Abyss Proliferation

A few days later. Yu Xian and Zhang Buyao sat together with a plate of World's Best Buns before them. "Can I not eat it?" "No!" "So... can't you find someone else? Doesn't Little Nora love eating them too?" "Little Nora's no fun. I just like watching you forced to eat when you don't want to." Zhang Buyao picked up a bun and handed it to Yu Xian, staring at him intently. In the end, Yu Xian sighed, took the bun, and bit into it viciously, as if biting Zhang Buyao instead. The World's Best Bun didn't refer to just a single type of bun, but rather the pinnacle of every variety. Meat buns, vegetarian buns, char siu buns, egg yolk buns... Today, Huangquan had made soup dumplings. As Yu Xian bit down, delicious, savory broth immediately flooded his mouth, and countless indescribable flavors burst across his taste buds. Delicious. Yu Xian had to admit that aside from the minor quirk of causing a minor quirk, the World's Best Bun was practically perfection. "Big Brother, is it good?" Huangquan asked, looking at Yu Xian expectantly. Yu Xian nodded. "Three big that whether pulled cheese husk!" He had wanted to say, *"Delicious, everything Huangquan makes is delicious,"* but what came out of his mouth was utter gibberish. "..." In that moment, Yu Xian, Huangquan, and Zhang Buyao all realized what Yu Xian's minor quirk was this time. Seen and replied with gibberish. Everything he said would turn into scrambled nonsense. Zhang Buyao chuckled. "Launch section dry spray tech paid the bill." "..." The three stared blankly at each other. Well, fine—nobody needed to speak for the next hour. *** Most villains had clear objectives, grand ambitions, decisive execution, and extreme self-discipline. Leng Dajing was a qualified villain. Ever since he was young, he had held himself to rigorous discipline, constantly striving to improve. He had established his goals early on and executed his plans with unwavering resolve, never slacking off along the way or easily giving up just because unexpected problems arose. After more than a year of preparation, his experiment could finally resume. The Death Calamity Sea was vast. Because the Little Mobile Ant Car remained parked on Dianguang Island without leaving, the center of the Death Calamity Sea was off-limits. After a year of contemplation, Leng Dajing had come up with a new idea. This time, he decided to scale it down and keep a low profile. He had been too high-profile last time. He had assumed the Transcendents in the Death Calamity Sea were nothing to fear, only for a Yu Xian to pop out of nowhere and wipe out all the experimental subjects he had painstakingly gathered. Learning from that past lesson, he would keep a low profile this time, conducting small-scale trials first before gradually expanding. Before Yu Xian and the others could react, he would finish the experiment and slip away. Death Calamity Sea, Four Seasons Red Island. This was an herb island where vast quantities of Zhijin pinkhead knotweed were cultivated, and the humans living here were all farmers. Zhijin pinkhead knotweed, also known as Four Seasons Red, was warm in nature and bitter and astringent in flavor. It possessed distinct therapeutic effects for clearing heat and promoting diuresis, removing toxicity and relieving pain, harmonizing blood and dispelling stasis, as well as unblocking strangury. It was used to treat dysentery, pyelonephritis, cystitis, urinary tract stones, pelvic inflammatory disease, prostatitis, rheumatic pain, traumatic injury, sores, and eczema. The cultivation world also had numerous pill formulas that required Zhijin pinkhead knotweed, so the Medicine King Sect had specially established Four Seasons Red Island to cultivate it. Because it was situated in an out-of-the-way location and had no prominent figures, the island was merely an inconspicuous resource island in the Death Calamity Sea. Similar resource islands numbered in the hundreds of billions, if not trillions. At that moment, Leng Dajing stood amid the herb fields of Four Seasons Red Island, watching countless farmers bustling about while several children ran laughing and playing along the field ridges. The air was filled with an atmosphere of carefree contentment. These people possessed cultivation, but their strength was exceedingly low; even the strongest among them, the island master, was merely a Heaven Rank Transcendent. To avoid detection by the island's inhabitants, he didn't even need to use an ability. His willpower alone was enough to influence the entire island, causing any living organism who looked at him to automatically ignore his presence. "Since ancient times, a general achieves renown over ten thousand withered bones. Don't blame me!" Leng Dajing looked at the surrounding people and finally retrieved a nodule-covered red fleshy orb from his storage ring. This was a proliferation cell, possessing the power of the Chaos Rabbit Abyss. The moment he took it out, the surrounding plants were affected, rapidly proliferating and expanding, even sprouting downy fur and rabbit ears. "Help, aahhh!" "What's happening? Xiaolong, run!" "Mom, Mommy... waah..." "Big Brother, it hurts so much..." The people who had just been basking in peaceful bliss let out screams of agony in the very next second. Adults and children alike collapsed to their knees as massive fleshy tumors sprouted from their backs and ballooned wildly. The little island and its little happiness were wiped out the instant Leng Dajing brought out the proliferation cell. Like a dream, like a bubble, vanishing without a trace in the blink of an eye. Leng Dajing didn't look. He waited a good while before opening his eyes. As long as he didn't look, it was as if none of this had anything to do with him. He was merely marching steadfastly along the path toward transcendence; everything around him was nothing more than an illusion that would shatter at the slightest touch. "Begin!" Leng Dajing pressed the proliferation cell against the ground. The next instant, the island slowly sank, connecting with the sea as the power of the Fenglaixian Abyss began to affect everything upon it. The people who had already turned into hideous monsters from the proliferation cell mutated once more, their agonized cries echoing one after another. Leng Dajing snapped his fingers, and a barrier rapidly engulfed the entire island. From this moment on, the island was his petri dish, and all living creatures upon it were his experimental material. He had to admit, seeing these humans turn into grotesque abominations made him feel much better. Slaughtering them and using them carried no psychological burden whatsoever. *** God Vault Space, Salty Fish Studio. The hour was finally up. Yu Xian lay in the pavilion and spoke: "One, two, three, four, five. Phew, finally speaking normally." Truth be told, an hour of scrambled speech was something he could actually tolerate. The World's Best Bun tasted so heavenly that an hour of silence was entirely worth it. Yet there were other minor quirks he truly couldn't stomach. Like diarrhea, or farting. Diarrhea in particular was something he genuinely couldn't handle. Even when his stomach was completely empty, he would still have continuous diarrhea—it was terrifying. "I wonder how Old Zhang is doing now?" Yu Xian suddenly thought of Zhang Shou, curious about how he was holding up after the divorce. He contacted Zhang Shou directly via his Star Ring, only to see Zhang Shou sitting inside a classroom. An overage lad in his twenties was shamelessly wearing a school uniform. "Salty Fish, what is it? Something up?" Zhang Shou asked. Yu Xian looked at Zhang Shou in astonishment and asked, "Old Zhang, what's going on with you? Did the divorce hit you so hard that you decided to go back to the furnace to be recast?" "Recast my ass. I'm on a mission. A wanted criminal from Crescent Bay fled over to Silver City. The criminal is of the Tigerkin, has a history of cannibalism, and particularly loves eating human children. I'm undercover waiting to ambush him," Zhang Shou rolled his eyes at Yu Xian, then typed out a reply using mental input. Yu Xian's eyes lit up. Undercover. He didn't think he had ever undertaken a mission like that before.