My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Beatrice said, “Weigh them, look at the color of the feathers, look at the density of the feathers, and observe the amount of food they eat and the amount of excrement they produce.”

“Correct answer.” Rexol nodded. “No matter how well poultry grows, they are still just poultry. They will always be unable to surpass species of a higher level of life in certain aspects. For example, willpower, spiritual ocean, and most importantly, charm.”

“Charm?” Beatrice was slightly taken aback.

Rexor shrugged. "No matter how fat and fair-skinned a pig is, it's still just a pig. That might make it popular among pigs and other species that eat pigs, but higher life forms would only be indifferent or disgusted by it, and wouldn't find it attractive."

"So... what you mean by 'charm' is an attraction to all species, right?" Beatrice asked.

Rexall said, "You can understand it that way. The more attractive a person is, the better the initial impression they make on any species. But as I just said, this applies to pigs and to humans. No matter how outstanding their appearance and physique are, they are only attractive to humans and other humanoid species."

Rexor continued:

"In Christor's words, if a person's charm traits reach the fourth scale, then they can exert a powerful attraction on almost all humans. If they reach the fifth scale, then no human can resist their charm. There are no humans whose charm traits exceed the fifth scale, because the upper limit of charm traits for the human species is the fifth scale."

"What is the connection between the charm trait and the bloodline trait?" Beatrice asked, looking at the blood-red crystal.

"Crestor said that the weakest link in a person's bloodline features is their charm feature. The strength of a bloodline feature is determined by the weakest link. Therefore, as long as a person's charm feature is detected, one can roughly know their bloodline features."

Rexor pointed to the crimson crystal. "Shazo's charm traits are within the normal range, hmm... about the same as yours. That's my guess. To be honest, it's a bit higher than I expected. Because he usually maintains the blood-pattern disguise, he looks like an ordinary mage."

Beatrice nodded. "Thank you for answering my question, Letor."

“What do you plan to do with this crystal?” Rexol said. “It can last a long time, but it’s also very fragile. A little pressure and it will crumble into pieces.”

"I'll destroy it now to avoid any trouble." Beatrice took out a cloth bag, put the crystal inside, and then crushed it through the bag.

She opened the bag, looked at the dull shards inside, reached out and summoned the fireplace on the wall, and threw the bag into the fire.

The cloth bag and the rubble turned into smoke, which drifted out of the study through the chimney.

Chapter 36 Intelligent Shielding

half a month later.

In the quiet room of the academy.

Xia Zuo awoke from deep meditation, and the golden finger information that came to his mind made him frown.

"The host has been detected to be receiving a blood-pattern feature detection spell. The detection spell has been automatically and intelligently blocked."

This was the first time he had ever known that the cheat code had a built-in function to block detection!

But this is not the point.

The key point is that someone actually took advantage of the time he was disabling his blood pattern disguise to come into the room and detect his blood pattern.

Xia Zuo didn't bother to check his internal body anymore.

He got out of bed and walked around the room, but didn't see anything strange.

Then look at the intact door, and the magic circles on the facade and walls...

All of this suggests that the person who sneaked into the room possessed the academy's pendant.

This pendant... is only available at Beatrice's place.

"Could it be Beatrice spying on me?" Xia Zuo scratched the back of his head in confusion. "But why would she do that?"

Xia Zuo felt he was in a bit of a dilemma.

If you go to Beatrice to ask, he can't explain how he discovered he was being detected.

If I don't ask... I always feel that there will be misunderstandings between the two of us.

After much thought, Xia Zuo decided to pretend that the incident never happened. After all, the Golden Finger had intervened to block the detection, which meant that all potential threats had been eliminated.

If you remember this incident later, use the Sands of Time to see what happened.

Thinking of this, Xia Zuo sat back on the bed and examined his internal body.

The inner body was inside him; it did not appear on his spirit body.

This is good news; Xia Zuo doesn't need to make another set.

But at the same time, he was also a little curious as to why the elemental shell he created this time did not end up on the spirit body.

Xia Zuo thought of a possibility.

The last time he created the elemental shell, the raw materials contained a large amount of spiritual materials. This time, however, there were none; all the raw materials were binding energy fields and obedient elements that Xia Zuo himself had constructed.

If you want the inner body to appear on the spirit body, you have to add spiritual materials to the raw materials.

That being said, Xia Zuo had no intention of giving it a try.

For him, it was a very strange thing for the elemental body to come to the spirit body. Although it did not show its harm, it gave Xia Zuo another set of usable elemental bodies.

But Xia Zuo still didn't want this kind of out-of-control thing to happen again.

He looked at the door, then his gaze moved from the door frame to the wall. He stood up and set up a defensive barrier on the door and the wall to warn himself of an intruder.

