Chapter 15
Shan Xiao tilted his head, a cruel and tyrannical smile on his bisected face, and asked Li Ang, "Why don't you run anymore?"

Li Ang slowly exhaled a faint, smoky white mist, and said, "There's no need to run."

In his mind, a prompt from the system quietly sounded.

[Aberrant Embryo Divinity Stripping Progress 100]
[Divinity Stripped]
[Name: Roanoke Divinity Spark]
[Quality: Perfect]
[Type: Divine Relic (Consumable)]
[Effect: Inherit Divinity. After use, will gain the divinity of the swamp god Roanoke, and can perform Roanoke's innate extraordinary abilities, such as communicating with plants, stimulating plant growth, activating soil, purifying water sources, evolving life, creating plagues, healing diseases, etc.]
[Usage Condition: Sanity value greater than or equal to 400 points]
[Note: After use, a random divine imprint will be generated on the divinity owner's body. The divine imprint can be hidden or erased at will]
[Note: The Divinity Spark cannot be directly transferred, and can be extracted from the owner through special rituals, or by killing and stripping it away]
[Note: The intensity of the extraordinary abilities granted by the Divinity Spark does not exceed the user's current level. The effects, consumption, cooldown time, and other values of the divine術 (divine arts) are equivalent to same-level skills]
[Note: Alder for armor, moss for clothing, painted snipe for eyes, peat for feet. The world may change, but the swamp remains]

After killing the Wraith Demon and Gulu Gulu Gu, Li Ang's total game currency reached 8406.

While still in the subway station, he paid 7000 game currency to strip the divinity from the aberrant embryo.

Only now has the divinity been completely stripped, and under Li Ang's will, it has attached itself to him.

A large amount of chaotic, swamp-related fragmented information flooded his brain, but with the aid of Di Liu Jiang (spirit dew), this information did not overwhelm Li Ang, but instead allowed him to quickly understand everything about the swamp.

A mark quietly appeared on the back of his left hand.

The mark had a gray-black base, with three wooden vines intertwined to form a triangle. The outside of the triangle was flowing water, and the inside was dotted with colorful and exotic flowers.

Whether it was the river water, vines, or flowers, they all changed quietly over time—the river water rose and fell, the vines grew and withered, and the flowers bloomed and decayed, full of life's rhythm.

Li Ang looked at the divine imprint on the back of his hand, his expression a little strange.

The divinity of the swamp god, like the swamp itself, excelled at creation and healing.

It could be used in conjunction with the [Biological Template] and [Automated Pet Breeding Box] to create various creations. It was not good at combat.

Moreover, this was a false mist realm created by the Mirage Dragon. Without the three essential elements of a swamp—water source, soil, and plants—it could not fully exert the power of the divinity.

However, it was enough to deal with Shan Xiao.

Li Ang exhaled a white mist, casually stroked the three-edged bone spear, stomped on the ground, and instantly disappeared from the spot.

Shan Xiao, whose mind was dominated by flesh buds, inexplicably felt a sharp pain in his head and instinctively stretched out his massive palm, like a door panel, to block in front of his bisected face.

Li Ang gripped the three-edged bone spear and smashed it down fiercely. The tough spear shaft bent into an exaggerated arc under the savage force, striking directly between the fingers of Shan Xiao's palm.

Bang—

A muffled sound suddenly exploded.

The broken spear blade, infused with ripple energy, easily cut through countless flesh buds, tearing apart half of Shan Xiao's palm.

The gap between the ring finger and middle finger was almost pulled to the base of the wrist.

Crimson blood gushed out like a fountain, splashing onto the ground.

Li Ang landed on the ground, dodging Shan Xiao's other arm, which was hammering down, and plunged under Shan Xiao. He casually threw the three-edged bone spear, slashing fiercely and cutting a huge gash in Shan Xiao's left heel.

Shan Xiao's heavy body instantly lost its balance and knelt on the ground uncontrollably, the land beneath him completely soaked in blood.

The effect of Di Liu Jiang was to comprehensively enhance the user's attributes, physical fitness, spiritual power, and sanity, shorten the cooldown time of skills and equipment, reduce consumption, and enhance self-healing abilities.

Coupled with the ripple breathing technique, adrenaline, and the various buffs from the BG skills, he moved erratically like a demon, traversing behind Shan Xiao's feet, avoiding attacks.

