I am Jinshan Youxia

Chapter 96 Hey, I have another idea!

In short, regarding 'sales':

Another team has created 'Zhang Chengyi'.

The sales method was simple and crude: using the allure of the vampire's mutated bloodline, they got someone from the Atlantean South Continent team to return to the Main God Space Plaza and create a human, ultimately infiltrating the Atlantean South Continent team's plaza in a roundabout way.

With just a little starting capital, anyone who can create a human body can quickly become the strongest in the team. Then, they can imitate the practices of the Central Continent Team and the Demon Team: normal people who can cooperate can use a share of the profits to farm rewards, while idiots who cannot cooperate can be forcibly controlled or killed directly.

Then, because the Southern Continent team in Atlantis was too weak and the dungeon difficulty was low, I quickly came into contact with the Indian Continent team...

It's like the breeding speed of cockroaches. Before the horror movie on the Zhongzhou team's side has even ended, the number of teams actually controlled by Zhang Chengyi has already reached four.

It's unclear whether the main god has gone mad. After the anomaly in the demon team, every time a human was created, they tried to trace its origins, only to be slapped by the modifier itself. After dozens of such instances, the rating system has now completely crashed.

Zhang Chengyi truly had no intention of killing the main god. Otherwise, when the main god first tried to trace the source of the bug, he could have adjusted the main god's "existence" to zero, making it "non-existent."

But according to the setting of the sequel to Infinite Terror, it would be troublesome if the main god were really killed. He could just take some benefits without having to kill him.

But the main god really doesn't get tired of invading the bugs again and again, completely unafraid of death.

It's not entirely the God's fault. This thing, under Chu Xuan's testing, is a supercomputer that operates according to procedure. It didn't think it could no longer be investigated just because it was easily expelled.

As a result, Zhang Chengyi got annoyed. Later, when the main god came in, he lowered the main god's "existence" and then threw him out again. He did this more than ten times. It seemed like there was indeed a problem.

Just now, he clearly felt that the main god suddenly stopped paying attention to the bug that was spreading strangely, and even the light sphere underwent a subtle change.

He still didn't understand what would happen, but the most obvious change was that the time flow of all the teams he could control had just synchronized.

This doesn't look good.

But what benefits would Zhang Chengyi gain from spreading himself so widely...?

It seems not. It was just for fun, like slapping the God of War is just annoying. They didn't consider the consequences or what might happen.

Anyway, he has plenty of patience and won't have any regrets.

Who cares?

Zhang Chengyi, on the other hand, optimistically put all the messy trifles behind him and began to seriously study the evil spirit within his body.

After this brief one-sided exchange, he was basically certain that the evil spirit within him was the deceased newcomer. The only difference was that the newcomers who became evil spirits seemed to have become exceptionally cruel, their surging consciousness filled with all sorts of strange thoughts of torturing and killing.

Is there such a big difference between a person becoming a ghost after death?

Zhang Chengyi felt there must be other factors involved, such as the influence of Kandarian, or rather, corruption.

As he pondered, he casually adjusted the number of evil spirits within his body from one to two.

Who are you? (2 x)

[I am XXX] X2

After uttering several identical words of doubt and threat, the two evil spirits entered a state of chaos, their souls intertwined and their consciousnesses out of place.

The spiritual energies mingled and eventually became a chaotic mess, each filled with malice towards the other 'self'.

Zhang Chengyi listened for a while, then gradually increased the number of evil spirits, wanting to test how many evil spirits his body could actually hold.

The increasing number of evil spirits made the sounds within the body even more chaotic. It's unclear which one started it, but they abandoned their caution and began to fight each other on their own initiative. And it got out of control, like raising poisonous insects, and their numbers began to decrease rapidly again.

However, the evil spirits did not devour each other to become stronger as they fought each other; they simply tore each other apart. The drifting consciousness and mutual malice drove the evil spirits more and more insane, losing their initial rationality. In the end, among the more than one hundred evil spirits in the werewolf's body, not one was normal.

