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

But at the very last moment before they closed—

boom!

An energy pulse erupted from the core of the monstrous fetus.

The pulse came without warning but was extremely powerful; at that moment, the entire cavity felt as if it had been kicked hard from the inside.

The fleshy tissue on the wall bulged outwards by a large section.

Visibly, the blood vessels on the top of his head were shaken wildly, and purplish-black blood splattered all over the ground.

The mouth of the abyss was forcefully pushed open by this pulse.

"Yo ho!"

Seeing this, Gu Xu raised an eyebrow: "So unreasonable? Just let me eat it, why are you resisting when you're about to die?"

Of course, although he said that, he was still a little surprised.

A false god seed that has not yet fully hatched.

How could it withstand the devouring power of the abyss's maw head-on?

You should know...

The Abyss's Mouth is a concept-level skill.

Being able to deflect a conceptual skill shows that this thing is indeed quite something.

And after that huge ball of flesh unleashed that pulse...

The frequency of the jumps became extremely unstable.

It was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, like an engine idling while leaking oil, and cracks appeared on the surface of the tire membrane.

Clearly, that last burst of damage had taken a toll on it as well.

Gu Xu watched this unfold, and a slight smile played on his lips: "Fine, you can bounce it off once."

"Let me try again, will you still be able to bounce back?"

He raised his right hand again.

But this time, he did not rush to unleash the Maw of the Abyss.

Because the strange fetus reacted faster than he expected.

At the very moment Gu Xu raised his hand, the humanoid silhouette curled up inside the amniotic sac—

He suddenly opened his eyes.

Those eyes had no pupils and no whites.

His entire eye socket was filled with a murky, dark red.

It looked like two pools of half-congealed pus and blood.

But the moment those eyes opened...

Gu Xu felt as if he had been hit in the head with a sledgehammer.

"Buzz—!"

A force more ferocious than all the previous mental shockwaves combined pierced through his skull.

It hit him in the head.

The force of this strike—it was no longer a test.

It's risking your life.

Clearly, this thing also knew that its previous pulse had managed to open the mouth of the abyss.

But it also revealed their true intentions.

It lacked the strength for a second, equally large-scale outbreak, so it chose another path—a desperate counterattack.

You want to eat me?

Then I'll first turn your brain into a complete mess!

Gu Xu's body stiffened for a moment.

What exploded in my mind wasn't pain, but a chaotic jumble of information.

Countless distorted images, piercing noises, and fragmented text symbols flooded into his consciousness like a burst dam.

This method of attack is extremely vicious.

It doesn't rely on physical damage or energy impact.

It targets information pollution, directly feeding your brain with garbage data.

It's like feeding your mind until it can't process it all, until your mental core is overloaded and collapses.

If someone else were here, even a demigod-level professional, they would be severely injured if they survived such an attack.

After all, a severe mental breakdown is no joke; at best, it can cause immediate unconsciousness and loss of mobility, and at worst, it can turn one into a vegetable or an idiot!

Unfortunately, Gu Xu was clearly not buying it.

The confusion in my mind lasted only a moment.

Then, Gu Xu's lips twitched slightly.

The Realm of Calamity.

Increase power.

Centered on him, the surrounding space instantly went into operation, and the black mist of the Calamity Domain surged out from his body, filling the entire cavity within a second.

"Buzz~!"

In an instant, the mental shockwave collided with the rule barrier of the Calamity Domain.

Those chaotic torrents of information, those distorted images and noises, upon contact with the black fog—

Everything shattered.

It was like a glass wall crashing head-on into a mountain.

It was completely shattered.

The monstrous fetus's murky, dark red eyes trembled violently at that moment.

The humanoid outline inside the amniotic sac seemed to want to gather spiritual energy again, but it was too late.

Because the Mouth of the Abyss has returned.

This time, Gu Xu didn't give it any chance to breathe.

The giant mouth emerged from the crack more than twice as fast as the first time.

The suction in the mouth was so strong that it caused the entire cavity to collapse inward.

The fleshy tissue on the wall was sucked until it was stringy.

The blood vessels were sucked until they ruptured.

The ground was sucked in and dented.

The strange fetus did not spring open again.

The mouth of the abyss closed.

"Snap—!"

It was accompanied by a crisp sound.

The dark red fleshy ball, along with the translucent amniotic membrane on the outside, and the humanoid silhouette curled up inside.

It was all swallowed in one gulp.

The moment the devouring was complete, the abyss's maw transformed into a cloud of black mist and dissipated into the void.

And just in time, the system notification sounded in Gu Xu's ear.

[Ding! The Maw of the Abyss has successfully devoured!]

[Target: Izumo Mystic Embryo (Seed of a False God/Parasitic)]

[Absorption complete! Initiating proportional conversion of target attributes...]

[Conversion complete!]

[Special feedback detected—Because the target of the devoured food is a "Seed of False God," the high-dimensional information flow contained within its origin is catalyzing a qualitative change in the host's abilities!]

[Skill 1 [Abyssal Gaze] has mutated!]

[Mission Objective 2: Abyssal Hunting - Completed!]

The notification sounds exploded one after another, like a barrage of firecrackers popping in my head.

But Gu Xu had no interest in looking at it right now.

Because he was bent over, his hands supporting his knees, and his face was pale.

"vomit--"

He gagged.

Then there was another sound.

"vomit--!"

However, Gu Xu didn't vomit anything.

After all, he had been in the secret realm for quite some time, and the food he ate had long been digested.

But that overwhelming feeling of nausea was very real.

It tastes awful.

It tastes absolutely awful.

He swore he had never tasted anything so disgusting in his life.

How can I describe that taste?

It's basically just mixing rotten eggs, moldy tofu, leftover fish entrails, and rags that have been soaking in the sewer for who knows how long, all together.

Then, the taste after taking it out of the microwave after heating it for thirty minutes.

"vomit--"

Gu Xu gagged again, straightened up, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.

His expression looked like he'd just eaten a bowl of rice mixed with flies.

"I'm speechless..."

He paused, took a few deep breaths, and forcibly suppressed the surging nausea: "Is this what the offspring of a false god tastes like? It's not much different from a thesis defense, is it?"

They said that, but their bodies told a different story.

The attribute transformation brought about by devouring the strange fetus has been completed, and a warm energy is slowly flowing through his body.

It penetrates into every blood vessel and every muscle.