New Form

At around two thirty, Jiang Hou finally left home.

But he did not head straight to school. Halfway there, he turned onto another street. This was the meeting point he had arranged with Zong Zheng Nanmo.

As soon as he approached, Jiang Hou saw Zong Zheng Nanmo squatting by the roadside, looking across the street.

The place was surrounded by people. Five white vehicles slowly drove out through the crowd, while someone scattered handfuls of spirit money from the passing cars. More than a dozen elderly people and children wailed loudly.

An intense sorrow immediately filled the air, moving every passerby nearby.

"What happened?" Jiang Hou came up behind Zong Zheng Nanmo.

Zong Zheng Nanmo sighed. "They died last night. Five people had dinner and drinks together but never went home. Their bodies were found in an alley this morning."

"The bodies were mutilated, gnawed on by something like wild dogs. They died horribly."

"Wild dogs?" Jiang Hou raised a brow. What kind of wild dog could kill people?

Zong Zheng Nanmo shook his head. "That was the coroner's conclusion."

Jiang Hou nodded, understanding what he meant. He then said flatly, "Let's go. There's no point looking at this. Other than making ourselves feel worse, it won't do anything."

"You're right. Let's stop looking." Zong Zheng Nanmo nodded and stood.

Of course, that was easy to say, but both of them were still affected.

A few days ago, they had merely heard that so many people had died here or there, with no real sense of it. Seeing it with their own eyes was entirely different.

At the same time, those deaths put Jiang Hou on guard, because this place was not far from his home...!!

The two entered the school in silence and made their way to the activity room on the fifth floor. When they pushed open the door, they saw a handsome girl with shoulder-length black hair sitting by the window.

As usual, Jiang Ruochan wore that black trench coat today, with a white T-shirt and black pants underneath. Her nearly perfect profile gleamed in the sunlight.

A half-meter-long Black Box also sat on the table, wrapped with two strips of paper resembling talismans and giving off a mysterious air.

Jiang Hou glanced at his Smart Watch and found that it was only two fifty-two. Surprised, he said, "President, didn't you say we were meeting at three? You got here so early."

In Jiang Hou's understanding, the boss was usually the last to arrive. But Jiang Ruochan, their club president, was different. She arrived before them for every club event, and today was no exception.

"I had nothing else to do, so I came to read for a while."

As she spoke, Jiang Ruochan closed the book in her hands and looked at Jiang Hou. After a brief silence, she said, "The vitality emanating from you is much stronger than it was yesterday."

"Yeah, I got a little stronger today."

Jiang Hou could only nod at that question and continue playing dumb. He certainly could not tell her that he had been unable to sleep last night and had gone to the ruins to eat six ferocious beasts.

Zong Zheng Nanmo sighed. "Fine, since the president has already asked, I won't hold it in anymore. Jiang Hou, how much did your strength improve this time?"

Earlier, Zong Zheng Nanmo had been curious and wanted to ask whether Jiang Hou's strength had changed today, but he held back in the end because he did not want Jiang Hou to rub it in.

Who knew he still could not escape this round?

Jiang Hou said humbly, "Not bad. When I woke up today, my constitution had only risen from 12.1 to 18.4. Mid-Second Order, with a combat power ranking of 1480."

The Smart Watch measured overall constitution strength, so its figures differed from those on the Attribute Page. It was lower than strength but higher than agility.

Even so, Zong Zheng Nanmo's eyes widened.

He was still stuck at the late First Order. After two or three days, his energy value had not increased even a little, yet Jiang Hou had reached the mid-Second Order just by sleeping and eating every day!

Was there any justice in this?

At that moment, Jiang Hou added, "But I have a feeling that my constitution's growth rate may become increasingly 'slow' from here on out."

After reaching the Fourth Order, the Black Armor Giant Ape required more energy, and the gap between it and his human form would only widen. That was why Jiang Hou said this.

However, this slow was only relatively slow. It simply would not be like before, when he advanced by a minor realm every day.

Of course, the past few days had been so exaggerated because the First and Second Orders were too weak, with little difference between them. Raising his constitution by several times would cause a change in realm.

Once he reached the Third and Fourth Orders, the gaps between stages would widen, and it would no longer be so exaggerated.

But Jiang Hou's words sounded different to Zong Zheng Nanmo and Jiang Ruochan. The black-haired girl looked thoughtful. "Is the energy in the pollution source about to run out?"

"...That's it?"

Zong Zheng Nanmo's expression was complicated. He felt somewhat sorry for Jiang Hou, but also a little relieved that Jiang Hou would no longer be able to rub it in.

Jiang Ruochan said calmly, "The energy of a pollution source will always run out someday. There's no need to feel regret. The only thing we Transcendents can rely on is the power we have mastered ourselves."

"The president is right." Jiang Hou nodded. There was not the slightest trace of regret on his face, earning a hint of approval from Jiang Ruochan.

He could take things up and put them down. Many adults could not even do that.

"The divine weapon is inside this." As she spoke, Jiang Ruochan placed her hand on the two rune-like papers, and several bolts of lightning burst out at once.

Without paying attention to the fairly powerful lightning, Jiang Ruochan opened the box, revealing a Broken Blade before the two of them.

The hilt was about thirty centimeters long and blackish gray. Its guard resembled the head of a black Evil Ghost, vicious and ferocious. A black blade extended from the Evil Ghost's mouth, but it was only twenty centimeters long.

On the surface, the broken blade looked completely ordinary. If it were tossed by the roadside, neither Jiang Hou nor Zong Zheng Nanmo would give it a second glance.

"Fusing with a divine weapon is simple. Grip it tightly, call out to it in your heart, and it will respond to you. Go on."

"Okay." Jiang Hou nodded and stepped forward without hesitation.

Jiang Ruochan took several steps back to make room, and Zong Zheng Nanmo followed suit.

Under their gazes, Jiang Hou grasped the hilt and slowly lifted the Broken Blade.

Before Jiang Hou could call to the divine weapon in his heart according to the fusion process, the broken blade began to tremble and hum. The eyes of the Evil Ghost head on the guard shone with black-and-white light.

The black-and-white light was like ribbons, spreading from Jiang Hou's palm with incredible speed and covering his entire body in the blink of an eye.

Boom! A powerful repulsive force erupted instantly, compressing the air into a ring-shaped shockwave that spread outward. Amid the howling gale, a black-and-white figure appeared.

The figure's lower body was covered in broken black battle armor, while its upper body resembled a mummy wrapped in white cloth strips. Even its face was covered, with only a pair of eyes exposed.

At the same time, his black hair surged in length. Thick locks cascaded to his waist like a waterfall, intertwining with the dozen or so white ribbons around his arms, shoulders, and body, moving without wind.

The Broken Blade in his hand also changed. A pair of black demonic wings spread from either side of the guard, blood-red patterns flowing across them and exuding an ominous aura.

From where only twenty centimeters of blade had remained, a black blade one point three meters long extended outward.

The blade was slender and shaped like a Miaodao, its edge snow-white and brilliant, gorgeous and dazzling. In contrast to the vicious, ferocious black guard, it carried an intense sense of dissonance.

Combined with Jiang Hou's current black-and-white appearance, he looked like a dark God of Slaughter walking out of hell, domineering and terrifying.

But while he looked incredibly cool, Jiang Hou's condition was not as relaxed as it appeared.

Second update, more to come.