The End of the Extreme Dao: I Planted a Sacred Tree and Gained Immortality

Chapter 188 Dangerous Goods, Purification, Successful Experiment
Zhang Zhanhong felt as if his head was stuffed with paste, and his limbs felt so heavy that they didn't belong to him. He forced himself to open his eyes, and what came into view was a snow-white ceiling. When he turned his head, he saw the equipment next to him with a cold light. There was also a faint smell of disinfectant in the air, which made him feel uneasy.

"Where... am I?" he began with difficulty, his voice as hoarse as a rusty door hinge.

"Laboratory." A voice that was so calm that it made people creepy came. Zhang Zhanhong tried to turn his head and saw Huo Ying standing not far away. His eyes were white and red, shining faintly, looking a little creepy.

"Laboratory?" Zhang Zhanhong was stunned for a moment. He tried to move his hands and feet, but found that he was tied up tightly. "What kind of operation is this? Brother, this is not a medical procedure, right?"

"This is how dangerous goods are handled." Huo Ying glanced at him calmly, his tone as casual as if he was talking about today's weather: "Strictly speaking, your physical condition is not much better than that of dangerous goods. Only when the midday sun is the strongest can you stay awake for a minute."

"One minute?!" Zhang Zhanhong was completely awake. He twisted his body and tried to break free from the fixture, but found that the chains that bound him seemed to be designed to trap a Tyrannosaurus Rex and did not move at all. He took a breath and tried to calm himself down. "Brother, didn't I ask you to help me become stronger? How come it's like... like an experimental accident?"

"In fact, the experiment was successful." Huo Ying raised his chin and motioned Zhang Zhanhong to look at his hands. "You are now strong enough to blow up an armored vehicle with one punch."

Zhang Zhanhong looked down at his hand and found that there were faint black lines on the back of his hand, like the mark of some power. He was about to study it carefully, but suddenly he felt a heart-wrenching pain surging from his body, accompanied by an uncontrollable sense of violence.

"Ugh!" He growled, his body suddenly tensed up, his eyes turned bloodshot, like an enraged beast.

Huo Ying did not move, nor did he show any surprise. His Mangekyō Sharingan slowly spun in his eyes, and he whispered, "One minute is up, the symptoms are onset."

Zhang Zhanhong trembled all over, gritted his teeth and asked with difficulty: "What...what are the symptoms?"

"The side effects of immortal cells." Huo Ying's voice was still calm, as if it was just a common thing. "It does bring you power, but it also destroys your mental balance and self-control ability."

Zhang Zhanhong heard this and countless thoughts flashed through his mind, which finally converged into one question: "Will I die? Can I take a look at An Yu before I die? Forget it, I'd better not see her in this state..."

Huo Ying swallowed the words of comfort he wanted to say.

Zhang Zhanhong wanted to say something else, but the power in his body was completely out of control. He let out a low roar from his throat, his eyes turned bloodshot, and his muscles swelled up, almost breaking the fixture.

"It seems that we can't continue the conversation." Huo Ying sighed softly, and his Mangekyō Sharingan rotated again, injecting a powerful illusion into Zhang Zhanhong's consciousness. His movements suddenly stopped, his eyes lost focus, and his body fell limply on the bed.

After making sure that Zhang Zhanhong could not break free from the illusion, Huo Ying put away his Sharingan, turned around and walked out of the laboratory, returning to the Populus euphratica forest.

Pushing open the heavy stone door, warm light poured out from inside the house.

Liang Yao was sitting at the table peeling an orange, holding the orange segments in one hand and supporting her head with the other, obviously a little bored. Bai Xizhi kept flipping through the information, and Huo Ying rolled his eyes at it. The content of the information was an analysis of the soil in Ailing Town of the big-breasted white absolute.

"Brother Huo, woooo, you still remember to come back." Liang Yao jumped up excitedly at first, and then threw herself towards Huo Ying with grievance.

Bai Xizhi did not compete with Liang Yao for Huo Ying's embrace. She put the information aside and stared into Huo Ying's eyes: "Why did you close my shared link?"

Without waiting for Huo Ying to explain, Bai Xizhi continued: "You don't have to answer. I just want to tell you that if you meet Zhang Yuqi, she will definitely sow discord. I hope you didn't kill her."

Bai Xizhi's eyes were calm: "Compared to other infected people, we have more information about Zhang Yuqi. Only the process of Zhang Yuqi's successful promotion to level 4 can be used as a reference for us. Whether it is Liang Yao's ability or my ability, once we break through level 4, we will definitely help you more."

Huo Ying frowned. The two women could actually fight each other from a distance and guess each other's behavior.

