Chapter 44: The Risks of Merging the God Realm Prototype
Luxianbei and Jumeng started to bicker intensely over Wang Ying’s education issues, ending abruptly.
As soon as Luxianbei said, “What’s the use of talking so much? Wang Ying doesn’t even have clear consciousness right now!” the two suddenly stopped arguing.
They realized that their quarrel was meaningless.
The premise of discussing how to educate Wang Ying should at least be that Wang Ying has clear awareness and sufficient intelligence.
Their current behavior was akin to those videos claiming, “After finishing these few books, you’ll become self-disciplined.”
I’m already not self-disciplined; just reading one book is a struggle—how could I possibly finish several?
Similarly, teaching a “ball” knowledge or skills, whether he can learn it is uncertain; what’s the use of categorizing it so much?
After an awkward silence between them for a few seconds, Luxianbei pouted and said, following Jumeng’s line of thought, “Actually, being able to become a professional player wouldn’t be so bad?”
“Given Wang Ying’s unique authority, it’s likely that he could directly replicate the talent of a professional player.”
“Come on, you silly thing!” Jumeng spat, “You don’t have to respond to my words in that manner; I’ve already forgiven you!”
Despite her words, which seemed indifferent and even a bit spiteful, there was a hint of joy on her face as she spoke.
Her emerald-like eyes sparkled with a glimmer, much like a blooming cluster of peach blossoms.
Women need to be coaxed, even divine females are no exception!
Jumeng felt that Luxianbei’s words were meant to flatter her.
However…
Forgiven me?
Has she recognized that I was apologizing to her?
Luxianbei thought to herself, maintaining a straight face, “Alright then, let’s just leave it at that! I’ll prepare to study the Great Serpent God’s knowledge shortly; why don’t you take your computer and game console downstairs to play for a bit?”
“Oh, and if you get bored, you could also pour a bit of vital energy into Wang Ying…”
Although Wang Ying still did not have clear awareness, he had improved significantly compared to before when he reacted to external stimuli like a lump of dead flesh.
Simply put, it was like going from a persistent plant state to a severe intellectual disability.
The reason for Wang Ying’s change was likely due to the vital energy Jumeng had infused him with before; even if not, it wouldn’t hurt to try.
After all, it’s not me consuming spirit energy, Luxianbei thought.
“Are you treating me like a tool?” Jumeng crossed her arms, speaking with displeasure.
“Didn’t you mention wanting to be the child’s godmother in the future?” Luxianbei replied.
Moreover, a magpie having an egg-hatching skill seems quite reasonable, right?
“Well…” Jumeng hesitated, pouting again, “Forget it, I won’t hold that against you! Is there anything else?”
Luxianbei thought for a moment and said seriously, “Yes!”
Then she entered her chatty mode.
“I’ve already washed your sleeping bag; you can take it down together. Sleep if you’re tired, just remember to take a shower first. There are new towels under the sink in the bathroom, don’t use mine!”
“The snacks I prepared for you are on the third shelf of the cabinet beside the coffee table. There’s barley tea and cola in the fridge; get your own cup to fill it, don’t drink directly from the bottle, and there’s…”
“Got it, got it, so verbose!” Jumeng interrupted, then quickly shifted topics, “Just be careful when you research that long worm’s knowledge.”
Although she sounded fierce and impatient, a warm feeling quietly rose in her heart.
Who knew I’d been gone for so long and that silly thing still prepared those things for me?
Looks like I still hold quite a status in this house, Jumeng thought with a smirk.
“If there’s anything you don’t understand, just ask me directly, don’t act recklessly!”
“Don’t worry, I’m not that dumb!” Luxianbei assured.
As the saying goes, a tiger’s might remains even after its d*ath.
The Great Serpent God was, after all, a cataclysm-grade urban legend; even though its existence has perished, attempting to read its memories is still a highly risky matter.
Not to mention that immersing oneself in its memories for a long time risks being influenced and gradually assimilating with it, just the vast and complex knowledge accumulated over thousands of years could easily drive the unstable-minded to madness.
This point was not only known by Jumeng but also clearly understood by Luxianbei.
Thus, even though she already possessed a solid A-grade standard, with much stronger capacity than before, she still maintained the utmost caution when accessing the Great Serpent God’s knowledge.
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After sending Jumeng downstairs, Luxianbei lay on the soft bed, adjusted her breathing, slowly closed her eyes, and gradually immersed her consciousness into the Great Serpent God’s knowledge.
