At the moment when his entire body was enveloped by the power of the Divine Weapon Fragment, countless sharp forces like blades entered Jiang Hou's body, madly destroying everything.
Tearing muscles, penetrating bones, the intense pain made even his hands tremble.
However, these forces, as they destroyed Jiang Hou's muscles, also gradually integrated into his body, repairing the cells that were being destroyed.
However, the speed of repair by these forces was not even one-tenth that of the destruction.
Fortunately, Jiang Hou's physique was strong, with abundant vitality, his recovery ability barely maintained a balance with the destruction, but besides these, there was also a mental impact.
Roars of rage! In Jiang Hou's mind, darkness spread, and ferocious, sinister ghosts appeared, attacking him from all directions.
These ghosts were shapeless and intangible, unstoppable, Jiang Hou could only watch as they pounced on him.
As each ghost integrated into him, Jiang Hou's consciousness was gradually flooded with violent, crazed, ferocious negative emotions, his eyes slowly turning red.
Noticing the increasingly intense aura of madness emanating from Jiang Hou, Jiang Ruochan's expression turned grave.
"Hold on! Those illusions you're seeing now, those affecting your spiritual power, are merely the resentments of the deceased who are reluctant to leave."
"Ignore them, crush them, absolutely do not let them occupy your consciousness."
Zong Zheng Nan Mo also shouted anxiously from the side, "Jiang Hou, hang in there, you can do it, you said you'd go with me to the nightclub to watch beautiful women dance."
"Get lost, I never said that."
A low voice, filled with evil energy, slowly emerged, as Jiang Hou, wrapped in bandages, with long hair reaching his waist, opened his blood-red eyes brimming with ferocity.
With his face wrapped in white bandages, only showing a pair of eyes, Jiang Hou slowly turned his head, his long hair moving without wind, and in a low voice, he spoke to Jiang Ruochan.
"I'm fine, President, this mental impact can't affect me."
These ghost illusions, or rather the residual thoughts' impact of the Ancient Era's ghosts were indeed strong enough to drive an ordinary person mad and lead to a mental breakdown.
But to Jiang Hou, they were too weak.
Transformed into a giant beast, especially in a state of anger filled with violent rage, is dozens to hundreds of times the mental impact, only wanting to destroy everything, the entire world.
Even in such a state, he can maintain a bit of clarity during a battle with the Black Centipede Beast, let alone now.
Such strong willpower.
Watching the figure holding the slashing blade, surrounded by strands of black smoke, Jiang Ruochan was a bit surprised at the firmness of Jiang Hou's will.
"It's good that you can endure it. How is it, do you feel any conflict with other powers?"
"...I don't seem to feel any conflict." Jiang Hou closed his eyes again, enduring the intense pain, feeling all the changes happening in his body.
The power with a sharp aura entered his body, unimpeded, majestically sweeping through every corner, repeating the process of destruction, repair, and integration.
As for the anticipated conflict between the two Era Power systems, it never happened.
It was as if Jiang Hou's body had never awakened any system power, with a physique twenty times that of an ordinary person, belonging to innate divine strength, a natural evolution!
Regarding this situation, Jiang Hou could only marvel at the wondrous transformation of life.
Fortunately, the excruciating pain like a thousand cuts didn't last long, and once the Divine Weapon power completely merged into Jiang Hou's body, this integration ended.
Suddenly, a feeling of connection with the slashing blade bloodline arose, and at the same time, information from the Divine Weapon was transmitted.
Boom! An intense sound echoed in Jiang Hou's consciousness, a grand and majestic voice vaguely resounded in his mind.
[Demonic energy is overwhelming, evil ghosts fierce, I now forge the Yama Prison Demon Blade, becoming a demon myself, integrating the power of the Ten Halls Yama to suppress billions of demons, to evolve the eighteen levels of Eternal Hell]
At the same time, a transparent page that only Jiang Hou could see appeared before his eyes.
Name: Jiang Hou
Level: Mid-tier Two
Strength: 213→215
Agility: 102→125
Defense: 175
Divine Weapon: Yama Prison Demon Blade [Level One Star, Defective, Ancient Era's ancient item, nature has changed due to long-term pollution energy eroding the divinity].
