Chapter 119 - 106: Giant-Winged Demon 3
The scene ended.
The light screen vanished.
The fanaticism on the Doctor’s face slowly receded, and he reverted to his gentle, scholarly appearance.
He looked at Lin Ye and held out the egg-sized Source Crystal in his palm, presenting it to him.
"Now."
"It’s your turn."
"Let me see what a perfect specimen, one that can flawlessly resist Source Crystal radiation..."
"...will become after swallowing this! What a stunning and magnificent sight it will be!"
The moment the Doctor produced the Source Crystal, a look of fear—the kind any normal person would have—appeared on Lin Ye’s face.
He shot up from the metal chair and turned to flee the platform that was suffocating him.
"No!"
However, the next moment, a slender figure in white appeared before him like a ghost, blocking his path.
It was the woman.
Lin Ye’s vision blurred, and a hand in a thick protective glove was already clamped around his neck.
The hand didn’t look particularly thick, but the power it contained was like a vice forged from steel.
"Feed it to him."
The Doctor’s gentle voice was like a devil’s whisper.
Receiving the order, the woman took the egg-sized, pure Source Crystal with her other hand and, without hesitation, brutally shoved it into Lin Ye’s mouth.
Lin Ye "desperately" struggled, his legs kicking wildly and his hands uselessly clawing at the woman’s arm.
The next moment, the extremely pure Source Crystal was forced down his throat.
The immense pressure on his neck suddenly released.
"Cough... COUGH, COUGH! GAG..."
Lin Ye coughed and wretched violently, as if trying to vomit up his own organs.
The Doctor pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose, the fanaticism and anticipation in his eyes growing colder.
An ordinary person’s body would have an extremely violent rejection response the moment they swallowed a Source Crystal.
Then, the mutation would begin.
He had seen all sorts of horrific sights, and nothing could surprise him anymore.
But the scene before him made his expression change slightly.
Lin Ye’s coughing quickly subsided.
Aside from his face being flushed red from the earlier suffocation and his body twitching slightly, there were... no signs of the expected breakdown.
He just took a moment to recover, and then he was fine.
The Doctor’s breathing suddenly became ragged.
He strode over to Lin Ye and leaned down, his eyes gleaming with an unprecedented light.
"How incredible!"
He murmured to himself, his voice trembling slightly with excessive excitement.
"Perfect adaptability...! You are the most perfect gift heaven has bestowed upon me!"
"Continue!"
The Doctor shot to his feet and gave the woman in white an order that permitted no argument.
"I want to see his limit! Keep feeding him!"
This time, the woman took two more Source Crystals of the same purity directly from a metal box and once again grabbed Lin Ye by the neck.
This time, a genuine reaction finally appeared in Lin Ye’s eyes.
It was the sign of his surging Qi and Blood boiling as it was frantically refined by the torrent of supremely pure source energy!
Blue veins bulged all over his body, and his skin quickly flushed crimson.
"Hurry! Continue!"
The Doctor’s eyes held nothing but madness and delirium.
’Actually, the nausea, coughing, and vomiting after swallowing the first Source Crystal was all an act.’
’He hadn’t ingested a Source Crystal in a long time.’
’Now that someone was feeding them to him, he was enjoying it immensely.’
Lin Ye could clearly feel the massive amount of unrefined Qi and Blood that had accumulated in his body due to his recent attribute surge.
Under the impact of this ultimate source energy, it was evolving at an incredible speed.
Lin Ye diverted part of his focus to forcibly guide this new, frenzied torrent of Qi and Blood.
Following the path of the Five Qi Guiding Formulas, he sent it crashing wildly against the barriers of the last three unbreached meridians among the twelve major meridians!
Foot Jueyin Meridian!
Spleen Meridian of the Foot!
Foot Shaoyin Meridian!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Three muffled roars, seeming to originate from the depths of his soul, boomed in succession!
Before this devastating power, a bottleneck was as fragile as a sheet of paper.
Breakthrough!
An unprecedented sense of power erupted from the depths of his limbs and bones, coursing through his meridians.
His physical strength surged once again, and a pleasant sensation born from a leap in his life’s very essence washed over him!
