Weak.... His body was very weak.
His consciousness fluctuated in Chaos, Xuan Hao felt an irresistible fatigue emanating from his body, and his senses were repeatedly torn between dissipating and condensing, as if climbing a deep vortex.
Finally.... his vision pierced through a strong light.
He blinked. It was a room, neither big nor small.
The surrounding walls gleamed with a cold metallic luster, and several instruments of unknown purpose were right before his eyes.
He slowly lowered his head and looked at his hand.
His skin was pathologically pale, and blue veins were faintly visible beneath the thin layer of skin.
He held a piece of paper in his hand. Xuan Hao focused his attention on the information on the paper....
File Number: X-07
Contact Date: June 7, 2030.
Rank: BOSS-level.
Codename: Yin God? Corpse Disassembly Immortal? Evil Spirit? (Tentative)
Authority: Unknown.
Attack Method: Strong Mental Energy and Physical Body pollution.
Signed: Tang.
Assessment: Extremely High Threat! Incomprehensible! Unpredictable! Fatal! Unsolvable!
More memory fragments surged forth.
Xuan Hao felt as if he had just climbed out of a terrifying vortex, and now this vortex had all plunged into his body.
Cold, silent, boundless unknown and terror....
"So that's how it is."
With his memories returned, Xuan Hao understood everything.
He was an Immortal.
In the former Age of Dharma Decline, Spiritual Qi was extinct, and he achieved Immortal Ascension through Corpse Disassembly with great perseverance and great fortune!
But for unknown reasons, he was stuck in a spatial rift.
In his memory, there was his long period of dormancy.
There was no daylight in that crack, and even "existence" itself was difficult to comprehend.
But in the desperate darkness, faint "nutrients" still seeped in.
Was that.... Spirit?
Or pure Mental Energy?
Xuan Hao was not sure, but in his memory, he, whether out of greed or instinct, devoured these scattered "Spirits," constantly strengthening his core.
One year? Two years? Or even decades....
In that distorted dimension, time had long lost its meaning.
After an unknown number of years, he finally emerged!
......
A week ago, he found a medium, allowing his power to infiltrate the real world!
In order to find his former Physical Body and achieve Immortal Ascension, Xuan Hao came to this base.
"This Physical Body...."
Xuan Hao twisted his neck, feeling the fragility of a Mortal.
Yet even so, he was still invincible.
The possessed Physical Body was indeed fragile, but even if he was killed once, twice, or even ten thousand times, he could not be eliminated.
This was the might of an Immortal.
His Primordial Spirit was in a higher dimension.
Now, only a trace of his power had infiltrated and possessed a human Martial Artist.
Xuan Hao's gaze fell on the paper in his hand.
BOSS-level? Yin God?
A series of low, strange syllables, completely unlike human language, rumbled in his throat:
"BOSS-level.... Heh heh...."
Eerie laughter echoed in the cold air.
"The assessment is quite fair."
Xuan Hao's facial muscles twitched unnaturally, tensed, and the corners of his mouth stretched towards his ears, his sharp canines terrifyingly prominent.
This Physical Body was too fragile.
It could not withstand his immense Mental Energy; a slight movement would cause the body to collapse, resulting in "Weird" changes.
This was not his problem.
Rather, these Physical Bodies themselves were very strange.
"Martial Artists.... There is no more Qi in this world. The energy they Cultivate is familiar yet very strange. Normally there's no problem, but when I come into contact with it, strange changes occur."
Xuan Hao was deep in thought.
Just then, another memory fragment emerged.
Kill Dr. Tang!
This information appeared without reason, like an instruction branded deep in his Soul, instantly activated as the memory fragments came together!
Xuan Hao was absolutely certain.
He had left this command himself.
A week ago, when he first arrived in this world, he encountered local Martial Artists, and this Dr. Tang was the enemy who obstructed him.
This place.... was the battlefield Dr. Tang had set for him!
"My body.... is trapped."
Xuan Hao raised his head. He could clearly perceive that his true body was within this Martial Artist's base.
But he couldn't determine the exact location.
This Physical Body was too fragile to accept his descent; Divine Sense could not be used, and Divine Abilities and spells were even more out of the question.
"Buzz buzz buzz."
Suddenly, a piercing alarm blared in his ears!
The white overhead lights flashed with blood-red warning lights!
"Boom!"
The heavy alloy door was struck.
"Boom!"
Under the impact of some force, the door shattered.
Amidst the dazzling red light and the shrieking alarm, three figures rushed into the room, surrounding Xuan Hao in a pincer movement!
"Target locked!"
A rough voice roared.
"Attack!"
