A Top Scholar in Everything-Chapter 827 - 813: Stone Coffin

The Beast Puppet had never experienced anything like this, initially still in battle, now suddenly transformed into this state.

The deep dark surroundings seemed ready to swallow one whole.

The sound of footsteps echoed like the tolling of death, unsettling the mind.

The Beast Puppet looked behind him.

A ghostly figure cloaked in darkness began approaching him, though its pace was slow, each step resounded like drums, as if stomping on his heart.

The Beast Puppet, faced with such a situation, couldn't help but retract into his shell.

This shell was actually a specific genetic mutation resulting from his acquired genetic ability, possessing an extremely strong defense capability. Although it looked somewhat ugly, its practical value was exceptionally high.

The method he could think of at this moment was to retreat into his shell.

After leaving his army of corpses and leaving the stitched flesh monster behind, the methods he could use were very few. Now, being in an unfamiliar environment, there was even less he could do.

Retreating into his shell, he looked through the gaps and saw that the outer world was completely dark.

In an instant.

A pair of crimson eyes appeared outside the shell, glaring through the gaps at him, nearly jolting the Beast Puppet into an uncontrolled scream.

Soon after, streams of black smoke emerged, began drilling into the shell.

The Beast Puppet wanted to cry for help, beg for mercy, but no sound came from his mouth; he wanted to strike back, but had no means to start. As time passed, his life force gradually ebbed away, a sense of powerlessness crept into his heart.

He couldn't even see Baiyu's figure.

After several tens of seconds.

The Beast Puppet finally lost his breath entirely, his stiff corpse fell into the dark space, without a single wound on his body.

"Thud..."

Behind the enormous stitched flesh monster, the Beast Puppet's body fell without any warning. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

For a moment, Aphel and the others were dumbfounded, unaware of what exactly happened.

The three struggled under the attack of the stitched flesh monster, seeing Baiyu and the Beast Puppet facing each other motionless, urgently worried. Then suddenly, the Beast Puppet crumbled down. Happiness came too unexpectedly.

Baiyu took a deep look at the Beast Puppet on the ground, the Black Moon Mark on his arm gradually faded, hiding back under the skin. The power of the Black Moon was indeed useful, but the more it was used, the more one got tangled with the Black Moon.

This wasn't a good thing.

Faced with such a mad Evil God, Baiyu always felt it was better to remain distant and respectful, for sinking too deep would surely lead to self-defeat someday.

With the Beast Puppet's death, those corpses around suddenly halted, all stood motionless like logs, with no plans for further actions, appearing as mere puppets without their leader.

The only trouble was the stitched flesh monster, which wasn't affected even after the Beast Puppet's death, instead becoming more frenzied, attacking the four madly.

But without subsequent corpses joining.

Once injured, it would suffer irreversible damage, unable to resurrect like before. A monster that couldn't recover, albeit strong, struggled to last long under the four's attack. As waves of strikes landed on it, the terrifying body of the stitched flesh monster collapsed thunderously, turning into a sky full of blood mist.

Aphel took a deep breath: "Finally over. The Beast Puppet, is it really dead? How did you kill it?"

Vina and Wang Shenghua looked over.

They too were curious how Baiyu managed to slay the Beast Puppet; its sudden death with no forewarning raised subconscious worry.

"Extract his ability, quickly. You do have Genetic Essence, right?"

Baiyu looked at Aphel.

The other hesitated for a moment, but thinking of the increasingly terrifying Baiyu, she gritted her teeth and said, "I still have one in stock, but this is the last one!"

When extracting genetic ability, if absorbed and used by oneself, Genetic Essence wasn't necessary. But for extraction and preservation, Genetic Essence was required, making it usable for others.

This essence, for Geling Company, was also a precious commodity, costly to produce. The amount she brought along was already limited.

...

"What did he use just now? In theory, that gene mutant had already reached the edge of Level Two, and his ability was quite special, he shouldn't have died so silently."

In front of the mirror.

With hair tied into two small braids, wearing a black long dress, an adorably looking girl curiously asked.

Her eyes were blue, like stars shining.

Apart from her, the others evidently didn't see clearly Baiyu's maneuver earlier.

"Amy, if you're so curious, why not ask Loloya, she surely knows," someone beside said.

Everyone's gaze turned to Loloya.

However, Loloya arrogantly flicked her hair, raised her head and said: "Of course I know, but why should I tell you? Hmph, if you can't tell, that's your problem."

The crowd was infuriated.

But had no choice.

The words were thus spoken, but Loloya still wondered quietly in her heart, what exactly happened. She didn't discern any clues in the scene just now.

It seems.

This Baiyu kid, has a lot of issues, needs to be cautious.

...

Glug glug.

Baiyu shook the ochre potion in his hand, the genetic elixir extracted by Aphel from the Beast Puppet meant for puppet manipulation.

He placed the genetic potion into the box previously acquired from the Sand King.

After that.

The four turned their gaze back to the mountain cave. Inside lies the real treasure, the Genetic Primordial, based on Aphel's plan, she aims to thoroughly absorb the Genetic Primordial's power this time.

The four carefully stepped into the mountain cave.

Within the pitch-black cave, there wasn't any light, but fortunately, Vina took out a prepared flashlight from inside her coat, illuminating the way for the four.

The cave was filled with stalactites, water droplets constantly fell from the tips of the stalagmites, splashing on the ground with a dripping sound. In the cave resided many bats, along with various small animals. The four advanced without encountering any issues.

After proceeding for some time.

Suddenly, the narrow cave tunnel opened up, ahead lay a vast underground plaza, cylindrical in shape, with four supporting columns, each adorned with bioluminescent symbols shining faint blue.

On these four columns, from each column emerged a faint blue chain, binding the stone coffin in the center.

"This is the place."

Aphel's eyes showed a wavering.