Beneath the dark purple sky, Heaven Dou City was like a dead giant beast, silently exuding the stench of decay.
In the open space before the Star Gazing Pavilion, black ash covered the ground.
Han Yuchen stood quietly where he was, holding the Dark Purple Crystal Core extracted from the Mutant Commander between his slender fingers.
The crystal core was only the size of a thumb. Its surface was not smooth; instead, it was covered in extremely fine dark red lines that pulsed like the blood vessels of a living thing.
It was cold.
Not cold in the physical sense, but a deathly stillness that could freeze the soul itself.
Wisps of black mist visible to the naked eye were trying to seep out from within the crystal core, like a swarm of tiny venomous snakes, frantically crawling up along Han Yuchen's fingertips in an attempt to burrow into his skin and assimilate his flesh and blood.
"High-dimensional trash, but your vitality is rather tenacious."
A trace of mockery flashed through Han Yuchen's deep-blue eyes.
He did not circulate his Soul Power to resist at all, allowing the black mist to wrap around his right hand.
Dugu Bo, standing to the side, felt his eyelids twitch wildly at the sight.
"Pavilion Master! This thing is wicked. It can even devour this old man's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison. You absolutely mustn't..." Before Dugu Bo could finish, the words lodged hard in his throat.
Because he saw an utterly inconceivable scene.
The Shadow Spore poison mist, which was enough to instantly mutate a Titled Douluo into a monster, actually gave off faint, miserable "hiss, crackle" cries the moment it touched Han Yuchen's skin.
On the surface of Han Yuchen's skin, an extremely dim yet utterly pure layer of Starlight faintly emerged.