Chapter 134: 【does The Sacred Cockroach Dream Of Cockroach Village Far From The Mortal World?】
The so-called [Four Heavenly Kings Plan] is actually a long-term experimental mission that includes four different scientific research directions.
Yuan Zhu, with the mindset of “hit two shots whether there’s a date or not,” decided to contract them all to Little Girl to supervise their completion for him.
When returning to [Animal Husbandry Village] next time, if the experiments yield results, then he will make a killing!
If upon next return, all four missions fail, it’s still not a loss. Because failure data can also enrich the [Great Desolation Immortal Scripture] database, helping him deeply understand and comprehend this world.
Among the Four Heavenly Kings, [Sacred Beetle Series 1] is tailor-made for [Coleoptera (Beetle)], which has the highest affinity with [Holy Light].
Yuan Zhu not only values the heaven-defying [Holy Light] affinity of the beetles. These guys are simply scum among bugs; they kneel at the sight of [Holy Light]. Where is the unyielding resolve of ‘Lepidoptera’ to fight Holy Light to the death?
He also values the Coleoptera (Beetle)’s naturally gifted hard shells, which are the ‘indomitable spirit (Bug Gold)’ commonly possessed by demonic giant insects!
All wild magic worms (little bugs), demonic giant insects hatched from human cocoons, contain trace amounts of [Bug Gold] in their exoskeletons. Among them, the Coleoptera’s shells are particularly thick and sturdy, a rare resource of extremely high value.
Therefore, Yuan Zhu wants to cultivate a brand new ‘Sacred Beetle’ exclusive to him through the [Sacred Beetle Series]. Just like the rulers of other insect cities, who monopolize unique ‘Primal Dao Seeds’ and control their subjects through split lower dao seeds.
He is not an insect cultivator and has no meridians dao seed in his body, but he can still find another way. Use [Holy Light Pollution] to infect and control a batch of dependants, cultivate and upgrade these [Sacred Beetles] into [Ancestral Sources] on par with the ‘City Lords’.
Tsk tsk… This is to preemptively create the dependant clan of [Holy Cough Angels].
At the same time, Bug Gold is related to armor casting and also closely tied to Tiger Demon’s [Innate Divine Ability: Claw (Exoskeleton Armor)]. He has a massive demand for such resources, even related to [Seal Casting]. Perhaps when he reaches two seals or three seals, he can absorb a large amount of soul ash from [Sacred Beetles], comprehend related skills, and then provide them for [Tiger Demon] to plagiarize.
After discussing with Little Spicy Stick, the two decided to select multiple representatives from the vast Coleoptera, such as the thickest-shelled ‘Rhinoceros Beetle, Dung Beetle, Fragrant Fart Bug, Dung Beetle, head-banging bug…’, to join the [Sacred Beetle Completion Plan].
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As for why to advance [Sacred Cicada Series 2] and include it in the Four Heavenly Kings Plan, it’s more because his ‘Shadow Domain’ is on the periphery of [Cicada City]’s sphere of influence. There are also three other ‘Cicada Cities’ nearby, and the Cicada Tribe’s influence is the greatest.
Even now, the largest audience (potential users) for ‘Holy Light Pollution’ are the Cicada Tribe cultivators in the lower urban area.
Therefore, whether poaching talent, acquiring advanced resources; or further collecting experimental subjects, developing downlines, and maintaining the user market, the ‘Cicada Tribe’ must be prioritized.
Therefore, he vigorously advances the [Sacred Cicada Series], replacing traditional ‘Cicada spirit insects’, and strongly supports the brother and sister’s cultivation. Let them bind [Sacred Cicada] with Qi Threads, extract ‘Holy Light Attribute insect system spiritual essence’ from the Sacred Cicada’s body, and further optimize the [Holy Cough Breathing Technique].
Then sell the brand new ‘cultivation techniques and resources (Sacred Cicada)’ developed and upgraded by them through the [Black Market] to [Cicada City, Ming City, Ban City…], enhancing user dependency, laying a solid foundation for formally preaching, counterattacking Cicada City, and taking over the nest in the future.
Therefore, the [Sacred Cicada Series] must be done, and done big.
