Chapter 335: Organizing Abilities
Someone else could worry about the aftermath.
Feng Ling lay quietly in the Tunnel, listening to all kinds of sounds coming from every direction: footsteps, conversations, the rumble of excavators slowly rolling over the ground...
She silently suppressed the fluctuations in her emotions.
Corruption Value seemed to push the seven emotions and six desires to ever greater extremes. The sad became sadder, the angry angrier. And since she was in a good mood right now, she was practically ecstatic inside, as though a fire were burning within her.
Hold it in, hold it in...
Stay calm...
Feng Ling breathed slowly and thought of Ye Zheng's 40% Corruption Value. She could hold it in, so there's no reason I can't.
39% was indeed a little high, but if it could advance her Card, Feng Ling still felt it was well worth it.
When she had digested the South Sea Flood Dragon in the Maze before, she had thought she would advance. Instead, she had merely gained a new skill. This time, after digesting three high-level Cards in one go, she had finally made a breakthrough.
Feng Ling could not see labels like Juvenile Form, Sub-adult Form, Mature Form, and Completed Form. She judged that she had advanced because she saw a familiar passage of text.
Whenever Feng Ling's abilities improved significantly, she would see that passage describing the Hive. And with every advancement, the text gained another sentence.
She had not understood before, but now she felt it was some kind of prompt.
Like in fantasy cultivation novels, where the protagonist agonized over obscure phrases in a fragment of an ancient text, only to suddenly have an epiphany at some point and grasp its true meaning, thereafter cultivating an ancient technique.
The passage the system had given