Destiny is ashes

Chapter 651: Pet (4700)

"Don't immortals have a long life span?"

An Jing narrowed his eyes to hide the bloodshot light in them: "And can we artificially create spiritual roots? I remember you said that it is feasible to create spiritual roots, but it requires the use of a golden elixir, and it consumes a lot of resources."

"To be precise, it takes a True Lord at the peak of the Golden Core stage who has achieved the 'Immortal Realm' to do this, and it also requires spiritual materials of the five elements with corresponding attributes. The better the spiritual materials, the better the spiritual roots.

Fu Xie Sword Spirit sighed: "As for the long life span, the many mistakes made."

"An Jing, not everyone is like you. Not every magical power you cultivate is useful. For example, if someone who specializes in body training cultivates a magical power that reduces defense and increases spiritual awareness, wouldn't that be useless? Or for example, if you change the direction of your magical power advancement in order to survive in a battle, that's not perfect either, and you can no longer advance it."

"Whether it's making mistakes in cultivation, going astray, or hitting a bottleneck and being unable to make any progress. Even being infected by demonic energy and damaging your tendons and veins... the longer you live, the more mistakes you will accumulate. At that time, do you plan to just make the best of it and cultivate a bunch of miscellaneous and idiotic magical powers and just get by, or do you try your best to find a perfect body to possess and use the experience after rebirth to cultivate again?"

An Jing was silent. In his previous life, when he played games in peacetime, he also liked to explore with his first account and follow the perfect process with his second account. If you must say so, if it is a game that cannot be reset, it will really be a headache if you make a wrong decision at the beginning.

"People will regret, but there is no regret medicine in the world, so taking over someone else's body becomes an option."

As he said this, Fu Xie seemed to recall the distant past: "Of course, there are also people who choose to reincarnate, which is the formal way to start over."

"But the spiritual roots of reincarnation also depend on luck. Even if the soul can be fine-tuned to ensure that the body after reincarnation will definitely have spiritual roots, the level of the spiritual roots also depends on luck. Moreover, one has to face the mystery of the fetus. It is always less convenient than taking over another body."

"The only thing that can limit them is that the body they have taken over is not very convenient to use. Unless the degree of compatibility is very high, it can only be smoothed out with time. There will be a long period of weakness, and if they are found by the enemy, they will surely die."

"As for the artificial heavenly spiritual roots? No, no, no, that's not it. This is just a body 'assembled' using some heavenly spiritual roots as materials, just like a person uses the body of a demon to refine a magic weapon. This is a 'living magic weapon' refined using a human body."

As he spoke, Fu Xie's tone became increasingly grim: "And this can just avoid the discomfort of 'taking over a body'. As long as the soul is specially refined, this magical body will not feel any discomfort, nor will it have a weak period. It can even perform better, just like a reincarnated person who has reincarnated into the most suitable body."

"The only problem with this method is the subsequent maintenance. After all, this body is just a magical instrument. The limit it can withstand is the foundation. If you want to upgrade it, you need to make special adjustments and upgrades. It takes a lot of resources and energy to upgrade it. It's better to ask a True Lord to mold a good body for you."

"But no matter which one it is, the amount of resources consumed is too huge for an ordinary real person to provide."

"That's weird."

An Jing frowned, "They can possess bodies, at least at the Purple Mansion level, and they are all so expensive. If the True Masters in the Tianyuan Realm have enough resources, wouldn't it be better to ask a True Master they are familiar with to mold a body for them?"

“That’s the problem.”

Fu Xie said seriously: "This may be a problem in our time, but now that Yuhua Dao has flourished, the relevant modulation and maintenance may be unexpectedly simple."

"And the number of 'unusable' spiritual roots in the Tianyuan Realm is more than one might imagine... The cost is low, and the maintenance requirements are low. In this way, even those who are not wealthy can get a useful body."

Feathering Road...

An Jing took a deep breath. This special path was the source of many problems in the Tianyuan Realm.

He raised his head again and looked at the 'brain jellyfish' in front of him.

This is a perfect carrier of the Heavenly Fire Spirit Root. As long as the corresponding flesh and blood or a celestial body is created for it, a Purple Palace Foundation Establishment can be easily cultivated. Whether for personal use or for cultivating loyal subordinates, it is a first-class treasure.

But An Jing only felt...sadness.

"when."

He whispered, "Even the 'Immortal Path' requires such lowly means, such a technique that is not free and easy, not comfortable, not pure, and not precious?"

“This is not a fairy at all.”

He raised his hand.

From the perspectives of Nian Quan and Huo Qing, An Jing was silent for a few seconds when he saw this strange brain, then he raised his hand and swung out a sword, completely shattering it.

They didn't think there was anything strange because this was An Jing.

"Put away all these instruments."

After destroying this 'body' that was reserved by an unknown real person, An Jing shook his head: "It's a good thing. It can be put to better use in our hands."

