The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

Shen Ge's consciousness was being torn apart and crushed, enduring unimaginable pain, as if he would be completely ripped to pieces at any moment.

But his gaze was unusually gloomy.

“Finally I got fooled.”

Shen Ge deliberately exposed a weakness to lure the "Prophet" into making a move, and the "Prophet" was even more impatient than he had imagined.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Faced with two delicious "cakes," if she can successfully swallow them, she will surely be able to complete the final task and become a "god-like" being in this sea area.

Since Shen Ge discovered that the prophet's "holy water" was a concentrated form of supernatural energy, he had already equated her with a monster, so how could he not be on guard?

Although Shen Ge cannot use the power of his special abilities and the Ghost Domain, the Primordial Ghost Cells will not lose their effectiveness due to "sleep".

Even a sleeping elephant is still an elephant.

Shen Ge deliberately feigned weakness to make the "prophet" think it was the best time to strike, but he was just trying to lure the other party into the competition.

"Let's witness the true 'devouring'!" Shen Ge's gaze darkened. These two were both trying to devour him, and he wanted to see who would devour whom in the end.

No matter how big the mouths of the "Prophet" and "Sample One" are, can they defeat the ancestor's bizarre "devouring"?
When the "Prophet" attempted to devour Shen Ge, it was astonished to find that the opponent's treacherous energy was like an invincible black hole, as if an invisible giant mouth had opened in the endless darkness, swallowing her whole with endless hunger and pleasure.

In that instant, Shen Ge even felt that the entire "world" had disappeared, as if the progenitor's strange cells wanted to devour not only the "prophet," but the entire world.

"Do not!!!"

The "Prophet's" originally lofty and wise spiritual entity, full of calculation, was as fragile as a piece of paper thrown into a shredder in front of the progenitor's bizarre cells, crushed and decomposed in an instant.

During the engulfment of the progenitor's bizarre cells, Shen Ge saw the past of the "prophet," a failed product born from an experiment that fused the genes of the bizarre and the old humans, struggling to survive for hundreds of years in solitude.

She parasitizes the giant tortoise's corpse, drawing power from it while painfully resisting assimilation and struggling to maintain her sense of self.

Her almost insane obsession with evolution and escaping fate... all of this was being coldly chewed, absorbed, and digested by the progenitor's bizarre cells.

All her wisdom, planning, and power ultimately amounted to nothing more than a trivial "evaluation"—

[Has absorbed the "Artificial Weird Sequence 19" mind control gene module... Quality: Medium... Can be optimized... Absorption complete.]

The system's long-lost voice rang in Shen Ge's mind.

"Hey, old friend, long time no see." Shen Ge was in a great mood, but unfortunately the system didn't have the intelligence of Xiao Qi, otherwise the two of them could have chatted for a while.

The system's reawakening also meant that the progenitorous strange cells in Shen Ge's body became active again, and the empty "strange energy" gradually began to recover.

And after the "prophet" comes the so-called "sample number 1".

This chaotic, out-of-control sample didn't even have the will to resist when faced with the progenitor's bizarre cellular "devouring".

It was more like meeting the king who was the source of its bloodline, instinctively offering up everything it had.

[Has devoured the "Artificial Weird Sequence 18" homologous mental pollution gene module... Quality: Inferior (damaged)... Has optimization value... Absorption complete].

[Old Era Technology Information Database (Incomplete)... Quality: Extremely Low... Can be used as a database to fill... Absorption Complete]

……

On the deck of "Ark One".

Alai, Ellie, Moya, Kyle, and Roca were surrounding the motionless figure at the bow of the ship, their faces filled with fear.

Just now, Shen Ge's body suddenly began to tremble violently, and bright red blood seeped from all seven orifices. He was like an overcharged battery, with black veins flashing under his skin, looking as if he might "explode" at any moment.

The eerie "silent" area that had enveloped the area ahead also flickered and distorted violently at the same time, and finally disappeared completely, accompanied by a silent lament.

The dense fog began to dissipate at an unprecedented speed.

Meanwhile, the followers of the "prophet" in the "temple" on the turtle's back collapsed to the ground like puppets without strings, their eyes extinguished, turning them into true walking corpses.

