107: Threaten to the death! Unlock new talents amidst excruciating pain!

Darkness.

Lin Yuan felt as if he had been thrown into a giant black jelly, with pressure from all directions, yet no point of leverage.

The Thunder Falcon Wings on his back suddenly flapped!

"Bang!"

A muffled thud.

He seemed to have hit an invisible wall and was bounced back forcefully.

Lin Yuan steadied himself, rubbing his dazed head.

He didn't believe it, changed direction, and accelerated again!

"Bang!"

Another muffled thud.

The result was exactly the same.

Up, down, left, right... no matter which direction he rushed, he would eventually hit a tough barrier.

He was sealed in here.

"No way..."

Lin Yuan floated in the darkness, a look of speechlessness on his face.

This time, he had overdone it.

He opened his System panel and took a look.

"divine body electricity level: 13%"

A bright red, dazzling number.

Just now, in order to throw Su Wanqing out, he had consumed another wave of power.

Waves of weakness and hunger came from within his body.

Lin Yuan sighed, and could only follow his memory, descending towards the lonely high platform below.

There, it was the only "land" in this darkness.

He sat cross-legged on the high platform, surrounded by slowly flowing, pitch-black abyssal energy.

These energies were cold, evil, and full of corrosiveness.

Lin Yuan looked at the black mist, lost in thought.

No electricity.

Can't get out.

The divine body electricity level was still continuously depleting.

If he didn't find a solution soon, when the divine body electricity level reached zero, he would "starve" to death even without anyone else's intervention.

An extremely bold idea surfaced in his mind.

He stretched out his hand, letting a wisp of black abyssal energy entwine around his fingertips.

"Abyssal Tribulation Thunder..." he muttered softly, flipping his palm, and the Abyssal Tribulation Thunder leaped out with a "zzzzzt" sound.

He remembered that his Primordial Thunder God Body was no longer the pure lightning it once was.

Wasn't this dark purple power precisely a mutation that occurred after absorbing abyssal origin and heavenly thunder fragments?

Since one of his power's Origins was the Abyssal, and he had even transformed it into his own power... then now, all the Abyssal energy in this world, for him... was fuel!

Lin Yuan steeled his heart.

He closed his eyes, mobilized his divine body, and tried to absorb a trace of the abyssal energy entwined around his fingertips.

Almost at the same time.

The System's warning sounded in his mind!

"Warning! High concentration of Abyssal corrupted energy detected!"

"Forced absorption will lead to the collapse of the divine body's basic structure, severe contamination of the mental sea, and a chance of irreversible malignant mutation!"

"Continue?!"

A series of warnings made Lin Yuan's mouth twitch.

"It sounds so terrifying..."

He opened his eyes and looked at the endless darkness around him.

"But do I have a choice now?"

"Continue!"

He gave the command.

The next second.

"Hiss—!!!"

Lin Yuan gasped, his entire body instantly hunched over!

Pain!

Heart-wrenching pain!

As soon as the cold, violent energy entered his body, it was like thousands of steel needles scraping and piercing his Meridians!

The Abyssal Tribulation Thunder within him instinctively surged up, attempting to purify and transform this foreign energy.

The collision of the two forces stirred up huge waves within his body!

Every blood vessel, every inch of muscle, every cell, was crying out in agony!

Lin Yuan's forehead was covered with beads of sweat the size of soybeans.

He gritted his teeth, unable to even let out a scream.

He endured the severe pain and looked at the System panel.

"Warning! Talent 'Lightning Control' is being corroded by high-concentration Abyssal energy!"

"...Corrosion failed! Talent has undergone adaptive mutation!"

"Talent 'Lightning Control' has unlocked a new characteristic: Abyssal Affinity (Elementary)! You can now slightly guide and absorb Abyssal energy!"

Almost simultaneously, Lin Yuan felt that the energy rampaging through his Meridians seemed to have a hint of... obedience?

Although still painful, it was no longer pure repulsion and destruction.

He stared intently at the divine body electricity level on the panel.

"divine body electricity level +0.1%"

"Damn..."

Lin Yuan's face turned green.

He had suffered agonizing pain and unlocked a new ability, only to charge so little?

The cost-effectiveness was too low!

Give up?

The thought flashed through his mind, then was extinguished.

If he didn't charge, he would just wait for death.

If he charged, although painful, at least there was still hope of survival!

"Damn it..."

"I'm going all out with you guys!"

A fierce glint flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes, and he simply let go of the restrictions, beginning to absorb the surrounding Abyssal energy with all his might!

"Boom—!"

More black energy began to pour into his body!

The pain magnified tenfold! A hundredfold!

Black patterns began to appear on the surface of his skin, only to be forcibly suppressed by the lightning that overflowed from his body.

Time passed, minute by minute, second by second.

"divine body electricity level: 10%..."

"divine body electricity level: 20%..."

"divine body electricity level: 30%..."

Lin Yuan could no longer feel the passage of time.

His consciousness floated and sank in an ocean of excruciating pain, relying solely on the obsession of "I can't die like this" to desperately hold on.

He even started cursing in his mind.

From Qin Shan's ancestors for eighteen generations, to the entire Abyssal Cult, and then to the designer of this terrible place... only by doing so could he slightly distract himself from the inhuman pain.

After an unknown amount of time.

When the number on the System panel finally jumped to the value that gave him a sense of security, Lin Yuan interrupted the absorption.

"divine body electricity level: 50%"

"Hoo... hoo... hoo..."

He collapsed on the high platform, panting heavily, his whole body soaked in sweat as if he had been pulled out of water.

"Finally... got half my life back..."

Lin Yuan grinned, wanting to laugh, but it tugged at all his pain nerves, making him wince.

However.

Just as he was about to rest for a bit.

"Buzz—"

A slight vibration came from the high platform beneath him.

Lin Yuan's complexion, which had just recovered, darkened again, and he couldn't help but curse under his breath: "Damn it, you know how to time things, don't you? I just finished charging!"

His expression changed, and he immediately pushed Electromagnetic Induction to its limit, probing downwards.

A life signal appeared within hisPerception range.

That signal... was very familiar.

It was Qin Shan!

But, something felt off.

Qin Shan's signal had become incredibly violent, chaotic, and... not alone.

Around his signal, hundreds and thousands of faint signals were entwined, like countless vengeful spirits, entangled with him.

That mixed signal body was ascending from the abyssal bottom at an astonishing speed!

"Crack..."

"Crack... crack..."

The sound of fingernails scraping against the rock wall came from the darkness below.

From far to near.

Lin Yuan stood up, staring intently at the darkness below the edge of the high platform.

A hand suddenly reached out from the darkness and rested on the edge of the high platform.

The hand was bloated and twisted, with several human faces faintly visible beneath the skin, silently howling.

Immediately after.

A figure slowly crawled up from the Abyssal.

It was Qin Shan.

Or rather, the former Qin Shan.

His body had become a disgusting patchwork monster.

Qin Feng's half-demon body was forcibly grafted onto his left side.

The limbs of the experimental subjects were haphazardly stitched to his back and chest.

Countless pairs of resentful eyes opened on his body, all staring at Lin Yuan on the high platform.

"Found... you..."

"Found... you..."