The Great Fusion

The Hell Angels Mercenary Group's medical center was heavily guarded, with all the mercenaries currently stationed on Earth, whether they were true Innate fighters who had broken through the Ren and Du meridians themselves or pseudo-Innate fighters who had done so with the aid of instruments, gathered outside the medical center.

Cristo Crystal People naturally gestured a crystal sphere within their bodies that concentrated all their energy at a single point. They possessed marvelous spatial attributes and incredible special abilities. When the Cristo Crystal People residing on Pluto were discovered by Earthlings and Roman people, they became prey for the powerful among Earthlings and Roman people. Capturing Cristo Crystal People by force and forcibly extracting the crystal spheres from their bodies to fuse with their own bodies and stimulate potential was the tragedy of the Cristo Crystal People, but a delightful and endlessly entertaining affair for Earthlings and Roman people.

The mechanism of the Cristo Fusion Ceremony was unknown. Historically, 87.3% of Earthlings and Roman people who underwent the crystal sphere fusion ceremony died on the spot from bodily explosion, 2.5% lost all their memories, 3.7% were instead possessed by the Cristo Crystal People and killed on the spot, 4.9% failed to stimulate any potential and showed no changes, and 1.3% of unlucky individuals lost all their cultivation and the ability to cultivate further. Only 0.3% of the total number of people were lucky enough to stimulate their potential and acquire powerful strength!

Out of a thousand people, only three were truly lucky enough to stimulate their potential and acquire various miraculous powers!

Furthermore, the darker the skin color of the crystal person and the stronger their strength, the more powerful the special abilities they could stimulate, but the greater the risk!

The Bearded Commander stood outside the medical pod of the medical center with a grim expression. He furiously roared at the mercenary group's high-ranking officials around him.

"If he gets possessed by a Cristo Crystal Person, I'll personally shoot him!"

"If he loses all his cultivation and can never recover it, I'll personally shoot him!"

"If he shows no change whatsoever and wastes a rare black Cristo Crystal Person, I'll make him understand how terrifying it is to waste the mercenary group's assets!"

Bore opportunely asked, "Bearded Uncle, what if Evil Dragon successfully fuses?"

The Bearded Commander smiled like a blooming flower and nodded at Bore. He put his hands behind his back, shrugged smugly, and then burst into wild laughter, "If he successfully develops some super-powerful special abilities! Gaga gaga gaga, I'll take a concubine and have a delicate and beautiful daughter to marry him off! Oh ho ho ho, if he becomes my son-in-law, he'll have to work for my mercenary group for life!"

Cold sweat dripped from everyone's foreheads. Only the Bearded Commander continued his intoxicated, wild laughter, or rather, foolish laughter.

"What a wonderful thing! Oh ho ho ho, currently there are only a little over twenty 'Realm Masters' in the entire known Earth Federation who have successfully undergone Cristo Fusion! Only twenty-something! Oh ho ho, if our mercenary group could have one, it would be easy to surpass the Sacred Unicorn!"

A glint of cold light flashed in the Bearded Commander's eyes. He said calmly, "As long as we have one Realm Master, our mercenary group will no longer be a urinal that anyone can use at will. We will also have the right to a piece of this big cake called the Federation! And a very substantial piece at that!"

"Evil Dragon, the moment I saw you, I knew you weren't an ordinary person! You must not disappoint me!"

Gu Xiechen would not disappoint anyone!

The body of that black Cristo Crystal Person was already severely damaged. At the brink of death, the black crystal person was forced to take over Gu Xiechen's body by force!

However, the black crystal person failed to devour Gu Xiechen's soul. Instead, all its mental energy was swallowed by Gu Xiechen in one gulp!

No, it wasn't Gu Xiechen, but the Primordial Origin Dao Embryo hidden in his heart that completely devoured all the mental energy of the black crystal person. The main body of the Primordial Origin Dao Embryo was the heart core of a mysterious and strange Blood Race Prince, condensing all the energy of a Blood Race Prince. The most terrifying power of a Blood Race Prince was his vast mental power. Although the black Cristo Crystal Person had super combat power, its mental power was nothing compared to the mental energy contained within the Dao Embryo. Being devoured was a reasonable matter.

