Forging!!!

"Ugh—!!!"

"Evil God Cultists! They're Evil God Cultists!!!"

Seeing Mad Shark's horrifying appearance, how could the hundreds of spectators present fail to realize what was happening?

In an instant, the entire venue erupted into chaos.

"Run, run!!!"

"You trash in front, get out of my way!!!"

"Don't block the way! Move!"

Screams, sobs, and hysterical curses instantly replaced the frenzied cheers from before.

The crowd, which had been immersed in the bloody thrill of combat just moments ago, instantly became like ants scattered by boiling water, desperately searching for a way out.

Inside the iron cage, Mad Shark had already pounced toward Chen Yu.

"Chen Yu, catch the blade!!!"

From a small private room on the second floor, Zhao Tianyi shouted loudly.

The Bloodsong Blade tore through the air, passed through the gaps in the iron cage, and landed steadily in Chen Yu's grasp.

Boom!

Thunder rumbled as a streak of blade light flashed.

Mad Shark's head flew high into the air before crashing to the ground with a series of dull thuds.

Yet even so, the grin on his face continued to twitch slowly.

But in the next instant, several more flashes of blade light cut through the air, splitting his head into several pieces as black blood spread across the floor.

Bang!

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Yu severed the iron cage's chains with the Bloodsong Blade and kicked the cage door open.

He looked around and spotted Zhao Tianyi and the others at the edge of the crowd.

At that moment, Zhao Tianyi was shielding Wang Tianxing and Luo Ming amid the crowd, his expression extremely anxious.

"Chen Yu, something's wrong!"

"There's something wrong with this space. We can't find an exit at all!"

No exit?!!

Chen Yu looked around, only to discover that although the crowd was fleeing in every direction, not a single person had truly escaped this space.

What rotten luck. The first time I came to watch a black boxing match, this had to happen.

Wasn't I supposed to have blue-quality luck? I've never run into any windfalls, so why do I keep running into this kind of crap!

Chen Yu could not help cursing inwardly.

He forced his way through the packed crowd, arrived directly beside Zhao Tianyi and the others, and positioned Luo Ming behind him.

"The commotion here may be huge, but since the Evil God Cultists dared to cause this, they're probably confident they can keep word from getting out for a while."

As Chen Yu spoke, he still opened his Terminal and sent a message to the Enforcement Bureau.

As expected, the message would not send at all.

"A blade! Kid, I'll give you a hundred thousand Red Radiance Coins. Sell me your blade!" A bald, muscular man suddenly noticed the Blood Chant in Chen Yu's hand, and his eyes immediately lit up.

"Get lost," Chen Yu growled.

At a time like this, Blood Chant was far more useful than a hundred thousand Red Radiance Coins.

"Kid, don't refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a penalty!" The bald man's face twisted viciously as he prepared to seize Blood Chant from Chen Yu.

He was a Body Tempering Fifth Layer Martial Artist.

"You think I don't dare kill you?!!" A vicious glint flashed in Chen Yu's eyes as Blood Chant was suddenly drawn.

Boom!

Half of the bald man's head slowly slid off, and his body crashed heavily to the floor.

After finishing this, Chen Yu swept his gaze around. The others who had been eager to make a move all avoided his eyes.

"That finally quieted them down!"

Chen Yu withdrew his gaze and continued searching for a way to break the situation.

He had killed the man trying to take his blade not only because of the man's actions, but also to intimidate everyone else.

Otherwise, if hundreds of people swarmed him at once, that would be real trouble.

"For now, it seems we can only hold on until the outside world notices something is wrong here," Zhao Tianyi said in a low voice.

Because he had never expected something like this to happen, he had not brought his sword.

After all, nothing had ever gone wrong during his previous visits to the Black Boxing Match.

But he was still a Body Tempering Eighth Layer expert. Even barehanded, his combat strength was far beyond that of an ordinary person.

Chen Yu nodded, agreeing with Zhao Tianyi's assessment. "Wait..."

Before he could finish speaking, another change occurred.

Inside the central iron cage, Blood Lines began spreading from Mad Shark's corpse.

At first, the Blood Lines moved extremely slowly, but within only a few seconds, their speed suddenly increased dramatically.

"What just entered my body?!!"

"What are these Blood Lines? Avoid them, hurry and avoid them!"

Like living creatures, the Blood Lines precisely sought out the fleeing crowd and burrowed directly into their bodies.

Those infected by the Blood Lines lost their minds within moments.

The corners of their mouths were forcibly stretched to their ears, while blood dripped from their split mouths.

"Avoid the Blood Lines! If that thing enters your body, you'll be forcibly turned into an Evil God Cultist!"

Chen Yu and Zhao Tianyi exchanged a glance. One tucked Luo Ming under his arm, while the other carried Wang Tianxing, and they began avoiding the Blood Lines spreading across the ground.

However, this space was already incredibly cramped. On top of that, more and more Evil God Cultists were appearing and pouncing on the ordinary people around them.

As a result, fewer and fewer places remained for Chen Yu and the others to evade to.

"Teacher, watch behind you." Luo Ming, tucked under Chen Yu's arm, suddenly warned him.

Chen Yu immediately twisted aside. A Blood Line burrowed into the body of a short-haired woman in front of him.

In the blink of an eye, the woman fell into becoming an Evil God Cultist. Her horrifying bloody mouth stretched wide as she lunged fiercely at Chen Yu.

Blood Chant slashed out instantly!

The woman's head was split vertically in two.

[Battle complete. Talent Copying successful.]

[Copied Talent—Gluttonous Factor (Gray)]

[Due to copying the same Talent, [Gluttonous Factor (Green)] automatically forged. Current progress: 33%]

"Huh, I can actually copy these too!" Chen Yu suddenly stopped as he realized this.

Though they were only Gray Quality Talents, there were plenty of them!

"Zhao Tianyi, protect Luo Ming. I'll deal with these Evil God Cultists!" Chen Yu immediately said, setting Luo Ming down at the same time.

Zhao Tianyi also understood that if they continued waiting, there would only be more and more Evil God Cultists.

His expression turned solemn. "Leave it to me!"

Chen Yu did not hesitate any longer and turned to charge into the Evil God Cultists.

Most of these Evil God Cultists had been transformed from ordinary people, so they were not particularly strong.

They were simply difficult to kill.

Chen Yu practically took one step and made one slash, each strike easily severing a head.

At the same time, the progress of [Gluttonous Factor (Green)] rose rapidly. Even the lowest Gray Quality Talents provided two points of progress.

Occasionally, he could even obtain White-Quality Talents, whose effect was much better than Gray Quality ones.

After killing only a little over twenty people, Chen Yu saw that the progress of [Gluttonous Factor (Green)] had finally reached 100%!

[Forging complete: [Gluttonous Factor (Green)] → [Gluttonous Factor (Yellow)]]

[Gluttonous Factor (Yellow)]: Exceptional digestive ability. Drug resistance approaches zero.

[Adaptive enhancement: [Thought Imprint (White)] → [Thought Imprint (Green)]]