Sage t up with the other mbers of the new Tiankong Clan that were on the premises, but most of them were not around. Funnily enough, Ruanfu had taken Wanqian Lei along with her and gone to stay at the Thundercloud Sect. Sage could only chuckle at her focused pursuit of Manji. He had no idea why shed chase after an old man, but he knew hed be congratulating Manji eventually. On second thought, Ill be congratulating Ruanfu and apologizing to Manji.
Wan Ling returned right on schedule and he suffered under her scathing stare for quite a while before she just laughed at him and had him bring out many things from the Inner World. He was the ultimate gatekeeper for that world, so now that he was back she put him to work. Many thousands of Dragoons were brought out, and a few hundred Cultivators were sent in. Sage had no idea where Wan Ling got them from, nor did he know why she chose to trust them, but he just accepted her orders and sent them inside. The continents on the Inner World were quite far apart from each other, so the worst they could do was wipe out part of the Inner World before he noticed. The continent with all the cultivators on it had been going for hundreds of years without his supervision, so it should be just fine without him.
Later, Wan Ling told him that those people sent to the Inner World were from the Prosperity Company and were so of her most trusted subordinates. It was obvious even to her that overseeing a whole planet was no small task, and Sage was too preoccupied with his own matters to handle it. So, instead she was taking a business like approach to it. Why run the planet when you can just let the natives do all the work and make money from them. After so much ti had passed and with the inclusion of so many Heavenly Materials, they had no idea what sorts of plants or ores might be present on that world, so why not let the locals figure it out?
Sage imdiately agreed with her. Having a whole world under his control was quite a great feeling, but when it ca down to it, he was only one man. A planet was just too vast a space, at least at his current level of power. Even if he spent all his ti observing it, because of the ti dilation he still wouldnt be able to track everything that was going on. It was a much better idea to set up a large business to make money and collect resources, then he would just stop by and collect them every so often. Just like so alien ruler stopping by to collect tribute.
Hmm, maybe thats not so great a comparison. Since I dont want to face a rebellion, having a business is definitely the best choice.
With those matters handled, he spent so ti with Wan Ling, eating als and going on a few walks. He was definitely very inexperienced at this sort of thing, but it wasnt like he hadnt seen hundreds of movies long ago. Even if the majority of them werent romantic, more than a few were and while he knew they were fictional, they couldnt be all wrong.
After spending a few weeks on the outside, sending supplies in and resources out of the Inner World, he finally bid Wan Ling farewell once more and went back into seclusion. Since he shouldnt be gone as long, he had her hide the ring in a much less extre location, a drawer in her own room. Sage disappeared from the room and she pushed a hairbrush and pincushion against it, pressing it back deep into the drawer before sliding it closed.
Inside the Universe Ring.
The Dragoons did a good job clearing the place up, making it look like a set of buildings with parks around them, rather than a jungle overtaking civilization. Paths had been cleared between the towers and the plants had been thinned into less of an overgrown state. The central tower was no longer a destroyed ruin and brought back to working condition. Sage greeted the leader of this new Dragoon unit and let him carry on running the place, sending personnel and supplies back and forth with the Inner World a few tis to settle a permanent team here rather than the random group he pulled over.
Then he moved into his formation protected cultivation room and crossed his legs. He took a few monts to ready himself for the next step and then imdiately shook his head and resisted the urge to palm his face. He stood back up and went back outside, heading into the jungle and moving to a spot as far from the towers as possible. Then with a large infusion of energy, the light suddenly dimd. Many trees suddenly snapped and the ground rumbled. A gigantic figure appeared in front of him.
Eight huge and crooked towers appeared, with a large mass suspended between them. Sage looked up at the shiny carapace from below and he smiled, Still as impressive as before.
The giant creature swiveled its body and turned its many eyes down towards him and released a loud squeak. Without the Hearts Tongue he couldnt understand what it was saying, but at the sa ti, after they had undergone Soul Resonance, he knew all there was to know about this massive Swamp Genesis Spider. Unlike Elder Manji, this large spider had mostly been alone its whole life and so it was quite simple. That fact along with them having already shared all their mories was the only reason that Sage dared to take his next action.
Sage used Cosmic Traction and leapt through the sky, landing on top of the Spiders large head and taking a seat. Then he carefully started creating Qi Feeding pellets and passing them to the Swamp Genesis Spider. Because of its massive size it took a few hours before the rge technique successfully established a link between them. Then the giant spider used the towers to anchor its silk and started to weave a giant ball.
Usually, Sage would hide himself in a cultivation room covered in defensive formations for this sort of thing, but the Swamp Genesis Spider was just too large. He wasnt sure whether or not this would work the way he wanted it to, but there was no way to tell until after he tried. Sage used the rge technique of the True Immortal Index once again, but this ti he used the full and complete version. Not a link, but a true combination. Just like hed done many tis in the past, he combined with a new creature.
With the exception of the Silver Liberator Butterfly, and Twin Ringed Soul Serpent, under dire circumstances, he had always chosen to rge with newborn creatures. He would use the Mutate technique to combine them with another beast and then rge with the new hatchling. Even if it was jarring to rge minds with a newborn, it was still much easier than with a fully grown creature. Hed also mostly chosen to rge with Spirit Animals and Spirit Insects for a similar reason. Insects were naturally low in intelligence and their personalities were basically nonexistent. It was far easier to combine two minds if one of them was little more than an organic robot.
The Swamp Genesis Spider broke both of those two guidelines. Not only was it not newly born, but it was also a Demonic Insect with intelligence of its own. Sage knew this was going to be a bit more of a struggle than usual, but it was finally ti for him to test if his hypothesis about Soul Resonance would hold true. He believed that since theyd already shared all their mories and knew all there was to know about one another, that when their minds were fully combined it would be a gentle transition.
On the other hand, even if he wasnt right he still had the Silver Liberator Butterfly from his Ancestor. If he found himself turning schizophrenic or gaining multiple personalities, he could just force another tamorphosis and take control of them once more. He did not wish to beco a rampaging beast any longer.
Shoot, I already did it a second ti, didnt I? At least the body count was lower the second ti.
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