Whirlpool! Collaborators! (II)

Floating Cloud Market.

Inside an official residence.

A group of finely dressed people had gathered before the main hall.

"The Pestilence Symbiosis Hua Qianqiu possessed was itself a process in which pathogens corroded Plague Exterminators. The Plague Exterminator's true body and the Pestilence needed to remain in a relatively balanced state."

"Once that balance was disrupted, either pathogenization would invade, or one would be completely reduced to Pestilence."

"By using the bloodline Pathogenized Objects within the family and your own [Balance of All Things], you can suppress the symbiosis. You are practically the best possible host for Pestilence Symbiosis."

Before them, the little bald Changsun Liangye sensed the bloodline within his body.

After not seeing him for so long, Changsun Liangye's aura had grown considerably stronger.

He was clearly only one step away from becoming a Dragon Among Men.

Yet no one knew just how far that single step truly was.

The finely dressed people around him were members of the Yin-Yang House—in other words, the Changsun Family.

They were bearers of the [Whirlpool Bloodline].

Bei Gongru stood to one side, his long sleeves fluttering as he watched everything before him.

So-called Pathogenized Objects did not refer solely to physical objects.

Pestilence itself could pathogenize all things, including but not limited to sound, signals, nature...

And bloodlines.

The [Whirlpool] in nature was a Pestilence that had taken root within the Yin-Yang House ever since the Great Calamity.

The ancestors of the Yin-Yang House had used their bloodlines to share the pathogenizing power known as [Whirlpool].

Whirlpools, also known as spirals, were themselves a special concept. There were countless things in nature with whirlpool-like properties, such as flowers, the sun, and flowing water.

Back at Kuitian Psychiatric Hospital, the technique Zhou Zhi had learned from Jiang Fanzhen—using the amygdala to achieve