64: Chapter 64 Demolishing the Medicine Storehouse! A God-Making Manual Discovered

Spiritless Ruins, Underground Third Level, Qi conduit maintenance port.

In the dark, claustrophobic refined iron pipe, Gu Shen held his breath.

Following Crab's guidance, he detoured thirty meters to the left, perfectly avoiding the potential strong acid traps at the main entrance of the Medical Zone.

Below was a dust-covered louver.

"Master, below is the medicine storage room. Although the thermal imaging module is broken, the sonar shows no moving carbon-based lifeforms inside. It is safe."

Crab's extremely weak electrical hum came through Gu Shen's leg bone, carrying a hint of seeking credit.

"Well done."

Gu Shen replied casually. He gripped the thunder pattern gold-slaying blade with his right hand, and without activating the thunder, relied solely on the sharpness of the top-grade fierce gold to silently cut through the four fixed corners of the louver.

He supported the iron window with both hands, shrank his body, and drifted down from the gap in the ceiling like a falling leaf.

His feet touched the ground without a sound.

This was an extremely spacious warehouse. The air was filled with a pungent, strange odor ten times stronger than before—it was the mixed poisonous gas evaporated from countless Wasteland chemical agents after being deposited over the years.

The invisible world-extinguishing poisonous light in the air was indeed more than three times denser than on the second level. But Gu Shen stood where he was, his body, with the Bone Refining Art newly mastered, vibrating slightly, forcefully blocking all that erosive power from his flesh and blood.

"The poisonous light is nothing more than this. This Physical Body can withstand it."

Gu Shen scanned the surroundings with his Divine Sense.

Rows of refined steel medicine cabinets had long since collapsed, and the ground was covered in broken glass tubes and medicinal tablets that had turned into black ash. Most mundane medicinal stones could not withstand the erosion of time.

But he did not give up and patiently searched through the ruins.

"Master, go to the corner at the nine o'clock position! There is a military-grade constant temperature freezer there! Although it has been without power for thousands of years, the lead layer of the cabinet is extremely thick, and the vacuum seal structure inside might still preserve something good!" Crab reminded him.

Gu Shen's gaze narrowed, and he strode to the corner.

Sure enough, a silver-white, heavy, iron-like block of mysterious iron cabinet was embedded in the wall. There was no keyhole on the cabinet door, only an extremely complex rotary mechanism.

"Master, the password for this lock is…"

"No need for that much trouble."

Gu Shen interrupted Crab directly. He exerted force with his right hand, and his thick mana at Qi Refining Level 7, mixed with the terrifying strength of the Bone Refining Art, was fully poured into the gold-severing saber.

The deep blue thunder light surged violently!

"Ssh-la!"

With a forceful, heavy thrust, the top-grade blade pierced directly through the half-foot-thick lead-steel cabinet door as if cutting tofu! Then, he twisted his wrist violently, and the Thunder-Magnetic Force instantly exploded inside the lock core, shattering all the mechanical structures into powder.

"Bang."

Gu Shen kicked open the charred cabinet door.

"Holy crap, violent dismantling... Master, your physical hacking technique is really simple and brutal." Crab's voice carried a hint of shocked tremor.

Gu Shen ignored its rambling.

The cabinet door was wide open, revealing neatly arranged anti-vibration grooves inside. Most of the grooves were empty, but on the bottom layer, five extremely exquisite glass syringes lay quietly.

Inside the syringes, a viscous liquid emitting a faint, deep blue halo was sealed. There was no fluctuation of Spiritual Qi, yet it exuded an extremely pure, even somewhat violent, mundane vitality.

"High-value loot discovered!" Crab said excitedly, "Master, this is the pre-war top-secret T-3 cell repair fluid! As long as you aren't completely dead, one injection, and necrotic muscles and bones can be forcibly reorganized and healed within ten minutes! This is a life-saving divine medicine that you can't buy even with money!"

A flash of joy crossed Gu Shen's eyes.

Although he did not understand those terms, he understood the value of this item. This was equivalent to an extremely domineering instant-healing Spirit Medicine! In an environment of poisonous light where Medicinal Pills from the Cultivation World could not be used, these few glass medicine tubes were five extra lives!

He flicked his large sleeve and stored them all into his Storage Ring.

Just as Gu Shen was preparing to continue scavenging.

"Warning! High-risk alert!"

The terminal tied to his leg suddenly vibrated violently, and Crab's voice instantly became extremely sharp, "Master! There is a high-intensity acidic reaction outside the door! It is coming toward the storage room!"

Almost at the same moment the warning sounded.

"Ssh—!!!"

The heavy, refined iron door of the storage room suddenly emitted extremely thick, pungent white smoke. The hard iron plate was as if splashed with corpse-dissolving water, dissolving crazily from the outside in, and in the blink of an eye, a hole the height of a person had rotted through!

"Bang!"

An extremely bloated, disgusting behemoth crushed the broken iron door and slammed heavily into the room.

This was a Fusion corpse standing a zhang tall. Its body seemed to be forcibly kneaded together from three or four remains wearing white medical robes. Its whole body was covered with translucent green pustules the size of millstones.

Inside those pustules, the terrifying acid that had just melted the iron door was boiling violently.

"Late Stage Tier 2! A twice-mutated poison corpse!"

Gu Shen's pupils constricted.

