The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

Without the Great Sage speaking, Xue Luding moved the next moment. When he stood up, the once lifeless planet was instantly transformed into a sea of ​​flowers.

He flew to the planet's ring in one step. From space, the planet did indeed appear pale red, perhaps due to its soil composition. Surrounding this pale red planet, a huge ring looked like a hula hoop.

Xue arrived at a meteorite belt in a star ring and, sure enough, discovered many meteorites that were out of place with their surroundings.

"The workload is a bit heavy, but I should be able to do it..." Xue Luding murmured. The next moment, hellish blood surged from his body, turning into one after another bouncy blood deer. Then, the deer all scattered and began this run around the star ring.

The deer's hoof landed on the nearest dark, cold meteorite, and just as its toe touched the rocky crust, "Bang!"

A vibrant, otherworldly color exploded silently from the tip of its hoof.

Hard rocks were transformed into fertile soil, and bright red, bright yellow, light purple, and pure white flowers bloomed in abundance. Vines entwined and greenery grew wildly. In a fraction of a second, this desolate asteroid became a floating, vibrant garden island.

The deer did not stop; it leaped lightly, gliding through the air, and rushed toward the next stubborn rock.

And so, on this meteorite belt that originally recorded the death of the Demon Star, one flower after another bloomed.

The trails left by the deer became a path of miracles, transforming the land of death into a vibrant garland encircling the planet.

Within those flowers, more and more spiritual particles gathered, and gradually, the first "demon" was summoned from them.

He seemed a little dazed, constantly looking at his hands and touching his body.

He remembered that he should have been assimilated by the insects by the end, so why, why was he still standing here intact? And the next moment, he saw the scene here.

It was a sea of ​​flowers, with wildflowers blooming everywhere on all the asteroids.

And it wasn't just this one demon; more and more demons rose up from the sea of ​​flowers.

Xue Lude's summoning of heroic spirits involved countless changes to the plan, but in the end, he chose the current plan, which is to summon heroic spirits and summon the original "spiritual particles" belonging to the original owners.

When a person dies, their soul goes to the subspace, and the remaining spiritual particles in their body gradually dissipate and eventually merge into the origin of the planet.

This is why souls can only appear after the United Front is established, and only those who have come into contact with magic essence can possess "souls".

Therefore, the essence of Heroic Spirit Summoning is a technique that resummons and gathers the spiritual particles belonging to the original owner. It is an expanded product of the concept of "absorbing regrets" from Hellblood. Therefore, the "Heroic Spirits" that are gathered are the spiritual particles that originally belonged to them.

Of course, the situation is complicated. Some people's souls may have already dissipated in the subspace, while others' spirit particles may have completely returned to the natural cycle and then become the spirit particles of other beings.

This even involves a philosophical question: when a person's soul has been broken into particles and then reassembled, is that person still the same person?

Just as a person's body is transformed into various trace elements such as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, and then these elements that originally belonged to him gather together to become this person, is he still the same person?

This goes on to a deeper question: what exactly is your true self? Your brain? Your heart? Or perhaps your spirit or soul? Or is it the complex electrical signals that constitute your brain?

This problem is too profound, so Schrödinger's law did not take it into account.

Why worry about all that? I'll just use a Heroic Spirit Summoning first, and we can deal with any problems later.

Therefore, when heroic spirits are summoned, what is summoned is merely their original spiritual particles, not a true resurrection. They simply reappear in the form of aggregated spiritual particles.

If nothing unexpected happens, these pure spiritual particles will once again be attracted to the King at the end of the warp, and thus automatically head to the end of the warp.

Therefore, Xue's Law came up with the idea of ​​"Hall of Heroes," which, to put it bluntly, is to compete with the subspace and even the Venerable King for souls and those spiritual particles.

In Valhalla, they are able to live to the next life until their souls are completely transformed into the purest spiritual particles, which are then fed back to Valhalla.

The process of a soul slowly turning into spirit particles due to wear and tear in the stable and healthy environment of Valhalla is extremely long. Xue Luding calculated that it should take anywhere from several hundred to several thousand years, depending mainly on the original strength of these souls. Stronger souls may be able to maintain their consciousness for several thousand years.

This is equivalent to living another life, although in this life, most of the time can only be spent in a virtual world.

