Father on the Left, Righteousness on the Right

"Yu Yu, look, your big brother spoke a little too loudly earlier. Don't take it to heart, okay? Put the bow down, just put the bow down," Wu Hen said hurriedly.

Yu Yu lowered the pink heavy bow, but the next second, she seemed like a completely different person. She threw herself into Wu Hen's arms, sobbing and acting terrified, a stark contrast to the elven maiden from a moment ago.

Wu Hen looked at the small head buried in his chest, speechless for a long moment.

So, shooting through a human larva's eyeball—that violent act had nothing to do with the gentle Yu Yu, right? That wasn't the sweet, cute girl he knew?

After soothing her for a good while, Yu Yu finally composed herself.

Wu Hen walked toward the dead man with the eye patterns and saw the two white pupil-worms that had been pinned out through the back of his skull.

At this moment, a strong sensation surged from his right hand, as if his hand had grown a mouth and was craving this high-protein supplement.

"You really are hungry, aren't you? Even something this disgusting..." Wu Hen felt utterly helpless.

He had no choice but to extend his palm. A phantom immediately darted out from it, like a gluttonous Little Witch Dragon, opening its mouth to swallow the two pupil-worms in one gulp.

This scene was quite familiar to Wu Hen. Back at the cliff in Jue Town, it was this very thing, disguised as lightning, that had suddenly bitten the Yuan You on his hand. If it hadn't been so greedy for that bite, Xiao Yi would still be wandering the horizon, struggling for every meal!

"Speaking of which, didn't you eat Zai Wu too? Such a powerful existence must have been a huge boost for you, so why do you still care about these scraps?" Wu Hen felt puzzled.

As if to help Wu Hen understand it better, Xiao Yi suddenly split into two different energies: one Black Void, one blue-white. They were the exact black and white lightning state Wu Hen had seen when they divided Jue Town.

The Black Void quickly darted past Wu Hen, swimming freely until it reached the position of his left arm.

Wu Hen looked at his left arm and discovered a rather sacred sword mark imprinted there—it was the Holy Father Black Miracle Death Sword!

On his right hand, there was another substance. It was entirely like a lightning White Ze, lively and active, shifting at times into the shape of an Origin Mech Pistol, and at others, transforming back into the compound bow from before...

At this moment, because it had devoured the two white pupil-worms, Wu Hen noticed that the substance on his right hand had sprouted something like mycelium or crystalline whiskers. It made his entire arm look as if it had mutated, covered from the inside out in a layer of white frost-like texture!

Wu Hen watched in constant amazement.

"Are you twins?" Wu Hen immediately communicated with the symbiotic miracles within his body.

Wu Hen glanced at the Black Miracle Death Sword on his left hand and continued, "Is this the Holy Father?"

Wu Hen then looked at the lively, shifting miracle substance on his right: "And this is Xiao Yi?"

Suddenly, the two energies in his left and right hands darted into Wu Hen's chest, merging into one. They presented a form similar to the intersection of the two poles—Black Void and White Ze. They seemed to be one entity, inseparable!

"I think I get it now. You have the Yin and Yang poles. The Yin is the ever-changing, capable of becoming whatever it eats; the Yang is the domineering soul of the death sword, eternal and unchanging!"

In reality, he now controlled two types of power. One was a basic skill: by using his right hand to devour specific substances, he could manifest them into corresponding weapons.

The other was the ultimate profound mystery, which mostly remained in a dormant and restorative state. It generally didn't bother with hunting or wandering; it only manifested to annihilate when an existence on the level of Zai Wu appeared.

"Fine, from now on, Holy Father, you stay dormant in my left hand, and Xiao Yi, you stay in my right. That way, I, your master, won't get confused and charge at every Desolate Dust Prodigy I see with my right hand!" Wu Hen said.

Xiao Yi felt there was no problem with this, so it attached its Black Divine Miracle Yang Body to Wu Hen's left hand.

Seeing the Holy Father Death Sword return to his left hand, Wu Hen felt a surge of security; he had thought he had completely lost contact with the Holy Father.

It was good that it was still inside his body.

"How much nourishment can these two little protein balls provide you?" Wu Hen asked Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi, seemingly unwilling to be looked down upon, immediately radiated its divine White Ze aura after devouring the white insect pupil. Wu Hen could see a substance made of profound fungal crystal threads appearing on his arm, rapidly covering his entire right arm in the form of White Radiance Phantom Armor...

This bizarre transformation was countless times more advanced and profound than the fungal threads that had wrapped around the eye-patterned man, making it look as if Wu Hen possessed a Radiant Crystal Profound Arm!

Seeing this, Wu Hen instantly thought of the sharp cold thorn used by the eye-patterned man.

With a thought, Wu Hen shouted out in a chuunibyou fashion: "Qilin Arm, manifest!"

Sure enough, profound fungal crystal threads rapidly grew from his palm, and in an even shorter amount of time, they transformed into a white cold thorn, as hard as star steel and as cold as alien frost!

It truly possessed a bit of the domineering aura of a white Qilin Arm!

"Block!"

Wu Hen shifted again, and soon he saw the profound fungal crystal threads on his arm growing wildly in front of his chest, instantly turning into a White Radiance Breastplate that covered his chest area.

Seeing this, Wu Hen was incredibly excited.

The ability of his right hand was perfectly synchronized with his thoughts; it was a power he had perfect control over.

Most importantly, it could grow alongside him!

"Awesome, Xiao Yi!"

