Efficacy

When Tang Chuan woke again, he was lying safely in bed.

Still seeming not to have slept enough, he yawned.

Then he realized—he was awake?

He immediately projected Quintessa's image, then lightly sprang from the bed and landed just as lightly.

He spread his palm, savoring the delight of his genes and cells. Beginning from his fingers, his hand unfurled in flying strands of blood like a Fantasy Weapon, changing shape.

Cone-shaped.

Blade-shaped.

Whip-shaped.

Heart-shaped.

Tangled-earphones-shaped.

Returning to human form, Tang Chuan tilted his neck.

Screeech~

His upper body instantly broke apart, becoming streams of dancing flesh filaments. As they whipped wildly about, they shredded every object in the room into fragments.

Then that resilient flesh, writhing like a swarm of snakes, began contracting toward the center, forming a demon over two meters tall, with a grotesque exposed skeleton, horns on its head, and two enormous flesh wings extending from its back.

He pulled his spine from his back like a sharp sword. In his hand, it took on a form where its skeletal structure was faintly visible, yet it looked more like a Bone Sword.

His palm squirmed and swallowed the Bone Sword into his body. Tang Chuan's exaggerated physique began to contract, gradually returning to its human appearance.

Eager to give it a try, Tang Chuan looked at Quintessa and asked, "Is anyone upstairs in the hotel?"

Quintessa replied, "You are staying on the sixteenth floor. Something has happened on Heka Star 18, so no one is staying above the fifteenth floor."

Tang Chuan manipulated the Fantasy Attribute, completely isolating the space above the fifteenth floor.

He bent slightly, like a fully drawn bowstring, brimming with explosive force.

Boom!

In an instant, Tang Chuan crushed the floor beneath his feet. Powerful air currents swept everything in the room into a frenzy, scattering debris everywhere.

Bang bang bang bang bang!

This hotel had thirty-six floors in total!

In a single instant, Tang Chuan smashed through the floors and ceilings of the twenty stories above him!

He instantly arrived in the sky above the building, hovering over the rooftop he had crashed through.

At that moment, wisps of pale red threads sprayed from the major acupoints beneath him, granting him the temporary ability to float in the air.

This was the physical strength produced by his new extraordinary genes, somewhat akin to what his hometown of Azure Star called "Qi and Blood Power."

This Qi and Blood Power was not produced from nothing. Rather, it came from his body's cells absorbing and storing cosmic energy particles.

Of course, it could also be obtained through eating.

And for Tang Chuan, who possessed an entire Origin Universe, even if he were isolated in an absolutely sealed space, he could absorb similar energy particles from the Origin Universe and gain an inexhaustible supply of power!

Retracting his energy, Tang Chuan instantly fell freely through the hole he had made and returned to his room.

Since he had already isolated the building, no one else sensed the commotion.

With only a thought, the Fantasy Attribute surged forth and instantly repaired everything around him.

The damaged and disordered building, as well as the floors he had smashed to pieces, immediately returned to their original state.

Quintessa spoke at the appropriate moment. "The second treatment caused a minor leap in your life form. You now possess the ability to survive in certain cosmic environments.

"Your regenerative ability has already reached the peak for this level of life. As long as most of your brain tissue is not destroyed, you can rapidly return to your original state.

"Your instantaneous speed has even reached the level of a low-tier Planet Butcher, approximately twice the speed of sound on Azure Star. You can instantly escape dangers within a small area.

"Just as you experienced earlier, even if a whole building stands in your way, you can instantly accelerate and break through the encirclement.

"However, your normal speed is only one-third the speed of sound, vastly different from your instantaneous speed.

"Compared to your speed, your strength is considerably weaker. This is the result of placing the strength attribute in the fifth sequence."

Tang Chuan clenched his fist and, without turning his head, drove an elbow strike behind him.

Boom!

The load-bearing pillar exploded with fragments when he struck it, instantly becoming covered in spiderweb-like cracks. It seemed that one more hit would reduce this sixty-centimeter-diameter pillar, sturdier than Azure Star concrete, into pieces all over the floor.

However...

Tang Chuan rubbed his elbow as the shattered bones in his arm rapidly healed.

While controlling the Fantasy Attribute to repair the room once more, Tang Chuan clicked his tongue. "That must have hurt. It still feels a little numb now. Good thing I cut off the pain nerves in my arm earlier.

"This strength...

"Is enough!"

Quintessa smiled. "It is good that you can accept it, but there will certainly come a time when you have to fight personally. I think you should get used to fighting with pain enabled in advance.

"Otherwise, intense pain during battle, or the sluggish sensation caused by cutting off your neurons, may lead to undesirable results."

Tang Chuan waved his hand. "It's fine. Don't I still have the Fantasy Weapon? Besides, I have a feeling that when a real crisis comes, endless inspiration will naturally burst forth from the deepest part of my mind. Wouldn't that be better than the judgment of this human body of mine?"

Quintessa said helplessly, "All right, that is true. At present, anything the Fantasy Weapon cannot resolve is also... difficult for you to resolve. It is just that while the Divine Core can ignore mental attacks, if you do not strengthen your mental fortitude in the finer details, I am afraid human emotions may affect your judgment."

Tang Chuan shook his head. "No matter how rational I am, I cannot compare to your judgment. For who I am now, rather than becoming a rational god, I would rather be a powerful human. On crucial matters, I have the Divine Core and you to cover for me. In the small details of life, having a few flaws and shortcomings—isn't that precisely what makes someone human?

"By the way, how is Canghuang Continent doing now? Is it time for me to make my entrance?"

Quintessa said, "Almost. The Eagle Empire and the Sun Empire have already begun a full-scale war."

Tang Chuan said, "Is that so? Then I'll go in and take a look later. For now, tell me what exactly has happened on this planet.

"When I was on the rooftop just now, I seemed to see military Shuttles patrolling everywhere. Aside from the military, there were no civilians on the ground."

Quintessa said, "That is what I wanted to tell you. Many people have died on Heka Star, and full martial law has begun."