Chapter 1059: Chapter 103: Where in the World Is the Path to Immortality? (65) — The Bad Luck Won’t Last Forever
Although the time for visiting has stopped and no longer continues to tick, the two Gaia being printed in the Pool of Ten Thousand Elements have not stopped and are already nearing pletion.
Jiang Zuo’s gaze couldn’t help but bee somewhat entranced—not by Gaia’s almost perfect appearance, but because of the technology behind her creation.
It seemed to reignite Jiang Zuo’s passion for science.
When the first Gaia was already printed, something resembling a conveyor belt emerged from the Pool of Ten Thousand Elements, delivering the finished Gaia out.
Hmm… even the clothing was printed, although it’s made of an odd, battle suit-like material. What exactly did the Myriad Elements reconstruct?
Though extremely curious, no matter how hard Jiang Zuo tried, he couldn’t obtain more information from the control interface—aside from the folder that seemed to contain Gaia’s memory, he couldn’t understand anything else.
There wasn’t even a method to copy the data; Jiang Zuo could only rely on his memory to haphazardly take note of everything he could see.
At this moment, the first printed Gaia had already left the Pool of Ten Thousand Elements, but the new body was inactive—Jiang Zuo glanced at the Gaia who brought him here and found she still had her head lowered, pletely in standby mode.
Jiang Zuo gritted his teeth, gathered courage, and walked up to the first printed Gaia, randomly calling out—there was no reaction.
The newly printed Gaia had a peculiarly pale plexion, unlike the guide Gaia. If one didn’t talk to her, she would look indisputably real—this seemed like an artificially created thing, just like an uncolored figurine.
Yet the moment Jiang Zuo approached, a light screen popped out from in front of this newly printed Gaia—there were many things on it that Jiang Zuo still couldn’t understand.
But he speculated this might be something like setup parameters… In the center, there’s a Six-Dimensional Diagram, giving Jiang Zuo a strange sense of déjà vu.
Thinking normally, it’s like the ‘body’ that just assembled, with all parameters at ‘zero’ status, requiring manual tuning?
Six ability values to set? But what do these six ability values cover—simplest, like physical strength, senses, thinking speed, etc.?
But just at this moment, the guide Gaia suddenly lifted her head.
This slight action shocked Jiang Zuo—he quickly stepped away from the two newly printed Gaias he was observing, fearing the presumption that he intended to purchase ‘them’.
[Hidden mand… Execute at highest priority… High brain occupancy rate… Partial retrieval…]
Jiang Zuo: ???
This guiding Gaia suddenly dissolved into nothingness right in front of Jiang Zuo!
The visiting time still didn’t continue to tick.
And now, the giant room where the Pool of Ten Thousand Elements is located, felt eerily quiet.
Jiang Zuo sighed.
The guiding Gaia left, so without understanding the situation pletely, Jiang Zuo felt he was thoroughly trapped inside this Pool of Ten Thousand Elements room.
He stared at the ‘setup board’ interface in front of the newly printed Gaia, frowning involuntarily… If setup was performed, would this Gaia start moving?
He began to reach his fingers towards the Six-Dimensional Diagram on this interface, carefully observing the changes in this Gaia.
But when Jiang Zuo’s finger casually skimmed across the Six-Dimensional Diagram area, this Gaia’s eyes abruptly opened.
This action startled Jiang Zuo, his finger inadvertently swiping over… a singular parameter.
At this point, Jiang Zuo scrambled to try and pull back the parameter he swiped excessively—because he realized that the values in this Six-Dimensional Diagram seemed to have limits, and couldn’t possibly achieve a state where all six parameters are maxed out… possibly due to the original design of the ‘body’?
But at this moment, the interface ceaselessly popped up sub-windows, making it impossible to retract the maxed value; Jiang Zuo rubbed his temples… feeling he had likely made an operational mistake.
This suddenly Gaia moved.
Her pale skin became tinged white, gradually plumping—and at the same time, this activated Gaia suddenly extended her palm.
Jiang Zuo suddenly felt a tremendous force appear, slamming his body fiercely into the wall!
The material of the wall was extremely hard, impossible to leave human-like indents; naturally, Jiang Zuo only felt his bones seemingly disintegrating.
He did not fall off the wall, feeling a force directly pinning his body onto the wall.
Jiang Zuo considered he was in trouble, seeing this Gaia slowly approaching the white pillar, extending her hand to press it.
[Checking… Defensive power vacancy… Searching for response method… Regulation forty-seven… When the main host can’t respond, mass-produced Gaia for bat can autonomously judge.]
