My health recovery is incredibly fast.

When the night was deep and quiet, the Blood Element servants set out under the cover of darkness, using their bloodline connection to transmit to Xia Zuo the most important confidential document of the mining team—a map of the mineral resources distribution of the Western Continent and the mining plan.

In another corner of the Western Continent, Xia Zuo sat in his secret base inside the mountain, rapidly copying confidential documents with his silver sand palms. After writing the last word, he dismissed the Blood Element servants who had gloriously completed their intelligence-stealing mission.

Thus, these confidential documents, which were not classified at a high level and were not protected by strong anti-theft arrays, but were of great strategic significance, were officially in Xia Zuo's hands.

The same mining plan can be seen in the future timeline simulated by the [Spacetime Phase Simulator], but it is far less detailed than the one that Xia Zuo collected in reality.

He made several copies of the mining plan and selected some veins that were far from the Starry Night Kingdom and were ranked lower in the mining order.

Five teams of Blood Element servants, tasked with mining, set off overnight, led by their flesh-and-blood clones, towards the towering mountains on the westernmost edge of the Western Continent.

Xia Zuo gave them only one instruction: complete the preliminary work for mining within three days, officially start mining on the fourth day, and then supply the secret base with no less than 3000 standard units of high-grade ore every day.

With the upstream resource issue for the self-made controlled products basically resolved, Xia Zuo immediately began the cleanup work, cutting off the tails one by one that would attract the attention of the Demon Hunter School and the Inquisition.

Xia Zuo opened the desk drawer, took out a notebook filled with names, and cast blood magic again, summoning more than a dozen special forces teams of three people each.

"Flesh and Blood Doppelganger No. 6"

Xia Zuo quickly scribbled down an action order and slammed it on the table, then addressed the bright red figure standing in front of him:

"Your team's mission is to make the owner of the 'Golden Emerald Ore Shop' in Pimos City disappear, and bring his head back in a life-sustaining incubation tank."

Upon receiving the command, the flesh and blood clone stepped forward and saluted Xia Zuo by striking his left chest with his right fist—a gesture Xia Zuo had deliberately arranged when condensing the flesh and blood clone, to make it more ceremonial.

After the flesh-and-blood clone No. 6 picked up the command book, Xia Zuo took a tiny hourglass from his alchemy pouch and placed it on the table:

"Take this hourglass with you. After erasing all traces of the activity at the scene, smash the hourglass and let the sand inside roll into every corner of the scene."

"Yes, Master! I will serve you faithfully."

After the flesh and blood clone 6 took the hourglass into its body, it then took the two spherical blood element servants behind it and transformed into a rapidly moving transparent blood shadow, flying out through the slightly ajar blood magic gate.

The arrogant lines and rigid bowing gestures are indeed a bit childish and can easily trigger embarrassment, but they perfectly allow Xia Zuo to find the mindset of a superior who controls blood magic clones, a mindset that is bound to form after having the support of many powerful blood magics.

"Flesh and Blood Clone Number 7!" Xia Zuo shouted in a low voice with a hint of authority.

"I serve you, Master!"

The flesh-and-blood clone No. 7 stepped forward, stood with his hands behind his back, and strode forward.

"Your target is in Romanchester..."

Xia Zuo issued a series of orders, and squads of ruthless special forces were dispatched, like shadows in the night, bringing inescapable calamity to their enemies.

Tonight, the Starry Night Kingdom will be both bustling and silent. A dozen people will be temporarily imprisoned for threatening Xia Zuo with their actions, and their cries for help and curses will surely go unheard.

In the timelines numbered [Future.228] to [Future.279], "Xia Zuo" dispatched more than 300 special operations teams to the Starry Night Kingdom to clean up the mess.

A total of 381 missions were carried out, of which 235 failed, 27 were killed in action, 66 were seriously injured, and 374 were exposed.

Only seven special operations missions were truly carried out silently, precisely, and deadly. All other missions resulted in casualties and leaks, attracting the attention of garrisoned mages from various cities, ruining the entire plan and causing more trouble for "Xia Zuo".

Learning from the lessons of these 381 special operations missions, Xia Zuo devised an extremely secretive special operations plan in reality.

Avoiding detection by time-space magic is of paramount importance.

