Chapter 1145 - 575: Three Matters
At first, it was an egg-shaped capsule, with an embryo inside the size of a chicken egg, writhing in the warm orange-red pus, fibrous threads like capillaries covering its entire body, glimmering with a spider web-like golden light.
The egg capsule was placed in a sterile room, the light was a nearly temperatureless cold white, pouring through a massive rectangular window, as if a sacred yet cruel display case.
Then the shell of the egg was broken, the embryo inside the egg capsule fell into an amber ocean, and from that moment, it seemed as if someone pressed the fast-forward button. The embryo began to devour, absorb, divide, and replicate, growing strong in an endless ocean of nutrients, developing into a shape not yet discernible, resembling a certain kind of soft-bodied creature.
As this mass of flesh gradually sank to the seabed, it quickly found its new shell.
It was a human-shaped skeleton, cast and molded from a lump of mirror-like liquid metal under the precise control of magnetism. Formed into distinct vertebrae joints like an elegant mechanical snake, rib bones spreading open like antlered branches of flowers, protecting an empty chest cavity, slender finger bones slightly curved, as if yearning for a touch from the void.
As the first ray of light pierced the amber ocean, refracted down by the golden fibers on the flesh, the skeleton’s thousands of precise components also reflected a shimmering silver light. Thus the flesh surged forward, at the moment when flesh touched the bone, when the body touched the shell, a miracle began to unfold.
Pale golden fibers seemed to gain life, slowly and persistently climbing upwards from the base of the spine, merging with the silver alloy. They were like the root systems of plants, or the complex neural network within the human body, extending, branching, winding along the crevices of the bones, strand by strand constructing the texture and contours of muscle. There was not the slightest violence or abruptness, but like a time-lapse photograph of a flower blooming, filled with eerie vitality.
Meanwhile, the surrounding amber ocean also gathered like a mother’s body embracing a fetus, the color becoming richer and deeper, transforming from semi-transparent amber into orange-red pus, then coagulating into fresh red blood plasma.
Like a coating, like a placenta, like a layer of blood, layer after layer, layer upon layer, forming a mass like blooming rose petals, compressing tightly into a budding bloom. Binding flesh and body, body and shell tightly in the blood skeleton, transforming into a human form.
Then, the person opened their eyes, like bubbles suddenly surfacing, a pair of bright yellow eyeballs rolling out from the empty eye sockets, with blood-colored shadows reflected in the pupils.
Who am I?
Chen Xuantian opened his eyes, floating on the emerald elixir, gazing at the ceiling of the bathroom veiled in steaming mist, as if staring into an empty void.
Then he slowly extended his hand, letting the viscous drops drip onto his eyeball without blinking, only staring at this brand-new shell, lost in a near-death hallucination.
Hmm, the body has been replaced, or rather seized, a freshly minted, identical new wetware. It’s exactly the same even down to the tonnage, so much so that even the ten years of fat he’s accumulated before going under has been perfectly replicated one-to-one, which is quite ridiculous...
And just like what was seen earlier, the body grew instantly, but body seizing and reincarnation is equivalent to data copying. Intelligence, memory, experience, emotions, all have to be downloaded from the cloud. So by the time he gradually regained his senses and realized he was a person, not a piece of meat, he had already soaked in the treatment pool for about seven days.
Yes, the treatment pool, this ship even has the company’s treatment facilities, specifically for repairing wetware Dao Bodies.
However, since Chen Xuantian was so severely injured previously, with his potential drained and full of hidden dangers, the company couldn’t be bothered with fine work, and decided not to repair or cure, just replace!
And so they directly provided Chen Xuantian with a new wetware, perfectly restoring his original form, even shaving his hair. As for his original body, it naturally became consumable, with all the body fat and muscle dissolved into that amber solution, absorbed as consumable.
So waking up like this, even his Cultivation Qi Power was fully replenished, if he was an utterly ignorant earthling, he might really not realize he had reincarnated, and probably think he was just treated and healed...
And now, the treatment pool has been filled with Elixir Liquid, infused with Immortal Soup and Elixir, with Daoist energy so dense that it doesn’t require you to actively breathe it in as it would automatically flow into your meridians and lungs. Every day palace attendant maidens come to give him an essential oil massage from head to toe, feeding him elixirs and medicine, serving delicacies from the mountains and the sea, extremely attentive. After calculating through a killing disaster, he seems to have gained another ten pounds...
Unfortunately, a few days ago during the data transfer, Chen Xuantian’s side effects hadn’t cleared, and his intellect was at a very low state, so he can’t remember too many details. Today he’s recovered, originally planning to take the opportunity to enjoy the Immortal Fate, but they directly pulled him out of the pool, wiped him clean, put on a set of clean clothes, and brought him to meet the master.
"Do you recognize me?"
Chen Xuantian also looked towards the gauze curtain, and the woman asking the question appeared quite ordinary, not unattractive, just seemingly having just woken up, not yet having groomed or dressed up.
Upon closer inspection, the foundation of the palace person was naturally impeccable, with an egg-shaped face, distant mountain brows, slender phoenix eyes with upward-curving outer corners, a nose bridge delicate and graceful, full lips with naturally upright peaks, appearing moist without lipstick, the complexion of the neck was snowy white, further highlighting the long neck and smooth shoulder blades warm as warm jade.