Chapter 103: Game Start

In the light‑blue nutrient vat, various bizarre tissue samples soaked, faintly emitting light.

The robotic arm moved back and forth among the various precision instruments, emitting a low hum.

The yin‑cold, evil aura in the air grew heavier, almost condensing into substance.

They're cultivating…… 'evil seeds'.

Zhang Jun's teeth clenched, grinding.

What was inside the glass wall was a hundred times more terrifying than the thing he had refined at the match venue.

This place is practically an evil‑seed production factory!

Lin Xue quickly walked to a lit‑screen operating terminal, her fingers flying over the keyboard.

Found it.

A pile of encrypted files popped up on the screen.

Lin Xue bypassed several layers of protection and opened one of them.

The title was clear——'Yin‑Yang Dual‑Body Fusion Project – Phase‑Three Report'.

The documents detailed how to use special cultivation methods and drugs to spawn evil seeds, then attempt to implant them into living bodies, guiding them to fuse with specific bloodlines.

The records of the failures made one's scalp tingle.

The descriptions of the successes sent chills down one's spine.

In it, the 'Pure Yang Body' and 'Profound Yin Body' were repeatedly mentioned, marked as the top‑priority objective!

"They've been looking for us." Lin Xue's voice was as cold as ice.

Zhang Jun's fists were clenched tight, his knuckles whitening.

Just as he was about to have Lin Xue copy the data——

A piercing alarm suddenly echoed through the entire underground space!

Woo—woo—woo—

The red warning lights flashed wildly.

At the end of the corridor they'd come from, the heavy alloy gate slammed down with a boom, completely cutting off their retreat!

"Damn! We walked into a trap!"

Zhang Jun grabbed Lin Xue and pulled her up; the two backed against the operating table.

The doors all around the lab opened at once.

A large contingent of guards in black combat gear, weapons in hand, surged out.

Their movements were neat and uniform, yet exuded an aura of death.

The leader, a thin man, had a sickly flush on his face.

It was the black‑clad assailant who had ambushed Zhang Jun with poison at the abandoned factory last time!

"Doctor Zhang, Miss Lin, long time no see."

The black‑clad man let out a sound like sandpaper rubbing, toying with several poison needles that glowed with an eerie green light.

What made Zhang Jun's anger flare even more was that two people slowly walked out from behind the guards——

Director Liu of Ever Auspicious Health, and Zhou Mu of the Hall of a Hundred Herbs!

Director Liu's fat face was spread with a ferocious grin.

"Zhang Jun! You've got your day coming!"

Zhou Mu adjusted his collar, his expression grim and terrifying.

"Doctor Zhang, I originally wanted to keep you around for a few more days."

"Too bad, you're too impatient."

"This research institute is the grave they've prepared for you!"

"Turns out you've been in cahoots all along." Zhang Jun's inner pure‑yang power began to circulate, a scorching current surging through his meridians.

"The wise submit to the times." Zhou Mu spread his hands, "Lin Zhen, old master…… no, now you should be called 'Venerable Lord.' The Venerable Lord's grand undertaking—how could someone like you possibly stop it?"

"Cut the chatter!" the black‑clad man waved his hand, "Take them down—dead or alive!"

Dozens of guards lunged forward at once.

Blades, gunfire, and the poison needles flung by the black‑clad man wove together into a deadly net.

Zhang Jun gave a low shout and advanced instead of retreating.

Pure‑yang power exploded; he thrust both fists forward, bringing a fierce, domineering force that instantly blasted the leading guards away.

Lin Xue's figure flickered, weaving through the crowd.

Her fingertips exhaled cold; each strike froze a guard in place, immobile.

The ice needles came alive in her hand, always finding the most cunning angle.

The two stood back‑to‑back.

One blazed like fire, wide and open.

The other was icy as frost, precise and lethal.

The pure‑yang and profound‑yin forces churned in the cramped space, faintly forming a strange field.

In the fierce fight, Zhang Jun punched the black‑clad man back, then turned to block an incoming sneak‑attack blade.

Just then, Lin Xue slapped her palm at another enemy beside him.

At the instant their powers met, there was no repulsion—instead they sucked together violently!

Hum!

An indescribable sense of resonance exploded between them!

Zhang Jun felt his inner pure‑yang power as if it had found an outlet.

Lin Xue's Profound Yin Cold Qi also became unprecedentedly active.

Gold and blue light burst outward from the two of them, forming a constantly spinning, merging energy field!

Wherever the energy field swept, both the guards and their weapons were instantly torn apart and crushed by an irresistible powerful force!

The dozen or so nearby guards didn't even have time to cry out before being blasted away, slamming hard into the wall with audible bone‑shattering impacts!

This sudden change left everyone stunned.

Including Chief Liu and Zhou Mu.

"This… this is…" Zhou Mu's face showed an expression of utter shock for the first time.

Now!

Zhang Jun seized this critical opening, his figure moving so fast it left only an afterimage.

He completely ignored the black‑clothed attackers lunging again, his target pointing straight at the terrified Chief Liu and Zhou Mu!

Pure Yang Power gathered in his palm.

He almost instantly appeared before the two of them.

Pfft! Pfft!

Two dull thuds.

Chief Liu and Zhou Mu had no time to react before Zhang Jun struck each of them in the chest with a single palm.

Internal force erupted, and they screamed as they were flung backward, crashing heavily to the ground, spurting blood from their mouths, and were subdued on the spot!

Zhang Jun grabbed Zhou Mu's collar, lifted him up, and his voice was cold enough to cause frostbite.

"Speak! Where is Lin Zhen? What in the world is your 'Supreme Master' up to?

Zhou Mu coughed blood, yet his face twisted into an eerily sinister grin.

"Too late… far too late…

"You… you will all die…

"The experiment… has succeeded…

His words hadn't even faded—

Roar——!!!

A roar that no human could produce, filled with endless rage and pain, suddenly came from behind the tightly sealed alloy door at the deepest part of the laboratory!

That sound seemed to come from the deepest pit of hell!

The heavy alloy door groaned under the strain, its surface bulging with a huge protrusion as cracks spread like a spiderweb.

The blood spatter from Zhou Mu's cough landed on Zhang Jun's hand‑back, his twisted grin still not faded: "The game… has just begun… you… are sacrifices…

Boom—!

The alloy door exploded completely, twisted metal shards blasting outward in all directions! Amid the spreading smoke and dust, a massive black shadow lunged out.

That thing barely kept a humanoid outline, but its skin was a strange bluish‑gray, covered in twisted blood vessels like writhing earthworms. One side of its body was encased in rough, hardened‑callus‑like material, while the other side exposed twitching, dark‑colored muscle fibers.