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Chapter 134 [Will the Sacred Cockroach dream of a cockroach paradise far removed from the world?]

The so-called "Four Heavenly Kings Project" actually includes long-term experimental tasks in four different research directions.

With the idea of ​​taking a chance even if there's no guarantee of success, Yuan Zhu decided to entrust all the tasks to Xiaohai Jie, who would supervise their completion.

If the experiment yields results when he returns to [Pastoral Village] next time, he'll be rolling in money!

Even if he returns and all four missions fail, he still won't lose money. The data from those failures will still enrich the [Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture] database, helping him gain a deeper understanding of this world.

The [Scarab Series 1] among the Four Heavenly Kings is custom-made for the [Coleoptera (Beetles)], which has the highest compatibility with [Holy Light].

Yuan Zhu wasn't solely attracted to the beetles' incredible affinity with the Holy Light. These guys were practically the scum of the insect world; they knelt before the Holy Light the moment they saw it. Where was the unwavering resolve of Lepidoptera against the Holy Light?
He also valued the uniquely strong carapace of the Coleoptera (beetles), which is the 'unyielding pride (insect gold)' commonly possessed by the demonized giant insects!
All wild demonic insects (small insects) and the demonic giant insects hatched from human cocoons contain trace amounts of [Insect Gold] in their exoskeletons. Among them, the carapaces of Coleoptera are particularly thick and sturdy, making them a rare and extremely valuable resource.

Therefore, Yuan Zhu wanted to cultivate a brand new 'Scarab' exclusively for him through the [Scarab Series]. Just like the rulers of other insect cities, he monopolized a unique 'Primal Dao Seed' and could control his people by splitting lower-level Dao Seeds.

He wasn't an insect cultivator, and didn't have meridians or Dao seeds within his body, yet he still managed to find a unique path. He used [Holy Cough Contamination] to infect and control a group of followers, cultivating and upgrading these [Holy Beetles] into [Ancestor Sources] that could rival the 'City Lords'.

Tsk tsk... This is to create the [Holy Cough Angel]'s familiar ahead of time.

Meanwhile, the insect metal is related to armor forging and is also closely related to the Tiger Demon's [Innate Divine Ability: Claws (Exoskeleton Armor)]. He has a large demand for this kind of resource, which is even related to [Forging Seals]. Perhaps when he reaches the second or third seal, he will be able to absorb a large amount of the soul ash of the [Scarab], comprehend the relevant skills, and then provide them for the [Tiger Demon] to copy.

After discussing with Xiaolatiao, the two decided to select several representatives from the vast number of Coleoptera, including the thickest-shelled species such as rhinoceros beetles, dung beetles, stink bugs, dung beetles, and beetle gnats, to join the "Scarab Completeness Project".

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The reason for advancing the "Sacred Cicada Series 2" and including it in the Four Heavenly Kings' plan is primarily because his "Shadow Domain" is located on the outskirts of "Cicada City's" sphere of influence. There are three other "Cicada Cities" in the vicinity, and the Cicada Clan wields the greatest influence among them.

Even now, the biggest audience (potential users) of 'Holy Cough Pollution' are the Cicada Clan cultivators in the lower city.

Therefore, whether it's poaching talent to acquire high-level resources, or further collecting test subjects, developing downstream networks, and maintaining the user market, it's essential to pay attention to the 'Cicada Clan'.

Therefore, he vigorously promoted the [Sacred Cicada Series], replacing the traditional 'cicada-like spirit insects', and strongly supported the siblings' cultivation. He had them bind the [Sacred Cicada] with Qi threads, extracting 'Holy Light Attribute Insect Spirit Essence' from the Sacred Cicada's body to further optimize the [Sacred Cough Breathing Technique].

Then, they will sell their newly developed and upgraded 'cultivation techniques and resources (Sacred Cicada)' through the black market to [Cicada City, Ming City, Ban City...], enhancing users' dependence and laying a solid foundation for future formal missionary work, counterattacks against Cicada City, and usurpation of the city's territory.

Therefore, the "Holy Cicada Series" must be developed, and developed on a large scale.

