Chapter 262: 【old Yellow Heaven’s Four Heavenly Kings Visualization Chart】
After learning that Intelligence Reduction is the fatal flaw of Frog System Reinforcement, Yuan Zhu secretly thought: Sure enough!
I knew it, which reinforcement system has no flaws? This Power Path sounds great in every way, but none of the Frog School students have personally undergone the modification; they all just research how to modify others.
Even Nie Yin is secretly learning Tattooing Technique. She has focused her studies on the frog skin abandoned by her classmates. She conducts academic research using experimental garbage and has no intention of undergoing Frog System Pollution modification herself.
Yuan Zhu: “No brain won’t do. These five are all Anti-Law Users whom I have high hopes for. They are to be sent to throw matches and fight in the arena!”
Nie Yin explained: “Their current stupidity is just a surgical side effect. It’s like after the anesthesia wears off, the consciousness is still unclear. It’s just that the intelligence reduction effect of Frog System Pollution lasts a bit longer. Once this phase passes, their intelligence will recover to normal levels.”
Yuan Zhu was still worried, fearing that the heavily invested ‘Anti-Law Five Brothers’ would flop in his hands, with the entire investment going down the drain.
So he said: “I’ve never encountered a formally advanced Extreme Warrior before. Tell me about their situation. Are they generally retarded, or low intelligence? Or pointy-headed? Or completely incomprehensible?”
Originally, Candle also had the idea of modifying the Power Path, incorporating it into the Shadow System, and making it into a ‘Shadow Seed’ Boss Template that is downward compatible.
But at this moment, he became hesitant. He started thinking about whether to abandon the Power Path and copy another system instead? What if he really turns the Power Path into a Shadow Seed, causing the entire Shadow System to be polluted by the Intelligence Reduction Curse? Then his Tiger Demon main account would be completely ruined.
Nie Yin shook her head: “Your concerns have long been considered by predecessors. If not curbed, allowing Frog System Pollution to continuously erode and attack the brain will lead to gradual intelligence decline, which is a chronic deterioration. Supernaturals who choose the Power Path are informed of this danger in advance and prepare relevant ‘brain maintenance’ measures.”
“Whether it’s the Frog School, black clinics, pharmacies, hospitals on the market, the Knowledge School, or other systems, they all have means to counter Frog System Pollution, ensure San value (sanity), and maintain the spirit and soul. However… as Frog System Pollution continues to improve, and muscles complete secondary synthesis, tertiary synthesis… the side effects on the brain will still increase.”
“At that point, more advanced Brain Maintenance Projects must be used to counter and offset the Frog System Pollution to maintain advanced rationality. But the problem is that supernaturals who choose the Power Path are desperate bottom-level civilians. Even if they know about the ‘side effects,’ they can’t afford high-end ‘brain maintenance packages’ and will gradually suffer intelligence reduction as they get stronger, becoming honest, numb, obedient, hardworking, and turning into premium cattle and horses.”
This is also one of the reasons why various systems like to recruit and absorb Extreme Warriors. Once they embark on this supernatural path, they become stronger, more sluggish, and more obedient.
The stronger they are, the more simple and honest they become—premium cattle and horses, high-quality path soldiers. In the old era before Yellow Heaven Immortal Path collapsed, the Frog System was the exclusive material used by Yellow Heaven Cultivators to refine Yellow Turban Strongmen.
After Yellow Heaven died, graduates of the Power Path scattered into the human world, contested and divided by numerous new-generation Pollution Roots to refine their own security guards, strongmen, path soldiers…
And the Pollution Root of the Path of Strength, Life Officer Frog God, turned a blind eye and deaf ear to this, allowing unchecked development.
Yuan Zhu: “So the Intelligence Reduction Curse can be countered, even reversed to enhance the brain?”
Nie Yin: “Yes, the head is never within the scope of Frog God blessings and can be regarded as an optional plugin, accepting any pollution modification and coexisting with Frog System Pollution.”
Choosing other supernatural systems, once crossing into the seed, one can only follow that path to the end. Want to take a side job? Sure, go open Three Phases.
But for Frog System supernaturals, without opening Three Phases, their ‘head’ can accept new ‘Pollution Systems’ for brain maintenance, with two systems coexisting. The premise is not interfering with or disrupting the core-status Power System.
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu’s eyes suddenly lit up, and he had some ideas for ‘intelligence recharge.’
At this time, Nie Yin continued to answer the boss’s questions: “Also, Extreme Warriors do not become pointier-headed the stronger they get.”
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu was immediately extremely disappointed. In our Earth hometown, Nine Dragon Warriors get stronger flesh modifications, inject stronger steroid pollution, and their heads get pointier! This is a symbol of strength.
However, Nie Yin’s next words reignited hope in his eyes.
“The higher the level of Extreme Warriors, the less their head is affected by Frog God Blessing. It then completely lets loose, with shapes becoming increasingly indescribable. In theory, it can develop into any shape without being strange.”