Cultivating a batch of Holy Cough True Qi Cicada cultivators who are close to [Holy Light] can also balance the ‘shadow insect cultivators’ led by Commander Zuo, making [Animal Husbandry Village]’s power structure more balanced and stable.
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If [Sacred Beetle] focuses on acquiring indomitable spirit (insect armor/Bug Gold); [Sacred Cicada] focuses on reinforcing and upgrading ‘Holy Cough cultivators’ (foreign True Qi system); then [Sacred Firefly Series 3] focuses on localizing [Holy Light] energy True Qi (insect system).
Fireflies are inherently [Coleoptera (Beetle)], with equally max Holy Light affinity. The reason for extracting them separately into their own series is: one, their shells are not thick enough, mercilessly defeated by Dung Beetle and Fragrant Fart Bug, with insufficient Bug Gold production rate; two, they are born to glow.
Able to glow with the physical body! This pairs perfectly with [Holy Light]. So listed separately as a group, abandon growing indomitable spirit (shell), induce genetic mutation, and fully amplify their glowing ability. Cultivate [Holy Cough Insects] specialized in producing ‘Holy Light Particles’.
Yuan Zhu expects the omnipotent Little Girl to cultivate traditional fireflies into a [Biological Holy Light Source] (small biological generator/biological nuclear reactor) capable of stably releasing Holy Cough radiation.
Then let [Holy Cough Insects] grow into fully automatic canned Holy Light Particle production lines. Sell them in the underground world’s [Black Market] system to support the underground world’s Holy Light resource trading market.
[Holy Cough Insects] are glowing milk cows that eat shit and produce [Holy Light Particles], sold throughout the underground world to cultivate potential users.
No need for tube worm arrays to purify polluting energy, they can directly deep breathe with the physical body. Traverse forbidden areas without fear of getting lost or death! Vow to turn [Animal Husbandry Village] into the ninth ‘New Holy Light Technician Family’!
Then Little Girl transforms again into a success studies mentor, further selling courses (Holy Cough Breathing Technique). Help everyone refine Holy Cough, convert it into ‘True Qi’, counteract purification of immortal zombie tendrils and iron poison in the body, break free from curses, and embrace the light!
Finally, further sell [Sacred Cicada, Sacred Beetle] to absorb ‘sacred spiritual essence’, achieve realm leaps. Then sell ‘sacred Bug Gold’ for armor casting, fast-track to Heaven Rank, feathered immortal transformation, ascend to [Yuan Paradise]!
The Four Heavenly Kings Plan appears as four groups in different directions. Actually ‘Trinity’, progressing layer by layer, aimed at creating [Holy Light Pollution version Coleoptera Feathered Immortal].
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As for the final [Sacred Cockroach Action Program 4]
It is purely because Yuan Zhu took a fancy to [Blattodea]’s second-tier Holy Light affinity not inferior to [Hemiptera (Cicada)], as well as its massive ‘potential base’ and ease of rearing.
The ‘Cockroach Tribe’ is the largest population in the underground world!
Precisely speaking, the ‘Blattodea Dao Seed”s super fusion ability, ultra-low backlash rate, super activity… make [Blattodea True Qi] the most widespread and highly popularized cultivation system.
Therefore, since Yuan Zhu and Spicy Stick are unwilling to miss the nearby ‘Cicada Tribe user market’; they certainly won’t abandon the current world’s largest consumer potential ‘Cockroach user market’!
So specially opening a [Holy Light Cockroach Series] for them is very reasonable. Plus its affinity comparable to Cicada class, another excellent ‘Holy Cough prospect’.
Because he specially investigated, he knows that ‘Sacred Cockroach’ has extremely high reproduction rate and outturn rate, so he plans to mass rear ‘Sacred Cockroaches’, batch harvest and refine them into flower pots for unified planting of spiritual materials; even use the [Sacred Cockroach] population (quantity) advantage to turn them into ‘biological servers’ supplying dream power for the [Cockroach Village] far from the mortal world.
After hearing Yuan Zhu’s wild and inconceivable idea (ambition), Little Spicy Stick was somewhat frightened and timidly asked: “Can this work? The expansion and upgrade of [Dreamland] requires higher ‘dreams’ from intelligent life forms. Whether ordinary spirit insect cockroaches or Sacred Cockroaches, they are just low-level ‘bugs’. Even ‘demonic giant cockroaches’ transformed from humans may not be able to dream, so how can they become [Cockroach Village]’s meat chicken servers?”
