Start with iron blocks, upgrade them into armor summoners.

The dark red mist churned rapidly, quickly repairing the wounds along with the dark red patterns on the body's surface.

Bloodhand frowned.

He grabbed the white shadow's tail, swung it hard, and smashed it into the wall next to him.

The white figure crashed through the wall, rolled a few times in the open space next door, then stood up, shook its head, and acted as if nothing had happened.

"Interesting." Bloodhand raised his head, his gaze passing over the white figure and landing on Xing Yun. "Kid, your stuff is pretty good."

Xing Yun remained silent.

He stared at the white figure, then glanced at the summoner in his hand.

Now that the summoner has been restored, he can't just sit idle.

A silver belt appeared around her waist, and the summoner slid into the card slot.

Rotate the key.

"Armor Combination!"

A tiger's roar exploded.

It wasn't the deep, resonant voice from before, but a more powerful and majestic tiger's roar, like a real white tiger howling.

The silver-white armor covered Xing Yun's body again, but it was different from before.

The tiger fang decorations on the breastplate are sharper, and the claw marks on the shoulder armor are clearer.

White Tiger Armor.

Xing Yun looked down at his hands and clenched his fists.

Not the same.

The power is different now.

He looked up at the bloody hand.

Bloodhand's expression finally changed.

"What is this thing? Are you trying to act out a tokusatsu drama with me...?"

Xing Yun did not answer.

He turned the key with his right hand again, then loosely grasped it, and silver light gathered in his palm.

I acquired the White Tiger Roaring Moon Blade, but the blade was half a foot longer than before, and the tiger head decoration on the back of the blade had eyes that shone with an icy blue light.

"That means you're destined to lose."

Xing Yun pushed off with his foot, creating a crater in the ground, and his whole body shot towards Blood Hand like a cannonball.

Bloodhand raised his hand to block, but the blade struck his arm, causing the dark red markings to tremble violently as a gash was cut open.

Black blood splattered.

Bloodhand screamed and took a few steps back.

He glanced down at the wound on his arm, his eyes turning ferocious.

"Good...very good..."

He pulled a palm-sized black disc from his pocket and slammed it to the ground.

Black smoke exploded, engulfing him completely.

When the smoke cleared, the bloody hand was gone.

Only a pool of dark red blood was left on the ground.

Zhou Hai ran over and glanced at the bloodstains on the ground: "He got away."

Xing Yun removed his armor, his legs went weak, and he almost knelt down again.

Zhou Hai helped him up: "Are you alright?"

"It's nothing." Xing Yun breathed a sigh of relief and put the summoner back into her bag.

A white figure stood before him, its massive body blocking half the light.

It lowered its head and nuzzled Xing Yun's shoulder.

The movements were very gentle, as if afraid of hurting him.

Then the white figure's body began to become transparent, turning into silvery-white light, and flew back into the summoner.

Li Rui ran over, rummaged through his waist bag, took out the treatment medicine, unscrewed the cap, and handed it to him.

Xing Yun thanked him, took the bag, and tilted his head back to drink it.

The cold liquid went down my throat, which calmed the churning in my stomach a little, but the injury in my shoulder still hurt.

Zhou Hai patted Xing Yun on the shoulder: "Let's go back to the station first."

He then turned to Li Rui and said, "Clean up the mess."

Li Rui nodded and took out a Dream Smoke Ball from his waist bag.

The boss was still huddled behind the stove, trembling with fear, his head in his hands.

The kitchen did not completely collapse, and the owner was fortunate enough to escape unscathed.

Several people from nearby houses peeked out, but Chen Wan stopped them all.

Zhou Hai helped Xing Yun walk outside.

Xing Yun paused as he passed the electric scooter.

"Can it still be driven?" Zhou Hai asked. "If it really can't, let's get in the car."

Xing Yun waved his hand and replied, "It's okay, I can still drive."

Zhou Hai glanced at him a few times but didn't say anything.

After Li Rui finished handling the matter, Xing Yun drove his electric car and followed Zhou Hai and his team's official vehicle towards the Administration Bureau.

The handlebars of the electric scooter are slightly bent, probably from when it was hit earlier, but it can still move.

However, with Xing Yun's superb driving skills, this was nothing.

soon.

Administration Bureau, -1st floor.

The lights in the corridor emitted a steady white light.

Xing Yun followed behind Zhou Hai, her steps unsteady, still recovering from the blow she had received.

Li Rui walked at the very back, the screen of the energy detector in his hand still displaying data.

"We've arrived." Zhou Hai pushed open the conference room door.

Inside was a long table, several chairs, a huge screen on the wall, and several photos attached to it with magnets.

Stone pillars, runes, factory ruins, and several other scenes that Xing Yun had never seen before, resembling the site of an abandoned warehouse.

"Sit down." Zhou Hai pulled out a chair and gestured for Xing Yun to sit down. Then he took a glass of water from the water dispenser in the corner and placed it in front of him.

Chen Wan peeked in from the doorway, holding a small medical kit: "Captain, please treat the wound first."

"Put it on the table first," Zhou Hai said, then looked at Li Rui, "How's the data?"

Li Rui connected the detector to the display screen, and a few seconds later, a dense array of curves and numbers appeared on the screen.

"Bloodhand's energy level..." He pushed up his glasses, "...fluctuates between C+ and B-, depending on his condition. But there's something strange."

"What?" Zhou Hai asked.

Li Rui pulled up another set of data: "His energy waveform is quite different from that of ordinary Awakened Ones. The energy fluctuations of Awakened Ones are continuous, regular like a heartbeat. But Bloodhand's..."

A jagged waveform appeared on the screen, intermittent, as if it had been interfered with by something.

"His energy is intermittent, with large gaps in between." Li Rui frowned. "Either his ability itself is unstable, or..."

"What do you want?" Chen Wan asked.

"Either he wasn't an Awakened to begin with," Li Rui's voice lowered, "he was forcibly brought to life by the Bone of Walderley or something else."

The meeting room fell silent for a moment.

Zhou Hai didn't say anything, but just put the unlit cigarette in his mouth and chewed it a few times.

Xing Yun sat down beside him, his gaze sweeping over the photos on the wall. Among the photos he hadn't seen before, there was one of huge runes on the ground, very similar to those in the factory, but several times larger.

"What is this?" he asked.

Zhou Hai followed his gaze and said, "It was found last week in an abandoned warehouse in the east of the city. The scale of the sacrificial array set up by the church is five times that of the one at your factory. By the time we discovered it, dozens of people were already missing."

"Dead?" Xing Yun asked.

Zhou Hai didn't answer; he simply took the cigarette out of his mouth and twirled it between his fingers.

Silence is the answer.

"Bloody Hand didn't come here just for that bone," Zhou Hai steered the conversation back on track. "He's testing us."

"What are you testing?" Chen Wan asked.

"Testing our reaction speed, testing the defense strength of S City, contacting you is just to lure us out." He glanced at Xing Yun.