Cultivating a group of Holy Cough True Qi Cicada Cultivators who are close to the Holy Light can also balance the 'Shadow Cultivators' led by the Left Commander, making the power structure of the Pastoral Village more balanced and stable.

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If the [Scarab] focuses on acquiring unyielding pride (insect armor/insect metal); and the [Holy Cicada] emphasizes strengthening and upgrading the 'Holy Cough Cultivator' (alien true qi system); then the [Holy Firefly Series 3] focuses on the localization of true qi (insect type) based on the energy of [Holy Light].

Fireflies belong to the order Coleoptera (beetles), and their affinity for light is also maximum. The reason they are extracted separately and treated as a distinct species is twofold: firstly, their shells are not thick enough, making them easily defeated by dung beetles and stink bugs, resulting in a low yield of firefly gold; secondly, they are naturally bioluminescent.

It can glow from its own body! This is a perfect match for [Holy Light]. Therefore, it is grouped separately, abandoning its indomitable spirit (shell) and inducing genetic mutation to amplify its glowing ability. This creates the [Holy Cough Bug], which professionally produces 'Holy Light Particles'.

Yuan Zhu hopes that the all-powerful Little Sister can cultivate traditional fireflies into a kind of "biological holy light source" (small bio-generator/bio-nuclear reactor) that can stably release holy cough radiation.

Then, the [Holy Cough Bug] will be developed into a fully automated production line for canned Holy Cough Particles. These will be sold through the underground black market system, supporting the underground Holy Light resource trading market.

【Holy Cough Bug】is a glowing cow that eats excrement and produces 【Holy Cough Particles】, which are sold throughout the underground world to cultivate potential users.

No need for worm arrays to purify polluted spiritual energy; one can directly breathe deeply with the physical body. Traverse forbidden areas without fear of getting lost or dying! We are determined to make [Pastoral Village] the ninth 'New Holy Light Technician Family'!
Then, the little girl transformed into a success coach once again, further promoting her course (Holy Cough Breathing Method). She claimed to help everyone refine the Holy Cough, transforming it into 'True Qi' to combat and purify the body's internal ailments like the Immortal Corpse Beard and Iron Toxin, thus breaking free from the curse and embracing the light!
Finally, they further sell the [Sacred Cicada and Sacred Beetle] to absorb 'Divine Spirit Essence' and achieve a leap in realm. Then they sell 'Sacred Insect Gold' to forge armor, ensuring advancement to the Heavenly Rank, ascension to immortality, and ascension to [Yuan Clan Paradise]!
The Four Heavenly Kings Project, seemingly four different directions, is actually a 'trinity,' progressing layer by layer, aiming to create a 'Holy Light Pollution Version of the Coleoptera Feathered Immortal.'

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As for the final [Sacred Cockroach Operation Thesis 4]

Yuan Zhu was simply attracted by the second-class Holy Light affinity of the Blattodea, which was no less than that of the Hemiptera (Cicadas), as well as its huge potential population and ease of raising.

The 'Cockroach Tribe' is the largest population group in the underground world!

To be precise, it is the super strong fusion ability, super low backlash rate, and super strong activity of the 'Cockroach Dao Seed' that makes [Cockroach True Qi] the most widely circulated and popular cultivation system.

Therefore, since Yuan Zhu and Spicy Strips are unwilling to miss out on the 'Cicada Tribe' user market around them, they are even less likely to give up the 'Cockroach Tribe' user market, which currently has the largest consumption potential in the world!
Therefore, it's perfectly reasonable to create a separate "Holy Light Cockroach Series" specifically for them. Coupled with their cicada-like affinity, they are another excellent "Holy Cockroach seedling."

Because he had done a special investigation, he knew that the 'Sacred Cockroach' had an extremely high reproduction and production rate. So he raised a large number of 'Sacred Cockroaches', harvested them in batches and refined them into flower pots for planting spiritual materials. He even used the population (quantity) advantage of the 'Sacred Cockroaches' to use them as 'biological servers' to supply dream power to the 'Cockroach Village Far From the World'.

