Ch 84 : Item Card: Holy Demonic Physique

When it was Ning Xingxue’s turn again, she hesitated for quite a while between the Dreamy Flower Garland and the Mental Power Enhancement Card.

As an accessory, the Dreamy Flower Garland not only had outstanding visual appeal, but its effects were also quite good.

Any woman who saw it would be tempted.

Just imagining herself wearing it on her head, she could already picture how beautiful she would look.

But in the end, she still chose the item card.

After all, she had obtained the Spirit Power Potion Crafting Blueprint, meaning she would definitely be able to improve her mental attributes in the future.

The Mental Power Enhancement Card already started at D+ quality—once enhanced, its growth potential would surely surpass any currently known item card!

Her choice was driven by both maximizing benefits and maximizing growth.

Zhao Daqiang thought for a moment before choosing the Illusion Realm skill.

The reason was simple—this skill could practically control enemies to fight for him.

Although it required casting time, with the protection of an elite-level Thorn Willow Tree, he didn’t need to worry about being interrupted at all.

The two abilities complemented each other perfectly.

Huang Qi chose the Mental Shock skill.

He had already suffered from it several times before—he knew exactly how effective it was!

Bai Qiu, on the other hand, selected the King’s Seed.

With the large amount of high-quality soil he currently possessed, he was especially suited to cultivating it.

In the end, the Dreamy Flower Garland ended up in Zhang Shiyao’s hands.

She had seemed to like it from the very beginning, so the moment she got it, she immediately put it on her head.

However, just like Ning Xingxue, when it came to choosing between beauty and strength, she would prioritize strength.

And just like that, the exploration of the Dreamy Flower Sea dungeon was completely finished.

Everyone obtained what they wanted.

After Ning Xingxue purchased a large number of Life Branches from Bai Qiu, the group exited the dungeon.

…

After leaving the dungeon, it was already morning.

They had spent nearly nine hours exploring the Dreamy Flower Sea, but fortunately, the rewards from this trip were far greater than ordinary grinding and leveling.

“Brother! Let’s hurry back and turn in the quest! You’ve already completed the task given by the mage merchant, right?! I want to see what the reward is!” Zhang Shiyao said, tugging on Bai Qiu’s hand and acting spoiled.

Ning Xingxue and the others had originally planned to invite Bai Qiu to lunch, but upon hearing this, they instantly lost interest in eating.

Forget lunch—they insisted that he share the information about the quest rewards with them so they could broaden their horizons, and then promptly started urging him to leave…

Bai Qiu was speechless.

This was his own quest—why were others more excited than him?

Still, he himself felt a bit of anticipation.

The difficulty of this quest had truly been terrifying for him.

Even though he still had more than a day left, the three dungeons had helped him complete the Thorn, Stone, and Tidal staff tasks respectively.

Not only had he benefited from favorable conditions, but without A Yuan’s data as reference, he might not have even figured out the true usage of the Tidal Staff.

…

After returning to Zone 2233, Bai Qiu approached the mage and submitted his quest progress.

The mage merchant seemed quite surprised.

After glancing at the Insight Necklace around Bai Qiu’s neck, he smiled and said:

“I didn’t expect you to finish it ahead of time. It seems I underestimated you.”

“…,” Bai Qiu was speechless.

This quest had clearly been designed from the start to be far beyond what ordinary people could accomplish.

The mage merchant took out a golden card from his sleeve.

On it was engraved a figure with arms outstretched, surrounded by countless streams of magical power.

The overall color of the card was a faint red…

Bai Qiu took the card and checked its basic information.

The moment he finished reading, he froze on the spot.

Item Card: Holy Demonic Physique Lv.1 (B+)

Description: After use, the holder will undergo a complete transformation and obtain the Holy Demonic Physique constitution.

• Mana Affinity (F- | Growth)
• Mana Control (F- | Growth)
• Mana Growth (F- | Growth)

B+ rank?! A growth-type item card!

Even Bai Qiu couldn’t help but be stunned.

His current enhancement card was only at C+ rank, and under normal circumstances, that was already close to its limit.

The attribute growth it provided was unmatched—and now, there was actually a B+ rank growth-type item card?!

The mage merchant smiled and asked, “Well? Are you satisfied?”

Bai Qiu nodded.

This time, he truly had nothing to say…

Just as he was about to use the item card immediately, the mage merchant stopped him.

“Wait! This card cannot be used casually. You need to find a safe and quiet place to use it—perhaps you’ll gain even more from it!”

After hearing this, Bai Qiu nodded in agreement.

He recalled the scene when his enhancement card had advanced to C+ rank.

Without hesitation, he entered the Black Tower, opened a room, and only then began to use it.

After Bai Qiu shared the card’s information with Zhang Shiyao, she ran off somewhere else.

He didn’t know what she was busy with, but seeing that she seemed occupied, he didn’t pay it much mind.

Bai Qiu took another hot shower, changed into clean clothes, and sat on the bed.

After taking a few deep breaths, he finally activated the Holy Demonic Physique item card.

“Crack! Crack! Crack!”

A series of bone-shaking sounds rang out, and Bai Qiu’s expression instantly changed!

“Ugh…” The overwhelming pain made him groan.

It felt as though every bone and piece of flesh in his body was being shattered and then reassembled.

Gradually, he lost control of his body…

…

“Mm… where is this?”

Bai Qiu slowly regained consciousness.

He found himself in a strange world.

Everything around him was tinted with a faint orange-red hue, and beneath his feet were intricate patterns that were difficult to make out.

“This is… mana? No attributes—just my own personal mana? Could this be… the inside of my body?” Bai Qiu muttered to himself, quickly realizing where he was.

Most likely, after using the Holy Demonic Physique item card, he had fainted and entered the microscopic world within his own body.

The energy surrounding him was all his mana, and the patterns beneath his feet were his mana circuits…

Bai Qiu’s guess was correct—or rather…

At this moment, his real body lay on the bed.

Strange changes were occurring on its surface.

Dark, almost black blood slowly seeped out from his skin, while the Insight Necklace emitted a faint glow…

“My mana circuits… are changing?” Bai Qiu exclaimed in shock as he watched the patterns beneath his feet shift.

Mana circuits were something fixed from birth.

Even though Bai Qiu had, through a stroke of luck, come to understand his own mana circuits, he—including his magical constructs—had always been bound to release power according to those circuits.

But now, his mana circuits seemed to be crushed and reconstructed piece by piece.

The originally tiny, ditch-like pathways expanded into something as vast as rivers.

The once intricate and chaotic patterns condensed into straight, intersecting lines—but in one place, they formed a… loop?

Bai Qiu wandered through the inner world of his body and eventually discovered an area different from the mana circuits…

If ordinary mana circuits were like rivers, then this place was like an ocean.

He saw scattered mana continuously flowing into this “ocean,” which then pulsed and pushed the mana back out into the “rivers”!

“This isn’t an ocean and rivers… this is another heart and a system of blood vessels!” Bai Qiu was stunned.

Each pulse of this “heart” was like a tidal wave, forcefully pumping mana into the “vessels,” which then carried it throughout every part of his body!

“If those were my original mana circuits, then now—whether in capacity or speed—my mana flow has increased by more than tenfold!”

He felt it was almost unbelievable.

If such terrifying changes were real, then once he woke up, his abilities would undergo a complete, earth-shaking transformation