Chapter 260: Absorption

Jiang Xia finally understood Li Zhong's feelings after finishing the last cake.

Hong Shang Guangsheng's cake-making skill is indeed good; the taste and appearance are flawless, but it's just a bit too much for ordinary people to finish.

After seeing his cake being eaten, Hong Shang Guangsheng's face broke into a satisfied smile.

Afterwards, they went underground to retrieve those cell coins.

"Li Zhong, this matter is entrusted to you; whenever Jiang Xia comes, you are responsible for receiving and guiding him."

Hong Shang Guangsheng ordered in his extremely loud voice.

"Yes, Chairman."

At the moment the elevator stopped steadily underground, the originally pitch-black ceiling of the room automatically lit up.

As the elevator door had just opened halfway, Hong Shang Guangsheng had already stepped inside.

Then Jiang Xia heard Hong Shang Guangsheng's passionate, surging voice.

Li Zhong felt a bit curious and wanted to look inside the room, but he only felt somewhat puzzled.

Then Li Zhong heard Jiang Xia's voice sound from behind her: "As expected of the king's descendant, these things would probably take a century to consume."

"The king's descendant?" Li Zhong stepped over the elevator and entered the room.

Although she had long known that the chairman liked researching Desire Coins, she never expected that Ou Zi was actually the chairman's ancestor.

After Jiang Xia passed the elevator, he also carefully appreciated it, and moreover had Hong Shang Guangsheng as a free guide.

Under his explanation, he thoroughly toured Ou Zi's museum; the talk was very interesting, more shocking than dry knowledge.

"Happy Birthday! Now come receive your birthday gift!"

Hong Shang Guangsheng stood before Ou Zi's statue, raised both hands, and in a pose reminiscent of Jesus welcomed the king's descent.

As the door embedded behind Ou Zi's statue slowly rose, the nearly infinite cell coins finally revealed their true appearance.

Li Zhong, who had always been at the Hong Shang Foundation, stared blankly, taking several breaths before saving herself from her dizzy body.

Even her long legs in black silk felt somewhat weak; she leaned against the wall beside her, supporting herself with her hands.

If it were merely simple cell coin collection, it might not have surprised her.

But even if an ordinary person went to see it, the waterfall rushing down from the mountain would briefly suppress their thinking ability.

However, Li Zhong, who already understood the concept of cell coins, had her thinking ability completely deprived by these cell coins piled up like a mountain.

Even if cell coins were used in the energy industry, they could already cause disruptive consequences.

"Then I won't be polite." Jiang Xia laughed.

He now wants to test his capacity, to see if he can bear this enormous amount of cell coins that would drive even Greed berserk.

Red flames accompanied by the sound of coin collisions enveloped Jiang Xia's body.

In the instant his Greed form appeared, two red-feather-like wings unfolded instantly, noble, powerful, hazy, and still radiating rainbow light.

As if born from a medieval Renaissance scene, it allowed the original posture of the bird-type Greed to be fully displayed.

Jiang Xia can absorb cell coins, which is not beyond Hong Shang Guangsheng's expectation.

Because alchemists always have their own methods; to live forever, they do not hesitate to remake their bodies into Greed.

So he directly brought Jiang Xia down here for him to absorb.

However, this bird-type Greed after evolution seems to possess a special charm and allure.

That feeling of rebirth from fire and resembling a deity makes everyone unable to look away.

This is practically a reincarnation of the King of Desire; even Hong Shang Guangsheng, who always believed Greed has a desire limit, was almost conquered.

Could his true form be Anku? No, it probably isn't.

It should be that he used Alchemical Art to remake the bird-type Core Coin, then swallowed it into his body.

Hong Shang Guangsheng, upon seeing Jiang Xia turn into Greed form, silently made this guess; the knowledge passed down to him told him this possibility is indeed great. Jiang Xia looked at his own bird-type Greed body and nodded satisfiedly; this indeed looks handsome.

He really likes the monster forms of Anku and Huo Ye Yingsi.

Moreover, because his internal power is constantly stacking, and he has fused with the Devil's Memory.

Absorbing the coins born from human desire, this is simply the best match.

Boom—

Countless cell coins surged into Jiang Xia's body like rivers flowing into the sea.

The influx of overly massive cell coins caused a slight leakage of power within Jiang Xia's body.

Power comparable to a deity, when devouring the cell coins, directly shone upon Li Zhong and Hong Shang Guangsheng's bodies.

Jiang Xia's surface instantly unfolded a domain representing the good life—Eden—but now it is submerged by endless desire.

Countless coins drifted down within the originally illusory Eden, gradually turning into specks that fell toward Eden in the process.

Under the filling of desire, the illusory Eden gradually became truly solid.

Within Jiang Xia's body a nascent small world was born, resembling an island whose surroundings are covered by ocean.

At the same time, the lifespan shown on Jiang Xia's panel seemed to have broken some limit, continuously jumping upward.

Starting from one thousand, it kept increasing upward, finally settling slowly at twelve hundred years, and the power within his body also grew considerably.

His former omnipotence control increased again considerably, now extending to desire and artificial humans.

Even reaching the domain of soul creation, and even within his body there is a tiny world that belongs solely to him.

Now he seems to understand why the Demon-Encounter King possesses the ability to create and destroy worlds.

Moreover, the world created by the Demon-Encounter Power is certainly a quite perfect and huge world.

By the time Jiang Xia came to his senses, those vast seas of cell coins had already been absorbed by him more than half.

Furthermore, proceeding this way, he estimates he can effortlessly devour all those cell coins completely clean.

Jiang Xia then gradually stopped the action of absorbing coins, because he needs a considerable portion to develop special abilities of other core coins, so it's impossible to absorb them all at once now.

Beside him, Hong Shang Guangsheng said with regret: "Why not continue absorbing? Now is exactly the moment to fill the desire vessel."

And Li Zhong was still immersed in unparalleled shock.

Compared to the cell hard coins stored in the warehouse, which have already been more than half empty, and it even surprised her to see the president's appearance before her.

At this moment, Hong Shangguangsheng also seemed to feel the changes in his body; he tightly gripped his palm, and the vitality and strong desire that had originally been gradually disappearing seemed to return once again.

President, you seem to have become younger.

Li Zhong looked at Hong Shangguangsheng, who was already over fifty years old; now his formerly graying temples had completely turned black, and his entire spirit felt completely different.

It's truly wonderful!

Hong Shangguangsheng looked at Jiang Xia, who was gradually returning to human form, and spoke.

This is the feeling of desire!

Go check your body condition thoroughly; there should be a pleasant surprise.

Jiang Xia looked at Hong Shangguangsheng, who was at least twenty years younger, and said.

They absorbed the moment of Jiang Xia's internal creation, and in one breath replenished the vitality that was lacking in their bodies.

And Li Zhong is at most in his twenties, so there is no noticeable change in his appearance.

But Hong Shangguangsheng is different; his fifty-year-old appearance turned thirty in the blink of an eye, which would make anyone overjoyed.

(End of chapter)