I will eventually become a divine being through accumulating constantly

"""

Someone hesitated before asking a question.

As soon as the words were out, a flash of blade light.

The Zhao Ye Blade's light was as pure as at the beginning, its bright blade unstained by even a drop of blood. The person stiffened, a smooth line of blood appearing on their neck, as their head slowly slid off, blood spraying out.

"Sister Kui!?"

Seeing that Xu Wenkui had not protected them with the Silent Netherworld Nest Eye, Xu Muchun quickly looked at her, only then noticing that something was amiss.

Xu Wenkui's skin all over her body was writhing violently at the moment, bubbling like boiling water, as she half-crouched down in extreme pain.

"Sister Kui, the inhibitor, quick!"

Xu Muchun immediately took out an inhibitory syringe, frantically handing it to Xu Wenkui, but she seemed to no longer hear his words, showing no reaction.

Seeing this, Xu Muchun bit his teeth, swiftly removed the cap from the syringe and plunged it haphazardly into Xu Wenkui's arm, injecting the contents.

In an instant, the bubbling of Xu Wenkui's skin appeared to ease slightly but then rebounded, becoming even more violent.

"Ugh... Ahh!!"

Xu Wenkui let out a hysterical scream, initially in a normal woman's voice, but the latter half turned into a deep, bestial growl.

In front of everyone's stunned eyes, her skin burst open all over her body.

Clusters of horizontal eyes with white sclera adorned with radial blue veins appeared all over her body, densely packed and exceedingly repulsive.

On her face alone, there were no fewer than thirty eyes.

All the eyes blinked, the pupils moving chaotically, looking around in all directions.

At this sight, Xue Jing's gaze slightly furrowed.

The moment he locked eyes with one of Xu Wenkui's, his vision blurred, and a variety of colorful images appeared from nowhere within his sight. But before he could discern what they were, his vision returned to normal.

At the same time, the panel automatically popped up, continuously sending out prompts.

[Divinity +1]

[Divinity +1]

[Divinity +1]

[Divinity...]

Looking back at the Xu Family group, aside from Xu Wenkui, who was covered in eyes, everyone around her had begun gesticulating wildly, shouting and calling out, with expressions ranging from stunned to euphoric to sorrowful, clearly having lost their sanity.

Xue Jing was on guard.

"Is this... a Mutative Disease? Has this person reached a Mutation Rate of 100%?"

The Blessed Ones, or those who had learned New Martial Arts Forbidden Skills or had an Alien Implant installed, once unable to withstand the erosion of the Foreign Object on the body and spirit, would manifest various symptoms of Mutative Disease when reaching 50%.

And at 100%, they would irrevocably mutate into monsters...

Those fully mutated into monsters were known as 'The Polluted'.

The Polluted are mad and twisted creations. Not all of them lose their consciousness and wisdom upon transformation; some of the Polluted, endowed with exceptional wisdom and even the ability to assume human form, might impersonate the original person and reintegrate into human society.

But... all of the Polluted are most definitely not the original person.

They are a different creature, not human, and even if they retain their memories, they lack human concepts of morality, honor, goodness, and evil.

"It seems like some kind of creature similar to Cthulhu... Just looking at it directly can make one's SAN plummet, causing mental disorder."

"Even I, who possess 'Visualization True,' can be affected."

Xue Jing frowned.

However, this ability to affect the mental state of others seemed to be a kind of technique containing Divinity, which the panel could absorb, hence it was ineffective against him.

Xue Jing glanced over, observing the situation with the giant snake and the Shadowflame Giant.

The giant snake, already weakened by the Serpent Slayer Spearhead, was clearly no match for the Lv10 Shadowflame Giant and was showing signs of defeat, with three of its seven heads slashed off by the Giant's sword.

The armor on the Shadowflame Giant showed slight damage, being continuously repaired by the Dark Flame.

There was no need to worry about that side, the next step was to deal with this monster covered in eyes.

Xue Jing controlled the Forgotten Greatsword and Zhao Ye Blade, ready to test its mettle.

