"Zhou Bai! Give me just a little more!"

Zhou Bai thought for a moment, then directly extracted another 100 units of contamination from the Great Elder and injected it into the Mysterious Maiden.

...

The Great Elder felt a sudden movement in her heart as the Power of Deformation within her was rapidly decreasing. She secretly thought, "Is Zhou Bai drawing my Power of Deformation? Could it be for use in the arena?"

She recalled Zhou Bai had previously mentioned he might need to draw the Power of Deformation from her side during battle.

"Ah!"

The Mysterious Maiden screamed sharply, feeling the Power of Deformation in her body become as scorching as magma, the explosive force stirring wildly within her, reaching a certain limit.

"But just a little more... just a tiny bit more..."

Suddenly, an idea struck the Mysterious Maiden, and she held the End of Dharma Heaven Deformed Sword in her hand.

The helical sword suddenly began to spin, causing a series of roars and stirring up a sky full of spiral storms.

With the assistance of the End of Dharma Heaven Deformed Sword, the Mysterious Maiden felt the Power of Deformation within her finally break through that ultimate barrier, and her flesh and blood underwent a certain qualitative transformation.

She let out a joyful howl, as the flesh on the back of her neck burst open, with blood gushing out, transforming into a crystal-like entity, forming a blood-red halo that rose from behind her head, emitting a strange green glow mixed with specks of blood.

At the same time, the flesh on her back also burst open, with pieces of flesh squeezing out and quickly growing robust, turning into wings of flesh, draped behind her like a cape.

At this moment, the Mysterious Maiden could feel a significant improvement in her physical strength, each punch and kick seemingly possessed the power to overturn seas and rivers.

Her original mutation powers, including vaporization, teleportation, and flesh manipulation, were all fully enhanced.

The ring of flesh behind her head was continuously coordinating and spreading her Power of Deformation.

Her face shone with a holy brilliance, and with the blood-red halo syncing with the End of Dharma Heaven Deformed Sword in her hand, streaks of green light mixed with blood radiated outwards. Wherever they passed, the ground swelled up, and patches of earth, as if enlivened, wailed as they transformed into earthen figures emerging from the ground.

At this moment, the Mysterious Maiden was like a deity sowing life.

The Mysterious Maiden could feel that, besides the growth in strength, she was also able to temporarily bestow life onto the soil, transforming them into temporary deformed beings.

However, this was not a permanent change but could last for at most a dozen minutes.

'This transformed state indeed provides an all-around enhancement.'

Although her power had grown stronger, the Mysterious Maiden knew she still could not possibly be a match for Si Yi, the Heavenly Monarch of Plague, but at this moment in her opponent's eyes, she must have appeared different.

Zhou Bai looked on and said, "Are you trying to solidify your identity as a deformed being in front of Si Yi, the Heavenly Monarch of Plague?"

The Mysterious Maiden nodded and replied, "Indeed, our backup plan was for me to impersonate your true form, leading Si Yi, the Heavenly Monarch of Plague, to believe that the one here to snatch the 'Primordial Daotrove 07' is the real Zhou Bai. That way, she will naturally focus all her efforts on capturing me."

"But that process is troublesome, time-consuming, and carries a certain risk of failure. Just now, I suddenly realized the identity of Si Yi, the Heavenly Monarch of Plague – she is an expert from the Plague Department, specializing in the study of mutated beings and mutation weapons."

"In fact, she had taken a great interest in the abilities I used during the battle just now."

"And when she discovered that Zhou Bai before her had evolved anew through the enhancement of the Power of Deformation..."

The whole sky darkened, as a mountainous and oceanic force of Primordial Spirit converged in the clouds, as if it were about to bring the entire sky crashing down.

The Primordial Spirit of Si Yi, the Plague Sovereign, kept gathering and accumulating, and her voice had also changed, seeming much more serious.

"Such a dense Power of Deformation, and an evolution on the spot... Zhou Bai, are you really a deformed one?" Si Yi, the Plague Sovereign, seemed rather excited as she looked at the Xuan girl before her, her presence utterly different from her earlier dismissive attitude.

The Xuan girl felt the hostility filling the sky, pressing down on her like it was about to solidify, and with great effort, she gritted her teeth and communicated, "Zhou Bai, unleash your power... just like in the backup plan..."

Looking up at the sky, the Xuan girl's figure was slender, even appearing quite frail, but her eyes were full of determination, particularly the way her spine was ramrod straight, like a javelin that seemed impossible for Si Yi, the Plague Sovereign's pressure to bend even slightly.

"... Zhou Bai, will you hold me tight with your power in a moment?"

The newly grown wing behind embraced the Xuan girl as if someone were holding her from behind.

The corners of the Xuan girl's mouth slowly curled up, revealing a faint smile, her face seeming to flash with a sacred brilliance, complementing the sinister glow behind her head, making her look inexpressibly bewitching.

The next moment, the heavens collapsed...

The Primordial Spirit of Si Yi, the Plague Sovereign, mixed with the black air and lost souls, completely shrouded the sky.

The sudden overwhelming force felt as if the entire sky began to collapse, smashing down toward the Xuan girl.

This single strike, with its sheer presence alone, was enough to completely destroy a cultivator's will to resist.

The Xuan girl bit her teeth fiercely, and with a swift turn, she flew away at high speed.

The mechanical attendants actively met Si Yi, the Plague Sovereign's assault, ammunition pouring out only to be blown to bits one after another in mid-air.

The Xuan girl shouted into the communicator, "Zhou Bai!"

In the silence, the Xuan girl felt the mechanical attendants Zhou Bai had left on his body calling out, and a surge of Zhou Bai's Primordial Spirit came from afar, turning into the force of the Tianhe Star Explosion sword, wrapping around the Xuan girl to accelerate her escape.

"He can still use the Tianhe Star Explosion sword?" Si Yi, the Plague Sovereign became even more concerned about the 'Zhou Bai' before her, and that suspicion grew stronger: 'And the deformation evolution just now... that special ability... could it be that this one is the original body? The one on the Heavenly Arena was a clone?'

Once that doubt arose in her heart, Si Yi, the Plague Sovereign felt more and more that such an arrangement made sense.

'On the Heavenly Arena, it's almost certain death, even if Xiang Tiandi went insane and gave up voluntarily, but under the siege of so many immortals and gods, nobody could survive, and no one in their right mind would go to aid the Sky Flipping Sect, for that would not be aid, but a death sentence.'

'So it seems, indeed, sending a clone to the arena and having the original body go after the original dao repository 07 makes more sense.'

The more she thought about it, the more likely it seemed, and Si Yi, the Plague Sovereign's attention focused even more on the escaping Xuan girl, making up her mind: 'Capture him.'

'Even if the Zhou Bai before me isn't the original, he is still a very special, very powerful deformed one.'

'Such a deformed one is immensely valuable and might be able to greatly assist my experiments, helping me to unravel the secrets of deformation.'

'At the very least, he's excellent material for deformed weapons.'