Chapter 1324: Chapter 1071: Reverse Thinking
This Divine Worm felt it had hit the jackpot! In this multiverse, the strength of living beings was strictly categorized: beings from the middle planes were generally stronger than those from the lower planes, and beings from the upper planes were even more powerful than those from the middle planes. And here, this mysterious Princess of the Celestial Clan unexpectedly reigned supreme over everyone! According to its limited memory, the Celestial Clan shouldn’t be this strong. But since she was so powerful, wasn’t that even better? What’s more, she had the identity of a princess! After gaining complete control over her thoughts, it would immediately return to the Celestial Clan and use every means at its disposal to become Emperor, ultimately taking the entire Celestial Clan into its grasp. And controlling the Celestial Clan meant controlling the entire Heaven Realm. And controlling the Heaven Realm meant controlling the gateways to all the planes. By then, wouldn’t the entire multiverse be under its control?
At this moment, the Divine Worm began to indulge in its beautiful dreams.
No, no, no, let’s calm down first. The parasitic consciousness is what’s most important!
To the Divine Worm, the consciousness of intelligent beings was a tangible thing, into which it could easily merge itself. However, first, it would need to locate Elsa’s consciousness within this blank space of consciousness.
Normally, people instinctively place their consciousness in the central location of the consciousness space. It was almost uncontrollable, but those who had undergone special training would hide their consciousness. To the Divine Worm, it seemed likely that Elsa had received such training, as it couldn’t find Elsa’s consciousness at first glance.
Yet the Divine Worm wasn’t worried. It could even parasitize the consciousness of deities, so what was a member of the Celestial Clan?
So, a red wave began to search throughout the pure white space, a mysterious pulse spreading in every direction. As long as Elsa’s consciousness was here, no matter what form she hid it as, it would surely be found by the worm!
Thus, the Divine Worm started wandering ceaselessly through the space, circling around and around. It didn’t know how much time had passed when it finally realized something was wrong.
Elsa’s consciousness wasn’t here! Could this not be Elsa’s consciousness space?
The Divine Worm quickly checked and the result was clear—this was undoubtedly Elsa’s consciousness space. So what was going on? Every living being’s consciousness was supposed to be in their consciousness space unless they were a deity. The divine consciousness was integrated with the Divine Soul and Divine Status, known as the Trinity. But this little girl of the Celestial Clan wasn’t a deity! She didn’t have Divine Power! How could her consciousness be nonexistent?
"Do you find it strange that you can’t locate my consciousness?"
In the pure white space, Elsa’s figure suddenly appeared in front of the red wave.
"Right here!" The red wave surged toward Elsa, but passed through her body, which was nothing more than an apparition.
"How could this be!" the Divine Worm cried out in surprise.
"Hmm, Divine Worm, that name really is a bit strange. Let’s take a look at your origins, oh my, your fragmented memory. To read your memories does require some imagination!"
The Divine Worm was shocked to discover that its own consciousness was being invaded! This was unthinkable! It had always been the Divine Worm that parasitized others’ consciousnesses; never had anyone been able to infiltrate the consciousness of the Divine Worm! How on earth did this girl named Elsa accomplish this!
"... You’ve once parasitized the consciousness of a deity? That must’ve been a difficult experience, and then, because the deity split itself into over ninety thousand parts, you were split as well, you parasitized within the Divine Soul... Oh! So this red wave is the Divine Soul, I thought it was your true form! Let me look further, what did you do after that, you were awakened, you wandered aimlessly, you found the Giant’s External Storage Device, you stole the knowledge within... you revived and controlled these people, obtained faith from them, and then you actually re-ascended to godhood? Trinity... it looks like you were successful!"
The Divine Worm was truly frightened, for it was the Divine Worm, born in the Divine Realm, it was not a life from this multiverse, and if anything, it was higher in status than most of the life within the multiverse. This meant that it was fundamentally different, and also that it was impossible for anyone to invade its consciousness.
But.
There are always exceptions. Elsa was now unabashedly reading its consciousness, those memories that the worm had hidden in the deepest part of its consciousness were being extracted by Elsa, read with ease as if flipping through a book that was open for public viewing.
Finally, the sensation of invasion disappeared. Elsa stopped reading its memories, and the Divine Worm finally caught its breath.
