Even Titans Can Die from Infection

Cold, dead silence.

It felt as if he were submerged in liquid nitrogen at absolute zero, every inch of his consciousness being frantically gnawed upon by a monster named "Void."

Gu Yuan struggled to open his eyes.

What met his gaze was not a familiar ceiling, but a deathly, dark red nebula, with faint meteors occasionally streaking through the darkness in the distance.

No, that was not a nebula.

Gu Yuan's consciousness rapidly expanded, his vast perception instantly covering a range of several light-years. He was shocked to discover that the silent "nebula" was merely a scar on his own chest.

And those meteors were nothing more than the remnants of his own spiritual energy dissipating into the universe.

"I've transmigrated..."

Memories flooded in like a tide. The young man from Earth, Gu Yuan, had vanished, replaced by an ancient deity floating at the edge of the universe—a Chaos Titan, a being nearly extinct in this epoch.

His true form was unimaginably massive. If Earth were placed before him, it wouldn't even compare to a speck of dust on his fingertip. His blood flow was a surging galaxy; his breath was a cosmic storm.

Possessing such a majestic body should have made him an invincible existence capable of sweeping across worlds and plucking stars from the sky.

But reality dealt Gu Yuan a heavy blow.

Pain.

A bone-chilling, soul-piercing agony radiated from every corner of his body.

Gu Yuan tried to lift his right hand, only to find that this finger, capable of crushing stars, was heavy as a thousand mountains and impossible to move.

He could only use his faint divine sense to look inside his body, and what he saw made his scalp tingle.

The [Pulmonary Star Domain], once as brilliant as a golden kingdom, was now shrouded in clusters of filthy black mist. Those mists were not inanimate; they were billions of "Void Locusts," tiny as dust motes yet hideous in appearance. They were frantically gnawing at the spiritual energy crystal walls of his lung lobes, each bite causing Gu Yuan a suffocating, burning sensation.

--This was pneumonia caused by a severe bacterial infection.

Following his long-dried blood vessels downward, at the entrance of the [Intestinal Abyss], a dark purple magic dragon tens of thousands of kilometers long was coiled within. It possessed thousands of tooth-filled mouthparts, which were plunged deep into the intestinal wall like straws, greedily sucking away Gu Yuan's remaining life essence.

--That was a cosmic-level parasite, the Void Ascaris Dragon.

Even more terrifying was the [Left Arm Frontier]. That area had completely turned into a gray, dead wasteland, where countless twisted buds were proliferating wildly, attempting to counterattack the heart's main citadel.

--That was necrotizing fasciitis, which might have already transformed into some form of divine cancer.

"Are you kidding me..." A sense of despair welled up in Gu Yuan's heart. "I'm this huge, and I'm a sickly weakling?"

The evil gods who had once besieged this Titan body had long since departed, but the curses, toxins, and alien organisms they left behind had taken root and sprouted within this massive divine body, forming a terrifying "pathogenic ecosystem."

Without external intervention, in at most three cosmic hours, this great Titan divine body would completely perish and turn into cosmic dust.

[Warning! Vital signs extremely weak!]

[Warning! Immune system has completely collapsed! White blood cell legions wiped out! Macrophage guards wiped out!]

[Warning! Heart core shield durability below 0.01%! Once the heart core is breached by parasites, the host will die completely!]

A cold, mechanical voice suddenly exploded in the depths of Gu Yuan's soul.

Gu Yuan's spirit jolted: "System?"

As a transmigrator, he naturally knew what this was.

[Activating Divine Body Reconstruction System... Activation successful.]

[Host: Gu Yuan]

[Race: Chaos Titan (Juvenile/Dying)]

[Life Level: Tier 10 (Formerly Tier 12)]

[Current Status: Multi-organ failure, severe infection, parasitic erosion, cancerous spread.]

[Remaining survival time: 72 hours (Earth time).]

Only three days?

Gu Yuan looked at the bright red countdown, his heart turning cold: "System, can you repair the body directly?"

[Insufficient energy. Repairing the divine body requires massive amounts of high-dimensional energy; the host's current energy is exhausted.]

"Then I can only wait for death?" Gu Yuan watched the few "Void Ascaris Dragons" swimming toward his heart, his heart filled with unwillingness.

[Detected that the host possesses the unique talent: Dimensional Link.]

[Deducing solution...]

[Optimal solution generated: Fourth Calamity Project.]

[Description: The host's own immune system has collapsed and cannot resist the invasion. The system suggests crossing dimensions to link with the low-dimensional world "Blue Star," summoning "spiritual bodies" to descend and rebuild the immune defense line within the host's body.]

Gu Yuan was stunned for a moment, then realized: "You mean... find Earthlings to act as my cells and help me kill the infection?"

[Exactly.]

[Although low-dimensional beings are weak, their souls possess extreme plasticity and immortality (can be resurrected). As long as suitable "biological carriers" are constructed for them, they will be the perfect mercenaries.]

[Do you wish to activate Dimensional Link?]

Gu Yuan looked at the black toxic mist drawing ever closer, his eyes gradually turning fierce.

This body is now a purgatory teeming with monsters.

Since his own cells were dead, he would recruit "mercenaries" from the outside!

As long as he could survive, he would dare to use anyone—not just players from Blue Star, but even demons!

"Activate!" Gu Yuan said in a deep voice, "Connect to the Blue Star network immediately!"

[Command confirmed.]

[Anchoring Blue Star coordinates... Anchoring successful.]

[Constructing virtual server...]

[Digitizing the host's internal environment...]

[Generating game website...]

Gu Yuan's divine sense was instantly pulled into a strange space.

He watched as the system scanned and modeled his battered, broken body at incredible speed.

Damaged blood vessels became the "Scarlet Corridor";

Lungs filled with toxic gas became the "Storm Poison Domain";

The intestines where parasites were entrenched became the "Abyssal Dragon Nest".

[Please name this game, Host.]

Gu Yuan looked at this grand yet desperate internal world and remained silent for a moment.

To the players of Blue Star, this was a game.

But to him, this was a Genesis war of life and death.

"Call it... Titan: Genesis."

[Naming successful.]

[First beta test quota set: 1,000 players.]

[Official website has been released to major gaming platforms and social media on Blue Star.]

[Generating promotional slogan: A 100% realistic holographic online game, an epoch-making journey of evolution. Are you ready to become a god?]

Meanwhile, on Blue Star.

Countless people browsing the web or scrolling through short videos suddenly found an unclosable, pitch-black pop-up window on their screens.

There were no flashy special effects, only a line of text shimmering with dark gold luster, accompanied by the sound of a massive heart beating in the background, as if it could devour their very souls.

"Thump... thump... thump..."

Every beat felt like it was striking deep into the souls of everyone who heard it.

A line of text slowly emerged:

[Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly... live?]

(System automatically crossed out)

[Ahem, made a mistake.]

The screen flickered and changed to new copy:

[The world's first 100% immersive holographic online game Titan: Genesis beta test is now open.]

[This is not a game; this is an opportunity for evolution.]

[Click to pre-register and descend immediately.]