Jiang Ye was highly skeptical about what Zhou Yuling called “probability”:

“What probability are we talking about exactly?”

“It couldn’t be that just because the [Chaos Furnace (Incomplete)] was bought from the Nomadic Merchant, you assume the complete version is with the Nomadic Merchant too?”

“……”

Zhou Yuling fell silent for a moment, then forcefully analyzed:

“Look, your [Clone Replica Mirror (Incomplete)] was bought from the Nomadic Merchant, right?”

“And the complete version of [Clone Replica Mirror] was also obtained from the Nomadic Merchant, correct?”

“Therefore, by the same logic—since we can buy [Chaos Furnace (Incomplete)] from the Nomadic Merchant, there’s a high probability the complete [Chaos Furnace] is also in the Nomadic Merchant’s possession!”

“……”

Jiang Ye was rendered speechless.

What kind of bullshit “by the same logic” was this…

There was absolutely no necessary logical connection between these two things you’re calling “the same”!

If you wrote “by the same logic” so randomly in a proof question, do you think the teacher would give you any process points!

Anyway, Jiang Ye directly gave it zero points, completely rejecting this speculation.

However, Zhou Yuling added: “Aren’t you in extremely urgent circumstances over there?”

“This is the only method I can think of anyway—use it or not, it’s up to you.”

After saying this, she immediately adopted an attitude of being about to hang up at any second.

Jiang Ye pondered for a moment in his heart.

Actually, it was just a brief instant.

He stopped Zhou Yuling: “Alright, alright, then give me 10 more tubes of [Blood Poison Corpse Water]!”

“……”

[Blood Poison Corpse Water] wasn’t really worth much.

So Zhou Yuling wasn’t exactly reluctant to part with it.

But Jiang Ye asking so matter-of-factly made her feel uncomfortable.

Still, seeing he seemed genuinely urgent, Zhou Yuling cooperated with Jiang Ye and used [Clone Swapping] to give him ten tubes of [Blood Poison Corpse Water].

Simultaneously, she couldn’t help worrying:

“You should know, right? [Blood Poison Corpse Water] contains radiation.”

“After refining and synthesizing it with the furnace, it will probably become something extremely dangerous…”

“You’re not planning to inject such a dangerous thing into yourself, are you?”

“……”

Jiang Ye answered with absolute conviction: “Don’t worry, I definitely won’t inject it into myself.”

Zhou Yuling nodded: “That’s good.”

As she spoke, she didn’t plan to ask further.

But then immediately, Jiang Ye blurted out: “I’ll inject it into our little white snake :)”

???

Zhou Yuling’s entire body stiffened, almost crushing the voice transmission bead!

Fortunately, Jiang Ye quickly laughed it off: “Don’t worry, don’t worry, just joking!”

“The little white snake is crucial for our [Court of Disorder] clearance—I definitely won’t let it undertake any risks.”

“I’m actually quite steady—it’s not like you don’t know that.”

Zhou Yuling couldn’t help rolling her eyes, thinking to herself—

You’re indeed quite steady when you’re being steady.

But when you go crazy with a brain cramp, it’s like you don’t know how to write the character for “death”…

But whatever.

Zhou Yuling understood very clearly—

Once Jiang Ye decided something, others probably couldn’t persuade him otherwise.

She didn’t bother with what exactly he planned to tinker with anymore.

Continuing to plan how to perfectly lure away the miscellaneous people around the [Formless Tree].

As for Jiang Ye, he directly took out the [Chaos Furnace (Incomplete)] that Xiao Bai had given him earlier.

Originally, after learning that incomplete edition items had pitfalls, he had decided not to use incomplete edition items anymore.

But now…

It seemed this was the only method to continue his experiment.

And once Jiang Ye decided something, it was indeed difficult to change.

He hardly hesitated at all before throwing those ten tubes of [Blood Poison Corpse Water] into the incomplete Chaos Furnace.

This furnace item looked like a three-legged cauldron in appearance.

Initially small, it suddenly enlarged when activated.

After throwing in the items to be fused, it could be started.

Orange-red flames automatically rose beneath the three-legged cauldron.

The flames quickly spread across the cauldron’s body, illuminating all the patterns covering the giant furnace cauldron.

Until all patterns were activated by the flames…

White mist began emanating from the exhaust port above the giant cauldron.

Soon, the flames dissipated, and the illuminated patterns on the giant cauldron gradually faded.

The entire giant cauldron directly cracked along the dimmed patterns.

Clearly, the incomplete Chaos Furnace could only be used once.

So after refining, the entire incomplete item directly became scrap.

Jiang Ye didn’t care; his gaze fixed intently on the pure black potion exposed within the cracked giant cauldron, directly casting a simple Detection Technique at it.