Looking at Liang Yao who just squeezed into his arms, Huo Ying sighed helplessly. It's true that fools have good luck. Perhaps it was because Liang Yao was too easy to give that Zhang Yuqi and Bai Xizhi didn't regard Liang Yao as a rival.

"You don't need to think too much. We are family."

Huo Ying was not worried about Bai Xizhi. Making Bai Xizhi the Two-Tails Jinchuriki not only increased Bai Xizhi's strength, but also served as a form of surveillance.

The tailed beasts have the ability to sense malicious intent and can read the thoughts of the jinchūriki. Once Bai Xizhi has second thoughts, the first one to get angry will definitely be Nekomata.

Now, the two-tailed cat and Bai Xizhi get along very well, which proves that Bai Xizhi is one of them.

After thinking about it, Huo Ying stopped hiding it and said directly: "XN City no longer exists."

Looking at the shocked expressions of the two women, Huo Ying continued, "The body of the Dispelling Rune in XN City is under the shelter of the escort team. It is an unmanned train, and its destination is Chang'an City."

"Bai Xizhi, what exactly is there in Chang'an City?"

Facing Huo Ying's sudden question, Bai Xizhi was stunned for a moment, then said faintly: "That bitch, if I had known earlier I would have killed her with the two tails, she actually used this kind of thing to provoke us."

"I was indeed transferred from Chang'an City, but, Huo Ying, you should be able to tell from the factory's information that when I was transferred to Ailing Town, the infectious disease had not yet broken out on a large scale. At that time, there was nothing special about Chang'an City..."

"When the infection officially broke out, it was the Guardian Team that contacted me on behalf of Chang'an City and asked me to conduct the Savior Experiment."

So that's why. No wonder Kaleidoscope didn't realize that Zhang Yuqi was lying. It turned out that what she said was true. She just deliberately didn't mention the time when Bai Xizhi came to Ailing Town to make her hesitate and avoid fighting with her.

"So you misunderstood Sister Bai." Liang Yao understood the conversation between the two belatedly, and then said in a smooth talk: "Brother Huo, this is your fault. Forget it, I will keep you empty-handed for another day tonight and punish you to Sister Bai."

Bai Xizhi waved her hand generously: "It's rare that you speak to me, forget it, I won't compete with you today."

"Hey, are you sure you want to give Brother Huo to me?"

"Don't you understand? You are allowed to be with me..."

Huo Ying felt a little guilty. After all, he was indeed scared by Zhang Yuqi. In order to show his sincerity, Huo Ying did not interrupt and accepted the punishment from the two women.

However, Zhang Zhanhong is still unconscious in the laboratory. The immortal cells will not kill Zhang Zhanhong, but if the two women punish him for too long, it will be terrible if Zhang Zhanhong wakes up from the illusion and smashes the laboratory.

No matter how powerful Wood Release is, it cannot create laboratory equipment. Inhibitors and sequence drugs must be manufactured in the Blue Gene Factory, and Huo Ying must protect it.

"Don't make trouble for now, Liang Yao. Now, I need to borrow your power of purification to try."

"If successful, I can teach Chakra to the residents of Short Ridge Town."

You can teach ninjutsu! Hearing that the experiment was related to the future of Ailing Town, Liang Yao stopped making trouble and followed Huo Ying out of the stone house.

In the laboratory, Zhang Zhanhong was still tied to the bed. There was a hint of pain on his face, his body was shaking involuntarily, and a low roar came from his mouth, like a wild beast trapped in a cage.

Liang Yao couldn't help but gasp when she saw this scene: "How did this guy become like this?"

"The side effects of the experiment." Huo Ying walked up to Zhang Zhanhong, stretched out his hand, and held down Zhang Zhanhong's body to prevent him from moving. "Now his energy is out of control and his spirit is broken. See if you can use the power of purification to alleviate his condition."

Liang Yao nodded and stretched out her hand. A ray of blue light rose from her palm and slowly covered Zhang Zhanhong's forehead.

Zhang Zhanhong's body shook violently, his originally scarlet eyes seemed to regain clarity for a moment, and his breathing became a little steadier.

"Is it effective?" Liang Yao looked up at Huo Ying, with some anticipation in her tone.

Huo Ying's eyes lit up slightly, and he carefully observed the trajectory of the purification power in Zhang Zhanhong's body. He was silent for a moment and shook his head: "It works, but it's not strong enough. Your purification level is not enough, and the purification power is ineffective against chakra. It can only remove the infectious power in the immortal cells, which makes the ratio of chakra and infectious power unbalanced again."

"Isn't that worse?" Liang Yao was a little panicked. After all, Zhang and his son were old residents of Ailing Town, and Liang Yao didn't want him to die.

"But it worked by accident."

Immortal cells are a fusion of natural energy and chakra. Natural energy, in this world, is infectious power. Liang Yao purified some of the out-of-control infectious power, which unexpectedly made the immortal cells more stable.