Without the interference of the black crystal person's mental energy, Gu Xiechen began to successfully fuse with the crystal core that possessed miraculous power. The vast energy of the black crystal person churned within Gu Xiechen's body, scouring his body again and again. Gu Xiechen's body instinctively circulated the Hanyuan Zhen Dian. Strands of pure Innate Qi, wrapped in black energy, circulated rapidly along the meridians. The Qi vortexes in the 108 acupoints reformed, and this time Gu Xiechen had no intention of stopping. The 108 Qi vortexes continuously circulated along mysterious trajectories.

The vast vitality from the Dao Embryo continuously overflowed. The surrounding acupoints were constantly cracked open by the violent energy, but the energy within the Dao Embryo diligently repaired all these damages.

Crushed again and again, repaired again and again. Gradually, the temperature of the 108 acupoints all over Gu Xiechen's body grew higher and higher, and gradually white flames erupted from the 108 acupoints. The previously small, sesame-seed-sized acupoints continuously expanded and strengthened. If one looked inward with divine sense, one could see that Gu Xiechen's acupoints had become spacious and vast, and their capacity for True Qi was now not much smaller than his Dantian. Especially the acupoints became sturdy and flexible, their ability to withstand the impact of True Qi was more than a hundred times stronger?

The Hanyuan Zhen Dian continued to circulate. The energy left by the black crystal person was astonishingly potent. After Gu Xiechen completed the expansion and stabilization of his acupoints, he had only consumed less than one-tenth of this energy.

The remaining nine-tenths of the energy surged into Gu Xiechen's Dantian. Under the transformation of the Dantian, the black energy gradually transformed into Innate Qi. Vast streams of Innate Qi, driven by Gu Xiechen's instincts, filled his Dantian. Until the Dantian could no longer hold the nearly mercury-like Innate Qi, the excess Qi flowed through the meridians and spread throughout his body, gradually settling in the acupoints.

Small, stable vortexes formed in Gu Xiechen's 108 acupoints. With the large vortex in the Dantian as the core, the small vortexes in the acupoints echoed each other. The Innate Qi flowed back and forth between the acupoints, circulating smoothly and nimbly without any obstruction.

After this, Gu Xiechen's meridians were filled with Qi. With every movement, the Qi from the nearest acupoints could be unleashed at will. Not only was his reaction speed in battle several times faster than before, but his vital acupoints were protected by Qi at all times, and his defensive power was also several times stronger than before.

The cultivation of the second level of Hanyuan Zhen Dian, the Acupoint Nourishment chapter, was completed. Gu Xiechen only needed to wait until his Qi cultivation became powerful in the future, and all the acupoints were as full of Qi as his Dantian, before he could officially begin the next step of Meridian Transformation.

At the same time as the 108 Qi vortexes formed, the crystal sphere of the Cristo Crystal Person, which had been drained of all its mental energy by the Dao Embryo, successfully ascended to Gu Xiechen's brain. Gu Xiechen's soul merged with the crystal sphere. The structure of the crystal sphere shattered and merged with Gu Xiechen's Sea of Consciousness, also known as the Purple Mansion, evolving into a miraculous place.

The Qi vortexes in the vital acupoints suddenly paused. 108 strands of Innate Qi flowed along the meridians directly into the Purple Mansion, slowly evolving into a tiny, almost imperceptible wisp of purple mist. Then, the 108 Qi vortexes began to circulate again. With this pause and movement, Gu Xiechen's surrounding Innate Qi erupted like thunder, causing great destruction outside his body.

The Bearded Commander, who had been standing foolishly in front of the medical pod for seven days and seven nights, anxiously tugged at his beard. He roared at the beautiful female physician whom Gu Xiechen had "teased" last time, "Maria, what is Evil Dragon's physical condition?"

Maria, without looking up, stared at the monitoring screen of the medical pod and said coldly, "His Qi has blocked all instrument scans! Innate fighters are all like this, you know that!"

The Bearded Commander's eyes widened, and just as he was about to find an excuse to reprimand Maria severely, a red light on the medical pod suddenly flashed rapidly, and the piercing alarm startled everyone.

