588 Anomaly II
Yuan Qingmo wanted to speak, but the scene before her eyes shifted once again to countless withered and barren Desolation Disaster.
An endless stream of External Source Disaster Energy surged towards him. The chaos unique to the Desolation Disaster made it impossible for him to withstand normal resistance.
Boom!!
This time, he finally had some power to resist.
Since we're doomed either way, then...
In an instant, his entire being, along with his soul, exploded.
The massive External Source- level Desolation Disaster Energy was immediately enveloped by Lin Hui's enormous body, completely swallowed, decomposed, transformed, and absorbed.
Then came the third, the fourth... each time, the Wind Energy erosion accelerated.
Until... the seventy-second time.
In the void, Lin Hui nodded slightly. Basically, the next time, he would be able to completely erode it, both its body and soul.
Watching Yuan Qingmo return, there was strong resistance in his eyes, but it was no use; the Source Disaster controlled him and he returned here again.
"One last try." Although the other side couldn't resist, Lin Hui still offered a polite reminder.
"Wait!..." Yuan Qingmo's words were cut short.
The light in his eyes was suddenly suppressed by the mark, and his body began to disintegrate rapidly, about to turn into Desolation Disaster and self-destruct.
But in the next instant, his entire body reassembled, his skin rapidly turned blue, and an aura of Wind Energy and Desolation Disaster gradually emanated from his body.
The two forces were mixing and still transforming and eroding each other.
Under Lin Hui's close control, the Desolation Disaster's Disaster Energy was quickly devoured and transformed. In just a few minutes, Yuan Qingmo was completely transformed into a Wind Energy structure.
"Compared to Wind Disaster, the resistance to Desolation Disaster is much stronger... Converting Wind Disaster Fusionist back then wasn't this difficult."
Lin Hui looked at Yuan Qingmo, who was motionless, and finally began to erode and transform his soul.
The souls of the Fusionist were also thoroughly eroded by the Source Disaster, or rather, their souls themselves were reconstructed by the Source Disaster.
What Lin Hui needs to do now is to go through this process again.
A few minutes later, the blue light in Yuan Qingmo's eyes gradually returned.
This means that his soul has been largely eroded by Wind Energy.
It's a crucial moment again. Last time, in the Wind Disaster Court, it was right here that I self-destructed... no, last time I didn't even manage to fully transform my body... but this time, I've successfully made new progress...
Lin Hui unconsciously tensed up at this moment. The Supreme Omniscience Seal continuously accelerated his mental processing, allowing him to accurately calculate and predict possible situations at any time and make corresponding preparations.
Soon, his divine soul was transformed to 70%, 80%, 90%... Just then, a huge chaos instantly reversed and interfered with Lin Hui's steady progress.
The chaos came out of nowhere, without warning, as if it was inevitable that things would descend into chaos at this stage, leaving no trace. It had a sense of naturalness, of being perfectly just what was going on.
Boom!!
Yuan Qingmo exploded again.
The External Source powerhouse self-destructed, and all its previous power was forcibly absorbed and transformed by Lin Hui. But this time, it was completely different from the previous times.
Its power is at least several thousand times greater than before.
Caught off guard, Lin Hui was instantly blasted with a large hole in the massive body that surrounded him.
Even with his enormous size, he still felt somewhat uncomfortable for a while.
"Failed again... but... it's different from before... I seem to see... deep in that guy's soul, there seems to be something like an imprint... no... not just an imprint, it seems more like the essence of his being..."
A multitude of thoughts flashed through Lin Hui's mind.
With the leader defeated, Lin Hui had a moment to spare. He controlled the Wind Energy and swept it gently, instantly eroding and transforming the countless monsters of the Desolation Disaster on the battlefield below.
The vast Desolation Disaster eroded everything, as if a huge blue patch had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, immediately disrupting the balance and rapidly turning the tide of the battle.
The Rongchang Star Lord and the Seven Emotions Star Lord were still locked in fierce combat and hadn't even had time to react before it was all over.
Vast stretches of emptiness.
While Xia Si and the others were still locked in fierce combat, their opponent froze in the blink of an eye, then disintegrated into pure Wind Energy and vanished.
Countless world planets that were originally plunged into chaos by the Desolation Disaster are now rapidly returning to normal. The areas occupied by the Desolation Disaster are being rapidly eroded and transformed by Wind Energy.
One year later.
The Three Greats forces gathered once again in a silver palace in the void.
The Rongchang Star Lord and the Seven Emotions Star Lord looked at Lin Hui as he slowly entered the palace, their expressions somewhat complicated.
"Senior Lin..." Rongchang Star Lord sighed, "You've kept this from us for so long..."
"If I had known that Senior Lin's strength was so extraordinary, I wouldn't have sublet it for such a low price... Ouch... It really hurts..." the Seven Emotions Star Lord said, his face contorted.
Lin Hui smiled, which was a veiled way of telling him that the Seven Emotions Merchant Alliance hadn't made much extra money either, and he shouldn't ask Monkey for the price difference.
"That's not my fault, I only broke through not long ago myself."
"The current situation is that the Wind Energy of Clear Jade Mountain occupies a vast area... that's one issue," said Rongchang Star Lord. "Secondly, I wonder if Senior Lin is aware that since you defeated the Azure Ink Sect last time, its sect leader has undergone a significant change. In fact, not only the Azure Ink Sect, but all the areas and forces affected by Clear Jade Mountain have experienced similar changes."