Following closely was a young voice.
The young man was enveloped in flowing green Qi, moving so fast that he left an afterimage, already closing in on Xuan Hao.
The long blade in his hand was already unsheathed, glinting with a chilling light.
"Roar--!!!"
The burly man next to him's chest heaved, and a visible wave of sonic energy erupted from his mouth, slamming hard into Xuan Hao.
Behind the two, the woman's voice rang out coldly:
"Restrain!"
Countless translucent blue tentacles, formed from energy, surged wildly from the ground.
In an instant, like constricting pythons, Xuan Hao was tightly bound in place.
But Xuan Hao didn't move at all.
Because all of this was meaningless.
His existence was not within the scope that Mortals could comprehend.
Only an Immortal could kill an Immortal.
"Slice!"
The blade-wielding youth was already within arm's reach.
The long blade let out a sharp whooshing sound, its edge trailing a green Qi glow, tearing through the air, heading straight for Xuan Hao's neck!
"Pfft!"
Blood bloomed suddenly under the pale light.
The cold blade cut into Xuan Hao's left shoulder, mere inches from his heart!
The terrifying force and the violent green Qi wave instantly tore through his skin and muscles.
It even severed the deeper bones!
"Target heavily injured!"
The youth let out a low growl, twisted his wrist skillfully, and cut horizontally, enlarging the wound!
His movements were as swift as the wind, executed in one fluid motion.
In just an instant, Xuan Hao was almost split in half.
"As expected of a BOSS-level creature."
The youth, having landed a blow, immediately retreated to a safe distance, a look of astonishment flashing in his eyes.
The target before him had taken a nearly fatal blow.
But it seemed completely unaffected?
"Suppress!"
The burly man's second roar followed immediately!
"Heh...."
The smile on Xuan Hao's face grew wider.
As a cold light flashed in his eyes, a silent ripple exploded on the Mental Energy level, like a hurricane pouring into the blade-wielding youth's brain.
"Bang."
It was as if something had shattered.
The light in the youth's eyes extinguished, and his body fell straight backward.
"What?!"
The burly man and the woman's pupils constricted, as if struck by a heavy blow.
Though they were not killed, their faces turned ashen under this silent Mental Energy impact.
"Attack!"
The woman's sharp voice carried a hint of panic.
The burly man forced himself to rally his spirits, roaring again, and a violent wave of sonic energy slammed into Xuan Hao.
It was at this moment!
The woman pushed both hands forward with all her might, and countless energy-formed blue tentacles, like dense javelins, rapidly stabbed at Xuan Hao, who was stunned by the sonic wave.
"Puff!"
"Puff!"
The sound of sharp blades piercing flesh was continuous!
Xuan Hao's body became a target, instantly pierced by more than a dozen energy tentacles from different angles.
Hot blood gushed out from the wounds like a fountain.
However, Xuan Hao still wore that tearing smile on his face, as if it wasn't his own body that had been pierced.
"Die!"
The woman shrieked, her will urging....
The energy tentacles that had penetrated Xuan Hao suddenly swayed, tearing violently in different directions.
"Whoosh!"
Flesh and bone shattered instantly, and Xuan Hao's body was torn into pieces by the energy tentacles.
"Did it succeed?"
The woman staggered back a few steps, fine cold sweat seeping from her forehead.
"As expected of a BOSS-level creature, it really is troublesome...." She let out a long sigh, still shaken.
"Finally, it's dealt with."
The woman strode forward, her gaze falling on the scattered papers on the ground.
That was the file of this BOSS.
She bent down to pick it up, her fingertips trembling slightly.
Her gaze swept over the file, finally resting on the crimson, glaring assessment at the end:
"Unsolvable?"
The woman chewed on these two words, deep in thought.
"Yes."
A low voice sounded behind her.
"What?!"
The woman's whole body trembled, a chill running down her spine.
This was clearly the burly man's voice!
But the tone was cold, unfamiliar, and carried a chilling playfulness.
"To you, I right now.... can indeed be called unsolvable." The burly man's face held a mocking smile.
The woman spun around sharply!
Her companion was standing there, his mouth stretched into an impossibly wide, terrifying arc that reached his ears.
This horrifying posture, exactly like the BOSS they had just "killed"....
It was identical!
"How is that possible?"
Looking at her familiar yet strange companion, the woman felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.
"Roar--!!!"
The burly man roared, and a terrifying wave of sonic energy erupted, causing blood to flow from the woman's seven orifices.
He lunged forward, striking quickly with a hand chop.
"Puff!"
Her head fell, blood gushing out.
The battle ended in an instant.