At this moment, the Xu Family members around 'Xu Wenkui' suddenly paused in unison, taking on a posture of kneeling in the air, bowing non-stop towards Xu Wenkui.

"■■■■..."

They began to chant unintelligibly, as if casting a spell, and as they chanted, their bodies began to dissolve like ice cream in high heat.

Their features twisted and melted, their eyes flowing down as globs of black and white pus, and before long, all of them turned into a thick liquid composed of flesh and blood, flowing out of nowhere toward 'Xu Wenkui'.

"""

"Whoosh—!!"

The black and white brilliance formed by the combination of Dark Flame and White Thunder flashed past, pulling a long colorful tail flame, unbelievably fast.

Flame-Colored Rainbow·Thunder Plough Hot Blade.

It was the strongest combo Xue Jing could perform with his physical body at the moment, sweeping across.

'Xu Wenkui's body was bisected at the waist, the cleaved section filled with flickering white arcs of electricity and burning Dark Flame.

Looking inside her wound, there was no flesh or organs, just an empty void, pitch black and nothingness.

The Forgotten Greatsword and Zhao Ye Blade each struck, piercing through the body that was split in half.

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Two muffled sounds, the two halves of the body, each covered in eyes, were smashed open, hundreds of eyeballs burst flying out, exceedingly creepy.

All the eyeballs floating in the air suddenly spun in place and turned their pupils towards Xue Jing.

In an instant, Xue Jing's body halted, hanging motionless in the air.

Unlike before when even his ability to think was stopped, Xue Jing found that he could still think, and his five senses could still perceive the surroundings.

His skin began to wriggle, bubbling incessantly like Xu Wenkui just before, as if bugs were attempting to break through underneath his skin.

But soon, the panel started popping up notifications.

[Divinity +11]

[Divinity +19]

[Divinity +32]

[Divinity +24]

...

In a matter of seconds, his skin gradually calmed and returned to its normal appearance, and nearly six hundred points of Divinity were added to the panel.

The hundreds of eyeballs floating in the air paused slightly, as if taken aback.

Then, whether it was because their power was exhausted or some other reason, all the eyeballs began to crumble away, like disintegrating into countless invisible granules, and disappeared.

In their place, a naked female body floated in the air, it was Xu Wenkui.

She had her eyes closed, seemingly unconscious, plummeting towards the ground.

Xue Jing, somewhat puzzled, wrinkled his brow, uncertain of the current situation, but still quickly flew over, grabbed her by the back of the neck, and held her in his hand.

He turned Xu Wenkui around once, seemingly indifferent to her attractively shaped naked body, and simply pulled open her eyelids to look.

Still those strange eyes with horizontal pupils, but the radiating blue veins at the whites were gone.

After touching those eyeballs, the panel continued to pop up notifications.

[Divine Substance detected, harvesting Divinity...]

"...This isn't an ordinary Alien Implant; it must be something like the 'Stigmata' of the Blessed Ones," Xue Jing thought.

"What was that just now? She clearly had mutated into The Polluted, yet she could revert back to human form... Is it because all the power of those eyes had been sucked dry by Ban?"

"There are still many things I don't understand... but it should be over now, I'll think about the rest later."

Xue Jing exhaled lightly.

This ambush took him by surprise with the strength of the enemy.

Although Ning Feng Wan's The Invincible Lionheart warning made him aware of the danger, relying on Twin Lifes cooldown having finished, and having a full set of life-saving methods, he went straight in.

In the end, although he won perfectly, there was a bit of luck involved.

The Serpent Slayer Spearhead just happened to counter that ferocious giant snake, the enemy's main reliance, and these strange eyes were completely subdued by Ban.

This led him to win relatively easily.

Without those two factors, it would have likely been a tough battle where he might not necessarily lose, but certainly couldn't guarantee a hundred percent victory.

It seems I need to be more cautious in the future.

"Now it's time to harvest. Let's see how much Divinity you can drop..."

Xue Jing's gaze turned to the giant snake with only two heads left, its body covered in huge wounds.

...