The Battle of the Awakened

The only thing that could console Ren Anhua now was that Tang Yunxuan was still quite clever.

Although he usually seemed a bit foolish, at least his judgment of the situation was accurate.

He didn’t stay behind to have a tearful farewell, vowing to never leave her, only to be captured and used as a hostage, causing Ren Anhua a headache.

The only problem Ren Anhua needed to solve now was herself.

Three pillars in her left hand, four in her right, two crossing over her chest, pinning her firmly, and at least four or five piercing through her legs.

To describe the current Ren Anhua as being unable to move was quite vivid.

Fortunately, the other party hadn’t added a few more to her lower abdomen, otherwise the scene might have been incredibly awkward.
Ren Anhua felt she was truly unlucky.

If she had encountered those who cut people, set fires, were fast, or hit hard, she wouldn’t have been afraid.

But she had to run into this control-type player.

“Do you know, this, really hurts, ugh… cough cough cough…” Her lungs were pierced, and Ren Anhua was now speaking with blood.

This thing really hurt.

The expansion and contraction of her chest when she breathed always pulled at the wounds.

Ren Anhua truly experienced a pain that breathed.

However, even with such severe injuries, her body still maintained a good state of health.

Although the healing aura could be completely withdrawn, this was at most to the surface of her body.

Not leaking out was already the limit; it was impossible to completely shut it off.

So Ren Anhua’s body was continuously affected by the healing.

The wounds inside her body were constantly being repaired.

Although some areas could not be fully restored due to the presence of foreign objects, it could ensure that other parts of her body maintained a perfect state of health.

Taking the pierced lungs as an example, except for the pierced parts which would inevitably bleed, the other parts were working smoothly.

This maintenance of perfection was refined to the cellular level.

Even if there were no actual conditions to support it, it would senselessly maintain the body in a perfect state.

Like a castle in the air, even without the first and second floors, the third floor would still be maintained.

It didn’t need any support, completely transcending the normal physiological laws of living beings.

So Ren Anhua was still very healthy at the moment, just in excruciating pain.

“Hiss~ This is really something,” Ren Anhua tried to struggle a bit, and then she immediately found that this action was really making things difficult for herself.

There were too many black pillars embedded in her body; it was very uncomfortable to even move slightly.

“Let me discuss something with you. Can you let me down first?” Ren Anhua’s voice sounded pained.

All she wanted now was to get down.

“It’s really surprising that you can still speak,” Yue Chang looked at Ren Anhua, who was pinned like a specimen yet had a healthy complexion, and deeply felt the terror of her healing strength.

In his original plan, he was going to severely injure the other party and then immediately release her.

After all, what he wanted was a fourth-tier healer, not a fourth-tier corpse.

But now it seemed that these injuries had little effect on the pink-haired girl before him, at least they posed no threat to her life.

And judging by her posture, she would probably recover instantly the moment she was released.

Releasing her was impossible.

According to the physical fitness she had shown earlier, if they weren’t in this enclosed space, Yue Chang really wasn’t confident he could catch this little one.

With this level of healing, the hope of curing the old master was very high.

It was not easy to find a rare fourth-tier healer.

If he accidentally let her run away, Yue Chang wouldn’t be able to forgive himself.

“Cooperation between people needs to be based on trust. You were the one who started it first, and you were the one who cut people first. I was trying to keep you properly locked up, but you were unwilling and insisted on rushing out to hit people. If you had stayed obediently in the cage, I wouldn’t have had to pin you up in mid-air like this, right?”

As Yue Chang spoke, he withdrew the black pillars protecting him and walked out of the layered prison.

The blood Ren Anhua had spilled on the ground seemed a bit special, so he casually picked some up to observe carefully.

“Your temper is so volatile, it makes it really difficult for me to trust you. If I let you down, you might hit me as soon as you get down. I’m too old to want to go through all this trouble. You should just stay up there for a while. I’ll change your position later to make you more comfortable.”

Ren Anhua’s blood, filled with pure healing energy flow, appeared much more crystal clear.

When it was still, it was like a high-grade jade, quite beautiful.

“I didn’t expect you to be telling the truth. Your blood does look a bit different. It’s really beautiful.”

“It’s more than beautiful, it tastes good too. Want to try some?”

“I’ll pass on that. It seems to be filled with a surging energy flow. I don’t know what you’re planning, but I advise you to give up. All I seek is cooperation. Curing one person shouldn’t be a difficult matter for you. Why must you be so stubborn?”

Ren Anhua’s plan failed.

The explosion of blood was different from the explosion of flesh and biological tissue.

The biological explosion of a liquid substance like blood required an enclosed space to be effective.

If it were detonated directly in the open air, it would cause almost no damage.

A blood explosion relied more on expansion damage rather than blast impact, and this damage was extremely effective in a confined space.

Ren Anhua only needed Yue Chang to put a drop of blood in his mouth, just one drop, and she could make this annoying fellow explode on the spot.

Unfortunately, Yue Chang did not put Ren Anhua’s blood in his mouth.

