Under Su Ze’s sustained electrical assault, the Pope was already charred black, but he continued to rip off pieces of his own fatty flesh and hurl them at Su Ze.
Su Ze was instantly bombarded by countless pieces of flesh.
These chunks of flesh had two effects: self-destruction and "blood-sucking."
The giant hammer in Su Ze’s hand transformed into countless "tentacles" that continuously snatched the pieces of flesh approaching him. As soon as one was caught, he would channel electricity through it, obliterating the flesh.
Su Ze discovered that each piece of flesh seemed to be alive. For every piece he destroyed, his Bloodthirsty skill returned a portion of flesh-and-blood energy, and the skill’s duration was extended.
Beyond that, the Bloodthirsty skill also extracted a portion of a white, advanced energy from the pieces of flesh!
This advanced energy was used to increase Spiritual Power. Su Ze had extracted it before when he killed several Venerable Powerhouses from the Evolution Divine Teachings.
He had never been sure if this white energy could only be extracted from Venerable Powerhouses in general, or if it was exclusive to those from the Evolution Divine Teachings.
Now, he was finally certain. The white energy was clearly connected to the Evolution Divine Teachings.
He hadn’t extracted any white energy when he killed Venerables from the Lin Hua Continent and the Filth Earth Organization, yet he was extracting it now just by destroying a few pieces of the Pope’s flesh.
BOOM!
The Pope, who had been enduring the relentless electrical assault, actually self-destructed!
He shattered into countless minuscule flecks of flesh, each one like a tiny grain of sand. The innumerable pieces surged toward Su Ze like a sandstorm.
The weapon-seed in Su Ze’s hand immediately morphed into a massive shield, protecting him.
Explosions rang out continuously against the outside of the shield—it was the pieces of flesh self-destructing.
The force of a single fleck of flesh exploding was negligible to Su Ze, but with countless pieces detonating at once, their power compounded. Even a shield forged from a Tier-6 marvel could barely withstand the assault.
A tiny crack was blasted into the shield.
But that single crack was all the opening the other pieces of flesh needed!
The storm of flesh poured through the crack, howling as it swarmed Su Ze. The particles burrowed into his body, treating his liquid form as fertile soil to grow in and a source of energy to draw from.
Particle by particle, the bits of flesh devoured Su Ze’s body and began to grow.
Before long, they had grown into palm-sized "Popes."
Miniature, bald, fat Popes appeared all around Su Ze. The smallest were only the size of a palm, while the largest had already grown to the size of an infant.
They were still devouring, still absorbing, still growing.
There were tens of thousands of them!
’Fuck, Pope, you sick freak! Can’t you use some powers that aren’t so goddamn grotesque!’
Su Ze stared at the teeming ring of miniature, bald, fat Popes, feeling a sense of bizarre horror. It made his skin crawl.
It was enough to trigger his trypophobia.
Even his over-three-hundred-meter-tall giant form couldn’t withstand being devoured by this swarm of "giant infants." It was a classic case of ants bringing down an elephant.
"All of you, just fucking die!"
Enraged, Su Ze abandoned his humanoid form. His body spread out, transforming into a raging torrent.
Instead of avoiding the teeming swarm of "Popes," he surged forward to meet them. As a churning, furious wave, he engulfed all the miniature Popes, pulling them inside himself.
"Detonate!"
Without a moment’s hesitation, Su Ze detonated his own body!
He had always carried a Tier-5 Self-Destructive Seed within his body.
His body was hundreds of meters tall, his physical strength rivaled that of a legendary powerhouse, and the amplification from Bloodthirsty was almost maxed out. The power of his self-destruction at this moment was unimaginable!
Even from ten thousand meters up in the sky, the explosion caused the very ground to shake and the mountains to tremble.
A massive mushroom cloud shot into the sky, and the shockwave ripped out in all directions.
The blast was so powerful that even the two legendary powerhouses, Deng Sui and Pulamon, had to stop their fight and focus all their energy on withstanding the aftershock.
In an instant, the clouds for hundreds of miles around were completely vaporized. The sky was empty save for the mushroom cloud; even the sun itself seemed to dim.
The tens of thousands of miniature Popes were annihilated in the massive explosion.
As for Su Ze... the Self-Destructive Seed had a built-in "head preservation" mechanism. However, since he was in his liquid form and had no head, it preserved a portion of his liquid body instead.
The self-destruction cost Su Ze dearly, leaving him severely wounded. His head felt like it was splitting apart, and he had lost over ninety-nine percent of his body.
Fortunately, he had deactivated his Unyielding Will skill before detonating, so the damage to his soul was not as severe as the damage to his body.
Without hesitation, he shattered the Regeneration Core!
The next moment, a surging tide of life energy helped him reform his body.
Su Ze returned to a body of flesh and blood, but he was only a little over 1.8 meters tall, a far cry from his previous height of several hundred meters.
The life energy from the Regeneration Core was only enough to reform Su Ze’s body; it was insufficient to restore him to the peak state he was in before self-destructing.
After all, he had previously absorbed the flesh-and-blood energy of several Venerable Powerhouses to amass that level of power.
Although his Bloodthirsty skill was still active, a single Regeneration Core was not enough to bring him back to his peak.
But just then, a tide of flesh-and-blood energy, so vast it defied his imagination, surged into Su Ze’s body!
’Is this... the flesh-and-blood energy from killing the Pope?
’There’s so much of it. As expected of a legendary powerhouse!’
Su Ze unhesitatingly absorbed the vast flesh-and-blood energy. The next moment, his body swelled dramatically, and he returned to his peak!
He was even stronger than before!
This wave of flesh-and-blood energy had maxed out the amplification of his Bloodthirsty skill.
Not only that, but he had also extracted a tremendous amount of white energy from the Pope’s body!