But Xue's Law is going to talk to you about "what's wrong with the world of illusion".

Even in this illusory world, everyone can achieve a future with seven days of rest. This is the "Hall of Heroes" created by Xue Luding by using the blood of hell and merging it with the God of Order based on his own, which originally belonged to the Underworld of the Mimic King.

So, after all the blood had gathered to form a small deer that covered the entire star ring, more and more demons stood up from the sea of ​​flowers.

Most of them were bewildered, because in the memories of most demons, they should all be dead, or even turned into monsters like insects. However, this time they woke up to find themselves standing in a sea of ​​flowers.

What happened?

However, when some demons found their former relatives in the crowd, they didn't care what had happened and all embraced each other, weeping with joy.

At this moment, Xue Dinglu felt somewhat regretful, because the requirements for this heroic spirit summoning were actually very high, so not everyone could summon it.

Is it possible to summon the person the old man wants to see?

Xue's Law is questionable. In fact, this may not even be all the fragments of the Demon Star. The planet hit by the planet-destroying cannon may have had more fragments that gradually became cosmic debris, or some fragments may have been absorbed by the subspace.

It all depends on luck.

As Xue Luding thought this, he looked at the star ring filled with flowers and gradually smiled.

"There are bugs!" A sharp voice suddenly rang out, and all the demons became alert in an instant, with panic and fear spreading immediately.

Xue's Law: "..."

He rushed over immediately and indeed found a Shub insect, even the queen of the Shub insect race. However, this insect was not a physical being, but a soul.

What is this? How can Heroic Spirit Summoning summon this thing? Huh?

Although Xue Lude is currently using the power of the Lord of the Mist, or rather, the power of the Divine Tree, summoning this thing was still far beyond Xue Lude's expectations.

So, what was supposed to be a family reunion turned into chaos in the next instant. Some were startled, some were panting, some had hunched backs, some had round heads and flat ears, and many others ran away in terror, or were immediately preparing to fight back...

In an instant, the scene became incredibly chaotic. Even Xue Luding rolled up his sleeves, ready to kill the bug first, making the flower-covered star ring a scene of utter chaos.

Meanwhile, looking at the scene in the sky from the ground, the Great Sage's lips curled up slightly.

Perhaps this was a scene from his dreams, something he could never do in his life, something he never even dared to dream of, yet it was accomplished by the last child he taught after his death.

Although this is not a true resurrection, but merely a member of the race in spirit form, I am now just a heroic spirit in spirit form. The demon race has long been extinct in the universe, and those who remain are merely leaving behind the demon race's final swan song for this universe.

Perhaps in the future, there will be successors who can inherit the legacy of the Demon Clan, and they might also change their names back to "Demons," that's what the old man thought.

"You are Joshua?" A questioning voice came from behind the old man. The next moment, the great sage, who had been calm and collected, seemed to freeze in his tracks.

It was a girl's voice, and she sounded very young, like she was thirteen or fourteen years old.

When the Great Sage turned around, the light of spiritual particles slowly rose from the sea of ​​flowers, and the short-haired girl stood among them.

The sea of ​​flowers moved undulatingly without wind, the gentle waves brushing against the old man's worn robe.

The air was filled not with simple fragrance, but with a mixture of the warmth of the old sunshine, the sweet and briny scent of grass after the rain, and a trace of that summer's aroma that had long since faded into the depths of memory.

The great sage was stunned; his eyes, which had been dry for centuries, suddenly felt a strange moisture.

She was wearing the simple linen dress I remembered, with a small patch at the hem, and she was barefoot, her ankles slender.

Her body was translucent, as if composed of stagnant morning dew and stardust, emitting a faint glow, with a few petals or particles of light occasionally escaping from the edges before re-merging into the surrounding sea of ​​flowers.

She was still the same age she was when they parted, thirteen or fourteen, her eyes as clear as a mountain spring untouched by any gloom. When she saw the white-haired, wrinkled old man, there was no trace of unfamiliarity or fear in his eyes, only a pure understanding and intimacy that seemed to penetrate all barriers of time.

She smiled, a smile that instantly shattered all the wisdom and pretense of power of the sage, turning him back into the helpless little mage.