He was acting erratically and was mentally unstable.

The modifier doesn't copy the original value, but rather the current one. The evil spirits fight too fast; after all, it's an interaction at the level of consciousness. In the blink of an eye, they've all gone mad, and there's simply no time to stop them.

The fighting continued; they showed no sign of stopping. The ever-increasing number of evil spirits caused even greater suffering to the other evil spirits. With too many fragments of consciousness, they could only gain a little pleasure by desperately tearing and hurting others.

This is the nature of evil spirits.

The locked values ​​cause each one to appear out of thin air when they are killed, carrying the memories of killing and being killed.

It belongs to the classic "I killed myself" strange logic, so it's not hard to understand why evil spirits go crazy.

Two hundred and seventy-five is the limit.

After Zhang Chengyi increased the value to 275, he couldn't adjust it any higher. He watched as the crazed evil spirits unlocked the value, and in the next second, the number of evil spirits dropped sharply, leaving only one in just a few seconds.

Besides those who were killed, a significant portion of them committed suicide. He quickly narrowed down the number to one, which is why they weren't all wiped out.

The surviving evil spirit kept trying to commit suicide, but each time it died it would be resurrected due to the numerical lock. However, the drifting fragments of consciousness would not disappear, causing it to feel as if it had died and lived again, living and dying again, which was extremely painful and helpless.

Finally, it became completely quiet.

"Hey, should I let you out?" Zhang Chengyi asked tentatively.

no response.

He tried many words or used his spiritual energy to stir up the evil spirits within him, but there was no sign of them moving. They refused to accept any consciousness floating in this body, and their souls were completely blank.

Zhang Chengyi adjusted the value upwards again, and two blank-minded souls appeared in his body, mechanically outputting spiritual energy but doing nothing else.

He's completely gone stupid.

Wait a minute, I've got another idea...

Why say it again?

Zhang Chengyi's eyes brightened, and he warmly moved closer to Zheng Zha, saying, "Hey, Old Zheng, do you want to awaken your martial soul?"

"what?"

Zheng Zha was clearly taken aback by the question.

As we all know, Infinite Terror was serialized in 07, while Douluo Continent only started serialization in 08. Due to the time difference, he didn't know what a Martial Soul was.

"Martial Soul is a special ability that everyone is born with..." Zhang Chengyi spoke enthusiastically about the settings from other sets, which included not only Douluo Continent but also some messy settings such as guardian spirits, making his words sound like utter nonsense, a jumble of incoherent gibberish.

The people listening nearby were still somewhat skeptical, but the characters in the story truly believed it.

Chapter 97 Hello

"how do you feel?"

Zhang Chengyi looked at Zheng Zha, who had been sent into the Blank Evil Spirit Realm, with a look of inquiry on his face.

He was certain there wouldn't be any problems. In fact, even if the original evil spirit wanted to possess someone, it would be very difficult for them to do so.

In the concept of the gene lock, it is the union of spirit and flesh. Once the gene lock is unlocked, spirits that invade by exploiting weaknesses in the mind will no longer be able to directly possess you.

He spent a lot of effort stuffing the blank evil spirits he created into it. Fortunately, Zheng Zha himself had a mental defect. After wasting more than a dozen blank evil spirits, he finally succeeded in creating the first artificial martial soul.

This act of inserting a blank evil spirit is completely different from possession; it's an insertion on a spiritual level. Once completed, it's almost equivalent to symbiosis.

"Hmm, it feels like there's something there." Zheng Zha carefully sensed his body and indeed, something seemed to have appeared. If it was some kind of power—

He unlocked his genetic potential and quickly sensed the foreign objects and abnormal energy within his body, attempting to perceive them by circulating his internal energy.

This energy is very ethereal, unlike internal energy which has weight and a noticeable feeling of being penetrated and strengthened wherever it goes. The extra energy seems transparent and can directly penetrate the body, yet it is strangely condensed. Internal energy dissipates when it leaves the body, but this energy can float and wander freely in the outside world.

