Chapter 343: Three Plans!

Night Color Bar was deep.

Inside the room, it was quiet enough to hear a falling needle.

Su Ming could even hear his steady heartbeat.

At this moment, his perception of that translucent shadow...

... became even more vivid!

"Just looking at it here can't tell its depth; I have to test what it's composed of!"

After finishing a mental chat with Huochai Ge in his mind, Su Ming slowly raised his right hand.

He flicked his fingertip.

He directly drew a strand of gray‑black energy from the Dimensional Reduction Warehouse.

It was a cursed trinket he had casually acquired earlier in the Sakura Country Yellow Spring Instance.

The dead energy extracted from this thing carried extremely strong corrosiveness and raging resentment.

A normal person shouldn't even think of touching it.

Even a slight brush would instantly drive them into mental chaos.

Without at least half a day, they'd never recover their sanity!

Su Ming pretended to pinch the strand of dead energy with two fingers, slowly bringing it closer to Zhao Xinghe.

"Xing He, what is this?"

Su Ming spoke very softly.

Zhao Xinghe lifted her small face.

Bathed in the cool moonlight filtering through the curtain slit, her big eyes flickered as they stared at Su Ming's fingertip.

"Brother, is this black?"

With her naked eye, she couldn't see the dead energy's terrifying true form at all.

She only perceived it as a floating black mist.

In the next moment, the little girl, unguarded, extended her tender little hand.

And in that instant!

The translucent bloodline spirit behind her moved.

There was no hint of snarling hostility.

Nor did it show any protective aggression.

The spirit merely floated a phantom palm outward.

It directly grasped the strand of dead energy into its hand.

Su Ming quietly sensed the scene, neither intervening nor evading.

He let the spirit hold the dead energy to death.

The next second.

Sizzle—!

Like a drop of cold water splashing into a scorching oil pot!

That resentment dead energy, which had been wildly extreme enough to drive ordinary people instantly mad,

upon contacting the holy red light emitted by the spirit,

didn't even ripple; it was crushed to fragments!

It wasn't a brute-force dispelling.

It was an extremely domineering Assimilation!

It lasted less than two seconds in total.

All the negative impurities mixed in that strand of dead energy were stripped away cleanly, like a bone‑scraping detox.

Su Ming's eyes narrowed slightly.

Because under the Eye of Truth's analysis panel, the item's original attribute description, which was shrouded in dead energy and saturated with the nether,

had been forcibly erased!

This damn thing isn't over yet!

Through the Eye of Truth, Su Ming could see clearly—

In the air, some spirit‑energy‑like stuff had appeared!

It was split in two instantly!

The larger half gently pressed into Zhao Xinghe's body.

As for the remaining small half...

That thing, as if it had its own consciousness, with a flick of a finger, flew straight into his palm.

Su Ming's palm warmed slightly.

A stream of immaculate, ultra‑pure spirit power.

It flowed through his meridians, instantly replenishing the tiny bit of energy he had just expended to the brim.

Su Ming raised an eyebrow, unable to hide his amusement.

Oh?!

This move...

is actually quite interesting!

"Huochai Ge, you must have sensed that scene just now, right?"

His mind was silent.

Just a moment ago the chatty Huochai Ge was quite talkative, but now he has fallen into a strange silence.

It took a full ten‑some seconds before that guy's hoarse voice sounded again.

Only this time, his tone carried an unmistakable heaviness.

【Saw it!】

【Swallowing the dead aura of the Yellow Springs, forcibly filtering vile curses, refining spiritual energy to feed back the body…】

【Even this little thing damn well knows how to flatter you, voluntarily paying you protection money.】

Su Ming lowered his head and glanced at the innocent‑faced Zhao Xinghe.

The little girl still wore a clueless expression.

She had no idea that the Energy Body behind her had just performed a spectacular maneuver.

"What's this? A humanoid autonomous purifier? Plus a universal power bank?"

"With this setup, even capitalists would shed tears, right?"

Su Ming teased himself inwardly.

【Not just that.】

Huochai Ge paused, his tone turning serious.

【This little girl is definitely a once‑in‑ten‑thousand‑years mutated source body.】

【The blood‑line consciousness inside her, it now appears not a parasite at all, but more like… a symbiotic spirit!】

【As long as she continuously absorbs energy, this symbiotic spirit will keep growing.】

【When the Energy Body eventually solidifies and fully merges with her own body…】

【That limit is terrifyingly extreme!】

【I surmise that then she will not only be able to control some core laws of the Original Clan.】

【Just by looking at her current stance, she can definitely still be immune to the vast majority of Mental Pollution and negative Karma in this world!】

Su Ming pondered briefly, then cut in with a pointed remark.

"Don't just list the benefits—are there any hidden risks?"

Huochai Ge scoffed outright upon hearing that.

【Heh… of course there are!】

【What in this world is absolutely perfect?】

【All living beings inevitably have flaws.】

【It's just that this little girl's flaw… I haven't seen it yet.】

【But the biggest risk lies outside—】

【A common man is innocent, but possessing a jewel is a crime!】

【Such an ultra‑pure mutated Energy Body, in the eyes of those higher‑dimensional beings, is the ultimate supreme tonic!】

【If the aura of her eventual fusion leaks out…】

【Heh! Guess what!】

【How many restless old monsters will wade into this murky water just to take a bite?!】

Su Ming narrowed his eyes, a cold glint flashing in his pupils.

"Will there be anyone turn green with envy?!"

His mind was as clear as a mirror. The "those guys" the Huochai Ge mentioned.

They are certainly not the low‑grade scum like Shen Dai Qianhe of Sakura Country.

At least…

They're also terrifying beings from the same dimension as Huochai Ge!

The matter…

Indeed, it's not that easy to settle.

"A bit troublesome."

Zhao Gang now wholeheartedly risks his life for him up front.

He's kept Jiangzhou's rear area as solid as a plate; Zhao Gang can't find a single flaw.

But now, saying that someone might someday covet Zhao Gang's own daughter?

That damn thing would be tantamount to overturning Su Ming's plate!

"Stop beating around the bush, tell me, how should we handle it."

"Put that ten‑thousand‑year‑old brain of yours to work; if the solution you give works well, I'll later fetch you more premium items."

Su Ming's tone was calm.

This time, Huochai Ge remained silent for a full three minutes.

【I have three proposals here; you pick one yourself, how about it?!】

Su Ming's gaze flickered slightly.

"Speak!"

【Option One.】

【Kill her outright!】

【While this mutated symbiotic spirit hasn't fully formed yet, I can teach you a secret technique.】

【There's a high chance to extract this thing directly and refine it into my body!】

【To be frank, once I devour her, I'll instantly break the shackles of advancement, and my power will surge dramatically! And the ceiling will be even higher!】

【Of course, if you choose this path, the reward I give you will far exceed your imagination!】

As for the price… it's simply that this little girl will have her soul and spirit fly away and scatter on the spot.

Su Ming quietly glanced at Zhao Xinghe.

The little girl still looked at him, without interrupting.

She even gave him a sweet smile.

She had not the slightest guard toward Su Ming in front of her.

In her world, it was this good‑looking big brother who saved her life.

He was a lifelong benefactor!

"Next."

Su Ming didn't even hesitate for half a second; he answered decisively.

Although his relationship with Huochai Ge is essentially a long‑term mutually beneficial "meal ticket" arrangement, that so‑called reward is absolutely defying the heavens.

But he has his principles.

He has greed.

But he also has an unshakable bottom line!