Chapter 1116: Chapter 869 A New Life
Brick was placed into the large cultivation tank, and after reading Brick’s own genetics, the tank would automatically restore his body; however, this was not a task that could be completed in a short time, and Long Yi couldn’t possibly waste his Divine Power on such a matter.
Afterward, Long Yi, accompanied by the Bone King and Little Zi, went to another laboratory. Long Yi said, "Tell me, all your requests."
The Bone King pondered for a moment before saying, "First, I want a head, I also want to have the ability to eat, I wish to have a sense of smell, I hope I can have a sense of touch, I want two legs, two arms."
Listening, Long Yi said with a smile, "You mean, you want to become Human."
The Bone King nodded, yes, that was exactly his intent.
Long Yi said, "Actually, your current state should be the strongest. Your bone armor can resist bombardment from Magic, and your magic cannon is capable of firing lethal spells. Once you become Human, however, you will be full of weaknesses, every inch of your skin will transmit signals of pain. Your respiratory system will be threatened by poison gas, and if you don’t eat, you will grow weak and even die."
The Bone King nodded, "Yes, I understand, I know. But this is the life we envy."
"No, it means that you will abandon your current body. I must create a new body for you, and you must start over adapting to your power, and during this period, you could even be killed by enemies."
"Yes, I know."
"Even so, do you still want a new body?"
"Yes, I want it."
Long Yi was speechless, but at least this was much better than self-destruction.
After some thought, Long Yi suddenly laughed, "What do you think of Brick?"
Without hesitation, the Bone King said, "He’s a good man, I like his approach to life, he takes everything in stride, even the fact that his body was invaded by me didn’t make him any less despondent."
"So, do you want to be his brother?"
Long Yi issued a new command to Brick’s cultivation tank, instructing it to replicate a new body using Brick’s genetics. Two bodies were created one after another. Brick only needed to wait for his soul to adapt to his reborn body, and the hardest part was still ahead for the Bone King. Little Zi extracted his soul from the previous body and injected it into the new one, his soul showing a great deal of discomfort. However, with Little Zi’s assistance, they managed to calm his soul down, allowing it to slowly adapt to the new body.
"Hey! Brother!"
When the Bone King woke up, Brick was staring at him with his Big Eyes.
"..." A nameless range of colors flooded into the Bone King’s eyes. Before, he observed the world through Magic, everything was an outline, with no distinctions of light or color. But now, there were both light and color.
His nose smelled the scent of the cultivating fluid, and his skin felt the bed and the blanket.
"Welcome to the new world," said Long Yi on the side.
By Long Yi’s side, the original body of the Bone King walked over step by step, sitting next to the newly born Bone King.
"Your former body is very powerful, fully capable of taking on the task of protecting you all. It has a Resonance with your soul, and you can control it as if it were your own body," Long Yi said.
"..." The Bone King wanted to speak, but he had never used a Human body to speak before.
"Don’t rush, you can take some time to adapt."
The Bone King’s soul was extremely powerful. In just half a day, he had fully adapted to the new body. In a day, he had learned to walk, and in two days, he was capable of conversing freely. By the third day, he had acquired Fighting Aura.
His soul had adapted to the new body.
"This feeling is just so wonderful!" The Bone King was extremely excited. If at first he was just trying it out, now he was completely immersed in the surprise.
Actually, if it had been up to Long Yi, he wouldn’t have been very hopeful about such an occurrence. It was about a creature created by the Giants who didn’t like its own body, who didn’t like the fate arranged by the Giants. But at least for now, the Bone King was happy.
At least very happy.
"We’ve already delayed three days, it’s time for us to head to the Black Blade Mountain," the Bone King said.
"Tell me where it is, and Little Zi and I will go by ourselves," Long Yi said.
"No, I must go. The King of Blades is my friend, and if I’m present, it should reduce a lot of trouble," the Bone King said.
"But your strength..."
"Haha, don’t worry, we brothers are well-prepared!" Brick chimed in.
It turned out that Brick’s Power Armor and war hammer were not just one set. He had forged quite a few armors and war hammers for himself, intended for replacement when they were damaged. The Bone King and Brick were of similar build now, and their combat styles were practically identical. It was the perfect match.
Long Yi had no choice but to agree, resolving to look after them if need be.
The group continued on their way, with the Bone King advising Long Yi not to fly or use the Great Explorer vessel, as this relatively closed biosphere had a great hostility towards outsiders.
Seeing the red soil disappear, ahead was a stretch of black earth, from which sharp spikes protruded as irregularly as Greatswords.
"This is the habitat of Sword Ghosts. Follow me and do not touch any of the swords," the Bone King said.
"Ah? You mean this?" Long Yi had already pulled a sword from the ground with one hand, and right below the sword was a creature with four legs like a turtle, with the blade growing on its back.
"Damn it," the Bone King said.
"Squeak——"
The quadruped creatures below made an ear-piercing sound, and the ground around them immediately began to tremble. Subsequently, countless such quadruped creatures slowly crawled out of the ground!
"Get ready!"
Those little quadruped creatures accumulated Fighting Aura all over their bodies, covering themselves and their sword blades with it. Then, they leapt forward rapidly, sprinting toward Long Yi and the others!
Clang!
