Body Mutation

"Impossible! Impossible! My body is so hot, how is there no sign of it on the outside?" Zhang Chen simply tore off his clothes in the cave, sitting naked inside. Although the cave was extremely cold, it couldn't affect Zhang Chen in the slightest.

"Damn it, is it trying to burn me to death?" Zhang Chen felt a ball of fire inside his body, constantly burning his internal organs.

Zhang Chen silently circulated the Light of the Righteous God, but the Light of the Righteous God was useless.

He lowered his head and looked at his palms, only to see that they were completely normal, without any abnormality.

"Impossible, my body is so hot, how can there be no sweat at all?" Zhang Chen stared at his palms, a hint of doubt in his eyes.

Just then, Zhang Chen seemed to remember something and quickly opened his Dharma Eye. As the Dharma Eye opened, Zhang Chen was completely stunned. Looking at his arm, he was dumbfounded for a moment, not knowing what to do.

In his Dharma Eye, his entire body was enveloped in a layer of red light. The red light was like a ball of flame several meters high, tightly wrapping around him. And the Light of the Righteous God he had cultivated was actually suppressed by the fiery red flame.

Zhang Chen's eyes stared at his arm, which was covered in a layer of fiery red flame. The flame constantly flickered and twisted, looking full of a bloody aura.

"What's going on? What kind of strange change is happening to my body?" A hint of horror appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes.

Looking closely at the flame, he saw countless ancient symbols flickering within it. These countless ancient symbols combined to form tiny chains, and the chains intertwined, flickering according to some mysterious pattern.

"What the hell is this?" Zhang Chen looked at the chains in the red light, his eyes filled with horror. For a moment, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and he didn't know what had happened.

Zhang Chen forced himself to calm down, then stared intently at his arm. His mind quickly summarized two clues: "The first possibility is that my third skill devoured some unknown liquid, and that liquid was left behind by a powerful being who wants to possess me. However, my Light of the Righteous God has no reaction, and my mental will is still intact, not affected in any way, so this possibility can be ruled out. The second possibility is that I am undergoing Marrow Cleansing and Body Tempering, experiencing a special kind of transformation. If I can endure this transformation, it will be extremely beneficial to me."

Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind. He felt the intense heat within his body, so much so that even his breathing felt like it was being burned to suffocation by the heat.

"I can't dig the cave today!" Zhang Chen slowly stood up, feeling pain in every part of his body. The pain made him grimace, as if his body was being torn apart. The feeling was like being burned by fire and then splashed with chili water. The pain was so intense he felt like he was going to faint.

"Home!"

Zhang Chen had no mood to feed the Hornets, nor did he have the energy to bother with the Sparrowhawks. All he wanted now was to go home.

He didn't even take the basket. Zhang Chen stumbled out of the tomb. As he moved his steps, the pain in his body doubled. It was as if someone had burned him with fire and then splashed him with chili water. The pain was so intense he felt like he was going to faint.

"What exactly was that blood? This third skill of mine seems a bit strange!" Zhang Chen stumbled towards home, but before he could reach it, a sharp pain came over him, and then he completely fainted.

At this moment, Zhang Chen didn't notice that all the blood in his body had completely evaporated, turning into streams of red liquid that combined with the runes attached to the red light around Zhang Chen. They intertwined according to some mysterious pattern. The countless blood-red rune chains tangled and flowed, converging towards Zhang Chen's heart. In a short while, they had all gathered within Zhang Chen's heart.

At this moment, there was no blood around Zhang Chen's body. All the blood had transformed into rune form and gathered within his heart.

A single heart, of course, could not completely hold all the blood in a person's body. However, when the blood transformed into rune form, it actually compressed and rotated on its own, twisting according to some peculiar pattern. In a short while, a crystal the size of a grain of rice, clear and transparent, appeared within Zhang Chen's heart.

That crystal was formed by the compression of Zhang Chen's entire body's blood along with the runes. If one were to take it out and look closely, it was exactly the same as the crystal Zhang Chen had dug out from the tombstone earlier.

The crystal was now emitting a dazzling red light, illuminating Zhang Chen's body like a transparent jade stone.

Fortunately, after three breaths, the crystal's light receded. Then, red airflow flowed out from within the crystal, like strands of red silk, replacing Zhang Chen's blood and circulating within his blood vessels, seemingly transforming Zhang Chen's body.

Seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, the crystal seemed to have completed the transformation. Then, all the red light within Zhang Chen's body completely disappeared, all absorbed back by the blood-red crystal. However, Zhang Chen's body was empty, with no blood flowing at all, and Zhang Chen's heart had also stopped beating at this time.

After an unknown amount of time, the crystal suddenly vibrated slightly, and a drop of golden-yellow blood flowed out, dripping into Zhang Chen's heart. Unfortunately, the drop of blood was too small to fill the entire heart.

Then, the drop of golden-yellow blood suddenly evaporated, turning into a ball of mist that not only filled Zhang Chen's heart but also began to fill Zhang Chen's surrounding blood vessels.

"Bang~"

The silent heart began to beat. The golden-yellow mist seemed to replace the blood, supporting the blood supply to the entire body and the transportation of energy throughout the body.

As the heart beat, Zhang Chen's vitality began to recover little by little. The liver's blood-producing function began to recover, and drops of bright red blood slowly flowed out, gradually submerging the golden-yellow mist in the bright red blood.

Suddenly, at a certain moment, Zhang Chen, who had fainted on the ground, opened his eyes. An indescribable feeling of weakness filled his entire body. At this moment, Zhang Chen felt dizzy and his mind was chaotic, as if he had lost too much blood and fallen into brain death.

At the same time, a huge feeling of hunger swept through his body, making Zhang Chen's abdomen rumble like thunder.

Zhang Chen wanted to struggle to get up, but without any blood in his body, where would he get the strength to get up?

At this time, the blood in Zhang Chen's body had not yet recovered.

"Damn it! How can I be so weak?" Zhang Chen's eyes were full of confusion as he constantly checked his condition. He kept feeling as if he had lost too much blood.

However, looking through all his skills, there seemed to be no solution at all.

"It seems there's only the Blood Drain skill left!"

Zhang Chen struggled to open the lid and grabbed the Pheasant that couldn't move.

Regardless of whether Blood Drain was useful or not, this was the only thing he could do!

Thanks to 'Brother Li 10086' for the hundred points reward.

Thanks to 'Zhi-Qu' for the hundred points reward.