After hearing Yuan Zhu's wildly imaginative and outlandish ideas (ambitions), Xiao Latiao was somewhat frightened and timidly asked, "Is this feasible? The expansion and upgrade of [Dreamland] requires the establishment of a higher 'dream' of intelligent beings. Whether it's ordinary spirit cockroaches or sacred cockroaches, they are just low-level 'insects.' Even 'demonic giant cockroaches' transformed from humans may not be able to dream, so how can they become botnet servers for [Cockroach Village]?"

At this moment, Yu Jingzi posed a classic philosophical question to Yuan Zhu: "Would a sacred cockroach dream of a cockroach paradise far removed from the world?"

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Upon hearing this, Yuan Zhu clapped his hands and said, "That's an excellent question! I had a similar question before, but I found a solution, which led to this grand and ambitious plan!"

Then, Yuan Zhu didn't keep them in suspense and directly revealed the solution: "The [Changgui Demon Insect] refined by the Tiger Demon can unconditionally accept the [Holy Cough] to self-destruct, transforming shadow into light. Conversely, how can the [Holy Cockroach] not provide dream power to the 'Shadow Cockroach Village'?" He lightly snapped his fingers, and three-dimensional projections of Commander Zuo and Shopkeeper Lu appeared in the mental channel.

"Look closely, at the tops of their heads!"

The image zooms in and finally focuses on the "brain eggplant" that looks like the Calabash Brothers.

Spicy Strip's mind resonated with a scientific melody, countless scientific formulas and symbols flashed through his head, and finally, Einstein's spirit quietly emerged. The power of knowledge surged within his mind, and astonishing wisdom was unleashed: "It's [Brain Eggplant]! It's an external brain! It's [Shadow Memory] IQ expansion! Loading the 'Datafication - Soul Sleep Equation'!"

Yuan Zhu smiled with satisfaction: "That's right! The [Holy Cockroach] has a lower life strength than humans and has nothing to do with the shadows; it is an independent life form. So naturally, we can use [Shadow Eggplant] to parasitize and control it, connecting it to the [Shadow Domain]; then we can install external CPUs and GPUs on them to greatly improve computing power; finally, we can insert [Shadow Memory] to run a sleep program... I would call it the [Sleep Matrix]!"

"The Matrix! But now it's the Cockroach Empire... no! It's [Cockroach Avalon]. This kind of thing definitely has potential. Boss, I'm optimistic about this project, but where are we going to get so many [Brain Eggplants]?"

Yuan Zhu: "Of course, it's best to use the original ingredients. Feeding them goblin shadow tomatoes can cause brain mutations, turning them into brain tomatoes. So, can feeding them holy cockroaches, other spirit insects, or even demonic shadow tomatoes mutate them into 'brain tomatoes'? In short, there's always a way... We should trust Sister Kid's wisdom."

"You're making things too difficult for her."

"If she can withstand this test, I will train her with all my might to become my agent in the underworld. If she doesn't have this ability, then naturally more talented people will emerge."

After finalizing the 'Holy Light Group Experimental Plan' for the future of [Pastoral Village] with Spicy Strips in just a few words, he scrolled down to the last item on the research plan list: [Shadow Group (Group C)].

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From the perspective of the current bubble world:

The Kunlun lineage's "Immortal Path" belongs to the traditional righteous path before the world's great destruction. The "Knight Lineage," on the other hand, is an ancient demonic path that triggered a cataclysmic disaster, after which it fled; the "Knight Lineage Pollution" it left behind remains a natural calamity to this day.

Today, True Qi (Insect-type) has become the mainstream and is the righteous path of the new era; the dead, polluted roots of the Immortal Realm Tree have become the villainous demonic path.

The Holy Light brought by Yuan Zhu is inherently domineering and repulsive; once released, it will inevitably cause a rampage of pollution. Furthermore, it has a long-standing connection with insectoids and is irreconcilably at odds with Lepidoptera... It's definitely a superstar of the demonic path!

In the underworld, Holy Light is an inherently evil and corrupting force. Only the Sanctuary believes Holy Light is a force for salvation, providing positive feedback and cleansing and elevating the color of its 'exclusive Holy Light'. (The world's will has an ambiguous attitude towards Holy Light, but warmly welcomes Shadow.)
The other force Yuan Zhu brought, [Shadow], is a standard neutral faction and a new energy source with enormous potential. Even the World Will sponsored [Shadow Dream Hole], encouraging him to invest and settle there.

