Loose Ends

After a round of chaotic greetings, everyone finally became acquainted with one another.

At the same time, they learned from Senior Sister Mi exactly what Wang Qi had just been doing.

Everyone's expressions instantly turned horrified.

Su Junyu stared at Wang Qi, his face full of disbelief. "I mean, you... I mean, you... this... this... I'd actually thought of doing something like this before..."

At once, everyone's needle-prick stares converged on Su Junyu.

"Don't look at me like that!" Su Junyu cried. "After learning about Junior Sister Ai's research, I considered that possibility. But what I thought at the time was, 'Other than a madman, who would do something like that?'"

So everyone's gazes focused on Wang Qi again.

This madman.

Chen Feng was the first to offer a guess. "Wang Qi, when you formed your Core... um... did something go wrong with your brain?"

Three years of Qi Refining, six years of Foundation Establishment, nine years of Core Formation—this was an inevitable process. If one exceeded that span, the gradual changes in one's mode of thought would fail to keep pace with the sudden transformation of the organ of thought.

Senior Sister Mi felt she had considerable authority on this point. "Although I used some special methods, the general process was tested on me first. If I had to say... there shouldn't be any major problem. This guy's nature is simply like this."

At the mention of "nature," Chen Feng and Chen Youjia could not help recalling the Devil's Great Curse Wang Qi had once created in Divine Capital, as well as the chaos that curse had caused. They could only nod.

Xi bared her teeth. "But... that result was a terrible failure, wasn't it..."

Chen Youjia was more concerned with another word. "'On you'?"

"In any case, there