Chapter 1291 - 627: Creatures in the Pond (Part 2)
It’s not an illusion, the kid’s face looks so weathered, just like a damn adult.
The kid gave a look, indicating for Chen Xuantian to throw him against the door.
Chen Xuantian was a bit unsure,
"Are you serious about this?"
The kid urged him to hurry up!
Chen Xuantian shrugged and pitched the kid against the door... hmm? He actually went through?
Whoa, what the hell!? The kid really got thrown over the door!?
"...Wait! No, I haven’t gotten through yet! Hey! I haven’t gotten through yet!"
Chen Xuantian banged on the door, getting bounced back.
What the hell?? What’s going on now??
"Clang!" "Bang!"
Then Xuan Du sent back a lightning strike, dragging back a lump of iron.
"That’s her, elder brother."
"What? What do you mean that’s her?"
A befuddled Chen Xuantian moved his dazed gaze from the door to the lump of iron. It looked like a gigantic trigger-style sea mine, a black metallic sphere as huge as a train’s engine, its shell embedded with synapse-like metal rods and broken infusion lines...
"That’s the Yu Zao."
As Xuan Du spoke, he pried it open with his available hand, "Boom!" tearing open the lump of iron, just like cracking open a coconut or prying open an oyster.
A pungent stench struck immediately, smelling like a mix of seafood, vegetable leaves, and rotten eggs in kitchen waste. Inside the coconut shell was layers upon layers of steel, iron, colloidal resin, metal lines, electrolyte biomass fluid.
And finally, the core of the coconut, looked like a sea cucumber and sea urchin freshly cut open, mixed with brain, spinal cord, intestines, and other visceral organs which oozed with tissue fluid, gushing out onto the ground.
"This wha..."
Chen Xuantian was stunned, his eyebrows raising high,
"Ah, this—this is Yu Zao???"
Xuan Du knew his elder brother was a bit senile now, patiently explained,
"Yes, the Heavenly Demon from Taiyin Palace, the Taiyin Demon Lord, that’s her. She’s the true form of the Outer Heaven Demon from the Immortal Palace clan.
Brother, you’ve told me before, these Heavenly Demons’ true forms in Outer Heaven might once have been similar to humans. However, the Demon Clan seems weaker, and due to the limitations of their physical bodies, there’s no means for cultivation. So the Demon Clan has completely embarked on the academic research path.
With the development of the Demon Clan, they’ve studied and crafted various advanced art techniques, capable of maneuvering Flying Boats, traversing the Void, exploring celestial bodies. Yet the limitations of their frail physical bodies forever constrained the development of the Demon Clan.
Thus, they eventually crafted various functional Puppets, using the Primordial Spirit Technique to seize and control them. This Puppet is the ’brain’ of the Heavenly Demon in Taiji Heaven."
"No, no, you can save these bits of background knowledge for later, isn’t she already decayed?"
"It’s alright. These things are like illusionary embodiments, the Immortal Palace can boil up tens of tons. We killed her countless times, she not only remembers clearly but secretly enjoys it. Ah, these demon clans are hopeless... here."
Xuan Du reached in, grabbed the brain, and handed it to Chen Xuantian,
"Ask away."
"Ask..."
Chen Xuantian frowned and accepted the brain, soft and slippery like tofu...
"Hey? Hey? Is this Yu Zao?"
Xuan Du squinted,
"Use the Primordial Spirit Method, brother."
"Oh, oh, cough, I know."
Then Chen Xuantian inserted his fingers into the warm, slick brain matter, trying to explore with the Divine Sect’s Primordial Spirit Technique. Instantly, lights and shades flashed in his mind, myriad scenes reminiscent of running lanterns, quickly gleaning a large amount of information.
Unlike those attack and defense-enhancing Immortal Venerable level watchdogs previously, the Yu Zao model is purely intelligence-enhancing, to the point where apart from the brain and basic nutrition supply system, nothing else is enhanced, having no body, purely installed inside the brain jar.
Well, saying intelligence-enhancing isn’t quite right, to be precise, it enhances memory. Like a human hard drive, storing not only massive company internal data but also detailed information and reports from all over under the control of the Immortal Palace inside Yu Zao’s brain.
And the memory span even extends as far back as the Demon Clan generations before the foundation of the Human Immortal Palace. Just from the ordering in the memory bank, they’ve got over two hundred sequences stored, which converted to the Mortal World is twelve thousand years so far...
However, it’s regrettable that these memories evidently upload to the cloud in real-time, updating and archiving every few sequences, the brain in front now contains only the current sequence of data, previous memories would need authorization and a connection application with the company’s server to access.
Seems her role as general manager is actually that of a monitoring hard drive, low power consumption, low cost, high stability, long lifespan, uninterrupted work for 200*60*365*24 hours, truly the company’s most loyal and cost-effective watchdog...
"How’s it going, how’s it going?"
"Tsk, stop rushing... I roughly understand, need to think..."
"But the Immortal Palace is fighting back."
"That’s why I said take it easy, the Immortal Palace has no ships on this plane."
Fiddling with Yu Zao’s brain, Chen Xuantian finally gained some clarity.
Why Lingxu, cowardly as he is, would betray and surrender to everyone initially, now wants to flee desperately. Whereas before he claimed there were companies everywhere in the sky, now wants to fly with the Cloud Platform, so where exactly is he headed?
But now Chen Xuantian has figured it out. Correct, Lingxu’s decision-making is actually quite predictable because this guy doesn’t have personal preferences, you can’t even say his brain is fried. His ability to disown kin entirely stems from being overly rational, making decisions most beneficial to himself based on the actual situation.