Monsters Die When Killed

Chapter 374: Volume Finale: Legacy of the Ancient Wilderness

"Ready? Of course. I’ve already gotten myself into perfect condition."

Smiling, Su Zhou confidently held out his hand. You could see cyan and purple stripes of Spiritual Light, incredibly uniform and geometric, slowly appearing on his outstretched arm. Faintly, you could see similar geometric Spiritual Light flickering over every corner of Su Zhou’s body, even in his hair.

"I’ve officially entered the Extraordinary High-tier. Right now, I’m just contemplating what ’that form’ I want is."

Earth was, after all, too peaceful. There were no battles, no powerful Exotic Beasts. As he pondered what form his True Body and Dharma Body should take, Su Zhou urgently needed to broaden his horizons and find his desired combat form through a series of intense battles.

"It’ll probably be a few more days. I’ll organize my experience with Wind Thunder and tell you about it before I leave. But for today, let’s go check out Electronic Street first—I heard they recently launched some new type of computer that can be charged with Spiritual Qi. Sounds interesting."

"Then let’s go."

The two left the cafe, and the city streets were spotless. This wasn’t because the nation’s moral standards had suddenly risen to the level of Saints, but mainly because the Points system had been active for two months, and quite a few people had already redeemed the Cleaning Technique.

To practice using their Spiritual Power, cast Magic, and manipulate Spiritual Qi, people all over the country—no, all over the world—were now randomly casting the Cleaning Technique and Duster Technique everywhere. You couldn’t say the roads were as clean as a mirror, but you couldn’t see a single speck of dirt.

Even the several river channels in Hongcheng had become so clear it was as if they didn’t contain a single mote of dust. This was because tens of thousands of people cast the Purification Technique on them every day. In fact, they were so clean that fish couldn’t even survive in them. It got to the point that the government had to issue successive prohibitions, forbidding the public from casting the Purification Technique on the rivers. The official authorities would handle water and soil purification projects themselves; full public participation was a case of too much of a good thing.

To be honest, if Su Zhou didn’t know for a fact that the source of Spiritual Qi was endless, the consumption from hundreds of thousands of people wildly casting Magic every day would have been truly terrifying, a massive waste. If their predecessors from decades ago, when Spiritual Qi was cut off, could see this, they would definitely be filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred.

Back then, accumulating even a little Spiritual Power was incredibly difficult. How could it be wasted so casually?

"Still, you have to admit, the whole city looks brand new."

Lifting his head, Su Zhou surveyed the city around him, where not even a trace of old rust or decay could be seen, and couldn’t help but remark to his friend, "I’ve really never seen Hongcheng look so clean and tidy."

And Shao Qiming nodded, smiling without a word.

This was the second Spring Festival that Zhengguo had welcomed after the global Spiritual Energy Revival.

A society of universal Transcendence was beginning to ferment. In the more remote regions of the world, the drastic reforms and changes caused by the appearance of Transcendents were now gradually bearing fruit.

However, the turmoil, changes, and suffering had nothing to do with the people in the major cities of the great powers. Even if a few individual cities and regions were in deep water, those living in peace would at most sigh about it.

In early 2016, some people observed a strange aurora phenomenon in the cosmos, while others said the celestial signs were beginning to shift. But no matter what changes occurred, during this Spring Festival, even the Saints were smiling, celebrating the new year with their children and grandchildren.

Except for one.

「Zhengguo, Celestial Capital Suburb, Underground Second District.」

Zhengguo Central Biological Technology Center.

In the simple and clean experiment hall, rows of enormous transparent incubation tanks, several meters tall, were arranged in nine rows. They were numbered sequentially and marked with different labels.

Each incubation tank was filled with a light red solution that churned, carrying various indistinct shadows that rose and fell within it.

A neatly dressed, middle-aged man in a white lab coat with a full head of silver hair walked among the many incubation tanks. On his right wrist was a mechanical device that resembled a watch but was clearly larger. It shot out beams of cyan fluorescence, scanning each incubation tank. The device recorded the information within, then sorted and summarized it into a report according to preset criteria.

The middle-aged man’s silver hair was not due to age but seemed to be natural. He had a lean, clean-shaven face and sharp, spirited eyes. The only thing out of place were the deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, which didn’t match his otherwise not-so-old appearance.

Zhengguo, Biology Holy Seat, Cang Lunzhe.

Bloodline of the Ancient Divine Beast, Bai Ze.

The sole Mimic Dao Saint Seat. The true leader of Zhengguo’s current Mimic Dao faction.

[Experimental Group Six stable. No abnormalities.]

[Experimental Group Seven, Test Subject No. 3 showing adverse rejection. Seventy-seven percent human bloodline unable to withstand the Spiritual Energy inheritance.]

The emotionless voice of the Artifice Sage echoed in the Life Saint’s ear. This was not an AI, but his actual voice. [Brother Lunzhe, based on observational data from the past two years of experiments, starting from a seventy-five percent ’original human’ natural bloodline, it is already unable to withstand the information of a standard Spiritual Energy inheritance.]

"Is that so? Then this means that even without using Mimic Dao to simulate a mixed bloodline, I’ll still need to modify at least twenty-five percent of the bloodline information to achieve my goal."

The impassive Life Saint replied flatly. He walked over to Test Subject No. 3 in Group Seven, which was showing abnormalities, and stared at the shadow rising and falling within.