"After we're done cleaning up, we'll continue to look for the main control room and the Night Altar Gang's treasure room. We don't have to be polite. We can rob these gangs if we can. Are we going to leave it to them?"

This was the reason, and the three of them quickly moved away all the instruments that could be moved from the advanced laboratory.

But they could never find where the main control room and the treasure room were.

Part of the underground base of the Yekan Gang is the abandoned underground sewer of Xuanye City. The structure is winding and has many inexplicable partition doors. There should even be an illusion array that makes people feel lost.

An Jing also killed many members of the Yekan Gang who happened to run into them along the way, but when they begged for mercy before they died, they said that they didn't know where the main control room and the treasure room were. This was information only known by the leaders.

Unfortunately, all the leaders were killed by An Jing.

"It will take about two hours."

Huo Qing is currently connecting to the Yekan Gang's system, following the array pattern to find the core hub. This is quite difficult and takes a long time. Although he has good skills, he is not a professional spiritual network hacker after all: "It can't be faster. I don't have any equipment, but even if I did, it would still take more than half an hour."

After more than half an hour, the food would be cold, and the elite troops of the Yekan Gang who were patrolling outside would come back - this was actually nothing, An Jing was showing respect for them with one hand.

The biggest problem is that such a large-scale battle will obviously attract the attention of the Sky Monitoring Bureau.

Although everyone knew that it was An Jing who attacked the Yekan Gang, An Jing had no intention of leaving any evidence and arguing with the corporate groups behind the Yekan Gang. He just wanted to kill, destroy, and rob as quickly as possible, saving people if there were people around, and burning the place down if there were no one.

According to An Jing's estimation and convention, the Astronomical Monitoring Bureau would set out in two quarters of an hour at most. By then, regardless of whether An Jing had achieved his goal or not, he would have to retreat.

"Forget it, just blow it up."

After wandering around, An Jing discovered that this haunted place was probably affected by an illusion array. Even he felt as if he was trapped in a wall - this was also part of the shadow magic. It seemed that a part of the remnant soul in the dark niche had really won the resurrection match and was now doing its best to mislead them.

An Jing didn't like playing this kind of tug-of-war with others. He was always simple and direct: "You guys leave first. I'll place explosives here. I'll blow this damn place up to the sky!"

"No, no, no, brother, please don't!"

Nian Quan and Huo Qing immediately panicked and stepped forward to stop them. They all knew how much firepower was inside the An Jing Taixu magic weapon - it could definitely be blown up, but at that time it would not be a problem of gang fighting, but a problem of super dangerous terrorists attacking Xuan Ye City!

"Just blow up the key parts."

Huo Qing suggested: "Just blow up the entrances and exits around the experimental area. This place is located in an area closer to the center. If we blow it up, we might even be able to destroy the array pattern of the illusion array!"

"You are indeed a professional formation master." An Jing thought this was a good suggestion, and the three of them began to place the explosives quickly and skillfully.

But the strange thing is that not only are An Jing and Huo Qing proficient, but Nian Quan is also very fluent - where did he learn it from?
"My mother taught me."

Nianquan answered honestly: "I used to think that I would go to work in Xiaozheshan in the future. After all, it is a mining company. My mother taught me a lot of relevant knowledge... but I don't use it anymore." At this point, Nianquan sighed: "Now that I think about it, if I hadn't met you, An Jing, I, a natural spiritual root who lost my mother's protection, would most likely end up disappearing on the streets or appearing in a laboratory like this one."

“I don’t think so.”

Huo Qing groaned: "You are so beautiful, different from your transformed appearance, you have a natural temperament, even the Yekan Gang would not waste it like this."

"Then I'd rather be torn down by them."

While chatting, Huo Qing suddenly saw something flashing from the corner of his eye. He stood up and asked in confusion: "What is that?"

"Is it a cat?" An Jing also turned his head. He also noticed it. His dynamic vision, which was much stronger than Huo Qing's, allowed him to see the shadow with just a glance - a white cat with smooth silver-white fur just ran past.

Why are there cats here?

The three of them were immediately confused, and what made them even more confused was that the white cat appeared again. It stayed in front of the three of them, then swung its tail and walked towards a passage.

"This is……"

An Jing frowned slightly: "Guiding us?"

"Where did this cat come from? Why isn't it afraid of us?" Nian Quan was also confused. This incident gave people a weird feeling: "Should we follow it?"

Huo Qing had no doubts. He counted a few breaths with his fingers, and then said in surprise: "It's right there! That path is the escape route of the illusion array, and we didn't find it before!"

An Jing and Nian Quan did not believe the cat, but believed Huo Qing's conclusion. After making sure that the explosives they placed were enough to blow up the experimental area, they followed Huo Qing's steps and walked towards the place where the white cat disappeared.

The white cat was still waiting for the three people. It squatted at the entrance and only walked towards the next passage after seeing the three people following it.

