In a flash.
Chu Yunyi had already disappeared from the area. He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, the fighter jets overhead would blow him up along with everything else.
The next moment.
Chu Yunyi turned and left. NO.13 [Wall-Piercing Spell] let him merge into the ground beneath his feet and enter the building.
NO.1 [Void Gate] let him open a door, and then he left.
After entering [Void Gate].
Chu Yunyi felt an unbearable hunger in his stomach, along with a strange burning sensation.
"What is this..."
Chu Yunyi remembered the glimpse he'd caught of Xia Tian earlier.
That glimpse.
Xia Tian had raised his left arm and kept gnawing at it. He was eating himself.
And the way the Gluttony Virus spread was by making others see its host eating...
"Xia Tian..."
Chu Yunyi committed the name to memory.
He hadn't expected Xia Tian to use such a dirty trick when he couldn't hurt him at all.
For now.
Chu Yunyi didn't have any good way to confront him.
His only hope was to draw a good ability from the Round Table and then bring the Gluttony Virus under control.
Chu Yunyi sat inside [Void Gate], then lay down and entered the Round Table Dreamscape.
Round Table Dreamscape.
Chu Yunyi's consciousness entered, and he saw the same green Round Table as before.
The only difference was—
Chu Yunyi also saw a billiard ball that had appeared out of nowhere?
He examined it with his consciousness.
He found that there were now fifteen billiard balls among his abilities, even though there had originally been only fourteen.
The extra one.
It was a white ball, or so it seemed, though a tainted aura lurked inside it.
Chu Yunyi picked it up, and information appeared:
[NO.?? [Gluttony Virus]]
[Quality: White (Tainted)]
[Introduction: With this ability, you will become a terrifying cannibal. The more you eat, the stronger you will become, but your body will mutate beyond your control.]
[Cost: You will be unable to suppress your appetite, and it will only grow stronger.]
Seeing the billiard ball, Chu Yunyi's veins nearly bulged!
"Xia Tian!"
"You can't hurt me, so you're just going to disgust me, huh?"
"Just wait. I'll kill you!"
Chu Yunyi was furious, but in an instant, NO.7 [Perfect Order] activated. Even in his anger, he could still think rationally.
"Wait, didn't he say he was immortal?"
"Then I'll encase him in concrete and sink him into the sea!"
"Or I'll toss him into outer space and make him stare at the stars without saying a damn word."
After figuring out how to deal with him, Chu Yunyi felt a lot better.
So he was immortal. So what?
That didn't make him invincible. What could he do if Chu Yunyi sank him to the bottom of the sea?
What could he do if Chu Yunyi tossed him into outer space?
He'd be done for!
Still.
The Gluttony Virus was on Chu Yunyi, and it wouldn't be easy to get rid of.
What Chu Yunyi didn't notice was—
As his anger flared, the Operation Power he used to manipulate the Round Table unconsciously flowed into the ball representing [Gluttony Virus].
Crack...
A faint cracking sound rang out, surprising Chu Yunyi.
After all.
Sounds basically never occurred in the Round Table Dreamscape.
Chu Yunyi swept his consciousness over the ball and found that the one representing [Gluttony Virus] had changed!
He saw—
For some reason, fine cracks had appeared across the ball.
Chu Yunyi thought it over, then once again used his Operation Power, directing it straight at the [Gluttony Virus] ball.
Crack!
Bang!
The ball suddenly shattered, turning into a pile of powder.
Some of the larger pieces gradually coalesced into smaller billiard balls, while the remaining powder scattered across the ground.
A wisp of taint appeared within it.
It tried to disperse like an aura, but an invisible force in the Round Table Dreamscape restrained it, instantly condensing it into a small tainted ball.
Chu Yunyi looked at the result.
He had crushed the ball representing [Gluttony Virus].
He had obtained a pile of white powder, two smaller white billiard balls, and one small tainted ball.
Chu Yunyi was surprised. He lifted the two white balls with his mind and examined them one by one.
Information appeared:
[NO.?? [Gluttony Trait]]
[Quality: White-]
[Introduction: You have a powerful appetite, and as your body grows stronger, your appetite will grow even stronger.]
[NO.?? [Dietary Therapy Trait]]
[Quality: White-]
[Introduction: By eating continuously, you can gradually strengthen your body.]
[NO.?? [Propagation Trait]]
[Quality: White-]
[Introduction: You can grant the abilities of [???] to other living beings through the method of [???].]
Only then did Chu Yunyi understand.
After he crushed the ball representing [Gluttony Virus], these smaller balls were the ability's component traits. How strange.
"Then this one must be..."
Chu Yunyi lifted the small tainted ball and inspected it:
[NO.?? [Virus Trait]]
[Quality: Tainted]
[Introduction: Your body will mutate due to [???], and you will obey the absolutely exalted Mo Xun, because He is the one who gave you your virus.]
Looking at the small tainted ball, Chu Yunyi wanted to crush it too.
But he was afraid of causing some unforeseen consequence, like the tainted aura inside spreading through the Round Table Dreamscape or something.
So.
He set his sights on [Gluttony Trait]. His abilities were all useful to some degree.
But an ability that increased his appetite wasn't much use to him.
Then.
Chu Yunyi used his Operation Power to crush [Gluttony Trait].
The crushed [Gluttony Trait] turned into white powder, scattering across the ground.
Only then did Chu Yunyi notice the powder.
It wasn't like the billiard balls, yet it still existed in the Round Table Dreamscape. It had to be useful somehow.
Chu Yunyi looked at it, and sure enough, information appeared:
[NO.?? [Peak Primal Powder]]
[Quality: Colorless]
[Introduction: A substance produced when an ability is shattered. You can fuse it with other abilities to strengthen them.]
Chu Yunyi's eyes lit up.
Although he was only a Consciousness Entity in the Round Table Dreamscape.
Chu Yunyi looked at [Virus Trait] again and gave a rueful sigh. "Looks like I can't let you stick around!"
Then.
[Virus Trait] was crushed to pieces, along with the wisp of tainted aura inside it, and both turned to powder.
Chu Yunyi regretted one thing, though: that move had consumed a huge amount of his Operation Power.
Chu Yunyi thought it over.
If crushing a billiard ball produced smaller balls, there was no reason he couldn't reverse the process and fuse them together.
With that in mind.
He placed [Dietary Therapy Trait] beside NO.10 [Size Merit]. Both were abilities that strengthened the body, so they ought to be a good match.
Sure enough.
The two really did begin to fuse, forming a billiard ball a size larger than the original!
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