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

Although Gu Xu hasn't had time to open the panel to see the specific data yet.

However, just by the feeling his body gave him, he knew he had made a profit.

They made a fortune.

The mere mention of "Abyss Gaze has mutated" indicates that this skill is ridiculously powerful!

But let's not rush to watch it.

Gu Xu straightened up and looked around.

The entire cavity underwent extremely obvious changes after the monstrous fetus was swallowed.

First, the beating stopped.

The constant "thump thump thump" sound that had been echoing all the time fell completely silent the moment the strange fetus disappeared.

The walls of the cavity no longer contract or expand, and the fluid in the blood vessels no longer flows.

The huge space fell silent.

Then comes the color change.

The vibrant dark red on the walls began to fade, turning into a dull grayish-brown, as if someone had changed the filter of the entire space from "blood and flesh hell" to "old photos".

Those thick blood vessels began to shrink, and wrinkles appeared on their surface.

The fleshy tissue on the ground was also slowly hardening, changing from soft and elastic to a texture similar to dry, hard leather.

The entire cavity is dying.

Gu Xu stomped on the hardened ground beneath his feet to make sure the space wouldn't collapse anytime soon, then breathed a sigh of relief: "Alright, the demonic embryo has finished swallowing..."

"Now it's time to get down to business."

The important matter Gu Xu was referring to was naturally the final goal of the fourth-tier job advancement quest.

[Inscribe an ancient mark at the heart of the secret realm.]

This step is the final step in the entire job change process.

The previous steps of assimilating the core of the secret realm were obtaining the key, devouring the monstrous fetus was eliminating the hidden danger, but engraving the ancient mark was the real way to transform this secret realm from "someone else's territory" into "one's own territory".

Gu Xu didn't linger. With a thought, his figure twisted within the gray-brown cavity, and he vanished from the spot.

The next instant, he appeared in the space where he had previously found the core of the secret realm.

The red sphere remained suspended in place.

But compared to before, the color of the sphere has become purer.

Previously, it was a murky, dark red, like blood mixed with impurities.

Now it is a clear, bright red.

Without a doubt, the monstrous fetus was eliminated.

Gu Xu walked to the bottom of the sphere and looked up at the red ball that emitted a soft light.

He could sense it...

The little guy is sending him a signal that sounds like "welcome".

"OK."

Seeing this, Gu Xu chuckled, pulled his hands out of his pockets, and flexed his fingers: "Since you welcome me so warmly, then I shall accept your offer!"

"Fourth-tier job advancement, here I come!"

After saying that, he closed his eyes, and his consciousness extended from between his eyebrows, reaching towards the red ball above his head.

There were no obstacles, no rejection.

The moment consciousness touched the surface of the sphere, it was like water flowing into a sponge—it was directly absorbed.

A system notification sounded in my ear.

[Ding! Detected that the host is currently undergoing the final step of the fourth-tier job advancement—inscribing an ancient mark at the core of the secret realm.]

Assimilation progress: 1%...

Warm energy surged from the inside of the sphere, flowing back into his body along the path of his consciousness.

This feeling was completely different from when I devoured the strange fetus.

No nausea, no pain...

There's even an indescribable sense of comfort.

Five minutes later...

Assimilation progress: 2%...

The red light on the sphere began to change.

A hint of dark purple light gradually seeped into the originally pure red.

The dark purple hue was slowly spreading, like a drop of ink falling into clear water.

"Wait... this is way too slow!"

Seeing this, Gu Xu couldn't help but complain.

After all, it took a full five minutes to assimilate 1% of the progress.

If this is all assimilated!

It won't take several hours?

"Oh well... whatever! It'll be slower if it takes longer. Even though it'll delay my departure from get off work, I can ask Minister Li for more overtime pay when I'm done!"

Thinking of this, Gu Xu could only console himself.

……

Let's rewind the timeline a bit.

At the same moment that Gu Xu found the Wings of the Past and integrated those enormous fleshy wings into his body.

The Pacific Ocean.

The colorful rhombus-shaped sphere of light, suspended above the sea, finally completed its progress bar.

Change happens in an instant.

The slowly flowing seven colors on the surface of the light sphere suddenly stopped.

There was a pause of about a second, as if someone had simply unplugged a running machine.

All the waiting demigods simultaneously noticed this change.

Twenty-one pairs of eyes focused simultaneously on the sphere of light.

Then—the orb of light exploded.

An indescribable, violent expansion of energy occurred from the inside out.

"boom--!"

This sound wasn't heard by the ears, but felt by the bones throughout the body.

An energy surge erupted from the center of the sphere of light, spreading outwards at near the speed of light.

The energy is seven-colored, exactly the same as the color of the surface of the light sphere.

But its strength—is on a completely different level.

The instant the energy wave swept across the sea surface.

The seawater within a radius of thousands of kilometers was directly churned up.

Of course, this "stirring" doesn't mean creating waves.

The entire sea surface was forcibly raised more than ten meters, and then slammed back down.

Tsunami.

A tsunami spreading outwards in all directions from the center of the sphere of light.

And this is only the impact at the physical level.

What truly caused the expressions of all the demigods present to change drastically was what this energy fluctuation carried—fragments of rules.

Dense, overwhelming fragments of high-dimensional rules spread outwards along with energy fluctuations.

These rule fragments are invisible to the naked eye.

But every demigod can clearly sense their presence.

Because wherever these fragments go, the physical laws of the real world are being torn apart.

The first thing to change was the air around the sphere of light.

The air that had been pierced by the fragments of rules suddenly gained "mass"—it solidified.

Immediately afterwards, the color of the seawater began to change.

Some areas turned black, some turned silvery-white, and some became completely transparent, allowing you to see the seabed hundreds of meters deep.

Then, gravity began to become disordered, and some seawater stopped falling and instead floated upwards.

Clumps of seawater hung suspended in mid-air, as if weightless.

Without a doubt, this is the erosion of reality by the higher-dimensional secret realm.

Of course, this is nothing new.

The red and white collision in Beichuan City is a similar case.

The same applies to the Izumo Mystery Realm.

This phenomenon occurs every time the secret realm and the real world intersect.

But compared to this, the scale of the previous ones was simply child's play.