Divine Weapon Power: Demon Suppression Instant Slash, instantly consumes more than 10 units of demonic energy, bursts with extreme speed, delivering a highly powerful slash, the more energy consumed, the greater the power.
Defective Inheritance: Hell Demon Suppression, all negative emotions, resentment, and remaining Power of Soul from Extraordinary Creatures slain by the Yama Prison Demon Blade will be absorbed by the Divine Weapon to condense into Hell Runes for sealing.
Each Hell Rune acquired enhances the power of the Divine Weapon, while increasing the total/max amount of demonic energy of the Master of Soldiers.
Note: Current Divine Weapon is defective, can only withstand thirty-six Hell Runes. Gathering thirty-six Hell Runes to unlock the next layer of Divine Weapon Power.
Tip: Due to long-term pollution, the nature of this Divine Weapon has changed. Prolonged possession will affect the Master of Soldiers' mental consciousness, with the risk of bloodthirsty possession.]
Demonic Energy: 83
The biggest change from this fusion with the Divine Weapon was the significant surge in agility by more than twenty points, and the acquisition of an active burst ability and a defective passive inheritance.
Especially the Hell Demon Suppression passive, which surprised Jiang Hou greatly.
To think it could absorb the negative emotions and Power of Soul from the enemies slain, seal them within, and enhance one's own power. No wonder both the blade name and cultivation technique contain a 'demon' character.
"No wonder, that voice said becoming a demon to suppress Hell!" Jiang Hou lightly exclaimed in awe.
"...What Hell?" Zong Zheng Nan Mo paused.
"I said this blade is called the Yama Prison Demon Blade."
As Jiang Hou said this, his expression turned to one of surprise, and he instinctively swung the long blade, the invisible sharpness cutting through the air, forming a visible fan-shaped rift.
But what surprised Jiang Hou wasn't the sharpness of the blade, but the lack of suppression from the world.
Earlier, he hadn't noticed, but now he realized that since the fusion with the Divine Weapon, even during the transformation he felt no suppression like when he transformed into a giant beast.
It seemed he could maintain this slaughter form until the demonic energy in his body was exhausted bit by bit.
This discovery left Jiang Hou in silence.
Finally, Jiang Hou couldn't help but look at Jiang Ruochan, hesitatingly saying, "President, since our world is said to belong to an era without demons, I seem to feel no suppression from supernatural powers."
As he spoke, Jiang Hou swung the Demon Blade.
"World suppression?" Jiang Ruochan was taken aback, not expecting him to ask this question, then slowly said.
"I didn't expect you to notice this problem, the suppression from the world does exist, but it's not aimed at us, it's aimed at the powerful monsters of the Ruins World."
"As people of the real world, even if we awaken, we still belong to the life of this world and will not be suppressed."
"Meanwhile, once the monsters from the Ruins World appear in the real world, they will be invisibly suppressed by the rules, the stronger their power, the greater the suppression, and eventually they can only retreat back to the Ruins."
"This is also the reason why in those monster invasions decades ago, we were able to repel the top-tier Demon Gods and Ancient Fierce Beasts."
"I see." Jiang Hou nodded, his face expressionless, but inside he was overwhelmed.
The transformation of life, now it all made sense, the giant beast form had already transformed into a Ruins life, thus appearing in the real world forced him back into human form.
This was also the reason why forced transformation exhaustion was so terrifying for him.
He previously thought this suppression was aimed at all Transcendents, turns out it was aimed at him 'alone.'
Lost in thought, Jiang Hou horizontally placed his right hand, his left palm pressing towards the blade tip.
Under the surprised gaze of Zong Zheng Nan Mo, the slashing blade nearly one meter six disappeared without a trace.
At the same time, the white bandages wrapping Jiang Hou, the black tattered armor, and the lush long hair all transformed into black and white light disappearing into his left palm.
The Divine Weapon, after merging with the Transcendent, could be freely deployed, similar to becoming intangible.
"Damn, this move is so cool, why isn't my ability like this?" Zong Zheng Nan Mo's face was full of envy, for men, being strong or not doesn't matter, being cool is a lifelong pursuit.