Life Game In Other World
Chapter 431: ’Immortal’ Is Not Necessarily Human (Large - for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 431: Chapter 431: ’Immortal’ Is Not Necessarily Human (Large Chapter for Monthly Votes)

And as his Divine Sense seeped into the transparent test tube, He Ao distinctly felt a rather strong resistance.

Although Divine Sense meets different resistances when infiltrating various objects, the obstruction presented by this test tube was slightly more intense than He Ao had anticipated, many times stronger than that of ordinary materials.

He Ao carefully maneuvered his Divine Sense to break through the layers of resistance, getting increasingly closer to the liquid inside the test tube.

At this moment, some force within the test tube seemed to have sensed the relentless approach of the Divine Sense and began to boil over explosively.

These forces...

As his Divine Sense drew nearer to these forces, He Ao finally understood why they felt so familiar to him.

These powers, ’sealed’ inside the test tube, were ’Qi.’

The ’Qi’ of Martial Arts.

As He Ao’s Divine Sense penetrated the test tube, the ’Qi’ began to leap about frantically, swirling around the area where the Divine Sense was infiltrating.

The Divine Sense, being a higher-order and more concentrated force than ’Qi,’ caused an agitation due to its similar nature.

This also explained why the test tube posed such a strong resistance to the Divine Sense.

The test tube itself was crafted to contain ’Qi,’ and therefore, it could impede Divine Sense, which shared the same essence.

However, He Ao could distinctly feel that the ’Qi’ within the test tube differed from the ’Qi’ he had cultivated himself.

The most important distinction was that his own cultivated ’Qi’ was formless and insubstantial, whereas the ’Qi’ in the test tube had been solidified into liquid through some method.

Furthermore, the activity level of the ’Qi’ in the test tube was far higher than that of the ’Qi’ he had cultivated himself.

These ’Qi’ were likely not obtained through normal means.

He Ao carefully sensed the liquid composition within the test tube.

Although the liquid inside the test tube was exceptionally agitated, only one-third of it was fully reactive, while the remaining two-thirds showed no response to the Divine Sense.

This indicated that only one-third of the liquid in the test tube was ’Qi,’ and the remaining two-thirds were likely other substances.

And while the other two-thirds of the liquid were affected by the Divine Sense, the energy within was not weak and was extremely volatile. It seemed that the boiling ’Qi’ had harmonized the energy within these liquids, maintaining some sort of stability in the entire system.

The power of Martial Arts inherently has a harmonizing and balancing effect.

He Ao withdrew his Divine Sense, and the bubbling liquid within the test tube gradually calmed down.

It appeared that the creator of the liquid inside the test tube had used ’Qi’ as a solvent to ’dissolve’ some special Transcendent materials, thus creating this semi-transparent solution.

This method looked like something a scientific research institute would undertake.

In that instant, flashes of the Research Institute passed through He Ao’s mind.

Could the substances researched by the institute be related to this liquid?

Then why did they use living ’volunteers’ for experiments?

How did they acquire ’Qi’?

In some sense, ’Qi’ is a natural force refined by the human body and cannot be directly obtained from the environment.

And according to the information He Ao currently had at his disposal, Talent Sequences should not produce the energy known as ’Qi.’

It seemed the questions were only multiplying.

And what connection did this have with the ’Fountain of Youth’ in the system task?

He Ao gripped the test tube and struggled to stand up.

If Black Shadow dared to drink this liquid confidently, it indicated that the liquid was ’safe’ within a certain range.

Safety and controllability, and the fact that it could be offered to someone outside of the experimental project, proved that the experiment had achieved certain interim results.

He Ao took a deep breath, suppressing the thoughts at the bottom of his heart.

He still needed to untangle these threads one by one.

He looked up ahead.

At this moment, Ennie was still panting heavily as she cleaned the room.

Her cleaning was challenging because the blood she was dealing with was not quite like the blood she usually saw; it seemed to have some green substance mixed in, with fluorescent green within the crimson.

These green fluorescent particles frequently disturbed her thoughts, causing her to become confused intermittently as she worked.

Chaotic emotions would often flash through her mind.

Although she was always able to suppress these emotions quickly, they severely affected her efficiency in doing work.

