Chapter 619 Am I a Demon Lord Incubation Center? (13,000 Words, Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

Although Ms. Yelena cannot be described as beautiful, she is definitely presentable. Her shoulder-length brown hair appears quite capable, and her rather old, but well-maintained knight armor further emphasizes this point.

Wandering knights are noble reserve forces without their own territories, most of whom are transcendents with considerable strength but not much wealth—of course, this lack of wealth is only relative to true nobles. To say nothing else, the alchemical steel longsword at the female knight's waist, with its obvious enchanted runes and flowing pale silver halo, is enough for ten families to live comfortably for several years.

As the leader of the relic exploration mission, Yelena has always been conscientious as the team leader, whether it is the material planning and advance payment of remuneration before the mission, or taking the lead in exploring dangerous areas, and quickly and decisively cracking relic traps, all of which prove that she is quite capable, organized, and confident in everything she does.

But now, her tone completely contradicts that capable image, revealing a look of inexplicable shock.

"Svetlre, aren't you already dead?!"

The lady at the door sounded incredibly complex, mixed with a lot of emotions besides surprise and fear.

Su Zhou was concentrating on maintaining the restoration of his body at the moment, and didn't pay too much attention to the other party's thoughts, but even if he only relied on the gap in his tone, he could hear the meaning behind the other party's words.

——This woman knew long ago that his body was seriously injured and had a high probability of being dead.

But the interesting thing is that Yelena's sneaky peeping action proved that she couldn't be sure that he would 'definitely die'.

She came here at this time to confirm his death.

"Interesting... Although my predecessor's current identity is just an ordinary archaeology professor and paleography researcher, and the hidden transcendent power has almost disappeared due to more than ten years of neglect, why does this woman think I might be able to survive?"

Thinking like this in his heart, Su Zhou secretly said it was interesting.

The current situation reveals something unusual. If his predecessor wasn't in a hurry for money, it would be impossible to take on this obviously problematic task.

Of course, he still needs to pretend on the surface.

"Am I dead? Yelena, if you want to talk nonsense, you can wait until you go out to say it."

The tall professor's tone was indifferent, and his voice was clear.

He didn't even turn his head, but turned his eyes sideways and said indifferently to Yelena, who still felt incredible: "Also, let me remind you."

"Don't make arbitrary guesses about people you know nothing about."

As soon as he finished speaking, hearing the indifferent tone containing a warning, Yelena even subconsciously grasped the alchemical steel sword on her waist.

Compared with the good-tempered old professor image, which was mysterious but gentle and reasonable, and even seemed a little weak, the man in front of him was like a completely different person... No, it wasn't a different person, but he had lifted his disguise and revealed his original appearance!

Just like when he was underground before, he was the first to rush up, risking source energy radiation that exceeded the danger threshold by 4,500 times, and unlocked the key to the central device, causing it to stop running.

Otherwise, all five of them would have been wiped out there!

Could it be that he really...

While still thinking about Su Zhou's abnormality, Yelena, who had not left for a long time, suddenly felt something was wrong.

She focused her gaze and found that the professor, who was originally standing sideways, had slightly raised his eyes.

Those dark red eyes with demonic features did not have hostility or other emotions, but simply focused their gaze on her.

The gray-haired old man stood in the center of the room and became the master of this area.

This alone made the wandering knight feel a chill in her heart, and then simply turned around and left: "Excuse me!"

But before leaving, she still forcibly stopped and said her purpose this time in a calm tone: "Professor Svetlre, Master Flintlight said he found a new water source, and there may be relic exits and food sources nearby... We are going to move the camp there and gather at the bonfire later."

"It's best if you're okay. If we want to get out of this ancient relic, we can only rely on your knowledge."

After saying that, she left in a hurry.

"...Just left like that?"

Su Zhou, who originally thought that he would have to say a few harsh words to get the other party to run away, was slightly stunned.

Even Gasha and Loya, who were next to him, looked at each other in confusion, not understanding why Aunt Yelena and the professor finished after casually saying a few words.

Seriously, Su Zhou just raised his eyelids and prepared to take a look at who the other party was.

Who knew that the other party was scared away like this.

This was because Su Zhou didn't have a normal understanding of the pressure of his soul.

Even after crossing the world, encountering abnormal spiritual power, and maintaining the vitality of his body to avoid exposing abnormalities.

The soul of a Celestial Immortal still has incredible power.

Even apart from these, just Su Zhou's aura and will of slaughtering hundreds of millions of enemies, and even killing many Immortals and Gods, ordinary transcendents, who haven't reached the leader level, have to roll a will check when they see him, and may even have a Sancheck.

