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Chapter 1367: Chapter 1369: Aftereffects Chapter 1367: Chapter 1369: Aftereffects “`
A cornered beast still puts up a fight. The mutated crocodile-like creature, with no way out, became crazed. Its body swelled up once more, leapt high into the air, and with the force of a crashing mountain, pounced towards Song Jian.

At this moment, Song Jian was in a bloodthirsty state; both his attack and movement speed had substantially increased. Seeing the mutated crocodile-like creature fighting desperately, he knew its strength was formidable and had no intention of clashing with it head-on. He stepped askew, shifting over three meters to the side, and his Sky-breaking Sword stabbed at an eerie angle towards the creature’s ribs.

Boom!

The mutated crocodile-like creature brought its hands together and hammered down fiercely on the spot where Song Jian had been standing, instantly denting the metal floor and creating a large pit. Radiating cracks spread out from the edge of the pit across the surrounding area.

Seeing this, Song Jian was not alarmed but instead delighted. The mutated crocodile-like creature’s strength was terrifying indeed, but its agility seemed average. Moreover, as its body ballooned, its strength increased but at the expense of its agility, which seemed to have taken a further hit. At this point, its attack speed and movement speed were weaker than those of a typical sovereign-class BOSS.

“Sacrificing agility for strength is the dumbest move I’ve ever seen!” A mocking smile appeared on Song Jian’s face as he thrust his Sky-breaking Sword viciously into the mutated crocodile-like creature’s ribs.

Song Jian could clearly feel the Sky-breaking Sword meet with slight resistance before smoothly penetrating the creature’s body. It seemed that its defenses had also severely decreased with the expansion of its body.

In reality, these changes in the mutated crocodile-like creature weren’t its own doing but the result of mutations from repeated experiments. Such transformations had once thrilled the researchers, and that was one of the reasons why the mutated crocodile-like creature had survived among many experimental beasts–it was one of the underground facility researchers’ prouder creations.

However, what these researchers didn’t understand was that while such a change was a novel discovery at the cellular structure level, it was actually counterproductive in terms of combat capability. Sacrificing speed and defense for an increase in strength only turned the mutated crocodile-like creature into a punching bag in Song Jian’s eyes, and this punching bag didn’t seem too resilient.

Song Jian’s speed was already a bit higher than that of the mutated crocodile-like creature’s, and after invoking his bloodthirsty state, he completely overwhelmed it in terms of speed. The mutated crocodile-like creature was like a strong man who could never find his target, wildly swinging its fists at the air while Song Jian repeatedly stabbed the Sky-breaking Sword into its body.

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With every attack, Song Jian took away tens of thousands of its Vitality Points, yet his own Vitality Points did not change in the slightest. Instead, with each attack in his bloodthirsty state, he drew a trace of vitality from the mutated crocodile-like creature. This vitality was meant to recover his lost Vitality Points, but now, with no damage to his own, the absorbed vitality accumulated within him. Eventually, this unspent force of vitality began to assault Song Jian’s sea of consciousness, putting him into an extremely excited state.

As more and more vitality was absorbed, the initially pleasant feeling of exhilaration gradually turned into madness.

“Haha, I’ll kill you, kill you!” Song Jian began to laugh maniacally, swinging the Sky-breaking Sword wildly, no longer using the precise sword techniques from before. Instead, he resembled an ignorant brute, wielding the sword solely based on instinct and strength.

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Thud!

The mutated crocodile creature appeared to have noticed something off about Song Jian, and threw a punch towards his head. Had it been the start of the battle, Song Jian could have easily dodged this punch, but now, he was in a state of intense excitement, and his mind had begun to lose control over his body. While his mind told him to dodge, his body was a fraction of a second too slow.

The punch was meant for Song Jian’s head but, because he had managed to dodge slightly, the mutated crocodile’s fist ruthlessly struck Song Jian’s shoulder instead.

Crack, crack~
A series of bone fractures sounded from Song Jian’s shoulder, the intense pain prompting a muffled groan from him. His entire body was sent flying like a ball out of play.

All the Vitality that he had accumulated inside his body rushed towards his injured shoulder. A scorching sensation rose from the wound, growing hotter and hotter until it felt as if a red-hot iron was searing the flesh.

When Song Jian pulled open his closes to inspect, the wound was a fiery red, and the bones that had been broken now seemed to be forcefully knit together by some invisible hands. The pain of healing was no less severe than that of the fracture, causing cold sweat to form on Song Jian’s forehead.

A moment later, the Vitality Points within Song Jian had been completely depleted, but the injury on his shoulder had largely healed. Recalling the previous experience of the backlash of Vitality into his mind made him shudder with fear.

Yet, the extreme mental exhilaration and pleasure he felt as the Vitality surged into his mind were addictive, leaving Song Jian with an urge to experience it once again.

“Damn it, this skill is toxic!” Song Jian’s face immediately took on a troubled look, now feeling an urge to pluck out the talisman made from the Eyes of the Fearsome Wolf!

“I was careless!” Song Jian sighed, feeling the Vitality within him slowly fade, and took out a healing potion from his inventory, which he then drank down.

By this time, the thirty seconds had passed, and the bloodthirsty state had faded away. The mutated crocodile’s Vitality Points were about half remaining, which highlighted the sheer power of the bloodthirst ability. In just thirty seconds, it had reduced the creature’s nearly ten million Vitality Points by half. However, the memory of the Vitality backlash into his brain that had driven him to madness was still terrifyingly fresh.

“I’ll only use this skill when absolutely necessary from now on!” Song Jian sighed again.

With a thought, more than fifty Spirit Swords manifested around him. Though using the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Sword Formation in such a cramped space was risky, summoning dozens of controllable Spirit Swords to aid in the attack was still feasible.

Seeing the dozens of Spirit Swords, each burning with dark red flames, float around Song Jian, the mutated crocodile’s face suddenly took on a grave expression, sensing the threat emanating from the blades.

“Die!” With a low shout from Song Jian, he charged towards the mutated crocodile like lightning, and the surrounding Spirit Swords screeched through the air, flying towards the creature.

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