Chapter 210: Mo Ziyuan Is Also My Enemy
The man in black grabbed the young man’s neck and dragged him over, pressing him above the bathtub, stopping when his face was a palm’s distance from Mo Zichen’s.
“You take a good look for me. Is this the same as before?”
In just the time of these few sentences, the capillaries on Mo Zichen’s face had all burst open, covering his entire face with red blood threads, like shattered patterns, and paired with his twisted and ferocious expression, it looked extremely terrifying.
The young man remained very calm. “Master, your subordinate already said yesterday that the prescription needed to be changed.”
“You!” Only then did the man in black clearly see the madness in his eyes. He raised his palm and struck the young man’s chest, sending him flying directly into the wall behind him.
“Pfft!” The young man spat out a mouthful of blood and slowly slid down to the ground into a sitting position. His pair of eyes turned pitch black.
Mo Zichen’s patience had reached its limit. He began struggling forcefully in the bathtub. The bucket lid could no longer cover him and was flipped over to the side. The man in black didn’t know what to do and could only press down hard on his body to keep him from emerging from the medicinal liquid. He turned his head angrily to the young man and said, “Come over quickly and take a look at him.”
The young man was stunned for a moment, then suddenly grinned. Fresh red blood stained his teeth and gums, still dripping continuously down his chin. He shook his head and said, “Can’t look anymore. No need to look.”
Only then did the man in black react—this person was a doctor without any martial arts skills, not his subordinate. The palm strike full of his anger just now was enough to take his life.
The young man quickly withered away but refused to take his last breath. His pair of eyes, now dim and lifeless, stared fixedly at Mo Zichen in the bathtub, as if unwilling to die without seeing his final outcome.
The man in black was both anxious and angry. Mo Zichen’s struggles under his hands grew weaker and weaker, his entire body visibly shriveling at a speed visible to the naked eye. His skin turned into a sheet of black, hard hide, looking very much like a dry corpse.
“Ah~” With a final shrill howl, Mo Zichen finally stopped struggling, his pain freezing into shape on his face.
“Hahaha······ Still didn’t succeed, still didn’t succeed, still······” Seeing this, the young man could no longer hold on. The head he had been forcing to stay up finally drooped down. In the moment before closing his eyes, he was still muttering that his prescription had not succeeded.
The man in black’s expression was complex. He released his hold on Mo Zichen’s hands and wanted to fish him out of the bathtub. But as soon as his hand entered the water, Mo Zichen, now a brown dry corpse, suddenly opened his eyes and bit down on the man in black’s wrist.
He bit down very hard. Blood flowed from between his teeth into the bathtub. The originally pitch-black medicinal liquid suddenly began to boil, turning bright red. The layer of hard skin on Mo Zichen’s exterior also started to peel off, revealing tender white new flesh beneath, which began to fill out along with the changing medicinal liquid.
In just a quarter of an hour, the original dry corpse had transformed into a living person. His skin was like the finest white jade, almost glowing. But this person’s face was deathly pale, and the black pupils in his eyes were exceptionally large, nearly occupying the entire eyeball.
By now, he had released the man in black’s wrist. His hands gripped the edge of the bathtub as he tried to stand up. But the three-inch-thick wooden board crumbled in his hands like tofu, instantly turning into fragments.
The man in black: “······”
Mo Zichen curiously examined his palm back and forth. Those jade-like slender fingers were white and tender. It was completely unimaginable that they could so easily crush solid wood into powder.
“Is this······ success?” Mo Zichen looked for a while before desperately suppressing the excitement in his heart and looking up at the man in black.
“This······” The man in black was also unsure and subconsciously wanted to ask the young man, but he had already collapsed in front of the wall and lost his breath.
“Not bad, it should indeed be a success, and the most successful one.” The man in black looked at Mo Zichen’s appearance, feeling very excited inside as well.
He was right. Mo Zichen was the first success since they began researching the medicine. There had been people who endured the painful medicinal bath before, but at the final critical moment, they lost their reason and launched indiscriminate attacks on anyone they saw. In the end, the man in black had no choice but to destroy them.
“Do you know who you are?” The man in black had actually already confirmed that Mo Zichen’s memory and reason were intact, but for safety’s sake, he still asked.
“I am Mo Zichen, Second Young Master of the Dingguo Duke’s Mansion!” Mo Zichen didn’t notice the man in black’s intention and answered casually, fully immersed in the joy of his body gaining power.
Yes, gaining power!
He could now feel every cell in his body filled with power. If Mo Ziyuan appeared before him, he felt he could take on ten of him.
Hearing his answer, the man in black’s eyes darkened. He wanted to say something but held back. After appraising Mo Zichen’s body, he extended his hand toward him. “Come on, let me test your power!”
Mo Zichen was extremely excited. He reached out and struck toward the man in black. Mo Qilan had hired a martial arts tutor for him when he was young, but unfortunately, he was unwilling to train hard, so the tutor only stayed at the Dingguo Duke’s Mansion for half a month.
This resulted in him having a body full of power but no corresponding techniques. He attacked the man in black like a child fighting, and in less than two moves, he was flipped onto the ground.
Mo Zichen widened his eyes in disbelief. He leaped up from the ground, a flash of crimson in his eyes. His right palm faced upward, the four fingers except the thumb slightly hooked. “Again!”
The man in black had high hopes for him all along. Even in these days with no progress in his modifications, he hadn’t given up. Seeing him not defeated by this failure but instead shouting “Again!” with high fighting spirit, he felt gratified. Thus, he didn’t hold back and began sparring with Mo Zichen with an air of instruction.
After several rounds, he regretfully discovered that although Mo Zichen’s body had been successfully modified, it had only enhanced his strength and speed. He seemed to lack talent in martial arts—he simply couldn’t learn it at all.
After half a day, the man in black finally gave up. Anyway, the modified Mo Zichen, who was fast, strong, and tough, had already exceeded his initial expectations.
“Forget it. These all need improvement in actual combat. Don’t be impatient.” The man in black rarely spoke to comfort him.
“Mm, I’m already very satisfied with this good fortune. I must thank you not only for saving my life but also for giving me the ability to live on and take revenge for our family of four. I don’t know how to repay you.” Mo Zichen spoke with genuine gratitude.
“Do you want revenge? Do you know who to find?”
“I know. My enemy is Mo Ziyuan and his fiancée granted by the Emperor. I must avenge my mother and my little sister. You can’t stop me.”
“Haha, don’t worry. Mo Ziyuan is also my enemy. So if you seek revenge on him, it’s equivalent to avenging me indirectly. Why would I stop you?”
