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Chapter 367 Howard, the Loser Reincarnated in the World of Kemonomimi (Beast Girls)
At this depth, no light could be seen anymore, and Xue Luding could only illuminate this dark cave with his Holy Light spell.

Even at a depth of nearly 400 meters, he had to endure water pressure dozens of times that of atmospheres every moment. A normal person would have been crushed by the pressure in this environment, which is why the human diving record is only around 300 meters.

In deeper waters, diving bells are needed as external protective devices to safeguard divers.

Now, there is still no trace of the divine tree, so Xue Luding had no choice but to release another small fish formed from the cursed blood to dive into the deeper waters.

Although he promised not to use the power of authority again, it is not a big problem to use only the physical properties of the cursed blood. Xue's Law has been tested and found that as long as the function of the cursed blood to absorb suffering is not used, the progress of the self-destructionist will not increase.

Therefore, for the current Xue's Law, we can simply use a little bit of the physical properties of the cursed blood. It's like taking painkillers; as long as it's not overdone, we can slowly recover.

Perhaps the authority of the self-destructor is also the authority that arises from the accumulation of suffering in the body and soul by the blood of the curse.

Although the suffering is eventually transferred elsewhere, using one's own body as a transit point will always leave something behind.

Just like a kettle that has been boiling water for a long time, it will also form limescale.

Thinking this, Xue Dinglu continued to penetrate deeper into the lower body.

600 meters...

800 meters...

1200 meters...

Even at this depth, no trace of the divine tree could be found. The water pressure here was so high that Xue Lu felt a stinging pain all over his body, and the extremely high water pressure caused the body's oxygen consumption to increase exponentially.

Xue's Law had to take a breath of oxygen every ten minutes or so, while also protecting the pressure tank from breaking down at this depth by enchanting it.

The underground water in this cave should eventually flow into a trench in the ocean, which is the crater formed more than 60 million years ago by the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Therefore, Schrödinger's law had to continue exploring deeper...

1600 meters...

2000 meters...

At this depth, the water pressure raises the water temperature, and Xue's law indicates that going any deeper would likely lead to the region of supercritical water.

"So, are we going to find the Ruins of R'lyeh and release the giant conch shell from the deep sea?" The little witch couldn't help but complain, seeing only pitch-black water in front of Xue Luding.

At the same time, her PTSD flared up. After all, in her world, such areas are mostly eerie realms, and humans themselves have a deep-seated fear of such deep-sea-like environments.

“Uh…” Xue Dinglu was speechless for a moment, then replied, “It seems that can really be explained that way. I just wanted to find the ‘evil god’ and then seal him away.”

Su Su: "..."

She looked around the room again, and finally couldn't help but say, "I still can't stand this environment, I'm going back to watching TV..."

Xue Dinglu ignored the guy who was freeloading in his college and living in the dormitory, and continued swimming.

And it was only here that the cursed blood finally sent back news: the roots of the divine tree had been found!
Xue Dinglu continued swimming deeper into the ocean. He felt that he was no longer at the previous cave entrance, but had already followed the winding cave into the ocean.

Within this deep pit connected to the ocean, there are virtually no living organisms; the environment here is so harsh that only a very small number of species can adapt to it.

In this forbidden zone of life, a tree root, out of place with its surroundings, extends out from the waterlogged stone wall like a tendril.

Without the perception of the cursed blood, even if Xue Lude came to this tree root, he would not have discovered that this seemingly petrified thing was actually the root of the divine tree.

However, once Xue's Law has found this tree root, it has already achieved its goal.

"Mom?" Xue called out.

"I have suppressed the Divine Tree, we can make our move," Earth's consciousness said.

Without hesitation, Xue Lude began to find samples of bacteriophages on the remaining insect-eating tree. At the same time, the bacteriophages multiplied rapidly within his own body. Using the cursed blood as a protective shield, Xue Lude reached out and touched the divine tree, secretly thinking to himself.

"Sacred Tree, it's time for your injection!"

The bacteriophage, along with the cursed blood, poured into the divine tree's body in an instant. The tentacle trembled instinctively. If it were a normal divine tree, it would probably have cut off this root in fear to prevent more of its body from being infected by the bacteriophage.

