956: 942 956: 942 “Blood-God child?
Is it the one I’m thinking of?”
“Yes, it’s that Blood-God child from the supernatural novels.”
“Uh, quite fitting—I instantly knew what that thing was…”
Two worlds always find their points of resonance in the subtlest of places.
Since the “historical divergence point” was mainly the major event that occurred over fifty years ago, it was only normal that the older “immortality-seeking novel” would be born on schedule.
However, the turn of events far exceeded the author’s imagination, which led to his novel with supernatural elents becoming even more popular.
It’s just that the derivative works and copycats that followed didn’t catch on…
When Abnormal Ability Users were popping in and out of existence unpredictably, the soil for the flourishing of martial arts stories naturally disappeared.
Due to environntal factors, “Abnormal Ability novels” were quite popular, with protagonists possessing god-level Abilities rising to greatness…
But they were just entertaining for Ordinary People and far from reality.
After all, much “Knowledge” is itself toxic, and the existence of Secret Keepers is to prevent the “Contamination” from spilling over to the general public.
Before the full “release,” most of the “Extraordinary Books” that passed censorship were far from reality, and there were specialized censorship agencies worried that so people might cause trouble within them.
“…There’s really a Blood-God child?
And there’s not also a Blood-God scripture, is there?”
“It’s precisely because there’s sothing like that that this Path is jokingly referred to as the Blood-God child.
Don’t even think about making millions of Clones, but creating three or four or five or six is really nauseating.”
Actually, this ability is divided into “Voodoo Book” and “Curse Blood Seeds” parts.
The forr is a bizarre book that’s illegally distributed, with low-level contamination.
If you read and learn according to it, you’ll mysteriously gain so Abnormal Abilities…
and your behavior and thought patterns will increasingly resemble the author’s.
Clearly, this is a “Contamination Book,” a product of the Scholar Path, maliciously twisting the Reader, transforming them into the “ntal state” required by the author.
At this point, the practitioner would then plant the “Curse Blood Seeds”…
From a physical level, it’s a genetic-level transformation, making the subject increasingly similar to the practitioner.
The results show that, if all goes well after a transformation period of half a year to two or three years, the practitioner will receive a Clone that’s nearly identical to themselves in every aspect and can then control it through the previously planted “Curse Blood Seeds.”
He couldn’t make millions of Clones like the Blood-God child, with every victim becoming an Avatar; but he could produce several nearly identical “selves.”
“Mass-producing Clones?
Indeed, that’s a troubleso ability…”
It sounded evil, but appeared to be a very powerful capability.
“…But, is that it?” Lu Ping’an was surprised, was it just this?
“This ability is probably between fourth and sixth-tier, and that’s all under normal circumstances.”
Information only went so far, after all, this was just a “generic” ability.
In Lu Ping’an’s eyes, it sounded powerful, but not powerful enough…
If I really needed help, couldn’t I just pay to hire soone?
Why use a thod with such high risks to create Clones.
“These Clones are independent, right?”
“Ha, of course, you’ve noticed the biggest problem with this ability…
Even if all the ‘Clones’ are ‘you,’ what makes you think the other ‘yous’ would serve you?
Especially when it’s most likely a lifeti of labor without compensation.”
Various restrictive spells and abilities do exist, but completely binding an Intelligent creature is always prone to loopholes…
When a Life form faces lifelong enslavent, the power it can unleash is terrifying.
The worst outco would be death, which is better than a fate worse than death.
“Another interesting aspect of this ability is that no matter how strict the internal ‘rules’ are, there will always be loopholes, which then turns into a life-and-death struggle to cultivate the strongest creature.”
“…So, it’s very possible that the ‘Zhao Yan’ we see now, might not be the original Zhao Yan, right?”
“People involved with cults all use fake nas, being obsessed with nas is pointless…
but this possibility does indeed exist, and it’s not a small one.”
Lu Ping’an stroked his chin, the intelligence seed difficult to use; Zhao Yan’s Rule-level ability was certainly a transformation of this ability, or at least a mutation.
“His spirit must be quite unstable.”
“His attachnt to ‘self’ is extre, and his self-esteem is so strong it borders on the pathological…
It’s the kind of extre where a simple joke might lead him to wipe out soone’s entire family.”
“He trusts no one…
Given his background, it’s no wonder he betrayed his ‘ntor.’ Perhaps in his eyes, that person was not his ntor but rather a mortal enemy, the very cause of his current tortured state.”
“Multiple personality disorder is a possibility…
Judging from the feedback in the intelligence reports, his ntal state is worrying, at tis explosive and at others calm, capable of going berserk and attacking people at any mont.”
As intelligence from various sources was gathered to form his profile, Lu Ping’an beca more and more certain that he was dealing with not the forr version of Zhao Yan, but rather the successful outco of the Blood-God child’s backlash.
This made his ungrateful, vengeful nature all the more logical.
“Tsk, to find his clone in such a big city…”
Uncovering his ability also ant facing the new trouble it entailed; the team was sowhat distressed.
“No…
he most likely wouldn’t use the clone ability.”
Although it was a guess, Lu Ping’an spoke with certainty.
He felt that if that Zhao Yan was truly a ‘product’ of this ability, having the power to ‘create clones,’ he would definitely not use it again.
Did he fear creating another version of himself?
Did he not wish to beco a new cycle of reincarnation?
“So, what exactly did he evolve his core ability into…”
Zhao Yan was a Rule-level Newborn.
As a Newborn, his ‘rules’ couldn’t possibly be perfect – bound to have many issues, but it’s exactly because he was a ‘Newborn’ that there’s an extre lack of information about him, especially as he had a habit of silencing others.
Even during his Decree-level phase, there was a lack of eyewitness records.
“…we need to test.”
Through eyes that were omnipresent, even from tens of kiloters away, every move Zhao Yan made was completely captured and fed into Lu Ping’an’s ‘sight.’
“He has a terrible temper.”
“His emotional ups and downs are extre…
he’s practically insane.”
“He has a cleanliness fetish, extrely severe…
huh, he actually dislikes bloodstains?
Isn’t that his thing?”
“It seems he only objects to bloodstains made by others…”
Lu Ping’an was not in a hurry; he did not use any power against Zhao Yan, nor did he exhibit even the slightest hostility.
In fact, with the power currently at Lu Ping’an’s disposal, making Zhao Yan a wanted criminal would be all too easy.
But ‘deterrence’ only makes sense when you haven’t yet taken action.
If you truly corner him, it would likely result in a bloodbath, followed by his escape…
wouldn’t that be pointless?
Lurking in the shadows was Lu Ping’an’s greatest advantage.
Going all out carelessly would risk exposure, potentially leaving him shattered in one blow.
That would truly be a loss.
“…we still need a bit of probing, to stir the waters first.”
Musing over the situation, Lu Ping’an made his decision.
So, the next day’s front-page headline appeared.
“The Fate Lion Man from the Refugee Camp is ungrateful and thieving, discovered in An Nan Manor, fled after injuring two guards.
Mr.
An Nan offers a hefty bounty…”
In the photo, two injured and being comnded security guards were displayed, both honest employees from the Blood Feast.
And Lu Ping’an rely looked at the newspaper, checking that the key words “ungrateful,” “fleeing the city,” and “hefty bounty” were all present, before nodding in satisfaction.
“The bait is cast, now to see if he bites.”
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