I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

"Moreover... with this level of strength, no amount of plants could be considered invincible."

Xue Jing controlled the spider plant to continuously proliferate and grow, and the leaves kept extending.

But after about ten meters, it got stuck and couldn't continue.

"Is it a limitation of the plant itself, or is it due to insufficient Plant Contract skill level?"

Xue Jing chopped off the spider plant's leaves with a single chop.

"The highest hardness that can undergo qualitative change is just average."

"After all, it's only Lv1, so it's hard to expect anything. We'll see how it goes once the skills are upgraded."

"One day, I will wield Susanoo in my left hand and descend upon the world of trees in my right..."

Xue Jing beckoned with his finger, and all the leaves on the spider plant immediately began to curl up, as if a rewind button had been pressed, and they began to grow in reverse, gradually shrinking.

Before long, the spider plant had disappeared, leaving only a tiny seed in its place.

Xue Jing picked up the seed and placed it in his palm.

Upon closer inspection, the seed has a small, circular pattern that resembles a magic circle.

Putting the seed in his pocket, Xue Jing walked to the bedside table, picked up the phone, and pressed room service.

"Hello sir, how may I help you?"

A sweet voice came through the receiver.

Xue Jing said, "Could you bring me some food?"

……

Ah Qin opened both eyes in a daze... she opened one eye.

Her brain was sending signals that it was about to shut down, and the dizziness made her want to vomit.

What was I doing again?

She thought to herself, feeling lost.

Then, memories slowly flooded back like a tide.

Persuasion... battle... black flames... giants... moonlight...

The last memory she had was of the bespectacled boy frowning and slapping her.

Ah Qin blinked her eye, which now only had one, and the scene in front of her became clear.

The handsome young man, who had taken off his glasses, was sitting on the sofa in front of her, holding a bowl and eating.

Upon seeing her awake, Xue Jing swallowed his food and smiled.

"You're awake? The surgery was a success..."

……

Chapter 134 Interrogation, Near-God Realm, Alienation Disease, Tree-Man Syndrome (4K)

Was the surgery successful?

Ah Qin blinked, her consciousness gradually clearing, and she finally realized that something was wrong with her field of vision.

A dull, pulling pain was also coming from my left eye.

"What...what did you do to me!?" She was filled with shock, anger, and terror, and instinctively wanted to use the power of the alien god...

However, the 'Stigmata' did not respond to her.

"Are you looking for this?"

The handsome young man opposite him put the bowl on the table and casually took out a colorful, round gemstone from his pocket.

No, those are eyes.

Those are my fucking eyes! My stigmata!

"Give it back to me!" Ah Qin shouted angrily.

Xue Jing raised an eyebrow: "Woman, it seems you haven't figured out your current situation yet."

He threw the eyeball he was holding onto the table. The eyeball bounced high into the air, hit the ceiling with a thud, and fell back down, where it was caught by Xue Jing.

"Oh? It's quite bouncy."

Xue Jing held the eyeball in his hand and spun it around like a basketball with his index finger, saying with a smile in his voice:

"Hey, if you just throw this out there, it'll probably disappear in no time and you won't be able to find it. You can't be too careful with how you keep it."

Ah Qin's lips twitched:

"You...you shouldn't do anything reckless, let's talk this out."

Xue Jing hummed in agreement. "Then let's have a proper talk."

He said, while tossing his colored eyeballs:

“From now on, nothing you say will be used against you in court, but you have no right to remain silent. And whether you are lying or not, if I think you are lying, I will boil this thing, understand?”

Ah Qin sighed in resignation, "I admit defeat. Just ask me whatever you want to know."

Xue Jing said in a flat tone, "You're very cooperative... Are these eyeballs that important to you?"

"It's not very heavy..." Aqin was about to retort when she saw Xue Jing narrow his eyes.

Remembering what he had just said, she quickly changed her tune, saying, "Yes...it's quite important. This is the recipient's 'stigmata.' If it's lost, even that gentle and loving mother would be angry..."

Xue Jing gave a noncommittal "oh," stood up, walked to the small table next to him, and pressed the start button on the electric kettle placed on the table.

The kettle made a boiling noise. Ah Qin blinked and added:

"...or rather, they would be very angry. Generally speaking, unless the Mother is very fond of the recipient, it is unlikely that she will bestow a second divine grace and grant him a second stigmata."

After hesitating for a moment, she continued uncertainly:

"However, it is also difficult to say whether the loving mother is angry... We can only roughly guess at Her emotions from Her reaction. It may just be wishful thinking on our part that She is angry. Humans cannot truly understand God."

Xue Jing nodded: "I see."

"The second question is, who sent you to find me, and why?"

