As soon as these words were spoken, Jiang Ye heard the shadow phantom let out a light, mocking scoff.

Although the shadow phantom had no facial features.

The look it gave him right now should have been filled with contempt.

“Do you think that Blood Realm Worm is my method of controlling mutants?”

“So by forcibly removing it during the mutation process, you can mutate without bearing any effects related to me?”

Sigh.

Jiang Ye had indeed been thinking exactly that.

But he couldn’t just admit it directly, could he?

However, this slightly awkward expression was basically no different from admitting it.

The shadow phantom didn’t need to wait for his answer before snorting lightly again:

“Then I can clearly tell you—you’re overthinking it!”

“A mutation without the Blood Realm Worm absolutely cannot succeed!”

“Which means, your clone will instantly die the moment the heart returns!”

The shadow phantom spoke with absolute certainty.

Yet Jiang Ye’s innocent face clearly displayed six big characters: Really? I don’t believe it.

“……”

This damn expression of his made the shadow phantom…

Its non-existent mouth corner seemed to twitch.

After a moment of silence, the shadow phantom seemed to rein in its mockery and said in a reasonable tone:

“If you don’t believe me, you can test it with one clone.”

It said this casually.

After all, when the chubby guy had invited Jiang Ye’s clone to mutate earlier, Jiang Ye had clearly hesitated and been quite unwilling.

As if he cared deeply about his clones.

But now…

He directly blurted out without hesitation: “Alright!”

“……”

The shadow phantom was speechless again, thinking to itself that this definitely failed experiment was purely a waste of time.

However, considering the chubby guy’s attitude toward Jiang Ye…

The shadow phantom hesitated for a moment before looking at the chubby guy.

The chubby guy shrugged indifferently: “Anyway, even one strictly procedure-following experiment has quite a high failure probability.”

“Then let’s just consider this the first experiment already failed.”

Since he said so, the shadow phantom had no choice but to agree and cooperate with Jiang Ye on this inevitably failed experiment.

Thus, the following procedure was quite similar to when Salvation’s mecha mutated.

Since the mutation process required removing the heart, Jiang Ye selected a dark-type clone with the [Flesh Weaving] Glyph Pattern Ability.

Quite heartachingly gave 1000 strands of hair.

After that, the shadow phantom summoned the water pool, threw the hair into the pool.

Then next, handed over the heart…

This process had one very obvious difference from when Salvation’s mecha mutated—

During Salvation’s first mutation, the mist-like monsters in the water pool seemed to greatly despise his black, corrupted heart.

Only after the shadow phantom added “ingredients” did the mist-like monsters obediently invade.

During Salvation’s second mutation, the shadow phantom didn’t add “ingredients,” yet the mist-like monsters actively invaded Salvation’s heart.

But that “active invasion” state was completely ordinary.

When it came to Jiang Ye’s mutation this time…

Those mist-like monsters emerging from the water pool to invade his heart moved with obviously excessive speed.

If these mist-like monsters had expressions…

Then from their extremely fast speed, it wasn’t hard to see they might be frantically competing!

This detail seemed to indicate—

Jiang Ye’s clone heart was more popular with those mist-like monsters than Salvation’s heart?

The shadow phantom clearly noticed this point too.

But it didn’t seem to pay too much attention to it.

After the mist-like monsters completed their invasion.

It directly took out that Blood Realm Worm that had emerged from the heart.

Before Jiang Ye could use True Sight Eye again to see clearly…

They saw the shadow phantom directly crush that Blood Realm Worm to death!

A cloud of blood mist quickly dissipated into the air in the form of steam.

Then, the shadow phantom handed the heart back to Jiang Ye, adding an extra warning:

“See clearly? That Blood Realm Worm was crushed to death by me, it’s not in your heart anymore.”

“Now, as I said—reinstall this heart, and you will definitely die without doubt!”

Jiang Ye thought to himself: That’s not necessarily true.

First, he might not actually die.

Second, even if he died, he still had Clone Sacrifice to take the hit.

At most he’d lose more hair.

And he had already prepared quite a few mirrored clones as tool clones for Clone Sacrifice.

Even if it really reached “definitely die without doubt” to the point Clone Sacrifice couldn’t handle it…

Then at worst, he’d just abandon this clone.

Even before abandoning this clone, he could try another Clone Swapping.

Swap the mutation clone with a mirrored clone, see if he could replicate Xiao Hei’s type of mutation from mirrored clone to darkened clone.

Anyway, he was quite looking forward to this experiment.

Almost without hesitation, he stuffed that heart that looked unchanged to the naked eye back into the chest cavity.