This is why, despite bacteriophages' targeted attacks on the sacred tree, they usually don't achieve very good results. After all, the sacred tree is too large, and once the bacteriophage infects a part of it, it can easily cut off that part.

For the sacred tree, this is hardly a drastic measure; it's more like losing a hair.

However, the divine tree is now completely suppressed by the world's consciousness and cannot react much, only able to twitch instinctively.

I don't know if it was because my mom started to exert her strength, but she gave the sacred tree a hard elbow strike, and in addition, this bacteriophage, which was originally a normal organism, suddenly received a buff from the world.

The bacteriophage quickly infected the entire root and prepared to rush towards the main body of the sacred tree.

At this moment, although it was still suppressed by the world's consciousness, the divine tree began to spasm and twitch uncontrollably.

What is merely a twitch for the sacred tree is a massive earthquake for this deep underground pit, and even for the entire Boston waters!

In an instant, the waters more than two thousand meters underground were stirred up violently. The root that had been sticking out tried to retract as much as possible, but Xue Luding wouldn't let it have its way. He grabbed the root and was then pulled into the depths of the ground by it.

A powerful earthquake struck the entire ocean area and even the whole of Boston in an instant.

The tremors were so strong that the Boston Seismological Service immediately issued evacuation alerts and initiated the highest level of evacuation along the Boston coastline.

What are the consequences of an earthquake in the sea?
The answer, of course, is a tsunami!

But this was just a simple movement from the sacred tree, which, in human terms, was merely the degree of a knee-jerk reflex, yet it triggered a magnitude 6 earthquake in the entire city of Boston.

This situation was unexpected by everyone, neither Xue's Law nor world consciousness.

They all thought that the divine tree, which had just been elbowed, wouldn't have much energy to cause any aftershocks, and that with the world consciousness personally suppressing it, it should be easy to seal it into Xue's body.

However, the reality was that the Divine Tree seemed to know it was about to die, and it erupted with unprecedented activity, as if it wanted to completely sink the entire American continent.

No wonder my mom has been elbowing this enemy for over 60 million years and still hasn't been able to kill him.

At this moment, the one most worried about Xue Dinglu was not himself, nor the little witch who was watching the show while keeping an eye on him, but Howard, who was guarding the cave entrance.

Seeing the sudden earthquake, and even feeling the tremors so strong that he couldn't stand steadily after getting ashore and standing at the cave entrance, he was shocked to find that a large amount of bubbles and mud were churning out of the cave, almost completely burying the entire entrance.

"Hey! Damn it, you bastard, you bastard, why is there an earthquake at this time!" Howard gritted his teeth and looked at the other diving equipment beside him.

In his understanding, Xue's Law was still underwater at this moment, and after this earthquake, there was a high probability that Xue's Law would be dead!

After all, cave diving is the deadliest form of adventure, bar none. And if you encounter any natural force during a cave dive, the result is almost always becoming a skeleton deep underground.

At this moment, Howard could only stare intently at the murky opening, praying that Xue's Law would immediately surface after sensing the earthquake, and that he could get out as quickly as possible.

As for things like decompression sickness, those are no longer things they can consider.

However, after waiting for a few more minutes, Howard became increasingly silent, his teeth grinding together, because even now, there was still no sign of anyone.

He glanced at the churning cave, then at the equipment in his hands, and quickly put on his diving suit and gear.

However, he hesitated the moment he entered the water. He was afraid and terrified. Based on his diving experience, he knew that if he went down now, he would most likely find nothing and lose his life.

Xue's Law is most likely dead, so should I go down? With aftershocks coming from time to time, should I just go down like this?
Cold sweat slowly seeped from his forehead. Howard gritted his teeth and said, "Let's do it. Anyway, I'm just a worthless person. I was stripped of my American citizenship by the immigration authorities, my wife sued me, and I lost my job, my property, everything. Howard, your life before was a complete failure! You're just a useless piece of trash who can't do anything!"

"Let's just say that Howard, as he once was, died completely in the cave!"

Even though the aftershocks had not yet subsided, he jumped directly into the murky cave.

……

Deep in the ocean, in a place no one could have imagined, Xue Lude clung tightly to the roots of the divine tree, being pulled along at breakneck speed through the depths of the earth.