[Blood Poison Corpse Water]

[Can guide blood mutation after injection.]

A rather brief information description.

But it wasn’t hard to deduce—

The blood mutation effect brought by this fused version item…

Naturally far exceeded the original [Blood Poison Corpse Water].

This…

Could Jiang Ye’s experiment this time really cost someone’s life?

However, since things had already reached this point.

Not using this thing would be pure waste, right?

Thus, Jiang Ye didn’t give himself time to hesitate or overthink, directly injecting this fused version [Blood Poison Corpse Water] into the clone that had just been experimented on.

This time, the effect of the fused version [Blood Poison Corpse Water] finally became obvious on Jiang Ye!

Visibly, within less than 1 second after injection, the entire experimental clone’s skin rapidly turned into a zombie-like bluish-gray color.

Simultaneously, Jiang Ye also felt—

This entire experimental clone instantly became completely stiff!

And the effect of this fused version was clearly much stronger than when the Defenders injected ordinary [Blood Poison Corpse Water]!

Almost within another 3 seconds.

The experimental clone’s skin, the bluish-gray color deepened increasingly.

Visually, it seemed to gradually turn bluish-black, then rapidly into pure black!

This feeling was like some dark substance continuously intensifying within the entire experimental clone’s body, affecting the whole experimental clone.

And the experimental clone’s sensation went from initial whole body stiffness to gradually becoming so “hard” it was about to explode.

As if some terrifying existence was about to burst out from his body!

At that moment, Jiang Ye truly felt he was about to explode!

Even had a vague premonition—

This explosive death probably couldn’t even be saved by [Clone Sacrifice]!

Fortunately, this death premonition was limited to the experimental clone and didn’t affect Clone No. 1 who was conducting experiments with the cobra.

So…

The result was experiment failure, losing this experimental clone?

However…

Just as the experimental clone’s consciousness almost turned chaotic, clearly feeling death’s arrival.

The “cobra” worn by Jiang Ye No. 1 acted!

Just a “whoosh” sound.

The little red snake actually detached directly from Jiang Ye No. 1’s eye socket without receiving any command, shooting toward the experimental clone!

This time, it didn’t transform into blood mist.

Merely its snake body enlarged, becoming thick and long.

Then…

The entire blood-colored snake body, from limbs to torso, to neck, to head…

Tightly and seamlessly, layer upon layer imprisoned and restricted the experimental clone that was about to explode at any moment!

And right after the little red snake quickly completed all this, something miraculous happened!

The experimental clone that had just been so filled with pure black energy it seemed about to explode from blackness at any second…

Miraculously stabilized!

His entire body was still filled with black energy, the whole person turned pure black.

But that explosive feeling of black substance about to burst out disappeared!

The experimental clone’s sensation was that his body was still stiff and uncomfortable, but that near-death experience vanished!

His consciousness gradually returned to normal.

This was naturally good for the experimental clone…

However, Jiang Ye No. 1, who witnessed this scene from a bystander perspective, was directly stunned!

Because this scene before his eyes…

Strangely resembled a certain familiar scenario!

First visibly, the experimental clone turned pure black.

And because the little red snake coiled around and imprisoned his limbs…

Thus the entire experimental clone presented a posture with arms spread open, legs together, standing straight.

And such a state extremely resembled a pure black human-shaped cross!

More crucially…

The little red snake coiled around this “cross”…

How much it looked like a blood-colored iron chain!

This scene was exactly overly similar to the cross-shaped tombstones in the Reincarnation Graveyard, wasn’t it?!

Could the “cross-shaped tombstones” in the Reincarnation Graveyard also be transformed from some humanoid creatures?

Just sealed and imprisoned by body-wide iron chains?

Jiang Ye couldn’t know.

And what shocked him so much about this scene before his eyes had another reason.

Let’s just say…

If you ignored the little red snake.

Such a pure black experimental clone…

Because of whole body black energy, he no longer even had facial features.

Looking like he was wearing tight-fitting black robes…

And such an appearance…

Was too similar to the Nomadic Merchant Daddy!

Could he really be the Nomadic Merchant Daddy’s illegitimate child lost outside?!

And what supported this conjecture wasn’t just the experimental clone’s pure black appearance resembling the Nomadic Merchant.

A more important detail was—

Jiang Ye had previously exchanged left hands with the Nomadic Merchant because of the Lightburn matter.

He gave his left hand with Lightburn to the Nomadic Merchant.

The Nomadic Merchant’s left hand was given to him.

Afterward, he had studied it but couldn’t figure out what use the Nomadic Merchant’s left hand had.

But now!

The experimental clone’s entire body was stiff, unable to move.

