Chapter 541: Superhuman Toxin
Zhang Yi and Yuan Kongye clashed once again.
The prolonged battle with no clear advantage left Yuan Kongye increasingly irritated.
It wasn’t that she lacked strength—her power was overwhelming—but her inexperience in real combat was a glaring weakness.
And Zhang Yi’s constant taunts only fueled her determination to kill him right here, no matter the cost.
But the longer she fought, the more discomfort she felt in her body.
A dizziness overtook her, as if she were suffering from severe motion sickness. Nausea churned in her stomach, and her vision began to blur.
The more intensely she unleashed her abilities, the worse the sensation beca.
Then, a sudden realization struck her—this wasn’t caused by her emotions, nor was it so sudden illness.
With that thought, she stopped midair, clutching her forehead as she clenched her teeth and demanded,
"You... What did you do to !?"
Zhang Yi's smirk grew wider.
So, it had finally begun.
No, I can’t celebrate yet. I need to push her deeper into the abyss.
Mocking, he said, "Looks like you still can’t fully control your own power."
"Maybe… the souls of all those Superhumans you absorbed are haunting you, making you suffer like this!"
Yuan Kongye glared at him with hatred, her body wracked with pain.
But his words struck a nerve, causing a flicker of unease in her heart.
After all, in her pursuit of power, she had used countless ruthless thods, consuming the abilities of many Ice Soul Superhumans.
Among them were not just her devout followers but also—the most important one of all—Zheng Yixian.
"Shut up! What do you even know!?"
Through sheer willpower, she ignored the pain and unleashed another violent assault on Zhang Yi.
The ground shattered.
Dark clouds churned.
Winds howled.
Flas roared.
Ice surged.
She wielded countless powerful abilities with ease.
But none of it could truly harm Zhang Yi.
Like an unyielding tumbler doll, he absorbed every devastating strike yet refused to fall.
The only real advantage Yuan Kongye had over him was her imnse energy reserves.
But Zhang Yi had two things working in his favor—
First, he had obtained Xing Tian’s Xing Tian Legion ability.
Second, his Dinsional Space was stocked with an overwhelming supply of energy-rich food, enough to sustain him through countless energy-consuming battles.
But what was the point of this fight?
Even with his strongest techniques, he couldn't kill Yuan Kongye. So how was continuing to fight going to change anything?
The answer lay in her body’s reaction.
All the plans he had secretly set into motion were finally working.
This was Plan B: Superhuman Toxin.
Plan A had relied on Yuan Kongye and Zheng Yixian perfectly controlling their zombie horde, forcing them to weaken themselves.
That plan had failed.
So, Plan B had begun.
And its core lay in Bian Junwu.
Previously, it had been noted that mutations in this world were not always beneficial. So carried fatal flaws.
Bian Junwu’s ability was one such case—every ti he used his skills, he paid the price with irreparable damage to his body, including the loss of his eyesight.
Since these mutations occurred on a genetic level, modern dicine couldn’t cure them.
And because Yuan Kongye had absorbed the abilities of Ice Soul hosts, she had also inherited their negative side effects.
This wasn’t just Zhang Yi’s speculation.
Li Jian had once written him a letter detailing an incident.
Li Jian had t a female priest in the Followers of the Snow God, a woman whose power allowed her to control ice and snow with her breath.
But this ability ca at a cost—it damaged her lungs, causing her to cough violently whenever she used it.
Eventually, Yuan Kongye had strangled that priest to death with her own hands.
Then, one day, Li Jian witnessed sothing shocking.
After using her powers to perform a divine miracle for her followers, Yuan Kongye coughed—just like that priest had.
That detail stuck with Li Jian, and he described it in full to Zhang Yi.
So Zhang Yi deduced that if Yuan Kongye absorbed the powers of others, she must also absorb their negative mutations.
Thus, Plan B was born—a ticulously crafted trap centered around Bian Junwu.
The critical flaw in Bian Junwu’s ability was known only to Zhang Yi.
No other faction in Tianhai City had this information.
Which ant that Yuan Kongye had no idea about the deadly price of using Oblivion.
When she obtained the power to annihilate everything in sight, she had been ecstatic.
She couldn’t wait to unleash it and obliterate all her enemies.
But as an Epsilon-level Superhuman, the stronger her ability, the more devastating the backlash would be.
Take Bian Junwu, for example—when he fully unleashed his power, he burned through his own life force in an instant, perishing like a fleeting firework.
And all Zhang Yi had to do—was drag the fight out until she overused her abilities.
The forces of Tianhai City had been fighting her in a war of attrition.
First, the investigation team and dozens of Superhumans had worn her down.
Once they had been defeated, Zhang Yi stepped in.
His smirk grew wider.
If he could kill Yuan Kongye, not only would Tianhai City’s crisis be resolved…
But—no one would be left to stop him from taking her Superhuman Core.
An Epsilon-level Core.
If Zhang Yi could absorb it, he’d gain the abilities of dozens of Superhumans all at once.
Perhaps—he could even ascend to the Epsilon level himself.
But, of course, he wasn’t about to tell Yuan Kongye that.
If she realized the truth, she might just stop fighting and run.
And there would be nothing Zhang Yi could do to stop her.
So instead, he provoked her with words.
"I know you hate this world. You want to destroy everyone in it. But let’s be real—you’re not exactly innocent, are you?"
"If your parents hadn’t founded a cult, scamming their followers out of their life savings, you wouldn’t have ended up like this."
Yuan Kongye’s pupils shrank.
That piece of her past—was the one thing she never wanted to face.
Her deepest, darkest scar.
Zhang Yi’s words forced her to relive mories she had tried to bury.
She rembered how her parents had died in a plane crash.
At their funeral, furious cult mbers stord in and toppled their coffins.
Among them, soone shoved her to the ground.
Then ca the brutal, endless tornt.
Zheng Yixian had fought like a wounded beast, desperately trying to save her, but they pinned him down and stomped on his head.
No matter how he scread and begged, his eyes bloodshot, they never stopped.
For an entire day and night, the suffering had carved itself into her very bones—so much so that she once doubted if she would even survive.
"AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Yuan Kongye suddenly clutched her head, letting out a soul-wrenching wail.
A violent storm of power erupted from her body, radiating outward like an unstoppable force!
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