Now, Zhang Zhanhong's body is no longer in danger of life, but due to the interference of the immortal cells before, Zhang Zhanhong's spiritual world went out of control, and his sanity has not yet recovered.

"Sir, you have the ability to enter his spiritual world, right?" The old dean looked at the data on the instrument and found that Zhang Zhanhong's body was out of danger. He suggested: "In his spiritual world, maybe we can find the crux of the problem."

"Alright."

Huo Ying closed his eyes gently, and when he opened them again, the scarlet Mangekyō Sharingan had already appeared.

The next second, Huo Ying used illusion to enter Zhang Zhanhong's spiritual world.

Entering the illusion space, the world in front of Huo Ying changed——

On the desolate plain, the wind and sand were as sharp as knives, and the sky was as gray as a moldy old canvas.

In the distance, heavy footsteps and low roars could be heard faintly.

Zhang Zhanhong was wielding the Yang Blade and engaging in a fierce battle with a level three infected creature.

This is Zhang Zhanhong's own spiritual world, which is reproducing the battle with the third-level infected creature over and over again. Zhang Zhanhong's movements are rough and impatient, and every time he chops with his sword, there is a crazy spirit of "If you don't die, I won't live."

It was clearly an illusion in Zhang Zhanhong's own mind, but he was still beaten up by the infected creature. No matter how Zhang Zhanhong swung, the infected creature felt no pain. On the contrary, every time the infected creature attacked, it could instantly seriously injure Zhang Zhanhong.

Once the injury is too severe, Zhang Zhanhong will die, but after death, Zhang Zhanhong will be resurrected again. This battle will repeat itself like an endless nightmare.

"He is trapped by his own inferiority complex." Huo Ying tried to intervene: "Zhang Zhanhong, calm down. This is your spiritual world, not a battlefield."

Hearing the voice, Zhang Zhanhong turned his head sharply, his eyes that had been fused with immortal cells glowing with golden light, staring at Huo Ying intently: "Who are you? You also want to stop me from becoming stronger? Get out of here!"

Zhang Zhanhong roared and rushed towards Huo Ying with a knife.

Huo Ying frowned and dodged the attack. He did not fight back, but tried to suppress Zhang Zhanhong's violent emotions with the power of the kaleidoscope: "Stop, look at who I am."

However, Zhang Zhanhong simply wouldn't listen, and his actions became even more crazy. Huo Ying dodged his attacks several times, only then did he realize that the kaleidoscope could drive a normal person crazy, but could not bring a madman back to normal.

"It seems that the experiment has failed." Huo Ying muttered to himself and withdrew from the battle range.

As Huo Ying left, the third-level infected creature immediately pounced on him, grabbed Zhang Zhanhong in his hand like a chicken, and used him as a hostage.

Just when Huo Ying thought that everything would start over again and was about to exit the illusion space, the surrounding scene suddenly changed. The strong wind stopped, the gray sky became a little brighter, and a vague figure appeared in the light. The figure gradually became clear, and it was An Yu.

In the illusion, An Yu held a long knife in her hand, her cold eyes fixed on the infected creature. She acted decisively, killing the third-level infected creature with one strike.

"An Yu..." Zhang Zhanhong murmured in a low voice, and the violent light in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by an indescribable gentleness. His hands trembled slightly, and even his breathing became slow and careful, as if he was afraid of disturbing that figure.

However, An Yu only stayed in the illusion for a short time, and then his figure began to blur and gradually disappeared. Zhang Zhanhong's expression changed instantly, his eyes were once again occupied by the golden light, and his roar resounded through the illusion world again.

"This guy actually arranged such a thing in his inner world?" Huo Ying stood aside with his arms folded, watching the scene with a half-smile: "Good fellow, the dog licked into the illusion."

Huo Ying shook his head, smiled bitterly and left the illusion world.

"How is it, was it successful? I saw his breathing stabilize for a moment." Liang Yao asked anxiously. She had already learned the purpose of this experiment from the old dean. Once the immortal cells were successfully fused, the town's defense strength would increase hundreds of times.

"It hasn't worked yet, but I've found a way." Huo Ying looked at the old dean and arranged, "Go call An Yu."

The old dean was stunned for a moment, his face full of confusion: "An Yu? What can she do? Although her father An Zaixin is an academician of Lianhai City, isn't he good at making inhibitors?"

The old dean had already read the information about XN City, and had even met An Zaixin on other floors of the laboratory, and had helped him complete the configuration of the inhibitor.

When it comes to technology, ten An Zaixin are not as good as one old dean.

"She is really the key." Huo Ying walked aside and leaned against the wall: "She is the only one who can control the rational switch of this lickspittle."

(End of this chapter)