While I was chanting a curse, the system said I was Xiao Yan?

The blade energy, carrying pink flames, resembled a crescent moon magnified dozens of times, tearing through the air and the room, leaving a blinding trail of pink light.

The real person's eyes widened in that instant. It sensed the pink flames attached to the blade aura, the same aura that Hua Yu had described as "like poison to cursed spirits."

Its reaction was extremely fast. When the blade energy was less than two meters away from it, it opened its mouth and spat out a grayish-white thing from the cavity deep in its throat. The little thing, about the size of a thumb, began to expand in the air and turned into a cyborg more than two meters tall before landing.

The cyborg crossed his arms in front of him, and his gray bone carapace formed a thick shield in front of him, trying to block the blade's energy.

"laugh!"

The blade energy cleaved into the cyborg's carapace, producing only a dull cutting sound without an explosion.

Its carapace was like paper in front of the Flame Devouring Wave Ruler. The blade energy cut into its arms and split its body in two.

The cut was charred black, with pink flames burning at the edges. The dark purple liquid was burned away before it could even gush out, turning into a foul-smelling mist.

The real person jumped out of the window, and while in the air, its hand retracted half a beat too late. The aftershock of the blade's energy grazed its fingertips, and pink flames, like a living snake, spread from its fingertips, climbing up its finger bones to its palm, burning its skin and the body beneath it that was made of cursed power.

The real person stood outside, tilted his head, looked at the cluster of pink flames, raised an eyebrow thoughtfully, and then held his hand up to his eyes, as if observing an interesting specimen.

"Oh, so this is the one Hanami was talking about."

The next second, its right hand suddenly swelled up, like an inflated balloon, its skin stretched to translucent, revealing white, cracked lines, and then...

"Bang!"

With a muffled thud, the right hand exploded from the wrist, scattering bits of flesh and bone everywhere. The fragments, still tinged with the powdery embers, burned to ashes in the air and fell to the ground with a faint hissing sound.

Fine granulation tissue sprouted from the severed wrist, and nerves, blood vessels, and bones regrowed at a visible speed, coalescing into an identical hand in less than a second.

The real person moved the newborn's fingers a few times, as if to make sure that every joint was working properly, then looked up at Tianyan, and the smile on his lips became even brighter.

"Is this what they call 'the poison of the cursed spirit'?"

Its voice carried an barely suppressed smugness: "It seems... it's not such a big deal after all."

Tianyan's pupils contracted slightly.

He could sense that the real person was telling the truth.

The intensity of its soul fire remained almost unchanged in Tianyan's perception. The burning of the pink fire did cause a slight fluctuation in its soul, but the real person, by self-destructing the part of their body that was tainted by the pink fire, also peeled away that small fragment of soul. This loss did not cause any substantial damage to its true core, that enormous soul.

As for the abandoned palm, its technique of effortless transformation is based on the soul. As long as the soul is intact, the body can be infinitely reshaped.

Tianyan landed on the ground as well, his gaze fixed on the real person.

"My attack... was effective, but not strong enough."

The moment the thought took root in his mind, the two cyborgs pounced on him.

At the same time, the real person's body also rushed forward, its two arms stretched out and meandered along the ground, like a snake lurking in the grass, silently sliding towards Tianyan's ankle.

Three attacks simultaneously approached Tianyan from three different directions!

Tianyan's body bounced backward, creating distance, and the Xuanzhong Ruler was placed horizontally to his side, blocking the first modified human's fist.

The scale-like body collided with the carapace, producing a dull thud. The force propelled his body, carving a furrow in the ground. However, he maintained his forward-leaning posture, and the bone blade on his right elbow sprang out, slashing towards the second cyborg's knee.

The bone blade sliced ​​into the gap in the carapace, and dark red liquid spurted out. The second cyborg's knees buckled, and it knelt down on one knee.

The real man didn't give him a chance to catch his breath; a hand was already reaching out in front of him.

His palm was covered with a pale purple aura of magical energy. The light was dim and viscous, and just getting close to it could trigger a severe alarm in Tianyan's soul perception.

