Hundredfold Amplification

The ice cave was deathly silent, the cold piercing to the bone.

Fang Gang stood beside the remains of the Red Wedding Dress. The dark black brand on his arm writhed like a living thing, its closed dark-gold vertical eye emanating cold, ancient, indescribable malice like a venomous snake biting into his heart!

An SS-Class threat! A Ghost Emperor-level brand!

Chen Tao, Captain Zhang, and the others stared at the bizarre brand, their souls trembling as they barely dared to breathe.

"The Seed... of Grudge Pupil?" Fang Gang's voice was like ice frozen for ten thousand years, every word carrying boundless killing intent.

Being marked as prey and implanted with such a vicious curse had completely ignited the savagery buried in his bones!

"B-Brother..."

Chen Tao's voice trembled as he pointed at the brand. "Th-This thing... there are scattered records of it in our bureau's archives... It's one of the Nightmare Holy Cult's highest-level curses! Those implanted with the Seed of Grudge Pupil... will ultimately be... be devoured by that 'eye'... becoming a vessel or nourishment for its descent! We have to hurry..."

"Shut up!" Fang Gang snapped, cutting Chen Tao off.

He did not need panic. He needed power! Absolute power capable of crushing this damned seed!

His thoughts raced as he summoned the system panel. 555 Evolution Points! This was the capital he needed to turn things around!

His gaze swept over the two major cultivation techniques:

True Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill (Mastery 0/1000) - Core of strength!

True Vajra Indestructible Body (Minor Mastery 0/500) - Foundation of defense!

"Upgrade! Vajra Indestructible Body!" Fang Gang did not hesitate. Stronger defense was the foundation for resisting this curse and buying time! The stronger his physique, the more vigorous his qi and blood, and the greater his resistance to sinister forces!

Ding! 500 Evolution Points consumed! True Vajra Indestructible Body upgraded to "Mastery" (0/1000)!

Boom—!!!

A vast force, far more condensed and heavy than before and focused on absolute defense, exploded within his body!

The skin, fascia, and muscle fibers throughout his body seemed to have been thrown into a stellar furnace!

Under extreme pressure, they were frantically tempered, compressed, and solidified!

The faint golden qi flowing across his skin instantly became dense and heavy, like tangible liquid gold!

An indestructible will to resist all laws arose naturally within him!

Ding! True Vajra Indestructible Body (Mastery)!

Effect: Physique +100! Qualitative transformation in basic defense! Vajra Body Protection Qi (condensed like liquid gold), with greatly enhanced passive resistance against physical/energy attacks and high-level sinister corrosion! Qualitative transformation in rebound force!

Additional divine ability: Golden Body Protection (Enhanced)! Greatly increased strength and duration of the absolute defensive barrier!

Realm linkage: Massive increase in physique, triggering an opportunity to break through to the Bone Tempering Realm!

Host: Fang Gang

Realm: Bone Tempering Realm (Early Stage) → Bone Tempering Realm (Mid Stage)! Breakthrough!

Strength: 224.5 → 2245 (Savage Elephant Supports Heaven) Hundredfold amplification!

Physique: 390 → 490 (Jade Bones Newly Formed + Indestructible Golden Body) Triggered by Vajra Mastery

Agility: 20.9 → 209 (Chasing Stars and Moon) Driven by realm breakthrough

Cultivation Techniques:

True Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill (Mastery 0/1000)

True Vajra Indestructible Body (Mastery 0/1000)

Available Evolution Points: 55

Status: Seed of Grudge Pupil (SS-Class Brand - Temporarily Suppressed)

Mid-stage Bone Tempering Realm! His strength and agility had surged a hundredfold! His physique was nearing 500! The Vajra Indestructible Body had reached Mastery!

Fang Gang felt the power within him surge like a cosmic river of stars! His bones let out deep rumbles like the thunder of an ancient thunder god!

A faint golden luster flowed across his jade-colored bones! His muscle fibers resembled intertwined alloy steel cables!

With every movement, space itself seemed to twist and wail! The dark black brand on his arm, washed by the sudden eruption of blazing, vast, unyielding qi and blood like a star, was like ice thrown into a furnace, releasing a silent shriek!

Its writhing stopped instantly, and the dark-gold vertical eye at its end was forcibly suppressed shut!

Though it still remained, most of that bone-deep cold malice had been temporarily cut off!

"Roar—!!!"

The explosive growth in power brought incomparable confidence and a craving for release!

Fang Gang suddenly raised his head. His faint golden pupils burned with fury capable of incinerating everything as they locked onto the cracked ceiling of the ice cave!

