novelraw Chapter 409 - 320: New Old Deng—Why Is There Only Half a Body?
Chapter 409 - 320: New Old Deng—Why Is There Only Half a Body?
"Oh, thank you, Mom, love you, Mom. Xue Lingshu, quickly say thank you to Grandma!" Xue Dili immediately changed his expression and said to Little Tree Lady inside the Consciousness Space.
"Thank you, Grandma!" Little Tree Lady seemed unaware of who Grandma was, but she decisively followed Xue Dili’s words and said it directly.
The Earth Consciousness seemed to hum lightly and then ignored them, falling into slumber once more.
Xue Dili was still overjoyed as he put away the lower body. Its nutritional value was extremely high.
Once crushed, it might become the best fertilizer for Little Tree Lady.
However, Xue Dili was cautious and did not feed it directly. After all, this was the Apostle’s lower body, and who knows what strange things it might contain. If he were to rashly feed it to Little Tree Lady, and she got possessed and ended up killing her father without regret, Xue Dili would truly have nowhere to cry.
After all, they’re now father and daughter, and half of her cells and energy belong to Xue Dili.
Although how his genes perfectly fused with this primitive cell-like entity of Little Tree Lady would be a dazzling topic for any biologist.
But the Cursed Blood responded this way; this tree is a derivative of Xue Dili from both a biological and spiritual perspective, essentially his descendant.
Magic, isn’t it fascinating?
Xue Dili looked at the class schedule. The next class was "Medical Experiments."
That’s fortunate. Lab classes are his strong suit. While other medical students only get to touch a dummy once a month, Xue Dili, through Cursed Blood, has explored the physiological structures of almost any creature to the point of mastery, to the extent that the heads of billions still hang over him.
If you count the bugs from the Super Iron Curtain, there might be over ten billion heads.
As a practitioner, his knowledge of medical and biological experiments surpasses the subjects he once studied.
And so, Xue Dili spent the day studying the Apostle’s lower body amidst the chirping of Little Tree Lady.
After a day’s research, he actually figured out a few things.
This lower body was still alive, even possessing some rudimentary thinking.
Even though it was severed, and even though the lower body had detached from the main body, the remaining section of the spine had started to generate thoughts and took on the structure of a brain.
The degree of vitality and regenerative ability left Xue Dili amazed. Perhaps if given some time, that section of the spine would gradually evolve into a brain, and then the Ninth Apostle would return.
"You can never underestimate your enemies," Xue Dili thought to himself.
Then, he used Dimension Slash to finely chop that section of the spine. To prevent it from coming back to life, Xue Dili treated that lower body very seriously, employing the Vertical Beheading Blade, Horizontal Beheading Blade, Splitting Beheading Blade, Explosive Beheading Blade...
Only after every cell of the entire lower body was thoroughly destroyed did Xue Dili breathe a sigh of relief.
Thinking it still wasn’t secure enough, he used intense fire to obliterate all the deceased cells, rendering them into remnants and ashes before he finally relaxed.
"This way, a lot of energy is lost," Mom reminded.
"Better safe than sorry. Even if it means losing more than half of the energy, it’s not a problem," Xue Dili said as he gathered the remaining ashes and remnants and crushed them thoroughly.
"Wow, Dad, you seem like a movie’s dismemberment maniac," Little Tree Lady joked, feeling that her old father was too ruthless, like an Apostle dismemberment machine.
"Since when do you watch movies?" Xue Dili asked curiously.
"Yesterday, Big Sister Little Dragon Lady and Big Sister Fafnir took me to watch some story about a killer. Dad, you look just like that dismemberment maniac from the movie," Little Tree Lady continued.
"Wait, you can watch TV?" Xue Dili asked, puzzled.
Yesterday, he had indeed let Little Dragon Lady and Fafnir enter the Consciousness Space to entertain the child while he was off doing other things, without paying attention to the Consciousness Space.
He had fallen into a thinking trap, assuming Little Tree Lady couldn’t watch TV, which is why she kept bothering him. Had he known, he would’ve put on Ultraman for her.