"...Di, Director, it's a good thing that Master Flintlight found a new water source!"

Loya, who was still a little confused, picked up the magic energy refrigerator from the ground. He skillfully turned it off, and then exclaimed with joy: "Originally, there was indeed not much water left. The water you drank just now was most of what we had left, so it's good to replenish some water!"

Gasha also silently picked up the shield and iron hammer that he had dropped on the ground when he saw Su Zhou coming out of the coffin, and then raised his head, his dark golden eyes looking at Su Zhou, waiting for the next command.

"Don't rush to go there now."

Su Zhou was indeed not in a hurry. At this time, he had his hands behind his back, his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was thinking: "Although I'm not dead, I'm also seriously injured... Rest for a while first."

Scaring Yelena away just now was because the other party originally had a guilty conscience and didn't calm down to observe. He didn't think that his current situation of being physically empty and dying wouldn't be discovered by others.

Before gathering, he planned to master a little self-defense power first.

Because of the inheritance of blood, the transcendent power of the Aean world is quite prosperous. Although there are various strange things, it can be roughly divided into four categories: 'Knights', 'Spellcasters', 'Alchemy', and 'Blood Awakened'.

But no matter which category, it is based on the source energy of 'Holy Sun' and 'Magic Moon'.

It has to be mentioned that the situation in the Aean world is special. Because the spiritual energy is too thick and viscous, it is extremely difficult for life to naturally absorb and utilize it. Therefore, all creatures in this world are born without souls, just like the Earth in the era of spiritual energy exhaustion.

So if you want to cultivate, you must independently condense your soul, use your soul to connect to your whole body, and only after your spirit and body are united can you move towards a higher realm.

Soul Condensation, Spiritual Radiance, Heart Light, Divine Will.

First, use the guiding secret method to condense source power and build a soul, so that it can be used as a foundation to cultivate various abilities; and when the soul is strong and completely penetrates the body, the whole body can emit visible soul light when using abilities, so it is called Spiritual Radiance.

Immediately afterwards, the soul's radiance grows, and can even condense various visions and strange beasts, similar to the mental light 'Heart Light' of Stand users, which can allow transcendents to surpass the mortal body and perform powerful transcendent skills.

And the further Divine Will is the secret of the major empires and nobles. Although there are many people in the folk who can reach this realm, most of them have adventures.

Their will has initially transcended and become holy, and they can fight against a mobile city-state or a regular army with their own strength.

The leader of the rebel army that Su Zhou's predecessor supported was a wandering knight who had reached the 'Divine Will'—only transcendents who reached this level can summon the masses and resist the huge empire.

But in the end, the rebels were still wiped out.

Because an Empire General...a 'Calamity Realm' powerhouse comparable to a natural disaster personally took action, using the destruction of a mobile city-state as the price to completely wipe out the main force of the rebel army stationed in that city.

Along with it, more than a million civilians were wiped out.

Su Zhou recalled that Yelena, the leader of his exploration team, was a Heart Light realm knight, and Master Flintlight from the Radiant Light Order was even stronger than Yelena.

As for the others, their strength was not strong.

This is not surprising. Being able to cultivate to the Heart Light realm allows one to become a guest of honor to any great noble, or even gain their own glory in the Imperial military. Yelena's knight status is exactly what she obtained for this reason.

With such strength, who would still take on mercenary missions? If the Radiant Light Order wasn't originally interested in various ancient relics, and Master Flintlight happened to be returning to his hometown in the north, Yelena wouldn't have been able to hire him even if she spent ten times the money.

Su Zhou's own predecessor, Professor Svetlre, was also just a Heart Light realm expert, and he was an alchemist, so his combat ability was very weak and he acted more as a researcher.

As for now...

"After all, I have a soul, so let's just say I'm in the Soul Condensation realm."

Laughing in his heart, Su Zhou turned his head to look at the two children in front of him.

There was a lot of dust in the ruins, and Gasha and Loya were covered in dust, with traces of dust on their faces.

Both of them were now seriously staring at him, waiting for his, the 'professor's', next instructions.

Just like in the past, teaching them and guiding them.

Su Zhou even heard their stomachs growling. Presumably, they hadn't eaten for a while in order to take care of his 'corpse'.

If it weren't for these two children in their early teens taking careful care, even if Su Zhou possessed the body, the body would definitely have started to rot or be missing some parts... Although it wasn't impossible to repair, it would take too much effort.

Thinking of this, Su Zhou couldn't help but feel a little moved. He chuckled and stretched out his hand to pat their shoulders.