"Open the hell up for me!!!"

He did not need to throw a punch! He merely let out a terrifying roar toward the icy dome overhead!

Rumble rumble rumble—!!!!

Indescribable sound waves mixed with tangible impacts of qi and blood, like a world-ending tsunami, surged upward and smashed viciously into the ceiling of the ice cave!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The ice dome, already riddled with cracks, shattered instantly before that incomprehensibly violent force like a fragile eggshell!

Countless enormous blocks of ice mixed with frozen earth and rock came crashing down like the collapse of the heavens! The entire underground space shook wildly!

"Run!!!" Chen Tao and the others were scared out of their wits as they scrambled and crawled toward the exit passage!

Fang Gang stood proudly where he was as the Vajra Body Protection Qi at Mastery activated automatically! A dense shield like liquid gold enveloped his entire body!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Massive chunks of ice smashed into the golden barrier and exploded into powdery ice crystals filling the sky! They could not even raise the slightest ripple! He was like a stabilizing pillar of the sea, bathing in the collapsing rain of ice!

Sunlight! Long-lost sunlight pierced through the massive breach in the collapsed ceiling, cutting through the dense yin energy and shining down. It illuminated the wreckage inside the ice cave and Fang Gang's figure bathed in golden light, making him look like a god descending into the world!

"F-Fuck..."

Chen Tao, who had fled to the passage entrance, turned back and saw the scene. His jaw nearly dropped to the ground. "Th-This is still a human?! One roar... and he blew off the entire ice cave roof?!"

The sunlight dispersed some of the cold gloom and also illuminated a small, frost-covered sandalwood box in the corner of the ice cave, which had previously been buried beneath the remains of the Red Wedding Dress.

The lid had been knocked open slightly by the shaking, revealing a jet-black plant inside, shaped like a twisted infant and emanating incomparably dense yin energy and vitality... Thousand-Year Corpse Ginseng!

"That is..."

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Chen Tao spotted it sharply and cried out, "Thousand-Year Corpse Ginseng?! A supreme yin evil object that can only grow at the core of an extremely yin earth vein! It contains immense death energy and mutated vitality! It's the core material for refining high-level corpse puppets! How could it be here?!"

Almost the instant the box opened!

"Heh... heh... heh..."

Inside the ice cave, the Purple Stiff Corpses, White Stiff Corpses, and even the fragments of the Red Wedding Dress that Fang Gang had killed seemed to be drawn by something fatal, and began writhing violently!

Strands of yin energy were forcibly drawn out and gathered toward the Thousand-Year Corpse Ginseng!

The black gleam on the surface of the corpse ginseng visibly grew denser and more demonic!

Even farther away, the remaining zombie chunks in the funeral home's main building hall seemed to come alive, crazily writhing toward the ice cave!

"This is bad! The corpse ginseng is absorbing death energy and corpse qi! It's going to trigger a tide of corpse transformations! Once it absorbs enough corpse qi and erupts, all of Linjiang City will suffer!"

Chen Tao's face turned deathly pale, and even his voice changed pitch. "We have to destroy it! Quickly!"

Destroy it? Fang Gang looked at the Thousand-Year Corpse Ginseng, which radiated alluring yin energy and vitality, but a strange glint flashed through his eyes.

The SS-Class Seed of Grudge Pupil hung over him like a sword above his head.

The Vajra Indestructible Body at Mastery and his mid-stage Bone Tempering Realm had temporarily suppressed it, but the root of the problem remained.

The immense energy contained within this corpse ginseng... was both a crisis and an opportunity!

He needed greater power! He needed to break through faster! Conventional methods were too slow!

"Can't destroy it." Fang Gang's voice was low, carrying unquestionable resolve.

"What?!" Chen Tao and the others thought they had heard wrong.

Fang Gang ignored them and strode toward the Thousand-Year Corpse Ginseng, which was madly absorbing corpse qi as its black glow intensified. The golden barrier around his body slowly receded.

"Brother! What are you doing?! You can't touch that thing! Touch it and you die!" Chen Tao was nearly frantic.

Fang Gang walked up to the corpse ginseng. The dense, inescapable cold death energy nearly froze his soul.

He reached out. His faint golden fingers, flowing with a jade-like luster, ignored the cold capable of corroding steel and grabbed the twisted black corpse ginseng in one hand!

Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!

The terrifying cold death energy contained in the corpse ginseng seemed to have found an outlet and surged madly into Fang Gang's body along his arm!