Darkness engulfed everything, and her consciousness briefly fell into silence.
After waiting in the darkness for a long time, feeling like an eternity yet also as brief as a lightning flash across the sky, light suddenly appeared before her.
Then, as if a violent explosion had occurred, an immense brightness surged forth.
In an instant, countless colorful spheres of light, enveloped in serpentine shadows, appeared before Luxianbei’s eyes like giant snake eggs suspended in the void, intertwining into a magnificent scene reminiscent of a starry summer sky.
Luxianbei’s gaze swept over those translucent spheres brimming with the Great Serpent God’s memories, accompanied by a familiar dizziness and fatigue, as fragments of bizarre knowledge flooded into her mind.
“Seventeen Methods to Cook Your Tail During Times of Food Shortage” … Goodness! Did the Great Serpent God really have such a hard time? It even resorted to stewing its own tail in a cast-iron pot.
“The taste of a tiger-headed jiao is quite good!” “The taste of human girls is also quite nice!” … well, okay! This indeed matches the Great Serpent God’s XP.
“The taste of a fox demon is very nice!” … Huh? Fox demon? Beast-eared girl? Now you’re speaking my language!
Legend has it that various dragon species generally have promiscuous tendencies, a trait evident from the fact that the nine offspring of a dragon have different mothers.
As the Great Serpent God is manifested from the essence of earth veins, it shares many similarities with dragons, so it’s not surprising that it has similar tendencies.
Ultimately, Luxianbei could not withstand the temptation of the “Great Serpent God’s Romance History” and accessed the Great Serpent God’s memories.
This situation was akin to an innocent young lad encountering a strange uncle, who pulls out a portable hard drive and suggestively says, “Uncle here has something exciting; want to take a look?”
It was impossible to refuse!
However, upon seeing those scenes within the Great Serpent God’s memories, she felt somewhat conflicted.
Those scenes were stimulating indeed, but they were also of a restricted nature, far from the kind of stimulation she had anticipated.
No way, you mean this deliciousness literally implies it was cooked and eaten? Is the serpent sick?!
Those beautiful women look so enchanting; how could that beast bring itself to do that?
What calamity, I’d label the Great Serpent God the strongest straight man of the past thousand years! Luxianbei thought angrily.
There was a sense that those few fragments of the Great Serpent God’s memories made her feel like she was tricked into downloading dozens of gigabytes of “internet celebrity wife, young boy, ice and fire, bondage in a secret room” video resources with such titles.
I should have anticipated this!
This Great Serpent God is not a proper deity; its mind is filled with all sorts of nonsense.
Next, to access memories unrelated to the God Realm, I must be a fool! Luxianbei thought harshly.
Thus, after experiencing a “title scam” within the Great Serpent God’s memories, she seemed to enter a sage mode, focusing her spirit and single-mindedly searching for the Great Serpent God’s related memories about the God Realm.
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From its birth to corruption and decline, the Great Serpent God experienced thousands of years, and the information contained in its memories could definitely be described as vast.
When it transferred its knowledge to Luxianbei, it had no kind intentions, storing a massive amount of information beyond the comprehension of the vast majority of spiritual ability users and urban legends, intending to destroy Luxianbei’s mind and plunge her into madness.
Thus, the knowledge Luxianbei received from the Great Serpent God was entirely unfiltered, chaotically mixed, with garbage information like “every day a person lives, they’ve passed twenty-four hours” occupying a solid sixty to seventy percent.
Finding specific useful information amidst all that was as challenging as locating a community water outage notice from a bulletin board cluttered for decades in the city.
Luxianbei searched through that sea of information for almost an entire night, finally uncovering a piece of useful information just as dawn was breaking.
It was a memory from the Great Serpent God shortly after successfully creating the Bamboo Slips Illusion and imprisoning its former subjects.
The moment she successfully accessed that memory, Luxianbei couldn’t help but start panting; the pain and anger conveyed in that memory surged like a ravaging flood, relentlessly battering her spirit.
Chaos, pain, d*ath, annihilation, an endless despair…
The overwhelming fury of the imprisoned and their loss of freedom, through their subtle connection with the God Realm, directly feedback to the God Realm’s owner—the Great Serpent God, tormenting it endlessly like a curse.
Reading that segment of the Great Serpent God’s memory was as if Luxianbei had personally endured a similar torment.