He used the three-edged bone spear to constantly slash open wounds on the opponent's body, and threw thermite incendiary bombs into Shan Xiao's wounds.

The temperature rose, heat waves surged, and smoke rose from Shan Xiao's shoulders and ankles, filling the air with the aroma of grilled meat.

Shan Xiao's body was scorched by the high temperature of thousands of degrees, and the flesh buds all over his body were writhing in agony.

To make matters worse, Li Ang also used the divinity of the swamp reindeer to imbue the blade of the three-edged bone spear with some kind of curse poison that could wither flesh and blood.

The broken spear blade, with its ominous black light, easily cut through the flesh bud body. The flesh buds at the wound were also infected with a touch of black, becoming shriveled and withered, losing their vitality.

Shan Xiao clearly felt that the speed of the flesh buds' automatic healing was constantly decreasing, and his entire demon body was becoming sluggish and slow.

Whoosh—

In the midst of the entanglement, a two-meter-tall giant wooden arrow shot silently from afar, hitting Shan Xiao's left eye socket on his bisected head without a ripple, directly piercing the eye the size of a washbasin.

"Aaaaaaah!"

Shan Xiao roared to the sky, ignoring Li Ang's attack, and grabbed the wooden arrow with his hand, pulling it out fiercely.

He crushed the arrow and eyeball together.

Wood chips flew everywhere.

The flesh buds on Shan Xiao's body suddenly grew explosively.

The parts of the flesh buds that contained the thermite incendiary bombs were formed into a large ball and directly ejected from Shan Xiao's body.

Also ejected were the body parts that had been affected by the curse poison of the three-edged bone spear.

At this moment, the flesh buds on Shan Xiao's body bloomed like flowers, like fluffy, dense, and long stamens, wrapping Shan Xiao within them.

Clusters of "stamens" quickly formed six tentacle arms, extending from above Shan Xiao's shoulders, under his armpits, and behind his shoulder blades.

"You forced me,"

Shan Xiao roared in a low voice, and the arms behind his shoulder blades punched out as if they had eyes, hitting Li Ang, who was unable to dodge.

The punch came so quickly that even Chai Da Xiaojie (Miss Chai) in the distance did not have time to react before seeing Li Ang fly out, his body falling like a solitary leaf.

He had barely managed to block just now with the three-edged bone spear, but the overwhelming force transmitted from Shan Xiao's heavy punch still made the tiger's mouth of his hand ache.

Hoo, haa.

With each inhale and exhale, Di Liu Jiang had completely healed the injuries just now. Li Ang turned the spear blade and entered the grayscale world.

At the same time, he tapped the ground with his toes in rapid succession, his body rushing forward like a bullet.

When he reappeared in the real world, Li Ang was already above Shan Xiao's head.

With the spear blade in his hand pointing diagonally downward, he used the force of the fall to dissect Shan Xiao directly along his neck, chest, waist, and abdomen, and threw several thermite incendiary ammunition into the open chest and abdominal cavity.

Whoosh—

Incessant crimson gushed out from the chest wound.

Shan Xiao roared furiously as if he could not feel the pain, bowed his body, and shook all eight arms, waving them towards Li Ang in mid-air.

Li Ang instantly activated the Phase Boots to avoid the punch, then instantly deactivated the Phase Boots effect. The bone spear blade heavily tapped Shan Xiao's fist, propelling himself towards Shan Xiao's head.

Bang!

A kick comparable to a siege hammer hit the jaw on the left side of Shan Xiao's head, twisting half of his head around his neck.

Using the momentum of this kick, Li Ang heavily landed on Shan Xiao's neck.

He held the middle of the long spear in his hand, expressionless, and firmly and steadily pierced the spear into Shan Xiao's jaw on the right side of his head, causing the spear blade to burst Shan Xiao's only remaining right eye.

The bone spear that had been chiseled into Shan Xiao's head instantly erupted with ripple energy, roasting Shan Xiao's head.

One second, two seconds.

Shan Xiao's huge body took half a step backward as if in slow motion, looked up to the sky, and slowly fell to the ground.

In his open chest cavity, thermite frantically burned the restless flesh buds.

Amidst the aroma of grilled meat, the flesh buds gradually subsided.