Once that palm print touches his body, the spell will directly affect his soul, and he will be molded into any shape by the real person, like clay.

Tianyan's body twisted in the air, the Xuanzhong Ruler held horizontally in front of him, blocking the real person's grab. The moment the ruler made contact with the real person's palm, a dull metallic clang was heard.

"Tsk."

The real man clicked his tongue in a cryptic way, then braced his hand against the ruler and used the force to bounce backward.

But instead of retreating, it landed behind Tianyan, touched the ground with its toes, and pounced again.

This time, its movements were more agile than before. Its arm extended forward at an angle that defied human anatomy, like a stretched rubber band, bypassing Tianyan's block and heading straight for his neck.

Tianyan felt a cold wind behind him, and his body instinctively sank down. The elongated arm swept over his head, the fingertips brushing against the ends of his hair.

"You reacted quickly." The real person's voice came from behind, tinged with laughter.

Tianyan didn't reply. He twisted his waist and turned around, then slammed his right elbow upwards, striking Zhenren's chest precisely.

The Eight Extremes Collapse!

"Bang!"

The sound was dull, like hitting a thick piece of rubber. The real person leaned back slightly, but the smile on its face remained unchanged.

"it's useless!"

The real man grinned maliciously: "Hitting my body...it's completely useless!"

As it spoke, it reached out its right hand again, fingers spread, aiming straight for Tianyan's head. This time, its speed was extremely fast, and Tianyan didn't even have time to dodge, but he didn't need to dodge either.

His magical power surged within his body, rising from his neck upwards. Black iron-colored bone armor spread from his collarbone, enveloping his jaw, cheeks, back of his head, and top of his head, instantly covering his entire head with a thick layer of bone armor.

"Snapped!"

The sound was crisp and clear. The moment the real person's fingertips touched the bone armor, its smile was still on its face, but it already sensed something was wrong. The information fed back by the touch was incorrect; the sensation in its hand was not a soul, but bone!

Its technique of non-action transformation requires direct contact with the flesh of a living being to affect the soul. Bone armor, on the other hand, is a bone hyperplasia formed purely from incantation power, equivalent to a thick layer of armor, which isolates the real person's palm from any direct physical contact between the skin of the Heavenly Flame and the real person's palm.

The real person's lips froze.

"My technique... why...?"

A sharp pain shot through its hand as two sharp bone spurs pierced through the sides of the Yaksha bone, precisely penetrating its palm. The pale white bone tips dripped with purplish-black liquid.

"you......"

It looked at the figure in front of it whose head was completely covered by bone armor, and for the first time, a hint of 'surprise' appeared in its eyes.

Tianyan didn't give it time to react.

His right fist slammed out from below, striking precisely the dent in the real man's chest, the exact spot where his Eight Extremes Collapse Elbow Strike had left its mark.

The real person's body suddenly stiffened.

Then, it sensed it.

It was a delayed-triggered device, as if someone had first inserted a fuse into it, then stepped back a few paces, and only lit it at this moment.

The hidden force of the Eight Extremes Collapse exploded inside the real person's chest, spreading along the path of his bones, muscles, and the flow of incantation power, and then...

A black lightning bolt exploded from the point of contact, instantly turning everything around into black and white.

Black Flash!

"Snap!"

The black lightning exploded the moment the fist made contact with flesh, drawing a twisted arc across the empty road and illuminating the walls of the surrounding residential buildings for a moment, causing the houses to tremble in the shockwave.

The real creature's eyes widened, its body arched violently, and a muffled sound, like someone being choked, came from deep in its throat. Dark purple blood gushed from its mouth and nose, tracing an arc in the air.

Tianyan could sense a significant fluctuation in the massive and chaotic soul fire of the True Person, as if someone had poured a cup of water on it, causing the flame to immediately wilt!

The real person's body flew backward, crashing through the wall, sending rubble and dust flying across the road.

The heatwave didn't stop.

He took a burst of speed, his foot creating a shockwave on the ground, and his body shot out from the hole in the wall, like a shooting star, catching up with the real person who was still tumbling in the air.

The second punch!

Black Flash!

"Snap!"

