My Co-renting Lady Boss

Chapter 2028: Chapter 2024: No Blood?

"You..."

Hua Luojie was instantly at a loss for words. He never in his wildest dreams imagined that after slaving away at this research for so many years, even going so far as to kill his own big brother, he’d end up making a wedding dress for Tang Ming instead. What a total dogshit ending!

After a while, the bodies of Hua Luojie and Hua Luoying began to dry out, their skin rapidly wrinkling, and in no time they turned into two mummified corpses, while Tang Ming felt an unprecedented surge of vitality raging through his body.

The Energy he’d used up fighting Chu Zhaoliang and the others was fully restored, and both the Dust Gu and Mutated Dust Gu in his body were in an extremely excited and saturated state, even more satisfied than when he’d gorged himself on endless food back then.

As the Energy in the Crystal Column all poured into Tang Ming’s body, the Hua brothers’ bodies, after turning into dried corpses, suddenly exploded and turned into a pile of ash.

At this point the device stopped running, the dazzling electric arcs vanished, and the crystal light column dimmed.

"Is it over?"

Feeling clear-headed and refreshed, Tang Ming looked around uncertainly. After waiting a while longer, he finally reached out and took off the equipment attached to his body.

"Other than feeling awesome, there doesn’t seem to be any other reaction. So am I actually an Undying Body now or what?"

Tang Ming stared at his hands, conflicted.

If he wanted to confirm whether he was an undying person, he had to die once. But if the transformation failed, his little life would be gone for good.

Use Healing Energy to judge? Tang Ming already possessed freak-level self-Healing Energy. Even experts like the Hua brothers hadn’t spotted anything off, so he couldn’t use that method to confirm it either.

"Don’t tell me I have to kill myself once?"

After standing up, Tang Ming paced back and forth in hesitation, then picked up the Dagger that had fallen from Hua Luoying’s body and aimed it at his own heart.

Tang Ming held the blade aloft, glared for ages, and in the end still didn’t dare to strike. If he stabbed down and the conversion hadn’t worked, that’d be one hell of a screwed ending.

"Damn it, feels like I’ve gotten some insanely badass power, but there’s no way to prove it. This is way too suffocating."

Tang Ming grumbled nonstop with a depressed look on his face, then suddenly raised his hand and chopped off the thumb of his left hand in one stroke. The result...

"Where’s the blood?"

Staring at his severed finger on the ground, Tang Ming was dumbfounded. The wound where his finger had been cut off didn’t bleed at all; instead it shimmered with a hazy white glow, completely different from the way those other undying people gave off smoke when injured!

Seeing that his severed finger and the injured cut had no fresh blood and were instead emitting a faint fluorescence, Tang Ming’s mind was full of question marks.

He didn’t know whether the Hua brothers had really transferred the undying person’s Energy into his body, but seeing this scene, Tang Ming was certain his body had undergone a change beyond imagination.

Staring at the finger on the ground, Tang Ming swallowed hard. "Even though cutting off the finger still hurts like hell, what the hell is going on? Why am I not bleeding?"

Tang Ming bent down and reached out to pick up the finger, but at that moment the severed finger suddenly exploded with a pop, turning into a gentle white mist that dissipated.

"Tsss—"

Before Tang Ming could react, he felt an itchy, aching sensation from his finger, and then the severed thumb grew back.

Strictly speaking, it didn’t grow back—it just suddenly appeared, completely intact.

"It really worked?"

Tang Ming raised his hand and looked at his unscathed left hand, a mix of surprise and delight on his face. This Regeneration Ability was countless times stronger than the Dust Gu.

No matter how badass the Dust Gu was, it couldn’t regrow severed limbs—but now...

"Hahaha, I’ve struck it rich, I’ve struck it rich! With this body plus my current Cultivation, I’m absolutely an invincible existence."

Tang Ming paced back and forth in excitement. His Cultivation might not be unmatched in the world yet and was still far from that of true top-tier experts, but this body of his was definitely against all heaven’s rules now!

Even if he was hunted by super experts, even if he couldn’t beat them, he wouldn’t die. And he was still young—sooner or later he’d become a truly invincible powerhouse.

After confirming his body had indeed changed, Tang Ming once again raised the Dagger and, without hesitation, stabbed it into his thigh. The Dagger pierced his thigh, yet still no fresh blood came out; instead a streak of white glow seeped from the wound.

"Amazing, this is way too amazing."

Tang Ming pulled out the Dagger and watched with his own eyes as the wound healed and the white light faded. Although it still hurt a lot when he was injured, this recovery speed was straight-up defying the heavens.

What surprised Tang Ming most was that his current state was totally different from Zhang Baobao’s and Hua Luoying’s. He didn’t bleed; he just glowed. It looked like he’d been upgraded.

"I totally can’t figure out what’s going on."

Tang Ming glanced at the ashes the Hua brothers had turned into. "If Hua Luojie were still alive, I could Ask him what the hell this is. But now that guy’s turned to ash, I can only study it myself."

He then sat down cross-legged and began meditating, carefully sensing the changes within his body.

A few minutes later, Tang Ming had a bit of a grasp on it. This time it wasn’t just him who underwent conversion—the Dust Gu in his body had also accepted the Undying Energy from Hua Luoying.

You had to know the Dust Gu were living organisms parasitic in Tang Ming’s body. Even though they were microorganisms, they were ultimately an enormous population of lifeforms.

So when Tang Ming underwent the conversion, the Dust Gu in his body were also violently stimulated and gained an unimaginable upgrade and boost.

"So that’s how it is."

Tang Ming opened his eyes, suddenly enlightened.

The Dust Gu were spread throughout his entire body, with huge numbers living in his blood. Now that the Dust Gu had accepted the Undying Energy from Hua Luoying, that meant the Dust Gu themselves now possessed Undying Energy.

So when Tang Ming was injured, he wouldn’t bleed. Blood loss meant some Dust Gu had to die, but now that the Dust Gu were Undying, they would just resurrect and restore themselves at the wound, so there’d be no blood loss.

"Heh, I bet even Hua Luojie never imagined something like this would happen. What a beautiful accident."

Tang Ming laughed smugly, then walked over to the computer and started reading Hua Luojie’s research data on undying people, giving him a deeper understanding of them.

"After death, you’ll resurrect using the largest remaining part of the body. That is, if your head gets chopped off, even if the head is thrown away it doesn’t matter—you’ll regrow a head from the torso."

Tang Ming rubbed his chin, staring at the data on the screen in disbelief. "If only a head is left and the body is destroyed, you can also be revived from the head. That’s really unbelievable—way too unbelievable!"

After familiarizing himself with it, Tang Ming immediately copied all of Hua Luojie’s research data on undying conversion and then permanently deleted it. He formatted all the programs in the lab, smashed the two machines into scrap metal, then found a pile of combustible materials, doused the lab in them, and set it all on fire.

This secret lab had been created by Hua Luojie behind the backs of the Heavenly Wolf Palace members. As for the undying conversion project, only the Hua brothers knew the details, and all the data and records were kept in this lab.