet Bai Xiang doing?

The falling liquid covered the Ram-Headed Man's entire body, sticking to its skin and beginning to fuse with it.

Once Mo Ling understood Prophet Bai Xiang's actions, his heart jolted again.

No, I have to stop it now. It wants to graft the Ram-Headed Man!

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