451: Is eating the only solution?

Chapter 451: Can it only be solved by eating?

It's natural that a grandson resembles his grandfather in his youth, there's nothing wrong with that statement.

But the problem is, Wu Xian isn't the old man's biological grandson, is he?

His parents were adopted by the old man back then, and the old man never married.

If it was just a polite remark from the beautiful grandmother upon their first meeting, that would be fine, but the key is that the grandmother's reminiscent gaze didn't seem like she was being polite.

Could it be... that he really is the old man's biological grandson?

But that's not right either; according to the information currently available, his parents were clearly adopted by the old man from a war-torn region back then, weren't they?

Could it be that his mother was adopted, but his father was actually the child the old man secretly had with another grandmother?

My goodness, the old man looks so honest and straightforward, but he's quite deep!

Perhaps sensing the unusual look in Wu Xian's eyes, the Old Principal said irritably, "Don't overthink it. Your grandfather has lived an upright life; it's not as complicated as you imagine."

"Ah? Then why do I resemble you so much when you were young?" Wu Xian asked, puzzled.

"..." The Old Principal's forehead darkened as he said, "When a couple lives together for a long time, they even start to look more and more alike."

Hearing this, the beautiful grandmother beside them covered her mouth and chuckled, her eyes full of adoration and admiration for the Old Principal.

Wu Xian, however, was somewhat speechless.

If that's the case, it doesn't seem to be wrong.

After all, he was raised by the Old Principal, so his behavior, mannerisms, and temperament would naturally carry a bit of the Old Principal's youthful shadow.

It seems he was overthinking things.

After a brief exchange with the Old Principal, the Old Principal didn't bother him further, as Wu Xian still had important matters to attend to.

Currently, Yaoyang City's defensive forces have been deployed, just waiting for the Dimensional disaster to arrive.

However, compared to the Dimensional disaster, he was more concerned about the Evil Realm's infiltration and the will of the Evil God behind it.

The Association and the military have also been searching and investigating for traces and clues of Mayor Chen Shilong, but they have consistently found nothing.

Instead, Yaoyang City has begun to see some strange phenomena invaded by “flesh and blood” power.

In some areas of the city, the ground and houses have begun to show patchy flesh and blood tissue, which is constantly spreading and worsening.

This morning, a small pond in the South District turned into blood overnight, emitting a strong smell of blood.

Fortunately, ordinary citizens had already been evacuated, otherwise, it would have scared many people to death.

As for tap water, the Scroll World doesn't use groundwater anyway, so there wouldn't be any abnormalities.

In short, as time passed, the situation within Yaoyang City became increasingly bizarre.

"Brother Wu, something bad has happened," Ma Tengyun rushed over, "There's a new situation at the construction site!"

Seeing Ma Tengyun, Wu Xian was a little confused, "Didn't Brother Ma leave?"

After all, he was the Young Master of the Wanrong Chamber of Commerce, the future successor. When the Chamber of Commerce heard about the situation here, they immediately arranged for Ma Tengyun to evacuate.

Wu Xian and the people of Yaoyang City also expressed their understanding.

"Fleeing in the face of danger is not the style of a man," Ma Tengyun said righteously, "Besides, Brother Wu still has a large number of gold scrolls that haven't been delivered to me. If I die, wouldn't I suffer a huge loss?"

Facing Ma Tengyun's teasing and joking, Wu Xian couldn't help but re-evaluate the Young Master of the Wanrong Chamber of Commerce.

From this incident, it wasn't hard to see that Ma Tengyun was someone worth befriending.

"I've mobilized some people from the Chamber of Commerce, and they're already on their way," Ma Tengyun said, "Oh, right, let's go to the construction site first to check out the situation."

Wu Xian didn't waste any words and followed Ma Tengyun to the construction site.

These past two days, the flesh and blood tissue at the construction site has been growing and spreading like a tumor.

The entire construction site was already enveloped in a faint bloody aura.

"Are monsters starting to breed?" Wu Xian's eyes flickered, and he couldn't help but become interested. "What kind of monsters?"

After all, up until now, it hadn't been confirmed which abyssal Otherworld was about to invade.

And the monsters spawned by the Evil God's power would always carry some characteristics of the corresponding abyssal Otherworld.

"It's like a Yao Beast, and also like a demon monster, in short, it's very strange," Ma Tengyun described.

"Demon monster?" Wu Xian muttered to himself.

A moment later, they arrived at the cordoned-off construction site where the incident occurred.

Some personnel from the military and the Association were also on site, currently easily fending off the strange monsters breeding from the "giant tumor."

Puff, puff, puff... One by one, hideous and ugly monsters struggled out of the giant tumor like "squeezing blackheads," their entire bodies crimson as blood, like demons from Hell.