[Supply additional troops]
[Activating Pool of Ten Thousand Elements… Maximize production for bat models…]
[Battle readiness]
See that gigantic Pool of Ten Thousand Elements, numerous printing arms suddenly emerged, extremely magnificent!
After this, they began working orderly, much like those in a sewing workshop—all engaged in identical tasks—printing Gaia.
At this moment, Jiang Zuo being pressed against the rear wall, upon witnessing this scene, fell straight into a state of certain doom: Can anyone tell me what parameter I just maxed out??
Battle readiness?
Seeing inside the Pool of Ten Thousand Elements, approximately fifty Gaias being simultaneously printed, Jiang Zuo had a sense of terror… Exactly how much more this mass production could yield, Jiang Zuo didn’t know, but even with just these fifty Gaias, subsequent waves promising not to continue would already be terrifying enough!
“What did I do…”
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Emmmm…
The perk of being a Black Soul envoy is, unless deeply wounded, healing occurs exceptionally fast—that’s why, even after Tai Yinzi endured countless hits from Huang Baifu’s Tyrant Fist, he could still recover rapidly.
However, when he came back to his senses, he wasn’t quite sure about his situation.
To be precise, he was trapped inside a huge crystal.
His body was not fixed, since the crystal was hollow. Yet this reminded Tai Yinzi of the painful feeling of being sealed without seeing daylight for five hundred years.
Meanwhile, opposite him, lay a similar substance—inside this crystal, Tai Yinzi could vaguely see a golden orb floating within.
Beyond this, in this not-so-large but pure white space, the only thing Tai Yinzi could prehend was Gaia standing between two crystals—and further in front, she faced a white pillar.
Her palm rested on the pillar.
“What the hell! Why are you trapping Grandpa Taoist!” Tai Yinzi hammered the inside of the crystal, unsure if his voice could be heard, “Gaia, let me out!”
[Repel]
Turns out the voice carried out, he pondered… Wait, this isn’t the time to care about such detail!
“Gaia! In the capacity of a sub-level authority, I mand you, release me!!” Tai Yinzi shrieked inside the crystal.
[Repel… Hidden mands surpass any authority instructions… Gaia… execute]
“Motherfucker! You moron, can it really break your brain?” Tai Yinzi now pounded even harder inside the crystal.
Right now, this crystal started to glow faintly—and simultaneously, the opposite crystal emitted the same glory.
Tai Yinzi sensed a bad premonition.
“Gaia!! What exactly are you going to do to me!!”
[Executing hidden mand… Implanting the master’s consciousness into the host… Helping the master regain the body of an Eternal Kingdom citizen… Awakening]
Gaia’s hand was slowly pressing down on the white pillar at this moment — and then, Tai Yinzi suddenly felt a suction force!
Not targeting his body, but seemingly targeting his thoughts… his soul!
He felt as if his soul was about to be pulled away!
“Stop!! Stop!! Stop…” Very soon, Tai Yinzi’s attempts to strike the inside of the crystal slowed down, and he weakly collapsed, looking at the abnormal Gaia, and gazing at the flickering golden orb on another crystal in front of him.
Tai Yinzi suddenly thought… could it be that the thing inside the crystal opposite was planning to seize his body?
The master… Gaia’s master… the owner of the Penglai Treasury?
“What have I, this old Taoist, done…”
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Since Da Zhe was here, the task of examining this man with a severed arm who fell from the sky naturally did not fall upon the club’s maid.
Da Zhe was very good at observing subtleties — even if there was a speck of dust on the boss’s hand, the maid had to wipe it to be at ease, making it very unlikely for her to touch this mysterious severed arm man, especially with Da Zhe present.
“There’s still blood at the site of the severed arm, so it should have dried not long ago, but his wound has actually healed.”
Da Zhe flipped the severed-arm man over and pinched his arm, “Hmm… this muscle feels like steel, probably very strong. Boss, do you want to rescue him?”
“Move him over there first.”
Luo Qiu pointed to a spot under a distant tree.
Da Zhe nodded, directly lifted the man with one arm missing, and walked towards the large tree.
You Ye observed Da Zhe’s industrious appearance and whispered, “He truly is willing to do these things without any reluctance.”
Luo Qiu recalled the days when he met Da Zhe back in his hometown.
This man had long passed the days of youthful recklessness, and ten years of prison life had made him simple and reserved.
Luo Qiu smiled gently, “It probably is just his nature… just not sure what he will encounter next.”