He had no idea where he was or how far the roots of the divine tree had dragged him. Despite crashing into countless rocks and stirring up a lot of mud deep underground, he clung tightly to the tree's roots. "Mom! How much longer?" Xue Luding asked.

He can't hold on any longer.

"Almost there, you're almost at the trunk level. This time, let's finish this guy off completely!" The Earth consciousness felt the divine tree as if it were a patch of psoriasis on its own body.

I can't get rid of it, and it keeps itching and making me feel uncomfortable.

This time, the goal is to completely eliminate this divine tree and absolutely prevent it from escaping!

After a series of impacts and drags, Xue Law finally felt himself arrive at the bottom of a vast, empty sea.

The water temperature was so high that Xue Dinglu felt it was scalding, and the water pressure felt like millions of leeches crawling on his body, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.

However, after the Holy Light spell was cast, Xue Dinglu suddenly saw a huge tree that seemed to stretch endlessly into some unknown depth, whether it was the deep sea or somewhere underground...

"Seriously, how did those mystics from the parallel world find this thing? Brinton actually does have some skills." Xue Dinglu couldn't help but complain.

"Begin the sealing. There's a slight problem; your friend seems to want to enter the cave to rescue you," the world consciousness suddenly said.

Xue Law: “!!!”

Seriously, Howard, are you out of your mind? Going into a cave during an earthquake, and you think you can save me?
Xue Dinglu was really losing his composure. He hadn't expected that Howard, whom he had only just met in this world, would be willing to risk his life to save him.

Although this was just wishful thinking on his part, Xue Dinglu couldn't possibly watch Howard die like that, especially for such a ridiculous reason.

Even other cave divers wouldn't go down to rescue their companion in this situation, right? Dude, are you kidding me?

"Let's get started, Mom!" Xue Dinglu said immediately.

Without hesitation, the World Consciousness, having already infected the trunk of the entire divine tree with bacteriophages, exerted its suppression, completely stripping it of its last ability to retaliate.

Subsequently, the divine tree seemed to want to release spores as before to escape this crisis and wait millions of years for a new divine tree to be born. However, this time its plan failed because the bacteriophages began to act, affecting its final resistance.

Unwilling to accept defeat, the divine tree was grabbed by its mother, and then a world-class seal was reinforced on its body layer by layer, rendering the divine tree unable to move. Coupled with the interference of the bacteriophage, its fate was sealed.

Then, the divine tree was completely sealed into Xue Luding's body.

At that moment, the little witch in the magic academy dormitory sensed a sudden change in the world. She jumped out of bed in terror and exclaimed, "Brother, what happened? Is it the end of the world? Or a meteorite hitting a planet?"

Then, to her horror, a huge hole appeared in the sky above her consciousness space, and a giant tree thousands of meters tall was forcibly shoved into it.

When the tree roots landed on the ground behind the magic academy, the roots quickly spread into the entire consciousness space, completely filling almost all areas of the consciousness space. Except for the magic array set up by Xue Luding in the magic academy, which was not greatly affected, the entire consciousness space seemed to have completely become the territory of this divine tree.

The world-class seal is finally complete. After Xue Luding just threw out the two divine trees from his body, he didn't expect that an even more powerful divine tree would enter this time.

This divine tree, which is 60 million years old, is a whole size larger than the original form of the Insect-Eating Tree, and when placed in the consciousness space, it truly blots out the sky.

But it's finally done, and Earth is one less danger that could destroy the world.

Xue Dinglu could only say, "I'll explain later, I need to get there to save people!"

Xue Dinglu directly opened a portal and teleported to the cave entrance.

The instant the portal opened, an immense water pressure surged into it. Xue Dalu ignored everything and rushed into the portal with the force of the water.

He felt as if he had entered an oversized toilet. The powerful water pressure caused him to be swept hundreds of meters away even after returning to the ground.

He rolled on the floor for who knows how long, like toilet paper in a toilet bowl, before finally standing up, feeling as if his whole body was falling apart.

The Cursed Blood rapidly regulated his blood pressure to prevent it from rupturing his blood vessels, which were surging due to the pressure of the deep sea. He then rushed to the cave entrance and, ignoring the chaotic environment, jumped directly into the water.

At this moment, the entire cave was incredibly murky, with churning mud covering the entire waterway. Xue Dinglu had no choice but to release the cursed blood into the cave to help it find Howard's figure.