The "Prophet's" exquisitely beautiful body, like a plant drained of its moisture, withered and disintegrated rapidly, eventually turning into a pile of lifeless white powder.

None of them knew what was happening.

All they knew was that it was all over.

Alai reached out her trembling hand, wanting to touch Shen Ge's face, yet fearing he would shatter like a phantom. Tears silently streamed down her deep blue eyes.

However, just as her fingertips were about to touch Shen Ge's skin...

Shen Ge's eyes suddenly opened.

His left eye, still the same deep, night-like black, was now calmer and more reserved than ever before.

His right eye, however, turned into a dark gold color that was indescribable, a mixture of countless subtle data streams!

That eye held no human emotion whatsoever, only absolute rationality and indifference, like an ultimate biological computer indifferently analyzing everything before it.

The eerie eye had merged with his "right eye".

His gaze swept over everyone, and Alai and the others immediately felt as if they had been completely seen through, from their genes to their souls, as if there were no secrets left to them.

"I...I'm fine," Shen Ge said slowly, her voice a little hoarse.

He stood up, and his body emitted a series of cracking sounds as his bones popped.

Each sound represents a part of his body undergoing a microscopic, earth-shattering reorganization and evolution.

The strength of a seventh-tier Ghost King is such that he could withstand a nuclear bomb with his bare body.

Shen Ge looked at his hands, and an unprecedented sense of power, as if he were in complete control, filled every cell of his body.

With a thought, a piece of alloy plate that had been torn off during the earlier incident on the deck defied gravity and slowly floated up, decomposing and reassembling in mid-air into any shape he desired.

The transparent hand formed by the "invisible" characteristic allows him to "summon" from any point in his field of vision without even needing to spread out his domain.

Even more powerful is his dark golden right eye. In his vision, the supernatural energy of the entire world has nowhere to hide, and he can even penetrate the dissipating supernatural fog to see the temple on the giant tortoise's back.

He glanced at the distant tortoise shell and calmly "read" that the "prophet's" life information had been completely reset to zero.

He slowly turned his head, his gaze fixed on the endless sea. The mist had completely dissipated, revealing a cloudless, azure sky and a clear sea, as well as the enormous, moving island and the carcass of a giant tortoise in the distance.

On the deck of "Ark One," Alai and the others stared at the enormous, mountain-like tortoise corpse and the bizarre structures atop it, their eyes still etched with shock and lingering fear. But when their gaze returned to Shen Ge, that fear transformed into a sense of relief.

"Kyle, Roca, prepare to dock." Shen Ge's voice snapped everyone out of their daze.

"Brother? We...we have to go back?" Kyle asked, puzzled. In his mind, that place was filled with ominous signs.

"Ah."

Shen Ge nodded, his dark golden right eye sweeping over the lifeless tortoise shell: "'The Prophet' is dead, but what she left behind... might be useful to us. That place is now an unclaimed treasure trove."

Under Shen Ge's command, "Ark No. 1" turned around and carefully approached the edge of the giant tortoise carcass again.

This time, when the ship docked next to the giant tortoise carcass, there were no more tentacle-like threads wrapping around the bottom, clearly indicating that it was the "prophet's" doing the work.

When they stepped onto this "land" made of tortoise shells again, they were no longer greeted by the oppressive silence of before, but by utter chaos and madness.

Without the suppression of the "prophet's" daily "hymns," the "survivors" on the periphery, who were already struggling on the verge of madness, were completely devoured by the strange energy within their bodies and in their environment.

They completely lost their last vestiges of humanity, transforming into true monsters driven only by bloodlust. Hisses, tearing sounds, and the crunching of bones echoed throughout their former settlement.

A primal and bloody battle of fratricide is unfolding.

Alai and Ellie turned pale and instinctively gripped their weapons tighter.

Shen Ge's expression remained unchanged. His dark golden right eye swept indifferently across this hellish landscape, as if watching a farce that had nothing to do with him.

"Follow me."

Instead of taking a detour, he led everyone straight toward the "deeper parts".

A monster that had just killed its companion and whose body was half-manified noticed them, a group of "fresh flesh and blood," and roared as it pounced.