With a deafening roar, the thick medical pod was blown to smithereens by a tremendous force. Maria, hiding behind the console, was spared. The Bearded Commander and the others were caught off guard and sent flying far away by the blast wave. Fortunately, everyone in the medical center at this time was a master, otherwise, there would have been more casualties.

Gu Xiechen, naked, walked out of the wreckage of the medical pod, shaking his neck. Perhaps due to the stimulation of the Cristo Crystal Person's energy, although Gu Xiechen's height remained the same, his muscles had become much more robust. His previously thin body was now well-proportioned and sleek. His muscles, with soft yet distinct lines, reflected a lustrous sheen under the white lights of the medical center. It was an absolutely perfect male physique.

Maria, looking at Gu Xiechen's body up close, instinctively swallowed. Then, she pouted in annoyance.

The Bearded Commander scrambled up from the ground. He and a group of Innate-level fighters nervously surrounded Gu Xiechen.

"Who are you? What is your codename? What is your mercenary number?"

According to common experience, if one's soul was devoured and their body was taken over during Cristo Fusion, there would be no trace of the previous memories left in that body!

Gu Xiechen instinctively replied, "Me? Evil Dragon! My number is... uh, do we have mercenary numbers in our mercenary group?"

"Yeah!" The Bearded Commander excitedly punched the sky. This kid wasn't possessed by the crystal person! This kid is truly amazing. He underwent Cristo Fusion forcefully initiated by the black crystal person and came out unscathed!

"So, did you fuse successfully?" Bore, standing beside the Bearded Commander, asked Gu Xiechen with a hint of jealousy.

"Well!" Gu Xiechen knew what Bore's question meant.

Should he let outsiders know that he had successfully fused with the Cristo crystal sphere?

Blinking his eyes with a calm expression, Gu Xiechen looked at Bore blankly and asked, "Fuse what? Uh, I say, brothers, what happened here? Why am I in the medical center? Uh, what about that black crystal person from that day? I remember I was knocked out after exchanging a punch with him!"

The Bearded Commander's face immediately fell. He muttered with a dark expression, "It's over. A black Cristo Crystal Person is worth at least twenty Level 1 battleships. It's over, you wasted twenty Level 1 battleships!"

Turning around, the Bearded Commander walked out of the medical center with his head shaking despondently.

"Sigh! Why did this happen? Since you didn't die, why couldn't you fuse successfully? That black Cristo Crystal Person, how much is it worth!"

A chilling wind swirled around the Bearded Commander as he walked out, heartbroken.

If this black Cristo Crystal Person were auctioned, half of the proceeds would belong to the mercenary group, which would be ten Level 1 battleships! The Hell Angels Mercenary Group, apart from a few dilapidated outer space mining ships and transport ships, didn't even have a single low-tier Level 3 battleship!

Gu Xiechen looked at the heartbroken Bearded Commander and felt quite sorry for him. Just as Gu Xiechen was about to chase after him to comfort him, Maria nimbly walked up to him, grabbed a high-pressure syringe gun, and pressed it onto Gu Xiechen's shoulder.

"Don't resist. This is a highly concentrated nutrient solution being injected into you!" Maria said with a serious expression. "You haven't eaten for seven days and seven nights."

"Oh!" Gu Xiechen, who had been dodging, froze. Maria injected a dose of the solution from the injector gun into his arm.

Hiss~ A full twenty milliliters of liquid were administered.

Maria suddenly exclaimed, "Oh no! I grabbed the wrong agent! I injected a potent aphrodisiac!"

Gu Xiechen's face stiffened.

Bore and the others by his side were also stunned.

A cunning glint flashed in Maria's eyes. This was revenge, revenge for Gu Xiechen pinching her chest last time!

"You stinking woman! Just you wait!"

Gu Xiechen's body trembled slightly. He suddenly shouted and rushed out of the medical center!

My wife's maternal grandfather is having a birthday tonight. I had something to do this morning and had to go out, so the second chapter for today is updated early. I hope you all enjoy reading...

And, when you're smashing those votes, smash them with joy... uh, the more the merrier, vote a lot...

Aren't recommendation votes and things like that more satisfying than Maria's injection? (To be continued)