Because frog system modification only targets physical body power (muscles), with the torso as the foundation. The deeper the pollution, the more perfect the body structure, with muscles full of power and beauty. But it never takes responsibility for the ‘head,’ allowing the brain to develop freely.
If they encounter someone who cares about appearance and is self-disciplined, persisting in maintaining and upgrading the ‘brain and head.’ Then this type of Extreme Warrior has online intelligence, a perfect head matching the golden body figure, and matching IQ—extremely excellent.
If they encounter poor ghosts or those who don’t care about ‘head appearance,’ just like fat people who let loose and eat and drink heavily, it’s not strange what their heads eventually turn into.
It can be pointy, or square-headed, round, equilateral triangular, fan-shaped…
Nie Yin: “If you see someone with an especially bizarre head but a strong and perfect body, no need to say it—definitely a powerhouse of the Power Path! Do you know the Old Yellow Heaven Four Heavenly Kings Statues?”
Without waiting for Yuan Zhu to shake his head, Nie Yin sent him a very old gongbi painting from an ancient sealed book of the Frog School via the Anti-Law connection.
In the yellowed horizontal scroll painting, the four Heavenly Kings of Taoism (Yellow Heaven lineage) from the Old Yellow Heaven era were depicted, each guarding one side of the Heavenly Court.
Their images partly referenced Daoist myths brought by Earth fellow villagers, but also incorporated a large amount of Du Ling native ‘pollution elements.’
The Yellow Heaven Four Heavenly Kings not only cultivated Yellow Heaven Immortal Methods but also concurrently cultivated the Path of Strength, practicing supreme ‘physical body sanctification wondrous method’ to qualify as top Dharma-protecting Heavenly Kings of Taoism.
And among the four Heavenly Kings in the painting, one had a head that was ‘square’ after flesh expansion, squarely full of muscles, glaring angrily with round eyes, hair and beard bristling, yet without skin, but blood-red stringy muscles.
The other three Heavenly Kings also had similarly bizarre images: a ‘regular tetrahedron (triangular)’ skinned muscle human head on the neck, truly pointy-headed!
There was also the ‘ball-headed Heavenly King’ and ‘cylindrical Heavenly King,’ clad in armor with geometric flesh heads on top… their impressionistic gongbi painting style had an indescribable demonic charm.
Just seeing this painting in the mental world, his San value began to drop, and even the Soul Crystal and Holy Seal in his soul faintly resonated with this painting.
Yuan Zhu quickly used the Soul Firewall to block this painting, suppressing the agitation in his heart, and pondered: “Snake Snake, what just happened? Nie Yin viewed, remembered, and uploaded this Yellow Heaven Four Heavenly Kings Painting without any issue. I just glanced at it and my mind trembled—what’s wrong with me?”
Snake Snake connected to the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture, scanned the boss inside and out, and found the blind spot: “It’s the Holy Mark! More precisely, the Tai Huang Dao Master connected behind the ritual that branded your Holy Seal for you. I speculate this Geometric Four Heavenly Kings Statue is inherited from the ancient Old Yellow Heaven; your Holy Mark is also from an Old Yellow Heaven ritual, probably linking the two. This Four Heavenly Kings Statue is very much like an ‘visualization diagram’ from the Immortal Path Universe—quite interesting!”
After blocking and sealing the Old Yellow Heaven Geometric Four Heavenly Kings Statue, Yuan Zhu chose to suppress it with Soul Crystal, continuously releasing Holy Light to purify and annihilate the evil aura emanating from this ‘visualization diagram.’
At the same time, he agreed: “No wonder it’s listed as a banned book by the Frog School—the remnants of Yellow Heaven are unyielding in their desire to revive!”
Snake Snake: “When Great King you get stronger later, perhaps you can excavate special ‘Frog System Ultimate Skills’ from this Heavenly Kings Painting, cultivating our family’s ‘half-blood orcs’ into geometric warriors? Looking at the four Heavenly Kings in that Heavenly Kings Painting, they seem to have infinite magic power—probably a unique ‘Power Path.'”
Yuan Zhu: “No rush, I’ve now thought of a Brain Reinforcement Secret Technique unique to Tiger Demon!”
Yuan Zhu confidently straightened his body, raised his hand to summon Orc No. 1, who knelt on one knee before him.
Then, he took out a fully refined Brain Eggplant CPU from the Soul Space.
First, he transferred its ownership to the Anti-Law Capital Pool. Then, treating it as an ‘investment,’ he showily inserted it into Orc No. 1’s crown of the head.
Yuan Zhu performed the Immortal Stroking Top to Grant Spiritual Root, planting the ‘external brain’ on No. 1’s head. The black ‘miniature brain eggplant’ automatically grew numerous ‘root tendrils,’ breaking through the scalp, piercing the crown of the head’s membrane, and rooting into the brain.
After waves of intense pain, convulsions, screams, and rolling… Orc No. 1’s eyes gradually lost their luster, vacant with clear confusion. No longer screaming, it silently stood up and returned to stand before Yuan Zhu.
