One person: Starting with the Snow Drinking Blade

"President?!" The guard captain exclaimed in shock. "Then you..."

"Me?" Qu Tong turned her head, her gaze behind her gold-rimmed glasses sweeping over him coldly. That gaze was like a scalpel, making the guard captain feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and he swallowed back the words he was about to say.

"My mission is complete," Qu Tong said calmly, her gaze returning to the pulsating mass of flesh. A complex, indescribable light flashed in her eyes—a mixture of fervor, regret, and mockery—before settling into an unfathomable coldness. The seed was ready; whether this 'divine body' would succeed was no longer important. What mattered was… that 'He' had noticed this place, and had noticed… that 'key.'

She paused, the curve of her lips widening, yet devoid of warmth: "The game has entered the next stage. Consider everything here... a small gift for 'Key'. I hope he... likes it."

After saying that, she stopped looking at the guard captain and the fleshy egg that was about to give birth to a terrifying being. She turned around and walked calmly toward a small, inconspicuous silver-white door marked "Emergency Escape Passage" behind the control platform.

"Oh, right," she added, pausing slightly before opening the door without turning around, "after the self-destruct sequence is activated, let that 'thing'... be released too. Let it... do its last bit of work. To create a little... 'surprise' for our guests."

As soon as she finished speaking, she pushed open the door and disappeared into the darkness behind it.

The guard captain stood rooted to the spot, his face deathly pale, a fine layer of cold sweat beading on his forehead. He stared at the terrifying ball of flesh in the center, throbbing more and more violently, as if it might explode at any moment. Then he glanced at the bright red self-destruct sequence on the control panel, which had already begun its countdown. Finally, he gritted his teeth, turned around, and roared into the communicator:

"Execute the president's orders! Surrender! Inject all remaining 'samples' and 'nutrients'! Initiate the self-destruct program! Countdown begins! Also... activate the ultimate restraints on 'Sample Zero'! Repeat, activate the ultimate restraints on 'Sample Zero'!"

At his command, the base's remaining defenses crumbled rapidly. Countless pipes emitted terrifying suction, forcibly extracting the imprisoned, still-living "samples" and stored "nutrients" from various locations and injecting them into the central sphere of flesh. The sphere of flesh expanded again at a visible speed, throbbing like a frantically struggling heart, its blurred internal structure emitting painful, angry, and inhuman roars!

Meanwhile, deeper and more hidden somewhere in the base, a piercing howl, more terrifying and blasphemous than all the previous roars combined, echoed, freezing one's soul! Accompanied by the deafening sound of metal twisting and breaking, an even larger, more twisted shadow, exuding an aura of despair, broke free of its restraints and slowly rose from the darkness!

The glaring red countdown numbers relentlessly flashed on the control panel, in the corridors, and on every screen in the base:

180...179...178...

The countdown to destruction unfolds simultaneously with the awakening of terrifying monsters.

The entire secret base of the Yaoxing Society, like a piece of paper thrown into a raging fire, began to burn and collapse rapidly, heading towards final, insane... destruction.

The incessant, piercing wailing of alarms was a constant backdrop, mingled with the deafening clang of metal twisting and snapping, the hissing of bursting pipes, and the increasingly approaching, teeth-grinding heavy footsteps and the scraping sounds of some enormous creature dragging its body, seemingly emanating from some unknown corner of the base. Red warning lights frantically sliced ​​through the silver-white alloy walls, creating flowing, blood-red shadows that transformed the once cold and tidy corridor into a passage to hell.

Nie Lingfeng and Chen Duo sped along the spiral staircase shrouded in alarms and red light, heading towards the "Sanctuary" at the deepest part of the base. They had abandoned stealth and pushed their speed to the limit. Nie Lingfeng led the way, his figure becoming a blurry azure afterimage, each light touch of his toes traversing dozens of steps as if unbound by gravity. Chen Duo followed closely behind, channeling the power of the Phoenix True Fire into her legs, each step trailing a faint golden flame that left a brief trail of light in the dim light. Although slightly slower, she moved with the agility of a swallow, closely following Nie Lingfeng not far behind.

"Nie Lingfeng! That...that really stinky thing...is coming!" Chen Duo's voice cut through the alarm's noise, carrying a distinct urgency and even stronger disgust, reaching Nie Lingfeng's ears. She was referring to the terrifying entity that had just awakened from the deepest part of the base, dragging its massive body toward them—"Sample Zero." Her perception of evil and filth was more direct than Nie Lingfeng's; the aura emanating from that thing made her feel as if countless rotting tentacles were trying to entangle her soul, countless times more "stinky" than Dong Cheng or the "Cave God" of Luodong Village! (๑•́ ₃ •̀๑)

"I sensed it." Nie Lingfeng didn't turn his head, his voice calm, but a hint of solemnity flashed deep in his eyes. The energy intensity and the degree of "pollution" it caused to the surrounding environment of the approaching "thing" far exceeded any opponent they had encountered before. It seemed that this was the real "surprise" or "final barrier" left behind by the Yaoxing Society, or rather Qu Tong.