Their strength was average, probably only at the level of Rank 10+ monsters.

But under the influence of that evil power, these flesh and blood demons were like cockroaches; it was difficult to completely kill them.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Tattoo Bro and Zhang Mazi, leading the Tattoo Warriors, were grinding them into the ground, but no matter how much they fought, they could at most turn them into a pile of flesh and mud.

And that flesh and mud, like a flesh and blood slime, slowly wriggled back into the "giant tumor" to re-incubate.

"What the Hell, they can't be destroyed!"

The Tattoo Warriors cursed and complained.

In contrast, some beast-type scrolls and Nether Fiend scrolls on site were quite effective.

Although this bizarre flesh and blood power couldn't be destroyed, it could be directly eaten by some beast-type scrolls and Nether Fiend scrolls.

Zhou Qi had clearly discovered this point and was currently leading a group of Nether Fiend scrolls for testing.

"It seems to be slightly better than devouring normal monsters," Zhou Qi said, his brows furrowed as he concluded, "but it's quite difficult to digest."

"Digestion?" Wu Xian was puzzled.

"To put it simply, it's the painting spirit's own refining ability," Zhou Qi explained, "Nether Fiends can theoretically digest all matter, and their digestion efficiency is very high.

But these evil flesh and blood tissues give the Nether Centipede a feeling of indigestion.

Fortunately, these flesh and blood aren't harmful; in fact, they're quite nutritious."

Hearing this, Wu Xian's expression was strange.

From the looks of it, this thing seems to only be solvable by "eating" it; other methods aren't very effective.

The Bi Fang Divine Fire could also incinerate it completely, but the "flesh density" of this evil flesh and blood was too high, too resistant to burning, so the Bi Fang Divine Fire wasn't as effective as imagined.

Moreover, during the incineration process, a large amount of twisted pollution would be generated.

Most importantly, this thing regenerates and assimilates infinitely, and will only become more and more in the future.

"Is the characteristic and power of this Evil God meant to make people burst from overeating?" Wu Xian joked strangely.

"It seems to have that meaning," Zhou Qi nodded, dumbfounded.

At least for now, this evil power, apart from assimilating various substances into bizarre flesh and blood, doesn't have any overly outrageous or virulent dangers.

The only problem is that these bizarre flesh and blood are not easy to deal with.

And as the bizarre flesh and blood breed and spread, the power of "assimilation" is constantly strengthening.

"Bi~ Fang—!"

Wu Xian tried to release Mythical Fire Bird, who flew forward, picked up a lump of "flesh and blood" slime, and devoured and refined it.

Don't tell me ~ the nutritional content is indeed much richer than normal monsters.

It's just not easy to digest.

It's worth mentioning that after Mythical Fire Bird refined this flesh and blood substance, its Bloodline power seemed to have received a slight boost.

"It can even enhance Bloodline power?" Wu Xian asked in surprise.

"Ah?" Zhou Qi was stunned. "Really? The Bloodline power of the Nether Fiend doesn't seem to have reacted. It looks like it should only be effective for the Bloodline of flesh and blood creatures."

As Wu Xian pondered, he silently dialed his Second Brother Xue Zhengying's phone, "Uh, how about having Second Sister-in-law send the Zerg army over? The more, the better."

"Hmm? Has something special happened?" Xue Zhengying asked seriously.

"How to put it," Wu Xian explained with a strange expression, "Currently, it seems this bizarre flesh and blood power can only be resolved by eating it. The larger the appetite, the better."

Of course, the Zerg's appetite might not be that high; they mainly rely on numerical superiority.

Just like a locust plague.

If it comes to eating, it has to be Old Glutton.

It's just that he doesn't have any suitable Materials in his hands right now; he needs to find a way to search for them.

Moreover, given the current scale of influence of this Evil God's power, low-Rank Old Gluttons may not be enough; at least a gold scroll Old Glutton would be needed to cope.

"Brother Ma, could you help me collect some special Materials from your Chamber of Commerce?" Wu Xian turned to Ma Tengyun.

"Of course," Ma Tengyun replied without hesitation, "What, Brother Wu, do you have an idea for how to deal with this?"

"I do have some ideas, but whether they're sufficient remains to be verified," Wu Xian mused, "And this scroll isn't easy to create right now."

Moreover, with the characteristics of Old Glutton, even with just the Materials and the scroll concept, it might not fully highlight its powerful characteristics.

As he pondered, the God of Wealth in his Sea of Consciousness suggested, "Perhaps we can start from the Bloodline level."

Wu Xian's eyes lit up, and he immediately made a video call to Xu Qingshan, getting straight to the point: "Brother Xu, let me ask you this, in your Divine Beast Dojo's Bloodline database, do you have Bloodline powers with characteristics of greed, gluttony, or devouring?"

