[You are taking continuous poison damage, and your Talent Skill: Adaptive Evolution has stored a new form: Deactivated Blood Image!]

[In the Deactivated Blood Image form, your heart rate accelerates, blood temperature rises continuously, your immune system operates strongly, enhancing your deactivation ability against external toxins, halving the damage and duration of the toxins.]

This is the fourth Adaptive Evolution form, very useful against toxins, but Bai Pu did not choose to switch because switching to the new form would deactivate the original [Scaly Skin] form, losing the mitigation against the sharp damage caused by Fish Intestines.

Bai Pu directly activated the Professional Skill: Flesh Armor!

[Flesh Armor] is quite weak against single enemies; the shield replenishment speed is 1 to 5 points per second, certainly unable to keep up with enemy output, only temporarily delaying the bleeding effect.

So Bai Pu simultaneously activated the third Talent Ability of [Heart of Evolution]: Genetic Fragment!

Spend 50 Life Source points, temporarily fusing the combat genetic fragments of a dead strong warrior, target locked onto… Blood Hand Colun!

[You have temporarily fused with Blood Hand Colun's combat genetic fragment.]

[You temporarily gained (8) Power points; your Fighting Specialization temporarily improved to Advanced Level 5.]

In an instant, Bai Pu had a kind of enlightening sensation, as if he were the Blood Ring General of Northern Brandon, a lion showing pride to all corners!

It should be known that Blood Hand Colun was the leader of the Blood Ring Camp in the Northern Brandon region, equivalent to the regional final boss. If he hadn't unfortunately encountered Duke William, he would definitely have been a very tough opponent.

"My turn!"

Bai Pu's voice was steady and powerful. He slightly turned his body, dodged Fish Intestines' next dagger stab, and seized his opponent's wrist!

This grab was very clever, it looked as if Fish Intestines had deliberately extended his wrist into Bai Pu's hand!

Fish Intestines' eyes widened in shock and he forcefully pulled back. But with one pull, he felt even more off, Bai Pu's right hand was like a pair of metallic handcuffs, tightly locking his wrist, making it impossible to break free for a moment.

A tall figure stormed in like a whirlwind, the sword hilt crashing into Fish Intestines' lower back. Immediately, Skeleton Warriors powered up, preparing to initiate a sweep.

[Skeleton Warrior's Skill: Merciless Assault dealt 37 blunt damage to you.]

"How could he have an elite monster as a minion?"

In disbelief, Fish Intestines felt like his lower back was about to break.

Suddenly, Fish Intestines' wrist slipped free as if it were greased, escaping Bai Pu's grasp. He bore the pain that felt like a fractured lower back and rushed left, barely dodging the charged sweeping attack of the Skeleton Warrior.

However, Bai Pu's Bone Hammer was waiting, sweeping from right to left! It looked as if Fish Intestines had rushed onto the Bone Hammer himself.

This hit churned Fish Intestines' stomach, nearly causing him to vomit up bile!

Fish Intestines felt a bit terrified; this was beyond comprehension—why did Bai Pu possess such strong combat awareness and strategic perspective? Plus, the power not losing to others with similar level and specialty!

Escape!

Fish Intestines almost immediately made the decision, ignoring Hanguang next to him who was concentrating on casting and attacking with Energy Bombs, choosing to flee. From his heels, rocket-like flames burst forth, launching him forward seventeen or eighteen meters!

"Trying to run?"

Bai Pu switched to the [Deactivated Blood Image] form, reducing poison damage to 4 points per second, and shortening the poison duration to 5 seconds! He activated [Unstable Shield], pursued a few steps, then promptly initiated [Jump Slash], leaping overhead to block Fish Intestines' path and spun around for a sweeping strike.

Fish Intestines saw the blood-red shield on Bai Pu's body trembling slightly, clearly there was potent energy gathering to erupt! He lacked the will to fight further, tried to sidestep, but the next second, an icy cold energy surged in, chilling him to the bone. The battle notification from Spirit Realm Will further plunged him into despair!

