Chapter 1108 - 584: Precious Knowledge

Inside the bathroom.

"Splash~"

The sound of flowing water continually echoed.

Eduardo and Zhang Hehua stood beside the bathtub, watching the splashing water within as it danced.

The owner of the Azure Palace joked, "Could there be a time-space portal in the bathtub, and Mr. Ghost plans to send me thousands of kilometers away to the Nan Jing Continent via this bathtub?"

Zhang Hehua, who had strong adaptability, laughed, "It’s possible."

Eduardo shrugged, "Well, now is the Superpower Era, anything is..."

The word "possible" hadn’t even left his mouth.

The mutation occurred.

The splashing water disappeared without a trace.

The stream from the faucet steadily poured into the water’s surface, looking very odd.

The turbulent surface inside the bathtub suddenly seemed to be smoothed by an invisible giant hand, turning into a mirror-like sheen.

Their reflections were clearly shown on the mirror surface.

Eduardo appeared as if he had been choked, unable to say a word.

Just then.

A line of text appeared on the mirror surface: "The demons have known of your betrayal, and demon warriors are about to enter the hub; you both can hide within the mirror."

Eduardo paused for a moment and immediately reacted, "Damn the demons, they used eavesdropping techniques on me."

He quickly asked, "How do I enter the mirror?"

Just as the words left his mouth.

Eduardo felt a blur in front of his eyes, and the mirror surface changed.

The space he was in, the bathtub’s water surface remained smooth like a mirror, and the water quietly poured into it.

Yet inside the mirror, the water again began to splash, and the sound of flowing water "splashing" entered his ears.

Zhang Hehua was stunned for a moment, pointed to the mirror, and said, "Ed, no one is on that side. It seems like we entered the mirror."

Eduardo turned to look at his lover, then turned back to the mirror, looking shocked.

As the owner of the Azure Palace, he had seen countless supernatural secret techniques, but such a strange secret technique was his first sight.

By his understanding, the mirror secret technique should involve deep insights into space and light, and none of the demons within the Federation possessed such expertise.

Eduardo’s lips moved, and he involuntarily exclaimed, "The Great Xia Ghost truly deserves to be a top powerhouse."

Zhang Hehua agreed with a nod.

A second passed.

Through the mirror, they saw the door being kicked open with a "bang," and two heavy-built men, eyes revealing a pair of vertical pupils, charged in aggressively.

This characteristic of vertical pupils indicated they were demons disguised with human skin.

One of the bald heavy-built men paused when seeing the empty bathroom, "The tracking secret technique just showed that those two vile creatures were here, where did they disappear to?"

Eduardo heard the words "vile creatures" and simultaneously felt hatred towards demons and relief for joining Great Xia.

Otherwise, how many days he would survive remained unknown.

The short-haired heavy-built man said, "The two creatures might have sensed a crisis and temporarily left here; try the tracking secret technique again."

The bald heavy-built man nodded, and a faint blood light flashed in his vertical pupils.

Several seconds passed.

The blood light calmed down.

The bald man’s expression turned very strange, "The result from the tracking secret technique shows the two creatures have stayed here all along."

The short-haired man blurted out, "Impossible! I just checked; they’re not here."

He soon thought of a plausible explanation, "Jia Gu, your secret technique might have been interfered with."

The bald man referred to as "Jia Gu" nodded, "It must be the case."

The short-haired man proposed, "Let’s search elsewhere."

The two came and went hurriedly, like the wind.

Eduardo looked at the demons’ backs and very impolitely showed a middle finger, cursing, "Fuck!"

In fact.

The mirror space Eduardo hid in was indeed a rare secret technique acquired by Yang Fan from the Saint Heir’s memory.

It was an unrecorded secret technique in the Qing yang Book, considered an exclusive method of the Saint Heir.

In terms of level, it was a secret technique that only High Rank Knights could master.

Yang Fan studied it for a while, made minor modifications, and successfully mastered this "mirror space" secret technique.

Then.

Zhang Hehua suddenly pointed toward the ground beside the bathtub and shouted, "Ed, look! There are words here!"

The bathtub water was already full, trickling down along the tub wall, forming letters on the ground.

Eduardo glanced, immediately seeing a phrase, "Mr. Eduardo, previously Great Xia made promises to the world, thus Great Xia will not allow someone who participated in blood sacrifice to enter Great Xia’s controlled territory."

The owner of the Azure Palace turned pale.

Previously contacted via phone, Great Xia’s people said nothing, and now you’re telling me this, isn’t it teasing?

The water mark continued to change, revealing the next phrase, "But rest assured, I’ve prepared a secret technique for you, allowing you to possess a clean body again."

Eduardo sighed in relief but also had doubts.

What does "a clean body" mean?

The question quickly got answered as the water mark continued to change, displaying the third line of text, "This new body will thoroughly cleanse the pollution from the blood sacrifice, but a corresponding price is that the youth gained from the blood sacrifice will be lost, and you will return to your fifty-year-old form."

