Otherworldly Desert Dust

Wu Hen and Guo Hong had not been away from the Stone Palace for long when Marquis Changqiu gestured with a summoning wave.

Three figures clad in black robes emerged from behind the palace, standing respectfully in front of Marquis Changqiu, awaiting his commands.

"Follow them, you know what to do," said Marquis Changqiu.

"Yes," replied the three figures in black robes as they bowed and then withdrew.

"The High-dimensional Yuan You Fragment, heh, some people really do treat this place as a wishing well!" Marquis Changqiu shook his head and laughed again.

...

After scouring the black market, Wu Hen realized that if he were to strike out with a punch as he had before, the cunning Black Angel would certainly be frightened away again. This time, he couldn't be so rash; it would be better to follow Guo Hong's rhythm, step by step, to draw out the top slayer hidden in the wasteland.

"If you don't need armor, you might consider upgrading your elemental weapon. In the black market, there's a kind of Mutation Metal that can even absorb Mutant Condensed Liquid, making your elemental weapons even more powerful. However, these mutated elemental equipment might have side effects. Over time, they might even devour their owner... Of course, you don't have to worry about that, so I recommend you use the Mutated Elemental Equipment," said Guo Hong.

"That sounds like a fine suggestion. Pure Yuan You is, after all, a rare resource. It's not like I can simply exchange it for however much Mutant Condensed Liquid I collect. Excessive Mutant Condensed Liquid could be used to upgrade my weapons, and weapons upgraded in this way would comply with the laws here. It would also serve as a kind of bait; the Black Angel surely also needs to mutate and evolve further. If we release enough Mutant Energy, I don't believe she won't bite," said Wu Hen.

"Wouldn't she have already remembered your scent? When you get close to her, mightn't she flee for her life?" Guo Hong expressed his concerns.

Wu Hen's punch had scared the soul out of the hidden big boss of the entire wasteland. If they pursued her, she might well turn completely into a quail, hiding forever in her nest, never to emerge again.

"Don't worry, I'll only keep my hearing active; all other perceptions will be completely sealed off, and my Divine Skills and soul body will be suppressed. That way, my scent can also be erased," said Wu Hen.

"That should work, as long as you don't cause any energy fluctuations similar to the ones before, she probably won't recognize you," said Guo Hong, nodding.

"You said you know where she's heading?" asked Wu Hen.

"Yes, during the transformation process conducted by that tentacle-winged Sang Demon, some of their group's memories were implanted into my brain. I saw their secret lair, and judging by the direction she fled in, she must be at the Blood Lake Base," said Guo Hong with confidence.

"Alright, let's stock up on equipment and supplies, and then we can set off," said Wu Hen.

...

Lu Xian hesitated for a long time but ultimately decided to set out on the road with Wu Hen and Guo Hong.

After all, being an injured woman, it wasn't easy for her to survive in the underground black market.

She was in charge of carrying supplies: water, food, ammo, medical supplies, auxiliary tools...

Guo Hong upgraded his own gear, obtaining the Fiery Sun Armor. Such high-grade armor gave him the ability to fend for himself in this wasteland.

Wu Hen exchanged the Sang Demon's Mutant Condensed Liquid for Thunderstorm Gloves, a rare weapon made of transformable material from the wasteland that could be used as a close-combat cold weapon or converted to a hot-weapon mode...

After further modifications with mutagenic substances, these Thunderstorm Gloves turned into the Thunderstorm All-Purpose Arm, nearly as good as Wu Hen's original Qilin Arm, only the Thunder Arm Guard was more versatile. Once switched to his left hand, it became a Thunderstorm Cannon!

It must be said, Da Xuan Technology is trustworthy. Wu Hen, who was not particularly keen on machinery or Mecha, couldn't put down the Thunder Arm Guard. He felt that if Wang Rui were here, he would definitely become crazy about such equipment.

Wu Hen remembered that back on the True Martial Continent, Wang Rui had struggled; his gear was either not powerful enough or not durable enough against those True Martial experts who treated his equipment like toys and battered it mercilessly.

Now, in the Cang Chu Divine Realm with the backing of Da Xuan Technology, his Mechanical Beasts should also have reached the pinnacle of evolutionary improvement.

"There's a wolf's mouth here. Once you infuse Mutant Condensed Liquid into this wolf's mouth device, it gets enhanced... This kind of transformable material is also very precious in Da Xuan, even if it's just the lowest quality transforming weapon. Its ability to absorb energy and strengthen is already beyond all current weapon materials," said Guo Hong enviously.

"Does transformable material also come in different qualities?" asked Wu Hen curiously.

"Yes, different qualities of transformable materials have different absorption and conversion rates. For example, you may need ten times the same-grade Elemental Material for enhancement. Higher quality materials require less than lower quality ones, and the enhancement limit would also be different," said Guo Hong.

Transformable material is used to make weapons that could be strengthened, which were termed Elemental Spirit Weapons by the Da Xuan Dynasty.

And some talents in the black market, upon discovering that Mutant Condensed Liquid could partly replace transformable materials, created the black tech Mutated Elemental Spirit Weapon.

