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Chapter 184 Summoning of Evil Spirits
After a flurry of activity, having used illusion to heal the old mystic's injuries, Xue Luding asked, "What exactly happened?"

Xue Dinglu only then noticed the two creatures he had taken away with a single spell. However, only a few seconds had passed, and their bodies seemed to have been sucked dry. Hohenheim and Wendigo's bodies had become hollow, with only the outermost wooden structure rooted to the ground.

If Xue's laws are left unchecked, they could very well become a large, intertwined, and twisted tree.

"I don't know the specifics either, but I've already gotten quite a bit of information." The old mystic stood before Hohenheim's corpse, shaking his head as he looked at the twisted, woody structure.

Xue Dinglu didn't get much intelligence on this trip. There wasn't much internal information from the Secret Service. The only record about Salem was that it was conducting the highest level of experiments and research. The rest of the documents might not be in the branch here, or they might not have gained much at all.

However, it seems that they have obtained a lot of intelligence.

“If I’m not mistaken, most of the mystics have already sided with Brinton, the guy who killed me. They have the support of the higher-ups and have made many discoveries in secret. Just now, he summoned the infamous Wendigo, the evil spirit of the Americas, by sacrificing two infants.” The old mystic immediately revealed his information.

"Infant sacrifice? Evil spirit?" Xue Dinglu frowned in disgust, pondering the word. He suddenly wondered if he had acted too quickly, making the other party die too decisively.

Furthermore, the fact that the world has always appeared peaceful and serene has puzzled even Xue's Law.

He was prepared for the world's destruction before he came to this world, and he was ready to take down Zijella and the mastermind behind it all on his own in the wasteland.

But right now, apart from the rampant spread of the wild fungus originating from Zijera, there is nothing unusual in the entire world.

Even apart from Doctor Xue, other doctors and medical research institutions were unaware that many people had been infected with a strange archaea.

He arrived at the corpses that had taken root in the ground and were now beginning to grow, and sure enough, he found that one of the corpses had a head that looked like a terrifying, rotting moose head, complete with heavy antlers.

This looks like Wendigo.

“By the way, sir, hurry and save Hohenheim’s backpack. Besides the baby, there might be other information inside,” Austin said immediately.

Xue Luding quickly cut open the ever-growing branches, then pulled out the backpack that was almost fused with the tree stump. Inside, he found what appeared to be a mixture of amniotic fluid and human blood, as if the baby had been placed directly into the backpack right after birth.

Xue frowned. Austin wasn't exaggerating; in fact, he might have been a bit conservative.

There are indeed many rituals related to "sacrifice" in the occult. Most of these rituals are made by imitating certain famous historical events. For example, by using someone's wild imagination as a sacrifice, and with the arrangement of the ritual, a bullet can be made to hit an unlucky person in a convertible.

However, Xue's Law cannot tolerate this kind of sacrifice that directly uses infants as material, and must take strong measures.

"There seems to be a manuscript inside, but many parts of it have been destroyed." Xue Dinglu opened another compartment in the backpack and saw a large number of occult manuscripts in his hand.

It even includes a lot of biological knowledge and content.

"This is it." The old mystic also arrived, and the two began to study the enemy's manuscript together. It contained a large amount of research on the Zijera cells, research on the "wild fungus," data from human experiments, and finally...

"By personifying 'fear,' they mimicked the terrifying 'evil spirits' of history as virtual souls of the 'favored ones,' making them sharp blades in their hands?" Austin's brows furrowed as he deciphered the last part of the manuscript.

He roughly understood the principle: by inserting an "evil spirit" into the living dead resurrected by Zigela through "divine tree reincarnation," the evil spirit could successfully manipulate the living dead resurrected by Zigela, thereby unleashing unimaginable power.

Essentially, it's like adding an artificial intelligence principle to drones and robotic dogs on the battlefield.

As for the inspiration for artificial intelligence, they chose the famous Wendigo in the Americas as its soul.

"It has some similarities to my fantasy materialization..." Xue Luding casually said. They roughly understood the principle of this technique, but now that they understood it, they felt that it was essentially very similar to Xue Luding's fantasy materialization.

