Chapter 1 The Great Thing

It's undoubtedly a great thing when a country provides advanced resources.

Su Zhou naturally wouldn't stand on ceremony regarding this matter. His advancement was extremely important, both to himself and to Zheng Nation.

So, without being polite, Su Zhou filled one A4 sheet with a list of resources he wanted reimbursed, and then filled another—thankfully, Dao Saint had already left and didn't see this scene, otherwise he would have instinctively gasped.

Of course, although it sounded like a blatant request, Su Zhou was actually only asking for immortal and divine texts, and strange cultivation method materials.

*The Great Vow Ksitigarbha Sutra*, *The Prayer for Wind and Rain Technique*, *The Heavenly Human Teacher's Great Vow*, *The Genie Summoning Art*, *A Safe, Simple, and Reliable Manual for Using Prayer Arts*...

Apart from a few gems that required special sizes and shapes, needing artificial crafting and being extremely difficult to find naturally, Su Zhou didn't request any other resources, only using his citizen points to exchange for these books.

Although it seemed like there were strange things mixed in, it must be said that, theoretically speaking, Aladdin was also a Zheng Nation person, so it was normal for Zheng Nation to have Genie Summoning Arts. There was no need to be too surprised.

Moreover, if one possessed the relevant knowledge from Spiritual Energy class in the third year of high school, one could easily discern that these texts were all related to 'prayer' and 'great vows'.

In other words, they were all related to things like 'vow power' and 'merit'.

Su Zhou checked everything, confirmed it, and then walked out of the conference room to submit it at the Security Bureau's central front desk.

Dao Saint had already given instructions before leaving. Su Zhou himself was also a high-level leader in the Security Bureau. His application would quickly be approved, and presumably no one would be foolish enough to hold up his resources.

But Su Zhou knew that for the Overlord tier, the most needed thing wasn't resources, but an understanding of the essence of their own life and their divine power.

"I have completely dissected the Evil Devouring Demon Lord divine power. All the spells have been separated, and the essence of my divine power, the 'evil soul', is actually a demonic ritual that uses 'curse power' as a sacrifice and 'killing the opponent' as the ritual to strip the enemy of their power."

After walking out of the conference room, before the texts arrived, Su Zhou strolled around the Security Bureau.

The Tiandu Security Bureau was the largest transcendent organization headquarters in the world. Even the NW Foundation's headquarters, the 'Extradimensional Item Management Bureau', couldn't compare in scale.

It was located in the northern suburbs of Tiandu, underground at a reservoir, with the entire reservoir and thirteen layers of underground works as protection. Even a large-yield earth-penetrating nuclear weapon could at least guarantee the integrity of the core database.

When Dao Saint brought Su Zhou into the Security Bureau through the teleportation array, he boasted that even if immortals and gods returned, as long as they weren't Imperishable Celestials, the Security Bureau would have ways to deal with them.

The interior decoration style of the Tiandu Security Bureau was pure white, an extremely simple modern style, and corridors and doors in key areas required spiritual power signatures and passes to get through.

Su Zhou had a pass with the second-highest authority. He could walk freely anywhere, and most members of the Security Bureau recognized this well-known figure. After meeting, they would nod to each other in acknowledgment.

As he walked, he was still contemplating the essence of his power.

'Stripping the power of evildoers and turning it into one's own'—this was the essence of the Evil Devouring Demon Lord.

Similar abilities existed all over the world. Even in the oldest witchcraft, there were sorceries to gain another's power by eating their heart, and among many demons, there were similar types that could imprison other's souls, drawing on human fear and resentment to increase their own strength.

Su Zhou's divine power, Evil Devouring Demon Lord, sounded extremely terrifying and unpredictable, but if analyzed in detail, it could be broken down into a dozen large and small spells, and he had completely completed this process of deconstruction.

But simply decomposing the divine power didn't meet Su Zhou's requirements—what he wanted was to merge another type of ideological power, the power of 'vow', which was of the same type as 'curse power', into his own Evil Devouring Demon Lord divine power.

"Evildoers are hated and cursed by others, and I can use the curse power on them as a sacrifice to kill them and gain their power. The core of this ability is curse power."

"But what about the opposite? Can I also use vow power? For example, if many people pray to me, asking me to help them, or asking me to fulfill their wish, then can I use vow power as a sacrifice, with the completion of the wish as the ritual, to gain power?"

Just like the principle of Buddha's great vow and the genie summoning answering wishes, if he could incorporate this concept into his own divine power...

This was the state that Su Zhou wanted to reach.

——The Evil Devouring Demon Lord who used curse power was an active hunter. Although it seemed very free, it could only achieve its goal by killing people.

Su Zhou was friendly, peaceful, and willing to communicate. Everyone and the doctor said he was a good person, so the fact that he could only kill people was something Su Zhou didn't like and didn't fit his persona.

And using the power of vow was like a bounty hunter, taking on a task, completing the task, and then turning the vow power gathered by everyone into his own.

Most importantly, this task wasn't limited to killing people—for example, when Nesser City suffered a flood, the whole city was praying that someone could make the flood recede, and after Su Zhou made the flood recede, he could obtain the 'vow soul' formed by the vow power of all the people in Nesser City.

Actually, Su Zhou didn't know if it was really a soul, but anyway, he would call it that first, after all, it had to match the previous evil soul.

In short, Su Zhou believed that this was extremely feasible, and if successful, it would undoubtedly greatly enhance the versatility of the Evil Devouring Demon Lord, and even allow him to fully master his divine power, allowing the Evil Devouring Demon Lord to completely become his shape.

"Captain Su, hello, the texts you applied for have been transmitted through the teleportation array and have already been sent to your office by a dedicated person. The artificial gemstones still need some time to be made and placed in the spiritual veins for artificial spiritual sedimentation, which may take a few days."