"What does Brother Wu need this Bloodline for?" Xu Qingshan asked, puzzled.

"Just tell me if you have them or not?"

"I do recall having a few similar Bloodlines," Xu Qingshan mused, "It's just that generally, not many people cultivate or apply them. Only the devouring characteristic Bloodline has a bit of popularity.

But from the cases of Fusion and implantation so far, the effects haven't been ideal."

"You do?" Wu Xian's eyes lit up. "Could you send them to me? If possible, please send me all the Bloodline Structure data for this type."

"I can, but you have to tell me what you're going to do, right?" Xu Qingshan asked with a smile.

Wu Xian didn't waste words, briefly explaining the crisis Yaoyang City was facing and the unique nature of these evil flesh and blood tissues.

"What? There's still a Dimensional invasion happening now?" Xu Qingshan was both surprised and doubtful, and then became excited, "That's a rare experience, wait, what did you just say?

That strange flesh and blood spawned by the Evil God's power has a certain growth effect on Bloodline?"

"That's right, it's just not easy to digest," Wu Xian confirmed.

Xu Qingshan in the video had sparkling eyes, "Please wait patiently, Brother Wu. I'm going to join the fun right now. If it truly has such a miraculous effect, my grandfather and some elders of the Dojo should also be very interested."

After speaking, he hastily ended the call to explain the situation to his grandfather.

"What? There's such an excellent Evil God?" The Old Principal had recently been obsessed with the Bi Fang Bloodline and couldn't extricate himself, and last night, he simply constructed and drew a fire-attribute bird scroll.

Unfortunately, in the end, it only fused with less than one percent of the Bi Fang Bloodline Structure.

Even so, the fire-attribute ability of this bird scroll had already surpassed many fire-attribute scrolls of the same Rank.

"Judging from Brother Wu's expression and reaction, he doesn't seem to be joking," Xu Qingshan analyzed, "And he also asked me for some Bloodline data with characteristics of greed, gluttony, and devouring, which should also be for dealing with this evil flesh and blood."

The Old Principal's eyes gleamed, "Let's go ~ you and I will go personally. It just so happens that I have some questions about the Bi Fang Bloodline that I want to ask that kid, and while we're at it, I'll take him as my disciple."

"Uh, shouldn't we inform the leaders of the Dojo?" Xu Qingshan was stunned.

"It's not too late to inform them after confirming the situation, lest we give them false hope."

...On Wu Xian's side, he also began to collect Materials related to [Old Glutton] through various channels as much as possible.

And as Wu Xian frantically researched and prepared, the situation in Yaoyang City also began to rapidly deteriorate.

Buzz, buzz, buzz... The entire Yaoyang City was like a machine about to break down, occasionally emitting humming sounds from the spatial and heaven and earth power levels, causing an inexplicable unease.

The Evil Realm from the deep abyss had also completely infiltrated.

The air was filled with a thick smell of blood, and the sky was shrouded in a crimson mist.

The streets and ground in the urban area were no longer ground, but soft, strangely textured flesh and blood tissue.

Inside the North District Small Villa.

Wu Xian was discussing and researching the Law power corresponding to the [Old Glutton] scroll concept with Third Master Xue. Although Third Master Xue still couldn't artificially synthesize the divine power core, synthesizing some related Divinity Factors was still very easy.

Especially when combined with the few Bloodline Structures Wu Xian had compiled, it also provided some inspiration to Third Master Xue.

And during their discussion, bursts of thunderous sounds erupted, and the heaven and earth trembled violently.

It seemed to come from deep underground, and also from the sky.

"?!"

Wu Xian and Third Master Xue exchanged glances and rushed out of the house together.

As he touched the doorknob, he found that it had been infected into a 50% flesh and blood state, soft and squishy.

Left with no choice, he violently kicked the door open.

Boom!

The moment the door was kicked open, the scene of the heaven and earth anomaly completely presented itself before their eyes.

Above the dark sky, the already scarred spatial distortion anomaly began to twist wildly, as if a brand new Dimensional vortex was forming.

The three great Dimensional Gates trembled violently, clearly becoming unstable due to the extrusion of a fourth Dimensional power.

Inside Yaoyang City, things were still alright, as there was still the protection of the heaven and earth scroll's power.

The most drastic changes occurred outside Yaoyang City, in the Dimensional Control Zone. Similar to how a Domain Scroll is shaped by the heaven and earth power in the Otherworld, large areas began to experience literal earth-shattering changes.

A brand new and powerful Dimensional power forcibly squeezed in from the cracks between the three great Otherworlds.

And Yaoyang City had not yet established the Dimensional Seal for this Dimensional power, so this Dimensional power could directly surge into Yaoyang City's interior.