Magic High School.

"Focus on your studies in the divine realm, Valerie. Leave all the messy affairs here to us old folks. We can't protect you from the storms, but at least we won't hold you back." The Saint Gluckia family arrived at the teleportation gate, ready to see Valerie off.

Even the eldest duke's daughter, who was still the "fiancée" of the Saint Gluttony family and had her head held high, came, although she still greeted these people with a scrutinizing attitude.

Valerie looked at the newly sprouted land, where tender shoots were already beginning to emerge, then at her family and the duchy's camp, which was in dire need of rebuilding...

At that moment, she felt her eyes sting a little.

Perhaps, this is what home is.

"Come back often when you're on vacation, and your friends can come too. Our principality will always welcome you." The uncle smiled and gave a thumbs up.

Li Ge and the others smiled and waved goodbye, preparing to leave.

After all, Valerie was the only one in their team with both parents and a happy family.

After the group left, the younger brother's expression immediately showed disgust, but he decided to ask his fiancée one last time: "Do you think that Mr. Li Ge is handsome?"

"Just a scumbag with outrageous taste and a glib tongue," the fairy said disdainfully.

"You naturally evil fairy, I won't allow you to speak of Mr. Li Ge like that!" The little devil immediately blushed.

In short, in the end, it's a chaotic scene of them tormenting and cursing each other, with the female and male imps tormenting each other.

Chapter 284 Elbow, come inside with me.

“It’s been so long since I’ve been back, I feel a bit isolated from the world,” Valerie sighed.

Although she was most moved by this mission, she also recovered the fastest.

After the group passed through the portal, they truly felt as if they had entered another world.

"Yilian, give me the pieces of internal organs, I'll go revive Li Ge," Xiao Ye said.

“I’ll go too,” Valerie said, glancing at Yoru, who was still possessed by a demon.

Although Li Ge was also puzzled as to why he hadn't felt much discomfort despite being dead for so long, and although he did sometimes feel his spiritual power dissipating in his soul state, as if something was calling to him from the subspace, it was quickly stabilized by other things.

But let's focus on surviving first.

Then, the group arrived at the medical department in a grand procession.

When the senior female student on duty at the hospital saw Li Ge's condition, she frowned and said, "Wait a moment, I'll go get my advisor..."

Soon, an elderly man with gray hair arrived, looked at Li Ge, and said, "Wait a moment, I'll go call my old friend..."

Then, a large group of elderly people began to surround Li Ge and point at him.

Li Ge and his group: "..."

Is it...is it really that exaggerated?

"It's been dead for so long, it should either have been captured by the subspace and decomposed into its most primitive spirit particle state, or captured by the World Tree and become a 'Heroic Spirit'. This is the first time I've seen something like this." An old man put his hand into Li Ge's chest cavity to try, but felt nothing.

"Perhaps you guessed correctly, he really is a Heroic Spirit, but not a Heroic Spirit born from the World Tree, but a different kind of Heroic Spirit..." an old woman said.

The elderly people discussed it for several hours and then came to a conclusion.

The current Li Ge is not simply a soul, but a state similar to a "heroic spirit," or more accurately, a "guardian spirit."

As for whose guardian spirit it is?

Yilian and Valerie both looked at Xiaoye.

Li Ge scratched his head, realizing he might have really gone too far before. So he quickly recounted how he and another person had told each other "we're in pure love," and the elderly people around him fell silent.

"We've been around for hundreds of years, what kind of outrageous patients haven't we seen?" (crossed out)

"We've never seen anything like this before..."

Is it possible for a living person to actually put pressure on and curse themselves, then turn themselves into a guardian spirit, and even perfectly merge with another person?

"You rascal..." The old men and women were completely stunned, and then they were even happier.

Just as the group was puzzled, an old man said, "I'll write it! This is excellent material for a story about a human transforming into a Heroic Spirit!"

"Get out of here! I saw it first, I'll be the main writer!"

"Don't argue, don't argue, let me handle the writing..."

Li Ge, Yi Lian, Valerie, and Xiao Ye: "..."

In short, after the group of elderly people reached a consensus, they began to treat Li Ge.

According to them, conventional resurrection methods are no longer effective, since Li Ge is no longer just a soul, but a guardian spirit. Therefore, what he needs is not resurrection, but physical rebirth.

Of course, the actual performance is not much different from a normal resurrection, but the internal logic and operation are very different.

First, they need a branch of the World Tree to transform Li Ge from his guardian spirit form into a heroic spirit that has signed a contract with the World Tree. Then, they need to completely fuse it with his flesh and blood to create an embryo. Finally, they need to let Li Ge enter the embryo to accelerate his growth and re-integrate with it. In just seven days, he can grow to about the same age as before.

The elderly folks acted on their ideas as soon as they had them, after all, they were also vying to be the lead architects of this perfect experiment. Now everything was ready, except for how to get the branches of the World Tree.

Li Ge paused for a moment, then silently made a phone call.

"Hey, get to the point," Abaddon said impatiently on the other end of the phone.

"I need a branch of the World Tree, for resurrection..." Li Ge said.

Abaddon fell silent and hung up the phone.

