I Contracted Myself

Chapter 25 – King

Zhang Ping felt something was off.

He looked at his hands, and in the next moment, they turned into pure water.

"......"

The tent fell silent. Liu Sishan's eyes widened as she watched Zhang Ping transform into a puddle of liquid.

After about a minute, she finally reacted. With a serious expression, she walked over to the liquid, dipped her finger in it lightly, and frowned. "Pure water?"

At that moment, Zhang Ping's voice came from the liquid, "Sister Sisi, you poked my stomach."

"Zhang Ping, you're still alive?" Liu Sishan withdrew her hand, asking in surprise.

Zhang Ping replied, "I should still be alive, but my current state is a bit strange. Give me a moment to adapt."

He felt quite peculiar, as if his body had become a whole.

No, that wasn't right.

It seemed his body had turned into a mass of water.

No, that wasn't right either.

How should he describe it?

In any case, there was no distinction between head, neck, torso, arms, or legs, but it seemed he could form these parts at any time, even growing multiple heads, all made of water.

This was a bit hard to control.

Zhang Ping tried to adapt, slowly controlling himself to grow an arm, and then another arm beside it.

No, that was wrong.

He needed to grow a shoulder first.

Liu Sishan stood by, watching Zhang Ping gradually restore his human form.

Finally, after half an hour, Zhang Ping fully recovered, but he was now a humanoid figure made of water, not a human.

Liu Sishan looked at the water figure of Zhang Ping and asked, "Zhang Ping, can you change back?"

"I should be able to, but I haven't found the trick yet. Let me appraise it first," Zhang Ping replied.

He raised his hand and immediately activated his appraisal skill.

[Appraisal Successful]

[Summoned Beast: Zhang Ping]

[Owner: Zhang Ping]

[Race: Human]

[Potential: ☆☆☆☆☆☆]

[Lifespan: 99]

[Rank: Primary Awakener]

[Level: 9]

[Talent]

[Contract Gem: Can consume stamina and mental strength to condense a contract gem. Once the target willingly accepts the contract gem, their life, soul, and consciousness will be dominated by the summoner, but they will also gain the summoner's potential and luck. After the first use, subsequent uses will slightly enhance the target's potential, with a 1% chance of awakening a new talent. Note: The talent ability obtained by summoner Zhang Ping through overdrafting IQ, potential, and luck is powerful but has a significant flaw. Overambition may not be a good thing.]

[Absolute Command: You have absolute control over your summoned beast. Your commands cannot be disobeyed by the summoned beast.]

[Absolute Obedience: You must absolutely obey the summoner's commands and execute them loyally.]

[Collector's Edition Appraisal Skill: Can appraise the target with a 60% chance of obtaining information. After a successful first appraisal, the success rate for subsequent appraisals on the same target will increase to 100%. Note: This talent ability was born from the curiosity of both summoned beast Zhang Ping and summoner Zhang Ping.]

[Misty Night Walker: Gains night vision, significantly reduces presence at night, greatly increases movement speed, reduces weight, becomes completely invisible in shadows, and significantly reduces presence when shrouded in mist.]

[Fire Eater: Can restore stamina by consuming flames and convert excess flames into fire elemental energy stored within the body. After releasing the energy, temporarily gains a flame-wrapped effect until the fire elemental energy is depleted. This ability will gradually increase the user's resistance to high temperatures. Note: Potential is just potential; only when it is realized as strength does it become true power.]

[Wind Whisperer: The wind will bring you all kinds of information, whether you want to know it or not. Note: There are no walls that the wind cannot penetrate, and no secrets that the wind does not know.]

[Unusual Eater: When consuming special items, there is a 10% chance of gaining a corresponding special constitution. Note: Why does this kid eat everything?]

While some prices were invisible and intangible, only understood when it was time to pay.

A night passed without further words.

Early the next morning, Zhang Ping was woken up by Liu Sishan.

The two of them went to an uninhabited valley. Zhang Ping was eating a compressed energy bar and asked, "Sister Sisi, what are we doing today?"

"First, we need to test your new abilities. Your strength has increased too quickly, and I'm not sure if the previous plans are still useful for you," Liu Sishan replied.

Zhang Ping's face fell, and he said bitterly, "Sister Sisi, I actually think your plans are useless. If I hadn't been lucky last night, that rabbit alone would have killed me."

"......"

Liu Sishan didn't speak, just looked at Zhang Ping calmly.

The two of them remained silent.

Silent.

In the end, Zhang Ping raised his hand in surrender and said, "Alright, alright, let's do it, let's test."

"Then let's begin."

Water light surrounded Liu Sishan, and water balls quickly formed.

A stream of water whipped towards Zhang Ping. Zhang Ping's body turned into a pure water state, taking the hit without dodging. As the water whip merged into his body, Liu Sishan immediately felt a part of her controlled water was gone.

"As expected... this ability just happens to counter mine!"

Liu Sishan thought to herself.

Awakeners, especially those with elemental abilities, inherently had relationships of mutual reinforcement and restraint.

When she saw Zhang Ping's pure water state last night, she had a feeling that her ordinary attacks would hardly pose a threat to Zhang Ping.

Because Zhang Ping's body was entirely made of water, and she could only influence the water she controlled. She couldn't affect natural water or water created by other ability users.

Next, she tried attacking Zhang Ping with ice spikes and boiling water, but after a series of attacks, Zhang Ping remained unscathed.

Although Zhang Ping's screams were particularly loud when attacked by ice spikes and boiling water.

"Sister Sisi, is that enough?" Zhang Ping asked weakly.

Actually, the pure water state wasn't invincible. Flames, lightning, ice, boiling water, and even punches could cause damage. However, he could absorb moisture from the air to heal most injuries, making it seem like he wasn't hurt.

But this healing had its limits. Once exceeded, he could still be killed.

Liu Sishan created a water bubble to envelop herself and said, "Now you attack me. Let me see how strong your attacks are."

"Oh, I like this part," Zhang Ping nodded repeatedly.

As soon as he finished speaking, a misty flying knife appeared an inch in front of Liu Sishan's forehead, piercing through the protective water bubble.

Liu Sishan was shocked, staring at the flying knife suspended in front of her forehead for a long time before reacting.

If Zhang Ping had intended to kill her just now, she wouldn't have had time to react.

Although there was an element of her being caught off guard, the mist ability was terrifying. If a high-level Awakener underestimated it, they could easily be defeated by this ability.

"Sister Sisi, why does the misty Mutated Beast's ability have damage beyond its rank?" Zhang Ping waved his hand, and the misty flying knife turned into black mist and returned to his hand. Then he asked.

Liu Sishan came back to her senses and replied, "Some scholars once speculated that the misty Mutated Beast might be a descendant of a King Mutated Beast. Because it inherited some traits from the King, its ability has damage beyond its rank against beings below the King."

"A King?"

Zhang Ping couldn't help but think of the Moon Prince.

If the misty Mutated Beast was so magical because it had the King's bloodline.

Then what about the Moon Prince?

And what about the Moon King, who was a King himself?

Zhang Ping didn't dare to think further because the more he thought, the more despair he felt.

He didn't even know if Mingzhu City could still be saved.