I'm a proper student; I only take nine kinds of potions every day.

Chapter 178 Just an apprentice breaking through, yet three gods come to greet you!?

At this moment, Evan carefully sensed his body's condition.

Although the external forces continued to tempt them, the three extraordinary beings inside were now incredibly quiet, seemingly having completely lost their worldly desires.

Immediately afterwards, an indescribable tremor flashed by.

Ivan immediately felt himself being elevated to a higher level by some force.

It's like you, who are only one meter tall, have suddenly been stretched to two meters.

He felt that his understanding of the world was clearer and his perception of the environment was more acute.

Even the control over these three extraordinary properties has reached a completely new level.

If his previous control over extraordinary abilities was merely a matter of kneading with his hands.

Now he can tear these extraordinary properties apart and then fuse them together.

More importantly, he felt that his attributes had improved significantly!

He then opened the properties panel.

First, we saw the potion after it had been flipped.

You reversed the side effects of the Eclipse Potion.

Your self-awareness has been permanently increased by 2%.

Your endurance has been permanently increased by 1%.

You reversed the side effects of the Anti-Moon Potion.

Your physical flexibility has increased, and your constitution has been permanently increased by 0.03.

Your intuition has been permanently enhanced by 0.01%.

[The side effects of the potion chain have been reversed.]

[Special Trait: Black Sun Wings Progress +2%]

Your willpower strengthens when you see the black sun.

This is the third batch of Byron's potion effects that he recently reversed.

It's clear that Byron is quite cautious; the side effect of the unfinished potion chain was that he became confused when he saw the black sun.

This time, the side effect became a decrease in willpower.

With these two side effects combined, if you take it for a long time, you might not be able to resist the sun at all.

After seeing the effects of the potion's reversal, Ivan looked at his attribute panel.

[Constitution: 7.682→11.592]

[Spirit: 5.292→7.692]

[Vision: 8→10]

[Talent: Power of Nine Dragons]

Special Skills Panel:

[Super Self-Healing Power: Lightning Speed]

Intuition: 1.03%

[Tolerance: 48% → 51%]

Blood quality: 610.5% → 700.5%

[Blood toxicity: 312%→510%] (Note 1)

[Solar Affinity: 141% → 181%] (Moon's affinity only occurs when the sun is obscured)

Status panel:

Silver resistance: 11.5% → 19.5%

[Reactance: 20%→30%]

[Spiritual Shock: Maximum spiritual potential reduced by 80%, lasting 12 hours.]

After looking at the panel, Ivan took a deep breath.

He could feel that both his body and mind had become stronger at the same time; after becoming an expert, his physical and mental strength had increased by two points each.

Besides the attributes that can be seen on the panel, there are two other indescribable feelings.

One of them is that he seems to be able to cover up his extraordinary characteristics on something.

Another instinct seems to be the ability to separate extraordinary traits and integrate them with other extraordinary traits.

"However, the most troublesome thing right now is this spiritual shock."

"An 80% reduction in spiritual potential, wow! No wonder Hill was so vulnerable back then."

At this moment, Ivan took a closer look and realized that he was now agitated and unable to concentrate.

I always find myself uncontrollably thinking about the things I fear.

The person was in a state of extreme panic and loss of self-control.

Fortunately, his mental strength is now strong enough.

His spirituality of 7.7 allows him to maintain a relatively stable state even when he is only at 20% spirituality.

After confirming his physical condition, Evan opened his eyes.

Dr. Armitage remained standing calmly to the side.

But the moment Evan opened his eyes, he immediately felt the space around him begin to distort.

Immediately afterwards, several gazes pierced Ivan like blades, causing him to instinctively cover his head and let out a low cry.

"Holy crap! What is that?!"

This feeling is quite strange.

The feeling that Evan could barely make at this moment was probably the panic symptoms of late-stage rabies.

Even just having someone stare at him filled him with immense terror.

Just then, Ivan saw a distorted and sinister figure vaguely appear on the wall that had been normal a moment ago.