Although the main god said that internal strength is 'qi', in his view, the new energy that Zhang Chengyi gave him was a metaphysical thing that was even more ethereal and elusive than 'qi'.

To Zhan Lan's surprise, Zheng Zha had indeed developed the ability to scan, just like when Zhang Chengyi scanned her earlier.

Moreover, her intuition told her that there was something living yet lifeless inside Zheng Zha.

Contradictory yet unified.

The evil spirit released from Zhang Chengyi's body was strange in this way. Its essence was the soul of the dead, which was corrupted by the power of Kandarian and possessed special power. It was recognized by the game system as part of the 'game' and naturally became the 'soul' that created the human body, thus coming back to life from the dead.

It is the intertwining of life and death at the level of rules that makes the feeling so contradictory—the soul of the dead is also the soul of the living.

They cannot benefit from many negative energy spells, but they are not countered by positive energy either.

It is precisely because life and death are unified at the level of rules that the released blank evil spirit—no, martial spirit—can achieve symbiosis with Zheng Zha.

"Spiritual energy, this is the spiritual energy that the Supreme God mentioned when he was strengthening the mind controllers."

Zhang Chengyi discovered Zheng Zha's mastery of the 'Martial Soul' even faster than Zhan Lan, and said with a smile, "Old Zheng, try communicating with 'it'."

communicate?

Zheng Zha paused for a moment, thought for a while, and then tried to communicate in his mind.

【Hello? 】

【Hello? 】

A voice that was exactly the same as his rang out, with no difference in tone.

"The martial spirit will grow with the knowledge and power you give it."

Zhang Chengyi nodded. It seemed to have succeeded. Possessing the characteristics of a living being, it naturally underwent the growth of a living being. Because of the pain, it abandoned all consciousness and chose to become the most basic blank. Then, along with the symbiotic body, it would continuously be stained with other colors.

If the blank evil spirit hadn't possessed the game that was being modified, it might have found a path to heaven; now, it can only exist as a soul-level infant.

It does look a bit like a Zanpakuto?

The future is much broader and has greater potential for growth. It won't be limited to weapons. Given Zheng Zha's personality, will he eventually become a Hell War God type of martial soul?

He shouts, and then a muscular, semi-ethereal Zheng Zha appears as a substitute fighter.

Zhang Chengyi was brainstorming when he looked at Zhan Lan, who had come with him, and asked, "Do you want to awaken your martial soul and get a C-level side quest for 2,000 reward points?"

"..."

Zhan Lan guessed that her martial soul might be an evil spirit implanted in her body. She didn't want anything else in her body, but she didn't dare to refuse, so she remained silent.

"Forget it, I won't force it." Zhang Chengyi turned and went back to the living room. He had put a lot of effort into researching it and had even tested it on his other bodies without any problems. The prospects were indeed very broad. In the future, if he could create a body that could accommodate the original body modifier, he would definitely put his martial soul into it.

Of course, there's room for further modifications to the Martial Soul; how could an ordinary evil spirit be worthy of Kingsoft Games?

As for Zhan Lan? If he's unwilling, so be it. Anyway, this opportunity won't come again. He's already planning to run away after the next team battle, so there's really no need to forcefully promote his martial soul system. We'll talk about it when the time is right.

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As Zhang Chengyi experimented with the evil spirits, the darkness outside did not stop, and strange noises and hallucinations would occasionally try to frighten people.

Both the members of the Central Continent Team and the characters in the story have basically gotten used to it.

The only ordinary new male white-collar worker was in a constant state of anxiety, but he was smart and knew how to cling to powerful figures. He stayed by the side of the experienced people the whole time. He was willing to swallow his pride in the face of death. In front of so many women, he refused to go to the toilet. When he couldn't hold it in any longer, he shamelessly asked for a bottle and used the sofa and his pants to cover himself and urinated on the spot.

He's quite a talent.

The evil spirits only dared to use minor tricks, since they had previously destroyed the bodies they possessed. Now that their kind were dead, they had to be more cautious.