At this moment, Yu Jingzi posed a classic philosophical question to Yuan Zhu: [Do Sacred Cockroaches dream of Cockroach Village far from the mortal world?]
Clap clap clap!
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu clapped and applauded: “That’s a great question! I once had a similar doubt, but found a solution, leading to this grand and massive plan!”
Then, without holding back, Yuan Zhu directly revealed the solution: “Ghost Companion magic worms refined by Tiger Demon can unconditionally accept [Holy Cough] for self-explosion, transforming shadow into light. So conversely, how can [Sacred Cockroaches] not provide dream power for ‘Shadow Cockroach Village’?”
He lightly snapped his fingers, and the 3D projections of Commander Zuo and Shopkeeper Lu appeared in the mental channel.
“Look closely at their heads!”
The image zoomed in, finally freezing on the gourd kid-style [Brain Eggplant].
A scientific tune rang in Spicy Stick’s mind, countless scientific formulas and symbols flashed rapidly behind the brain, and finally Einstein’s familiar spirit quietly emerged, the power of knowledge surged in the mind, world-shocking wisdom online: “It’s [Brain Eggplant]! It’s external brain! It’s [Shadow Memory] intelligence expansion! Load ‘datafied-soul sleep equation’!”
Yuan Zhu showed a pleased smile: “Right! [Sacred Cockroach] life intensity is lower than humans, unrelated to shadow, an independent life form. Naturally, it can be parasitized and controlled by [Shadow Eggplant], connected as one with [Shadow Domain]; then uniformly install external CPU+GPU to greatly boost computing power; finally insert [Shadow Memory] to run the sleep program… I call it the [Sleep Matrix]!”
“The Matrix, huh! But now it’s Cockroach Empire… no! It’s 【Cockroach Avalon】. Doing it this way does seem quite promising. Boss, I think highly of this project, but where do we get so many 【Brain Eggplants】?”
Yuan Zhu: “Of course, it’s original soup turns into original food. Feeding goblins Shadow Tomatoes causes brain mutations, turning them into Brain Eggplants. So, feeding holy cockroaches, other Spirit Insects, or even Magic Worms Shadow Eggplants—can that mutate ‘Brain Eggplants’? Anyway, there are always more solutions than difficulties… Believe in Little Girl’s wisdom.”
“You’re putting too much pressure on her.”
“If she can pass this test, I will fully cultivate her and make her my agent in the Underground World. If she lacks this ability, naturally more talents will emerge.”
After exchanging a few words with Little Spicy Stick to finalize the future ‘Holy Light Group Experimental Plan’ for 【Animal Husbandry Village】, he scrolled the research plan list to the very end: 【Shadow Group (C Group)】.
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From the current Bubble World’s perspective:
The Kunlun System 【Immortal Path】 belongs to the traditional righteous path before the Great Destruction. The 【Knight System】 is the ancient demonic path that triggered the world-ending catastrophe and successfully fled after succeeding; the lingering 【Knight System pollution】 poison remains one of the heavenly disasters to this day.
The current 【True Qi (Insect System)】 has become mainstream, the righteous path of the new era; the dead polluted Immortal Realm Tree Root Tendrils have become the villainous demonic path.
The 【Holy Light】 brought by Yuan Zhu is innately domineering and rejects everything together; once released, it will inevitably trigger pollution rampage. Moreover, it has deep origins with the Insect System and is in eternal enmity with 【Lepidoptera】… a textbook demonic path superstar!
Holy Light in the Underground World is an innately evil pollution power. Only the 【Holy Church】 believes Holy Light is for World Salvation, providing positive feedback to whitewash and elevate the ‘exclusive Holy Light’ hue. (The World Will’s attitude toward 【Holy Light】 is ambiguous, but it warmly welcomes 【Shadow】.)
The other power 【Shadow】 brought by Yuan Zhu is a standard neutral faction, a new energy source with huge potential. Even the World Will sponsored the 【Shadow Dream Hole】, encouraging him to invest and settle.