He wouldn't have thought of doing this before... but now... this defensive barrier makes him feel more at ease.

After resting briefly in the bathroom, Xia Zuo returned to bed and began creating his elemental body.

The creation principle of elemental bodies is similar to that of elemental puppets, requiring a large number of obedient elements and alchemical biomimetic materials.

Xia Zuo has already taken care of all these things.

The only thing he needed to do was add his own spirit powder during the creation of the elemental puppet, allowing the elemental puppet to transform into an elemental body that could freely use his spiritual ocean.

Xia Zuo held the spiritual carving knife and entered a meditative state.

His spirit body was dressed in an elemental shell specifically designed for oil alchemy.

Xia Zuo pulled open a corner of the body shell, revealing his spiritual chest. He held the carving knife in reverse and gently made a cut on the spiritual chest.

A small fragment of the spirit body peeled off his chest.

Xia Zuo watched the shards fall onto his legs, then looked at the carving knife in his hand, a big question mark popping into his head:

"Why doesn't it hurt at all?"

He brought up the character template, where the [Health] data clearly stated [Full Health, Healthy].

This fragment of spirit was slashed off, and not a single drop of blood was shed.

What's happening here?

Is this spiritual carving knife fake?

Why is his performance completely different from what he did on the roundabout?

Xia Zuo still remembers that when the knife was plunged into the back of the shaman's spirit, the person immediately fainted from the pain.

How come the knife became gentle and harmless in his hands?

Xia Zuo examined the carving knife for a few minutes before his gaze slowly shifted to the spirit line.

Could it be because there's a cheat code inside the spirit line?

The golden finger blocked the damage to the spirit, preventing it from being transmitted to the physical body.

Xia Zuo carefully examined the character template and then inquired about the cheat codes.

Got nothing.

It was as if it were perfectly normal for him to be immune to the damage from the spiritual carving knife.

Xia Zuo was a little confused and didn't want to think about it too much.

He calmed himself down and began to dissect his own spirit, quickly obtaining enough fragments.

When Xia Zuo opened his eyes after exiting his meditative state, he held the spirit fragments in his hand. There were many glittering golden-white fragments in his physical hand, which looked like he was holding a handful of broken glass.

Xia Zuo took out alchemy tools, ground the fragments into powder, and then evenly mixed them into the raw materials of the elemental body.

For the next two weeks, he worked day and night to create an elemental body.

On the last day of the eleventh month after entering the meditation room, Xia Zuo successfully created an elemental body that shared his spiritual ocean with himself.

During this period, the defensive barrier on the door was not triggered.

After familiarizing himself with his elemental body, Shazo took out his communication ring and sent a message to Beatrice and Christor respectively.

He told Beatrice that he had completed his mission and was now going to the test flight platform at the tower to try piloting the tower with his elemental body.

As for Christo, Shazo said that he had tested the Spirit Carving Knife and confirmed that it would cause significant damage to both the spirit and the physical body. Ordinary mages might not be able to withstand it, but it should be fine for pure-blooded mages.

In this passage, he fabricated a process for testing the spiritual carving knife based on his own imagination.

There's nothing I can do...

You can't exactly say you're a cheat code, immune to damage from the spirit carving knife, can you?

Just as he stepped out of the room to look for Anjou, Christo's message arrived. She said that Selena would be going to the academy to retrieve the spiritual carving knife, and that Selena would also lead Shazo into the sky.

The reply came faster than Xia Zuo had expected. Could it be that the teleportation hall in the Western Continent had already been built?

Xia Zuo transformed into a cloud of air, passed through the windows of the corridor, and arrived on the roof.

He looked up at the Storm Mountains, where five enormous energy vortexes hovered steadily atop the peaks—these were the sub-dimensional portals. Behind the five portals, a palace gleaming with the light of dawn occupied the entire mountaintop.

"This..." Xia Zuo covered his forehead, "Isn't this a bit too over-the-top..."

He stood on the rooftop, staring blankly at the view of the mountain peaks. It wasn't until Anru sent him a secret message asking where he was that Xia Zuo came back to his senses.

Xia Zuo drifted to the professors' restaurant at the academy and had lunch with An Ru'er. Feeling her gentleness and thoughtfulness, the fatigue from 11 months of continuous seclusion instantly spread, dispelling his idea of ​​immediately going to the test flight platform to conduct experiments.

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Chapter 37 Confession

After dinner that evening, Xia Zuo went to Beatrice's study.

Before entering, he stood on the open-air balcony to gather his thoughts.

During his previous secluded cultivation, someone secretly used the access control pendant of the meditation room to monitor him. This was definitely related to Beatrice, which made Xia Zuo feel somewhat strange when he met Beatrice.

I wouldn't say I dislike or hate it, but I'm definitely not immune to awkwardness and discomfort.