Since it was a critical time when the Temple and the Otherworld were about to go to war, any strange events would be reported to the Holy Rune Department and the Mystic Guild. The disturbance caused by "Xia Zuo" attracted the attention of the Mystic Guild.

These decisive Templar soldiers immediately used time-space magic to summon "Xia Zuo," easily finding clues in historical scenes and tracking down the main figure hiding in the mountain.

The hourglass that Xia Zuo gave to the special forces team was used to evade the tracking of time-space magic.

In the [Future.278] timeline, "Xia Zuo" suddenly had a brilliant idea: to use a time-space container to capture the Sands of Time from a certain place and seal them in an alchemical hourglass for preservation.

He was surprised to find that these sands of time from other places could exist for about a minute after being scattered to another location.

In this brief minute, the Sands of Time from another location will create a chaotic, disordered zone, altering the spacetime information recorded by other Sands of Time within that area.

One minute later, the Sands of Time in another location will ignore the barriers of time and space and travel directly back to their original place.

The sands of time in a miniature hourglass are enough to turn a space of more than 100 square meters into a chaotic zone, completely blocking all tracking from spacetime magic.

Learning from history can enlighten us, and drawing information from the future can also make us wiser, with even better results than studying the past.

After Xia Zuo gave the final instruction, the briefly noisy alchemy room fell silent.

Inside the culture jar on the table, the little golden vitex witnessed the entire process of Xia Zuo issuing commands. It tilted its "head" up to look at Xia Zuo and tapped the glass cover with its leaf:

"Wow, you've changed so much since you mastered the new power of spacetime. It's like you're a completely different person."

Xia Zuo snapped out of his self-satisfaction at suddenly gaining a superior position and grinned:

“I have to thank you for this, Melina. Without the help of your Golden Vitex clan, I might never have imagined that the Faceless Ones could cast time-space magic to predict the future by encasing themselves in a time-space container.”

Little Golden Thorn looked in the direction of the Blood Magic Gate. "You just sent out several teams of Blood Magic Puppets. Are you planning something earth-shattering?"

"Ah, it's not earth-shattering, nor is it a big deal, at least not for the Starry Night Kingdom. It's just something I had to do to protect myself."

Xia Zuo wiggled his hips, leaned forward slightly, and asked with a somewhat serious expression:

"Melina, I know that what happened tonight can't be hidden from the plants. Can you keep this a secret for me?"

The same question has appeared many times in future timelines, and Xia Zuo already knows the answer.

“Of course, Xia Zuo.” Little Golden Thorn Flower nodded. “Oh~ let me guess, you must have used time-space magic to know in advance that we would keep it a secret for you, right?”

“Yes, that’s right.” Xia Zuo shrugged.

I know a lot of things.

"For example, the Golden Vitex clan has recruited plants from the Western Continent as its own over the past few centuries."

"For example, the Golden Vitex Clan is willing to help me in order to better preserve their clan. Whenever a mage who has mastered the laws of space and time appears in the temple, you will try to contact him, understand his character, style and past history, and choose the most suitable partner from among them."

“These are all things you told me in my spacetime magic.”

The little golden chaste tree paused for a moment, its buds opening and closing like a surprised person unconsciously opening their mouth, "I can't believe I've told you so much."

"Ha, who knows why?" Xia Zuo rubbed his chin. "Maybe it's my damn charm..."

This statement has a double meaning.

The first layer is that he's vain.

The second point is that his charm attribute value is indeed ridiculously high. Even with the elemental body and [flesh disguise] as cover, his exposed charm attribute value is as high as 170 points, far exceeding all the humans that Xia Zuo knows.

Ever since he started using Blood Servant to grind monsters and level up, he's found it hard to control his charm. He's had to reduce his public appearances, otherwise, many female juniors with pink hearts in their eyes would flirt with him, causing Anru to keep pinching his waist.

This is really frustrating...

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Chapter 34 The Binding of the Oath

"Melina." Xia Zuo cleared his throat, getting back to the point and ceasing to flaunt his charm:

"I was captured by a villainous alchemist and imprisoned in an underground cell, where I lost my memory under torture with inferior poisonous potions. The Golden Vitex clan has dominated the plants of the Western Continent for a long time, so do you know what my childhood was like?"