Soon, news came from the Cursed Blood that they had found Howard!

Xue immediately swam over and saw Howard floating in the water. He immediately dragged him to the shore.

He really didn't expect Howard to be so bold. Was it really necessary to go to such lengths just for a friend he was meeting for the first time today?

Xue immediately pried open his oxygen mask and found that he was still alive, but almost dead.

His location was found to be at a depth of approximately 110 meters underwater, which is the limit for ordinary divers. The water pressure would cause severe decompression sickness. Xue's Law has cursed blood that regulates blood pressure, so he has relatively good resistance to decompression sickness.

But for Howard, it was already a hopeless situation.

"He's still breathing, but he's experiencing carbon dioxide anesthesia and extreme brain hypoxia. He most likely got lost in the water and inhaled too much carbon dioxide, leading to anesthesia... He also has decompression sickness caused by blood pressure that has ruptured vascular valves..."

Xue Lu examined his body and immediately fell silent.

Howard's injuries are now almost as severe as those of Yunxing, whom he saw on the Zerg battlefield. Even if he were saved by the cursed blood, he would still suffer from serious aftereffects. And Yunxing still possessed the abilities of a behemoth. Howard, an ordinary person, is probably not much different from being brain dead.

Without saying a word, Xue Luding was about to use the Cursed Blood to transfer all of Howard's injuries to himself. However, in an instant, Xue Luding froze. The Cursed Blood could only enter Howard's body and could not transfer the damage at all.

"What's going on! Mom, tell me to use the Cursed Blood! Howard is dying, hurry, we can still save him if we use the Cursed Blood now!" Xue Dinglu shouted immediately.

However, the World Consciousness did not release this power, but said: "He is beyond saving. In fact, if he were in the water, he might have lived a little longer, but you forcibly dragged him ashore. The decompression sickness and extreme lack of oxygen caused him to have a very low chance of survival, even if you use the cursed blood as quickly as possible. Besides, I will not let you use this power again."

Xue Luding gritted his teeth, just as he was thinking of breaking through his mother's seal and forcibly using the cursed blood.

The world consciousness suddenly said, "However, this accident was my mistake. I apologize. I will grant you a life and a temporary ability to reincarnate at will, but only once."

"What to do next is up to you." After saying this, the world's consciousness seemed to log off.

Xue Dinglu stared blankly at the red ball that appeared in his hand. This was a treasure given to him by his mother, a one-time reincarnation item.

He stopped complaining, after all, Howard jumping down into the hole to find Xue Dinglu was something neither of them had anticipated.

Xue's Law won't be too critical, because he himself has encountered a major problem this time.

Dragging Howard directly to shore from deep water is a major no-no. The correct first aid method is to rescue Howard underwater first, replace his oxygen tank, and then slowly pull him ashore before dealing with his decompression sickness.

This mistake was caused by my own error.

"Damn it! I suddenly remembered that diving first aid is part of the second chapter of my disaster medicine book! Damn it, why didn't I read that part of the book properly!" Xue Dinglu sighed, this was a situation he had never expected.

Perhaps it's anger?
He felt anger, anger at his poor grades and his failure to pay attention in class.

But complaining was useless, and Xue was ready to proceed directly with the extradition of Howard.

This red ball can revive any life.

Aside from the body, Howard was now covered in bruises, a symptom of decompression sickness, caused by blood pressure rupturing his blood vessels and spreading throughout his body.

Howard's soul resides within the red ball.

"Howard, open your eyes."

"Am I dead?" Howard stared blankly at his current situation inside the red ball.

Xue Dinglu didn't reply directly, but said, "I'm sorry, I tricked you. Now I've brought a life that can allow you to be reborn as a baby with your memories intact. Do you have any requests? Even if you want to be born into a wealthy family, I can help you achieve that."

"Hmm, can you choose where you're reincarnated?" Howard seemed shocked for a moment, then paused before asking, "Are there other worlds?"

"Another world?" Xue Dinglu was suddenly stunned for a moment, and then...

Xue's astonishing wisdom kicked in, and he suddenly thought of a position that seemed quite suitable.

Beside the Old Demon Emperor!
"Howard, do you want to go to another world where everyone is a beautiful kemonomimi girl?" Xue Dinglu said, he had an idea.

(End of this chapter)