Otherworldly Desert Dust

"Little Yu, it was big brother’s fault for speaking too loudly before. Don’t take it to heart, put the bow down, put the bow down," Wu Hen hurriedly said.

Yu Yu put down the pink heavy bow and arrow, but the next second she seemed like a completely different person. Tearfully and fearfully, she threw herself into Wu Hen’s arms, looking nothing like the elf girl from a moment ago.

Wu Hen looked at the little head buried in his chest and was at a loss for words.

Shooting through someone’s eye worm was such a violent act, yet it had nothing to do with gentle Yu Yu, right? That wasn’t the sweet little sis?

After comforting her for a while, Yu Yu finally calmed down.

Wu Hen walked towards the deceased eye pattern man and saw the two white pupil worms protruding from the back of his head.

At that moment, a strong sensation came from Wu Hen’s right hand, as if it had grown a mouth and was craving this high-protein treat.

"You must be really hungry, huh? So disgusting and yet..." Wu Hen was feeling helpless.

He reluctantly extended his palm, and immediately a phantom emerged, like a ravenous little Witch Dragon, it opened its mouth and swallowed the two pupil worms in one gulp.

Wu Hen was quite familiar with this scene. Back at the Juezhen cliff, it disguised itself as a bolt of lightning and took a bite out of his Yuan You. If it hadn’t for that, Little Yi would still be wandering in the sky, starving!

"Talking about that, didn’t you also eat Zai Wu? Such a powerful being must be a great supplement to you. Why still care about these small fry?" Wu Hen was puzzled.

To make Wu Hen understand more clearly, Little Yi suddenly split into two different energy streams—one black void and one blue-white—the same black and white lightning state that had once divided the Juezhen.

The black void swiftly moved past Wu Hen, swimming freely until it reached his left arm.

When Wu Hen looked at his left arm, he saw a rather divine sword mark—the Holy Father Black Divine Death Sword!

Meanwhile, in Wu Hen’s right hand, another substance appeared, resembling white lightning Bai Ze. Sometimes it took the form of an elemental weapon pistol, and other times it became the compound bow from earlier...

Due to swallowing the two white pupil worms, Wu Hen noticed that the substance in his right hand started to show fungal filament-like material, making his entire arm seem mutated, covered in a layer of white frost from the inside out!

Wu Hen couldn’t help but marvel at the sight.

"Are you twins?" Wu Hen immediately communicated with the symbiotic miracle within him.

He looked at the Black Divine Death Sword in his left hand and said, "Is this the Holy Father?"

Then he looked at the lively, shapeshifting substance on his right, "And this is Little Yi?"

Suddenly, the energies in both his hands rapidly surged into Wu Hen’s chest, merging together and forming a yin-yang exchange shape. Black void and Bai Ze as if they were inherently one, inseparable!

"I think I understand now. You are divided into yin and yang. Yin is ever-changing, consuming what it morphs into; yang is the domineering spirit of the unchanging Death Sword!"

In fact, he now controlled two types of power. One was basic skills, where the right hand could absorb specific materials and transform them into corresponding weapons.

The other was the ultimate body secret, mostly in a state of dormancy and recuperation, not responsible for hunting or wandering, but showing holiness and vanquishing when beings like Zai Wu appeared.

"Alright, from now on, the Holy Father will rest in the left hand, and Little Yi, you’ll stay in the right hand, so your master doesn’t get confused and just attack every Desert Dust Heavenly Pride with his right hand!" Wu Hen said.

Little Yi didn’t seem to mind and attached his Black Divine Yang Body to Wu Hen’s left hand.

Seeing the Holy Father Death Sword in his left hand, Wu Hen felt immensely secure; he had thought he was completely cut off from the Holy Father. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Having it inside him was reassuring.

"How much nutrition can these little protein balls provide you with?" Wu Hen asked Little Yi.

Little Yi didn’t want to be underestimated and immediately exuded its holy Bai Ze after consuming the white pupil worms. A material resembling Xuan Fungus Crystal Silk appeared on Wu Hen’s arm, quickly covering his entire right arm into White Luminous Armor...

This bizarre transformation was far superior to the eye pattern man’s fungal filament wrap, making Wu Hen’s arm look like a Radiant Crystal Mystic Arm!!

Seeing this, Wu Hen instantly thought of the eye pattern man’s sharp ice spikes.

With a thought, he shouted childishly, "Qilin Arm, manifest!"

Sure enough, fungal filament rapidly grew on his palm, transforming into a white ice spike in no time, as hard as star steel and as cold as otherworldly frost!

It truly had the dominance of a white Qilin arm!

"Block!"

Wu Hen shifted again, and the fungal filament on his arm savagely grew in front of his chest, instantly forming a White Radiant Chest Armor that covered his torso.

Wu Hen was elated at the sight.

The power of his right hand was perfectly in tune with his will, a flawless force under his control.

Most importantly, it could grow alongside him!

"Impressive, Little Yi!"

"I know the power of the left hand Death Sword is too strong, and it’s still a bit challenging for my current spiritual strength to control, but I will work hard to become stronger. We will make all Desert Dust creatures bow beneath us!"

