Chapter 92: Defying Heaven’s [disease Experiment Group]
After the snake tail swallowed three goblins, Yuan Zhu put away the [Boss Template], and walked toward the dressing mirror in the attic with a heavy heart.
The failure of the [Shadow Group] cast a shadow over his heart, and his expectations for the [Disease Group] also dropped.
Just as he stepped forward and half of his body entered the garden world, a sharp breaking air sound suddenly came from his ear, a sense of crisis instantly erupted, he instinctively raised his hand to block at his side, opening an octagonal Holy Light Force Field shield to intercept the high-speed flying black shadow.
Bang bang bang!
Three crisp sounds in a row, several segments of collided and broken white bone arrows fell powerless to the ground.
Only then did Yuan Zhu steady his footing, propping up three Holy Light Force Field shields in one breath to protect front, back, left, and right.
Then he saw four polluted monsters that had broken free from their chains and undergone drastic changes in appearance, now appearing in four different positions, faintly surrounding him.
In this garden, besides the goblins he brought in, there was no other living creature (animal). So these four monsters twisted to the point their own mothers wouldn’t recognize them must be members of the [Disease Group].
Looking at their creepy appearances, Yuan Zhu couldn’t tell for a moment whether this was a surprise or a fright.
Good news, the mutations of the [Disease Group] were far more successful than the [Shadow Group], each one looking very powerful. Bad news, the mutations were too heaven-defying, he was at a loss for words to describe them.
First, their body sizes remained as small as ever, vaguely comparable to goblins. But their green skin was completely unrecognizable, their muscles extremely proliferated and bulging, bursting the skin, exposing blood-red muscle textures covered in sticky, deformed proliferative tissues.
The ‘goblin’ closest to him had a severely deformed head, split in half from the middle, exposing an abnormally proliferated ‘ring-shaped giant mouth’ in the center, along with a spiral throat.
Under the inducement of disease pollution, its ‘mouth and throat’ underwent mutation, transforming into a goblin spraying turret. The throat sac below its neck was stuffed full of white bone sharp arrows. It could cough to erupt huge air pressure, rapidly shooting the bone arrows from the threaded throat tube.
The instant he stepped into the garden, he suffered this heaven-defying goblin’s ‘Three-Shot Barrage’, so fast he almost couldn’t react. This bizarre evolution method was very heaven-defying!
While the turret goblin was spraying bone sharp arrows from its mouth, another deformed goblin opposite it also launched a sneak attack.
This goblin was on all fours, its head swollen to three or four times larger, the elongated forehead covered in eyeballs. At the same time, inside its skull seemed to be undergoing some kind of ‘pseudo Holy Light combustion reaction’, which it focused and refracted through the pupils of the eyeballs on its forehead, spraying out black disease rays.
The speed of this ‘disease ray’ was much faster than the bone arrows, impossible to react to, one ray after another attacking continuously, startling him into a cold sweat.
But fortunately, he had propped up the shielding force field in advance, only then discovering that these ‘disease rays’ were all show. Their speed was indeed as fast as light, but they failed to pierce his shield. Instead, the eyeballs of that big-headed goblin couldn’t withstand the ‘focusing’ pressure first, popping and bursting one after another.
At this time, the third deformed goblin also launched an attack.
At its heart and lung position, a huge glowing external cyst had grown, pulsing like a heart, expanding, contracting, expanding, contracting…
Inside the cyst, dark red light was released, also containing a pseudo ‘Holy Light combustion’ reaction, giving it surging physical energy and power. Combined with its powerful muscles, it leaped swiftly several meters, appearing at Yuan Zhu’s side, its sharp claws striking toward him.
Yuan Zhu, who was already prepared, also erupted with Holy Light, fully blessing power, physical energy, agility… A high-speed side whiplash kick, arriving later but striking first, precisely snapping the goblin’s neck. His right leg then changed direction and pressed down, stomping the goblin into the soil, creating a crater.
He shuffled closer, suddenly raising his right knee, heel powering a downward stomp. Cracking sounds came from his shoe heel, crushing the spine of this muscle-based goblin, its body convulsing violently, temporarily losing attack power.
The last goblin also had abnormally proliferated body, looking enormously fat. Hunched over its upper body, coughing violently, its fat trembling intensely. Every cough sprayed out a large amount of pathogen blood mist, while showing a pained expression.
Probably because it hadn’t evolved properly, Number 4 disease goblin, although gaining area-of-effect magic damage from spitting fragrant (disease blood mist), the price was its bodily health.
It looked chubby, but all its vitality was used for coughing blood, with extremely poor mobility. After two steps, it was panting, then continued coughing violently, spraying out large swathes of blood mist.
Unfortunately, before it could drift over, it was purified clean by the light pollution radiating outward from Yuan Zhu.
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After figuring out the abilities of the four goblins, he simply combined his own ‘Power of Holy Light’, rapidly dodging, turning, and accelerating to arrive at the bone arrow goblin’s side.
Drawing Frostmourne from his waist, Holy Light Blessing force field critical hit, easily breaking its four limbs, twisting its throat bone, and tossing it aside to accompany the muscle goblin with the broken spine.
Then, he rapidly approached, using Holy Light Force Field to resist the seemingly terrifying but actually soft and powerless ‘disease ray’. Finally, one hammer struck the crown of the head, the powerful Holy Light Impact wave instantly shattering all the eyeballs of this disease goblin, directly concussing it into unconsciousness.
