The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

In other words, it was as if Su Qiong hadn't been injured at all; she had simply taken a long nap here.

"He's alive...he's really alive!"

Zhang Xinxin gripped the edge of the bed with both hands.

The voice was so excited it was distorted.

She turned around abruptly.

He yelled at the stunned medical staff behind him, "What are you all standing there for! Come over here and check all the indicators!"

"Continue the resuscitation process! Hurry up!"

The once quiet and oppressive ward burst forth with vibrant energy once more.

Everyone returned to their workstations as quickly as possible.

The old pastor's hands shone with a probing holy light as he swept them over Su Qiong's body from top to bottom.

After concluding that there were no toxins in his body, the old man was so moved that tears streamed down his face.

The medical assistant officer quickly glanced at the screen and read out the current parameters aloud.

"Reporting to the director: heart rate 85, blood pressure 1280, temperature 36.6 degrees Celsius. All vital signs have fully returned to normal!"

After hearing these reports, Zhang Xinxin's legs went weak, and she collapsed into the chair next to her.

She gasped for breath, wiping away tears and sweat from her face.

She looked at Su Qiong, who had regained her vitality.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, as if she might open her eyes at any moment.

Zhang Xinxin couldn't help but smile.

She had no idea what extraordinary things had happened in the extremely short time since she was pronounced dead.

She didn't care about the reason.

For these doctors who snatch lives from the jaws of death.

The person has been rescued.

This is a momentous occasion.

……

The Silver Moon Realm, on the sunny side, the Silver Moon Flower Garden.

This area, which is called a flower garden, is actually despairingly vast.

Looking out, the horizon still stretches to the swaying starlight grass, each plant emitting a faint glow, making the whole field look like a dream.

Gu Xu was sitting inside the Styx Ghost Carriage at this moment.

The sedan chair door was slightly lowered, and layers of red silk fluttered gently in the wind, exuding a chilling aura that kept strangers away.

Around the sedan chair, Lei Zhen, Qin Shuyao, Tie Shan, Li Mu, and other geniuses from Shenxia were scattered in four directions.

He was excitedly clearing out the monsters that spawned all around him.

The monsters here are generally between level 50 and 55, and most of them are Silver Moon Foxes or Flower Phantoms that appear in groups.

For ordinary players, this was a perilous and deadly situation, but in front of Gu Xu's team, these monsters were as fragile as thin paper, easily punctured.

Lei Zhen wielded his warhammer, crackling with lightning, each strike taking away the life points of a large number of monsters.

He wiped the sweat from his face, glanced back at the ghost sedan chair that stood as steady as Mount Tai, and was filled with emotion.

Since following Gu Xu, he felt that his fighting logic had completely collapsed.

Before, it was like risking my life to kill monsters; now it feels like doing voluntary labor on a picnic.

Qin Shuyao's figure flashed quickly among the flowers. She was responsible for the outer perimeter guarding and finishing off enemies, her eyes occasionally falling on the ghost sedan chair.

However, Gu Xu inside the sedan chair was not as relaxed as outsiders imagined.

He was frowning slightly as he stared at his system panel.

That status icon was originally just a tiny red dot.

It has now become particularly conspicuous.

Debuff: Bloodborne Curse (Causal). Effect: Forcefully reduces all attributes by 5%.

This thing appeared abruptly after we entered the Silver Moon Flower Garden.

Initially, the increase was only about 0.1%, and Gu Xu thought it was due to the environmental suppression inherent in the Silver Moon Flower Garden. After all, it's normal for such advanced secret realms to have some targeted mechanisms.

However, as time went on, this number jumped to 5% in just half an hour.

This means that some extremely subtle force is constantly empowering him through some kind of connection.

Gu Xu muttered under his breath, "This feeling is like having a stubborn plaster stuck to my back that I can't get rid of."

He wasn't afraid of this attribute reduction, after all, his attribute values ​​from double physique and the Ancient God's Body were already off the charts, so a 5% reduction was nothing.

What truly concerns him is the source of this power.

"Wait a minute."

Before long, Gu Xu suddenly spoke, his voice coming from inside the sedan chair and reaching everyone's ears.

The group immediately stopped, efficiently finished off the remaining monsters, and gathered around the ghost sedan chair.

"General, what's wrong?"

Lei Zhen, holding the warhammer, asked in confusion.

"Check your status bar. Do you see any debuffs that reduce all your attributes?"

Gu Xu lifted the sedan curtain and immediately asked.

Everyone pulled up their personal profile screens, and after a moment, they all shook their heads in unison.

"No, I'm at full strength right now. In fact, my stats are even slightly overpowered because I just gained experience from a few elite monsters."

Tieshan patted his chest and answered in a deep, resonant voice.

"Everything is normal on my end too. Except for a 30% depletion of my mental energy, I have no other negative effects."

Qin Shuyao added.

"General, I'm the same way; there are no abnormalities or negative conditions here!"

"Reporting to the general, same!"

Immediately afterwards, the other geniuses also spoke up in unison.

Gu Xu pondered for a moment, then waved his hand: "Alright, let's continue on our way. We're still some distance from the moat, so let's speed up."

He returned to the sedan chair, but his doubts only deepened.

Is the negative buff only targeting him?

That's strange, isn't it?

But before he could figure it out, his gaze inadvertently swept over the skill bar, and he froze.

The Abyss Mouth, which had just devoured Augustus not long ago and should have entered a long 24-hour cooldown period, was now emitting a faint purple light.

Cooling complete?

These four words seemed so absurd on the system interface.

Gu Xu stared at the icon and refreshed it several times.

That's right, it's not a display error, it really refreshed.

"What's going on?"

Gu Xu tilted his head, his eyes full of confusion.

This feeling is like a phone that's clearly out of power and turned off.

It suddenly popped up on its own, as if saying that it had plenty of power.

It's so outrageous that it makes you wonder if I'm hallucinating because I'm not fully awake.

What happened?

Even in his divine state, the cooldown reduction is not enough to refresh the 24-hour skill in less than an hour.

Moreover, he has not yet activated [Divine Transformation].

At this moment, that inexplicable sense of familiarity resurfaced in Gu Xu's mind.

"Which bigwig is helping me fix the match?"

Gu Xu leaned back in his chair, his eyes gleaming.

Instead of feeling relaxed, he felt a faint sense of crisis.

If there truly exists a power in this world capable of manipulating cause and effect and rules so easily, then this so-called "Lord of the Old Ones" is probably far from being one.