"Go and eat some dry food. Although there's not much food left, you still have to eat."

"You guys are at the age where you're growing. Go ahead."

At first, the two children were a little hesitant.

But after Su Zhou urged them again, they both obediently went to the package to take out dry food.

"Director, yours!"

Loya even trotted over to give Su Zhou his share.

"Okay, okay, good boy."

Su Zhou couldn't help but laugh. He touched the white-haired boy's head, listened to the other party's giggling laughter, and then sent the dry food into his mouth.

His body hadn't recovered yet, so he didn't have any taste or sensation, but the fact that he could 'swallow' this action proved that he had almost completely mastered this body.

The two children went to eat dry food, and Su Zhou sat on the stone coffin he had been in before and began to cultivate.

There are many cultivation systems based on the soul. Most of the inheritances on Earth are like this, especially the Immortal Spiritual lineage, which can even be cultivated without a body.

But Su Zhou didn't intend to do that. Not to mention that he was essentially a Celestial Soul, but the demonic bloodline hidden in this body had a lot of potential to be tapped. He happened to have not seen a demon for so many years, so he took this opportunity to integrate the relevant demon inheritance into his Formless Dharma Body and Candle Dragon form.

"The guiding technique in the memory is to guide the thick source energy in the air into the body, and then condense it into a soul prototype."

"Once this step is completed, you can be considered to have successfully condensed your soul, initially possessing divine power, and you can move objects from a distance and mentally shock ordinary people."

"And after that, the source energy and soul run through the whole body. While strengthening the body, you can either continue to develop the power in your blood, or you can start formally practicing the relevant exercises of the four major systems to prepare for becoming an official professional."

Generally speaking, source energy cultivation should be done while young. It's best to get started before the body starts to develop, and then the soul gradually spreads as the body grows. This way, after puberty, after a period of stabilization, you can naturally cross the Soul Condensation stage and reach 'Spiritual Radiance'.

The children of great nobles are like this. This kind of spiritual and physical unity is the most stable, and it won't let the source energy harm the body, but ordinary people don't have this opportunity. Being able to cultivate Spiritual Radiance before the age of thirty is already quite impressive.

And for an old man like Su Zhou's current body to start cultivating at almost seventy years old, just mobilizing the source energy into the body, the powerful radiation could kill him.

But Su Zhou wasn't really an old man. He used his powerful soul power to connect the surrounding source energy and slowly enter his body.

Source energy is the unique spiritual energy of the Aean world, with a density of about forty times the density of ordinary spiritual energy. Although this doesn't mean that the difficulty of mobilizing it is forty times that of ordinary spiritual energy, the burden on the body is indeed forty times that of ordinary spiritual energy.

Most of the cultivators in this world will specifically construct a source energy storage organ in their body. Otherwise, letting the source energy accumulate in various parts of the body will cause a very obvious 'erosion phenomenon', which is almost irreversible and will gradually spread. It is a unique cancer of the transcendents in this world.

But for Su Zhou, it wasn't a big problem.

Although the gap between this body and his original body was very large, and the talent was even more different, it was still quite good compared to ordinary people—naturally, whether it was Earth or this world, there was no such thing as ordinary humans. Everyone has potential and blood, it just depends on whether they can be stimulated.

And Su Zhou could of course stimulate it.

He closed his eyes and circulated deep breaths, guiding the source energy into his body little by little. Svetlre used to be a transcendent, and he chose the heart as his source energy spiritual organ. Su Zhou didn't have any intention of changing it.

He extracted the aura of the Divine Tree given by the Tree of the Great Path, and then integrated it into the heart, began to merge with the source energy, and condensed it into an 'Amber Celestial Crystal'—immediately afterwards, he activated the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Imperishable Method.

Although heavy and stagnant, under the impetus of a complete cultivation method, the source energy gradually began to circulate.

Just like the wheels of a waterwheel, rotating back and forth, it began to derive a trace of pure vitality.

Gradually, this vitality condensed into qi. Although this qi was too heavy compared to the spiritual qi of the orthodox Imperishable Method, it also contained the power of the Divine Tree, which was enough to prolong life.

With the aura of the Divine Tree as a guide, getting started with the Reincarnation Imperishable Method originally only took one or two days, and Su Zhou, as the founder of this technique, didn't need to say more.

The rhythmic breathing cooperated with the operation of the technique, urging the vitality qi to turn into a blood-like heat flow, rotating back and forth in various parts of the body.

