A tumor?
Little Whale abruptly looked up, then spiraled into the air, shooting toward Lou Guanshan like a cannonball and headbutting him away.
It happened so fast that Su Wuwei and the others saw only a flash of black, heard a grunt, and then Lou Guanshan went flying.
Little Whale rose in fury. "Who are you calling a tumor?!"
Everyone: ...
Wan Lan shook her head and covered her face. "Thank goodness Kou Ying isn't here. Otherwise, with collateral damage, there'd probably be more than one person flying."
Su Wuwei looked at Little Whale. "It's been a while. How did you turn black?"
Little Whale answered sullenly, "Because I wanted to."
Sensing the fluctuations coming from the four of them, Little Whale realized that Ye Buyu should now be the only one who had yet to undergo Rank Advancement.
Nothing should go wrong this time. No one was plotting anything involving Ye Buyu, so this should count as a rare, uneventful Rank Advancement.
Just as Little Whale thought that, Ye Buyu abruptly coughed up a mouthful of blood, collapsed, and began convulsing.
"Holy shit!"
Horrified, Little Whale hurried to check on her. Mu Bingge and the other three also looked grim.
Mu Bingge helped Ye Buyu up and examined her condition.
"There's too much energy. Her body can't withstand it. What did she absorb?"
Little Whale patted Ye Buyu's forehead. "That's not right. It was only a level eleven fragment. That shouldn't be enough to make her explode."
Wan Lan glared at Little Whale. Easy enough to say. A level eleven fragment plus the core of a Level Ten Calamity-were those things someone at the sixth tier could absorb?
Su Wuwei formed a cluster of flames in his palm and placed it on Ye Buyu.
"I can only help burn