The very next day, however, a withered branch was delivered to his hospital room. It was a withered branch that the World Tree had replaced, but the branch inside was still alive.

So the experiment began quickly.

The World Tree branch and Li Ge's flesh began to merge. Under the manipulation of rituals and spells, it didn't twist into a monster, but gradually grew into the shape of an embryo. At this point, the still-active fragments of Li Ge's internal organs that Yi Lian had preserved became very useful.

Then, Li Ge needs to temporarily seal her memories and merge with the embryo, and then unseal her memories when the embryo grows to the age of seventeen.

"Do we need to do gene matching?" an older professor asked.

"Hmm?" Li Ge asked, puzzled.

“Even though we are all human, there is reproductive isolation between different races. So we have genetic matching here, which allows two people of different races to have offspring. Would you like to do genetic matching at the same time?” the old professor asked.

"Yes!" said Xiaoye. "Use my genes to do it."

Yilian and Valerie: "..."

Oh no, I have a feeling I shouldn't be here, I should be underground?

This experiment was also the first time these elderly people had attempted to regenerate a "heroic spirit," so they studied it very seriously. Seven days later, Li Ge finally grew to the age of seventeen and began to unlock her memories.

"How are you? Are you feeling unwell?"

"fine……"

Do you remember who you are?

"Li Ge, a model young man with the Golden Spirit, is also a student at a magic high school, a citizen of the Holy Empire, and a battle mage in the Noble Phantasm Department." Li Ge shook his head; although he still had a bit of a headache, there was really nothing seriously wrong with him.

Valerie: "No, there's something wrong with the resurrection of the flesh. How could Li Ge possibly be a model young man with a golden spirit?"

Then Valerie was dragged out.

"OK, the body transfer was a success. And this body was created from the branches of the tree from your previous world of flesh and blood fusion, so you might be able to go even further in the future," someone said.

Li Ge: "..."

"Oh, and one more thing, you're now considered a half-elf. After all, elves are 'humans' who possess some of the World Tree's characteristics, and since you've fused with a branch of the World Tree, you can't really be considered a half-elf."

"What half-elf? He's practically an elven king, having fused with a branch of the World Tree. Which other elf has even a section of the World Tree within them?"

A group of elderly doctors surrounded Li Ge, pointing and commenting on him, and some even touched his body to check if his development was normal.

"No problem, just draw some blood for preservation, and we'll start writing the paper. This is another groundbreaking paper, and I think I'm qualified to apply for the title of Associate Professor."

“But young man, you can’t do that again next time,” an old woman warned. “You were lucky this time. If you do it again, your soul might be swallowed up by the subspace and broken down into the most primitive spiritual particles. Then there will be no way to save you.”

Li Ge: "..."

He had indeed felt the call of the Warp, especially as time went on, the longer he existed as a soul, the more frequently the Warp's call became.

The elderly people came and went in a hurry. But after Li Ge came out of the nutrient tank, she stretched her body.

All the muscles I had previously built up have disappeared, and I need to start building them up again. Other than that, there are no problems.

And another point...

"Oh no, I can't criticize the theory of bloodline anymore, it seems like I really do have bloodline now..." Li Ge complained.

According to current accounts, "humans" possessing some of the characteristics of the World Tree are forest elves, and the core of his body is a branch of the World Tree, with the flesh and blood on it being his own. Therefore, he can now be considered to possess the most elite elven bloodline.

It's even possible that the Elf King's bloodline isn't as pure as his own.

Oh no, I've become a beneficiary of the theory of bloodline!

“Wait, does that mean Li Ge has become an immortal being?” Valerie said.

At that moment, everyone was stunned.

Elves live more than twice as long as humans!

"Let me ask..." Li Ge immediately asked the old professors, and the answer she got was...

"It might extend your lifespan a little, maybe by a few decades, but definitely not to the extent of the elves. After all, the core of a person is the soul and consciousness, not the body. However, your body might retain some activity after you die, but you'll just be an empty shell of a corpse."

That's alright then...

It's not even certain whether this body will be usable by then. There's a chance it might die again in the middle, and Li Ge would have to continue collecting flesh and blood to resurrect it.

“So next…” Valerie said.

"I won't be going on any missions for a while. I need to do some rehabilitation and regain my muscle memory," Li Ge said.

He had to pick up his old skills in escape training and physical conditioning again. After all, although his body was also made of his own flesh and blood, he still had to rebuild the muscles he had trained before.

While it's true that psionic energy can enhance the body, having some muscle mass is also very important, since you'll still need to perform elbow strikes once your psionic energy is depleted.

"Sigh, alright then, I'll take a few days off, or maybe use this time to finally complete the final step in my domain's development," Valerie said. She had actually hoped to earn some more money on missions, since the people of her homeland were quite short of resources, having just settled in the Fairy Continent and needing to rebuild everything. She wanted to do something, and therefore was currently short of money.

"Then help me take some more erotic photos," Yi Lian said. "Consider this money a loan; you can pay me back after you earn some money!"

“Okay!” Valerie nodded, but she hesitated. Would the Eight Virtues allow her to be Sertu’s photographer?

No, surely the Eight Virtues can't forbid succubuses, right?

Valerie quietly took out the Rigolte from her watch and glanced at it...