The passage was extremely winding, and walking in it even gave people the feeling of going in circles, but one could always see a road leading to the 'depths'. The white cat walked lightly, and the three followed.

Before long, they arrived at a safe door.

"Treasure room?"

It was really hard to imagine that An Jing came without any effort - when he and others had been struggling for a long time and couldn't find the way, a white cat suddenly appeared to lead the way?
Is this also God’s will?

An Jing shook his head. Although many things happened coincidentally and seemed like they were God's will, in fact, there must be a reasonable reason behind this white cat, just like many of his experiences in the past seemed to be coincidental, but in fact there was always a reason.

The white cat couldn't open the warehouse door. It frantically beat and bit the door, then looked at the three people with eager eyes.

Its eyes were an extremely beautiful violet color, like gems. An Jing felt that this cat had a spirituality beyond his imagination, which made him feel a chill.

But this chill was not because of the kitten that seemed a little crazy and kept biting the steel gate, but because of the guess in An Jing's heart.

Exhaling a breath, An Jing temporarily put aside all other thoughts, used Taibai Haoling's divine prohibition to destroy the metal security door, and opened the treasure room of the Yekan Gang.

What caught my eyes were rows of neatly stacked spiritual stones. A large number of extremely neat, ingot-shaped spiritual stones filled every shelf. These were undoubtedly the treasures of the Yekan Gang, the blood pill medicine they refined using another method.

With cold eyes, An Jing scanned the rows of spirit stones. He did not see any wealth, but only felt that he saw the condensation of countless people's lives.

At this moment, the white cat suddenly let out a roar that was not sure whether it was joy or madness. It jumped up and ran towards the depths of the treasure room like flying.

The three of them looked at each other and then followed.

Deep in the treasure room of the Yekan Gang, what was hidden were no longer spiritual stones, but a large number of extremely rare and precious spiritual materials and high-end prosthetics, which had entered the normal treasury area. An Jing was not interested in these, because the spiritual materials of the Tianyuan Realm were no match for those of the Huaixu Realm, and he had no use for the prosthetics, so he signaled Huo Qingnianquan to collect them all.

And at the deepest part of the treasure house, the white cat stopped.

It jumped up.

The three of them also came here.

They were all stunned.

They saw a brain... and many kinds of bodies surrounding that brain.

There were both male and female bodies, and there was even a kitten that looked exactly like the white cat. They were all young boys and girls, about eleven or twelve years old, and extremely beautiful. They looked exactly the same, like twin brothers and sisters or siblings, but they were all sleeping, soaking in a culture tank.

The boy and girl had long silver hair that seemed as soft and smooth as silk, curling and tumbling slightly in the culture medium, like a flowing silver ink waterfall. Their skin was snow-white, like white porcelain and milk, and their eyebrows were long and thin, just like the most exquisite porcelain dolls. In terms of appearance, they were among the most beautiful people An Jing had ever seen in the two worlds.

It is a kind of charm that is carefully designed and definitely not something that can be possessed naturally.

"People of the Pure Land?"

Fu Xie was stunned, and An Jing saw the white cat circling the brain, spinning and wailing in an almost crazy manner. It was so anxious and so sad. This little beast... no, this intelligent life turned its head and looked at the three people. It howled in a madness that was almost pleading and almost self-abandoning.

——Please save me.

It's saying.

——Kill me.

He or she is talking.

Nian Quan hadn't figured it out yet, but An Jing's breathing became heavy, and Huo Qing also understood. He looked at the bodies of the boy and girl with a horrified look, and then looked at the cat.

"This……"

He almost trembled as he said, "Is this human? They put human souls into cats. They... not only kill people, not only eat people, they actually do this..."

"You treat people as, no... as pets?!"

"Is this you?"

An Jing walked forward and gently stroked the kitten's back. The white cat subconsciously bit An Jing's hand and then jumped back. Although it couldn't bite into the cat, its ferociousness, stress, and instinct of not wanting to be touched were enough to explain a lot of things.

It, he, or she doesn't know the answer to this question. This body, whether it is a boy, a girl, or a cat, is not necessarily its original body. What did it originally look like? Who are its parents? Where was its past life? No one knows, no one understands, but there is only one answer now, it is now just a cat, with an intelligent soul and a beast's body.

Its soul is a slave to humans, imprisoned and played with by evil intentions. If An Jing and the other two had not appeared, what kind of future would it have?
Being raised happily and spending your whole life like this?
Now it has not surrendered yet, it is still resisting, and still leading itself and others to the treasure room, but if it is tamed and becomes an obedient kitten, occasionally crawling in the owner's arms as a cat, occasionally leaning on the owner's knees as a boy or girl...Haha, for the owner, that is such a face-saving thing.

Clever, intelligent, wiser than a real cat, and ten thousand times more obedient, a pet made for humans.

An Jing lowered his eyes and suddenly laughed.

He clenched his fists and tightened his grip on his sword.

(End of this chapter)