He just looked at it curiously, and then took out a piece of paper to wipe it clean.

He had originally wanted to try and draw out the healing energy flow from the blood, but in the end, he found that the self-sealing of this energy flow was too strong and could not be dissipated at all.

The only way to release it was to make the blood lose its blood form.

However, after wiping it dry with a tissue, this energy flow self-annihilated, turning into a pure energy field that dissipated and disappeared, losing its healing properties.

This effect was, of course, deliberately created by Ren Anhua.

Otherwise, if it healed the opponent’s wounds during a blood explosion, wouldn’t that be counterproductive?

Although the plan failed, Ren Anhua was not flustered.

After all, expecting the other party to swallow blood and self-destruct was not very realistic in the first place.

Her real trump card was still in her own hands.

The flesh bomb, the metal rose.

Ren Anhua’s thumb pressed on the ring.

Her body was pinned, but her fingers were not.

Yue Chang had already walked very close to her.

Ren Anhua was talking to him just to make him lower his guard.

Or rather, to focus his vigilance on her deliberately energy-filled blood.

The blood was just a feint.

Ren Anhua quietly used the ring to carve a small piece of flesh from her hand.

Although it was very painful, for the current Ren Anhua, this level of pain was almost negligible.

Compared to the biological explosion of blood, the biological explosion of pure flesh was much more violent.

The main reason for this was determined by the cell ratio.

Although Ren Anhua’s biological explosion was essentially creating matter directly to cause expansion damage, this expansion efficiency would also be affected by the “raw materials.”

The closer the raw material was to “living,” the more violent its explosive effect would be.

Not everything on Ren Anhua’s body could be used as raw material for a biological bomb.

She had no masochistic tendencies.

If there were better choices, she wouldn’t want to bleed and carve her own flesh; it was so terrifying and painful.

She had actually tried to charge her saliva with healing energy.

Compared to bleeding, Ren Anhua was obviously more accepting of spitting a mouthful of saliva to blow up the opponent.

Not only did it not hurt, but it could also disgust the other party.

But unfortunately, this was impossible.

Under the abundance of healing energy, the volume of saliva hardly changed.

In addition, Ren Anhua had also tried hair, tears, nails, and some other things on her body.

However, the results were all failures.

Thinking about the reason, Ren Anhua also probably understood the principle.

This thing was affected by biological properties.

Although hair is composed of keratinized epithelial cells, it is dead cells and does not have biological properties.

The reasons for the failure of other experiments were probably the same.

The more cells there were, the more biological properties it possessed, and the more it could trigger a reaction from the healing energy flow.

Although the explosive effect caused by healing was not just replicating active cells, but replicating blood and other substances in proportion, which meant that non-biological characteristic substances such as water and inorganic salts would also be replicated, the content of active cells would affect the intensity of the healing reaction.

Blood contains a large number of red blood cells, which is the basis of a blood explosion.

But compared to purely cellular tissues such as skin, fat, and muscle, the cell concentration in blood was obviously not worth mentioning.

If the intensity of a blood explosion was compared to the crude and primitive black powder, then the intensity of a flesh biomass bomb explosion was the nitro explosive of modern chemical technology.

Even if it were detonated directly in the air, the impact would be quite considerable.

Looking at Yue Chang who had already walked in front of her, Ren Anhua didn’t say a word.

At such a time, extra words were unnecessary.

To say something to look cool, only to alert the other party and avoid the risk, was a very stupid move.

Ren Anhua simply used her thumb to flick up that small piece of flesh filled with healing energy, then roughly aimed, and flicked it directly at Yue Chang’s head.

Her movements were hidden and light, and the flicked piece of flesh was very small, not arousing Yue Chang’s vigilance at all.

The effect was very obvious.

Yue Chang, who took the explosion to the face, was directly sent flying.

His head violently collided with the black pillar he had created, making a loud clang.

He probably hadn’t even realized what had happened, but the battle between Awakened was like that.

Sometimes, the outcome was decided in an instant.

Not everyone was qualified to die knowing why.

Especially this kind of show-off.

After Yue Chang lost consciousness, the black pillars piercing Ren Anhua’s body suddenly became brittle.

Fortunately, this guy’s ability was not a fire-and-forget type.

Otherwise, even if Ren Anhua knocked him out, she might not have been able to escape and would still have been pinned in mid-air.

After a heart-wrenching struggle, Ren Anhua directly used her wounds to break off these long black things stuck in her body.

She was quite angry now.

Such a wretched situation was a rare encounter for her, Ren Anhua.

Her clothes were tattered, and even her shoes were ruined.

Her treasured soul-bound blade was also broken.

The unconscious man lying on the ground was simply a heinous criminal.

“Pah, serves you right for showing off. Have you learned your lesson?” Ren Anhua kicked Yue Chang viciously, completely unaware of her own failed attempt at showing off that had resulted in her being pinned in mid-air.

After all, the battle between Awakened was all about capsizing in the gutter against each other.