Chapter 567: Watch me, the reverse astringent equation!

Blood pressure is blood pressure; after all, she's a colleague, so Ji Ming's plan was actually to kick her shoulder to force her to let go.

Who knew that after dodging sand and blocking wind, it would be like those dogs that want to bite, opening its mouth and tilting its head, actively coming up to meet.

——Ah, auntie, I can't be blamed!

Then the next second, because that female teacher had been kicked unconscious, Ji Ming finally broke free of his restraints and escaped into the sky.

But although nothing seemed to happen on the surface, at the moment of contact, Ji Ming's lower-right field of vision still popped up two boxes in succession: 【Cursed】 and 【Curse Cleared】.

It's normal for the curse to be automatically cleared; even without a divine body, Ji Ming's current physical stats are enough to grant him immunity to a considerable portion of the world's toxins and curses.

But this curse's terrifying transmissibility upon contact, as well as this very special name, are definitely worth mentioning.

【Extreme Lust Dragon King (Activated)】

「Dragon King Curse? 」

Realizing that things had surely become a big deal, Ji Ming no longer dared to hesitate, concealed his form, and directly patrolled the city's airspace in a circle.

Good news: he did not encounter any trouble despite the Royal Capital's dense anti-air firepower network and elite garrison knights stationed everywhere.

Bad news: there really isn't any trouble!

Because, including the city defense forces, the vast majority of people in the city are either playing poker or on their way to play poker—really, their minds are full of nothing but themselves!

Only players could still maintain a rare clarity, yet they could only struggle desperately in a sea of white chaos.

「Holy crap, have I arrived in the fruit world? Yeah, I'm also Fruit Hero! 」

「Help! A broccoli with a man's voice is grabbing me and won't let go……oh heavens, its carrot is about to stab my face! 」

「Ah! Don't you dare lift it!!! 」

「Why! Why! Why won't you let me play cards? I also want to play cards with the neighbor's big sister! 」

「No, no! Don't pull it down anymore, oh no! You've turned into a carrot! 」

……

Order collapsed, beings were inverted, the morality and bottom line maintained for over a hundred thousand years were trampled back and forth—this is practically hell on earth!

Then Ji Ming became angry.

But anger is useless; the key is to quickly think of a way to help the Royal Capital's people remove the curse from their bodies.

To undo the bell, one must find the one who tied it; Ji Ming's constantly turning mind first speculated on the cause of this humanitarian disaster.

Without a doubt, it definitely relates to the Dragon King Curse that runs in the royal bloodline and spread throughout the Royal Capital via marriage alliances.

These nobles who carry the curse likely account for eighty percent of the plague's source, and after the curse was activated, they spread it like zombies to the entire city's populace.

Then the culprit behind this disaster is the Magic Emperor, and his purpose is……

Ji Ming opened the forum again, searching for information about the Radiant Light Ancestral Land.

Unfortunately, it remains under strict blockade, with no valuable information leaking out.

After a moment's thought, Ji Ming then took out the magic conduit, attempting ultra-long-range contact with Andong the Sixth or Philip.

Unfortunately, perhaps to prevent anyone from secretly causing trouble, under the effect of a large-scale magic array on the other end, these links were also temporarily cut off.

It seems all this is perfectly natural, after all, for the sake of safety, information blockade is totally normal.

But after questioning his own conscience about this strange fortune, Ji Ming still boldly guessed that the Radiant Light Ancestral Land over there had also run into trouble.

So, the Magic Emperor's evil plan, in Ji Ming's mind, could also be roughly fleshed out.

It's probably about striking two blows at once: capturing all high-ranking royal members of Radiant Light while occupying the Royal Capital.

That way, he could seize the Sun King's crown in one fell swoop, justifiably and reasonably.

No need to say, the idea isn't bad; in Civilization 6 it's roughly like nuking an enemy capital and then sending tanks to occupy the city—an ultra-absolute conquest victory lightning war.

However, Yangyue World has no conquest victory, and Ji Ming won't let this crafty, heartless old bastard get his wish.

Therefore……

「Hey hey hey, Silvia? The Magic Emperor has gone nuts—immediately call tens of thousands of brothers to go to the Radiant Light Ancestral Land and send them warmth. 」

Since the old Sun over there already has other people from the game production team handling it, Ji Ming only needs to take care of the mess at hand.

