A mere loss of control, a few emotions—all that resentment, pain, and despair could not affect me in the slightest.
Fu Zhang gave it everything he had to control the Weird energy that was gradually running rampant.
The lightning within his body could no longer be contained and began exploding, while the thunderclouds overhead started striking down at him as well.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Bolts of thunder exploded across his body in rapid succession, sending sparks crackling and spreading everywhere.
Abilities unleashed by Weird entities could not harm Contract Anomalists, but what he had drawn in this time was not merely an ability formed from Weird energy.
Wave after wave of pain from being blasted and torn apart spread through his entire body.
Only to be repaired by his own Weird energy.
Torn apart—repaired.
Again and again.
His body was constantly being tempered, gradually approaching the realm that was only one step away.
Unfortunately.
Fu Zhang seemed to have already seen that threshold. An invisible gate floated before him, waiting for him to push it open.
Yet that single step felt as though it was separated by an impenetrable barrier. He stood before the gate, but could not touch it in the slightest.
The thunder roared for quite a while.
A pitch-black figure fell from the sky and crashed into the forest, blasting out a crater a hundred meters wide.
He had failed.
He had not broken through to that realm.
As expected, a momentary realization was not enough.
Crackle, crackle!
Sparks still flashed around Fu Zhang from time to time. He lay at the bottom of the crater, looking up at the blue sky beyond it.
When he had not taken this path, that realm had seemed like the moon viewed by a frog at the bottom of a