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Chen Xuan took a sharp breath, staggered back two steps, and instinctively touched his cheek.

The feeling was rough, with stubble pricking his hand.

He examined his hands again, fingers thick and callouses solid, indeed resembling the palms of a middle-aged man who’d labored for half his life.

Could it be that he was possessing a corpse?

No... this thought had just emerged when he immediately dismissed it. If he were merely a soul floating onto this shell, all he’d have would be a severed neck cadaver, impossible for the wounds to heal and the heart to beat anew.

Considering this, Chen Xuan was slightly startled in his heart.

Did he truly have a heartbeat?

Whether hearing voices suddenly from behind or witnessing that scene in his memory, he never felt any movement from his chest, as if his surprise merely existed in his consciousness.

Chen Xuan placed his hand on his left chest for a moment... indeed, not even a slight tremor.

Gradually, he sensed what had truly happened to him.

If even this could be done...

He lowered his head again, fixating on his hands while imagining his original appearance in his mind.

Soon, his will responded: the rough outer skin dried and peeled away, replaced by new skin at a visible pace, the knuckles elongated slightly, and a small black dot appeared at the center of his right palm— the scar from when he accidentally pierced his palm with a pencil tip back in middle school.

Of course, the changes weren’t just in his hands.

His legs and spine snapped and crackled, his perspective gradually raised, in less than ten seconds, he grew over fifteen centimeters taller, and the clothes on him instantly tightened up.

At this moment, Chen Xuan didn’t need a mirror to know that he had returned to his own form.

The answer was already apparent.

He was no longer the one using forbidden abilities.

He was the forbidden itself.

Although saying this about himself seemed strange, the fact was now before him—he became the master of flesh, or in other words... a newly born deity with flesh as his domain.

When was this opportunity laid?

Chen Xuan couldn’t help but recall the scene when mother Lucy tried to devour him, although the final outcome was that she was entirely absorbed by him, and he accidentally acquired a gray ability called "Fusion Ascension".

At the time, the Ability Store had no description of it, moving it onto himself had no effect either, and Chen Xuan gradually forgot about the ability.

Unexpectedly, it granted him an unexpected chance of survival.

Why was he awakened in Liu Shuyue’s world?

If it were the former Chen Xuan, he would have just considered this a coincidence, or fate and destiny, after all, his first guest was Liu Shuyue. But now he wouldn’t think so—the worldlines are far more active than he imagined, Thought Power constantly influences the change of all things, there’s no so-called destined cause and effect, life can write the future with just will.

He appeared here because he "wanted to" appear here.

He hoped to change Liu Shuyue’s fate of death.

Nonetheless, Chen Xuan’s mind had no idea what to do next. This was just a thought left in his subconscious and not any meticulous plan, even when he was taken away by Salvation Ark, he forgot about this, only considering how to escape the cage, without thinking he could still survive.

Moreover, now even if he changed his mind and went to other worldlines, it wouldn’t be entirely unachievable.

Chen Xuan could feel the power contained within him, which was far beyond the realm that an ordinary Ability User could reach.

Have you already become a monster, are you happy with that? Isn’t this the outcome you wanted?

He heard another voice of his own again... seemingly mocking in a soft voice, as if watching coldly.

Needless to say, Chen Xuan replied without hesitation in his heart, there’s no better outcome for me than this.

If the ascension paths chosen by the Dimensional Limit Mechanism, Evangelical Association, Angel Alliance, and even Salvation Ark were not satisfactory, then it would be better for him to do it.

The morning twilight finally escaped the constraints of the mountains, lighting the world with its first ray of golden light. Facing the fresh dawn, Chen Xuan seemed to feel vigor filling his body.

Gurgle—

Just as he was brimming with ambition, that annoying hunger surged more fiercely than before.

One Ma Shun couldn’t solve this issue at all.

Clearly, he needed to devour a substantial amount of flesh and blood to replenish himself, simply stacking chunks of meat on his body would turn him into a grotesque worm. What he thirsted for was Spiritual Qi, such as blood rich in Spiritual Qi.

There was obviously little likelihood of a Loose Cultivator appearing in a bandit’s lair.

Chen Xuan almost instinctively thought of a solution.

He spread his Heart Method’s Divine Sense, quickly locking onto a kingfisher just out to find food on a treetop. With a wave of his hand, several tendrils shot from his wrist and fused it into his body. Then he flipped his palm, and a mass of flesh emerged from the center of his palm, as if pregnant with life. When the outer skin of the "egg" shed and blood spilled out, a fluffy bird was already lying in his hand.

"Go."

As soon as he spoke, the kingfisher seemingly understood his command, shook off the residual liquid, and flapped its wings to fly into the air.

Moreover, at this moment the Celestial Radiance True Skill had already transferred onto the bird’s body, wherever it flew, the search range extended there too.

Chen Xuan stood still, able to quickly scan the area within dozens of kilometers.

This bird became his extended eyes.

Wherever it flew, a thread connected tightly to Chen Xuan, visible only to him.

This was true "Decomposition and Re-Fusion".

It wasn’t simply blending living and dead things, nor turning a living creature’s insides-out into a heap of muck, re-fusion could be a weapon or a furnace.

He also knew that he could re-fuse more than just one kingfisher, but with insufficient Thought Power, each heart method reproduction weakened himself, and at this moment he could not afford to waste.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Xuan found his target capable of meeting his needs.

The Heart Method indicated a Mountain Demon.

Mountain Demon was a general term, from small dog demons and monkey demons to mighty nine-tailed and Taotie beasts... any beast from the mountains becoming a demon could be considered in this category.

The kingfisher circled closer, its eyes displaying the appearance of the demon: a bear-like body, ghostly face, wrapped in animal hides, clutching a worn-out meat cleaver, attentively chopping deer ribs beneath it. According to Liu Shuyue, some demons who had come into contact with humans would mimic human habits, typically the more they resembled humans, the more lives they held.

The black bear monster also noticed the bird but paid it no mind; kingfishers abound in the dense woods, even too hairy to eat.

Chen Xuan quickly shrank, his consciousness traversing along the thread only he could see, reaching the air above the kingfisher in the next instant.

The bird’s body rapidly expanded, instantly assuming human form.

When the Mountain Demon sensed something was amiss, it was too late, as Chen Xuan appeared directly above its head, several tendrils swiftly entwined around its neck.

The morning forest suddenly stirred a flock of birds, fleeing from the center where Chen Xuan stood.

There were no Demon Fiend traces left here anymore, only an empty animal fur coat and a half-eaten deer near.

He lifted his head, taking a deep breath of fresh air.

Now, that sense of hunger was slightly satiated.