It tried to freeze his blood and corrode his sinews and bones!

Warning! Detected invasion by ultra-high-density sinister energy (Thousand-Year Corpse Ginseng origin)! Threat level: A+!

Strongly advised to expel or discard it immediately!

Expel it? No! A flash of madness appeared in Fang Gang's eyes! The jade bones of his mid-stage Bone Tempering Realm erupted with dazzling light!

The Indestructible Golden Body operated at its limit! The Vajra Body Protection Qi roared within him! He opened his mouth, and before Chen Tao and the others' horrified eyes, he viciously bit down on the twisted black corpse ginseng!

Crack!

It was like biting through solid mystic ice!

An indescribable torrent of extreme cold, poison, resentment, and immense mutated vitality instantly rushed into Fang Gang's mouth, poured down his throat, and slammed into his stomach!

"Ugh, argh—!"

Fang Gang's body jolted violently! A layer of sickly green frost instantly covered his skin! Black blood spilled from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose!

Every meridian in his body felt as if it were being pierced by countless ice needles! His bones groaned under unbearable strain! The SS-Class Grudge Pupil brand was stimulated by the foreign poison and writhed violently, the dark-gold vertical eye showing signs of opening!

Pain! Pain beyond the limit!

Yet he clenched his teeth! The Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill and Vajra Indestructible Body both operated at unprecedented limits! His Qi and Blood Furnace erupted like a supernova! The pale golden patterns on his jade bones flashed frantically!

Refine it! Forcefully refine it!

"Add points! Physique! Put everything into Physique!" His mental command roared as the final 55 Evolution Points burned away instantly!

Ding! 55 Evolution Points consumed! Physique +55! Current Physique: 490 → 545 (Jade Bones Shine + Indestructible Golden Body)!

A stream of pure life essence poured into him! Like the final straw that broke the camel's back... no, like the final surge of fuel poured into a furnace!

Sizzle—!!!!

Within Fang Gang's body, the terrifying sinister energy from the Thousand-Year Corpse Ginseng released a final wail under the frantic refinement of this newborn, even vaster pure-yang qi and blood and the two great cultivation techniques!

Like ice water thrown into a boiling vat of oil, it reacted violently!

Ding! Absorbed and refined ultra-high-density sinister energy (Thousand-Year Corpse Ginseng origin)!

Physique greatly increased! Current Physique: 545 → 590!

Strength slightly increased! Current Strength: 2245 → 2250!

Vajra Indestructible Body experience greatly increased! True Vajra Indestructible Body (Mastery 0/1000 → Mastery 500/1000)!

Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill experience greatly increased! True Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill (Mastery 0/1000 → Mastery 300/1000)!

Remaining sinister energy converted into Evolution Points +100! Current Evolution Points: 100!

Refinement successful! His physique had increased again! Cultivation technique experience had surged! He had gained Evolution Points once more!

The sickly green frost on Fang Gang's body instantly melted away, and the black blood spilling from him was vaporized by his blazing qi and blood!

He suddenly stood straight, feeling his body become even more heavy and solid, like an unshakable mountain. A terrifying aura surged through him, as though he could smash apart stars with a single punch!

The restless Grudge Pupil brand on his arm was suppressed once more. The dark-gold vertical eye shut unwillingly, and even its color seemed to have dimmed slightly.

He raised his hand and looked at the Thousand-Year Corpse Ginseng in his grasp, a piece bitten off and most of its glow dimmed. Feeling the surging power within him, fierce light burned in his eyes like a blazing sun.

"Not bad..."

"Any more?"

Chen Tao and the others watched Fang Gang gnaw on corpse ginseng alive, only to become even more imposing instead of dying. They were completely petrified, as if they were looking upon a demonic god devouring heaven and earth.

Just then, Chen Tao's encrypted satellite phone began vibrating wildly! He answered with trembling hands, and a team member's terrified, distorted scream came from the other end:

"Chief Chen! This is bad! The outskirts... the abandoned chemical plant in the outskirts! The yin energy index... has gone off the charts! The detector shows... shows that... that a Green Stiff Corpse legion is gathering and taking shape! The number... the number is over a hundred!! The one leading them... its energy reading... is... is a Hairy Stiff Corpse, B-Class! They... they're charging toward the city center!"

Fang Gang abruptly turned his head. His faint golden pupils pierced through the ruins of the ice cave toward the chemical plant, and a cold, savage curve spread across his lips.

"Hairy Stiff Corpse? B-Class?"

"Perfect... time for me... to warm up my fists!"

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