As for the solution, it's also simple: since the bell-tyer refuses to undo it, I'll just chop the knot with one blow and then tie up the bell-tyer!

So, after finding a suitable place to land, Ji Ming attracted a batch of test subjects into the teleportation gate and captured them in the underground city.

He used a method similar to the last time he treated Ke Li Si Ting, using his boundless divine power to peel the Dragon King Curse off the lab rat's body.

And after a thorough dissection and analysis, as a fellow practitioner, even Ji Ming couldn't help but admire the subtlety and wonder of this new-style curse.

First of all, it's actually not complicated; it merely involved an intricate grafting and bold patching of two things.

But as everyone knows, when you want to create a product, subtraction is actually far harder than addition—this is absolutely solid basic skill.

At least Ji Ming, who had previously come into contact with both of these things, never imagined they could be combined—he is genuinely convinced of his own inadequacy!

This first material is naturally the 【Dragon King】 of the bloodline curse; it can tug at people's deepest desire to play cards and continually break moral boundaries.

And this second material, although somewhat different from the Wendigo, is obviously from the same school as the large-scale transformation array 【Living Corpse Plague】!

Gee whiz, can curses and arrays even be grafted?

Moreover, with the practitioner's quite ingenious modifications, the two actually fused remarkably well, as if they were born to be two pieces of a complete puzzle.

Thus the Dragon King Curse upgraded from bloodline transmission to blood transmission; when the number of infected within a certain range reaches a certain level, it can even spread by contact!

The mastermind behind the scenes used such nefarious means, turning Qixia City into a horrifying Shura field so terrible that even in the inner world it would deserve an r-23 rating, all within just a few hours.

Then, if the invader can go, I can go too!

「Trash, I'll take you on! 」

As an Upper God of the Eye Demon with angelic inheritance, Ji Ming directly began to imitate, referencing the Dragon King Curse's structural format.

However, unlike the Dragon King Curse's approach, after being stained, Ji Ming's curse first runs a purification procedure to wash away the Dragon King Curse from the patient's body.

But the curse is not a virus; cured patients won't gain antibodies, so if they encounter similar transformation techniques again, they'll only get infected once more.

Therefore, after purification is complete, Ji Ming will then implant a segment disguised as the Dragon King Curse into the host, but its actual effect is a Trojan program that restricts desire.

Ha, dead people can't be killed, and the debuff already slapped on the status bar is the same.

Since one person can't possibly carry two identical curses at once, this Trojan horse can serve like an antibody!

Finally, grind these two curses smooth, apply lubricant, and seamlessly combine them with the living corpse plague technique……

ok, mission accomplished!

To ensure the anti-sour equation would work, Ji Ming didn't heal all the experimental subjects, deliberately leaving some as lab mice for the second round.

Good thing, his theory was completely correct.

Although just a purified lab mouse of an ordinary person, it couldn't escape the predation of the unpurified lab mouse as a professional.

But at the moment their bodies touched, the curse on the unpurified lab mouse was directly cleared, and its consciousness returned to clarity.

And the purified lab mouse also didn't show secondary infection upon re-exposure to the Dragon King Curse; it just sat paralyzed on the ground, screaming nonstop.

"Calm, calm…… okay, sorry, settle!"

There was no time left to soothe the now-normal test subjects, as the second round of experiments came right after.

In the enclosed space, Ji Ming caught another freshly infected lab mouse and had her touch the lab mouse that had been cured in the first round.

Repeating this over ten times, until he used up all the captured test subjects, his anti-sour equation still worked normally.

"Great!"

The clinical trial passed smoothly, and Ji Ming released all the test subjects back into Qixia City.

Moreover, while releasing them, he expanded his divine sense to the max and carried out large-scale manual transmission via hypnotic guidance.

"God says, no being sour~sour!!!"

Although it's a bit crude and weird, a sane author surely couldn't write such an outrageous, bizarre plague segment.

But special times call for special measures; now is a critical moment, and Ji Ming can't wait for everyone's passion-born kids to grow up before dispensing aid.

At least the Positive Qi Nurturing Technique approved of Ji Ming's actions, as if it had a built-in merit-infinite machine, and his cultivation level began to surge.

But the plague has been suppressed, the populace's desire level reduced to normal, yet how should they view their own actions over the past few hours?

