Chapter 381

His consciousness fixed on the vial, and a familiar voice, etched deep into his DNA, echoed in his heart.

"I'm done being human! Jojo!!"

【Perfect Turn into Ghost Elixir】

Confirm use!

…………

Tornado spoke at length, but seeing Luo En still unresponsive, her impatience and anger grew stronger.

She wished she could just use her ability to fling Luo En straight up into the sky.

But she simply couldn't bring herself to do it.

"What is this frustrating feeling?"

"It's so annoying!"

She flew angrily into the sky, using her ability to shape the sand on the beach into a sand dragon that collided with a water dragon rising from the sea, trying to relieve her inner agitation.

The sand dragon and water dragon collided.

Sand and water splashed everywhere; Tornado clenched her hand, and every speck of sand and droplet of water froze midair, then coalesced into a massive mud ball hanging in the sky.

Just as Tornado was about to hurl the mud ball into the sea.

A golden-red glow erupted behind Tornado.

"!"

Tornado startled, turning her head to look.

A golden-red pillar of light shot up from the beach, its radiant, mystical glow painting the entire sky golden-red.

Within the golden-red pillar.

Luo En's naked, broken body floated inside.

In Tornado's stunned gaze,

large lumps of flesh swelled across his body, twisting and contorting until he lost all human form.

"What on earth…?"

Tornado's face went slack, and a thought flashed through her mind.

Could it be…

He's… a monster?!

Just as she found this thought utterly absurd, an even more shocking scene unfolded.

Boom!

A sharp sound.

Luo En, now a massive mass of flesh, suddenly exploded, spraying blood and flesh everywhere; countless fragments of muscle, bone, and tissue floated scattered within the golden-red beam.

"…?!!"

Tornado stood there, utterly dumbfounded.

Dead… dead?

32, Perfect Ghost with Silver Hair and Heterochromatic Eyes

Just as Tornado was stunned by Luo En's "death,"

the blood and bones scattered across the sky shattered again.

And this time, they shattered even more completely.

Flesh dissolved into crimson mist; white bones turned to white dust, drifting within the golden-red beam.

Tornado stared blankly at the scene before her.

No… no way…

Even the ashes were scattered—this has to be death beyond any doubt, right?

He wasn't in bad shape just now; his injuries were even slowly healing. How could he suddenly…

What exactly happened…

Huh?!

Wait.

Tornado's eyes suddenly flickered with shock.

Where is this enormous, overwhelming vitality coming from?!

She fixed her gaze on the crimson mist and bone dust floating within the golden-red beam.

Within the drifting red mist and white dust, countless tiny golden-red specks glittered like precious gems, dazzlingly bright.

That immense, rich vitality emanated from them.

After using the Perfect Turn into Ghost Elixir, Luo En could now fully control his body, down to the cellular level.

Some of his cells had become nutrients, absorbed and refined by new cells, stepping toward a higher life tier.

The golden-red specks Tornado saw were Luo En's newly formed cells.

Other cells, carrying the remaining destructive energy, turned into black sludge and were discarded.

Under Tornado's stunned gaze,

slowly,

the glowing golden-red "gems" within the mist and dust multiplied.

Eventually, they coalesced into a single mass.

Like a brilliant golden-red sun, illuminating the earth.

Though these were ghost cells, they emitted no cold or evil aura—instead, they radiated pure, sacred, immaculate light, like a deity.

It was truly unbelievable.

A swaddled infant first appeared in the center of the red sun, then transformed into the form of a two-year-old child, gradually growing from there.

By the time he had grown into a boy of fourteen or fifteen.

Those golden-red cells were completely depleted.

The brilliant, dazzling light faded away.

Before Long Juan's eyes appeared a handsome boy with silver hair, his features nine-tenths similar to Luo En's.

He wore nothing, his skin pure and flawless, his body long and proportionate, muscles sharply defined, embodying every conceivable form of human beauty, as if crafted by a deity.

Even Long Juan was momentarily stunned.

When he opened his eyes.

What appeared in Long Juan's gaze were two strange, otherworldly vertical pupils of different colors.

One gold, one blue.

The golden vertical pupil on the left was brilliant and eerie, majestic as the sun.

The deep blue vertical pupil on the right was profound and calm, mysterious and restrained as the sea.

In the instant she met the gaze of those heterochromatic pupils.

Long Juan's hardened mental wall trembled for an instant; she seemed to see the very years she most dreaded to recall, and felt a rare… terror!

These heterochromatic pupils signified that Luo En had completely shed his human identity and become something else.

Long Juan jolted awake from her memories.

She fixed her gaze on the silver-haired boy before her.

"You… what exactly are you?"

She was utterly confused now—was this thing a friend or an enemy?

"No need to be so wary. To you, I should count as a friend. I'm still, for now, on humanity's side."

The silver-haired, heterochromatic-eyed boy smiled at her.

After saying that.

He reached out and took from the empty air before him a set of clothing, then dressed himself right before Long Juan's eyes.

"As for this form of mine… hmm, it's related to my previous injuries. I won't go into details—everyone has their own secrets. You can think of it as something I had to become just to survive."

Hearing this, Long Juan's eyes flickered slightly.

To survive…?

Is that really it?

The feeling Luo En gave her now was completely different from before.