Junze took the full bottle of "coconut milk" out from the frost-chilled cabinet.
The coconut milk was a pure milky white. Held in Junze's hands inside a transparent glass bottle, it was gilded by moonlight, like the tears of an angel.
It was incredibly strange.
Though stored in cold conditions, Junze could sense warmth emanating from it.
Yet when touched, it was clearly cool.
A completely incomprehensible substance.
Junze twitched his nose.
"So fragrant!"
His bright eyes widened.
This peculiar milky aroma captivated him deeply.
Not only that, he could also feel an enormous power within it.
"This is definitely not normal coconut milk!"
Junze stared at it with utter seriousness.
Something appearing in a place like this… clearly of adeptal origin…
Honestly, it was hard for Junze not to think of certain strange possibilities.
Junze shook his head forcefully, lecturing himself, "Junze, Junze, what are you thinking? The coconut goat thing was just a joke. How could you take it seriously?"
"Still… Master did seem a bit different today."
Images of Ganyu from the first day and from just now overlapped in his mind.
The black slime comparison really did look somewhat different.
The difference had practically reached the level of before-nerf and after-nerf.
Junze looked at the coconut milk in front of him.
"Forget it, whatever!"
Why was he even dwelling on weird thoughts? The most important thing right now was solving his hunger!
Junze raised the bottle and began drinking the coconut milk.
The liquid flowed down his throat into his body.
Rich milkiness blended with the fresh, slightly bitter fragrance of Qingxin, along with the milk's own sweetness.
It tasted incredible!
This was absolutely the best thing Junze had ever tasted.
The dishes from Xinyue Pavilion and Wanmin Restaurant were nothing compared to this!
At the same time, for the first time, he experienced what true fullness felt like.
But he had barely begun to enjoy it—
Thump!
Junze felt his heart suddenly convulse violently.
Thump!
Again.
An incomparably powerful energy began rampaging inside his body.
And that energy far exceeded what Junze's body could withstand.
This situation was entirely normal.
After all, Ganyu was a half-adeptus who had endured thousands of years of tempering. Her power itself was immense.
The essence she condensed could never be easily digested.
Even other qilin would only dare give descendants a single drop at a time, let alone Ganyu's.
Junze had taken a huge gulp in one go.
Fortunately he was a taotie, with a naturally massive capacity. If it were the offspring of another god, they would have exploded on the spot.
"So this is what being overstuffed feels like again."
Junze showed an awkward expression.
He had never imagined a single mouthful would cause this.
Truly worthy of adeptal origin.
At this moment Junze held the bottle—still more than half full—in one hand and clutched his chest with the other.
Frost began to spread around him.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Ice rapidly expanded outward from his body.
Many objects in the room were instantly frozen solid.
This was completely different from when Junze had frozen an Abyss Mage using water before.
This tyrannical frost was the manifestation of power Junze could not yet digest, released through his Cryo element.
Elemental energy was helping relieve his condition.
And the changes did not stop there.
Junze's hair lengthened rapidly, shifting from short to flowing long hair.
The horns on his head grew larger.
Most obvious of all was his body.
His previously well-fitting sleepwear suddenly became tight, tearing apart.
His once soft limbs grew firmer and stronger.
In an instant, Junze changed from a newborn child into a boy of seven or eight.
His adorable face gained an eerie beauty.
A beauty that seemed capable of luring others into ruin.
But this transformation appeared unstable.
Power his body could not bear was leaking out in various forms.
However—
"Get back here, all of you!"
So much energy—Junze would never let it escape!
How could a taotie waste food?
The ferocious taotie was a being said to devour even its own body out of gluttony.
If he dispersed this power just to relieve pressure, he wouldn't deserve to be called a taotie.
Anything that entered his body could never leave!
The moment this resolve formed, Attribute · Greed reacted instantly.
The taotie's inherent greed could also trigger this attribute in return.
Junze's newly grown body stabilized.
In the next instant, Attribute · Devour flared with black-gold light.
Thick black mist surged from Junze's body.
Under Greed's amplification, the mist was far more ferocious than when he devoured the Abyss Mage.
The situation changed instantly.
The black mist coiled around the escaping energy within Junze.
That fresh, pure power struggled wildly, trying to break free.
But once caught by the black mist, escape was impossible.
The scene resembled a pristine qilin pinned down by a black taotie.
The coconut milk's power gradually ceased resisting.
Finally, the black mist fully enveloped it and began devouring rapidly.
These two forces respectively represented Junze and Ganyu.
One could not help wondering whether, in the future, Junze might entangle Ganyu the same way.
In the end, the power of that single mouthful was completely absorbed.
Such was the greed of a taotie: even when full, it kept eating and assimilating.
Yet who could have imagined that the culprit forcing a taotie cub into such turmoil was merely a sip of coconut milk?
Now calmed, Junze noticed the bedroom lamp had lit up.
Clearly the earlier disturbance had awakened Ganyu.
Junze looked at the frost-covered room, then at the still more-than-half-full bottle in his hand, his expression awkward.
"…Master won't throw me out, right?"
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