My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Rexor found a fishing boat and came to the lake, directly below the breach in the flesh wall.

Xia Zuo manipulated his blood-element servants to envelop the diving searchlight, jumped into the lake, and carefully searched the information container underwater, avoiding the fish and underwater monsters.

As time passed day after day, Shazo and Rexor still couldn't find any trace of the intelligence container, and their hearts sank.

The worst has happened.

The emergency measures taken by "Lone Peak" in the critical situation were seen through by the Church of the Otherworldly Demons.

The Church of the Otherworlders sent Otherworlders to find the information container and brought it back.

The only good news is that the Church of the Otherworldly Demons, for some reason, has gathered all its Otherworldly Demons and has not sent any to guard the lakeside, waiting for the temple's infiltration team to walk right into their trap.

This further illustrates the immense importance of the Otherworldly Church's plot...

Rexol rowed back to shore without saying a word.

Xia Zuo asked, weaving words with red thread, "Should we send infiltration teams to sabotage the city? Or should we suggest to the temple that we send in troops to launch an attack while the Church of the Otherworldly Demons is unable to spare any manpower?"

Rexor sat on the grass, his brow furrowed, his arms bent and resting on his knees, his hands above his head, and said:

"Things aren't that simple... Xia Zuo... The Temple army's fighting strength here isn't much stronger than that of well-trained professional gunmen. Launching a full-scale attack on the anti-magic field is the most difficult strategy. Moreover, the current situation is very unclear... I don't know if this is a trap set by the Otherworldly Demons..."

Rexor steadied himself and looked at the red line, saying, "Shazo, there's only one way to gather intelligence now. We must find out what the Church of the Otherworld is doing!"

"What method?" Xia Zuo asked.

Rexor pointed to the sky. "I need you to use your Blood Elemental Minions to enter the Flesh Wall and search for any clues. Ideally, you should find 'Lone Peak'... or a part of 'Lone Peak', and obtain information from him."

“This… I have the ability to control my Blood Element servants to fly up. But I don’t know how to get in, or the route…” Xia Zuo said.

“It’s best not to know. You absolutely must not know.” Rexor sat down cross-legged. “The headquarters of the Church of the Otherworldly Demons is an evil palace built on a wall of flesh, which the temple calls the Hall of Ascension. It is the ritual site where all Otherworldly Demons are promoted from the level of a formal mage to the level of a high-ranking mage. Its importance is comparable to our Hall of Creation. As soon as a human steps into that place, he will immediately fall, irredeemably fall.”

"Then if I go in... wouldn't that be courting death?" Xia Zuo was taken aback.

“No.” Rexol shook his head and said firmly, “You are immune to corruption, I’m sure of it.”

“Oh, right, I’m immune to corruption. Even the Starry Sky Demons can’t corrupt my body.” Xia Zuo remembered his special ability and immediately gained confidence. He then said, “Okay, I’ll go.”

“But you will face another problem,” Rexor said. “The headquarters of the Church of the Otherworld is made of sinful flesh and blood. Its filth will corrupt your soul, making you feel like you’re living a life worse than death, wanting to gouge out your own eyes. Imagine you’re using a spoon made of maggots to scoop up soup, and that soup is flowing from the festering wound on the abdomen of a dying girl…”

"Stop, stop. This is disgusting..." Xia Zuo manipulated the red line into an exclamation mark, signaling the bald man to stop immediately. "Then what do we do? I can't just grope around in there with my eyes closed, can I?"

“I will distort your senses,” Rexor said solemnly. “I will construct a mind seal and place it within your blood element servant. In this way, anything repulsive to you will become something you like and desire. It will also be able to translate some of the Otherworldly language you hear, mainly positive content. If what you hear is malicious, the mind seal will not translate it. In addition, it will prevent you from understanding Otherworldly writing.”

“Mind imprint...distorts the senses..." Xia Zuo frowned in thought.

In his memory, in the scientific community of his previous life, some scientists divided the world into two parts.

One is the thing-in-itself, and the other is the phenomenal world.

The thing-in-itself consists only of objective matter.

The phenomenal world is the world composed of information from human senses.

For example.

A plate of braised pork.

The color of braised pork is a product of how vision processes the wavelength of electromagnetic waves.

Fragrance is the sensation experienced by the sense of smell after processing molecular motion.

Taste is generated by taste receptor cells recognizing signal proteins, and then transmitted to the brain via the nervous system; it is essentially an electrical signal.

The temperature of braised pork is a sensory manifestation of the intensity of molecular motion.

The color, aroma, and taste of braised pork belong to the phenomenal world, which are processed by human senses.

Without any sensory processing, what the purest, most natural braised pork looks like is something humans can never know, because humans cannot exist without their senses. Even the results of scientific research require visual inspection.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, as long as the operating mechanism of the senses is changed and sensory deception is achieved, a person can develop a new understanding of the world.

Mind magic can do just that.

(Note: Further reading: String theory. The reason this discipline is difficult to understand is that it studies the thing-in-itself rather than the phenomenal world, and its theoretical content is difficult to directly connect with the phenomena observed in reality.)

Chapter 60 Praise

Shazo and Rexor were in the woods by the lake, preparing for the Blood Element servants to enter the Church of the Otherworld.

Xia Zuo had the bald man take out five red beads containing bloodline marks and crush them, releasing the blood essence servants within the beads.

He gathered the five blood servants together, but did not make them merge into one.

After finding the key to [Vitality Recycling], Xia Zuo developed a good habit:

If something can be solved with multiple Blood Minions, then never use only one Blood Minion!

In order to better recycle vitality and to more efficiently improve vitality attribute values, Xia Zuo has designed a unique composite blood element servant in the past few days.