The Thunder Tiger Bracelet that Wu Hen is currently holding is a Mutated Elemental Spirit Weapon, which does not require searching for those rare transformable materials; it only needs a steady injection of the Mutant Condensed Liquid to achieve strengthening effects.

"If this thing doesn't backfire on its master, it should be considered the greatest invention on our wasteland. Those rare transformable metals are actually very hard to find, but alien species life is rampant on this land. All you need to do is keep hunting them down and continuously collect Mutant Condensed Liquid, allowing the weapons you have to constantly evolve and strengthen..." Guo Hong said.

"It is indeed a very remarkable invention and very useful for me," Wu Hen nodded in agreement.

He is one of the few who is not afraid of backlash. By obtaining Mutant Condensed Liquid, he can also gain an extra edge in this land and doesn't have to worry about wasting these liquids that could be exchanged for Yuan You, because even the highest limit of this weapon would be insignificant to his unsealed self. Wu Hen also could feed it to Little Yi, who has a strong absorption ability, eats everything given, and might even be able to derive higher-dimensional weapons for Wu Hen's use.

"Then let's set off. There are probably quite a few alien species nests along the way. We can first strengthen ourselves and then step into the Blood Lake Base," Guo Hong said.

After acquiring this interesting equipment, Wu Hen's interest greatly peaked.

He couldn't wait to turn all the alien species on this land into condensed liquid and let his cool purple bracelet absorb it. Compared to most of the cunning predators in the otherworldly wasteland, these alien species that only know slaughter are like experience packs coming one after another. Having wandered in the Desert Dust for so long, he can finally experience the joy of farming mobs to his heart's content!

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Vast wasteland, apocalyptic yellow sands.

The sky is filled with flocks of bone vultures, which often appear like dense clouds of darkness, leaving no vegetation alive wherever they pass.

Countless alien species roam the land, like the beasts of the African savannah, occasionally causing beast tides that rush through the wasteland like a sea of black.

Riding on a floating speedster, Wu Hen, Guo Hong, and Lu Xian are using its full horsepower, for behind them is a rolling tide of corpses that would swallow them if they slowed down even slightly.

Wu Hen not only showed no fear but found it exceptionally thrilling.

Such a massive corpse tide is a rare sight in the wasteland, and he felt it would be a loss not to "liberate" them all.

As for Guo Hong and Lu Xian, their faces had turned pale with fear.

The corpse tide is undoubtedly the most terrifying disaster of the wasteland, no matter how sophisticated your equipment is, or even if you are a wasteland troop, it is not enough to withstand the tide.

Thankfully, they had spent a lot of money to purchase the floating speedster, able to ignore most of the uneven terrain and race across the land at sonic speeds, otherwise, at the moment the corpse tide erupted, they would have already become part of it.

"How long will this corpse tide last?" Wu Hen, walking in this otherworldly place for the first time, was quite curious about such a spectacle.

"Once the corpse tide sweeps through, it basically doesn't stop. Moreover, like a rolling snowball, it will only get bigger and bigger. Those lives swallowed by the corpse tide will immediately become corpse people, joining the tide to ravage everything. There are different levels of corpse tides. There was once a corpse tide with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers on this land; it was a moving sea of corpses and blood, too terrifying," Guo Hong said.

Hearing that the scale could reach a million kilometers, Wu Hen became even more excited.

With a single punch, how much Mutant Condensed Liquid would he obtain? Perhaps even his transitional weapon could evolve towards a high-dimensional weapon!

More techniques would only benefit him; Wu Hen wouldn't mind having some hot weapons capable of contending with high-dimensional life on his evolutionary path. He remembered when he first stepped into the otherworldly place; he relied on a self-aiming small pistol...

Sometimes, no matter how powerful cold weapons are, they can't replace the instinctive sense of security that hot weapons bring to humans!

Perhaps his high-dimensional Qilin Arm could make a comeback in Jianghu.

"Let me test the power of the weapon." Wu Hen, with impressive skills and boldness, parked the floating speedster on a high cliff before turning around and switching to hot weapon mode on his left hand.

The Thunder Arm Guard rapidly transformed at the position of Wu Hen's left hand, arming it into a Thunderstorm Heavy.

As Wu Hen activated the energy, nine scorching Thunderstorm Heavy Bombs traced wonderful arcs in mid-air before bombarding the front end of the corpse tide in a nine-square-grid manner...

The front end of the corpse tide was densely populated with Corpse Workers, who must have come from the same giant factory in their lives, many still wearing the same work uniforms. As the nine Thunderstorm Heavy Bombs detonated together, nine dazzling mushroom clouds of thunderstorm splendor burst open at the front end of the tide, blasting a gaping hole through the endless tide!

Numerous corpse people were vaporized on the spot, and Wu Hen even saw Mutant Condensed Liquid scattering like raindrops, beautiful and enchanting like liquid gold, but it was a pity that the space blown open by him was soon filled up by the successive corpse people. Wu Hen couldn't go into the corpse tide to collect Mutant Condensed Liquid!

This blast was thrilling!

Once he upgrades his Thunder Arm Guard again, he aims to send this corpse tide spiral to the skies together!