He thought that returning home would just be to reassure the family.

Unexpectedly, he also gained a Qilin arm; it was truly awesome!

...

The warehouse fire finally caught the attention of the slow-witted white-collar workers and the Black Shirt Organization members.

By the time they went to extinguish the fire, Wu Hen and Yu Yu had already taken advantage of the chaos to slip out of the mall.

The two returned to the air-raid shelter. Sure enough, in the dim underground passage, Wu Hen had no memory of how to navigate the original route.

Without the fierce girl Yu Yu leading the way, Wu Hen would take one or two days just to find his way home!

"Why do you keep rubbing your nose? Is it uncomfortable?" Wu Hen asked.

Yu Yu shook her head. Maybe her rhinitis acted up again; the air quality in the air-raid shelter wasn’t great.

"Never thought a little girl like you could be so useful in a pinch. That scene where you incinerated the eye worm was epic. If I recorded it, I’d loop it on your wedding day at the ceremony!" Wu Hen said.

Yu Yu was actually not in good spirits. Even though she knew the man was a monster, she still shot someone in the head with an arrow!

She used to never harm any small creatures, except for mosquitoes, flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, little spiders, locusts...

In short, she broke the vow of not killing, and felt extremely uncomfortable.

This outrageous brother kept bringing it up on the way, breaking Yu Yu’s defenses repeatedly.

Utterly fed up, Yu Yu ran to the front of Wu Hen, walking backward while using sign language to express her anger, so furious she looked like a female Fire Shadow sealing.

"Hey, why do you think that thing wanted to destroy the pharmacy?" Wu Hen finally got a bit serious and discussed the issue with his sister,

"You love reading mystery novels, right? Analyze it for me."

"It seems clear that there’s a group of people responsible for destroying all the medicines in the city... If I were an alien, eagerly destroying all the medicines of a city, there would be only one purpose, to spread a virus throughout the city!" Yu Yu analyzed.

"That’s the same conclusion I reached." Wu Hen nodded.

Yu Yu felt a bit let down, hoping for some praise from her brother.

"The question is, why would they do that? If they make everyone in the city sick, what do they gain from it? Don’t they also want to stay alive?" Wu Hen still couldn’t figure that out.

Even mutants would have to live in human habitats.

"Unless they come from Desert Dust," Yu Yu immediately said.

"That’s what I was thinking too," Wu Hen nodded again, agreeing with his sister’s analysis. "How did they infiltrate? Nuwa God End couldn’t be just open, without any firewalls, right?"

The Holy Father’s dormancy was real.

Nuwa God End cutting off Wu Hen’s connection to the Black Divine Death Sword was also real.

Could the Desert Dust creatures really descend upon this human habitat?

Or was the divide between this world and reality getting increasingly blurred?

...

Back at the Tropical Pavilion, in their private chamber.

Yu Yu immediately began searching for medicines to treat their father Wu Yingting’s wounds.

Their mother Yu Yi had already prepared food, allowing Wu Hen to feast heartily.

During the meal, Little Yi also enjoyed it, feeling that this way it could slightly replenish its needed energy. What was this principle? It might just be the joy of devouring meals.

Though the space was small, being together with family made Wu Hen very content.

Wu Yingting didn’t know much about the Desert Dust, but he knew that most Spirit Awakeners among humanity were drafted, and the authorities were also actively seeking out wild Spirit Awakeners.

"Take the school, for example; with order maintenance personnel around, among thousands of students, there will definitely be a few Spirit Awakeners. They will be taken, while the remaining people, including those who are unconscious, might be left to fend for themselves." Wu Yingting said.

Wu Hen nodded, understanding that the authorities were likely seeking those useful to Nuwa God End. If the Divine Realm couldn’t be defended, everyone would be doomed!

"I also heard the spiritual sense is like a little elf. They are invisible but tend to transfer to people with strong adaptability and response capabilities in harsh environments. So to become a Spirit Awakener or to get stronger, you need to frequently clash and fight with those Desert Dust creatures." Wu Yingting said.

"Achoo~" At that moment, Yu Yu sneezed.

Wu Hen’s gaze involuntarily fell on Yu Yu, noticing her nose was quite red.

When he had killed the eye pattern man, apart from his fungal filament ability, he seemed to possess a highly developed sense of smell...

He remembered back then, after killing the "handsome and graceful," he gained their hearing, which matched Wu Yingting’s and his own theory that "spiritual senses choose strong hosts."

Now, his sister Yu Yu, being a mute, was naturally sensitive to smells. After enduring such a battle, she was now frequently showing signs of nasal discomfort...

"Little Yu, focus. Can you smell which bag I packed my underwear in? When we escaped home, it was so rushed I forgot where I put my close-fitting clothes?" Wu Hen raised an eyebrow and tested Yu Yu.

Sure enough, Yu Yu transformed back into the young female Fire Shadow!

Whether she had awakened a spiritual sense or not was unclear, but she was about to complete an Earth Explosive Celestial Star.