The last chubby goblin didn’t even need Yuan Zhu to act. But his whole body’s ‘evil Holy Light suppression’ scared this goblin into coughing frantically, nearly unable to breathe. Until Yuan Zhu slowly moved in front of it, this chubby one was so nervous it couldn’t breathe, coughing too urgently and directly suffocating into unconsciousness.
Soon, he found two goblin skeletons that had been gnawed clean at the ambush site.
Clearly, the six goblins of the [Disease Control Group] had grown vigorously, all undergoing unknown pollution mutations, and full of vitality, killing each other internally, digesting two weak ones, giving birth to four completely different ‘disease mutants’.
What surprised Yuan Zhu the most was that the [Holy Cough] power in their bodies had already been completely decomposed by the disease pollution in the garden. Even during the time he was away, the ‘disease pollution’ in the garden began to reversely erode and twist the ‘Holy Cough’, rapidly cracking and adapting to the Holy Light.
That one-headed-with-eyeballs goblin even evolved its own ‘disease pollution’ into a ‘pseudo light system’ ability. Using its head to burn disease vitality to produce black light, and using eyeballs to focus it into disease rays.
Very weak, but also very terrifying!
If left unchecked, they might evolve even stronger ‘virus rays’?
And the goblin with the ‘glowing tumor’ grown at its heart and lung position also retained the characteristic of burning life with Holy Light combustion to release power. It burned its own pathological vitality, erupting energy to reinforce its whole body for combat.
It could be considered a low-end version of ‘Holy Light full blessing’. And all of this was their spontaneous evolution, without any interference or guidance from him.
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Yuan Zhu quickly realized that during the time he was away, the goblins first used [Holy Cough] to suppress [Disease], continuously devouring resources to evolve and get stronger.
Lacking new [Holy Light] to replenish, maintain, and suppress from behind, and absorbing too much disease pollution, the targeted suppression of [Holy Cough] was slowly worn down and resisted.
Everything in the world is relative. Yuan Zhu could refine pollution to extract ash to enhance his own ‘Holy Light’s’ suppression of disease pollution.
Then, when ‘Holy Light’ stopped evolving, the goblins that had absorbed excessive disease pollution had the offensive and defensive momentum of Holy Cough in their bodies reversed, rapidly twisted and covered by ‘disease pollution’, turned to its own use.
Just like how he initially didn’t want to leave behind the ‘shadow material’ after the eggplant head ghost companion’s head exploded and died, fearing it would be used by disease pollution.
The [Holy Cough] he left in the goblins’ bodies was also being polluted by the disease garden, developing Holy Light resistance, and even gaining some attributes of Holy Light.
If left unchecked, the future disease plants in this garden could, through generational reproduction, generally possess weak Holy Light resistance?
This resistance wasn’t obvious to him, after all he was still in seal casting, and Holy Light’s disease suppression would continue to strengthen. Instead, other Holy Light Cultivators who hadn’t contacted ‘disease pollution’ would be caught off guard when encountering such demonic creatures.
If viewing ‘disease pollution’ as a virus, then they were all second-generation mutant strains that survived the ‘Holy Cough antibody’ extermination, more adapted to Holy Light’s extermination, able to survive in large numbers.
As for Yuan Zhu, he will continue incinerating the second-generation diseased crops, updating the Holy Cough Power again to maintain the crushing advantage.
But he also felt the terrifying potential of the Disease Garden. This place is not just a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, but a flower field with evolutionary selection functions.
Little Spicy Stick: “The development status of these four goblins is far superior to the Shadow Group! Should we continue free-range farming, or refine them into Ghost Companions?”
For now, apart from their intelligence still being lacking, they surpass the Shadow Group in every other aspect, even exceeding Yuan Zhu’s expectations.
“Let’s refine them into Ghost Companions first. Who knows what kind of monstrous thing they’ll evolve into if we keep letting them run wild?”
Comparing Group A and B side by side, the Shadow System is indeed lacking. On the contrary, the Disease System is excessively outrageous, producing four completely different monsters from the same pollution environment.
This garden’s danger index needs to be raised further.
If he caught 300 goblins and threw them in here, who knows what heaven-defying thing they’d evolve into after a month? Even he wouldn’t dare enter rashly.
No wonder the mastermind behind the scenes doesn’t raise demonic creatures in the garden, only purely planting crops. If Disease Demonic Creatures really appeared and lacked management, they could evolve into true monsters in a short time, completely out of control.
The stronger the strength before death, the higher the danger index after mutation in the garden, making it more uncontrollable and unpredictable.
Hearing that Yuan Zhu wanted to refine these four monsters, Little Spicy Stick sighed: “Now, the goblins aren’t enough to use anymore.”
Looking at Group B that was entirely wiped out (Universe Within The Belly), and Group A with only 3 goblins left, the Game Sprite complained: “Drilling into sewers every day isn’t sustainable, it’s too degrading. Boss, you’re destined for great things.”
Yuan Zhu nodded in agreement: “One person is too weak alone. I do need to cultivate some helpers. Ghost Companions have too low intelligence; I wonder if Anti-Law can contract and bind true talents?”
Suddenly, Lu Rang’s name flashed in his mind. He had a candidate for his number one subordinate!
