To be honest, any normal person would have frozen for three seconds upon hearing Cheng Shi say that.
A male human saying he would give a child to a group of sexless Dread Demons—no matter where you put it, that statement was absolutely explosive.
Dread Demons did not reproduce sexually. They were born from the Fear Mother Tree in the Underground World.
The Fear Mother Tree absorbed fear from various planes, then grew new branches. After some time, the branches fell off and became new Dread Demon individuals.
Amid everyone's shock, Cao Sansui was the first to recover. He asked uncertainly:
"You intend to... heal the Dread Demons?"
Cheng Shi snapped his fingers.
"Bingo. I'll release a Healing Art that covers the entire ruin. Every Dread Demon will receive the gaze of my Lord and embrace reproduction."
"Impossible... No Priest's healing range could possibly be that large..."
Nangong said with a gray expression. In her heart, she began to assume that Cheng Shi had gone mad under the immense pressure of survival.
What a pity. This guy had a good heart and looked handsome, but he had gone crazy too quickly.
Cheng Shi did not explain further. He merely smiled.
"Nothing is impossible.
"When you think something is impossible, it's because your healing output still isn't enough."
Seeing Cheng Shi's amused gaze sweep rapidly over the tightly bound bulges beneath her chest wraps, Nangong's pale face instantly flushed red.
"You...!!!"
Cheng Shi ignored her and extended his right hand, assuming the plain, unadorned starting stance for a Healing Art.
"How much longer will the Holy Light Great Wall last?"
Chen Chong's face darkened. At last, this man had remembered that the shield's duration was nearly up. He did not know whether he should believe Cheng Shi, but seeing how confident Cheng Shi sounded, he could only resign himself and reply:
"Enough time for you to show off for ten seconds!"
"Nine seconds..."
"Eight!"
"..."
"Three!"
"Two!"
"Now!"
Cheng Shi shouted, and the Ray of Healing in his hand began to surge.
At the same time, Xia Wan swallowed a handful of Genesis Grass Seeds without hesitation. She conjured six Spore Arrows in her right hand, drew her bow, nocked the arrows, and aimed overhead.
With a whoosh, the six arrows exploded above everyone's heads, carrying a dense force of reproduction.
"One!"
The Holy Light Great Wall shattered like a mirror, instantly losing its radiance. The Dread Demons piled outside the Light Screen suddenly lost their support and began falling.
The Dread Demons on the outskirts saw that the shield had shattered and charged in with roars.
The fine Spore threads grew wildly within the limited space. The Dread Demons pressed against one another, leaving almost no gaps, so a single thread could string together the flesh of countless Dread Demons.
Whether the Dread Demons' eager attacks had collided with one another or the extra Spore Arrow had played a part, the enemy took far longer than one second to reach them.
Just as everyone looked terrified and began preparing to counterattack and break out, Cheng Shi's ultimate move was finally ready.
"Let me demonstrate what true healing output is!
"The universe in all directions...
"Shared Divine Grace!"
As the final word left his mouth, a massive burst of holy light struck the Dread Demon closest to Cheng Shi. Then the light pierced through it and rapidly refracted toward its countless kin in every direction.
This did not look like a simple Healing Art. It was more like a Healing Chain capable of healing numerous targets.
But the problem was that the Healing Chain had diminishing returns. The more people there were, the faster the effect diminished.
Considering the number of enemies before them, this kind of healing would probably only be enough to restore a few hairs.
During previous trials, it was not as though no one had tried healing enemies. Although the Faith Game was a game, it was more like another reality.
There was no such mechanic as "friendly-fire immunity" or "healing enemies is ineffective." If one healed an enemy, the enemy really would recover—and then beat one half to death.
Therefore, when Cao Sansui saw that Cheng Shi had merely cast a Healing Chain, the fear in his heart shot through the heavens.
What use could this possibly have?
But even if he did not believe Cheng Shi, it was too late now. Holding to the resolve to fight to the death, he still followed the plan. The moment Cheng Shi made his move, Cao Sansui cast Overload-level Area Acceleration over the entire ruin except for the area near their group.
"Area, accelerate!!!"
Time on the outskirts hit fast-forward, and the Dread Demons suddenly accelerated.
The time around them fell into stasis, and everyone instantly froze.
