Chapter 390: Ripples of Misfortune

Everyone was watching Du Bai and noticed the moment the three-tailed Celestial Fox changed color.

After so many battles together, they had developed a certain level of tacit understanding. Gu Li almost instantly activated his Chrono Croc Transformation, causing the flow of time around them to freeze.

The three-tailed celestial fox above Du Bai's head paused momentarily as it changed from white to black. Not yet retracted, Cheng Zicheng's Golden Roc wings struck Du Bai on the back. Purple-gold light flickered in Tang San's eyes, and a mental shock hit Du Bai. Wu Bingji quickly conjured several ice shields to guard their surroundings.

Du Bai grunted as his Celestial Fox Transformation was finally interrupted. The three-tailed Celestial Fox's shadow vanished, and the surrounding flowers stopped changing to cool colors and reverted to warm colors.

All of this happened incredibly quickly. The flowers would have changed color if they had been even a fraction of a second slower.

Du Bai was nearly knocked to the ground by Cheng Zicheng's wings. With Tang San's support, he barely managed to stay upright. His head throbbed from the mental shock, and he cried out in pain, "What are you doing?"

Tang San helped him steady himself. "Don't use the Celestial Fox Transformation. Something's wrong."

"Hmm?" Du Bai looked at him in confusion, adjusting his spiritual power to recover.

Tang San frowned. "When you used the Celestial Fox Transformation just now, it wasn't luck that descended; it was misfortune."

"Ah?" Du Bai stared at him in shock, frowning as he recalled the process of his activation.

After spending several days in the Celestial Fox Palace, he clearly felt that his control over luck had increased significantly, and his bloodline seemed to have purified somewhat. He was eager to showcase his skills in this trial but hadn't expected such a result.

"How could this happen?" Du Bai murmured.

"What did you feel when you used the Celestial Fox Transformation just now?" Tang San asked.

Du Bai shook his head in confusion and said, "I can't say for sure. It felt strange, as if something was absorbing my power, and then my mood started to feel a bit irritable."

Tang San said solemnly, "Don't use the Celestial Fox Transformation for now. Everyone else, don't make any rash moves. Wait here for the first singing. I'll go check it out."

As he spoke, he headed in a chosen direction toward the edge of the warm-colored flowers.

The Hell Garden was very mysterious, and he needed to understand the true difference between the warm-colored and cool-colored flowers here.

Du Bai's situation was very unusual. Everyone had used their bloodline power, but only his Celestial Fox Transformation showed a significant change, while the others' Demonic God Transformations were normal. This meant that the Celestial Fox Transformation was affected here. Logically, only fortune could affect fortune.

With the Lion-Tiger Golden Astral protecting him, Tang San cautiously walked to the intersection of the warm-colored and cool-colored flowers. He was already over a hundred meters away from his companions.

From above, using spiritual power to sense, the distribution of the two colors of flowers appeared irregular and uneven.

This area shouldn't affect his companions.

Tang San squinted his eyes and stepped into the range of the cool-colored flowers.

Instantly, the murderous aura he had felt before spread rapidly. He immediately sensed a strong suction force from the ground beneath his feet. The gravity increased dramatically, making him feel sluggish and unable to move. Moreover, he could clearly feel his bloodline power and life energy quickly draining away.

Tang San's control over himself was nearly unmatched below godhoodl. Yet even so, he couldn't stop the outflow of his life energy.

Furthermore, the cool-colored flowers around him almost instantly grew wildly, as if nourished by his life energy. The once beautiful flowers, after growing explosively, revealed a hideous scene.

Thorns protruded from the stems, and some large flowers exploded, each petal transforming into sharp blades sweeping toward Tang San. Other flowers suddenly grew larger, opening their petals lined with teeth-like barbs, aiming to bite him.

Moreover, vines from the ground rapidly wrapped around, presenting a full-on assault from all directions.

Tang San released a cold snort, and the Lion Tiger Golden Astral expanded, instantly forming a layer of white light around him. The white light disintegrated the attacks from the cool-colored flowers upon contact, turning them into powder.

Simultaneously, Tang San activated the Lion Tiger Golden Astral's characteristic, attempting to temporarily devour the cool-colored flowers to acquire their traits.

However, he stopped his action almost immediately. When the Lion Tiger Golden Astral destroyed the flowers and devoured their energy, Tang San felt an instant chill, as if something terrible was about to happen to him. What was this?

Misfortune? Tang San immediately made a judgment.

Someone else might not have had such a clear understanding, but he also had the Celestial Fox Transformation ability. His sensitivity to fortune was keen, so he immediately understood what was happening to him.

𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Roar—

A massive white lion-tiger silhouette appeared behind Tang San, its gaping maw emitting a thunderous roar.

Instantly, the cool-colored flowers within dozens of meters shattered, clearing the area in front of him.

Tang San quickly retreated into the area of warm-colored flowers.

During his retreat, he forcibly used the Lion Tiger Golden Astral to help break free from the suction force under his feet, though his speed was much slower than usual. Fortunately, he was only at the edge of the cool-colored flowers, so he quickly returned to the warm-colored flower area.

What was that feeling just now?

Tang San frowned, feeling as though he had grasped something.

The attacks in this Hell Garden seemed to be related to misfortune. When Du Bai used the Celestial Fox Transformation, luck turned into misfortune. The attacks from the cool-colored flowers also carried misfortune.

At this moment, the area of cool-colored flowers he had destroyed was rapidly regrowing from the ground, soon transforming back into dense cool-colored flowers, shining with a cold and beautiful light.

Using luck would lead to misfortune, even causing warm-colored flowers to turn cool and attack. So, what would happen if he directly used misfortune?

Tang San's heart stirred. As the saying goes, "Expertise breeds courage." He had divine consciousness hidden within his sea of consciousness, so he was confident. He quietly activated the Celestial Fox Transformation, and under the precise control of his Discerning Eye of Heaven, a layer of pitch-black aura quickly appeared around him, enveloping him.

The misfortune he released would affect the surroundings, not himself.

The misfortune the Celestial Fox Transformation generated accumulated as luck was continuously used. It needed to be periodically released outward to neutralize the luck, and Tang San had also accumulated some.

As he released misfortune, his body trembled suddenly. He was shocked to find that the warm flowers around him were rapidly changing to cool colors, just like when Du Bai used luck. But even more bizarre was the change in his spiritual perception.

Tang San felt his spiritual perception range suddenly expand dramatically. In his perception, it was as if countless malevolent thoughts and misfortune enveloped everything around him. As he released misfortune, his perception rapidly extended over this large area. He even sensed a team several kilometers away, resting among the warm-colored flowers.

The endless malevolent intent seemed to exist in a ripple pattern throughout the space, and these ripples were all flowing in one unified direction.