"Huff! Huff! Huff!" Pei Yan looked at Liang Guangsheng, who had been blasted a hundred meters away by the artillery shell and lay on the ground with a loud crash, gasping heavily.

Is this a Tier Six Awakened? Even severely injured, with their internal energy supply cut off by him, they could still hold on for so long under a series of attacks. Looking back at his colleagues beside him, almost everyone had wounds, but their faces showed no signs of remorse, all brimming with the excitement of vindication.

"Too risky! We can't do this again next time!" Shangxing, having returned to normal, stepped forward and patted Pei Yan on the shoulder, cautioning him. When he first heard Pei Yan's plan from the nanobots in his ears at the start of the battle, he was opposed. But faced with the unanimous decision of the team! He still chose to trust everyone and reported to their superiors. If they truly weren't a match for Liang Guangsheng, someone would come in to replace them with just one signal.

Even so, in the battlefield where blades and swords look blind, anything could happen, so everyone was prepared to fight to the death. They gambled on this life-or-death battle, and they won!

"Hmm!" Pei Yan deactivated the turret mode, rubbing his shoulder, responding with lingering anxiety as he closed his eyes.

"Ha!" At that moment, Liang Guangsheng, who appeared motionless on the ground, suddenly raised his arm, and a sharp blade whistled out, shooting straight at Pei Yan.

Flashes of blood appeared as more than a dozen pitch-black eels were sliced into several pieces by the blade, slicing through Zhao Yuanhu's clothes.

"Boom!" The fully mechanized Pei Yan vanished from his original spot in an instant!

"Object control!" Facing Pei Yan, who had transformed into lightning speed, Liang Guangsheng clenched his fist, but the scene he imagined of Pei Yan being controlled by him did not occur. At the moment he clenched his fist, Pei Yan deactivated the mechanization, forcibly using his flesh to propel himself like lightning, leaping behind Liang Guangsheng in a single bound, and slapped the top of Liang Guangsheng's head with his palm.

Prepared to continue resisting, as Liang Guangsheng felt Pei Yan's palm press against him, he felt the limited internal energy within him stop flowing, firmly locking him in place!

This was one of the three methods of using the origin that the mysterious girl taught him that night: sealing, transformation, confinement! This was not an ability that all holders of origin fragments could possess; only those recognized by the origin's essence could wield it.

Sealing involved injecting a layer of origin membrane into the enemy's body, secretly blocking the connection between internal energy and the alternate plane. If the opponent realized it early, they could still use internal energy to break the seal. Once too much time passed, it would be irreversible, and they would have to wait for the origin membrane and internal energy to exhaust each other and dissipate.

For this reason, Pei Yan dared not completely block Liang Guangsheng's internal energy supply initially, leaving a trickle to slowly seep through. By the time Liang Guangsheng realized something was wrong, it was too late.

Transformation fundamentally changed someone's internal energy into origin energy; it was not about absorbing the origin fragment, but an intrinsic transformation allowing them to draw strength from the real world. At that point, using power from one's own world would qualitatively enhance the transformed person's strength.

Confinement was the most difficult to perform. Currently, Pei Yan couldn't easily imprison a person's internal energy as the mysterious girl could with just a gesture. He needed physical contact, and if that person's awakening level and internal energy reservoir were far above his, the confinement effect would diminish.

If it weren't for Liang Guangsheng's near-depleted internal energy at this moment, Pei Yan's actions would be almost suicidal.

"Who are you? What did you do to me!" Liang Guangsheng, whose steel-like exterior gradually disappeared, returning to flesh, swung an elbow at Pei Yan behind him, his voice trembling without the protection of abilities.

Letting the opponent strike him, Pei Yan's hand tightly grasped a tuft of red hair, refusing to let go, and shouted towards the distance, "Jiumu!"

"Here! Buli!" With a murderous aura, Ye Jiumu leapt over, and Xue Buli, who was kneeling on the ground, conjured a sharp wooden knife in her hand and tossed it to Ye Jiumu.

On the other side, Xiayu stepped up, twisted, and stretched Liang Guangsheng's arm, pinning it straight amid his roars!

Liang Guangsheng shook his shoulders, glaring at Ye Jiumu, whose eyes were red as she approached, screaming, "What are you trying to do!"

"An eye for an eye!" Ye Jiumu squeezed out these words through gritted teeth, then raised the wooden knife high and struck downwards!

Despite being a wooden knife, it had its limits. After slashing open a large gash on Liang Guangsheng's shoulder, the knife got stuck in the bone seam and couldn't cut further.

Firmly pinned, Liang Guangsheng now wished for death rather than life. He longed for the opponent to chop off his arm directly in one strike; now it was like a dull knife slicing flesh. As the wooden knife sawed back and forth through his muscles and bone seam, intense pain had his eyes ablaze, with sweat pouring off him.

"Smash it!" Pei Yan viciously whispered, gripping Liang Guangsheng's hair.

Without another word, Xiayu raised her fist and pounded the body of Ye Jiumu's wooden knife repeatedly. As it shattered, Jiang Feiyang, who had come over, silently handed over another one, the entire process lasting nearly three minutes! Liang Guangsheng's right arm was thus forcibly broken with a wooden knife hammer.

The bowl-sized wound continued to seep blood outward, scattered with fragments of flesh and wood. Ye Jiumu picked up the deformed broken arm with a cold smile, displaying it to Liang Guangsheng: "Your bones are really tough, huh!" Finished, she tossed it into the air, and with a snap of Liang Qian's fingers, the arm exploded into pieces in front of Liang Guangsheng.

"Is that it? Continue! If there's no new trick, then give me a quick death!" Liang Guangsheng, pulled to look high into the air, stared into Ye Jiumu's eyes, showing disdain and unwilling weak derision.

Just as Pei Yan was about to fulfill the opponent's wish by snapping his neck, Shangxing, who had been watching silently, stopped him: "Spare his life; he is a Tier Six Awakened! He can be useful to us in the future. Pei Yan, you should understand what I mean!"

Pei Yan's gradually tightening arms stopped upon hearing this, contemplated for a long time, and seeing Xiayu and others nodding in agreement, he didn't persist further. They secured Liang Guangsheng's neck, legs, and left arm with a dozen confinement rings, essentially binding him like a dumpling.

After completing all this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, sitting on the ground, panting heavily! Pei Yan then slowly approached Zhao Yuanhu, who was sitting alone, and the rest sensibly averted their gaze.

"Are you hurt?" Pei Yan squatted down, scratching his head, asking with forced composure.

Zhao Yuanhu turned her head to the side, sighing, "You saw it, didn't you?"

Pei Yan didn't know how to respond. At the moment the blade cut through her long sleeve, he indeed saw it; normally smooth, white jade-like arms now grotesquely covered with densely packed circular mouths of Seven-gilled Eels, from which eels continuously emerged to protect their master.

Should he say he saw it, or not? It was a question even the system couldn't answer.