System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

"Uncle, what's wrong with her? Why is she like this?"

"Let me take a look."

Zhang Hao turned A Ning over and brushed aside the long hair at the back of her head, revealing a terrifying human face to everyone.

"Evil spirit! It's an evil spirit!"

The people around were so frightened by the sight of the human face that they scattered in all directions.

"It's just a human-faced sickle, what's there to be afraid of!"

Yi Sa and Ding Yudie recognized the face at the same time.

"Human-faced sickle?"

The boatmen, who had just been frightened away, regained their courage upon hearing that it was a human-faced sickle and slowly approached to investigate.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the face resembled an octopus, except that it had a face-like pattern on its back.

"It really is a human-faced sickle. When this thing attaches to a person, it controls their actions and makes them do some unbelievable things. It will only let go when you sprinkle cow hair on their body."

An old boatman had some experience and knew how to handle the human-faced sickle.

He took a yellowed paper packet out of his inner pocket, opened it, and sprinkled some powder inside onto Aning's neck.

The sickle with the human face immediately released its grip as soon as it touched the cow hair, revealing two bloody holes the size of mung beans on A-Ning's neck.

Zhang Hao picked up the human-faced sickle and pretended to throw it into the sea, but then put it into his storage space with a thought.

Although the human-faced scythe is not a special item, it is still a magical artifact. Keeping it in the storage space means it can be fused with later when there are enough fusion attempts.

After doing all that, Wu Tianzhen carried A Ning into the cabin to treat her wounds.

The boatmen assisted the captain in steering the boat away from the area as quickly as possible.

Zhang Hao went to a secluded corner on the deck and, on a whim, released the sea monkey's corpse.

"System, merge with the sea monkey."

[Ding, command received, fusion initiation.]

As the system notification sound faded, the sea monkey's corpse instantly melted into a pool of green, viscous liquid.

The liquid slowly flowed and enveloped Zhang Hao, then transformed into countless tiny molecules that seeped into his body.

These molecules penetrated Zhang Hao's body and fused with the cells throughout his body. As the fusion deepened, his strength also increased rapidly.

A few seconds later, the system notification sounded again.

[Ding, congratulations host, 16th fusion completed. Fusion item: Sea Monkey.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have acquired the fusion item's trait: underwater breathing ability.]

Sea monkeys possess incredible strength and move at great speed.

Zhang Hao originally thought that he would gain one of these two abilities after the fusion, but he didn't expect that he would end up with the ability to breathe underwater.

It seems that although sea monkeys are strong, they are still not as strong as ants with 400 times their own body weight.

Its movement speed is not as fast as the 500% increase from the Blood Corpse.

So the final ability I gained was underwater breathing.

It's important to know that the All Things Fusion System has a characteristic where, when items with the same characteristics are fused together, the more prominent attribute will override the original, less prominent attribute.

Since there was no overlay after the fusion with the sea monkey, it means that although the sea monkey is strong, it is based on the premise of being physically strong, and its characteristics are not as prominent as those of the ant and the blood corpse.

However, breathing underwater is also an incredible ability.

As far as he knew, no human being except for the three generations of the Water Demon family who could breathe underwater.

Even water demons expend a lot of energy breathing underwater, and they cannot stay underwater continuously. The best water demons can stay underwater for a maximum of about two hours.

However, having the ability to breathe underwater is different. He can stay underwater indefinitely as long as he wants, and there is no difference between being underwater and being on land for him.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, on fusing with the special item Sea Monkey. Bloodline evolution progress +1. Level 0 Qilin bloodline evolution progress 6/10.]

The Qilin bloodline can be evolved by fusing special items. After activating the bloodline evolution function, 6 special items have already been fused.