Zhou Zhi raised his hand and saw the black lines in his palm.
This was...
Zhou Zhi's expression shifted slightly. "Miss Twenty-Three, how did it go?"
The cells within his body surged and rapidly recovered. Soon, Twenty-Three's voice came through.
"Done. This thing had been weakened by Zhou Tongyuan before, so it wasn't particularly powerful—this one believes it was the source of that huge mass of black substance beneath Zhou Tongyuan's human skin."
Twenty-Three blinked. "It seems to be... some kind of [virus], the kind that can invade the body."
Zhou Zhi's expression did not change. "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the power of the legendary [Kindly Father]. But there isn't much of it—one could even say it's exceedingly faint."
That was right.
The familiar power Zhou Zhi had sensed from Zhou Tongyuan was minuscule.
Though it shared the same origin as the mysterious information within his original body, the difference between them was like heaven and earth—two entirely different levels.
Were the powers of these beings bestowed grace by the Kindly Father simply too weak?
Or perhaps...
Having slain a titled one, Zhou Zhi could now vaguely sense the so-called [Titles] bestowed by the world that the Medical Department spoke of.
This thing... was extremely similar to pathogenization.
No, it should be said that it was pathogenization itself—a disease specifically designed to pathogenize humans and Human Dragons.
Zhou Zhi bent down and picked up the holy relic, the [Fallen Dragon Bone Seal], from the corpse.
Zhou Tongyuan had previously hidden it inside a cloth bag. Only now could Zhou Zhi see its full appearance.
Its foundation was hollowed-out bone, with a luminous pearl ingeniously set within.
It exuded an aura of nobility and strangeness, proclaiming its extraordinary nature.
"A [Pathogenized Object] capable of taking another person's Plague-Slaying