But!
But!
Zulal’s inner conflict reached an extre, and the hand on his shoulder grew heavier and heavier until, eventually, Zulal still managed to hold back.
After all, his opponent was too strong, and even if he didn’t hold back, what could he do?
Zulal sighed in his heart, his gaze returning to a calm composure. However, within the depths of his heart, a great anger was already ablaze.
All the subsequent changes fell within Long Yi’s expectations and his control. He was not very keen on Zulal rushing in; should he eliminate him, he would definitely lose a pair of eyes and ears around Elma. However, if he refrained from killing him, it would not be consistent with his usual image. Now that Zulal had withdrawn, that was probably the best conclusion.
Following this incident, the discussions around them died down considerably. This allowed Long Yi to work more peacefully. It took about half a day, but Long Yi adjusted all the equipnt once more. After the adjustnts, he approached Elma.
"The upgrade of the equipnt is complete, and we can start at any ti," Long Yi said.
Elma had watched from the beginning to the end and found nothing inappropriate. Zulal, too, watched intently, fixated on Long Yi’s every move, but he likewise noticed nothing amiss.
Could it really have been overthinking?
"Then, let’s begin now," Elma said.
"You’re not going to clear the place?" Long Yi glanced around at the crowd of scientists and researchers who waited with wide eyes for a miracle.
"I want them to stay and witness my rebirth, and also to learn more advanced technology from you," Elma said.
"Fine, I don’t mind such things, as long as you’re willing," Long Yi was quite easy-going. Although he had tampered with these devices, he genuinely didn’t believe that those so-called scientists could detect it!
The people who had been closely watching all moved far away now, observing from a distance as Elma took off his voluminous robe, revealing his completely crystallized body.
"The process is similar to before, first I will separate your soul, while simultaneously using this device to analyze your body," Long Yi explained.
Elma nodded, stepping into the largest device. His crystal body shattered quickly, leaving only the Crystal Core. Long Yi took the Crystal Core out and placed it within the soul container. Elma’s soul was then extracted from the Crystal Core. anwhile, the souls of the several young people who had just been erased also suddenly appeared, now empty souls. Like Female Demons, souls could plunder and devour one another, and upon touching those young people’s souls, Elma’s soul imdiately absorbed them all. This ti, without any replenishnt of energy, Elma felt his own soul’s power surge like never before!
Long Yi was not idle at this ti. The Array hidden in the soul container had already silently begun its work, starting to examine Ailma’s mories. Long Yi’s ultimate goal for coming here was to acquire the keys to the Teleportation Gates hidden by Elma or the mories of Landers. As long as he obtained one of these, Long Yi could imdiately declare the battle over. Why else would he have let Elma live until now if not for fear of destroying sothing valuable?
It was for this reason that Long Yi had carefully laid this trap, aid at ticulously examining Elma’s mories. But what truly startled Long Yi was that there was nothing in Elma’s mories about the Teleportation Array keys or the mories of Landers.
When Long Yi delved deeper, he discovered that Elma’s mory was missing! And this loss was just like that of Landers’ mory loss!
Elma, the old fox, had clearly made preparations long ago. He had hidden his mories sowhere else! As for where, he had set up a ward in his mories that would alert him the mont anyone tried to access them!
Seeing Elma’s body nearly fully analyzed, Long Yi knew his first plan had not succeeded. His hopes were now pinned on his second plan.
In the cultivation tank, Elma’s body slowly took shape, very much like that person from before. But Elma’s body ford even faster, and, even within the tank, it was continually emanating fluctuations of Mana.
Elma, currently inside the soul container, was paying attention to the developnts of his new body, having no idea that Long Yi had already scoured his mory once.
This was, in fact, much like a magic show, where the magician uses various thods to divert your attention, and when it shifts sowhere else, he begins his sleight of hand. What Long Yi did was very much the sa.
Of course, Long Yi had completed all the steps, and what followed was the most important part.
