"Holy hell!"
Hearing Shen Potian's not unfamiliar voice, Ye Feng was truly startled. Shen Potian had actually survived the nuclear-level explosion?
Shen Yun Yao quickly ran towards Shen Potian's location, with Ye Feng following closely behind.
"Whoosh!~"
Shen Yun Yao unleashed two talismans, and the water-infused wind swept away a large amount of scorching hot earth and stone from the explosion's epicenter.
At this moment, Ye Feng and Shen Yun Yao could clearly see Shen Potian, who was at the center of the blast.
Shen Potian's clothes were almost entirely burned off, and his entire body was blackened. There were large bloody holes on his chest, shoulders, and legs, with some areas revealing white bone with burn marks. kanδん
Shen Potian was hunched over, his breathing erratic. He supported himself with a wooden stick, at the top of which, where Shen Potian held it, was a small green sprout, giving a sense of life.
"Grandpa, how are you?"
Shen Yun Yao rushed forward, asking with concern. At the same time, she formed a hand seal, and a large amount of mist instantly appeared around her and Shen Potian. The scorching hot air rapidly cooled down...
At this moment, Shen Potian's green wood-attribute arcane energy flickered slightly, and some of his wounds gradually stopped bleeding.
"The mutual generation of water and wood attributes~"
Although Ye Feng had heard before that the five main attributes of arcane energy—gold, wood, water, fire, and earth—were mutually generative and destructive, he had only ever witnessed or heard of destruction. This was the first time he was seeing generation.
The injuries Shen Potian sustained were clearly very severe. The green wood-attribute arcane energy on his body was also intermittent, and even with Shen Yun Yao's help, his recovery was extremely slow.
"Cough, cough!~"
"Pfft!~"
At this moment, the green wood-attribute arcane energy in Shen Potian's chest surged a little more, causing Shen Potian to cough violently and spit out a mouthful of fresh blood.
Before Shen Yun Yao could react, Shen Potian's expression changed drastically. He suddenly extended his hand and pushed Shen Yun Yao far away, in the direction of Ye Feng.
"Bang!~"
Ye Feng instinctively reached out and caught Shen Yun Yao. He felt a tremendous force emanating from Shen Yun Yao, causing him to jump back involuntarily.
"What are you doing?"
"Bang, bang!~"
Before Ye Feng's confused muttering even faded, two blood-red mechanical arms shot out from the ground beneath Shen Potian, firmly gripping his ankles. It was Sphinx's Blood Floating Pagoda mecha.
"Bang, clack!~"
"Clack, clack, clink, clack, clack~"
Then, Sphinx, piloting the Blood Floating Pagoda mecha, rapidly emerged from underground. The mecha's legs shifted, forming a locking device, which secured Shen Potian.
"Clang, clang, clink~"
Following that, a series of crisp metallic sounds rang out. Strange blood-red chains suddenly shot out from behind Sphinx's Blood Floating Pagoda.
These strange blood-red chains gave Ye Feng an extremely unsettling feeling!
"Bang!~ Clack, clatter, clink, clink~!"
The strange blood-red chains bound Shen Potian tightly at an extremely fast speed. The chains attached to Shen Potian's body even grew blood-red spikes that pierced into his flesh.
Instantly, the strange blood-red chains became even more vividly red...
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!~"
Sphinx did not stop after completing this. The cockpit of the Blood Floating Pagoda mecha opened rapidly, and Sphinx leaped out, firing several cold glints from his hands towards multiple parts of Shen Potian's body.
"Sizzle, hiss!~"
"Ugh~ Ah~!"
As the cold glints pierced Shen Potian's body, he let out muffled groans of immense pain, eventually screaming out in agony.
"Grandpa!"
Seeing this, Shen Yun Yao screamed and was about to rush forward to help, but Ye Feng pulled her back.
At this moment, Sphinx's Blood Floating Pagoda mecha finally released Shen Potian.
"As expected of the City Lord of Mecha City, you're truly difficult to deal with... a nuclear-level explosion couldn't even kill you..."
"But that's all there is to it... Netherworld Sting plus Blood Seal Marks..."
Sphinx, with a high, stiff red braid tied to his head, stood before Shen Potian, whose face was pale and contorted in pain, with a cold, sinister expression.
"Indeed, difficult to deal with! Cost me a life!"
As Sphinx's voice fell, a somewhat low, yet familiar male voice to Ye Feng and Shen Yun Yao sounded. It was Wang Batian.
"What? Wang Batian is also alive?"
Hearing this voice, Ye Feng was greatly alarmed. He quickly looked towards the source of the sound, finding it to be a large, charred rock.
"Crack, crack, crack~"
Under the gaze of Ye Feng and the others, the charred rock shattered into countless pieces, revealing a chrysalis-like object inside. The thick chrysalis was cut open with a knife, and Wang Batian slowly emerged from within.
Wang Batian's face was grim, and he looked somewhat pale. On his chest were five black, circular objects arranged in a pentagonal shape—the Black Mist Five Rings that Ye Feng had seen before.
Unlike what Ye Feng had seen in Wang Batian's banquet hall, the Black Mist Five Rings now emanated a strange red glow, though one of them was very weak and extinguished shortly after.
"Holy crap, what kind of monsters are these?! They can survive a nuclear-level explosion?"
Seeing Wang Batian and then Shen Potian, Ye Feng couldn't help but mutter to himself.
"Blood Seal Marks... It seems the cooperation with Wang Batian was the decision of the higher-ups at Brad Base. That old man actually gave you this thing that can seal arcane energy!" wΑp.kanshu伍.net
At this moment, Shen Potian's voice rang out, his tone somewhat weak.
"Oh ho, as expected of the City Lord, you know quite a lot!"
Sphinx looked at Shen Potian with a mocking expression. As he spoke, his hand flashed, and a human brain appeared. Without a word, he took a large bite.
Shen Potian ignored Sphinx and turned to Wang Batian. "If I'm not mistaken, the extremely violent lightning-attribute arcane energy you just used was from your father, Wang Ge, wasn't it?!"
"The intelligence was correct. Your Wang family is indeed the ghoul race, gaining power by devouring your elders..."
"And those who can turn their bodies into bombs... those are ghoul spores... This advanced usage is a technique of the ghoul race, Yi An Ti..."
"But I didn't expect you to be able to utilize his power to this extent so quickly after devouring Wang Ge last night... is it because of the thing on your chest..."
As he spoke the last part, Shen Potian squinted at Wang Batian's chest. "The lost holy relic of the ghoul race, the Black Mist Five Rings?"
"You old geezer, you talk too much when you're about to die!"
Wang Batian's face was extremely ugly because Shen Potian had guessed everything correctly. Moreover, Shen Potian clearly knew a lot about the ghoul race, which gave him a great sense of crisis.
"I'm very curious, how did the ghoul race's lost holy relic from over a thousand years ago end up in your hands?"
"Did Sphinx, or rather, Brad Base, give it to you?"
After a pause, Shen Potian spoke again, glancing at Sphinx as he did.
"Old man, you talk too much!"
Seeing this, Sphinx immediately formed a blood-colored seal in his hand. The spiked chains binding Shen Potian immediately blazed with blood-red light, digging even deeper into Shen Potian's body, causing his bones to creak.
"Ugh~! Ah, ah!~ Ah~!"
Shen Potian immediately let out uncontrollable pain and screamed.
Suddenly, Shen Potian's screams abruptly stopped. He then turned to Sphinx, his expression blank. "Sphinx, according to your plan, I should be screaming like this, right?"
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