The sword blades struck Long Yi’s Crystal Stone armor, sparking dazzling firelights. Little Zi immediately took to the sky, ready to cast magic.
"Don’t take off!"
The Bone King shouted.
But it was too late, as Fighting Aura javelins were launched from the sword blades in the distance, just as Little Zi was hurrying down. The Fighting Aura spears collided where Little Zi had just been, causing a fierce explosion.
Brick and the Bone King swung their great hammers, and the powerful impact force swept away swathes of Sword Ghosts. However, these Sword Ghosts were extremely sturdy, and merely being flung away did not harm them in the slightest.
"Didn’t you say you knew their boss? Why are these little bastards attacking us?" Long Yi asked.
"I know their boss, but that doesn’t mean they know me," the Bone King replied, controlling his former body to continuously fire magic at the surroundings. Under the relentless barrage, waves of Sword Ghosts were repelled, and they kept pushing forward.
"Wouldn’t their boss get angry with us attacking its kids like this?" Long Yi asked.
"No, because these aren’t its kids, they’re more like parasites," the Bone King said.
"I see! Why didn’t you say so earlier!" Long Yi immediately drew out his Cosmic Stone Greatsword, and his Destruction Ripple horizontally swept through, severing sword blades en masse. Some Sword Ghosts screamed and burrowed underground after their sword blades broke, while others were cleaved in half on the spot. Long Yi found that the insides of these Sword Ghosts were hollow, as if there was just a shell moving around.
New quadruped creatures started to surface from the ground, but these were larger than the previous ones and looked more like massive starfish, except that at the forefront of each limb was a huge sword blade.
"These are Sword Stars, be careful of their high-speed spinning cuts."
As he spoke, the Sword Stars, which had been crawling forward slowly, suddenly spun at high speed, slicing from all directions like extremely sharp saw blades!
"So thrilling?" Long Yi’s Destruction Ripple slashed out, and the front row of rapidly spinning Sword Stars shattered into pieces. But the back row was already charging forward!
Protected by the Crystal Stone armor, numerous Sword Stars sliced from all directions at high speed, sparking a sky full of firelights. Suddenly, Long Yi stretched out his hand, and a massive impact force immediately broke the sword blades, allowing Long Yi to charge out and crash into the group of Sword Stars. Using his own body’s incredible hardness, he crushed a large portion of the Sword Stars.
Little Zi was rather passive, despite her body being composed of black Cosmic Stone and having extremely high hardness. As a girl, she didn’t want to confront blades with her body. So, she chose to cast magic spells from afar instead.
The team continuously cast spells, and sword blades were broken. Just like the previous Sword Ghosts, as soon as their sword blades were broken, they would flee, burrowing back underground.
"What’s up ahead?" Long Yi asked the Bone King loudly. At this point, Long Yi’s entire Crystal Stone armor was scarred, and he couldn’t be bothered to repair it. After all, the Crystal Stone armor, even covered with scars, could not be cut through by these sword blades.
"Up ahead is the Sword Core!"
Sword Core? Could it be similar to a sea urchin?
As he thought this, a huge black sphere burst out of the ground ahead. The sphere spun in the air, detected the presence of Long Yi and the others, and immediately extended countless sword blades from around its body!
It really is a big sea urchin!
As one appeared, more massive Sword Cores also emerged from the ground in succession. They spun too, but instead of charging at Long Yi and the others, they launched sword blades wrapped in magic and Fighting Aura for long-range attacks. Moreover, each sword blade carried different types of magic: explosions, electrical shocks, and even curses!
Compared to the previous creatures, the sword blades launched by these Sword Cores were tougher, and their power was even greater. Long Yi, marching in the front, had to start repairing his Crystal Stone armor to prevent a sudden breach. Little Zi was protected by Long Yi in the rear, continuously throwing out magic spells to shoot down the Sword Cores in the sky. At the rear, Brick and the Bone King could not combat the high-speed flying sword blades, so they had no choice but to endure these attacks with the strong defensive capability of their Power Armor.
At this time, the Bone King’s former body was extremely powerful, launching magic from four magic cannons continuously and shooting down Sword Cores in the distance one after another, while the sword blade strikes barely left any traces on its bone armor.
Looking back and seeing this, Long Yi burst into laughter and said, "How about it, do you regret changing your body now?"
But the Bone King also laughed, "If I hadn’t changed bodies, maybe I would be standing there as bored as now, mechanically casting magic. But now, I have experienced different fighting pleasures!"
All Long Yi could do was helplessly purse his lips, sure enough, he was determined.
After they passed through the area full of Sword Cores, the path ahead became calm.
"What’s behind us?" After disengaging his Crystal Stone armor, Long Yi took a few deep breaths and asked.
"It’s... Ah, here they come!" Before the Bone King could finish speaking, several figures with heavy steps came into view in the front.
They all had humanoid shapes, entirely black, and stood over five meters tall. Their arms had completely transformed into two Greatswords, heavily dragging behind them. With their steps came a series of sounds.
"Sword Persons?"
"They are Sword Slaves," the Bone King said.
"Sword Slaves... Pfft haha!" Little Zi immediately grasped the insinuation in Long Yi’s wording and burst into laughter. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to qidian.com to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)
