The more of the pale red airflow inhaled, the more gentle the hybrid woman's aura beca, and faint ripples of spiritual power emanated from her body.
Li Zheng focused his mind, closed his eyes, and extended his spiritual power to observe the hybrid woman.
In the spiritual power's field of view, the woman's body was coated in a layer of colorless light, making her appear bright and enchanting, but no light was emitted.
"The talent of the Optimist Race seems to be a special application of spiritual power, relying on this thod to erode and assimilate the pale red airflow inhaled into the body, ultimately not getting infected by the evil aura contained in the airflow, but rather benefiting themselves greatly."
Li Zheng carefully studied, trying to find a pattern, but couldn't grasp it.
Just then, the hybrid woman seed to sense sothing, suddenly opened her eyes and glanced at Li Zheng, her gaze full of fear and shock, her expression unable to remain gentle, her own talent disrupted by emotions and failed, allowing the evil thoughts hidden in the pale red airflow to seize the opportunity and instantly attack the spiritual body in her mind.
"Help ..."
The hybrid woman only had ti to utter half a cry for help, her eyes suddenly turned scarlet, and her body began to mutate.
Her four canine teeth grew wildly from between her lips, her skull transforming like clay into all sorts of chaotic shapes, her body displaying asymtrical proliferation and deficiency.
The Windy Cat was taken aback, shouting a warning: "She is infected!"
The warning drew the attention of everyone around, and several long queues outside the counters nearby instinctively retreated a few steps, then realizing what the Windy Cat had just said, their faces instantly changed dramatically.
"Kill her before she's thoroughly infected!" shouted an alien, reaching into a personal space to grab a weapon, only to realize they were inside the Outer City.
With that, everyone felt like they were facing a dire situation.
"This is the Outer City, the appearance of one infected person could trigger a major disaster!" another alien shouted loudly, "Forget the rules set by the terminal, this is an ergency, killing her would be understandable!"
"I'll do it!"
An impatient one couldn't hold back, marched forward, and punched towards the hybrid woman's ceaselessly changing head.
The Windy Cat struggled briefly before finally gritting teeth and not stopping it, turning away unwilling to look.
"Stop!"
Suddenly, a vast spiritual power swept across the entire scene, loudly proclaiming in the ears of all Outer City residents: "I can save her!"
Upon hearing this, the Windy Cat reacted swiftly, stepping forward and reaching both hands to block the punch from the previous alien, but carelessly stepped into the range of twisted emotions, making consciousness muddled.
"You useless thing!"
Li Zheng opened his eyes, looked at the alien who intended to kill the hybrid woman earlier, angrily cursed, and his spiritual power suddenly surged into the range of twisted emotions, entering the hybrid woman's mind.
Instantly locking onto her spiritual body, which was initially infected and struggling.
The hybrid woman's spiritual body mirrored her actual body, albeit sowhat ethereal and lacking solidity.
On the surface of her body, the previously inhaled pale red aura transford into grotesque tentacles, wrapping her tightly and gradually penetrating her spiritual body.
If those tentacles successfully penetrated her spiritual body, they could occupy the nest and completely destroy her consciousness from the root, becoming a chaotic source stripped down to re killing instinct.
And judging by the Windy Cat and that impulsive alien's behavior, it wasn't hard to discern that this chaotic source could continue to infect other Outer City residents.
If this crisis isn't promptly resolved, the entire No. 7 District might be decimated!
Li Zheng gathered his spiritual power into a giant hand, reaching for the twisted aura like tentacles slowly penetrating the hybrid woman's spiritual body.
Roar!!!!!
At the mont of contact, Li Zheng's ears seed to echo with a deafening beast's roar, filled with violent, angry, and hateful negative emotions.
"What the heck are you yelling!"
Li Zheng's emotions were slightly affected, blurted out a curse.
Fortunately, although he dared not call upon his spiritual power recklessly, thanks to Xu pouring all spiritual power into him, his spiritual body now solid enough to compete with alloys of the Material Realm, extraordinarily strong.
The pale red aura was ultimately just a twisted emotion contained within a Twisted Magic Crystal, inherently weak, floating without roots, lacking profound support.
If the hybrid woman hadn't been suddenly distracted, she wouldn't have ended up in this state, let alone pose a challenge to Li Zheng.
He grasped the tentacles, forcefully pulled back with his spiritual power, causing the "tentacles" to crack inch by inch, falling off the surface of the hybrid woman's spiritual body, struggling to reconnect and continue attacking her spiritual body.
At this mont, the hybrid woman regained so consciousness, sensing her own change, quickly using her race talent to coat a layer of glass-like armor on the surface of her spiritual body.
The armor's surface radiated divine light, eroding away large parts of the pale red tentacles upon contact.
The remaining parts would rely take ti to completely erode.
Li Zheng left a portion of spiritual power here to observe, diverting his attention to check on the Windy Cat and the other alien, worrying they might be infected too.
Fortunately, the two were only influenced by the aura of emanated negative emotions, now with the pale red tentacles damaged, the impact greatly weakened, they seized the chance to rapidly retreat several ters away, out of danger.
Seeing this, Li Zheng stopped worrying about them, focusing on analyzing the plated armor appearing on the hybrid woman's spiritual body.
Though this ability should be the talent of the Optimist Race, Li Zheng believed it's rely a way of applying spiritual power naturally born to them.
Just like fishes having innate swimming skills without needing to learn.
Yet humans can acquire swimming skills through postnatal practice, outstanding talents even swimming faster than fish in water.
Everyone possesses spiritual power and its essence is nearly identical, there's no reason the abilities they can utilize cannot be learned personally.
After careful observation for a mont, Li Zheng discovered the thod by which the hybrid woman eroded the pale red tentacles was actually by emitting so irregular strange fluctuations using spiritual power.
He attempted to replicate but couldn't find a clue.
"It seems I'll have to wait until she finishes here, then consult her."
Li Zheng knew continuing to watch wouldn't bring results, choosing to withdraw from her mind, retracting his spiritual power.
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