A long pursuit, arduous training, and exploration of truth... When he possessed the wisdom and power to move mountains and overturn seas and see through the birth and death of stars, the person who would place a daisy in his palm had long since turned into a sigh deep within the meteorite between stars.

He always thought that the regret and the pain had long been worn away by time and covered by a greater sense of responsibility and knowledge.

Until this moment...

“Joshua, you’ve gotten so old…” She looked at the old man before her, a hint of heartache in her eyes. “But welcome home, Joshua…”

The great sage gently wiped away the traces from the corner of his eye and said with a smile, "I'm back."

Chapter 498 The Lord of the Mist is still chasing me, damn it!

"Joshua, you've gotten so old." The girl sighed, reaching out her hand, but the illusory arm stopped in mid-air, a look of heartache on its face. "All these years must have been very hard for you, haven't they?"

"Perhaps." The old man smiled, unaware that he had smiled more today than in his entire life combined.

……

Meanwhile, things weren't so good for Xue's Law.

This brings us back to the principle of summoning heroic spirits: gathering spiritual particles. But why can these gathered spiritual particles even gather this thing?

The Queen of the Shub Zerg, or the Zerg Queen, is a unit specifically responsible for producing other Zerg units. She can produce near-Tier 5 Shub Zerg units in a continuous stream, like dumplings being dropped into boiling water, or Tier 5 Zerg warriors every few days.

Of course, that was the ability it possessed when it was still alive. Now that the Shub insectoids have completely transformed into heroic spirits, they should have lost this reproductive ability that belongs to the swarm.

Therefore, even if the original queen who brought fatal destruction to the Demon Star is summoned by the Heroic Spirit, she should lose her original reproductive ability. After all, she is now only in this spirit particle state, and the power brought by the biological weapon should be completely ineffective.

However, to the astonishment of Xue Luding and the group of demons, the Zerg Queen actually reproduced!

In its pure spirit particle state, it actually began to lay eggs, and in a way that completely defied everyone's understanding, the egg cases laid by those spirit particles actually gave birth to the orthodox Shub insect race!

Xue's Law: ...

Schrödinger's Law: !!!

Is this right? Is this correct? This isn't right, is it?

This is not scientific! It's not even magical, because it completely violates the law of conservation!

Although the laws of conservation have changed a lot in the magic world, even in the magic world, the basic laws of conservation still need to be followed.

For example, the greater the power, the greater the cost. This is a manifestation of the law of conservation. Everyone knows that the power of nothingness is strong, but who dares to actively contact nothingness? Then, take a seat at the masquerade ball and spend the rest of your life suppressing nothingness. As soon as you release the suppression of nothingness, you will soon be caught up by the monster of nothingness and become the biggest firework in the entire universe.

Xue's Law is now like someone who's so insatiable they're not bothered by the itch anymore; he's been targeted by a monster of nothingness, and all other costs seem insignificant to him.

But how is this thing produced? Did you just extract energy and matter directly from the breeding evil god in the warp?

Wait, warp...

not good!

In the next instant, a distorted spatial rift tore through the sky. What emerged was not the monster with the body of a deer and the head of a paw, but it was definitely of the same style, as if it were a familiar of some apostle. However, this giant insect grew huge and prosperous twisted trees from its head, like a combination of a divine tree parasitizing the giant insect's body.

In Xue's perception, this thing was just a vanguard; soon more portals would light up, bringing people here...

Xue's Law: ...

The Lord of the Mist is still chasing me, damn it!

Xue Dinglu really felt like he had touched the Mist Lord's sore spot. How did he end up with so much hatred on him, even more than the Starship Corps?

It shouldn't be because of the blood of hell, but rather... Fug!

Is the Lord of the Mist enraged because he summoned Fug?

In fact, Xue's method is quite similar to the situation where, after being bullied by a school bully and completely unable to defeat him, one chooses to solve the problem indirectly by building a good relationship with the bully's mother and then launching a frantic attack on his starting point.

Although this metaphor is abstract and distorted, what Xue's law does is actually quite similar to the meaning of this metaphor.

What Xue Dinglu didn't know was that summoning Ishan wouldn't alarm the Lord of the Mist, nor would summoning Domini. The Lord of the Mist was still indifferent, even bringing out all the members of the 13th Expedition Team. To the Lord of the Mist, it was just a matter of having more enemies.