She desperately activated 【Royal Authority】 to guard her consciousness, avoiding the fate of being driven mad by the negative emotions contained in that memory. Nevertheless, even so, her own emotions were significantly affected.
Raging and gloomy feelings grew wildly in her heart like parasitic pests…
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Struggling to withdraw her consciousness from the Great Serpent God’s memories, Luxianbei barely opened her eyes to see Jumeng standing by her bedside, craning her neck to examine her.
Noticing that Luxianbei had awakened, Jumeng asked with concern, tinged with a bit of resentment, “You silly thing, are you alright?”
“Stinky sister? What are you doing up here?” Luxianbei asked, puzzled.
“You have the nerve to ask!” Jumeng rolled her eyes, “You were yelling heart-wrenchingly upstairs as if a hundred muscle men were ‘picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence’ with you; how could I not check on you?”
“What kind of picking chrysanthemums…” Luxianbei frowned slightly, “Is that really a polite way to refer to Mr. Tao Qian?”
After a brief pause, she suddenly raised her head and looked straight into Jumeng’s eyes, saying, “Stinky sister, I just found a segment in the Great Serpent God’s memories where He merged the God Realm with the bamboo slips, and the situation seems a bit off…”
Jumeng, who was about to say something with her lips slightly parted, frowned upon hearing this and asked, “Oh? What’s off about it?”
“Um…” Luxianbei recalled briefly, “It’s probably like this: after the Great Serpent God completed the fusion…”
“……”
After a few minutes, Luxianbei detailed to Jumeng everything she experienced while accessing the Great Serpent God’s memories.
Upon hearing this, Jumeng propped her chin with one hand, pondered for a moment, then pouted, “I think I roughly understand what’s going on now!”
“The master of the God Realm is indeed the controller of the God Realm, but the residents within that realm are an inseparable part of it.”
“This means, when you want to embed the God Realm onto a certain item during the fusion process, your authority will inevitably temporarily connect to the God Realm, which will be influenced by the emotions, memories, and other factors of the residents within; this is an unavoidable process.” Jumeng explained seriously.
Although she usually wasn’t serious, she seemed incredibly reliable in such moments.
“An unavoidable process?” Luxianbei exclaimed, “So you mean, to complete the Ling Tai Purification and merge with the God Realm prototype, I also have to go through a similar process?”
“Exactly!” Jumeng nodded, “In this process, your role and that long worm’s will likely serve as a kind of transit station.”
Upon hearing Jumeng mention the term “transit station,” Luxianbei understood her point.
“I get it now. Simply put, shifting the God Realm originally anchored to the projection of Huacheng into the Ling Tai Purification is like transferring a massive file from one computer to another without an internet connection…”
“What I need to do is to act as the USB or external hard drive in that file transfer process, right?”
Jumeng thought for a moment and nodded, “Yes! That’s about the gist of it!”
“Hey, you have to think carefully; during this process, there’s a high chance you’ll be overwhelmed, leading to a failed transfer and causing immeasurable consequences.”
Like, the God Realm prototype crashing into Huacheng, causing a disaster as horrific as last time, or even worse? Luxianbei pondered.
“After all, that’s equivalent to the lives of every citizen of a medium-sized city—the emotions, joys, sorrows, and myriad lives of millions.” Jumeng explained, “I advise against rashly trying this.”
That level of mental pressure, I might not be able to withstand… Jumeng added in her mind.
Luxianbei, “……”
After pondering for a while, she nodded and said, “I understand; don’t worry, you still don’t know me? Before I’m completely certain, I won’t undertake anything that could cost me my life.”
“Let’s hope that’s the case!” Jumeng shrugged; after a moment of silence, she softly added, “Anyway, I’ll keep a close watch on you…”
She was well aware that Luxianbei cherished her life dearly and wouldn’t recklessly put herself in danger. However, once she truly decided to take a risky path, it would undoubtedly be a d*ath-defying gamble.
Just like it was back in the Peach Source. Jumeng thought.
Yuanbao Pigeon
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Fell ill after eating some sketchy hot pot; took a day’s leave.
The Yuanbao Pigeon belongs to the American King Pigeon (Exhibition Type), which is a type of fancy pigeon. With a round chest like a ball, it is wide and sturdy, walking steadily, and isn’t good at flying. It can be raised in the backyard like a chicken. A pair of good Yuanbao Pigeons should have pure, uniform feather colors and be in good spirits. From a distance, they resemble a “yuanbao” in a V shape, holding their chests up and heads high, with short tails raised. @@