Kyle and Roca immediately assumed fighting stances, but they hadn't had a chance to make a move yet.

Shen Ge didn't even glance at the monster; he simply raised his hand casually.

An invisible, immense force descended instantly, and the monster froze in mid-air, as if an unseen giant hand had gripped its neck.

The next moment, amidst a chilling sound of bones shattering, its body was forcibly squeezed and twisted, and finally, with a "poof," it exploded into a blurry mass of flesh and blood.

[Whether to devour the "Second-Order Monster".]

As expected of a strange person, upon hearing the system's familiar voice, Shen Ge chose "Yes" without hesitation.

[Has consumed the "Artificial Bizarre Sequence 23 (Mutant)" gene module... Quality: Extremely low... No value for inclusion...]

As Shen Ge moved forward, any monsters that dared to approach were instantly crushed, torn apart, or ignited by various invisible forces at a distance of ten meters from them.

Taking this opportunity, he tried out all his "characteristic" abilities. Apart from having some difficulty maintaining the Ghost Domain, he could use individual characteristic abilities without any problems.

The key point is that after this absorption of the "Prophet", the system seems to have been repaired to the eighth level, and it may soon usher in the eighth-level transformation!
Furthermore, Shen Ge's special abilities have undergone some changes, making his control more precise and his application more extensive than before.

The four siblings, Alai, who followed behind him, went from being nervous at first, to shocked, and finally, only numb awe remained.

Is this his true power?
It was as if the silent, reliable man who occasionally showed his prowess on the island was... just an insignificant tip of this iceberg.

When they returned to the "temple" built of white ribs and resembling a church dome, it was already deathly silent.

The two "pure" guards at the entrance, who once brought them immense pressure, are now, like the believers outside, two soulless, standing silently.

Shen Ge ignored them and went straight in, lifting the curtain woven from jellyfish tentacles.

The interior of the temple was even more empty than he had imagined. The enormous "eye" in the dome had completely lost its light, turning into a huge, grayish-white "cataract." The corpses of more than a dozen white-robed believers lay scattered haphazardly on the ground.

On the platform built of skulls, only a pile of white powder drifted in the wind, the last trace left by the "prophet" in this world.

Shen Ge ignored the corpses and walked straight to the platform, his dark golden right eye scanning the spot where the "Prophet" had been kneeling.

In his field of vision, most of the strange energy reactions had disappeared, but below the platform, there was an extremely weak yet extremely stable energy node that was slowly operating.

He stretched out his hand, which appeared to be empty, but was enveloped by an invisible force.

A large, transparent hand easily pierced through the hard, bony platform and reached down. With a "crack," a "box" made of the translucent skull of some unknown creature was forcefully pulled out from under the platform.

Upon opening the "box," instead of gold and silver treasures, dozens of extremely thin, crystal-like armor plates were found. Each plate was inscribed with densely packed information in an extremely complex, inhuman script.

"This is..." Alai and Ellie couldn't understand it, only feeling that the words themselves carried a dizzying magic.

Shen Ge examined this information and found some clues among the incomprehensible words.

【Weeping Trench】, 【Skeleton Throne】, 【Eye of the Storm】, 【Nest of the Giants】... These names, filled with ominous and deathly auras, mark this sea as an absolute "forbidden zone".

In a far corner of the nautical chart, there was a place marked by the "prophet" with a complex symbol that mixed desire and fear.

That place is called—[The Lighthouse].

Besides the nautical chart, the plaques also recorded the "prophet's" understanding of the world. She mentioned a word—"scavenger."

It is an extremely terrifying being that actively hunts down high-level anomalies and powerful monsters, and devours their core of anomaly energy.

The reason the "prophet" hides in this mist is largely to avoid being hunted by this creature.

“I see…” Shen Ge took in all the information: “This world is more ‘lively’ than I imagined.”

He carefully collected all the armor plates; this intelligence was of immeasurable value.

"Let's go."

Shen Ge stood up: "Everything that needed to be packed up has been packed up here."

"Wait, brother."

Roca, who had been silent all along, suddenly pointed to something in the corner of the temple and asked, "Those things...aren't we taking them with us?" (End of Chapter)