Chapter 1414: Transformation (2/2)
“What’s the significance behind this?” She asked while looking at the ginsengs growing in their heads.
“It means that success is near.” Li Qiye spoke with certainty: “If they can become like us with three souls and seven spirits — a true fate, then it would be a perfect transformation.”
He gazed towards the distance and continued: “I don’t know whether they can be successful or not and I might not be able to see it, but that day will surely come.”
“What day?” She was puzzled.
He smiled in response: “Heaven Spirit’s disaster or blessing, hard to say.”
“What kind of disaster?” She grew curious as she never heard about this in the past.
He shook his head: “You don’t need to know. You will follow me in the future, so you won’t see it either.”
“Bah, who wants to go with you!” She grumpily glared at him.
Li Qiye leisurely smiled and created a fiery string from his cauldron in order to st.i.tch up the opened skulls.
His actions so far have incited the wrath of the villagers. They howled and wanted to attack him, but Li Qiye’s s.p.a.ce Quarantine rendered them unable to do so. Even if he was only an inch away from them, their attacks could only hit thin air.
After the st.i.tching job was finished, not even a mark could be seen on the skulls. It was as if nothing had happened.
“You deviant, don’t tell me you do this quite often?” She couldn’t help but ask after seeing his skillful method.
“You’re right, the number of those I have dissected might not reach one million, but it would be at least eight hundred thousand.” He grinned.
“Ugh!” She made a disgusted face and exclaimed: “Stay away from me, I’m sure you must have a perverted mindset!”
Li Qiye laughed and let go of the new withered and village head: “Sorry for the trouble, forgive me. I’ll be taking my leave now.”
Xiaoxiao had no words for his current att.i.tude. Being respectful after opening their skulls — this was simply too unreasonable.
Li Qiye coolly left before the withered could react. Even though Xiaoxiao told him to stay away, she quickly gave chase after him.
The villagers were extremely excited to see that the duo was fine despite their vacant stares and quickly took them inside the village.
Xiaoxiao and Li Qiye walked on. Along the way, they saw many villages and even small towns. They were all created and occupied by the withered.
Moreover, these beings more or less inherited some memories, instincts, and even merit laws from their hosts. Because of this, powerful withered presided over the positions of the village heads and town lords.
As they moved forward, Xiaoxiao even saw an extremely powerful town lord with the power of a Virtuous Paragon. This was because the host used to be an amazing G.o.d-Monarch!
After seeing this withered, she commented: “Many experts died in the Divine Tree Ridge. I heard even G.o.dkings died here. If all of them become withered and gather, wouldn’t that be quite a frightening force?”
“The strength of their former bodies isn’t why they’re scary. Them being able to rely on the ridge itself is the most powerful force.” Li Qiye flatly responded: “In fact, the withered aren’t evil, they just want to survive. Even though they don’t mingle with other creatures and even deny cultivators from integrating with them, they do not attack people under ordinary circ.u.mstances. The scary beings are the treecorpses. They are even stronger than the withered and have greater numbers as well.”
“Treecorpses? Aren’t they the offspring of the withered? How come this failed generation doesn’t live together with their parents?” She was a bit stunned.
“No, they do not live together.” Li Qiye gently shook his head: “If a withered is a near-dead, then the treecorpses are truly dead beings! The dead and the near-dead won’t live together, so the treecorpses stay together far away from the withered.”
She asked: “How come we haven’t seen any yet?”
“No rush, we’ll see them soon.” He chuckled: “At that point, you will see many, many treecorpses! If you go close to them, they will attack you first.”