Elma’s new body was fully ford, and Long Yi had set the body at a very young age, around sixteen or seventeen. This age setting surprised Elma, but also delighted him. Although he had temporarily regained his youth through Ai Lin’s rejuvenation magic, it was after all an illusion. But now, the Ascender had actually created a completely young new body for him!
This ant he would truly return to his pri!
No, with the help of the Ascender, he would beco even stronger!
At this point, Elma’s trust in the Ascender grew ever stronger, which was precisely due to the influence Long Yi had covertly exerted on his soul and mory. It was very difficult to outright change soone’s thinking, but it was quite easy to apply a little positive influence. Especially since Elma had decided to let himself help him regain his body, he had fundantally started to trust himself, and, with just a slight amplification of this trust, he would completely trust himself!
Long Yi felt he was straying further and further from the path Tilian had once taken, only this ti it was himself pitted against himself, which felt truly strange.
To make his body more powerful, Elma had prepared a larger piece of the Cosmic Stone for Long Yi. This ti, Long Yi did not place the Cosmic Stone fragnt on Elma’s forehead but on his chest. Long Yi’s reasoning was: The Cosmic Stone fragnt was too large, and if placed on the forehead it would occupy too much of your brain space. After rebirth, your brain would already be developed enough and would not need a Cosmic Stone fragnt to enhance its power.
When the Cosmic Stone fragnt was placed at the chest, the body without a soul had easily activated the Auffa Array, which even Elma in his soul state could not contain his joy.
Of course, this reasoning was not valid. The reason Long Yi placed the Cosmic Stone at the chest was that he could not control Elma as he had controlled the previous test subject. Such a sly and cunning Elma would surely notice sothing amiss, so he simply treated the Cosmic Stone fragnt as an energy auxiliary device, which allowed the magic hidden deep within the Cosmic Stone fragnt to be better concealed.
After all, all of this was to obtain Elma’s mories.
When all preparations were complete, Long Yi imdiately manipulated the soul container and began to inject Elma’s soul into the body.
"You will feel various discomforts, you will experience various illusions, and you might even have various nightmares. But do not worry, these are just illusions produced by the fusion of your soul with the body. Don’t resist too much, just relax. Of course, if you’re worried, I can also cast a sleep magic to rge your soul without you being aware, though it will be a bit slower," Long Yi said.
"No need, re illusions pose no threat to !" Elma’s soul said.
"Very well, then I will begin the fusion!
In the sink, Elma’s body suddenly opened its eyes, and Elma’s soul transford into two beams of light and entered his eyes.
At that mont, Elma could only feel his thoughts in extre chaos, severe pain accompanied by various illusions assaulted him. Most of these illusions related to Long Yi; so of him being slaughtered by Long Yi; so of Long Yi destroying the Ancient Mage Tower; others of Long Yi obtaining the precious key to the Teleportation Gate.
These illusions were extrely vivid, and Elma at the mont could not distinguish them at all!
"No! This is impossible! He can’t possibly have the key! I’ve clearly hidden my mories! I must find my mories! I need to check whether the key is still there!" Elma within the illusion roared.
The reason he was having such illusions was naturally due to Long Yi’s doing. Long Yi exactly wanted to use such a thod to make Elma recall the location of the key, but just as Elma was trying to rember, this act triggered the warning he had set in his own mory, and he almost instantly ca to his senses.
"Haha! Illusions! Indeed very realistic illusions! Too bad, you are still illusions!" Elma, still within the illusion, said in his own ntal space.
And Long Yi, who was guiding all this, knew that his initial conjecture was correct, and even Elma himself could not touch that mory carelessly.
But it didn’t matter, this was just reconfirming sothing he had already known.
The light faded, and Elma’s soul completely entered the body. His body convulsed involuntarily, as if in a nightmare. But soon, he cald down completely.
"I have exhausted too much power, I need to rest, so please do not co looking for when he wakes up tomorrow."
Having said that, Long Yi imdiately put the body back into Hayden mode, then the sowhat constrained youth left the place.(To be continued. If you like this work, Welco to Qidian (qidian) to vote for recomndation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian to read.)
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