Handling the ashes to make them into fertilizer, Xue Dili asked, "By the way, how did you watch it?"
Xue Dili looked at this tree, towering several thousand meters high. He didn’t know how she watched something so small as a phone.
"Place it in front of my seed, and I can see it," she replied.
Hearing his daughter’s request, Xue Dili twitched his mouth. He took out his phone and tuned it to "Ultraman Tiga," then went to the "Seed of the World," where he discovered there was already a wooden structure made into a phone stand. Just place the phone on it, and it would face the Seed of the World perfectly.
His little daughter seemed unexpectedly clever? Her hands-on skills were very strong, completely different from his slow-witted big daughter.
Xue Dili didn’t hesitate much and immediately started playing Ultraman.
But his daughter seemed dissatisfied, saying, "I also want to see that German something killer story from yesterday..."
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre?" Xue Dili tentatively asked.
"No, it’s not. I think it was called...German Killer! Yes, it’s called German Killer! I want to watch this, I just want to watch this!"
Xue Dili: "..."
Xue Dili checked; there really was such a movie, and its protagonist resembled a certain flunked art student...
Xue Dili: "..."
What on earth were Fafnir and Little Dragon Lady watching in private?
He really couldn’t hold it in; just moments ago, Little Tree Lady had said he was like that killer...
...
Finally, without joking with his daughter, Xue Dili successfully created the shimmering golden fertilizer after a series of cutting, burning, alchemy, and magic.
Moreover, he discovered another thing worth noting on the Apostle’s corpse.
The coordinates of the Ninth Apostle’s home star!
Xue Dili was stunned when he found this thing.
To go or not to go?
The home of the Ninth Apostle, Xue Dili was also shocked, especially after obtaining this coordinate, he was dumbfounded for a while.
But reason suppressed the adventurous mind, for tonight was a new session of the Mist Council. Xue Dili planned to explore the Apostle’s homeland after the Mist Council ended.
He only knew that the Ninth Apostle killed his home star’s World Consciousness and replaced it, turning his planet into a pasture capable of providing population and energy.
In fact, the Ninth Apostle’s attitude towards his home star was almost identical to that of Zeus in the past. If Zeus succeeded in completing Genesis, stealing the world’s scepter, he probably would have done exactly the same thing as the Ninth Apostle.
As for whether Zeus would plant trees upon discovering the Divine Tree?
He’d be willing to exterminate all of Greece to seize the world’s scepter, what else wouldn’t he do?
Who knows, he might fervently sow himself and procreate, hanging all his offspring upon the Divine Tree.
Xue Dili never overestimated Zeus’ morals because he simply had none.
Thus when the Ninth Apostle acted three points like Zeus, Xue Dili started to panic, adopting the most vicious means to deal with him.
...
While Xue Dili pondered over the Ninth Apostle, Little Tree Lady seemed to have stopped clamoring to watch the German Killer, but was instead focused on watching Ultraman.
And Xue Dili was deep in thought.
Returning home after school, the house was as it always was, Aunt cooking, Little Dragon Lady watching TV, Bai Ya and Siam studying plant cultivation and animal husbandry, respectively. They seemed to have found their own paths.
As for Fafnir, when she’s not in a frenzy, she’s always studying in the study, diligently trying to catch up on six years’ worth of school from middle to high within a month, like a senior high school student.
Having patted Little Dragon Lady’s head, ordered more professional books online for Bai Ya and Siam, and aided Fafnir in her studies, Xue Dili finally returned to the bedroom, preparing to enter the Mist Council.
...
Soon, his consciousness arrived at an unknown distance in the cosmos, still that world filled with mist, but this time, everyone’s faces were frighteningly somber.
"Nine Tavi is dead." The Sixth Apostle said, looking at the just-arrived Xue Dili. The god of the insect swarm spoke in a sinister tone.
"Is that so? How unfortunate." Xue Dili calmly replied.
The Sixth Apostle didn’t bother with Xue Dili’s consciousness anymore, seemingly just testing the waters, since it could be considered the Ninth Apostle’s major boss.