Wherever the heat flow passed, the original decayed flesh immediately emitted a numb and tingling pain like a wound regenerating, and it was like a dry sponge was filled with water, generating a force and vitality.

And when the heat flow circulated throughout his body, Su Zhou opened his eyes again. The turbidity of his cornea had completely disappeared, and even his presbyopic eyes had returned to normal. Everything he saw was extremely clear.

His empty body gradually filled up, and his strength began to accumulate.

"Not bad, as good as I expected."

Slowly standing up, Su Zhou clenched his fists and sensed a sense of fulfillment.

In less than ten minutes, he had already restored his body, and his five internal organs were functioning, digesting the dry food he had eaten before and turning it into nutrients and source energy to nourish his body.

Buzzing, this was the slight buzzing sound of all the metal objects in the room, the effect of Su Zhou's body's unique source energy.

A person's body has its own natural attribute tendencies, but in a normal world, where spiritual energy is weak, this tendency is easily suppressed by acquired cultivation.

But in this world, where the density of spiritual energy is forty times that of an ordinary world, this effect is easily amplified, and can even evolve into various types of spells, becoming the foundation for subsequent cultivation.

Su Zhou's body's talent ability, consistent with his previous alchemist profession, was the ability to subtly control metals with some kind of spiritual field—he had cultivated thunder magic, although the essence was not the same, but it gave him experience and allowed him to exert a certain amount of combat power.

"I have almost enough self-defense power. Next, it's time to see what the situation is like."

Opening his eyes, Su Zhou's eyes were deep. This was a very good start. He originally thought that he would wake up from a mass grave or a tomb and have to dig himself out, but he was only trapped in the ruins, which was already quite good.

At this time, the two children were still slowly eating dry food... This dry food, produced in the northern mountains, was made of flatbread and oily pastry. It was like eating a rag and couldn't be torn apart even after chewing for a long time.

Gasha was fine. His teeth were similar to those of a black dragon, sharp serrations, and he was very strong, so he could easily tear it apart. As for Loya's race, it was clear that they didn't eat much meat. Naturally, he had no way to deal with this cake, which was even harder to chew than wild boar meat. Gasha had to tear it into pieces for him.

The gathering was obviously not going to be that fast. Su Zhou watched his two 'apprentices' eat with great interest and couldn't help but feel amused.

"It's really unexpected that the parallel self in this world would become an orphanage director... The multiverse is so big, there's really nothing that can't happen."

Thinking like this, Su Zhou became interested in these two very well-behaved children with good personalities and actions.

"Prajna Book, take a look at their situation."

The Prajna Book uses karma as its source and is most effective in deducing people who are close to Su Zhou. If it is a stranger, it will only display a name at most.

But obviously, Gasha and Loya had a great karma with his predecessor. As the golden light flew, large amounts of data appeared.

【Name: Gasha (Kasaya)】

【Age: 14 years old】

【Talent: Outstanding】

【Race: Eastern branch of Aean people, Dragonkin Bloodline】

【Cultivation: Initial Soul Condensation stage (Catalyzed by Demonization Disease)】

【Historical Information: Illegitimate child of an Eastern Dragon noble. When he was young, he was raised in a city-state in the southern part of the Empire. The war destroyed the city, making him a wandering orphan.

He wandered through many cities, making a living by begging, running errands, and stealing food. He matured early, but during a 'Blood Moon' he didn't have time to enter the sewer to take refuge, and was eroded by the Magic Moon, becoming a patient of Demonization Disease.

The soul and bloodline power catalyzed by Demonization Disease made survival easier, but it was discriminated against and rejected by more people. He was originally going to go down a path of madness, but he came out of his predicament and stabilized his mind with the help of his friend Loya.

At the age of ten, during the Great Famine in the Southern Border, he was adopted by Professor Svetlre and became a member of the Hope Orphanage, receiving a good education and laying the foundation for the future.

Currently a student of Professor Svetlre.】

【Perfect Deduction (Error): …After Professor Svetlre's death, he escaped from the Dawn Ruins with his friend Loya, and was discovered by a witch priest in the North Ionia Mountains, who valued his talent and made him a member of the 'Frostwind Tribe'.

Because of Professor Svetlre's death, the Hope Orphanage was forcibly closed by the Empire, and a large number of children died from forced labor and violations. Therefore, he hated the Empire and hated humans. With courage and cruelty, he became the largest tribal leader under 'Sky Twilight Great Khan', obtained the 'World-Overturning Serpent' inheritance, led the Frost Disaster army to invade the Empire, destroyed 147 large city-states, and personally killed more than 20 million humans.】