Chapter 469: Chapter 172: Skill Fusion, Green Grass Physique!

"Is this making me relive it?"

Cheng Ye felt moved in his heart.

During the previous information fusion, he merely observed the confrontation between wild grass and waves from a third-person perspective.

But now, he was that wild grass.

He could perceive the wind, sunshine, dew, and the robust life force!

The blue waves arrived as expected, and only through this experience did he realize the disparity between the Wild Grass Physique and the Water Wave Physique.

The blue waves couldn’t shake the roots of the wild grass at all, only raging impotently.

After several more frenzied attempts, the waves had to retreat discontentedly, and rain clouds soon gathered on the horizon, pouring down fine rain threads.

It was at the moment the rain struck the leaves.

The illusion vanished.

Thump.. Thump... Thump...

A familiar heartbeat resonated from his chest, more vibrant than in the Wild Grass Physique.

Cheng Ye looked down, seeing the wild grass totem in the center of his chest slowly awakening, with a poignant blue entwining the formerly solitary green halo, interweaving and spinning, gradually fusing into a more vivid... emerald shade!

The emblem pattern on the skin’s surface also changed accordingly, the previously inert wild grass lines now slowly unfolding, new buds emerging at the leaf edges, and the root lines became more intricate and full, seemingly on the verge of breaking through the skin.

What’s even more wondrous was with each pulse of the totem, he could feel a warm power flowing through his veins, filling his entire body with a delightful sense of expansion, like parched land finally receiving sweet rain, every cell jubilantly absorbing life force.

"Life force..."

All anomalies disappeared, seemingly without the usual perceptible changes.

Cheng Ye stood up, clenched his fists, stretched his legs, and turned around, still not sensing any difference from before.

Including in previous skill fusions, where it would always transform into Taotie’s voracious hunger, but not this time.

"Could it be... a wasted fusion?"

He sat down with a frown, patiently waiting for one to two minutes, still not feeling anything different. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

After some thought, Cheng Ye simply uninstalled the skill, feeling the absence of changes without the Green Grass Physique.

Four to five seconds later, he felt as if something was missing inside him, yet couldn’t specify exactly what.

Upon re-equipping the skill, a faint warm current flashed from his heart, so fleeting it seemed like an illusion.

"Could it be..."

Catching that fleeting power, Cheng Ye’s eyes lit up.

He reached out to tear open the Yellow Bag Nutrient Paste placed on the table, tilting his head back to savor the sweet-scented osmanthus-flavored liquid.

With one bag consumed, that faint warmth at his heart seemed to solidify somewhat.

After gulping down another bag, it finally ceased being a tantalizing sensation, with the warm current slowly spreading through his veins to his limbs, its path distinctly perceptible.

"So I need to actively supplement the dew to stimulate life force growth?"

Cheng Ye suddenly understood.

In previous skill fusions, he was driven by instinctual hunger, but this time the Green Grass Physique returned control to him.

This is probably the peculiarity of the Green Grass Physique.

It could be a wild grass, or a stretch of greenery, all depending on how he, the talent holder, supplements it.

Why hesitate then?

Experiencing eating without being driven, Cheng Ye’s actions became even more frenzied.

Four to five bags of nutrient paste were simultaneously torn open, their openings brought to his mouth, with the cool liquid gurgling down his throat without pause.

As soon as the liquid slid down the esophagus, it immediately converted into warm energy, continuously surging towards his heart, as if watering a dormant seedling.

No sense of fullness, nor hunger, he truly seemed to transform into a wild grass awaiting nourishment, focused solely on "absorption."

Bag after bag of nutrient paste was emptied, their packaging piling into a small mountain at the table, roughly forty bags consumed when a burning sensation suddenly emerged from his chest.

It was like a green flame was burning, with streams of warm current bursting forth from his heart, coursing towards his limbs and body.

Crack.

A barely audible crackling sound was heard.

Cheng Ye looked down in amazement to find fine cracks forming in the skin of his forearm, its surface becoming brittle like dried bark, followed by a thin layer of dead skin flaking off.

He raised a hand to touch his cheek, fine skin flakes brushed off his fingers, even his neck and ankles were shedding skin simultaneously, like undergoing a thorough renewal.

His bones joined in the commotion, producing a "bang bang" sound as if reassembling the skeleton, or stretching tendons, with an odd comfort amidst the soreness.

Unexpectedly, his scalp began to itch, reaching up to touch.

His hand was suddenly full of hair falling like willow catkins, not a single strand remaining on his scalp, soon becoming bald.

Balding?

As Cheng Ye stared at the hair fragments in his palm in a daze, the familiar hunger finally surged!

Whoa!

The appetite was slightly weaker than during the last Heart-Protecting Fire fusion, yet more impactful, like waves of rising tides crashing against his reason, urging him to replenish energy quickly.

Cheng Ye’s expression changed, grabbing the remaining nutrient paste from the box, instinctively pouring it into his mouth.

This time the liquid bypassed any stomach processing, instantly absorbed upon reaching his oral cavity.

Fortunately, the energy density of the Yellow Bag Nutrient Paste far exceeded standard versions, and after finishing the first box’s 100 bags, only four more from the second box were consumed before the roaring hunger swiftly receded like ebbing tides.

Drinking five more bags, a sense of fullness arose, all burning sensations gradually calmed, leaving only a gentle warmth.