The people present were all outstanding among the tower-climbers, and they immediately sensed this strange, brand-new plague.
While secretly cursing the dishonorable Tower Spirit in their hearts, they deployed various energy shields and retrieved a large number of detoxification items from their storage gear.
【Black Magic Master】 pulled a vat of poisonous wine from his black robes. It was steeped with various venomous creatures—centipedes, scorpions, ants, spiders, toads, poisonous wasps, venomous snakes, and even a poisonous dragon horn.
He yanked out the cork and poured it down his throat, swallowing the dregs and wine together. When encountering parts that were difficult to swallow, he even used his mental strength to forcibly expand his esophagus to make it easier to get down.
One could only say that he truly lived up to his name as the 【Black Magic Master】—he was ruthless enough.
However, this method of fighting poison with poison did not seem to have any effect.
The black robes of the 【Black Magic Master】 were actually dismantled and devoured by this plague named 【Life】. From the outside in, every piece of equipment and every accessory was consumed until there was absolutely no coverage left, exposing his proud physique.
There was no look of anger on 【Black Magic Master】's face; for exposure to be a loss, someone actually had to be looking.
Yet, what came from beside him were not teasing glances, but only a succession of miserable wails.
Among them, 【Please Call Me Top Scholar】 screamed the loudest and most miserably.
This rising star of the magic world had already joined a certain school at a young age, been hired as a school professor, and was in charge of a large laboratory with thousands of magic apprentices working like beasts of burden under him.
It was this very star of tomorrow whose method of dealing with 【Life】 at this moment truly opened Chen Xu's eyes.
He was seen taking out nine silver-white cylinders from his storage necklace.
“Click!”
The mechanisms triggered, and nine syringes popped out of each cylinder. The syringes in each cylinder were of different colors, but the medicinal effects contained within them were all extraordinary.
Just as they popped out, without the isolation of the cylinders, a medicinal scent immediately wafted through the air.
To prevent any loss of medicinal efficacy, 【Please Call Me Top Scholar】 immediately mobilized his mental strength to control the syringes, stabbing them into his deltoids, latissimus dorsi, triceps, and carotid artery.
All eighty-one syringes were injected simultaneously. In the next instant, 【Please Call Me Top Scholar】's aura surged rapidly, his physical metrics skyrocketed, his muscles bulged, and his blood vessels thickened.
Beneath his skin, within his blood vessels, there seemed to be nine swimming dragons thrashing wildly inside his body.
However, this powerful body, emitting a faint scent of flesh, was the ultimate delicacy in the eyes of 【Life】.
A massive amount of 【Life】 in the air was drawn toward the Top Scholar.
His physical body began to decompose at a speed visible to the naked eye. Before his muscles could even fester, they were already devoured by 【Life】.
In just ten short seconds, the Top Scholar lost ninety percent of his muscles, leaving behind only a skeleton and internal organs.
Watching this scene, Chen Xu finally understood why the Source of the Plague had named this plague 【Life】.
This special plague would devour everything it encountered completely clean.
No matter what substance or energy it was, they could absorb and then dismantle it, splitting into even more of the plague after consuming it.
Even when encountering substances that were more difficult to deal with, such as magic items or the skin layers of living organisms, the first wave of the plague to make contact would swallow the substance into their bodies for initial digestion, then allow their arriving kin to dismantle them, gradually weakening the target.
Everything this plague did was for reproduction, for the growth of its population, for—life.
It had already transcended the conventional definition of a plague. No longer targeting only the physiological structure of a specific organism, it equally and frantically swallowed everything it saw into its belly, digested it, reproduced, and then continuously repeated this process until there was no food left.
Having figured out its effects, Chen Xu extended his right hand and pointed a finger. A strand of the purest necrotic aura, derived from the necrotic Dao principles, hovered at his fingertip.
Instantly, the entities of 【Life】 that were still devouring and feeding were drawn over by this speck of necrotic aura, absorbing it frantically.
“Gurgle~”
Even the Source of the Plague behind Chen Xu had its cravings triggered by the scent of this pure necrotic aura, letting out a gurgling sound.
Only after all of 【Life】 had gathered did Chen Xu condense a shell of Dao principles, sealing this terrifying plague away once more.
This little thing worked exceptionally well against ordinary transcendents below the Eternal Rank who had not mastered Dao principles.
Just a fingernail-sized amount of 【Life】 could completely devour an entire world.
If 【Life】 could continue to evolve and develop the ability to devour and decompose Dao principles, then eventually, even Eternal Rank creatures would enter its diet and become its prey.
He could even write underlying code for 【Life】, keeping it in a dormant state under normal circumstances, only activating to devour the target when it sensed a predetermined target, such as a demon.
Simply put, this was another rising star of the undead with a highly promising future, but unfortunately, time remained the biggest issue.
However, relying on the insights gained from creating 【Life】, the Source of the Plague had directly ascended to the Eternal Rank, completing the final piece of the puzzle for the Ten Yin Lords, which saved Chen Xu a lot of time.
Tossing the 【Life】 in his hand backward, he threw it into the body of the Source of the Plague.
Then, he breathed out a puff of pure necrotic aura toward the guinea pigs in front of him.
Ultimate vitality bloomed upon them, and their devoured flesh restored at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Subsequently, Chen Xu split off a tiny shred of mental strength and implanted a trace of insight into the necrotic Dao principles into their souls, serving as payment for this experiment and compensation for their destroyed items.
At the same time, Chen Xu also included the latest cutting-edge knowledge of the life-essence curse system he had developed, hoping to leverage these geniuses of various civilizations to help with his research and save his own time.
As for whether these geniuses would outsource this research once they returned, that was not Chen Xu's concern.
Chen Xu only cared about harvesting the final results; he paid no attention to the process in between.
After arranging everything, Chen Xu released a soul wave to wake up the tower-climbers, then left the mage tower and returned to the Undead Dao Court.
“Ugh... My head hurts so much! Dammit! This Tower Spirit is really not human!”
“How is this a plague? It's practically a swarm of invisible nanites. Damn, it reminds me of those nanites from technological civilizations.”
“Heh, this is much more powerful than nanites. Nanites can't breach energy or mental barriers.”
After waking up, everyone complained one after another. However, at this moment, Yan Ruyu appeared before them.
“Congratulations, everyone. Just now, you unlocked the ultimate achievement of the Necrotic Archmage Tower: 【Gaze of the Supreme One】!”
“Gaze of the Supreme One? Holy crap, could it be that person?”
Yan Ruyu nodded and continued.
“The Great Overlord was moved by your eagerness to learn and has left a small gift for everyone.”
“Truth above, am I sensing this correctly? Is this an insight into Dao principles?”
“Truth ab—bah, Undead above! Lord Tower Spirit, could you please help me ask if that Supreme Overlord needs any more experiments done? If I alone am not enough, I still have thousands of magic apprentices under me who can be at your disposal at any time.”
“Holy cow, Brother Top Scholar! Do you have any academic dignity left at all!”
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