But unexpectedly…

His that left hand could move!

Even, after the little red snake noticed this, it removed the “blood-colored iron chain” imprisoning his left hand.

And in this state…

The black energy at the left hand didn’t become riotous again!

So this mutation…

He didn’t directly become a living [Formless Leaf].

But unexpectedly unearthed an even bigger surprise?

Jiang Ye No. 1 stared blankly at the experimental clone for a long time.

……

“Stop standing there dumbfounded.”

On the chessboard, Xiao Bai unceremoniously called out to the stunned shadow phantom:

“How many more water pools are there? Keep summoning!”

“……”

The shadow phantom had almost unconditionally obeyed Xiao Bai’s demands before.

But now, he unusually said seriously:

“No, impossible, absolutely not…”

“In his current state… even if I summoned all the mist pools, selflessly dedicating all the mist monsters, I still couldn’t possibly sustain him!”

The shadow phantom said this decisively and unequivocally.

However, Xiao Bai was fearless: “Don’t worry about that—”

“With me here, we can definitely sustain him!”

As he spoke, Xiao Bai raised both arms.

Before him, a giant three-legged cauldron materialized…

If the Clone No. 1 in the [Court of Disorder] saw this scene, he’d probably curse out loud on the spot—

So much for the complete version [Chaos Furnace] being with the Nomadic Merchant!

Damn it, I declare Zhou Yuling your proof question gets zero points!

Clearly, the shadow phantom also recognized [Chaos Furnace]; his entire form stiffened, a bad premonition arising in his heart.

Sure enough, as the Chaos Furnace was summoned, Xiao Bai’s voice rang out resonant and powerful, boundlessly heroic:

“Come on—”

“I haven’t tried refining monsters yet!”

After this extremely heroic and passionate statement.

Xiao Bai seemed to remember something, suddenly muttering toward the air:

“Old monster, come help out…”

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers again, throwing a card into the air.

In an instant, a human figure emerged from that card.

Jiang Ye’s mutating experimental clone was consciousness blurry, already knowing nothing.

However, he had another clone responsible for observing nearby.

When seeing that human-shaped figure from the card, it felt strangely familiar.

Until that person popped out from the card…

Jiang Ye was shocked!

Good grief! It really was an “acquaintance”!

That old man falling straight down from the air…

Wasn’t he exactly the mysterious monster raiser who had removed tattoos for Wu Ying, and removed tattoos and bones for Zhang Minghan…

?!

This old man’s state falling from the air was like an innocent bystander completely unprepared.

But when approaching the chessboard ground, his feet landed steadily.

His entire aged and stooped figure was as hunched and rugged as in Wu Ying’s memory.

But this time, this guy raised his head, those turbid and weathered eyes gazing unwaveringly at Jiang Ye’s mutated version experimental clone…

Previously, whether Wu Ying or Zhang Minghan, they had only seen this monster raiser sitting at the front desk with most of his body blocked.

This was the first time Jiang Ye saw him standing on the ground without any cover.

And this state directly made Jiang Ye’s heart jump violently.

Because he suddenly felt…

That old woman beside Yuan Qiu from the Defenders’ Alliance…

Also had such a hunched and rugged figure.

Hadn’t realized it before…

Now only now realizing…

That old woman and the little old man before him…

Were very similar in state!

Just as Jiang Ye was shocked internally.

He saw the little old man staring at the mutated clone, corners of his mouth twitching slightly, shaking his head with hands behind his back sighing emotionally:

“Youth is truly wonderful…”

“Such audacity makes one doubt life itself.”

Xiao Bai directly waved: “Little old man, stop there being sentimental, come help quickly!”

“With just this [Chaos Furnace], we probably can’t refine monsters!”

The little old man swept a light glance at Xiao Bai, forcefully correcting:

“Not ‘probably’, but ‘certainly’.”

“Yes, yes, yes!” Xiao Bai nodded repeatedly, praising perfunctorily, “That’s exactly why you’re so awesome!”

“Hurry up, get operating, this kid probably can’t hold on much longer.”

The little old man’s gaze fixed on the mutated clone whose body was almost overflowing with blood color…

Staring for a moment, then frowning:

“His condition…”

“Even if forcibly mutating successfully, he fundamentally can’t survive, right?”

Xiao Bai’s peripheral vision subtly swept over the shadow phantom, then patting his chest to guarantee:

“Don’t worry about that, I naturally have ways to keep him alive!”

“Alright then, sigh~” The little old man sighed lightly, his gaze also falling on the shadow phantom.

At this moment, the shadow phantom somehow had a very bad premonition.

He just wanted to say he hadn’t agreed to the monster refining yet!

But the next second…

His bad premonition directly came true!

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