She was a somewhat hunchbacked old witch.

He wore a medieval-style turban, his face was full of wrinkles, his skin was rough and dark red, he had few teeth, and his eyes were a strange gray.

If he hadn't been mentally strong enough, he would have collapsed and fainted by now.

Because this old witch made him feel a fear that came from his very blood.

Just then, Armitage let out a cold snort.

He stepped forward and shielded Ivan behind him, then calmly said something.

"Retreat!"

The moment the sound appeared, the old witch's shadow turned into fragments on the ground and then quickly disappeared.

Before Evan could react, he immediately saw a blurry figure appear in the air.

All that could be seen of the figure was a pair of enormous bone horns, surrounded by endless gray shadows.

Ivan still felt fear when he saw this thing.

But then he remembered that he could still control some of his extraordinary abilities, so he quickly used the Fog Brain Plague to envelop his soul and will.

As the thick fog enveloped his soul, Evan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Doctor! What is this?" Ivan's voice was still trembling a little, but his pronunciation was quite normal now.

Armitage rolled her eyes at him: "You're asking me? I'd like to ask you the same thing!"

"Whose apprentice, when promoted to expert, would attract the attention of these people?"

Armitage stepped forward, changing his position to shield Ivan from behind.

With a casual wave of his hand, he took out a piece of pure white bone and muttered a few strange incantations.

As the incantation was recited, the enormous figure slowly disappeared.

But as that figure disappeared, another shadow appeared behind Ivan.

It was a blurry, chaotic entity, shaped like a pot of twisted, thick soup.

Countless things churned within it, seemingly constantly giving birth to endless life, only for that endless life to vanish in an instant.

Armitage sighed, changed direction again, and shielded Ivan behind him for the third time.

Then, as if by magic, he produced a dodecahedral crystal from somewhere and muttered a few more words in a low voice.

The thick, soup-like shadow seemed to sense the presence that He loathed, and then quickly disappeared.

But just as that thing disappeared, yet another shadow appeared behind Ivan.

It was a gaze that seemed to descend from the starry sky, and in the blur, one could see a deep gaze projected from within amber.

Because of the fog and encephalopathy, Evan did not feel much fear at this moment.

Armitage's eye began to twitch uncontrollably.

Although he appeared calm, his eyes were filled with shock.

After changing direction for the fourth time and shielding Evan behind him, the old man took out his third item.

It was a plaque made entirely of brass, with a very strange triangular mark engraved on it.

The three lines have a certain curvature, and at first glance they look a bit like a strange scorpion.

After holding the sign in his palm and reciting a few times, the last phantom image gradually disappeared.

Upon reaching this point, Evan immediately felt that the thorn in his back completely disappear.

He seemed to have been relieved of a great burden, and he lay on the ground, panting heavily.

His forehead and back were covered in sweat, which had soaked through his sharp three-piece suit.

Armitage, standing to the side, wore a strange expression on his aged face, his tone revealing a shock and bewilderment he himself was unaware of.

"What have you been up to these past few days? Just being promoted to expert level is enough to attract the attention of three gods?"

The old man sat down cross-legged, wiping his glasses with his clothes while sighing.

"I can understand if your ancestor came to see you when you broke through to the next level."

"After all, there is a blood connection between the two of you."

"But why would the sinister King of Bones cast his gaze upon you?"

After a pause, Armitage's voice became even stranger.

"It's one thing for the sinister skeletal king to cast a glance at you, after all, he is a relatively gentle Great Old One and is quite friendly to humans."

"but!"

The old man's voice noticeably rose in pitch: "Why is the black goat looking at you? What is your relationship with it? Do you know what it represents?"

Ivan swallowed hard, a sheepish smile spreading across his face. "I can't reach it!"

Armitage looked at Ivan's innocent and bewildered eyes, then put his glasses back on and continued speaking.

"I can barely understand why the Black Goat would look at you, after all, sometimes those Outer Gods do some weird things."

"Then why did you eventually catch the attention of the King in Yellow?"