Eduardo was somewhat reluctant, after all, who would be willing to lose their youth after experiencing it once more?

But he finally gritted his teeth and said, "I am willing!"

He understood that everything has a price, and in order to gain Great Xia’s protection, he must accept Great Xia’s conditions with awareness.

Words appeared on the fourth line: "You now have a new body, can cultivate the second generation Six Paths of Canglan, and can consume Body Tempering Liquid. Your lifespan will not be shorter than undergoing blood sacrifice, and it might even exceed it."

Eduardo instantly smiled.

Meanwhile, beside him.

A voice echoed in Zhang Hehua’s mind: "What is your choice? Do you want to become a Great Xia person again, or keep your current identity?"

She was silent for several seconds, a struggle appearing on her face.

Having gone through so much, she somewhat wanted to return to being a Great Xia person.

But in the past, she committed many mistakes, leaving major blemishes in her life record. She was also very unwilling to part with her current beautiful looks, making it really difficult to decide.

Zhang Hehua finally sighed, making up her mind: "Sir, um... Mr. Ghost, I am willing to become the real Belinda."

She wished to start anew with a different identity and completely sever ties with her past.

She had already figured out that the lord she had encountered before was, in fact, Great Xia’s Mr. Ghost.

The fifth line of words appeared: "Since you have made up your minds, let’s begin now."

The next second.

Both simultaneously lost consciousness.

They did not know that their bodies turned into a mist of blood and quietly merged into the water in the bathtub.

The bathtub drain opened automatically and quickly flushed away the bloody water.

*

Thousands of kilometers away.

Nan Jing Continent.

Atina Capital Bunos, Great Xia Base.

In a concealed underground laboratory, a group of researchers in white coats were watching intently at two live pigs secured on the experiment table.

This group had already been informed that the Ghost Lord would perform a "body reconstruction, soul remote transfer" secret technique.

The researchers were people in the know, understanding that this was an advanced secret technique in the domain of life and soul.

Now that they had the chance to witness it first-hand, how could they not be excited?

"There is an imprint of origin between the body and soul, so the soul cannot freely switch bodies. This is undoubtedly something of high level, we haven’t even grasped the surface of the origin imprint, and the lord actually has the ability to transfer the origin imprint."

"In that case, wouldn’t the lord never die? I mean, in terms of bodily death?"

"Isn’t that obvious? If I were the lord, I’d definitely make a few backups of the body, and just swap to a different one when this body is no longer viable."

"A few backups? Are you saying the origin imprint can be copied like software? This should be a means more powerful than transferring the life imprint. Do you have evidence that the lord has such a means?"

"Since the lord can transfer the life imprint, it proves an incredibly deep understanding of it, so I believe the lord definitely has the ability to copy the life imprint."

The group started to argue as they continued discussing.

After a moment.

A point of star light suddenly appeared.

Wen Zehan’s voice sounded: "Alright, stop arguing! I consulted Mr. Ghost on this question and I will provide you the answer now. The lord does possess the ability to copy life imprints, copying up to twenty is not an issue."

Those who guessed correctly beamed with smiles.

Those who guessed wrong remained silent.

A researcher asked, "Mr. Wen, which is harder, transferring the life imprint or copying the life imprint?"

Wen Zehan replied, "To put it this way, if the difficulty of transferring the life imprint is 1 point, then copying the life imprint is at least 5 points."

He paused for a moment, summarizing: "Overall, the Ghost Lord’s achievements in life and soul far exceed ordinary people’s imagination."

The researchers all nodded in agreement.

Wen Zehan further asked: "Eduardo and Miss Belinda are about to be transferred over, have you prepared their clothing?"

A researcher replied, "We’ve prepared two sets of lab attire for them."

Wen Zehan felt utterly speechless but said nothing.

"Oww~"

The live pig on the experiment table suddenly screeched.

Upon hearing the sound, everyone turned to look.

Blood threads emerged densely from the surface of the two live pigs, weaving together.

In just two breaths.

The two live pigs transformed into two blood cocoons with a diameter exceeding a meter, "thud thud" heartbeats resounding from within.

The researchers instantly understood that the two Carmenians would grow out of the blood cocoons.

Another researcher suddenly presented a concept: "By the way, if humans can be cultivated through this method, wouldn’t Great Xia’s population be able to rapidly increase?"

As soon as these words were spoken.

Everyone became exhilarated.

Because population issues are fundamental to every Civilization World, and Great Xia’s upper echelon also took this very seriously.

If population could be propagated through supernatural means, it would be incredibly significant for Great Xia.

Wen Zehan chimed in at the right moment: "Your guesses are correct, this is the focal direction of Mr. Ghost’s recent exploration."

This "focal direction" is likewise precious knowledge obtained from the Saint Heir’s memories.

The only issue is that the Demon’s reproduction is too cruel, and the Canglan Civilization definitely couldn’t do it that way, so Yang Fan is attempting to improve upon it.