"Who exactly are you!" the Divine Worm said cautiously, knowing it seemed to be in big trouble. Logically, it should leave immediately, but the biggest issue was that it had abandoned the protection of the Eternal form, and it couldn’t linger in the outside world for too long. If it stayed too long, the Divine Envoy it had parasitized would wake up due to the exposure to external knowledge. By then, taking control of a new Divine Envoy again would waste a lot of time. So, the Divine Worm decided to try other means; it decided to fulfill its purpose through cunning and wit.
"Who am I? Being a revered Maintenance Golem of the Heavenly Kingdom, shouldn’t you be able to see through all my origins at a glance?" Elsa’s apparition said with a laugh.
"So you’re saying you don’t dare to tell me your origins?" the Divine Worm retorted.
"Yep, I don’t dare. What are you going to do about it?" Elsa continued with a smile.
The Divine Worm was left at a loss for words; it had never expected Elsa to respond so assertively, which was completely different from the other powerhouses it knew.
"There’s not much I can do with a coward. But since you already know my origins, what are you going to do with me?" the Divine Worm decided to take a different approach, desperately wanting to know how Elsa planned to deal with it.
"Actually, I haven’t figured it out yet, but since you’re eager to ask, I might as well try some methods,"
As she spoke, Elsa’s illusion disappeared, and the originally pure white space of consciousness suddenly turned grey. Divine Worm immediately felt a tremendous oppressive force all around!
Then, an Elsa slowly rose from the ground.
When this Elsa appeared, Divine Worm was shocked to discover that it was actually Elsa’s consciousness!
How foolish, utterly foolish! If you hadn’t exposed your consciousness, I would have had no way to deal with you, but now you’ve presented your consciousness before me! Well, I won’t be polite anymore!
The previously quiet red fluctuation suddenly transformed into a streak of red light, charging towards that Elsa. That Elsa didn’t even have time to dodge and was instantly hit by the red glow!
This is indeed consciousness! This is just perfect!
Divine Worm immediately began attempting to fuse its consciousness with Elsa’s. However, as the consciousnesses merged, it was alarmed to discover that there were absolutely no memories within this consciousness!
Memory and consciousness should exist as one, so if the consciousness is here, the memories should be here too! Yet this consciousness contained no memories at all, which could only mean one thing: this consciousness was fake!
But how is that possible! Could Elsa really create her own consciousness from nothing? Even now, Divine Worm still believed this consciousness was real; it had all the characteristics of Elsa’s consciousness, but why was it like this?
While pondering, it noticed that the ground around it was slowly giving rise to Elsa after Elsa, each with a smile on their face, looking at the parasitized Elsa. At this moment, Divine Worm understood that this was just another trap!
No, I must decisively abandon the parasitism of this consciousness!
Divine Worm made its judgment quickly, although it didn’t understand how Elsa achieved this, it knew that if it didn’t leave now, it could encounter big trouble!
However, when it tried to separate the half-parasitized segment of its consciousness from the counterfeit Elsa’s consciousness, it was once again astounded to find it couldn’t do it. Not only could it not do it, but Elsa’s consciousness was actually fusing with its own!
"You, a lowly life form, dare to merge with my consciousness!" Divine Worm was both shocked and furious, desperately trying to separate, but the other’s consciousness was stronger! In an instant, its consciousness completely merged with its own!
Right after, a red fluctuation was expelled from the eyes of that Elsa.
Oh no!
Divine Worm panicked, its attempt to forcibly separate not only failed but also made it lose contact with the Divine Envoy!
Damn it!
By now, Divine Worm was completely out of options, as its consciousness had truly become one with that Elsa’s, indistinguishable and inseparable. It was already utterly unable to break free on its own.
"What exactly do you want to do?" Divine Worm asked in a cold voice, tense to the point of death, yet not daring to show it.
"From your memories, I know it is very difficult to kill you. No matter how one may try to execute your host, you as a fragment of consciousness will always somehow escape. So I was thinking, if there is no way to kill you as just a fragment of consciousness, why not make you whole first?"
Divine Worm had a sudden realization!
Yes, it was Divine Worm, essentially a fragment of consciousness, so even if its host was killed a thousand times, it could escape because it was just a parasite, not a symbiont.
But now it was different, it had completely fused with that consciousness; it was neither parasitic nor symbiotic, it was that consciousness itself.
"Now, all I need to do is give you a body and then kill that body, wouldn’t that work?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