The facts have proven that the Tiger Demon's rampage of [Shadow Contamination] in the underworld did not trigger any of the contamination systems to go berserk. It could coexist peacefully with the Root Network, Knight-type Iron Poison, Insect-type True Qi, and so on, and even merge and amplify with each other.

Therefore, Yuan Zhu placed high hopes on the 'Shadow Group Experiment' and chose pollution of all categories.

Unlike Holy Light, which only selects four directions for cultivation, his [Shadow Experiment Group] uses the power of shadow to indiscriminately contaminate all insect eggs, hatch and raise them, and record the changes.

These 'Shadow Insects' are not ghouls, but living creatures similar to Holy Light Insects. He had no expectations for the 'Shadow Spirit Insects', because the [Tiger Demon] always trusted the [ghouls].

Cultivating shadow spirit insects is merely for data recording, enriching the material library of the [Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture]. Those cultivated 'shadow insects' will form contracts with cultivators practicing the [Shadow Breathing Technique], embarking on the traditional 'Shadow True Qi' path, and continue to provide data.

Yuan Zhu planned to wait until after he left.

[Pastoral Village] will leverage this potential (all types of Shadow Spirit Insects) to continuously recruit marginalized individuals from various Insect Cities who are not valued. They will transform their own True Qi into Shadow Formation, bind to a matched Shadow Insect, and engage in 'Qi Refining Cultivation', uploading detailed data of their instincts to [Shadow Dream Hole (Server)], persistently collecting the underlying data of the 'Foam World'.

Ultimately, the goal is to share profits through the [Shadow Domain] and control a large number of 'Shadow Qi Refiners'. Unlike a city lord who controls the [Primal Dao Seed], the goal is to control the increasingly powerful 'Shadow Cultivator Group' through the [Shadow Domain (Technological Monopoly)], much like a Technician Alliance.

Of course, he wasn't interested in any category of shadow insects, letting them develop freely and create surprises.

But I have some thoughts about the [Shadow Cockroach].

Since the Holy Light Cockroach can install the 'Changgui Trio' to transform into a biological battery and build the 'Matrix-Holy Cockroach Matrix'...

Then Little Spicy Strip asked, "Why not use [Shadow Cockroach] as a botnet server as well?"

Yuan Zhu: "Good question! Of course, the [Shadow Cockroaches] will also be botnets. I will build a [Holy Light Cockroach Biological Matrix] at a 1:1 ratio, and then a [Shadow Cockroach Biological Matrix] will inevitably follow. Let them all dream together and jointly strengthen [Cockroach Village]."

A 'sacred dream' paired with a 'shadowy nightmare' enriches the environment of [Cockroach Village]. It allows users to enter paradise or fall into hell.

Although they had not yet come into contact with Running's Nightmare School, Yuan Zhu and Yu Jingzi both believed that the Dreamland was extremely important. It was definitely the key channel for them to escape the Foam Layer - Gods' Space - Happy Home and communicate (smuggle) into the underground world from the Spirits in another way (Nightmare Layer).

Therefore, there is absolutely no harm in expanding and strengthening [Cockroach Village]. On the contrary, it can bring an unexpected surprise in the future.

Only by continuously strengthening the signal strength of the local [Dreamland] can there be a chance to search for signals from the spirits and establish a 'Nightmare Connection'.

The extremely high survival rate, the massive population size, and the identical genetic makeup of the species result in an unprecedentedly unified and powerful 'collective dream consciousness,' which makes it possible to significantly strengthen and expand the [Dreamland], turning it into a veritable [Cockroach Country]!
In fact, if they could kidnap a massive number of underground humans and unify their dreams, the effect would be even more incredible. But then again, Yuan Zhu had only set up a small camp with a mere hundred or so people in the early stages of his business; how could he dare to dream such a grand dream?

If they truly possessed such power, they wouldn't need to worry about expanding the scale of [Dreamland]. They could simply smuggle themselves from the mortal world into the bubble world via the 'Nightmare Channel'.

(End of this chapter)