……

"What does it have to do with me? I'm not their father."

All in all, the anti-sour equation showed great power, suppressing the rampant Dragon King Plague in Qixia in a short time, and even the Dragon King Plague that attempted to spread outward from the city.

Ji Ming could finally free his hands to deal with the Sun Castle, which had been a chaotic uproar since just now, with explosions occasionally coming from it.

Although the Dragon King Plague's effect is strong, a curse is a curse; its casting effect will surely weaken as the host's physical stats increase.

Therefore, after this large-scale plague outbreak, Qixia City did not fall immediately, and some high-level beings still tried to organize resistance.

But the mastermind behind the scenes couldn't allow these people to ruin his plans, so he sent professional assassins in advance, who headed to assassinate under cover of the infected.

Thus the small forces were wiped out on the spot, the larger resistance had little effect, and up to now, the only viable resistance left in the city is the Royal Palace.

As for why the Royal Palace has held out until now, besides its high thick walls and large numbers of guard knights choosing to retreat there, making it strong in troops and horses, the most important reason is still……

"Take this punch!"

As the Hui Guang Kingdom's foremost martial power on the surface, even at seventy-six the Xiguang Duke, still strong and mighty, can naturally ignore this curse.

As the kingdom's ballast, the Sun King did not send him back to his homeland, but instead kept him secretly in the Royal Capital as a hidden trump card to deter the night.

I was just trying to catch a few small fry, to drop a heavenly iron fist, but I didn't expect this move to turn out doubly correct!

If it weren't for him suddenly jumping out at the critical moment to blast the enemies, defend the Royal Palace, and draw a warning line with a fierce punch wind.

Relying only on these guard knights, whose minds are somewhat affected by the curse and who occasionally chuckle, mice from unknown enemies would have likely already sneaked in.

But it doesn't matter; now that he's here, no enemy can withstand his punch.

If there is, then add another elbow!

"Man! (an unintelligible roar)"

Thus, in the strong wind, trying to sneak around Lord Xi, but the assassins blooming inside the Royal Palace were blasted through the chest by an upper-cut elbow on the spot.

Moreover, Lord Xi didn't stop, immediately launching a kick that shattered the assassin's remains like Lego bricks, killing him beyond death.

Don't blame the old man for being ruthless; if you woke up to see your beloved grandson driving three big trucks, your heroic spirit would stay maxed out.

Yet despite being so shocking, a method that would make even a nine‑year‑old or a ninety‑nine‑year‑old avert their eyes failed to scare off the thugs trying to storm the Royal Palace.

For just a moment later, hundreds of infected rushed straight from the road's end, hoping to band together and storm the city gate.

The Dragon King Plague's effect is a lasting urge to play cards, and the city is full of sturdy men and bodhisattvas who let them set up card games.

So this situation is truly abnormal; obviously the thugs wanted to mingle with the innocent crowds to give the Lord a problem!

However, it's unfortunate that, having climbed to this position, the Xiguang Duke has never been any kind of saint.

Moreover, compared to these hundreds of lives before him, it's clear that the endless disaster caused by the enemy occupying the Royal Palace is far more terrifying, and he knows it!

Therefore the old man had no hesitation whatsoever; while the guard knights were still tender‑hearted and dared not draw their swords, his punch wind had already struck like lightning.

The Lord's sole mercy was to decide instantly, letting these poor meat shields rest in peace as quickly as possible.

"Mad…… man!"

Sure enough, three assassins mixed into the crowd feigning infection; seeing the Xiguang Duke slaughter indiscriminately without hesitation, they were so frightened they learned to speak, and hurried to retreat.

But offend the Lord and still try to run? Too late!

Even fleeing at full speed, they could only be caught by Old Xiguang in a few steps; a few thuds, explosive dark energy burst, and they all turned into a pile of rotten meat.

Probably the mastermind also didn't expect the Xiguang Duke to be guarding the Royal Capital, with most of the assassin thugs lurking near the Royal Palace being only around level fifty.

A handful of sixty‑level experts tried to gang up and overwhelm the Lord with numbers, but also suffered defeat, fleeing in disgrace after dropping a corpse.

But as time passed, the Hui Guang strong ones drawn to this lighthouse grew ever more numerous.

Especially since he naturally loves to play, the Principal Tiliya's arrival made the curse irrelevant, directly triggering a qualitative change.