This monster's aura was even more terrifying than the iron-armored corpse on the second level. What was even more deadly was that its body was covered in poisonous acid pustules; once struck with a blade, the pustules would burst, and acid rain would splatter everywhere, leaving nowhere to hide in this narrow, enclosed room!

"Master! Do not cut its stomach! Those are high-pressure acid sacs! If even a drop splashes on you, your flesh will be corroded down to the bone!" Crab screamed frantically.

Gu Shen's eyes were calm, without a ripple.

He did not retreat. At the moment the Fusion poison corpse swung its thick, mutated tentacles to smash him.

"Rise!"

Gu Shen suddenly raised his left hand.

"Hum!"

A pale gray stone shield appeared out of thin air, swelling to half a person's height in the wind, blocking firmly in front of him. It was the top-grade Magical Artifact, the black turtle shield!

"Bang!"

The tentacle slammed hard against the stone shield. Immediately after, a small pustule on the poison corpse's abdomen contracted violently, and with a "pfft" sound, it sprayed a large mouthful of sickly green poisonous acid, pouring it all over the surface of the turtle shield.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"

The top-grade stone shield, which had been infused with Tier 3 stone armor essence, actually let out a shrill, mournful cry under the corrosion of this acid. The thick layer of Earth-element Spiritual Qi on its surface flickered violently, and several shallow pits were forcibly corroded into it.

"What vicious corpse-dissolving water!"

Gu Shen felt a chill in his heart, but his combat instincts were pushed to the limit.

Not only did he not use the force to retreat, but instead, bearing the corroded stone shield, he stomped his right leg, shattering the floor, and his whole body, like a violent war chariot, forcibly squeezed within one zhang of the poison corpse.

Since he could not cut the pustules, then he would roast it from the inside!

"Clang!"

The thunder pattern gold-slaying blade did not slash out a blade aura, but was gripped in reverse by Gu Shen with both hands, like a long spear.

"Soul-Shocking Spike!"

The invisible Soul-Shocking Spike slammed into the poison corpse's three or four deformed heads squeezed together. The poison corpse's massive body stiffened suddenly, and all its movements fell into a extremely brief stagnation.

Just within this split second.

Gu Shen's body, at an incredibly twisted angle, avoided the front of all the green pustules, and the long saber, like a viper flicking its tongue, pierced with extreme precision through the unarmored gap between the poison corpse's two heads, driving deep into its neck!

No horizontal slashes, only a straight thrust!

"Explode!"

Gu Shen roared, and the remaining mana in his Dantian poured through the hilt of the saber, booming without reservation into the poison corpse's body.

The deep blue thunder exploded violently inside the poison corpse's spine!

"Crackle, crackle!"

The violent Thunder-Magnetic Force instantly coursed through the poison corpse's entire body, directly electrocuting its internal central nervous system and rotten internal organs into a lump of charred carbon. But because it exploded from the inside, those acid pustules covering its body surface miraculously did not rupture!

"Boom."

The poison corpse collapsed to the ground like a pile of mud, black smoke spewing from its seven orifices, and it was completely dead.

Gu Shen pulled out his long saber and panted heavily.

That combo just now—if not for the terrifying Physical Body granted by the Bone Refining Art supporting him to complete that incredible close-quarters twist, he would definitely have been splattered all over with acid.

"Master is mighty! This micro-operation is simply art!" Crab's voice, sounding as if it had survived a disaster, rang out at the right time.

Gu Shen ignored it, and suppressing the exhaustion from his mana depletion, walked to the side of the corpse.

He pressed down with one hand. The phantom fire of the Great Furnace swept over.

[Refining complete. Obtained: essence white dew (inferior) three drops. One mutated strong acid poison sac. Current inferior essence white dew: twenty-one drops.]

This mutated strong acid poison sac was a top-grade Spirit Material for backstabbing people; as long as it was quenched on hidden weapons, it was enough to melt through the Magical Artifact shields of Cultivators of the same tier.

Gu Shen stored it into his Storage Ring with extreme care.

Just as the corpse was refined into ash and dissipated, a silver-white metal recording tablet, which had originally been swallowed into the poison corpse's stomach and was made of an unknown material, clattered onto the ground.

Gu Shen used the tip of his saber to pick it up.

"Artifact Spirit, see what is written on it." Gu Shen brought the terminal iron plate close.

Crab was silent for two seconds, and after scanning those characters, its voice suddenly became extremely grave:

"Master, this is a final diary entry from the Medical Zone director. The content on it explains why the Aberrations here underwent secondary mutation..."

"Read it." Gu Shen's voice was cold and stern.

"Log codename: Ascension Project. After the reactor on the Thirteenth Floor leaked, to save the Shelter, the higher-ups ordered the Medical Zone to conduct extreme gene-splicing experiments. They attempted to fuse human DNA with an extreme extremophile discovered in high-concentration radiation, artificially creating new humans capable of immunity to radiation..."

Crab's voice carried a hint of chilling horror, "The experiment failed completely. Those test subjects not only did not become immune to radiation, but instead turned into monsters covered in acid... which is the one you just killed."

Artificially creating an anti-poison Dao body!

This final madness of the Ancient Sect before its demise was actually identical to the path he was now taking by relying on deep green marrow fluid to Cultivate the Bone Refining Art!

However, they used the wrong method and became monsters. While he, with the [Heaven and Earth Furnace] to eradicate the toxicity, had embarked on a perfect path of Heaven-Defying destiny modification.