Visibly, a small red dot appeared at his heart’s location.

Previously when Yu Mo was in the “mutation latency period,” he also had such small red dots on his body.

And because he directly met the mutation conditions…

The moment the heart returned, Jiang Ye’s entire body felt an intense heat flowing from the heart’s location throughout his whole body!

This feeling was too hot!

It was like running a deadly marathon in the desert during the hottest summer!

Normal people in this state would absolutely get heatstroke or even die instantly!

But surprisingly, Jiang Ye still had some vague consciousness.

Clearly—

He didn’t trigger Clone Sacrifice!

Meaning this clone that was supposed to be judged as “definitely die without doubt” didn’t directly die!

As the heat surged and progressed, steam began emerging from this clone’s pores!

Jiang Ye only felt like all the blood in his body had been melted by the heat!

He even seriously suspected that the emerging steam wasn’t steam at all, but the blood from his body!

This feeling was too uncomfortable, too terrifying!

It felt like he could really die at any moment!

And it was that kind of death beyond death, possibly even beyond what “Clone Sacrifice” could save him from!

During this most painful process, the shadow phantom watched coldly from the side and even sneered:

“Though, quite persistent.”

Seeming like praise, but actually clearly mocking Jiang Ye’s overestimation of himself and self-inflicted suffering.

Yet in the blink of an eye, the shadow phantom’s sneer froze on its face!

Visibly, the entire shadow phantom froze!

If it had facial features, then its expression right now would undoubtedly be indescribable shock!

They saw that the water pool that hadn’t been dismissed by the shadow phantom actually produced another batch of mist-like monsters!

And this time’s mist-like monsters seemed even more fanatical, even more insane, scrambling to emerge from the water pool, directly charging toward the steam-emitting Jiang Ye to invade!

What truly shocked the shadow phantom was—

In just the blink of an eye, as more mist-like monsters invaded…

The steam emerging from around Jiang Ye actually changed from its original misty white color to blood red!

Blood-colored steam looked like blood mist.

The shadow phantom could no longer restrain itself and directly let out an exclamation:

“This??! How is this possible?!”

“So many little monsters… how could there still be blood seeping out?!”

Beyond shocked, it seemed to quickly ponder something.

Then, the shadow phantom waved its hand grandly, actually summoning another water pool.

Previously Jiang Ye had wondered whether the water pools from Salvation’s two mutations were the same one.

Now it seemed clearly not.

This shadow phantom seemed to possess quite a few of these monster-raising water pools.

After summoning the new water pool, it hurriedly said to Jiang Ye:

“You try to take your surrounding blood mist…”

However, before it could finish speaking.

They saw the water pool automatically produce numerous mist-like monsters, like they’d lost their minds, emerging from the pool without hesitation, directly rushing toward the blood-mist-emitting Jiang Ye!

“……” Seeing such a scene, the shadow phantom automatically shut up.

Yet, seemingly still unable to restrain its shock, it dryly blurted out: “This…”

“This is just… outrageously absurd!”

“This little ghost’s blood volume… couldn’t possibly be more abundant than the blood pool under the Moon Phase Clock, could it?!”

It just casually sighed following its shocked emotions.

But Salvation, who was also watching Jiang Ye’s mutation process through the projection, keenly captured this sentence.

The mecha person’s eyeballs slightly rotated.

His gaze toward Jiang Ye also gained a trace of shock.

Clearly, Salvation didn’t understand the mutation process, so naturally didn’t know what the shadow phantom was shocked about.

But he did know about the blood pool under the Moon Phase Clock.

More abundant blood than the blood pool??

This Jiang Ye??

Salvation clearly fell into deep thought because of this one sentence.

And Jiang Ye, in extreme pain, was completely unaware of all this.

Meanwhile…

The clone mutation experienced by the external clone—Jiang Ye Number 1 located in the [Court of Disorder] was also completely unaware.

However, the clone experiment Jiang Ye Number 1 was currently conducting clearly encountered a situation extremely similar to the external clone experiment!

When the White-Robed Woman distributed [Blood Poison Corpse Water] to the Defenders earlier.

Jiang Ye had used Zhang Minghan’s clone to observe the Defenders players injecting [Blood Poison Corpse Water].

They didn’t seem to experience excessive pain, just their skin changing from normal flesh tone to blood-loss-like bluish-black.

In the dark environment of the Abyssal Depths, that bluish-black wasn’t particularly noticeable.

However…

When other players injected one tube of [Blood Poison Corpse Water], their entire skin directly turned blue all over.

When it came to Jiang Ye here…

The clone he arranged for the experiment only had the small patch of skin where [Blood Poison Corpse Water] was injected vaguely showing a layer of blue.