Just as Su Zhou was wandering around, a 3D projection suddenly appeared in front of him. A young female cultivator with cat ears politely greeted Su Zhou and reported the results of the previous resource application to him: "Does this have any impact on you?"

"No, thank you for the report."

Regarding cat ears, Su Zhou was quite surprised when he first returned to Earth, but now he was used to it—just a Mimicry Dao cultivator. If you really wanted to see them, the Bai family was full of tiger-eared ladies.

Since Mimicry Dao was made public, and Su Zhou and Jin Qiong became related image ambassadors, the people of Zheng Nation not only didn't reject related bloodline cultivators, but even showed a trend of pursuing this special thing. Ordinary Mimicry Dao cultivators, who originally needed to try their best to conceal their own bloodline characteristics, no longer had to deliberately suppress their power, but could walk naturally on the streets.

Although everyone's eyes were like looking at some rare animal and the Iron-Eating Beast, compared to hateful eyes, this kind of gaze that was merely overly curious was friendly enough.

After reporting the situation, the female cultivator should have ended the projection, but she seemed to be attracted by Su Zhou's hat and couldn't help but ask, "Although it's a bit presumptuous, Captain Su, your hat... is very trendy, may I ask where you bought it?"

"Oh, this was made by myself using Mimicry Dao cultivation method. How is it, fashionable?"

After being tugged at his hair by Yala, Su Zhou said without changing his expression—but surprisingly, this wasn't even a lie! Because Yala's body was made of Su Zhou's blood, the process of it transforming and simulating a hat was a standard Mimicry Dao!

The answer immediately shocked the cat-eared lady, who muttered, 'You can actually use hair to simulate a hat... Is this the real Mimicry Dao?!' 'I understand, this is the true essence of Mimicry Dao...'

After the other party closed the projection, Su Zhou went to his office and began to read those immortal and divine texts.

Su Zhou's office, in addition to a set of tables, chairs and sofas, had no other decorations, after all, he didn't usually work here.

But the simple decoration allowed him to read one ancient text after another with peace of mind, to understand the cognition and research of immortals, gods, Taoists and mages, and other different professions and origins, on vow power.

With Su Zhou's level, even immortal and divine inheritances could be read normally. He immersed himself wholeheartedly in the wisdom of his predecessors and verified it one by one with his own experience.

"Divine powers are closely related to each individual. Except for bloodline divine powers, the divine powers awakened by any intelligent life are absolutely different. Even if they look similar, the spells that constitute their essence must also have differences."

"In the past, what I wanted to become was the retribution for evil. The Evil Devouring Demon Lord was born in response to my wish, truly allowing me to become an existence that hunts evil."

One day passed, two days passed. Su Zhou immersed himself in his own cultivation. Except when he called for food delivery, the Sages didn't disturb him.

His office was sealed by layers of formations, which was no different from a dedicated seclusion room. Everyone gave Su Zhou the greatest freedom and the greatest expectations.

And Su Zhou didn't live up to this expectation.

He developed a method suitable for himself to become stronger by gathering vow power.

[Those who vow, originate from the mind's念 (nian, thought), reaching the heart's desires.]

[Sincere heart is vow, confused heart is prayer, joyful heart is blessing, fearful heart is seeking, determined heart is oath, resentful heart is curse, angry heart is strife—various hearts are in chaos, only vow remains unchanged.]

The so-called curse was nothing more than that born from people's resentment and curses, while vow power was related to sincere wishes—not only that, every emotion of a person could echo spiritual energy, giving birth to different powers and effects.

By converting curse into vow power, converting it into other forces, Su Zhou could, like a genie or a demon, collect the vow power of the petitioners by 'responding to wishes'!

"Yala, it's time!"

Although there were still a few small problems that hadn't been completely resolved, what new spells or divine powers were perfect as soon as they were developed? Before actual practical application, Su Zhou had done the best he could at present... As for the special gemstones required for the ritual, Zheng Nation had already provided them long ago.

——A star-shaped tetrahedral diamond, sublimated by secret methods, turning into translucent, stardust-like smoke, regarded as the root of everything.

——A regular tetrahedral ruby, burned by secret methods, turning into burning flames, regarded as the initial start.

——A regular hexahedral agate, crushed by secret methods, turning into fine dust, regarded as the foundation of precipitation.

——A regular octahedral lapis lazuli, gasified by secret methods, turning into a billowing storm, regarded as the power of movement.

——A regular icosahedral sapphire, liquefied by secret methods, turning into flowing waves, regarded as perfect filling.

——Finally, a regular dodecahedral jade, solidified by secret methods, absorbing and condensing all the above spiritual elements, regarded as the completed world.

The extremely demanding secret methods were all prepared in just two days with the official power. Whether it was the array plate depicting the secret methods or the various spiritualized gemstones, they were divine objects that were hard to come by in the ordinary world, but for Su Zhou, it was the simplest thing in various preparation links.

Placing the last jade stone, which had been completely transformed into colorless and transparent, as if it had been completely spiritualized, on his forehead, Su Zhou sensed this regular dodecahedral divine jade gradually merging into his soul, causing his soul to surge and enter an unprecedented realm.

So, he called Yala, preparing to carry out the next stage of Divine Geometry cultivation.

But, strangely, Yala didn't immediately respond to Su Zhou's call like in the past.

The Snake Spirit transformed from a hat into a snake shape. It coiled along Su Zhou's neck and arms, wrapped around Su Zhou's right wrist, and its red eyes met Su Zhou's.

Yala was intriguingly silent for a while, and then, it said calmly:

"Su Zhou, do you know what an existence that can answer other people's wishes without limit is?"