"What changes?" Lin Hui raised an eyebrow.
"No rush, Seven Emotions, show the senior the intelligence we just received." Rongchang looked at the monkey.
With a nod of Seven Emotions and a wave of the hand, he made a gesture.
Instantly, a huge, semi-transparent screen automatically materialized in front of the three of them, on which a black, classical-style building surrounded by a withered yellow color began to appear.
"This is the Azure Ink Sect," said Seven Emotions.
Inside the pavilion, countless figures came and went, creating a lively and bustling atmosphere.
"This is Azure Ink Sect leader of the Yuan Qingmo."
The scene shifts, and the screen immediately focuses on a black-robed figure sitting upright in a cultivation room in a pavilion.
"... This!?" Lin Hui looked at Seven Emotions in astonishment. "Was it... placed in the wrong place?"
"There's no mistake, this video was sent to me by the Azure Ink Sect," Seven Emotions continued.
Lin Hui fell silent, staring at the woman in the image with long, waist-length hair, a curvaceous figure, and stunning beauty. He simply couldn't reconcile her with the Yuan Qingmo he had fought before.
"Actually, according to Yuan Qingmo's secret contacts, the Azure Ink Sect originally had two-thirds male disciples, but after you personally took action and wiped out a large number of Fusionist and monsters, the situation changed..." Rongchang Star Lord's expression was also complicated.
"What changes?" Lin Hui's main body was enormous, and he had already received some news of the changes. But he still wanted to hear what the two star lords had to say.
"The entire Azure Ink Sect has now become female and regained their fertility. But this is impossible and unrealistic. According to Yuan Qingmo, even if Fusionist gives birth to a child, the child will only retain the strength they had at birth and will remain the same as before. Therefore, reproduction is meaningless for Fusionist."
"According to the statistics from the areas you previously swept through, in the places affected by your Wind Energy, a large number of males quickly transformed into females, and their appearance and physique are extremely in line with the aesthetic standards of the tribe. In simple terms, they are extremely suitable for Propagation," Seven Emotions said earnestly.
Lin Hui was speechless.
"Now even Yuan Qingmo herself has uncontrollably become a woman... and according to tests, she now also has the ability to reproduce..." Seven Emotions continued.
"How did she conduct the test?" the Rongchang Star Lord suddenly asked from the side.
"How should I know? I guess they really tried it." Seven Emotions frowned.
"At first, I thought Clear Jade Mountain was just an accident, but now it seems there aren't that many accidents in the world," Rongchang sighed.
"..." Lin Hui never imagined that Propagation would cause such a huge change...
Turning everyone around him into beautiful women—he had only ever seen such things in bizarre storybooks before, but he never expected it to actually happen.
"Having come this far, can't you just reverse it back to normal?" Lin Hui said in a deep voice.
"There's no way... I've asked those who were affected, and they completely lost their freedom to choose their gender after the transformation."
"Rongchang Road."
After parting ways with the two star lords, Lin Hui returned to Clear Jade Mountain.
Back in the courtyard, he glanced at the Myriad Stars Fruit and other miscellaneous items he had accumulated over the years, a dazzling Existence Force constantly flashing within them.
Since using up his previous Original Object Projection, he has been trying to find a similar high-level treasure again, complete the evolution, and obtain a second Original Object Projection.
Unfortunately, Chongli didn't give them any; the treasures he collected himself were of a much lower quality.
Existence Force now, it seems we can only evolve from the basics to the end; wasting some is better than having none at all.
Before evolving, Lin Hui quickly searched for all the special records about the Celestial Venerable.
But none of them saw a situation similar to his.
While Celestial Venerables do eventually attain enlightenment and reach a higher level, they don't experience situations where even the Fusionist are affected. They usually only influence a small area around themselves.
From this perspective, it's probably because my original body is extremely large, that's one point. Secondly, considering the rank I've merged with, it's likely different from that of a typical Celestial Venerable.
Lin Hui compared the records of other Celestial Venerables and found that even the most powerful Celestial Venerable in the legends had a far greater influence than him.
This includes some celestial beings who have integrated powerful concepts of status.
If I'm not mistaken... authenticity... is perhaps the biggest difference between me and the other Celestial Venerables.
Although Propagation is only a low-to-mid-level rank, it is still possible for him to indirectly control it through Blood Seal, completely avoiding the distorted perception of Propagation through the senses.
With this lingering doubt.
Lin Hui chose the highest-level resource treasure he had collected.
A Star God Crystal.
Legend has it that the Star God Clan were incredibly powerful, with their strongest members comparable to top-tier Celestial Venerables. Even ordinary Source Disaster were helpless against them; only the Great Annihilation could completely defeat and weaken them.
The Star God Crystal is said to be a crystallization of the Star God's soul, passed down from the Star God's most glorious and powerful era.
Lin Hui had initially thought it was just a rumor, but after the Blood Seal was examined, he discovered that the news was actually true.
Nevertheless, the Star God Crystal was still far inferior to the two treasures that Senior Chongli had given him.
If he hadn't promised Chongli that he would eventually return the heart to him, he actually intended to evolve the Nameless Heart.
"If we follow the definition of the original, then theoretically, anything that evolves to the point of reaching the level of the original... But is the original truly the only source in this world?"
Lin Hui vaguely sensed that this wasn't the case.
Especially now that he has one foot in the Heavenly Venerable realm, and he has even stepped into the True Status Heavenly Venerable realm.