Aqin replied without hesitation, "It was the professor, the professor sent me."

"Professor Lü from the Horticulture College of Fengcheng University, your sister Xue Wan's mentor."

"She is the priestess and head of the Maple City branch of the Flower Goddess Society. Everything was arranged by her. I was just a tool to carry out the mission!"

Ah Qin quickly exposed the person behind her.

Upon hearing his sister's name, Xue Jing frowned, his expression becoming more serious, and asked:

"Why? Is it related to my sister?"

“Your sister, like me, is also a recipient of the divine blessing bestowed by the Lord of a Thousand Reds and Myriad Beauties. It was Professor Lü who personally performed the ceremony for her,” Aqin said.

Xue Jing narrowed his eyes slightly: "When did this happen?"

Aqin answered every question: "It should have been in the last two months... I only met your sister about a month ago at a regular gathering. That was the first time Professor Lü brought her to appear in front of us."

Xue Jing thought back for a moment and realized that the timing was roughly the same as when her mother, Nan Jiayu, felt that something was wrong with Xue Wan.

No wonder she's her biological mother, right?

"Your older sister is very talented."

As Aqin spoke, she seemed to feel it wasn't enough and earnestly added, "Very good."

Xue Jing didn't speak, but gestured for her to continue.

"The so-called qualifications of the recipient are the degree to which they are favored by the gods."

"Your sister is one of the very few people who directly triggered the 'dream medium' during the bestowal ceremony."

"The so-called 'dream medium' is the only way that other gods outside the mortal world can communicate with us. Specifically, it is similar to sending a message in a dream, speaking to the recipient in the dream."

"Of course, it's not quite right to say they're talking. The other gods' way of expressing themselves is very abstract. For example, your sister's account is that she went to a place with an endless sea of ​​flowers in her dream, and every flower was talking to her in a language she couldn't understand. It was incredibly noisy."

“Those who can trigger dream mediums are called ‘Priests’, meaning those who are deeply loved by the gods and can communicate with them. Their status is above that of ordinary recipients of gifts.”

Ah Qin moved her bound hands and feet uncomfortably, but the steel wire jump rope was tied too tightly, limiting her movement. She sighed and continued:

"Your sister possesses such rare talent that she has a very promising future. As long as she doesn't become corrupted, she has the potential to reach the 'near-god realm'..."

Xue Jing asked calmly, "Alienation?"

Ah Qin tilted her head: "You don't even know this... As expected, you're not the recipient. That strange black flame ability must have come from some divine relic, right?"

Xue Jing remained silent... In a sense, she had indeed guessed correctly.

Shadowflame was activated from the [Crown of the Wicked Woman], so it's not wrong to say it came from a divine relic.

He replied dismissively, "I guess so... Don't interrupt, what's this about alienation?"

Ah Qin glanced at him and said, "We people of this world naturally have to pay a price when we try to obtain power that does not belong to this world."

"Things like implanting foreign bodies, and your martial arts practitioners taking forbidden drugs and practicing forbidden techniques, will all pollute the body and cause mutations... The recipients of the gift have obtained the power of a foreign god that does not belong to this world, so naturally the same applies."

"The pollution and alienation caused by xenoplants and banned drugs are mostly physical alienation, which can be suppressed by various anti-alienation drugs and surgery... The pollution and alienation suffered by the recipients are spiritual."

“When we hold a ceremony of receiving the gift, we touch the gods with our spiritual consciousness. The power of the gods will naturally seep into and pollute our spiritual consciousness. Because their status is above mortal things, nothing outside can interfere with them. There is almost no other way but to resist the pollution with one’s own will.”

Xue Jing frowned and asked, "What are the consequences of this alienation?"

"Based on the mutation rate," Aqin said in a deep voice.

"A mutation rate below 10% has no impact, and a mutation rate below 30% has a negligible impact. Most recipients will try to keep their mutation rate below 30%."

"Once it reaches more than 50%... various 'alienation diseases' will begin to appear on the body."

"Such as senility syndrome, rampage syndrome, immortality syndrome, autolysis syndrome, face illusion syndrome... different recipients have different symptoms. The recipients of our Lord of a Thousand Crimsons and Myriad Brilliances will experience a kind of 'Tree-Man Syndrome', where their skin will turn into tree bark, and flowers, branches, leaves, etc. will grow. Their physical characteristics will continuously transform into those of plants, and their spirit will become more and more sluggish and lazy, just like a plant."

"The higher the alienation rate, the more severe the symptoms of alienation disease, until it reaches 100%, completely losing all traces of being human and transforming into another existence... For the person, this is no different from death."

Xue Jing frowned and asked, "Is suppressing the mutation difficult?"

Aqin nodded and said, "It's very difficult."