208: Chapter 207 This weasel, ate it and got a mutation?

"Waaah!!!"

Huang Fugui froze for a full three seconds until it confirmed that the blood-stained, weak-breathed person before it really was Lin Feng, then it suddenly lunged into Lin Feng's embrace.

Its small paws tightly gripped Lin Feng's lapels as it wailed loudly, crying so heart-wrenchingly that snot and tears were all smeared onto Lin Feng's expensive (though now tattered) magic robe.

"Master! You're alive! You're really alive, Master!"

"Wuu wuu wuu... I thought I'd never see you again! That pretty boy threatened me every day, saying he'd turn me into a specimen, and that old hag wouldn't give me food, feeding me stones every day! I want to eat roast chicken, I want to eat pig trotters... wuu wuu wuu..."

Lin Feng helplessly patted the fellow's head, though it felt a bit bony—it was so thin it was all bones—but in his heart, he felt a long-lost sense of peace.

"Alright, alright, stop wailing. How embarrassing. A dignified Ninth-Rank Demon Emperor crying like a little girl who had her candy stolen."

Although Lin Feng spoke with disdain, his hands didn't stop moving.

He directly pulled out a large handful of top-grade Immortal Pills emitting a rich medicinal fragrance from the pile of loot he just got—specifically, the storage ring he 'looted' from Immortal Lord Yuheng's corpse.

Rejuvenation Pills, Heaven-Mending Pills, Dragon Blood Creation Pellets...

Regardless of whether the medicinal properties would clash, he stuffed them all into Huang Fugui's mouth in one go.

"Eat! Eat as much as you can! Replenish yourself! Today is all-you-can-eat!"

"Mmph mmph mmph..."

Huang Fugui's eyes lit up, and without being polite, it chewed while crying. Its eating manner was like a starved ghost reincarnated, its cheeks bulging like a hamster's.

As a large number of top-grade Immortal Pills entered its stomach, Huang Fugui's originally shriveled body filled out at a speed visible to the naked eye. Those terrifying scars quickly scabbed and fell off under the medicinal power, and its withered yellow fur regained its golden luster, becoming even more dazzling than before.

But just then, a sudden change occurred!

*Burp~*

Huang Fugui suddenly let out an earth-shattering burp, and then its belly... lit up.

It wasn't a normal light, but a chaotic, hazy gray light that shone through its lower abdomen, illuminating its internal organs and bones with perfect clarity.

Immediately after, an ancient, vast aura, as if from the primordial beginning of heaven and earth, diffused from within its body.

"Hmm?"

Lin Feng's brow furrowed as he pressed a hand on Huang Fugui, his expression solemn.

"What is inside your belly? Why is there an aura harder than an Immortal Artifact?"

"Master... I... I don't know either..."

Huang Fugui looked bewildered, clutching its belly in pain, feeling as if a sun were burning inside. "It's just... when I was locked in that black tower before, that female devil (Ghost Mother of the Nether) fed me all sorts of messy Heaven And Earth Treasures every day to fatten me up."

"One time, she accidentally dropped a gray, moss-covered broken stone fragment into the cage."

"I was starving at the time and thought it might be some kind of treasure since it smelled quite good, so... I chewed it up."

"Chewed it?" Lin Feng's mouth twitched violently. "That was a stone! You dared to eat it?"

"That stone... it was crunchy, tasted a bit like dried chicken, and was quite chewy." Huang Fugui reminisced for a moment, then screamed again, "Ouch! It hurts, hurts, hurts! My butt is going to explode!"

Lin Feng immediately activated the investigative ability of the Myriad Dao Furnace Sutra, his Divine Thought pouring into Huang Fugui's body like flowing mercury.

At this sight, Lin Feng was stunned.

Deep within Huang Fugui's Dantian, that 'broken stone fragment' it had swallowed was slowly melting under the catalysis of the Immortal Pills' power.

Although the fragment was only the size of a fingernail and looked unremarkable, the energy level contained in its core was actually several times higher than that of Immortal Lord Yuheng's half-finished Immortal King Dao Fruit!

That was a trace of... pure Chaos Origin!

Moreover, looking at its patterns, it was actually a bone fragment of the Origin left behind by the legendary, long-extinct ancient Divine Beast—the [Chaos Essence-Devouring Beast]!

"Holy crap!"

Lin Feng couldn't help but curse, looking at this wretched fellow in his arms with an extremely complex gaze.

"Your luck... is truly unparalleled. You can even eat trash and get a peerless Opportunity?"

This was no broken stone; this was a true Chaos Curio! If put up in an Immortal Realm auction house, it would be enough to cause a struggle among those at the Immortal Emperor level!

At this moment, under the overbearing modification of this Chaos Origin, Huang Fugui's Bloodline was undergoing a world-shaking secondary mutation!

The [Gold-Swallowing Divine Beast] Bloodline, which originally only had outstanding treasure-seeking abilities, was evolving toward the legendary [Chaos Essence-Devouring Beast] that could devour heaven and earth!

This meant that in the future, this fellow wouldn't just be able to find treasures; it could even directly devour an enemy's Magic Treasures, Formations, and even their Origin, converting them into pure energy to feed back to itself and its master!

It was simply the perfect partner for the Myriad Dao Furnace Sutra!

"Ah! Master! It's so hot! My butt is so hot! Something is trying to poke out!"

Huang Fugui suddenly let out a scream, and with a soft 'poof' at the base of its tail, a new tail actually forced its way out!

This new tail was entirely a dull chaotic gray, with no fur, but covered in fine scales and surrounded by faint chaotic air currents, looking extraordinary and divine.

Twin tails?!

"Alright, stop screaming. This is a great fortune! Something others couldn't get even if they begged for it!"

Lin Feng slapped it on the forehead and channeled a gentle stream of immortal essence to help it organize the violent aura. "Hurry up and refine it for me! Once we're out, I'll take you for a good meal!"

"Really?! I want to eat Golden Immortal leg meat! Braised!" Hearing about food, Huang Fugui's pain seemed to lessen by a few degrees.

"Granted! Forget Golden Immortals, if you can digest this bone, I'll even get you an Immortal King's leg!"

Lin Feng stuffed the evolving, burning Huang Fugui into his robe (this time his movements were much gentler, for fear of making it explode).

He stood up and looked up at the rapidly collapsing Void Realm of the ninth floor.

Yuheng was dead, Zhang Cheng was dead, and the Restrictions here were gone.

But...

Even bigger trouble was likely coming.

He could feel an aura even more terrifying and a thousand times more furious than Immortal Lord Yuheng's awakening from the depths of the void—the core area of the Nether Palace!

That aura was full of tyranny and madness, as if a sleeping ancient Vicious Beast had its tail stepped on.

That was... the Ghost Mother of the Nether!