Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 450 - 301: Blood-Colored Black Death Bacterial Armor

Chapter 450: Chapter 301: Blood-Colored Black Death Bacterial Armor

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom..."

Listning to the successive explosion sounds, Xu Yuan had almost forgotten how long he had been running.

His current state was not good.

There were limits to human endurance.

If his body was still human, even with the cultivation of Mortal Transcendence, he might have died countless times already under the relentless pursuit of the Barbarian King.

But fortunately, he was no longer human.

Even though, apart from his Blood Jade Glaze-like skin and face, which bore no scars, all other parts of him were injured, it did not affect his escape in the least.

The body of a creature feature was really becoming more appealing with use.

The desolate Underground Palace was as complex as an ant nest; the special characteristics of a Mortal Transcendence creature feature allowed Xu Yuan to sense the layout of the palace within a radius of more than twenty miles through the Black Death Mycelial Mat, projecting it into his mind.

Human bodies were fragile, especially the meridians. Forcibly overloading cultivation techniques would tear the meridians, and abruptly ending the techniques would also damage them. If attacked during this process, one could suffer at best internal injuries due to the backlash of Origin Qi or at worst, succumb to death from qi deviation exploding the body.

But creature features were different; Origin Qi could recklessly rampage through the meridians without any regard, use the cultivation technique whenever desired, stop it when needed, and even if overloading the technique swelled the meridians, there was no issue at all.

As long as one could endure the searing pain like tearing of the meridians, even if the circulation of Origin Qi in one cycle caused tearing damage, by the next cycle it would have already healed back to normal.

"Buzz!!!"

In the midst of contemplation,

In the somewhat cramped corridor, the hulking figure of the Barbarian King suddenly appeared behind Xu Yuan.

One large, one small; like an adult and a child.

A punch thrown from above, an explosive fist wind roared out to both sides immediately following.

At the critical juncture, Xu Yuan used his sword to lever off the ground, narrowly dodging the punch that could completely shatter his body.

But he had just barely dodged the direct hit as the bone spurs growing on the bulging muscles of Chi Su’s arm still sliced open the tough Black Death Bacterial Armor at his neck, leaving a deep wound of about an inch.

Without waiting for Chi Su to continue his assault, Xu Yuan’s figure had already disappeared from the spot.

As for such slippery sword technique, akin to an annoying fly, Chi Su had grown accustomed to it, his leg muscles bulging as he stomped the ground and continued the relentless pursuit toward the depths of the corridor.

"Huff... Ha... Huff... Ha..."

Having temporarily escaped death once again, Xu Yuan bolted, gasping for air in large breaths.

The throbbing pain continuously assaulted his brain, but it was not due to the wound on his neck, but the torn meridians caused by forcefully using the "Step Void Slash."

Thankfully, the healing capability of a creature feature’s body was astonishing, and in a blink of an eye, the cracks in the walls of the meridians had already healed over.

Without pausing, Xu Yuan took out a high-grade Elixir Medicine for restoring Origin Qi from the Sumeru Ring, not even looking as he crushed and swallowed them all at once regardless of consequences.

Just as he had discussed with Li Qingyan before, the self-healing of a creature feature also needed to follow the law of "conservation of energy."

Xu Yuan’s self-damaging escape method would cause damage to the meridians, which required Origin Qi to heal.

And each use of Step Void Slash also consumed a massive amount of Origin Qi.

If he were not wildly spending money, constantly consuming high-grade Elixir Medicines filled with Origin Qi, even with his creature feature body, he would probably have been caught by the demonic-like Barbarian King by now.

Of course,

all of this came at a price.

It hurt.

It hurt like hell!

Xu Yuan’s expression was particularly ferocious as he gritted his teeth.

It was true that as long as there was Origin Qi, a creature feature’s body could recover, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t feel pain.

The violent Origin Qi from the elixirs, guided by the Blood Essence Meteoring Art, swiftly replenished Xu Yuan’s nearly depleted Dantian, bringing with it the bone-crushing pain from the tearing of the meridians.

If it hadn’t been for the experience of rebuilding his body in the caves of Tianmen Mountain, by now he probably wouldn’t be able to fight properly because of the pain.

As the pain subsided, Xu Yuan took a deep breath, glanced back at the ethereal blue light closely following him, and cursed under his breath,

"Damn, if I had known it would hurt this much, I would have let that sadist Li Qingyan turn me into a creature feature."

While saying this, he subconsciously touched the wound on his neck, intending to prompt his body to heal it.

Even though the inch-deep wound on his neck was nothing more than a minor injury for him now, he still found it unbearably disgusting.

After all, although his body was that of a creature feature, his consciousness was still human.

But as his fingertips lightly touched his neck, a chill suddenly went down Xu Yuan’s spine.

This time, he didn’t feel any liquid flowing out of the wound.

Instead, there were fine, sticky, interwoven...

flesh tendrils.

These myriad tiny flesh tendrils, as if possessing their own consciousness, intertwined amongst themselves without Xu Yuan’s influence, and gradually, they forcefully stitched his neck wound closed.

Xu Yuan’s Ghostification had deepened.

The "intention" contained within the fist wind of the Barbarian King Chi Su was nearly unable to hold back the powerful self-healing ability of the creature feature inside him.

But it was at this very moment,

Xu Yuan suddenly realized that his senses were even more acute to everything in the dead silence of the Underground Palace.

It was as if he had entered a transparent world through his pupils.

The prowling creature features in the corridors, the subtle rhythmic pulsing of the Black Death Mycelial Mat, and the... Life Origin contained within the mat.

Even though Luo Xiran had completely severed the source of Life Origin, the Blood Nest, from the Underground Palace, the Palace was too vast.

With the complex network of corridors, akin to an ant nest covered by the vast expanse of Black Death Mycelial Mat, even with the source cut off, the Life Origin originally remaining in these mats...