Cooperation Between the Strongest (2)

Above the upper floors.

Inside the building.

The walls were covered in ink-wash paintings, lending the place an ancient, rustic beauty.

A small mass of flesh proliferated on the wall, then formed into a peculiar humanoid figure.

Zhou Zhi appeared in the room.

"The Plague Extermination World truly contains all manner of wonders."

"Senior Hua, the fact that you were able to be reborn again genuinely leaves me astonished."

Zhou Zhi's expression was calm. Rather than enemies who had fought to the death not long ago, they seemed more like old friends who had not met for years.

The young man—Hua Qianqiu—wore a faint smile.

Having regained his youth, he poured Zhou Zhi a cup of tea.

"Even if it's poisoned, it probably wouldn't have much effect on you, Mr. Zhou Ran."

Hua Qianqiu sat down in a chair.

Holding the teacup, Zhou Zhi sat down as well.

Information from Twenty-Three flowed through his mind.

[Hua Qianqiu (Lotus Incarnation) Status]

[Combat Power Level: Dragon Among Men]

[Plague Extermination Pathway: All-Round Plague Exterminator]

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What followed was the usual extensive list of Plague Extermination Arts Hua Qianqiu had mastered.

Zhou Zhi's expression shifted.

Had Hua Qianqiu really turned into Nezha?

That meant...

Those snow lotuses from Tianshan earlier might not have been used by Northern Biopharmaceutical, but by... Hua Qianqiu?

Hua Qianqiu answered Zhou Zhi's earlier question. "In the Plague Extermination World, even rising from the dead is not impossible, is it?"

Zhou Zhi nodded. "That's true."

He himself could rise from the dead. Hua Qianqiu had not even truly died, so getting himself a lotus body was perfectly normal.

Hua Qianqiu narrowed his eyes and smiled, as though the one who had killed his Pestilence Symbiosis [Uremia] earlier had not been Zhou Zhi at all.

"That Child