However, Zhong Yingxue, Xia Yao, and Ye Xingxuan, who were cultivating on the surface of the clear broth pool, had not submerged fully. Their heads remained above water.
As a result, their eyebrows and hair were untouched. They had escaped the full effects of Super Strength 2.0.
Yet their bodies, from soaking, had transformed into diamond-hard Barbies.
By the time they noticed, it was too late.
Ye Xingxuan let out a terrified scream, her face panicked. She half-dragonised on the spot.
☜—(๐ớ口ờ)
“Aaah! This water is poisoned!”
At that moment, Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao hid in the water, their pretty faces darkened, teeth grinding.
“It’s not the water that’s poisoned. It’s a certain person!”
No need to guess. Little Nan had definitely dumped Super Strength 2.0 into the water.
How much had he poured to contaminate the entire mandarin duck hotpot?
No wonder the spicy side was glowing so brightly.
Hang on.
Just soaking might cause extreme muscle growth, but it shouldn’t make people glow.
Why were they glowing over there?
Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao exchanged a glance, faces filled with horror.
Hiss.
Had they drunk the bathwater?
Just then, Xia Yao suddenly felt something poking her foot.
She looked down sharply.
There was Jiang Nan, holding his nose underwater, prodding her sole with a finger.
Xia Yao’s fangs sparked with fury. “Stinky Little Nan!”
Zhong Yingxue: (ﾉ)﹏(ヾ)
Jiang Nan hurriedly handed them each a set of Hulk shorts and tank top.
The three quickly put them on and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Nan also relaxed. Thankfully, they had only muscled up, not gone bald.
Otherwise, he would definitely have been strangled.
He teleported straight onto the bank. Out of the clear broth, there was nothing left to worry about.
He ripped off the tank top, cancelled the Cloth Pudding transformation, and reverted to muscular Nan mode.
No way could he let everyone see how he had looked just now. The tall, mighty image of Nan-god would be completely ruined.
At that instant.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Eight or nine bald muscle cuties burst from the water and leapt onto the shore.
The bath attendant auntie was dumbfounded. Not only had the spicy side mutated, even the clear side had?
How had the body-strengthening effect of the mandarin duck hotpot become so extreme?
This rugged style was simply too much for the eyes.
“Can someone tell me what on earth is going on? Woo woo. I can’t face anyone now!”
“Forget unscrewing bottle caps. I feel like I could rip manhole covers off with my bare hands!”
“My eyebrows, my hair! Auntie, isn’t your hotpot poisoned?”
Jiang Nan nodded vigorously. “Exactly, exactly. It mutated all of us after soaking. There’s definitely something wrong with your hotpot!”
Zhong Yingxue: (٥≖‸≖)
Xia Yao: (⇀‸↼‶)
Oi, oi, oi!
Was this what they meant by the thief crying “catch the thief”?
The auntie panicked too. Nothing like this had ever happened before.
She hurried off to inform Tanya.
“Eh? Where did that beautiful muscular big sister who brought us shorts go?”
“What muscular big sister? That was Nan-god!”
“No way! I clearly remember her being super pretty!”
Jiang Nan broke into a cold sweat. “Ah ha, ah haha, impossible! You must have seen wrong!”
The girls stared at Jiang Nan’s face, full of suspicion.
He had definitely looked different just now.
But the moment they looked, the heart-thumping charm effect was still active. Their hearts fluttered again.
An inexplicable warmth rose inside them.
Nan-god was just too considerate.
Nightingale darkened her pretty face. “It really wasn’t you?”
Jiang Nan planted hands on hips, utterly righteous. “Of course not! I’m a victim too!”
The Super Strength he, Jiang Nan, had poured had nothing to do with me, Muscular Nan.
Xia Yao straightened her expression. “Cough. Doesn’t everyone feel the body-strengthening effect in the spring water has grown stronger?”
“Since we’ve all ended up like this anyway, we might as well seize the chance to cultivate hard. Don’t forget our real reason for coming!”
The girls exchanged glances, gritted their teeth. They couldn’t go bald for nothing.
They jumped back into the water and resumed cultivating, eyes shining brightly.
Though they did not know why, the yin-cold energy in the spring had weakened, but the cool energy was now surging fiercely.
The body-strengthening effect was even greater than before.
Xia Yao: (≖̫≖)
Jiang Nan was deeply touched. Big Bad Wolf was the best. She even helped him cover it up.
