Chapter 557 - 453: The Secret of the Seed of Resurrection: Root

"What plan?" Gao Neng looked up again.

"A plan to control a race, of course!" Gao Xiaomeng said matter-of-factly.

"Er..." Gao Neng faltered. He wanted to probe further, but he knew it wasn’t the right time to ask directly. The situation was clear: Gao Xiaomeng needed something from him. If he pressed for more details, the tables would turn, and he’d be the one asking her for a favor.

One put him in control, the other made him passive.

He didn’t have to think twice about which was better.

"Alright. But before we discuss the specific plan, you have to tell me how you know the secret of the Seed of Resurrection." After a moment’s thought, Gao Neng decided to take an indirect approach.

"I knew you’d ask that, Bro." Gao Xiaomeng didn’t seem surprised. She stuck a hand inside her clothes, rummaged around for a bit, and pulled out a small vial. "Bro, take a look. What’s this?"

"What is it?" Gao Neng subconsciously reached out for it, then casually opened the vial.

The small vial was warm to the touch.

There was nothing special about it.

It was, one might say, exceptionally ordinary.

But the liquid inside made Gao Neng’s eyes go wide. The aura of energy it gave off was unmistakably that of the Spring of Life.

"The Spring of Life?!" This time, Gao Neng was genuinely astonished. That was something that could only be found beneath the Dark Night Elf Clan’s Royal City. "You went under the Dark Night Elf Royal City again?"

"Of course not." Gao Xiaomeng shook her head.

"Then where did you get this?" Gao Neng didn’t overthink it this time and asked directly.

"Bro, do you remember... that Dark Night Elf who ambushed you in the Forgotten Land?" Gao Xiaomeng glanced around before finally speaking.

"Ye Ying?" Of course, Gao Neng remembered.

"Mhm, I killed her. And from her body, I got a Seed of Resurrection," Gao Xiaomeng nodded and continued.

"You got a Seed of Resurrection?!" Even though Gao Neng knew Gao Xiaomeng had many secrets, one of this magnitude still managed to shock him.

"Yes. Then, I... planted this Seed of Resurrection in the ground and watered it with the Spring of Life, turning it back into an evolution source. That way, it could produce new water from the Spring of Life. That’s also how I learned the secret connection between the evolution source and the Seed of Resurrection," Gao Xiaomeng explained.

"So you learned the secret of the Seed of Resurrection because you planted an evolution source, not because you... knew it from birth?" Gao Neng stared at Gao Xiaomeng.

"Who would know something like that from birth?" Gao Xiaomeng shook her head.

"Alright, I understand." Gao Neng nodded lightly.

Everything Gao Xiaomeng had said today was shocking. So, by the time she claimed to have created an evolution source, Gao Neng wasn’t even that surprised anymore.

However, once these questions were answered, new ones emerged...

’Why could Gao Xiaomeng create an evolution source?’

’Is it because she has some inherent connection to them?’

’That seems very likely.’

’After all, Gao Xiaomeng came from the ’magnetic pile’.’

’And based on what’s currently known, the alien races also seem to have suddenly arrived in this world from some mysterious place one day.’

’So, the possibility of a connection between the two is actually quite high.’

’Of course, there was another major reason Gao Neng had this thought... Gao Xiaomeng said she only created the evolution source after killing Ye Ying.’

’But in reality, Ye Ying hadn’t been dead for very long.’

’Yet last time, at the South Gate of the City of Hope, Gao Xiaomeng already had a Cat Race army of nearly twenty thousand, and all of them showed signs of ’evolution’.’

’What did that mean?’

’It meant that Gao Xiaomeng herself possessed the same properties as an evolution source.’

’Wait!’

’Speaking of which...’

A thought suddenly struck Gao Neng.

"Right, Gao Xiaomeng, did you dual cultivate with Fang Tangtang?" Gao Neng quickly made the connection to the rapid increase in Fang Tangtang’s cultivation speed.

"Mhm, yes," Gao Xiaomeng nodded.

"So, you ’evolved’ her?" Gao Neng asked again.

"Oh? You figured it out? Actually, what I did for her wasn’t ’evolution,’ but ’activation’," Gao Xiaomeng said after some thought.

"Activation?"

"Right. To put it simply, Fang Tangtang herself has great potential. However, because her body was ’modified,’ some of that potential was suppressed. I discovered this while we were dual cultivating, so I just went ahead and helped her remove some of those suppressions."

"Modified?" Gao Neng fell silent for a moment. He knew Gao Xiaomeng was probably telling the truth.

’The so-called modification...’

’It had to be the humanoid nuclear weapon project!’

’What he didn’t know was that this kind of modification would actually suppress some of Fang Tangtang’s potential?’

’Wait!’

’Suppressing potential!’

Gao Neng’s heart skipped a beat.

’He suddenly had a theory as to why Fang Tangtang’s father had never offered up the humanoid nuclear weapon he’d successfully developed.’

’If his guess was correct...’

’Fang Tangtang was, in fact, a failure!’

’Her potential was suppressed.’

’This meant that even if the physical modification was a success, she could never become a true ’humanoid nuclear weapon’.’

’Because her power level could never break through to a higher tier!’

’And with insufficient strength, even if she mastered the ’humanoid nuclear weapon’ ability, she’d be a small-scale nuke at best, incapable of changing the tide of battle.’

’Of course...’

’The current Fang Tangtang had undoubtedly become a ’success’!’

’The potential within her body had been fully unleashed.’

’A humanoid nuclear weapon like that was a *true* humanoid nuclear weapon!’

As Gao Neng reached this conclusion, it felt as if a new door had opened in his mind. However, the key issue at hand was no longer about Fang Tangtang.

"Gao Xiaomeng, you didn’t come all this way just to tell me these secrets, did you? You mentioned a plan to control a race. What is it?" Gao Neng stopped getting bogged down in other matters. Some things could only be understood by seeing them firsthand.

So, he decided to cut straight to the point.

"Naturally, I have a plan." Gao Xiaomeng tilted her head back, then traced a name in the gravel in front of her with her finger.

The moonlight tonight was fairly bright.

Gao Neng instantly recognized the name she had written.

It was a name he was also familiar with.

"Wu Dingxiang?" Gao Neng looked at Gao Xiaomeng. "The Seventh Princess of the Dark Night Elf Clan?"

"Correct." Gao Xiaomeng nodded, then wrote another name in the stones.

Mu Feifei!

Gao Neng knew that name, too.

But he didn’t understand the significance of Gao Xiaomeng writing these two names right now.

"For the past month, I haven’t been in the City of Hope," Gao Xiaomeng seemed to guess Gao Neng’s confusion and began to speak in a low voice.

"And?"

"If I wasn’t in the City of Hope, then I was naturally in the territory of the alien races," Gao Xiaomeng said, looking at Gao Neng.

"Mm," Gao Neng nodded. That much he had expected. After all, in the current world, besides humanity’s City of Hope and the Forgotten Land, everything else was alien territory.

"Actually, it can’t really be considered alien territory..." Gao Xiaomeng thought for a moment, then shook her head again.

Gao Neng was left speechless.

’A place that isn’t considered alien territory?’

’Where could that be?’

Gao Neng couldn’t think of such a place.

Gao Xiaomeng didn’t bother to explain. She just continued, "But in any case, the areas I’ve been have a lot of alien races, so I can get my hands on some of their secret intelligence."

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