"I know the power of the Death Sword on my left hand is too strong, and it's still a bit of a stretch for my current mental strength to control it, but I will work hard to become stronger until all life in the Desolate Dust bows down before us!"

He had thought that returning to his homeland would just be about reporting his safety to his family.

He hadn't expected to gain such a Qilin Arm; it was just too cool!

The fire in the warehouse finally drew the attention of those slow-witted white-collar workers and the Black Shirt Organization.

By the time they went to put out the fire, Wu Hen and Yu Yu had already taken advantage of the chaos to leave the commercial building.

The two returned to the air-raid shelter. Sure enough, faced with the dim underground passages, Wu Hen couldn't remember the way back at all.

Without the fierce girl Yu Yu leading the way, Wu Hen wouldn't be able to find his way home even in a day or two!

"Why do you keep rubbing your nose? Is it uncomfortable?" Wu Hen asked.

Yu Yu shook her head; her rhinitis might be acting up again. The air inside the air-raid shelter was quite poor.

"I didn't expect you, little girl, to be so useful at a critical moment. That scene where you took out the Eyeball Worm was so cool! If I had recorded it, I'd loop it on the big screen at your wedding!" Wu Hen said.

Yu Yu wasn't actually feeling very well. Even though she knew that thing was a monster, she had still blown its head off with an arrow!

In the past, she wouldn't have harmed any small living creatures—except for mosquitoes, flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, small spiders, locusts...

In short, she had broken her vow against killing, and she felt a strong sense of physical discomfort.

Yet, this outrageous brother of hers kept bringing it up along the way, causing Yu Yu to lose her composure countless times.

Unable to take it anymore, Yu Yu ran in front of Wu Hen, walking backward, and used sign language to express her anger, looking as furious as a female ninja performing hand seals.

"Sigh, why do you think that thing was destroying the medicine storage earlier?" Wu Hen finally turned serious, discussing the issue with his sister.

"You love watching mystery and suspense shows, so give me your analysis."

"It's clear there's a group of people like that, and they are responsible for destroying all the medicine in this city... If I were an alien and couldn't wait to destroy all the medicine in a city, there would only be one goal: to let a virus spread throughout the entire city!" Yu Yu analyzed.

"That's what I thought, too." Wu Hen nodded.

Yu Yu felt a little disappointed; she had hoped to get some praise from her brother.

"The problem is, why would they do this? What benefit do they get from making the whole city sick? Don't they need to live here too?" Wu Hen still couldn't figure that part out.

Even if they were mutants, they still had to live in the human homeland.

"Unless they come from the Desolate Dust." Yu Yu said immediately.

"I think so too." Wu Hen nodded again, acknowledging his sister's analysis. "Then how did they infiltrate? The Nuwa Divine Terminal can't be running bare-metal without a firewall, right?"

The Holy Father being in hibernation was real.

The Nuwa Divine Terminal isolating the connection between Wu Hen and the Black Miracle Death Sword was also real.

Could creatures from the Desolate Dust really descend into this human homeland?

Or was the boundary between this world and reality becoming increasingly blurred?

Returning to the Tropical Pavilion, they entered the private secret room.

Yu Yu immediately rummaged for medicine to treat Wu Yingting's wounds.

Her mother, Yu Yi, had already prepared food, allowing Wu Hen to feast to his heart's content.

During the meal, Xiao Yi also seemed to enjoy it immensely, feeling that this could also provide a trace amount of the energy it needed. What kind of principle was that? Perhaps it was simply the joy of a foodie soul.

Although the space here was small, Wu Hen felt very content being together with his family.

Wu Yingting did not know much about the Desolate Dust, but he did know that most Awakened among the human population had been conscripted, and the authorities were also scouring for wild Awakened in large numbers.

"Take the order-keepers at the school, for instance. Out of several thousand students, there are bound to be a few Awakened. They get taken away, and as for the rest of the people, as well as those in comas, I'm afraid they are left to fend for themselves," Wu Yingting said.

Wu Hen nodded. He also knew the authorities were definitely searching for people useful to the Nuwa Divine Terminal. If the Divine Terminal couldn't be defended, everyone would be finished!

"I also heard that Spirit Sense is something like a little sprite. They are intangible, but they intentionally migrate to people with strong adaptability and coping skills in harsh environments. So, if you want to awaken or become stronger, you need to engage in more struggles and battles with those Desolate Dust creatures," Wu Yingting said.

"Achoo!" At this moment, Yu Yu sneezed.

Wu Hen's gaze involuntarily fell upon Yu Yu, and he noticed that her nose was actually bright red.

The Eye-Patterned Man he had killed—setting aside his mycelium ability—seemed to have possessed a very powerful sense of smell...

He remembered that when he killed the Delicate-Featured One and the Mature-Looking One, he had gained their hearing. This aligned with the theory Wu Yingting had told him about "Spirit Sense choosing a good tree to perch on."

Now, his younger sister Yu Yu, as someone who had lost her voice, already had a keen sense of smell. Having just gone through such a struggle, and now showing signs of nasal discomfort multiple times...

"Xiao Yu, focus your attention and smell which bag I put my underwear in. We were in such a rush when we fled home that I don't remember where I packed my undergarments," Wu Hen raised his eyebrows and tested Yu Yu.

Sure enough, Yu Yu transformed into a young girl version of a ninja once again!

He didn't know if she had awakened or not, but her Chibaku Tensei was about to be completed.