"What the hell have you been doing for the past month and a half?"

"To have a superior being, two Great Old Ones, and an Outer God take turns serving you?"

The usually refined and easy-going PhD student finally couldn't hold back and swore.

Ivan sat up, revealing an expression that was both innocent and somewhat bewildered.

He raised his hand and first scratched his chin with his index finger, then raised it to scratch his forehead, and finally raised his arm to scratch the back of his head.

"PhD----"

He grinned: "Perhaps boys who smile a lot are always lucky? More likely to gain favor with the gods?"

Looking at Ivan, who still managed to put on a sunny and cheerful smile, Armitage felt his worldview being challenged.

He remained silent for several seconds, then took a deep breath and muttered to himself.

"Be optimistic—"

"Being optimistic makes it less likely to go crazy —"

Evan chuckled: "Actually, I roughly know some of the reasons."

"That King in Yellow should be related to the bronze transformation trait on me. I vaguely saw a similar scene when I activated the trait."

"As for the sinister skeleton king and the black goat you just mentioned, they should be related to my third characteristic."

"I vaguely saw their figures in the mist when I activated it."

Armitage hummed in agreement: "It's probably because your special physical condition has attracted too much of their attention."

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"That's the only explanation we can get now."

"After all, what was just presented was merely an illusory imprint of them as a reflection of this world."

At this point, Armitage suddenly remembered something and asked with a curious tone.

"I remember you have a talent for being a Bloodthirsty Clan, right? Why isn't Moon Spirit, who loves managing Bloodthirsty Clan members, here?"

Evan scratched the back of his head and laughed, "Maybe Yue Ling is just busy today. I don't know the specific reason."

Of course, he couldn't say that the reason Yue Ling didn't come today was because he had burned off Yue Ling's hair with poisonous blood last time.

Immediately noticing something interesting, Ivan quickly changed the subject: "Doctor, what do you mean by the Moon Spirit, who loves managing the Bloodthirsty Race, not showing up?"

Armitage explained, "The moon region manages all bloodthirsty species very carefully and strictly."

"After all, the moon seems to really like the Bloodthirsty race."

"Therefore, when each Bloodthirsty trait is activated, a Moon Spirit will descend and bind to the target with her hair."

"This process is somewhat similar to registering a newborn's household registration in their country of origin."

"This process signifies that you have become a child of the moon, and you will receive the protection of the moon spirit in crucial moments in the future."

Only then did Evan understand what he had experienced that day.

It turned out that Yue Ling didn't have any malicious intent; she just came to register her account.

But to his surprise, as soon as he reached into the house, his hair was burned by his enemy who was hiding inside.

"Oh, I'm so bad!" Evan thought to himself.

Armitage looked at Ivan with some surprise: "Haven't you had this experience?"

Ivan nodded: "Yes, some doctors, some."

"When it was fully activated that day, I did see the moon falling down, and then a few strands of hair made contact with my fingertips."

Armitage visibly relaxed upon hearing this, nodding and saying, "That's good."

"This means that you possess at least one extraordinary characteristic that aligns with my knowledge system."

Armitage then got up, and Ivan followed suit, stretching comfortably.

Armitage observed Ivan's current state.

There was no sign of any spiritual shock; her complexion was not only not pale but also quite rosy.

Her eyes showed no flicker or tension, only a clear and innocent glint.

"Didn't you experience a spiritual shock?"

Ivan nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice: "Yes! Doctor, didn't you see how scared I was just now?"

Armitage said somewhat strangely, "Then you look completely different from the other experts who have just been promoted."

Evan scratched his chin with his fingers, looked up at the upper left for a few seconds, and then grinned.

"Maybe it's because I'm more optimistic and cheerful."

Fog-induced encephalopathy is definitely Ivan's biggest trump card.

Based on his speculation, this thing is likely to be something that only he can control in this world, just like the copper plague.

After all, this characteristic was not obtained through conventional channels, but rather by consuming the Y virus parasite.

Under normal circumstances, no one would eat that thing.

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