Three Blood Elemental Minions can form a stable equilateral triangle, which is a group of Blood Elemental Minions, also known as a Vitality Recovery Unit.

With an existing equilateral triangle, each additional blood minion added to it creates one to three more triangles.

Four hemolybdenum servants correspond to a regular tetrahedron.

Five Blood Element Servants are hexahedrons with all six faces being equilateral triangles.

This process can be repeated infinitely, and each time a new structure is formed, it is a stable triangle.

This composite blood element servant, with its entire body composed of triangles, is particularly suitable for enhancing defensive capabilities and serving as a container for important items.

The five Blood Elemental Minions released by Shazor and Rexor formed a hexahedron shape.

After the Blood Elemental Servant took shape, Rek'Thalas used all his remaining mental energy to weave a mental rune, placing it in the center of the hexahedron, while instructing:

"Don't let your Blood Element Servant activate it yet. Once the Mind Seal takes effect, it will immediately change the Blood Element Servant's perception. You will find that everything around you is different from before. In my personal experience, the distorted sensory experience will make you dizzy and nauseous until you enter the flesh wall."

“Okay,” Xia Zuo replied with the red line extending from the hexahedron.

“Should we find a higher spot? That way you’ll be closer to the bottom of the flesh wall.” Rexol looked around and pointed to a low hill not far away.

Xia Zuo thought for a moment and said, "No need, I'll just control this blood element servant to fly up. Once I set off, you go find Serites and the others. If I alert the alien demons behind the flesh wall, I will immediately disband this blood element servant and then notify you using the little red vest you're wearing."

“Alright, be careful on your journey, Shazo.” Rexor solemnly instructed, “If you sense anything is wrong, evacuate immediately. Do not let the Church of the Otherworld trap your Bloodline Servants, as they may be able to decipher your Bloodline Mark and cast a Bloodline Curse on you.”

"No problem, wait for my message."

Xia Zuo shrunk his Blood Element servant, rolled it in the mud, and covered it with a layer of black mud. The disguise might not be very effective, but it was better than nothing.

The blood element servants, disguised as small lumps of mud, took to the air.

The current Xia Zuo is far superior to the past in both his health and his control over his blood element servants.

Controlling the blood element servants to rise straight up through the clouds is no longer a difficult task.

Rexor, on the ground, looked away from the small clod of mud that had disappeared into the clouds, turned around, picked up his backpack, and headed toward the nearest city.

...

About twenty or thirty minutes later, Xia Zuo's blood-element servants flew out from the dark clouds and saw the flesh wall hanging high above their heads.

Faced with flesh walls covered in blood vessels, hair, and lumps, Xia Zuo decisively had his Blood Element servant digest the Mind Seal, activating the sensory distortion spell within the seal.

A message about a cheat system appeared in Xia Zuo's mind:

"Host's Blood Element Minions No. 42 to No. 46 have been detected being affected by the Mind Seal, and the following effects are expected:"

"【Sensory Distortion】: The observation results of the surrounding things will be distorted, which may cause the inability to distinguish between friend and foe and to correctly perceive objective things."

"Once the above effects take effect, the screen display for Blood Elemental Minions #42 to #46 will change. Confirm the use of Mind Seal?"

"Confirmed," Xia Zuo murmured.

The mental runes woven by Rexol melted like ice cubes placed in boiling water, permeating every blood servant.

The flesh wall as seen from the perspective of the Blood Servant changed instantly.

The nauseating fleshy exterior was gone, replaced by a pristine white base exuding a sense of holiness. The thick blood vessels on the surface of the fleshy wall had become glass pipes through which clear water flowed on the base, the dense fuzz had become plant roots, and the ugly lumps had become the foundation of some kind of building.

The fleshy wall transformed into a sky city suspended above the clouds.

Xia Zuo rubbed his eyes, looking at the changes in front of him in disbelief.

Looking at the clouds again now, you'll find they've transformed into a vast, pure, snow-white sea of ​​clouds, no longer as dark and oppressive as before.

"This is amazing... The sensory distortion can actually achieve this effect." Xia Zuo exclaimed in the alchemy room, while reminding himself that all of this was fake, a result of sensory distortion, not real, and he must not be deceived by the illusion before him.

He calmed himself down and guided his blood-element servants to fly upwards, facing the light emanating from the pristine white floor.

Soon, the Blood Element servants arrived at a point two or three meters from the bottom of the floor.

Now we need to find a way in.

According to Rexor, the interior of the flesh wall is a series of corridor-like intestinal cavities, which serve as passageways for the Otherworldly demons to move quickly within the headquarters. The flesh wall has a honeycomb-like skin-like pattern, which are the ventilation openings within the intestinal cavities. Blood elemental servants can fly into these ventilation openings.

As the blood element servants searched for the ventilation openings, they deliberately avoided the delicate "roots" hanging from the flesh walls; Xia Zuo hadn't forgotten what these things were.

After searching for a few minutes, Xia Zuo found a ventilation opening and controlled his Blood Element Servant to fly inside.

After passing through a circular passage paved with white tiles, the Blood Servants entered a beautifully decorated corridor filled with flowers, sculptures, and paintings.

A skylight in the ceiling extends to the end of the corridor, illuminating every corner with bright sunlight.

On the walls along both sides of the corridor, every ten meters there is a loudspeaker-shaped speaker, playing gentle music on a loop, while devout voices sing praises to some being:

Who can tell where the path to immortality leads?

Where do the passing years go?

"Only you, Vasaksat."

"And who can explain the growth of all things?"

"Is it as you wish?"

"Only you, Vasaksat."

"...

"The end of time is quietly approaching, and we welcome your arrival, Vasaksat."

(Note: I have marked the details with "【】".)