Facts have proven that the Tiger Demon’s wanton release of 【Shadow Pollution】 in the Underground World did not trigger rampage in any pollution system. It coexists peacefully with the Root Network, Knight System Iron Poison, Insect System True Qi… and can even fuse and amplify each other.
Thus, Yuan Zhu has high hopes for the ‘Shadow Group experiment’ and chose all categories of pollution.
Unlike Holy Light, which only selects four directions for cultivation; his 【Shadow Experimental Group】 will use Shadow Power to indiscriminately pollute all Insect Eggs for hatching and farming, recording change data.
These ‘Shadow Insects’ are not Ghost Companions; they are living things similar to Holy Light Worms. He has no expectations for ‘Shadow Spirit Insects’ because the 【Tiger Demon】 always relies on 【Ghost Companions】.
Cultivating Shadow Spirit Insects is just to record data and enrich the 【Great Desolation Immortal Scripture】 material library. Those cultivated ‘Shadow Insects’ will contract with cultivators practicing the 【Shadow Breathing Technique】, following the traditional ‘Shadow True Qi’ path, continuing to provide data.
Yuan Zhu plans that after he leaves.
【Animal Husbandry Village】 will leverage this potential (all categories of Shadow Spirit Insects) to continuously attract overlooked marginal people from various Insect Cities. They will undergo True Qi Shadowification, bind matching Shadow Insects, engage in ‘Qi Refining cultivation’, and upload detailed instinct data to the 【Shadow Dream Hole (Server)】, persistently collecting underlying data from the ‘Bubble World’.
Ultimately achieving profit sharing through 【Shadow Domain】, controlling a large number of ‘Shadow Qi Refiners’. No need to control 【Primal Dao Seed】 like a City Lord; instead, like the Technician Alliance, control the increasingly powerful ‘Shadow Cultivator Group’ through 【Shadow Domain (Technology Monopoly)】.
Of course, he is not interested in all categories of Shadow Insects, letting them develop freely and create surprises.
But he does have some ideas specifically for 【Shadow Cockroaches】.
Since 【Holy Light Cockroaches】 can be equipped with the ‘Ghost Companion Set’, transforming into biological batteries to form the 【Matrix- Holy Cockroach Matrix】…
Little Spicy Stick then asked: “Why not use 【Shadow Cockroaches】 as meat chicken servers too?”
Yuan Zhu: “Good question! 【Shadow Cockroaches】 will of course be made into meat chickens too. I will build them in a 1:1 ratio—as long as one 【Holy Light Cockroach Biological Matrix】 is formed, one 【Shadow Cockroach Biological Matrix】 will inevitably follow. Let them all dream together, jointly growing stronger 【Cockroach Village】.”
One ‘holy beautiful dream’ paired with one ‘shadow nightmare’, enriching the 【Cockroach Village】 environment. Letting users enter paradise or fall into Hell.
Although he hasn’t yet contacted Running’s 【Nightmare School】, Yuan Zhu and Yu Jingzi both agree that 【Dreamland】 is extremely important, absolutely the key channel for them to escape 【Bubble Layer-Space of Gods-Happy Home】 and communicate with Du Ling (smuggling) to the Underground World in another way (Nightmare Layer).
So making 【Cockroach Village】 big and strong is absolutely beneficial. It could even bring unexpected surprises in the future.
Only by continuously strengthening the signal strength of the native 【Dreamland】 is there a chance to search for signals from Du Ling and establish a ‘Nightmare Connection’.
With ultra-high survival rates, super massive numbers, and consistent species genes, the ‘Group Dream consciousness’ becomes unprecedentedly unified and powerful, making it possible to greatly reinforce and expand 【Dreamland】, becoming a true 【Cockroach Village】!
Actually, if he could kidnap massive numbers of Underground humans and unify their dreams, the effect would be even more heaven-defying. But to be fair, Yuan Zhu has only set up a small camp, and in the early stages of entrepreneurship with just over a hundred people, how could he dare to dream so big?
If he had that kind of power, he wouldn’t need to worry about expanding the 【Dreamland】 scale. He could smuggle into the Bubble World from the Present World via the ‘Nightmare Channel’.
