Chapter 453: Chapter 453

The amount of poison Lu Sheng had initially used was minuscule, far from enough to fully grasp the true nature of “Sage’s Fall.” After a brief contemplation, Lu Sheng gritted his teeth and used his spiritual power to extract an entire drop of the poison.

With a knife-like motion of his fingers, he controlled his muscles and made a small cut in the palm of his left hand, carefully dripping the dark green liquid into the wound.

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Although it was just a single drop, its value was several billion.

As soon as the full drop of Sage’s Fall entered his body, the effect was significantly stronger than before.  Lu Sheng immediately felt his left arm heat up rapidly, glowing red as if it were a hot iron, and the air around it sizzled. A sharp, searing pain emanated from the wound in his palm, but Lu Sheng simply frowned slightly and continued to observe the wound closely.

He saw that the wound was trying to heal but was being forcibly torn open by another force. It seemed as if small tendrils of flesh were attempting to grow, only to be suppressed again and again.

This tug-of-war lasted for a while, the two forces locked in an intense struggle. Golden lines began to appear on Lu Sheng’s left arm.

These were not his veins, but some kind of pattern deeply embedded within his flesh and bones!

Lu Sheng had noticed these patterns when his Stellar Immortal Physique was born, resembling the “Dao Marks” described in fantasy novels. However, they were in fact traces left behind by the orderly aggregation of Stellar energy. Ordinarily, they remained dormant, but now they were being forced to emerge, joining the battle in his palm.

With the addition of these stellar lines, Lu Sheng’s own genetic power quickly gained the upper hand.  The strength of Sage’s Fall was gradually suppressed, and the wound in his palm was on the verge of healing …

Suddenly, a wild idea flashed through Lu Sheng’s mind—He decided to intervene and help Sage’s Fall win the battle!

Using his immense spiritual power and martial will, he forcibly suppressed the flow of his body’s energy and cells in his arm.

Sage’s Fall found a brief respite.

The wound in his left palm reopened, and the flesh inside began to grow wildly.

Lu Sheng watched as his smooth, jade-like skin became rough and hard, turning into hardened keratin, which slowly rose … Gradually, his palm transformed into scales, dark green in color. Eventually, a coin-sized eyeball grew in the center of his palm.

It appeared out of nowhere, staring directly at Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng could even see through this eye.

The sensation of looking at himself was quite strange, almost as if he were experiencing a mental split.

At this point, Lu Sheng’s left hand had become entirely inhuman. Each of his five fingers had extended, with more than five joints per finger, and his sharp nails were as lethal as cold weapons. In the center of his palm was a dark, shiny eyeball, and his hand was covered with dark green scales, giving it an eerie and terrifying appearance. Yet, at the same time, it radiated explosive power.

A clear dividing line formed between his wrist and his hand—A boundary between human and demon.

The mutated cells in his hand tried to invade the rest of his body, but the power of the Stellar Immortal Physique firmly held them back, keeping the mutation confined to his palm.

Lu Sheng casually swung his mutated hand.

A marble tea table several meters in front of him was silently sliced into several pieces, collapsing with a loud crash.

Lu Sheng’s eyes widened.

There was a sudden knock at the door.

Lu Sheng walked over and opened it.

The officer standing guard saluted and asked, “Sir, are you …”

Lu Sheng hid his mutated hand behind his back and replied calmly, “I accidentally broke something. It’s fine.”

“Shall we replace it for you?”

After closing the door, Lu Sheng looked at his mutated hand, now filled with amazement.

“What terrifying destructive power!”

In some ways, it even surpassed the Stellar Immortal Physique. Lu Sheng used his spiritual power to probe the cells of his mutated hand.

What he saw were tiny black cells, brimming with destructive and annihilating energy.

“They’re somewhat similar to immortal cells …” Lu Sheng’s eyes lit up.

“The difference is that immortal cells seek perfection, eternal life, and immortality … While these black cells pursue ultimate destruction and annihilation.”

They could be seen as two branches of the same skill tree: the same type of cells, following different paths of extreme evolution, leading to entirely different outcomes.

“But both are far beyond the level of ordinary human cells. No wonder exotic beasts are so powerful …” However, despite the similarity to immortal cells, there was still a vast gap between the mutated cells in his hand and Lu Sheng’s immortal cells.

After all, immortal cells were born from a single cell that had undergone billions of transformations. Meanwhile, the mutation had spread across his entire hand, diluting the power of Sage’s Fall. The number of transformations might not have even reached a million.

At that moment, an idea flashed through Lu Sheng’s mind.

“That’s it! What if I focused all this mutated energy into a single cell and let it transform billions of times? Could I create a cell as powerful as an immortal cell, but of a different kind?”

As soon as the thought occurred, inspiration poured out like a volcano. Countless ideas collided in Lu Sheng’s mind. He realized that if this approach was feasible, the downside of physical mutation could be resolved. He could explore another path of physical extremity while maintaining a normal human appearance …

Lu Sheng became excited.

This surge of excitement even affected the eyeball in his palm, which began spinning with joy.

But just as Lu Sheng was about to begin his experiment, a sudden wave of intense pain shot through his left hand. The pain was so severe that even Lu Sheng’s willpower nearly failed, and he almost lost consciousness.

“Damn it!” Lu Sheng gripped his left wrist tightly and looked at his hand.

He saw that the hand, which had just been brimming with power and vitality, was rapidly withering, decaying, and collapsing … The eyeball in the center of his palm reflected pure terror and despair as it pleaded desperately with Lu Sheng.

The overwhelming combination of pain, fear, despair, and begging flooded Lu Sheng’s mind, blurring the line between reality and delusion. He extended his spiritual power toward his hand. He saw the mutated cells in his hand dying off one by one, rapidly aging, dying, and disintegrating …

“How could this be …?” Lu Sheng was both shocked and puzzled.

“Just moments ago, these cells were full of vitality, and at this level, their lifespan shouldn’t be so short …” It was like immortal cells, whose life force was millions of times greater than that of normal cells. While mutated cells weren’t as powerful as immortal cells, they shouldn’t have such a short lifespan either.

It couldn’t be that this extremity traded the cells’ lifespan for greater destructive power and annihilation.

If that were the case, the exotic beasts in the Catacombs wouldn’t still be thriving. The vitality of exotic beasts was much stronger than that of warriors of the same level!

“So what’s the reason?!” Lu Sheng’s mind raced as he watched his left hand decay.

The eyeball in his palm went from clear to cloudy, then aged, and finally rotted and festered …