Era-Of-Disaster

Chapter 223: Purifying Energy

Momo’s changes were the greatest as well as the fastest, and the rest of them used Momo as an example to understand their own changes.

If previously they only understood the conditions behind the Metamorphose Stage simply, then now they truly understood the conditions and rules behind the Metamorphose Stage in detail and took the initiative to develop towards a particular direction using this information. During every deep level sleep and womb sleep, the body would undergo a shallow level of metamorphosis again and complete a slight self-adjustment. The composition of the physical body, soul, and energy were all changing towards a direction unique to each individual.

The fruit that Momo ate was one of kind and unable to be replicated. However, there were still countless types of other substances on the Devil Isles with vastly varying compositions. Betsy and Nancy had already started to research on how to use the different kinds of foods and substances to supplement their bodies with the necessary nutrients. Perhaps these things wouldn’t be as powerful as the fruit that Momo ate, but it could still slowly change and supplement the body with what it needed bit by bit.

This was separately coined by Betsy and Nancy as Tonic Cuisine and Attribute Medicine!

Comparatively, it was still Betsy’s Tonic Cuisine that was the most suitable for them. The taste of medicine wasn’t good after all and anybody who heard the word ‘medicine’ would probably not be willing to consume it for an extended period of time. However, even though they knew that the various types of foods and substances found on the Devil Isles were extremely useful, their progress was still very slow because it was too dangerous. Before they could supplement their bodies with what they needed, they might lose their lives if they were just a little bit careless consuming those unknown things.

“I can’t do this anymore. I’m never being a guinea pig again!” Romain clutched his stomach, almost vomiting up his intestines.

“You are really unlucky. It’s so pitiful.”

The rest of them looked at Romain in pity. Due to the fact that these substances were all of an unknown nature, their actions were really like the Farmer God trying a hundred plants¹. The living things in the Devil Isles all mutated and changed in numerous weird and varied ways. It was very likely that they would be poisoned to death before they could figure out the properties of these things.

Fortunately, Nancy was very skilled and the antidotes she concocted were very effective as well. Moreover, the tolerance of each person was also very high now. With the protection of their special energy they could expel the poisonous compounds in their bodies to a certain degree, so up to this point, nobody had died. Of course, once somebody ate something poisonous, it would always result in a flurry of activity and anxiousness, and the person would end up vomiting all over the place in a very miserable state. Thus, even though there were a lot of new and strange things to test, their progress was extremely slow.

“Let’s change methods,” Bai Yi said suddenly.

“What?” Everyone looked at Bai Yi, especially Romain. If Bai Yi said that because of him…

“It’s too dangerous, we’ve already gotten poisoned six times. Although every time it was only the guinea pig who got poisoned and nobody has died so far, we really can’t guarantee what will happen in the future. Honestly speaking, the poisons these six times weren’t too powerful, so we managed to neutralize it in time, but what if the poison next time is too powerful to neutralize before it kills us?” Bai Yi said.

Everyone went silent hearing his words.They clearly knew that these findings would be immensely beneficial to the Metamorphose Stage, but it was truly too dangerous.

“Change methods – Bai Yi, do you mean to find something like a lab rat to test these substances?”

“Right!” Bai Yi nodded.

“I think this is workable, we can use the lab rat to test if it’s poisonous and judge whether there are any beneficial compounds in that substance afterward.” Nancy and Betsy both nodded.

“Where to find a lab rat though?”

“Just catch some animals from the surroundings. It would be slightly slower, but it’s much better than testing the substances on ourselves. Anyway, it’s not like the Devil Isles are lacking in living things right now.” Bai Yi said.

“Catch the evil animals; don’t touch the cute ones!” Momo said.

“Yes, yes!” Bai Yi agreed hurriedly.

“Don’t catch those that we can communicate with either!” Momo added on again.

“Yes, yes!” Bai Yi continued to accede to Momo.

Everybody started to laugh, Bai Yi’s overpampering of Momo really left them speechless. All the living things on the Devil Isles had assimilated with the activated cells and gained human-like intelligence, especially the first batch of lifeforms infected. When they hunted normally, they would also check their prey first. If it exhibited goodwill to them first then they would not attack it. However, if the other side attacked first, then they would just have to say sorry.

So, the matter of using other creatures to test the substances was decided just like this.

At the end of the second day, Betsy and Nancy discovered a new mysterious plant, and based on the order it should have been Bellamy’s turn to be the guinea pig. They already decided to catch other creatures to be the lab rats yesterday, so Bellamy should have waited for them to catch a lab rat, but before they could do so Bellamy just ate the plant.

“Ah, I forgot!” Bellamy suddenly realized after she finished eating it.

“Idiot,” Betsy scolded, but her voice contained her care and concern for Bellamy.

After half a day, Bellamy still hadn’t displayed any abnormal reactions, but Nancy still used her blood to do some tests before saying, “non-poisonous, but the effects are still not understood.”

