Free Web NovelChapter 376: Chapter 286: Unexpected Gain (Part 2)
The King of Mu would definitely sense the egg. When he didn’t sense its presence on the headless body, he would naturally suspect it was a decoy.
He would believe the Su Ze with the egg was the real one.
Su Ze only needed to observe the King of Mu’s actions to determine which of his two bodies had the egg.
His plan was to abandon the body parasitized by the egg. This meant giving up half of his body and soul, which would be a devastating blow to him.
But he had no choice. To eliminate the threat of the egg, he needed the resolve to make a painful sacrifice.
When the King of Mu chose to pursue the Su Ze in the left corridor, the Su Ze in the right corridor quietly slipped away. He transformed to look like Feng Bqing, scaring off all the maids and servants in the imperial palace and driving away all the guards.
He did this for two reasons. First, to prevent these people from getting caught in the crossfire. Second, to show his face so they would see his current appearance, allowing him to frame Feng Bqing.
Then, after his other body self-destructed, he returned here.
Su Ze looked at his headless doppelganger... ’Wait, it has a head now. I should call it Bald Su Ze.’
’I can’t quite figure it out,’ Su Ze mused. ’The same face looks so sunny and handsome on me, but why does it look so sinister after being possessed by that old alien bastard, the Pope? He doesn’t look like a good guy at all.’
’No wonder people say your face reflects your heart. Only a soul with inner beauty like mine deserves this handsome face.’
Bald Su Ze stood there quietly. Who would have thought that this seemingly unremarkable Butterfly Stage physical body was actually crammed with the consciousnesses of two Alien Divine Spirits?
"Actually, there’s no need for you two to be so polite with each other. It’s meaningless," Su Ze said. "Pope, I’m very curious. Just how many people have you parasitized? Hundreds? Or thousands, tens of thousands? Can you even keep count?"
Bald Su Ze replied expressionlessly, "I have many puppets. Sooner or later, you will become one of them—and my most cherished one at that."
Su Ze shrugged. "What I really want to ask is, does your main body know about the experiences of these puppets?"
Normally, a main body would definitely know what its clones experience, and this kind of parasitism should be similar. But the Pope’s Blood and Flesh Parasite was special. He had parasitized so many people that no one knew how many had been replaced by the Pope.
This kind of parasitism, with virtually no upper limit on numbers, must have its own restrictions.
For instance, an inability to share experiences and memories in real time. The actions of each puppet are determined by the independent thoughts of the Sub-Soul within the host.
Otherwise, no matter how powerful the Pope was, he couldn’t simultaneously control thousands upon thousands of puppets. These puppets were scattered all over the world, separated by vast distances. Su Ze believed that even a legendary expert as strong as the Pope couldn’t possibly possess enough Spiritual Power to control countless puppets from so far away, all while having them play various roles.
Bald Su Ze didn’t answer directly. Instead, he said, "When he needs to know, he’ll know."
’When he needs to know...’ Su Ze guessed that perhaps the Pope periodically received all the puppets’ memories in a single batch.
Moreover, Su Ze noticed that Bald Su Ze used "he," not "I." This indicated that the Pope’s Sub-Soul subconsciously differentiated itself from the Pope’s main body, viewing them as two separate individuals. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
This was a sign that the Sub-Soul had an independent consciousness.
In other words, the Pope’s main body was likely still unaware of what had happened here.
Su Ze now had a clear picture. Whether or not the Pope knew what happened here would determine his next course of action.
Having gotten the answer he wanted, Su Ze wasted no more words. He walked over to Mr. Ya, snapped his fingers, and uttered a single word: "Boom!"
The next instant, an energy powerful enough to destroy everything erupted from within Bald Su Ze’s body!
This explosion was even more terrifying and violent than the last one. freewebnovel.cσ๓
A mushroom cloud soared into the sky. The four-hundred-year-old Muguo Imperial Palace was instantly razed to the ground, completely vanishing from the world.
The earth trembled, the ground cracking and collapsing...
Mr. Ya activated his "Invincibility" skill, sheltering himself and Su Ze within its protection.
After he became an Overlord, his Invincibility skill had been enhanced and could now envelop those around him.
The one-second invincibility effect helped Su Ze and Mr. Ya withstand the most violent wave of the explosion.
Dust and smoke filled the air, blotting out the sky and sun. It would be a long time before it all dissipated.
Su Ze looked up at the sky. Something was falling from above.
He once again created a doppelganger, took a piece of jade from his Storage Ring, and tossed it to the doppelganger.
Su Ze’s doppelganger raised a hand and shot out a Gravity Chain, swiftly pulling the falling object in front of it. It was another head—one of Su Ze’s heads, completely bald.
That’s right. This second explosion was also a self-destruction initiated by a "Self-Destructive Seed" produced by the Desperate Flower.
That was why this head was preserved again.
Su Ze had a total of three Self-Destructive Seeds. He had harvested the first one when he initially obtained the wondrous item, the Desperate Flower. He had then absorbed that Self-Destructive Seed into his body to serve as a trump card, but he’d never had a chance to use it.
The second Self-Destructive Seed grew when the Desperate Flower was affected by accelerating energy during a trial in the Divine Dice. After discovering it, Su Ze picked the seed to keep as a spare.
The third Self-Destructive Seed appeared in the spaceship’s Lighting Room. The Desperate Flower was exposed to light, upgrading from a fourth-tier wondrous item to a fifth-tier one, and it grew another Self-Destructive Seed in the process.
