The two gray-robed men had indeed spoken the truth. They truly were Children of the Original Nucleus. Ordinary people who took an Original Nucleus would indeed suffer all manner of side effects, just like the Shaolin Mountain abbot.
But they had not said whether this thing worked on Heavenly Devils.
When Lu Sheng had fought the old monk earlier, they had witnessed it with their own eyes. Especially when they saw Lu Sheng actually withstand the life-draining old monk head-on, their eyeballs had nearly popped out.
The reason Children of the Original Nucleus were called Children of the Original Nucleus was because they possessed the ability to wield an Original Nucleus and deploy Original Ripple Armor.
This armor was essentially a weakened version of the old monk's enhanced state. Its advantage was that it had no side effects, merely consuming a great deal of stamina.
Relying on this ability and the Original Nucleus, the Children of the Original Nucleus had carved out a starfield of their own in the Heavenly Devil World.
The gap between someone who held an Original Nucleus and someone who did not was like the difference between an ordinary person with a gun and an ordinary person empty-handed.
It was a difference in actual combat ability of dozens, even hundreds, of times.
Yet what had they just seen?! An ordinary man from a Small World had actually brawled with a monster holding an Original Nucleus and burning away its own life!
It was like an ordinary man facing an interstellar engineer piloting a mech in a life and death duel with nothing but his bare hands.
The theoretical gap between them was nearly that between a giant elephant and a tiny insect.
Yet Lu Sheng had won.
The two gray-robed men stared calmly at Lu Sheng,