My health recovery is incredibly fast.

"The group leader is personally controlled by a certain being in the inner sanctum; he won't cause you any trouble."

"You will follow the group into the lower levels of Crettorgard, your destination being the Underworld Prison, located 100 meters underground, where Ner'xath is imprisoned."

"The process of installing a bionic human body is very lengthy, and you should know that better than I do."

"You will be in charge of inspecting the alchemical bionic system. I will create an opportunity for you to be alone with the bionic lungs. You will have about half an hour to inscribe the blood-patterned seal. The ink is in your inner lining pocket."

“Inscribing the Bloodline Secret Contract requires your life force. I suppose you’ve noticed this while practicing inscription over the past few days: life force doesn’t exhibit energy fluctuations, so you don’t need to worry about being discovered.”

Xia Zuo nodded.

Christo took out a pocket watch with several small dials, glanced at it, and said, "I'll take you there. The team is about to depart. Remember, don't make a sound or act on your own. Treat yourself as an elemental golem. Don't do anything except for the instructions I give you."

"Yes, sir."

Christo took out a teleportation crystal, released a bright light, and teleported Shazo away.

...

The location of Erthogard has always been a secret within the Silvermoon Federation.

Even after escaping the intense light of the teleportation spell, Xia Zuo was still surrounded by a white blur.

He resisted the urge to raise his hand to shield his eyes, squinted to adjust to the light, and saw snowflakes fluttering in the wind. As far as the eye could see, there was only pure white snow and oppressive gray clouds in the sky.

Xia Zuo sensed Anru'er's location, but the feedback was difficult and vague. Just like in the outer hall, Etogard had also set up an anti-detection barrier that resembled the Extreme Storm.

Xia Zuo squinted and looked straight ahead. About a dozen elemental puppets dressed like him were lined up neatly. Several beams of light flashed past his side, and several other elemental puppets were teleported over.

Xia Zuo kept his head still, tilting his body slightly to the side. An elemental golem carrying a huge metal box appeared at the front of the group, its back to the group, talking to two glass spheres floating in the air.

"Shazo, you are currently at the surface entrance of Erthogard. Once the installation team leader verifies your identity, you will be able to enter the underground. Do not move; stay where you are. The only way to enter the underground from the surface is through the elevator beneath your feet." A calm voice came from beside him.

"Bang."

The ground shook slightly, then slowly descended.

Xia Zuo and the elemental golems around him sank into the ground, and the sky above their heads was sealed off by a metal ceiling disguised as a snowfield.

A warm breeze blew by, and the snow on the elevator melted quickly, revealing the metal base of the elevator. The melted snow dripped into the grooves of the base and flowed towards the edge of the elevator.

Alchemy lamps lit up the walls of the elevator shaft, illuminating the dark doorway in the wall.

After descending slowly for nearly a minute, the elevator platform came to a steady stop in front of a metal gate.

The elemental golem at the front of the group identified itself to the glass ball guarding the door once again before leading the group into the long corridor behind the heavy doors.

Nyxath ​​was, after all, a shamanic master, and he himself was forced into the territory of the Church of the Otherworldly Demons, so he should enjoy treatment different from other serious criminals.

His place of confinement was decorated as an idyllic, enclosed space.

The ceiling is adorned with alchemical chandeliers that mimic sunlight, and the floor beneath your feet is covered with a layer of soft soil. There are dedicated horticultural servants who help Nyxath ​​take care of the plants here, as well as fish kept in a small fishpond.

As long as Nexusat doesn't try to escape and stays here obediently to enjoy his imprisonment, the watchful guards hidden beneath the soil, inside the alchemical chandelier, and disguised as fishpond rocks won't interfere with his activities.

The conditions in this prison are actually quite good...

But Nexus was clearly very dissatisfied.

He still maintained his composure, like a turtle lying in the deep sea. Hearing the commotion at the door, he splashed water as he climbed ashore from the fishpond and shouted in a harsh, shrill voice:

"Hurry, hurry! I can't stand this awful body of mine for another second! The moment it leaves the water, I feel it rotting and decaying. I really want to... uh, cough cough cough..."

"Shut up," the tall team leader said emotionlessly.

The noisy noise was interrupted by a magical hand. The lead elemental puppet grabbed the deep-sea turtle by the neck from a distance and carried it towards the house by the pool.

The deep-sea turtle's neck was stretched out, hanging from its shell like a rubber band, swaying up and down in the air, its four legs and abdominal tendrils kicking helplessly.

Hmm...it seems the being controlling the elemental puppets in the inner sanctum has a rather bad temper.

The interior space is several times larger than it appears from the outside, and the whole thing seems to be a product of enchanting and alchemy.

The group leader, carrying the Deep Sea Turtle, waved to the elemental puppets behind him. The puppets immediately unleashed their Wind Hands, moving the furniture in the entrance hall to the wall and creating an open space of about 30 square meters in the center.

The elemental golems took out metal parts of different shapes from their respective alchemical pouches and began to build an incubation tank that would fuse with a bionic human body.

Outside the culture tank, an additional ring of chains with fine patterns was arranged to prevent the Oxath from mutating.

The group leader unfolded the metal box behind him in the corner; inside were metal boxes of various sizes.

He gestured to Xia Zuobi, who was standing still, and said, "Come here."

At the same time, Crestor's secret message rang in Shazo's ears:

"Walk over and check the alchemical bionic organs in the boxes one by one according to the numbers on the metal boxes."

"The bionic lung is number 8."

Oh, so this is the opportunity Christo was referring to.

When the group leader placed the metal box, he deliberately chose a corner.