The real person's body fell from the sky and crashed onto the asphalt road. The shockwave sent the road debris flying in all directions, blasting a crater about seven or eight meters in diameter. The real person lay in the center of the crater, sprawled out, with purplish-black blood gushing from its mouth, nose, ears, and the corners of its eyes, forming a distorted, purplish-black mask on its face.

Tianyan swooped down from the sky, his third punch already fully charged.

The real person lay in the pit, and for the first time, something akin to fear appeared in those eyes that had originally held a mocking and cruel quality. The soul fire within its body had been shattered by more than half.

The third punch!

Black Flash!

"Snap!"

That sound was more muffled than the previous two. The moment the fist struck the real man's chest, the black lightning exploded in a larger and brighter area than before, illuminating the entire street.

The moment the real person's body was struck by the third black flash, its entire body stiffened abruptly, its limbs twitched, and its mouth opened to its widest extent, but no sound came out. Only a large amount of dark purple liquid gushed out of its throat like a burst dam, splashing onto the ground and corroding the floor into tiny pits.

The real person rolled its eyes; its soul strength had dropped to a dangerous critical point!

If it happens one or two more times, it will really be in danger!

As Zhenren looked at Tianyan's raised fist again, a genuine, undisguised fear appeared on his face for the first time.

But soon, the fear was replaced by something even more insane, and the real man's mouth stretched open again, revealing a twisted smile!

"You...can indeed... hurt me..."

Its voice was hoarse, as if squeezed from deep within its throat: "But I also want to thank you, because thanks to you, I've finally mastered it!"

His mouth opened, and his jaw collapsed downwards at an angle beyond normal physiological limits, revealing the grayish-white cavity.

Deep within the cavity, four pale little hands emerged. They quickly formed hand seals in the air, their fingertips tracing the void and leaving behind faint purple afterimages.

In that instant, an immense and suffocating magical power surged from the real person's body, spreading outwards in all directions from its center.

"Domain Expansion!"

The voice of a real person echoed out, as if it were coming from all directions at the same time.

"Self-isolated and oblivious!"

In that instant, Tianyan felt as if he had entered a black space. The street disappeared, and the gravel, signs, and asphalt road were all erased in the blink of an eye.

Behind the real person appeared countless enormous hands, grasping each other and blooming like flowers!

The space behind Tianyan was also sealed off by countless interlocking arms. Feeling the invisible pressure all around, he activated the Simple Domain!

A ring of transparent light spread outward from his body, isolating the invisible "sure hit" effect. In the gray-white space, the light was like a floating firefly, surrounded by countless extending paths.

Countless hands emerged from those paths; they were translucent, as if emerging from beneath the water, with fingertips gleaming with a pale purple light, and each one struck towards Tianyan at the same instant.

They stopped when they came into contact with the faint light of the simple field. The thin film of light acted like an invisible wall, blocking the hands from the outside. They frantically slapped, scratched, and tore, making a dense sound like raindrops hitting glass.

A real person's voice came from the center of the flower formed by the palm: "Simplified Domain? You've learned something from the New Yin Flow. I know that stuff; it can block my guaranteed hit effect, but how long can you last?"

Its voice carried a confident joy: "One minute? Or..."

The real person raised his hands again, his ten fingers spread, and the pale purple light flowed around his fingertips. The palms on the path began to move faster, surging towards the sky from all directions.

Tianyan's simple domain trembled violently under the impact of those palms. After each tremor, the faint light would approach Tianyan's body, which meant that the simple domain was being eroded and could not withstand the domain of a true person!

The moment the simplified domain is breached is the moment when the real person's technique takes effect on Tianyan's soul!

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The real person, watching the simple domain stubbornly clinging on like a candle in the wind, laughed wildly: "Keep it up! I'll be heartbroken if you die like this!"

"You've caused me so much trouble, I'll probably remember you forever!"

The real person looked regretful, then instantly changed their expression: "Just kidding!"

"Even if you die, I'll make sure no one remembers you!"

Tianyan coldly observed the live performance, then revealed a smile.

"You really like opening champagne?"

He crossed his arms in front of him, and a green cage appeared around him, enveloping him!

Mixu Gelong!