The moment the black flame burst from Chen Mo's left eye, the left half of his face began to rapidly lose its color.
Flames shot out from his eye sockets.
Optic nerve, blood vessels, bones.
Every tissue touched by the black flames lost its life. Before the blood and blood vessels could even slough off, they turned into putrid black liquid that flowed down the face.
Chen Mo raised his hand to cover his left eye.
"Damn it, I didn't even get to eat, and I ended up swallowing a ton of fire?"
His consciousness quickly sank into his body.
The flesh and blood of Cul, which had been swallowed earlier, could no longer be found, not even half a piece.
Before dying, that creature burned its body to ashes, turning its divine power and life force into fuel for its death. What Chen Mo swallowed, besides a pile of ashes, was this ball of black flame that would rot if touched.
Let alone extracting genes.
There wasn't a trace of protein in it.
"We lost money."
Chen Mo's face grew increasingly dark.
"This is a huge loss, I'm devastated!"
The black flames passed through his left eye and invaded his brain along the nerves. Half of Chen Mo's consciousness instantly fell into a state of death, and his body stiffened as well.
The next moment, the Blacklight Virus broke out in full force.
Countless new cells grew wildly, squeezing out the slain tissue from the body. Crimson-gold energy surged through the blood vessels, washing away the black flames again and again.
Growth.
die.
It grows again.
Each time the black flame kills a batch of cells, the cells that are born afterward undergo subtle changes.
At first, all flesh and blood will instantly rot.
After hundreds of updates, the new cells were able to survive in the flames for a short time. Although they still couldn't escape death, the rate of erosion had noticeably slowed down.
Chen Mo noticed this.
Cul is completely dead, and with no new power supply, the black flames are gradually weakening.
The Blacklight Virus is Destined Death after being weakened.
There's a chance to fight.
It just needs energy.
A large amount of energy.
Chen Mo lowered his hand from his left eye; black flames had already covered half of his face. A pure aura of death emanated from his body, causing the nearby fragments of dimensional energy to lose their color one after another.
Inside the New York Sanctum.
The golden light curtain has been completely extinguished.
The Ancient One raised her right hand, and a mirror rune lit up at her fingertips. But as soon as the rune took shape, the magical structure inside silently collapsed.
He cast the spell again.
The result remained the same.
Odin stared at the empty space ahead and asked in a deep voice, "What happened?"
"Just like I said before."
The Ancient One looked down at her fingers.
"The spell I used to interfere with the battlefield was killed by Cul's flames."
Odin frowned.
Can magic die?
"Yes, I just found out too."
The Ancient One switched to another observation spell, but the golden light was extinguished by the aura of death emanating from the interlayer of the world as soon as it approached it.
"At least in that area, I can no longer monitor the situation. The end that Cul gave it is still in effect."
The Sanctum fell silent for a moment.
Odin gripped the Gungnir.
He was prepared long ago.
"Obviously."
The Ancient One looked at the light screen that had turned black.
"Regardless of the outcome of the battle, Cul has no intention of letting Chen Mo leave alive."
Odin did not speak.
What he wanted to know more now was whether Chen Mo was dead or not.
In the interlayer of the world.
The black flames had already burned through Chen Mo's left skull and were beginning to invade his inner world.
A reddish-gold spot of light was touched by the flame and instantly extinguished. Then came a second, and a third.
Chen Mo's face darkened completely.
"You dare to destroy my house while living inside my body?"
He closed his right eye, and his consciousness instantly connected with the Blacklight Clone scattered throughout countless worlds.
The surface of a star.
A colossal, blackish-red beast, spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, opened its eyes, its body rapidly splitting open to reveal a gigantic maw encircling a star.
"Eat."
The moment the command was given, the giant maw snapped shut.
The scorching plasma was torn off in large chunks, leaving a black void on the star's surface. The immense energy was forcibly converted by the Blacklight Organization, traversing worlds and pouring into Chen Mo's body.
In another universe.
Thousands of black and red tentacles coiled around a blue star, beginning to frantically extract its internal energy.
Some clones are not even near the star.
After receiving the command, they lowered their heads and began to gnaw at the ground.
Rocks, metals, groundwater.
Everything containing substances is stuffed into the body and transformed.
In a desolate galaxy, a dormant mass of dark red flesh suddenly expanded. Countless tentacles pierced through the starry sky, dragging all the nearby planets and stars toward its center.
The planet's surface crumbled one after another.
The entire galaxy was forcibly torn into a mass of mixed matter, which then fell into the depths of flesh and blood.
Chen Mo no longer had time to condemn the extravagance of his clones.
"Eat it all, eat it all up!"
Endless energy flowed back through the clone network.
Boom!
The starry sky within Chen Mo's body lit up again.
The points of light extinguished by the black flames kept regenerating, and a massive amount of crimson-gold energy was poured into the left eye. New flesh and blood poured into the flames without regard for cost, and after dying, they were immediately replaced by subsequent cells.
The black flames burned away a layer of enemies.
He then added ten more layers.
The inner world was constantly collapsing, only to be forcibly pushed open again by immense energy.
Chen Mo stood in the void, half of his face burning with black flames, while the crimson-gold patterns on the other half of his face were dazzlingly bright.
"Come."
He gritted his teeth.
"Either you burn me to ashes today, or I'll devour the universe!"
The black flames shook violently.
It continued to erode, but could no longer expand. The new cells adapted faster and faster, and some flesh and blood even began to actively envelop the flames.
Just as the two sides were locked in a stalemate, a ripple suddenly appeared in the shattered void ahead.
There are no spatial rifts.
There were no energy fluctuations.
The ripples carried a chilling coldness, silently passing over the black flames and crimson-gold energy, completely suppressing everything nearby.
Chen Mo suddenly raised his head.
A slender figure emerged from the turbulent waters.
She was draped in a dark robe, the wide hood obscuring her face. Energy Stormfront powerful enough to tear dimensions crashed down on her, yet not a single hem of her robe stirred.
She walked step by step toward Chen Mo.
There was no path beneath her feet, yet nothingness itself supported her.
Chen Mo stared at the newcomer, the crimson-gold light in his right eye flashing rapidly.
Unobservable, unsensible; if it weren't for the fact that it's visible to the eye, this thing would be as perceptible as air.
"What? You're here for an extra meal too?"
Chen Mo's skin rapidly expanded, and a violent crimson-gold light pulsed continuously.
"Just so you know, I have indigestion right now, so my service might not be great."
The woman did not answer.
She stopped in front of Chen Mo, slowly raised her hands, and pulled down the hood that was blocking her view.
A strange face was revealed.
The left half was so beautiful it was almost unreal, while the right half was devoid of flesh and blood, consisting only of pale, withered bones. Long, jet-black hair cascaded down from both sides, and a dark light burned within the empty eye sockets.
The slender beauty sized up Chen Mo with great interest.
A few seconds later, she stretched out her pale finger and poked it directly at Chen Mo's left eye, which was burning with black flames.