[An unknown enemy cast Disabling Technique on you. Your movement speed declined by 34%, your attack speed declined by 34%! (Based on your Level Suppression, 16% was resisted)]

The greatly reduced movement speed left Fish Intestines unable to break away from Bai Pu, who watched as the blood-red shield shattered apart, only managing to place his hands defensively over his face as a symbolic defense.

Bang!

A staggering 57 points of shock damage spread out with the explosive blast wave, and Fish Intestines spun and collided away like a leaf in the raging waves!

The shock damage also added a slow effect, and together with the [Disabling Technique] obliterated Fish Intestines' ability to even take a step!

Bai Pu pursued closely and launched a roaring punch!

At this moment, fused with Blood Hand Colun's combat genetic fragment, the strongest and most familiar attack technique remained fighting! This punch, with spiral force, thunderously struck Fish Intestines' jaw.

Crack! Fish Intestines seemed to hear the sound of his neck vertebra breaking, his entire body flung skyward, spewing blood.

As the Skeleton Warrior arrived with strides, it had charged up completely, spinning in place to execute a Giant Sword Sweep!

Helical Strike!

Fish Intestines' eyes bulged. This sword cleared his remaining Life Value.

Fish Intestines fell, half of his body shattered, blood flowed merrily like a small river. His Bloody Artifact [Combat Shackles], on the contrary, became a noose binding him inescapably! 23 seconds remained in total.

"Why...?" rasped Fish Intestines.

Bai Pu did not reply, commanding the Skeleton Warrior to raise the Great Sword.

Fish Intestines sneered sadly, summoning his last breath to shout: "This isn't over… it's just the beginning!"

The Skeleton Warrior's Great Sword fell.

Awakened: Fish Intestines has fallen!

Above Fish Intestines' corpse, a blue treasure chest with thin blood-red threads quietly hovered.

On the other side, Hanguang, entangled by Bone Mage, was powerless to assist Fish Intestines. Watching as Fish Intestines neared death's door, fear welled up inside, prompting her to leave before his demise.

[In a state of self-defense and retaliation, you have slain a hostile Awakened. You will not gain Bloody Value, current Bloody Value: 0.]

[You have acquired a Bloody Treasure Chest.]

[The deceased's Bloody Value is 4 points, making it easier to obtain high-valued items when drawing from the Bloody Treasure Chest.]

Bai Pu approached, his steps solid and determined. This was his first time killing an Awakened, yet he felt surprisingly calm with little discomfort.

Placing his palm on the Bloody Treasure Chest, Bai Pu chose to open it.

With a flourish, the treasure chest bathed in faint blood-red light revealed many cards with crimson backs swirling and churning inside.

[Based on the deceased's Bloody Value, you can perform a selection and exclude one of the following options.]

[A: The deceased's Spiritual Points carried (Card quantity: 2).]

[B: The deceased's equipment worn (Card quantity: 8).]

[C: The deceased's storage space items (Card quantity: 14)]

Without hesitation, Bai Pu decided to exclude option C.

As a consequence, more than half of the swirling crimson cards turned into faint smoke-like Spiritual Particles and vanished, leaving only 10 cards!

Soon after, these 10 crimson cards flew out, floating before Bai Pu.

[Based on the deceased's Bloody Value, you can perform another selection to exclude (4) low-valued Bloody Cards (from low to high order). You may also choose not to exclude and draw directly.]

[You currently have 2 draw attempts.]

Bai Pu opted to exclude the low-valued cards. Four more Bloody Cards dissipated like smoke.

In front of Bai Pu, only the final 6 Bloody Cards remained.

"These should be the most valuable items on Fish Intestines, mostly equipment."

Bai Pu reached out and tapped the first crimson card on the left, revealing the image of a dagger.

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