Standing beside her master, You Ye softly said, “The terms of the transaction were to send the advanced Black Soul Envoy here, but we don’t know what he might encounter. However, since the agreement has been made, the risks should have been considered during the negotiation, which is why the payment reached such a level. There is no need for the master to worry, as Da Zhe has already survived in the dimensional rift for a long time, and the power of the Zhan Lu Sword is almost fully activated, so even if he encounters any danger, he should be able to handle it.”
Luo Qiu nodded and laughed, “Yes, it was to prepare for this transaction that he was sent to the rift.”
You Ye also laughed and said, “But Da Zhe probably can’t guess that it was the master who sent him into the rift, he just assumes Eighteen is more carefree… He will understand your good intentions eventually.”
“Don’t place a halo on me.” Luo Qiu shook his head and walked towards the tree.
When Luo Qiu and You Ye arrived under the tree, they saw that the man with the severed arm had some leaves placed under him, supposedly done by Da Zhe.
At this moment, Da Zhe was pinching the man’s philtrum — this technique was probably just out of habit, but it didn’t seem effective.
“Try waking him up.” Luo Qiu casually ordered.
You Ye nodded and walked over, and Da Zhe quickly stepped aside. The maid, wearing long white gloves, used her fingers to touch the forehead of the man with the severed arm.
After a light touch, You Ye withdrew her hand and stepped back after several seconds.
Suddenly, the man with the severed arm abruptly opened his eyes, like someone awakening from drowning, taking a deep breath — he had bee conscious.
…
His head felt as if it had been pressed by a hydraulic machine, and the bursting sensation caused Huang Baifu’s vision to waver, seeing everything as a triple image upon awakening.
He saw the three people before him and immediately tried to steady himself against the tree trunk to stand upright — only to quickly realize his right arm was severed.
Huang Baifu fell silent immediately.
He wasn’t someone who couldn’t handle a blow… It was just that he had almost pletely lost his memory from the third stage of Divine Beast Transformation.
In the end, he had used that detested power… But what was the result?
That damn old ghost and the woman in white… And who are these three in front of me?
They didn’t look like people from the Daoist Association — though Huang Baifu preferred to resolve matters with his fists, he was essentially a very observant person.
Transcending into this place, in that deep valley, Huang Baifu had memorized the faces of all the Daoist Association members present thoroughly — searching through his memory, none of them matched the faces he saw now.
“Feeling better?” At this moment, Luo Qiu saw Huang Baifu rubbing his temples and asked nonchalantly.
Huang Baifu put down his hand, his vision gradually returning to normal, and he frowned, “I… What happened to me?”
“You suddenly fell from the sky.” Da Zhe answered on behalf of Luo Qiu: “We’re quite curious about your situation too.”
Fell from the sky?
Could it have been during the battle with that thing…
But, the severed part of his arm was healed, evidently not just recently cut.
In fact, ever since awakening, Huang Baifu couldn’t sense his right arm at all, as if it had vanished… If it had been utterly destroyed in battle…
Thinking about this, Huang Baifu’s expression turned grim.
“Are you… people of this place?”
Since they weren’t among the Daoist faces, they couldn’t be members of the demons… nor did they appear to be from the Management Bureau, so perhaps they were locals?
“No, we also came from outside and just arrived.” Luo Qiu replied politely with a smile.
“Came from outside…” Huang Baifu frowned at this moment.
The Dao Monsters were probably the first group to enter, and those ing from the outside later might be nameless loose cultivators wandering near Mount Tai who weren’t invited to the Penglai Conference?
Huang Baifu felt he was particularly unlucky today, first encountering a shameless old ghost, then that thing, followed by the woman in white, all incredibly strong.
The bizarre entity aside, the white-robed lady seemed unheard of, as if she had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. This left Huang Baifu even doubting his previous achievements — is it truly the inpetence of this generation’s Sky Spirit Clan?
Huang Baifu quietly shook his head, hoping his misfortune wouldn’t continue, to randomly encounter more individuals with overwhelming bat capabilities like the woman in white.
His demonic power was slightly depleted, and at this time, his Divine Beast Transformation could probably only reach the first stage’s magnitude — yet even without the transformation, Huang Baifu’s bat strength was still considered among the huge powerful monsters in the demons.
“You are quite remarkable, you’ve saved me; I repay kindness with kindness.”
Huang Baifu stated solemnly, “When I return, you won’t be shortchanged and will receive a good reward! But before that, I’m a bit parched, please fetch me some water, I need a few attendants for now. If you do well, there will be benefits you can’t even imagine in the future.”
Da Zhe couldn’t help but feel something wrong as he listened, his mouth gaping slightly at the end.
Luo Qiu showed no reaction.
But the maid let out a “heh,” narrowing her eyes.
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