’As expected, there’s nothing more satisfying than getting stronger at top speed.’
’If there is, it’s continuing to get stronger at top speed.’
The Doctor before him seemed to have completely backed himself into a corner of madness.
One piece.
Another piece.
Source Crystals were fed into Lin Ye’s mouth one after another.
Lin Ye felt like he could barely swallow anymore.
The only pity was that all the surplus, unrefined Qi and Blood in his body had already been evolved during the breakthrough.
The Source Crystals he swallowed afterward mostly served to make his already refined Qi and Blood even more condensed and frenzied.
The quality was still improving, but the magnitude of the change was far from the immediate results he’d seen before.
The Three Yin Meridians of the Hand, the Three Yin Meridians of the Foot.
With all six Yin meridians open, he was only the six Yang Meridians of the hand and foot away from the Mid-stage of the Vein Opening Realm.
However, all acts must come to an end.
When the woman shoved the tenth Source Crystal into Lin Ye’s mouth, a flicker of change finally appeared on the Doctor’s fanatical face.
He had discovered the problem.
Aside from his initial "struggle," the boy’s subsequent process of swallowing the Source Crystals had been terrifyingly calm.
Beneath that flushed skin, he could even faintly sense a feeling of... enjoyment?
"You..."
For the first time, the Doctor’s voice carried a tone of hesitation and scrutiny.
"...did it on purpose?"
Lin Ye slowly wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.
All traces of his previous acting vanished completely.
In its place was a bottomless calm and indifference.
"I’m curious."
"What is the purpose of these experiments you’re conducting?"
"Can you tell me?"
PSH!
Before the words had even faded.
In the instant that neither the Doctor nor the woman had time to react, an eerie purple crystal spear materialized in Lin Ye’s palm without warning and pierced straight through the white-clad woman’s chest!
ROAR—!!!
A roar that was not human at all, filled with brutal rage, exploded from the depths of the woman’s throat!
Her body began to swell violently before Lin Ye, growing in size!
The astonishment on the Doctor’s face instantly froze, replaced by a grim darkness.
"I miscalculated. You are very clever."
"You even saw through to my true body."
His voice slowly rang out, and by the last few words, it had taken on that strange quality of countless voices overlapping and distorting together.
’Of course, Lin Ye wasn’t going to tell him.’
’A woman clearly marked as [LV. 20].’
’A doctor with no level indicator whatsoever.’
’Who was the true body and who was the puppet? Was there even a need to ask?’
’Besides, from the moment he stepped onto the metal staircase, Lin Ye had deduced from her footsteps that this woman possessed a terrifying weight completely inconsistent with her slender frame.’
’Every step caused the metal stairs to vibrate heavily.’
Lin Ye’s gaze fell upon the Doctor.
He watched as the Doctor’s body rapidly dissolved, melting into a pool of viscous, ink-black liquid.
It slid silently to the floor and slowly merged into the shadows at the feet of the furiously expanding female assistant.
RRRIP—!!!
A sickening sound of clothes and flesh being stretched and torn filled the air.
Lin Ye’s gaze sharpened.
Two enormous, ugly, dark-red fleshy wings violently tore out from the back of the swelling body and unfurled in an instant!
Their wingspan was a full seven or eight meters!
Immediately after, the white protective suit, already stretched beyond its limits, completely burst apart, revealing the true, terrifying form hidden beneath.
It was a monster that barely maintained a humanoid silhouette.
Its skin was a waxy, grayish-white, covered in twisted muscle fibers and dark purple overgrown tissue.
This monster closely resembled the image of a demon from legend.
Wings on its back, a dark face, and protruding fangs.
Its left arm still retained a human form, but its right arm had completely mutated into a massive demonic claw.
The strangest part was its head.
Upon its enormous and ferocious demonic head grew a human face.
But the skin on that face was stretched to its absolute limit, pulled taut over the skull.
Lin Ye took a deep breath.
’The LV. 20 Lord, the Giant-Winged Demon, that he had been searching for for so long was indeed not in the abandoned city.’
’It had been hiding all along in such a heavily guarded underground base.’
’And what’s more, it was once human.’
’This was something he had never considered before.’