“If only we were in a sci-fi movie, I could just take some machine and scan the plants to know their attributes, composition, and effects,” Nancy said looking at the little light blue grass, unconsciously licking the tip of the grass.

“Just wait.Somebody will probably invent such a thing after a few hundred years,” the rest of them teased.

“Perhaps it won’t require a few hundred years…”

“But either way we won’t have the chance to see such a thing.”

“You never know. The activated cells were developed for the sake of researching longevity; we really might be able to live for a very long time,” The bunch of them chatted.

Suddenly, Bai Yi noticed that Nancy’s lips had a slight blue tint to them. Bai Yi thought that he was mistaken and took another serious look at them.

“Nancy, your lips!” Bai Yi said in shock.

“What?”

“Your lips are a light blue color!”

If Bai Yi thought that he was mistaken previously, he couldn’t be surer now. The rest of them also looked over and stared at Nancy in shock. Undoubtedly, her lips had turned a light blue color and the color was was still slowly spreading all over her face. Nancy herself hadn’t realized anything but instinctively touched her own face and looked at the rest of her teammates in confusion.

“That little blue grass!”

Everyone looked at the small stalk of blue grass in Nancy’s hands. Just now Nancy had unconsciously licked the tip of the grass; it was possible that some substance had entered Nancy’s body then.

“What? Isn’t this non-poisonous?” Nancy said and suddenly shivered with cold.

She started to shiver all over and clutched her hands together, not even being able to form coherent words anymore. How could it be non-poisonous when she already looked like this? Nancy had definitely gotten poisoned by some mysterious cold poison that was ineffective to Bellamy. Nancy collapsed, and Bai Yi immediately rushed beside her and supported her.

“Shit, this is bad!” The others looked at Nancy and couldn’t help but feel their hearts pound.

During the testing of the substances, everybody took turns doing it with the exception of Nancy. This was because Nancy was the Medicinal Maker. If Nancy got poisoned, then nobody else could save her in time. Unexpectedly, that little blade of grass had no effect on Bellamy but reduced Nancy to this state with just a small lick. Now that Nancy had collapsed and nobody else was skilled in medicine, what could they do?

“Bellamy, extract some of your blood!” Bai Yi looked at Bellamy.

“Me? Yes, OK!” Bellamy said anxiously.

This kind of blue grass didn’t have any effect on Bellamy, so Bai Yi immediately guessed that some part of Bellamy’s body could resist the effects of this grass. The others also immediately thought of this. Betsy immediately helped Bellamy to extract a small cup of blood and fed it to Nancy.

All of them stared at Nancy nervously after she consumed Bellamy’s blood. It seems that the spread was slowing down, but the effect wasn’t very obvious. Strange, unless they had to transfuse blood instead making her consume it? But if they had to transfuse blood, Nancy and Bellamy’s blood type definitely weren’t compatible. It wasn’t possible to find two evolved humans with compatible blood types on the Devil Isles now.

“Bellamy, what are you doing?!” Betsy suddenly shouted loudly. Everyone turned around and saw Bellamy sucking the blade of the grass in her mouth.

“Sister Betsy I’m fine, anyway this thing is ineffective on me, right? Let me try and sense what in my body is countering the effects of this grass.” Bellamy was extraordinarily serious at this time. Betsy heard Bellamy’s words and couldn’t help but to stop speaking and watched her with concern and worry.

At this time, Bellamy closed her eyes after eating the blade of grass. None of them spoke a word but just looked at Bellamy and Nancy worriedly. Apparently, Bellamy was trying to sense the happenings in her body right now. All of them could tell that the blue grass really had absolutely no effect on Bellamy, there wasn’t even a single trace of abnormality on her body.

After more than ten minutes, Bellamy opened her eyes and looked at her hands, and a colorless transparent mist started to float around it.

“It’s probably…my special energy!” Bellamy said, not completely sure of herself.

Bellamy’s energy characteristics had always been very normal. There weren’t any special attributes to it: both her attack and defense hadn’t increased and there weren’t any special manifestations to it either, such as heat, cold, darkness, light or things like that. No one knew what Bellamy’s energy attribute was, but it seemed that there was a clue to what it was now.

Bellamy pressed both her hands on Nancy’s chest and, bit by bit, the colorless transparent misty energy seeped into Nancy’s body. Everybody could see that a light blue vapor slowly evaporated from Nancy’s chest before dissipating into the air.

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Purifying Energy: Pure and transparent, it can purify and remove any abnormal substance or energy within a life form’s body.

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Translator Notes:

The story of the Farmer God (神农氏) trying a hundred different plants (it doesn’t sound as cool in English) is a pretty cool story. He was one the Three Sovereigns in Chinese legend and got named the Farmer God after inventing agriculture when he saw a bird planting seeds. Seeing that the people were always falling ill, he decided to test many different plants for their medicinal properties, getting poisoned many times in the process. He used tea to neutralize the poison many times before finally dying when he ate the heartbreak grass. Anyway, I just think it’s a cool legend of China’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (a group of mythological rulers/deities in ancient China that preceded the earliest dynasties).