Although still within the surveillance guards' line of sight, the team leader's massive size allowed him to completely block out Xia Zuo behind him, preventing all the other elemental golems and surveillance guards from seeing what was happening next to the metal box.

As for that deep-sea turtle... it was being pressed down on the floor in a corner by the Hand of Wind, its face to the ground, unable to move.

"Shazo, now's the time. Make your move. Don't make any mistakes. You only have one chance." Christo stopped transmitting secret messages to avoid interfering with the other party.

Without using spells that aid in inscription, it is very difficult to inscribe complex inscriptions within narrow tubular spaces.

But Xia Zuo came up with an easy and simple method.

He can use a blood spot as a tool to locate the pen tip, just like when cutting bait, and sense whether the pen spot is correct without looking at the tubular interlayer.

Christo knew this method.

Xia Zuo took the initiative to tell her how to use Blood Points.

Krestor responded that it was a very common blood magic, which almost every pureblood mage would awaken on their own. It had many names, such as Blood Mark, Blood Imprint, etc., and everyone had their own name for it, but the principle of the spell was the same.

Christo also said that she had long guessed that Shazo knew this blood magic, otherwise he wouldn't have such a high success rate in cutting the elixir. It was precisely because this pure blood magic did not have energy fluctuations and could increase the success rate of inscription that she sent a pure blood mage to complete the time-sensitive inscription task.

Xia Zuo attached the bloodstains to the specially made pen tip, skillfully inscribing a secret code within the tubular interlayer, while the information from his cheat system flowed into his mind:

"Host detected inscribing Blood Rune Manifestation Secret Contract, estimated to consume 170 blood points. Do you wish to inject life force into the contract to activate it?"

This message appeared many times during practice.

Xia Zuo confirmed in his mind, his health dropped by 170 points, and the bloodline symbolizing vitality flowed from his fingertips, slid down the pen, and entered the secret pattern.

Get it done.

Xia Zuo put the pen back into the inner pocket, placed the bionic lung back into the metal box, and carefully checked whether the other alchemical bionic organs were intact.

This bionic human body, which embodies the highest achievements of the alchemical school, has a total of 118 alchemical bionic organs and bionic tissues.

In the original human body, apart from the head, the most important organ is the heart.

However, in the alchemical bionic human body, the largest contributor is not the heart, but the alchemical nervous system, which accounts for 11%.

It was developed by Adanavados and his core students, along with many of the outer temple masters.

It is connected to all organs and tissues throughout the body, and if it malfunctions, the entire bionic human body could become paralyzed.

If Hillenburg's group hadn't been selected, Krestor and Rexor would probably have left a backdoor in the alchemical nervous system.

It is worth noting that after the alchemy school determined the winning research and development team, it did not publicly disclose the team's research and development results.

This is the first time Xia Zuo has seen bionic organs from other groups.

This is a very rare opportunity.

The higher one's vision and alchemy aptitude, the more research ideas from other groups one can copy... uh... borrow.

Xia Zuo not only collected the information on the detection techniques of 118 bionic organs and tissues, but also specially collected information on those parts that were difficult to understand in a short time. Whether he could understand them or not, he wanted them all!

About half an hour later, the group leader patted Xia Zuo on the shoulder, signaling him to step back.

Xia Zuo reluctantly put down the bionic tendon in his hand, walked to the line by the wall and stood there, watching the process of Nyxat fusing with the bionic human body with the other elemental puppets.

The deep-sea turtle had been placed in the culture tank, and four crystals suspended in the air projected solidification rays to fix it in place.

An elemental puppet controlled the mechanical arm inside the cultivation tank, disinfecting the tank several times before injecting a full vial of potent anesthetic into the deep-sea turtle.

The team leader stood at the control panel and examined the elemental bottles in front of him. These were high-level elemental servants created by Ner'xath himself, used to control the nerve signals of the alchemical nervous system.

everything's ready.

You could try separating the oxathat and the deep-sea turtle.

According to the anatomical diagrams provided by Hillenberg, the body structure of the deep-sea turtle is similar to that of ordinary turtles, consisting of the heart, liver, spleen, stomach, intestines, and bladder (but without kidneys). The additional organs and tissues are those of the Naoxat itself.

Due to brain structure, only the human brain can carry human consciousness.

Therefore, the first step in integrating a bionic human body is to find the human brain of Naoxat and remove it without damage.

Thanks to the bloody and turbulent years at the end of the Fourth Age—though that sounds somewhat ironic—the alchemical school possessed a complete method for extracting the human brain, along with the corresponding nutrient solution formula and the method for crafting containers to preserve the brain.

This knowledge will not be made public; its dissemination is restricted by the inner sanctuary.

The installation team leader only had the finished nutrient solution and brain container in his hands.

The culture tank was filled with a faint blue light, and the transparent lights made the deep-sea turtles appear transparent, exposing their internal organs.

A fresh human brain appeared on the abdomen of the soft-shelled turtle, located on the inner side of its root and thigh.

It's like having two legs growing out of your head...

Chapter 68 The Shrine of Divantana

The installation team located the exact location of the brain.

The tall team leader pulled a light-proof metal tube from his suitcase, inserted the tube end into the IV tubing on the operating table, and then twisted the metal tube. A sound of gears turning came from the metal tube, followed by the sound of water flowing.

The yellowish-green liquid was pumped into the culture tank by the water pump inside the control console, and after more than ten seconds, the liquid submerged the deep-sea turtle.

During this time, Xia Zuo took a good look at Nyxat's brain.

When Rexor rescued him, he appeared as a filthy lump of flesh.

Hillenburg determined that he had entered a state of rebirth.

Xia Zuo was able to determine that, apart from a small amount of flesh and blood, the mass of flesh at that time was mostly thick liquid.