Feng Buqing Was Truly Mad

The moment Feng Buqing saw the eyeball radiating cyan Evolutionary Light, his expression changed drastically.

"A Fifth-Order Marvel? Are you trying to get yourself killed?!"

Aunt Yun was a Butterfly Transformation Stage evolver. Using a Fifth-Order Marvel across two ranks would exact an unimaginable price.

A faint smile appeared on Aunt Yun's dark, aged face. She had carried this Fifth-Order Marvel on her all along. Throughout the journey, she had not used it when her comrades died tragically, nor had she used it when the disciple she had painstakingly taught died before her eyes.

She had endured because she only had one chance to use it.

Her mission was to protect Dr. Liu Wenyin. Unless Liu Wenyin was in danger, she would not use this Fifth-Order Marvel—the Dream Weaver's Eye.

And now, the time had come.

The cyan glow of the Dream Weaver's Eye illuminated a wide area around Aunt Yun and Feng Buqing. Its amber pupil gleamed with vitality, as though it were still alive.

Feng Buqing's body blurred into a shadow as he retreated. The Fifth-Order Marvel was of a higher rank than he was, so he did not dare let his guard down.

However, the Dream Weaver's Eye's gaze was almost tangible, firmly locking onto Feng Buqing. A beam of cyan light shot from its pupil and struck him.

The next instant, Feng Buqing emerged from his intangible state, his eyes vacant as though he had fallen into a stupor.

At the same time, the massive shadowy hands gripping Su Ze and Liu Wenyin dissipated, restoring their ability to move.

Yet the darkness shrouding everyone still had not receded.

A smile suddenly surfaced on Feng Buqing's blank face, only to turn to sorrow moments later, followed by anger, excitement, bliss, madness, and all manner of other emotions.

He had clearly been affected by the Dream Weaver's Eye.

Su Ze could tell that, like his Head of the Wailing Ones, the Dream Weaver's Eye was a mental attack Wonder Item.

Aunt Yun kept holding up the Dream Weaver's Eye to maintain its effect. She seemed to have lost the ability to move as well. Her arm shook like a leaf, strands of her hair turned white one by one, the wrinkles on her face deepened, and her back grew increasingly stooped.

Already past fifty, she was now striding toward the end of her life.

"Aunt Yun."

Liu Wenyin stood helplessly in the darkness. At that moment, she seemed as fragile as a dandelion that could scatter with a single breath of wind.

Su Ze could only watch in silence like the others. There was nothing they could do; this was a battle beyond their level.

If they rashly used skills that posed no threat to a Saint-level lifeform to attack Feng Buqing now, they might only make things worse.

All they could do was wait for an outcome.

Su Ze took two steps over to Liu Wenyin and gently patted her back without saying anything.

Since he and Liu Wenyin had been seized and dragged away from the group by the giant shadowy hands, they were the only two standing together now. The others were dozens of meters away.

But when Su Ze looked toward the others, he suddenly froze. After looking again carefully, he lowered his voice and said to Liu Wenyin, "We're missing someone."

There had been eight people in their group. Excluding Aunt Yun, who was still locked in a standoff with Feng Buqing, there should have been seven people on the ground, meaning seven clusters of Evolutionary Light should have been visible.

Yet after Su Ze and Liu Wenyin counted several times, they found only four clusters of Evolutionary Light among the people opposite them. Including the two of them, there were only six people. One was clearly missing.

Under the coverage of a Saint-level powerhouse's skill, that person could not possibly have escaped. So either he had encountered danger and died, or he had deliberately concealed his Evolutionary Light and hidden himself.

"The two clusters of orange Evolutionary Light over there are still lit, so the one who disappeared is a Pupal stage evolver."

Su Ze relaxed slightly. If the other person had deliberately hidden at a time like this, he was certainly up to no good. But if he was only at the Pupal stage, he would still be manageable.

"Doctor, put away your Evolutionary Light with me, then we'll leave this spot. Be careful not to get separated from me," Su Ze said softly.

If the other person's target was Liu Wenyin, then the two of them were sitting ducks standing here with their Evolutionary Light exposed.

But as long as they withdrew their Evolutionary Light and hid in the darkness, the other person would not be able to find them either.

"Okay." Liu Wenyin answered, then concealed her Evolutionary Force within her body along with Su Ze. The red Evolutionary Light around them immediately vanished.

Su Ze took Liu Wenyin's hand and led her more than a hundred steps away before stopping.

At that moment, the stalemate between Aunt Yun and Feng Buqing above finally changed. As Aunt Yun gradually aged, the cyan light emitted by the Dream Weaver's Eye suddenly began to flicker, blinking on and off like a faulty flashlight.

Meanwhile, the emotions constantly shifting across Feng Buqing's face changed faster and faster. Sometimes, several expressions flashed across his face in a single second.

Finally, Aunt Yun swayed unsteadily and fell from the air.

The four people beneath her hurriedly caught her.

"I'm fine." Aunt Yun pushed away those trying to support her and asked, "Where is Dr. Liu?"

Liu Wenyin wanted to run over, but Su Ze held her back. "Wait a little longer. Don't make a sound either. The person hiding himself might be waiting for us nearby."

At that moment, Feng Buqing seemed to regain consciousness as well.

Everyone present, except Aunt Yun, felt their hearts sink... Feng Buqing wasn't dead?

But then Feng Buqing suddenly revealed a silly, foolish grin and shouted, "I love you, Mom!"

Then his face filled with grief. "My husband doesn't want me anymore, boohoohoo..."

Next, agony covered his face as he screamed, "It hurts so much! I'm going into labor!"

His features twisted viciously. "You bitch! How dare you cheat on me!"

Then he looked righteous. "In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!"

He flailed his claws and fangs. "Make my monster grow bigger!"

It was as if he had been possessed by an overacting performer, constantly switching between different roles and reciting different lines.

"Is he... insane?"

No one could believe it. A Saint-level powerhouse, an invincible existence in their eyes, had been driven insane just like that?

What exactly had Feng Buqing experienced in that short time?

A Fifth-Order Marvel was too terrifying!

"Feng Buqing really was mad as hell now."

Su Ze had not expected this outcome either. After going mad, Feng Buqing seemed to have lost all hostility toward them, caring only about performing his one-man show.

"Qiangzi!" Feng Buqing suddenly shouted toward the distance. It was as though something immensely important was leaving him. His face was filled with reluctance, tears and snot streaming down his face as he chased into the distance.

As he ran, he shouted, "Qiangzi, how am I supposed to live without you?!"

"Qiangzi! Qiangzi..."

"Qiangzi, take me with you, Qiangzi..."

Amid his repeated cries of "Qiangzi," Su Ze and the others watched Feng Buqing fly farther and farther away until he disappeared from sight.

The darkness shrouding them departed along with Feng Buqing.

As the darkness receded and light returned to the world, Su Ze immediately spotted Li Gaojie not far away.

"So it really was you!" Su Ze had long suspected that Li Gaojie was the person who had hidden himself.

Li Gaojie sprang into action at once, charging straight toward Liu Wenyin.