For example, if Xue's Law wanted to materialize a person through imagination, let's say it materialized Daigo. The energy of the imagination would instantly print out an exact replica of Daigo, but this Daigo would be a soulless corpse, unable to transform, and lacking any rigorously trained piloting skills—completely indistinguishable from a corpse.

What he could do was put a whole person's "spirit" inside, which was the sum of the soul and all energy, into Daigo's corpse. That way, the spirit could control the corpse to fight, but it still wouldn't be able to transform.

The principle on the other side seems to be similar to Xue's Law. They can create powerful monsters, but those monsters do not have a spirit. So their method is to use rituals to materialize an "evil spirit" and control it, making it the driver of that twisted monster, so that it can unleash its true power.

Even materialized evil spirits, after enough time, can gradually assimilate with their original bodies, and even possess the abilities of fantasy, becoming the "evil spirits" that descend upon the earth.

This is the full picture of this technique, called "Evil Spirit Reincarnation," a technique that combines mysticism with the characteristics of Zijra.

"It's actually similar to the living dead witchcraft in Haiti, except that they control 'evil spirits'," Austin casually remarked, immediately losing interest in the spell.

This situation can hardly be considered "magic".

Like the living dead witchcraft in Haiti, it is essentially about using hypnosis and drugs to turn a person into a mindless living dead, and then controlling the victim through specific sounds or colors.

“No, this technique might have unexpected uses.” Xue Dinglu looked at the technique in his hand and said, “Let’s try to improve it together, because I’ve recently been researching techniques related to ‘Heroic Spirit Summoning’ and ‘Impure World Reincarnation,’ and I’m very interested in these.”

Xue Dinglu wasn't lying. When he saw this technique, he thought of the Heroic Spirit Summoning and Impure World Reincarnation techniques that he had only half-finished researching.

This technique for resurrecting evil spirits is very close to the effect he wanted to achieve. Perhaps with further research and the assistance of fantasy materialization, Xue's Law can truly perfect the original technique.

He immediately shared with the old mystic Austin the spells he had been researching for a while: Heroic Spirit Summoning and Impure World Reincarnation.

He successfully used the Heroic Spirit Summoning once, but that was achieved only once due to extremely complex and demanding conditions, and because it was magic applied to Xue Lude himself.

The Impure World Reincarnation technique is still in the theoretical research stage and has never been tested.

“That’s really something. The things you magicians want to research are really wildly imaginative…” Austin looked at the spell in his hand. He didn’t stay idle either, and the two of them started to study the Wendigo’s corpse next to them.

After all, there are ready-made successful cases, and the visualization of Schrödinger's Law is of great help to the research. It can greatly reduce the time required for experiments and verify the feasibility of the hypothesis in the first instance. All you need to do is see if the visualized thing is correct.

……

Meanwhile, at Boston University.

"Aunt, do you mean that Xue is actually the reincarnation of the hero 'Xeidiles'?" You Xiaoniao listened to her aunt's story with disbelief.

She couldn't help but believe it. In the past, she might have really thought it was just a story, but when this extraordinary door opened to her and gave her a convincing demonstration, she resolutely believed it and guessed that her boyfriend was also one of those extraordinary people.

For example, if a fungus, which is completely contrary to basic biological theory, is an extraordinary organism, it would be easy to explain.

Just like the bacteriophage that Xue Lude just gave her, which can easily infect, contaminate, and spread all the germs, it can also be explained.

“Xiao Xue is indeed related to Xue Diles, but I don’t know if she is a reincarnation.” Circe, who was now using the name Xue Cexi, finished speaking and covered the culture dish of the bacteriophage with the pseudo-cursed blood in her hand.

"But it doesn't matter to me anymore. I've waited for over three thousand years, thinking I'd be searching for a needle in a haystack my whole life." She seemed anxious as she scratched her hair. At this moment, she no longer resembled the witch from mythology, but more like an aging matriarch.
"But, after I found him and watched him grow up, from such a tiny little guy to finishing junior high, high school, and even college, and even growing taller than me, I completely lost my previous thoughts..." She seemed to want to light a cigarette again, but in the end she resisted and took out a lollipop from somewhere and put it in her mouth.

"Family love is the greatest love. Once this family love is buried deep in your heart, all other emotions will eventually turn into family love." She said this with a sigh, biting on a lollipop, looking as if she was "still crying over the past."

(End of this chapter)