Now, its body was temporarily taken over by the Artificial Stupidity Program built into the Brain Eggplant and activated recording mode through vision.
Yuan Zhu now smiled at the corners of his mouth and, in front of No. 1, tirelessly demonstrated Red Port Fist three times in a row from three different observation angles. Nos. 2-5 remained dumb and silly, fearfully following behind No. 1, imitating clumsily, with uncoordinated limbs completely unable to keep up with the rhythm.
In contrast, Orc No. 1, whose brain was hijacked by the Brain Eggplant, although also unable to keep up with Yuan Zhu’s rhythm, clearly recorded the entire set of Red Port Fist in the Artificial Stupidity Martial Arts Program using its eyes.
When Yuan Zhu stopped moving, Nos. 2-5 also froze in place, while only No. 1’s body was still moving.
It practiced over and over, without any reference, already engraving the complete ‘martial art’ into the brain (eggplant). Its body was just coordinating time and again to fully express the martial art.
Thus, under the envious and shocked gazes of the other four brothers, No. 1’s eyes were lifeless, but its movements gradually became standard. Stiffly and precisely replicating every move and form completely.
No soul, no spirituality, no charm, no heartfelt comprehension or feeling, yet stiff and precise, like a martial arts demonstration machine, perfectly operating its sinews and muscles.
Seeing this, Yuan Zhu was overjoyed: “Very good, as long as it practices persistently, it will eventually form muscle memory—that’s enough! Let the body learn first, then consider other issues.”
After confirming the Brain Eggplant was effective, he hurriedly performed ‘skull-breaking surgery’ on the remaining four orcs as well.
Seeing this scene of the brain eggplant rooting and drilling into the head, Nie Yin remembered something and reported to Yuan Zhu: “You once left a pair of Eggplant Goblins to guard the warehouse, clean, and monitor these five orcs. Out of curiosity, I performed Power Modification on one of them.”
Yuan Zhu recalled that there was such a thing.
He had stockpiled over a hundred ‘eggplant goblins’ in his Haunted House to reduce the burden. He specially brought a pair of ‘eggplant goblins’ as plant potted plants to this newly rented warehouse, serving as ‘security, monitor + watchdog.’
Once a thief curiously breaks in, it automatically triggers ferocity. Although goblins are weak, after accepting Shadow Eggplant parasitic pollution, they become neither human nor ghost, turning into elite minions. Killing two or three unprepared ordinary people is more than enough.
Nie Yin has a huge ‘dark side’ in her heart. Her pointed ears, vastly different from normal people, caused her to be ostracized by peers, and due to ‘introversion, autism + disability,’ she suffered classmate bullying, with pent-up negative energy exploding, finding a venting channel by abusing small animals (frogs) to release inner darkness and self-regulate.
Therefore, she bursts with great malice toward creatures without resistance ability, weaker than herself.
If placed in an ‘romantic youth film’ from Earth hometown, she would absolutely not be the type to meekly commit suicide after bullying. Instead, after blackening inside, she trembles in fear from bullying on the surface by day, but secretly madly tortures little frogs and white mice to release pressure, stubbornly surviving with all her might.
Hmm, once pushed to desperation, she would counter-kill everyone, blowing up the school to take them down with her—a passive yandere type.
So her laying hands on the Eggplant Goblins was reasonable.
Yuan Zhu asked curiously: “Do you have any research findings?”
Speaking of the Frog System Pollution Surgery on Eggplant Goblins, Nie Yin perked up with interest. This was a new project she developed entirely on her own interest, beyond Yuan Zhu’s arrangement.
Arising from interest, she was full of motivation and gained satisfaction, emotional touching, and the purest happiness from tormenting the Eggplant Goblins…
The girl smiled slightly at the corners of her mouth: “There is a discovery—their ‘power surgery’ failed.”
Yuan Zhu was incredulous: “Failed? Impossible. Eggplant Goblins are so weak, with not much pollution on them—they can absolutely be bent into Goblin Strongmen! Even orcs transplanted with Alienated Mutated Tissue can complete Power Surgery—how can goblins not?”
He had high hopes and expectations for his own goblins. If Eggplant Goblins could stack muscle reinforcement, they would evolve into even more premium ‘muscle perpetual motion cattle and horses’—how did it fail?
Nie Yin: “Their bodies are filled with symbiotic plant (Shadow Eggplant) root tendrils. The core of the Power Ritual is injecting Body Tempering Fluid into core muscle groups, excavating flesh potential, tempering and strengthening muscles.”
Yuan Zhu: “Continue.”
“When the Eggplant Goblins’ muscles accept frog system pollution, the muscle fibers begin to strengthen and reject the Shadow Eggplant Root Tendrils’ parasitism, trying to squeeze them out of the flesh tissue. Thus, Frog System Pollution conflicts with the Parasitic Root Tendrils, and because the small amount of freshly injected Body Tempering Fluid cannot suppress the Parasitic Root Tendrils, the surgery fails.”
