Chapter 222: Advanced Mutation

"Act!"

When this undeniable thought exploded in Li Hu's mind, his whole body jolted violently, his eyes turned blood‑red, filled with blood vessels.

"Lord!" he roared, his voice tinged with sobbing.

Zhang Mei collapsed on the ground, staring in despair at the black hills blocking the Cave Entrance.

Bombard the lord? With these artifacts and talismans that can level a small hill?

"Quick!" Wang Shan's thought came again, this time laced with barely bearable pain and agitation, "No time!"

Li Hu bit his tongue hard, the sharp pain snapping him to clarity. He knew this was not a moment for hesitation. The lord's decision, made with his remaining reason, must carry deep meaning.

"Mei! Listen to the lord!" Li Hu turned his head, roaring at Zhang Mei, "Activate the array! All artifacts, maximum power!"

Zhang Mei's face was wet with tears, yet she still trembled as she poured the last sliver of Spiritual Power into the crude attack array.

Hum—

Dozens of artifacts flared, hundreds of talismans clattered, the terrifying energy surge causing the entire Cave to quake violently.

In that instant, Wang Shan sank his soon‑to‑disperse consciousness into the deepest part of his body.

He did not feel the incoming bombardment; instead, he focused on the relentless, polluting energy inside him that had turned him into this ghastly form.

【Warning: Zhuren mutation level 96%…97%…】

【The Ten Thousand Beasts Reversal technique and the Whirlwind Trap Zone's high‑dimensional energy have formed an unknown coupling… redefining the nature of energy…】

【Energy nature definition complete: Twisted Law Energy.】

The system's cold alert tone, to Wang Shan at that moment, sounded like celestial music.

Not mere pollution? It's… a coupling of technique and energy?

He suddenly understood something.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Reversal technique's essence is consumption and fusion. Under his near‑death extreme pressure, it did not choose to collapse but made a mad move—it did not resist the pollution, but actively "devoured" it!

It forcibly forged a link with the most primal twisted force of this area, a domineering connection of "pollution is power"!

No wonder… no wonder I can now reverse‑control this power!

What coursed within him was no longer Spiritual Power, but a "law" of this forbidden land that he had forcibly mastered!

A… twisted, irrational law!

Boom—boom—boom—!

At the very moment of his enlightenment, the attack torrent summoned by Li Hu and Zhang Mei finally arrived.

Golden light, raging fire, ice spikes, wind blades… countless ferocious energies slammed against the rock wall behind him, passing through his massive body.

Yet the expected searing pain of being torn by energy never came.

The artifacts' energy, upon touching his body, was like hitting an invisible sponge. Most of the force was absorbed by the hard rock behind him, while the small dispersed portion was easily absorbed and assimilated by his now law‑bound body.

"So… that's how it's used."

A flash of insight flickered through Wang Shan's chaotic consciousness.

A thought stirred; a strand of the internal Twisted Law Energy slipped out silently, gently touching a massive rock before him.

No explosion, no sound.

The rock, harder than refined iron, behaved like wax doused in strong acid, silently twisting, quickly "melting" and "wither­ing", finally turning into a lifeless black powder.

Even the space itself showed a faint, visible ripple.

What… what is this power?

Wang Shan himself was startled.

This is no longer mere destruction; it's a conceptual "erasure"!

A surge of manic excitement instantly breached the dam of reason.

With this power, not even a Golden Core cultivator, let alone a Nascent Soul elder monster, could match him! He even felt that as long as he remained in this Cave, he was invincible!

But immediately after, boundless cold and despair engulfed him again.

He lowered his head, gazing at his limbs, now unrecognizable as human, covered in black carapace and flesh tumors.

There's no turning back.

He will never become a "person" again.

This is neither a disease nor simple mutation.

It is an "advancement".

A cruel "advancement" that sacrifices the identity of the "human" species to leap toward a higher life form.

He and humanity are no longer the same species.

"Boom—crack!"

With a deafening crash, the rock wall behind him, battered by relentless bombardment, finally gave way, shattering completely and revealing a passage to deeper darkness.

"Stop!"

Wang Shan immediately gave the order to Li Hu.

Li Hu and Zhang Mei, as if granted a reprieve, instantly cut off Spiritual Power supply, both collapsing weakly on the ground, gasping heavily.

Wang Shan slowly turned his massive head, his two blood‑red giant eyes gazing at the two grandchildren in the corner.

Wang Zhize and Wang Zhitao stared at him with faces full of terror and worry.

His massive body shifted slightly, a filament of extremely subtle Twisted Law Energy, like a probing tentacle, carefully extending toward the two children.

As the energy approached, the Black Jade Slip in Wang Zhize's hand faintly glowed, forming a gentle barrier that kept the energy at bay.

Wang Zhitao's reaction, however, was far more intense.

The "Devouring Primordial Overlord Body" within him seemed to encounter a natural enemy, yet also like a prized tonic; instinctively it activated, a suction emanating from him, attempting to swallow that strand of energy outright!

"There's a way!" Wang Shan thought.

He controlled that strand of energy, letting Wang Zhitao's body draw it in.

"Uh…" Wang Zhitao let out a painful muffled groan, his face instantly turned deathly pale, but after only a few breaths his complexion returned to a rosy hue, and his breath even grew a bit stronger.

It really works!

The Primordial Devouring Overlord Body can actually purify and absorb this twisted law energy! Though the efficiency is low and the process painful, it undeniably proves that a path is feasible!

A wild and daring idea sprouted uncontrollably in Wang Shan's mind.

If…

If this "pollution‑is‑power" trait could be harnessed in a controllable way and left to them as a "legacy"?

Let them, from the very start, adapt to this power and master it!

Then in the future, whether facing that "Lord" or an even more terrifying enemy, they will possess the strongest trump card!

Once this thought appeared, it would not fade away.

How to transform it? How to inherit it? How to strip away its madness and beastliness, leaving only pure power?

Countless ideas collided and calculated within Wang Shan's already inhuman brain.

His massive frame stood before the shattered Cave Entrance, like an ancient evil deity.

He is no longer merely a polluted monster.

He has already become the law that walks this twisted land, a guardian deity pondering how to pave the way for future generations…