He quietly gave her a thumbs-up, then teleported back to the spicy side.
He was nearly blinded by the ten suns.
He had forgotten they had been drinking the water here. Seeing the eight brothers crouched in the pool, too scared to emerge, Jiang Nan’s eyes lit up.
Business opportunity!
He teleported over. “Brothers, want to buy shorts? Special price for you!”
The Eight Suns: ???
At this moment, it was not just the top-tier mandarin duck hotpot that had issues.
Because all the underground waterways in Sacred Flame Spirit Ruins were interconnected.
The 300 barrels of Super Strength 2.0 had spread with the water cycle to every single hotpot.
Though diluted, the effect was still extremely potent.
Right now, the men and women soaking in the hundred-odd hotpots all had shining eyes.
“Did you feel it? That cool energy! The body strengthening is much faster!”
“I felt it! Heavens! This unparalleled sense of power!”
“I knew it. Ten suns in the sky meant great change! This must be the transformation brought by the omen!”
“Absorb it quick. It might disappear soon!”
Everyone’s faces were flushed with excitement.
Yet half an hour later, no one was smiling any more.
Roars of “Ah-ha” and high-pitched screams echoed through the mountains.
The ripping sounds of fabric never stopped. Shreds of cloth floated everywhere on the water surfaces.
Anyone soaking in a hotpot, man or woman, had fully activated rampaging muscle mode.
“Ya! What are these Saiyan-level muscles?”
“Bloody hell! My heirloom swim trunks, gone!”
“Is there a gamma-ray burst in this spring water? I’ve mutated! I won’t turn green later, will I?”
“Hiss. My little moustache? Compensate me for my little moustache!”
“It’s over, it’s over. From now on, time will fly like an arrow, days and months shuttling past.”
[Resentment from Wei Heng +1000!]
[Resentment from Yuan Lihua +1000!]
[From…]
At this moment, the resentment value list exploded, rising by over a hundred thousand in one go.
The entire Sacred Flame Spirit Ruins descended into chaos. Girls hid in the water, too scared to come out, questioning their existence.
The men all sported tower-like muscles, their faces pitch black with gloom.
Jiang Nan was stunned.
Was the effect of 300 barrels of Super Strength really this terrifying?
This was no longer a mandarin duck hotpot spa.
Muscle factory would be a far better name.
At this moment, Jiang Nan’s eyes gleamed. It seemed not everything was bad.
This was a blatant business opportunity.
Wearing his cap, he teleported frantically through the air, arriving at the edge of a high-grade hotpot pool.
He spread out a market stall cloth, arranged rows of Hulk shorts, and bellowed at the top of his lungs.
“Muscles gone wild, no need to panic!”
“Crouch down low and keep on soaking!”
“Even if you’re starkers all over!”
“We still won’t let tears start flowing!”
“Shorts and tanks delivered right beside you!”
“One hundred thousand each, unbeatable stretch!”
“This young lady! Want a set?”
At this moment, the crowd of devilish musclemen in the high-grade hotpot were going mad.
Why, in this moment of utter crisis, had a sunny, handsome, heart-thumpingly charming muscular hunk suddenly appeared to sell shorts?
And those advertising lines were far too catchy.
“Yes, yes, yes! One set!”
“This muscular handsome guy, I want shorts too! Transferring payment now!”
“Heavens! This racing heartbeat. This must be the legendary hero saving the beauty!”
“At such an embarrassing moment, he shows up in time to rescue me? I… I think I’m a little in love with him!”
Facts proved that the max-level heart-thumping charm effect was indeed powerful. The girls all blushed.
Even the muscular brutes started looking at him oddly.
Jiang Nan looked grave. “Don’t fall in love with me. I merely brought you shorts when you needed them most.”
“It’s what I ought to do.”
At this moment, many girls already had hearts in their eyes, covering their mouths and letting out shy “Ya!” sounds.
The brothers grew anxious.
You’re just a shorts seller. Do you have to sound so noble?
“Don’t just look after them. Us brothers are soaking here, hearts panicking too! We need your shorts to comfort us!”
In an instant, Hulk shorts sold out. Jiang Nan, hands soft from collecting money, confirmed everyone was wearing his brand of Hulk shorts.
Then he teleported to the next hotpot.
Only his voice lingered in the air.
“Don’t miss me, bro! And remember, don’t drink the broth, or you’ll become a golden legend!”