The overall feeling was like…

The injected amount wasn’t enough!

Jiang Ye studied it, then injected a second tube, third tube…

He even suspected whether Zhou Yuling had deliberately screwed him over, diluting one tube of [Blood Poison Corpse Water] into five tubes?

Thus, he injected all five tubes.

But ultimately only the injected arm became stiff and bluish-black.

Could it be…

Zhou Yuling used five hundred tubes of [Blood Poison Corpse Water] for dilution?

This was just too excessive, right??

However, Jiang Ye still had one tube of [Blood Poison Corpse Water] that Zhang Minghan’s clone had obtained from the White-Robed Woman.

At that time, the White-Robed Woman had normally distributed [Blood Poison Corpse Water] to all Defenders.

So this tube shouldn’t have been diluted.

Jiang Ye gritted his teeth and injected this last tube of [Blood Poison Corpse Water]…

Then, looking at that patch of bluish-black skin that appeared.

He had to admit…

Alright, he had wronged Zhou Yuling.

She might not have diluted the [Blood Poison Corpse Water]…

But rather the [Blood Poison Corpse Water]’s effect on him was diluted…

Actually, thinking carefully, this was understandable.

This should be because his blood was too powerful, making this blood-affecting item seem too weak.

So now, what should he do?

Completely abandon the experiment?

But he’d already done part of it, giving up halfway felt like a waste.

And not long ago Jiang Ye had felt like a scientist, all cool and handsome.

If this first experiment failed and he gave up…

That would be too pathetic, right?

Then, to continue, he needed more [Blood Poison Corpse Water].

Judging by this situation…

Probably needed over a hundred tubes.

The key was, did Zhou Yuling even have that much [Blood Poison Corpse Water]?

Jiang Ye thought about it, then directly took out the voice transmission bead to contact Zhou Yuling:

“Big sister! Extremely urgent! Emergency help needed!”

“My situation is very critical, no time to explain!”

“You must tell me immediately right now, exactly how much [Blood Poison Corpse Water] do you have on hand?”

Seeing his urgent tone, Zhou Yuling didn’t suspect anything and directly answered: “After giving you five tubes, I still have fifteen tubes.”

“Only fifteen tubes…” Jiang Ye was clearly dissatisfied with this quantity.

He asked urgently again: “Then can you think of some way to make me a batch of [Blood Poison Corpse Water] on the spot?”

???

Zhou Yuling was utterly speechless, couldn’t help but curse: “Am I Doraemon or a workhorse? Can I just make it for you if you say so?”

“So, meaning, no way to make it regardless?”

Zhou Yuling said resolutely: “No matter what, it cannot be made within the Court of Disorder!”

Jiang Ye’s anxious tone instantly deflated: “It’s over. Then I’m finished…”

Zhou Yuling frowned, but didn’t ask him about the specific situation.

However, she still offered a suggestion:

“Although I don’t know exactly how much Blood Poison Corpse Water you need, or what you want to do with so much Blood Poison Corpse Water…”

“But I have an idea here, you can consider it.”

“Quick, tell me!” Jiang Ye instantly regained energy.

“Simple.” Zhou Yuling said meaningfully, “Remember those three items with ‘incomplete’ characters that Xiao Bai gave you before?”

Of course Jiang Ye remembered.

He instantly thought of a term: “Incomplete Chaos Furnace?!”

Yes.

At that time, among the 3 incomplete items Xiao Bai gave, one was [Chaos Furnace (Incomplete)].

And this item’s effect was—

Could place multiple items inside for fusion and recasting.

Simply put, the general effect was equivalent to synthesis.

That special-grade [Madman Mask] in Guan He’s possession was refined by the Guiwen putting ten [Madman Mask] into [Chaos Furnace (Incomplete)].

And the special-grade [Madman Mask]’s effect after fusion clearly far exceeded the original ten [Madman Mask]’s effects.

Similarly…

If Jiang Ye used [Chaos Furnace (Incomplete)] to fuse ten tubes of [Blood Poison Corpse Water]…

He could obtain super-enhanced version [Blood Poison Corpse Water]!

This experiment could perhaps continue!

But now the problem was…

Jiang Ye directly asked Zhou Yuling: “Incomplete items all have pitfalls, so do you know what the pitfall of incomplete [Chaos Furnace] is?”

Zhou Yuling directly shook her head: “Of course I don’t know this.”

“However, there’s one piece of news that might be good news for you—”

“There’s quite a high probability that the complete version [Chaos Furnace] belongs to the Apartment Merchant.”

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