"Ignore it for now, let's go to the 'Sanctuary'!" Nie Lingfeng made the decision. Qu Tong was in the 'Sanctuary,' and the so-called 'Body of God' was also there, along with the controller for the self-destruct program. They had to resolve the core issue before the self-destruction, obtain any potentially crucial information, or... destroy the nascent 'Body of God'.

As for that "sample zero"... if there's time, take care of it before leaving. If not, let it rest here forever along with this soon-to-be-destroyed base.

After running downhill for about two minutes, the view suddenly opened up. The spiral staircase reached its end, connecting to a huge, hemispherical metal gate. At this moment, the heavy gate was fully open, revealing a spherical space behind it with a diameter of over fifty meters, emitting an eerie white light from within—the "Sanctuary".

Before even stepping inside, an indescribable surge of powerful energy, a mixture of holiness, evil, life, death, and pure chaos, surged forth from the doorway like a tangible wave, accompanied by a nauseatingly sweet and bloody stench and a strong, formaldehyde-like stench mixed with the putrid smell of decaying biological tissue!

At the same time, what reached my ears was the deafening "thump! thump!" sound of the huge fleshy egg throbbing wildly, like the beating of a drum, and the inhuman, low roars of pain, anger, and blasphemy emanating from the blurry humanoid outline inside the fleshy egg! And... the chilling gurgling sound of countless liquids being forcibly sucked and injected.

Without stopping, Nie Lingfeng grabbed Chen Duo and rushed into the "Sanctuary" without hesitation.

Even with his extensive experience, Nie Lingfeng was struck by the sight before him with a powerful visual and mental impact.

Within the enormous spherical space, the light did not come from external lamps, but from the translucent, softly white material that formed the inner walls, illuminating the entire space in a stark white light, revealing every detail. At the center of the space, the enormous "ball of flesh," over ten meters in diameter and pulsating with countless dark red veins, had now expanded to a terrifying size, occupying nearly a third of the space! Suspended in mid-air, it resembled a living, gestating heart, each beat causing the entire spherical space to tremble slightly. Within those dark red veins, a viscous liquid interwoven with dark green and gold flowed wildly, emitting increasingly powerful and chaotic energy fluctuations.

Inside the fleshy egg, the humanoid outline had become much clearer. It was the nascent form of a monster, over five meters tall, with a twisted body, seemingly a forced blend of the sacred and the blasphemous, the perfect and the deformed. It appeared to possess both male and female characteristics, with several pairs of broken, bony wings covered in rotting flesh on its back. Facial features were vaguely visible on its head, but the eye sockets were two bottomless black holes, within which seemed to contain countless tiny, frantically spinning dark red points of light. Its body surface was covered with cracks that constantly opened and closed, oozing viscous fluid, and strange patterns that shimmered with a metallic luster, resembling integrated circuit boards.

"Body of God"? This is clearly a blasphemous, purely twisted monster forcibly created, a desecration of the name "God"!

Beneath the fleshy mass, connected by even larger and thicker pipes, it convulsed and throbbed wildly, like a ravenous python, drawing the last "nutrients" from all parts of the base—various contaminated biological tissues, energy residues, and even the life essence remaining after the previous "samples" were forcibly extracted—injecting them into the fleshy egg in an attempt to complete this blasphemous "birth."

The control platform was now completely empty. Only the sophisticated instrument screens continued to flash data frantically, and the bright red countdown numbers relentlessly ticked on the largest central screen:

78...77...76...

Self-destruct countdown, only a little over a minute left!

Qu Tong had indeed run away, leaving behind the soon-to-hatched monster and the doomed base as a "gift."

"Nie Lingfeng! That egg... inside..." Chen Duo also saw the monster inside the egg, her emerald eyes filled with extreme disgust and a trace of... instinctive fear. She could sense that once that thing was "born," it would be far more terrifying and far more "polluting" on this world than the "sample zero" that was chasing after them.

"We can't let it emerge," Nie Lingfeng said decisively. His gaze swept across the control panel, finding no switch to halt the self-destruct process or any data storage device. Qu Tong had indeed gone to great lengths. Therefore, only one objective remained—to completely destroy this soon-to-emerge "divine body" before the base self-destructed!

"Chen Duo, cover me! Don't let anything disturb me!" Nie Lingfeng said in a deep voice. At the same time, he no longer held back. The immense power within him, which had been fused with the three divine artifacts and was ready to be unleashed, erupted like a sleeping galaxy!

"roar--!!!"

The dark golden flames, even more intense and solid than when they burned Dong Cheng in the stairwell, surged skyward from his body with supreme majesty, capable of suppressing all heavens and burning away all evil! The flames instantly transformed into a burning, almost tangible, dark golden armor, covering his entire body. Behind him, a faint phantom of a Qilin roared to the sky, while faint phoenix shadows and dragon-shaped streams of light swirled around him! His hair stood on end without wind, each strand swirling with golden flames, and his eyes completely transformed into burning dark golden suns, their gaze causing even space to slightly distort!

The true form of the Qilin is unleashed! The power of fusion is unleashed without reservation!