Within their limited consciousness, everyone could only see the Healing Chain transmitting faster and faster, refracting more and more times. In the blink of an eye, it transformed into countless torrents of holy light that violently swept across the entire ruin!
Healing surged like a huge wave, devouring everything!
Everyone was stunned.
Cao Sansui watched as the surrounding Dread Demons continued approaching before falling into the Time Freeze Zone, forming a wall of flesh around the outskirts and "protecting" them inside. He could not help wondering whether this was also part of the plan.
His view of the outskirts gradually vanished. In his final glimpse, he was still shocked that Cheng Shi's Healing Chain was not diminishing but increasing!
The more it healed, the more powerful the chain became. In the end, it even covered the entire ruin!
How was this possible?
Nothing was impossible.
When Cheng Shi's nearly frozen thoughts saw the surrounding Dread Demons fall into the Time Freeze Zone and build a new "Great Wall," he knew that his plan had succeeded.
The reason he could spread the Healing Chain throughout the entire ruin was his unique S-rank Professional Talent: Shared Divine Grace!
This talent allowed his healing to be transmitted when he treated lifeforms of the same kind. For every additional member of the same kind, the healing effect and range would expand by another increment.
Normally, since a team had at most six people, this effect could only be considered the icing on the cake.
But now, if every Dread Demon counted as a target, then even if a true god descended, it probably would not be able to count how many there were.
Even if each individual only received a one-percent increase, after a thousand calculations, it would multiply several times over.
What was more, there were far more than a thousand Dread Demons here!
Today, in this place, every Dread Demon was bathed in Cheng Shi's Healing Chain!
And it happened in an instant!
Healing enemies was inadvisable, but circumstances mattered.
For example, not everyone could enjoy healing that carried the divine power of Birth.
The instant that terrifying healing light crashed onto their bodies, aided by the Area Acceleration, countless Dread Demons' bellies began to swell at an exponential rate before they could react.
Birth gazed upon them at that moment.
Madness immediately erupted.
Dread Demons were sexless demons, but new life suddenly began gestating in every part of their bodies. Even they, who had never experienced fear, began to panic.
They extended their claws, trying to cut off the bulges. They tore and bit at their flesh, attempting to kill the newborns.
But the powerful Ray of Healing instantly healed their wounds.
A profound sense of helplessness rose in their hearts.
They saw their futures: every one of them would become a "mother" raising children.
Some would have more than one.
That was not all. The will of Birth began spreading wildly, causing the Dread Demons, whose thresholds for rationality were already low, to gradually fall and become freaks who worshiped reproduction.
In the time it took to say this, the scene had already gone further out of control!
Under the influence of Area Acceleration, the situation became irretrievable in little more than ten seconds.
All the Dread Demons became slaves to reproduction. Even without any distinction of sex, they mechanically and unconsciously imitated the most primitive act in nature.
Mating.
Reproduction.
On the right wing of an entire Bone Legion, in a ruin where not a single person could be seen, they completely abandoned all restraint...
The scene went out of control for a time. The details were indescribable.
Time continued accelerating, and the indescribable grew even more indescribable.
Countless Dread Demons were helplessly sunk in the violence of reproduction, while the "children" in their bellies grew larger and larger.
By the time the Healing Chain finally reached the last Dread Demon and completed its mission of healing all living beings, the scene had already become a paradise of Birth.
The bellies of the Dread Demons affected first began to burst. The "newborns" eagerly emerged and threw themselves into the embrace of Birth, then began devouring their "mothers'" flesh, attempting to grow into new "mothers."
And all these newborns had the same appearance. Namely...
A pair of adorable, wide eyes and a tentacle for a body.
Cheng Shi did not want this, but his divine power of Birth had come from the pregnant woman in yesterday's Food Dungeon, and he could not control it either.
That was why he had Death's Assassin prepare Death Funeral.
Once the Area Acceleration ended and the tentacle newborns had devoured all the Dread Demons, they would become another army—perhaps one far more terrifying than the Dread Demon army.
However, the ruin where so many Dread Demons had just died could be considered the finest Death Domain.
Song Yawen's final strike would completely erase these freaks and save the six of them.
This was Cheng Shi's entire plan.
It was just that the other teammates trapped inside the Dread Demon wall probably would not get to appreciate such a frenzied spectacle.
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