When this question was asked, Little Golden Bauhinia gave five different answers, each with slightly different wording, which further subdivided into about 130 different answers, corresponding to more than 130 future timelines.

The answers may differ, but the meaning is the same: your childhood was nothing special, much like any other child born in a small village.

Xia Zuo could basically conclude that the Golden Thorn Flower Clan truly did not know what had happened to the original Xia Zuo, nor did they know that the original Xia Zuo had been replaced by Xia Zuo from another world, and they were even more unfamiliar with the cheat-like ability of cheat codes.

"Hmm..." The little golden chaste tree in the culture jar cradled its flower calyx with its leaves, seemingly deep in thought:

"Wait a minute, I'm a little confused. You asked me what your childhood was like, does that mean you lost your childhood memories and can't use time-space magic to see your past, so you're asking me about your childhood?"

"Yes." Xia Zuo nodded frankly.

"Your childhood... let me think..." Little Golden Vitex scratched her head:

“I remember your childhood was simple: helping your parents thresh grain, harvest wheat, or pull weeds.”

"If you really want to know about the past, I can help you get a record from the tribal elders, which will record the important events of your childhood."

But in my memory, there seems to be only one thing that can be considered truly significant: your abduction by Khuruoqi's men and your taking to the underground dungeon. So... you might be disappointed once you obtain the tribe's records.”

"I see..." Xia Zuo pondered for a moment.

Little Golden Bauhinia's answer appeared in the [Space-Time Phase Simulator]. The record it mentioned was also seen by "Xia Zuo" in a certain future timeline, and it was indeed as thin as Little Golden Bauhinia described.

"I won't trouble you any further, Melina." Shazo waved his hand. "Let bygones be bygones."

Xia Zuo searches for his lost childhood memories, simply to find the mysterious person who gave him the golden finger.

Whenever he thinks about the origin of the Golden Finger and its relationship with Sodike Black Flag, Xia Zuo is terrified that he will suddenly find the mysterious person.

Xia Zuo wasn't ready to face him yet.

Should they thank the other party for bestowing upon them a cheat code, granting them the power of the life-giving spore cysts originating from Sodike Black Flag, or should they inquire why they were transported here...?

These questions are very profound and are likely to reveal some unpredictable outcomes, making Xia Zuo's future uncertain.

In contrast, Xia Zuo now feels more comfortable and joyful about his life, which allows him to control his own destiny using the [Space-Time Phase Simulator].

"I understand how you feel, Xia Zuo," Little Golden Bauhinia comforted in her childish voice.

"Childhood happens only once to every living being. The joy gained in the ignorance is far more real than the joy of growing up, and there is also the love of parents... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned these things."

“It’s alright, Melina.” Xia Zuo rubbed his face a couple of times. “Let’s change the subject. I have something else I’d like to ask the Golden Vitex tribe.”

He sat up straight, looking at Little Golden Vitex with anticipation. "If I want to obtain more light elements, wild light elements or temple light elements, what should I do? Where do light elements appear most often?"

After acquiring the powerful light-based spells [Fair Duel] and [Pure Holy Seal], Xia Zuo once deduced his future. In the battle against the faceless man, the "Xia Zuo" in the future timeline was basically able to fight the opponent to a standstill.

The Faceless Man's [Elemental Invasion] is the bane of most elemental spells. If Xia Zuo can master more light spells, his chances of winning will undoubtedly increase even further.

Therefore, Xia Zuo has now asked a question.

Upon hearing this question, the little golden chaste tree covered its "cheeks" with two leaves, its body trembling slightly, appearing extremely nervous and frightened.

"I...I...you...did you ask me the same question in your future-prediction spells? I didn't give you the answer in your future predictions, did I?"

“No.” Xia Zuo shook his head.

"That's good..." The little golden chaste tree patted its chest, its leaves sliding down its slender stem:

“I can’t say, Xia Zuo, I really can’t say, this question is too fatal.”

The answer from Little Golden Bauhinia has appeared many times in future timelines. It seems that the Golden Bauhinia clan is under some kind of strong constraint, which is why they dare not reveal information about the light element to Xia Zuo.

"You seem afraid of revealing the answer? Why is that?" Xia Zuo asked curiously.