Chapter 170: Recounting The Read Memories
Hearing Xiu’s words, Shi An’an suddenly saw the light. Yeah, if Xiu was body seized, and the body seizure had just happened under heavenly lightning, then it definitely couldn’t successfully pass the tribulation.
Heavenly lightning is just. When the body and soul are not fused, heavenly lightning will destroy it at the first moment.
“What exactly happened? Also, how do you know about body seizure?” Shi An’an looked at Xiu.
Xiu suddenly wrapped his arm around Shi An’an’s waist and flew to the mountain top. The two sat down together, looking into the distance.
“When that giant beast pulled us into the black hole, it entered that monster—no, it should be a person. He just had no body left, only a remnant soul…”
“I read his memories. He was originally from the Ali planet, not belonging to our current star system. His world was full of cultivators and ability users…
He was originally a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect. During a trial, he accidentally obtained a treasure that could glimpse space-time…
After getting this treasure, his cultivation level soared. He tried to cross space-time after ascension, wandering through various worlds…”
Xiu slowly recounted that person’s life, while Shi An’an listened quietly.
“…But he failed ascension. At the moment of his final dissipation, he entered the treasure he had obtained back then and drifted into a space-time fragment…
He drifted in the space-time fragment for who knows how many millennia or tens of thousands of years. When his soul was growing weaker and about to dissipate, he suddenly discovered a black hole, entered it, and came to this world…”
Xiu lowered his head, looking at the little girl listening very seriously, a smile flashing in his eyes, and continued.
“That black hole was very small. It was the first black hole spit out by the void beast when it had just reached adulthood.
However, it was this small black hole that gave that person the chance to enter this world.
He discovered the void beast and, using his last strength, signed a contract with the void beast…”
Shi An’an widened her eyes. “Void beast?!”
“Mm, these black holes were all made by it. It can cross space-time…”
“Oh.” Shi An’an nodded in understanding, then urged Xiu to continue.
Xiu had no choice but to continue.
“After signing the contract with the void beast, his soul recovered somewhat. Afterward, he had the void beast control other weak star beasts to search everywhere for spirit stones.
He made the void beast’s strength become stronger. Only with every increase in the void beast’s strength did he have a chance to recover, making his soul more solid…”
“Later, he met a person and learned from that person’s mouth that people in this world cannot cultivate. He was overjoyed in his heart. If one day he could recover his body and his cultivation level, he could rule this world and become this world’s god—the only god!”
Hearing this, Shi An’an pursed her lips. This person was thinking too beautifully. He was clearly crooked in heart, yet still wanted to rule this world.
Fortunately, he had failed ascension back then. If such a person had succeeded in ascending, who knows how many innocent people he would have harmed…
“Later, he transmitted some spiritual power into that person’s body, making that person’s body strong and much younger, leading that person to believe he was the creator god!”
“He personally brought that person to the star beast group, letting that person know he could control everything, even star beasts!”
“From then on, he had his first believer, Wang Cheng.”
Shi An’an heard this name and found it somewhat unfamiliar. She didn’t know this person.
Xiu looked at Shi An’an and said, “Wang Cheng—the Federation Pharmaceutical Company was founded by him. After gaining abilities, he gradually monopolized all the federation’s medicine…
“Then how old is he? Logically, since everyone was poisoned from a young age, he must be very old, but people’s average lifespan is around 300 years. He…”
Shi An’an was very puzzled.
Xiu shook his head. “He’s almost four hundred years old now. When he met that person back then, he was only twenty. With that person’s help afterward, he founded the company at a young age and gradually monopolized the medicine market within a century…
Moreover, he not only poisoned gene medicine, but also other specially made medicines…”
“This person is too crazy! Why did he poison? Does he want to destroy all of humanity?” Shi An’an was very confused.
“It was that person who ordered him to do it. The reason was that he wouldn’t allow accidents to happen. That person discovered that although humans in this world cannot cultivate, they are born with mental power.
And the stronger the mental power, the stronger the person’s soul.
That person was eyeing a day when he could body seize a body and recultivate into a god, so to avoid accidents during body seizure, he made the humans in this world have their mental power reach a certain height before gradually collapsing…”
“This time, he wanted to body seize my body…”
Xiu looked at Shi An’an, a smile in his eyes. “There are many reasons for the failure. First, the void beast was injured. The heavenly lightning you drew heavily injured the void beast, and he was hit hard as well.
Second, he originally wanted to body seize you while you hadn’t recovered spiritual power yet, but upon seeing my heavenly spiritual root, he turned to body seize me. However, he didn’t know that when my soul body is in the second form, the soul is as strong as the second form…
Third…”
Shi An’an was listening intently when she noticed Xiu suddenly stop talking. She looked up and saw Xiu looking at her seriously.
“What’s wrong?”
“Third, and the most important reason.”
“What… is it?”
“Because of you.”
“Huh? Me?” Shi An’an was puzzled. She didn’t even know Xiu was being body seized at the time; she hadn’t helped at all.
Xiu looked at her deeply. “Yes, because of you.”
“Every time I was about to give up, you kept transmitting spiritual power to me, calling out to me by my ear, letting me calm down and recover my sanity…”
Shi An’an raised her eyebrow. “You could hear me talking?”
“Mm.”
“Uh…, at the time, you just wouldn’t wake up…” Shi An’an explained.
“I know.”
Xiu interrupted Shi An’an to spare her embarrassment and continued, “Now that person has been swallowed by me. I’ve read all his memories, and there’s also this.”
Xiu stretched out his palm, and a small disc appeared in it.
Shi An’an looked at the disc. Although it had many cracks, she could still feel the mysterious aura emanating from it.
“This… is the treasure that person obtained back then?” Shi An’an guessed.
“Mm, yes. It’s also what he hid in after failing ascension. But because it drifted in the space-time fragment and was hit by space-time turbulence, it’s about to shatter.”
Xiu looked at the disc in his hand, regret flashing in his eyes. A treasure on the verge of shattering was useless.
Shi An’an also sighed. “Indeed a pity. It’s just that it never met the right person…”
Xiu withdrew the disc. “And that void beast—we need to find it as soon as possible now. It was struck by heavenly lightning, and with its contractor gone, it’s certainly gravely injured and will need a long time to recover.”