"Let me do it."

He Ao pressed down on her mop and spoke softly.

Ennie glanced at her father, then at the scene on the ground.

"Dad, this blood seems a bit strange..."

She said to He Ao, her voice slow.

"It’s okay, that’s normal, let me handle it."

He Ao said with a soft chuckle.

Ennie, looking into her father’s confident eyes, hesitated for a moment, but still handed the mop over to him.

Her efficiency was too low.

"Step back some more, to the doorway of your room,"

He Ao instructed while holding the mop.

Ennie did not know why her father had given such an order, but she obediently retreated to the doorway of her room.

As she moved away from the bloodstains and bodies on the ground, the vague and hazy feeling in her mind gradually disappeared, and her consciousness quickly returned to clarity.

She glanced at her father’s figure, seeming to understand something.

"Dad," she asked with uncertainty, "is the part-time job you’re doing really legitimate?"

"What? Your dad would engage in illegitimate work?"

He Ao asked with a smile.

"There are, like being a gigolo..."

Ennie casually continued.

Then she suddenly realized something seemed wrong.

A lean but towering shadow cast over her.

He Ao calmly gazed at his daughter and raised his hand, "You seem to know quite a lot of ’extracurricular knowledge’?"

"Dad, I heard it from my classmates, from my classmates,"

Ennie instantly covered her head, shielding herself from her father’s impending reprimand, "Don’t hit the head, you’ll become stupid if you hit the head."

However, He Ao still mercilessly smacked her on the head through the gaps.

Ennie took a solid hit, and as she saw her father’s back, naturally stooped and haggard, she suddenly felt stunned.

She had seen photos of her father from his university days.

Her father had been handsome when he was young, and her mother was beautiful too – from her current appearance, it was clear that their genes were not bad.

But it was that same youthful, handsome father who had been pressed by life’s burdens into the tired, ordinary middle-aged man he was now.

That handsome youth was her father at eighteen, the present weary middle-aged man’s eighteen.

Although it seemed like the middle-aged man still had many things hidden from her.

Ennie leaned forward, "Dad, am I really not a rich second generation?"

"Go to sleep early tonight," He Ao replied without turning around, "In dreams, you have everything."

Ennie pouted, "Dad, what is up with that blood? Why do I feel dizzy just looking at it?"

The body structure of a C-level had already become different from that of ordinary people, and their blood also carried a certain level of transcendent contamination, which could affect the thinking of ordinary people.

Of course, these effects varied, the souls of some ordinary people who were weaker might not necessarily be able to see the green fluorescence in the blood, but upon nearing the blood, they might directly fall into some kind of hallucination.

Those with stronger souls could see more things, but they were able to suppress those chaotic thoughts, ensuring a level of rationality.

Of course, in the transcendent world, this preserved ’rationality’ might instead cause them to see even more horrifying things.

Similarly, such individuals with strong souls were more likely to get involved in transcendent events, either becoming material for the rituals of Evil Gods or by some chance stepping into the transcendent world, becoming a Transcendent.

When He Ao saw that Ennie approached the blood without showing any clear hallucinatory reactions, he knew that she was the kind of person who was ’very suitable’ for the transcendent world.

Most of them would be attracted by those transcendent phenomena that were barely discernible and eventually get drawn into the transcendent world.

Of course, now was not the time for He Ao to impart knowledge about Transcendents to his daughter.

He simply answered off-handedly, "In some sense, this person’s blood contains something that can ’hallucinate’."

"Then why didn’t you feel it, Dad?"

"My resistance is relatively strong."

"Oh, are you sure you’re not some kind of underground assassin or a super detective hidden among the crowd?"

"Watch fewer cartoons."

"Dad, will you teach me to fight? Like how you took down the bad guys today, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh with those fighting techniques,"

Ennie looked up thoughtfully, seemingly imagining herself being powerful, "That way, when you’re not by my side, I can protect myself, hahaha."

He Ao, who was tidying up the last area, fell silent for a moment, then replied softly, "I will."

"Wow! Really?"

Ennie looked up at her father excitedly. "So when do we start?"

"Don’t rush, the acquisition of any power comes with hardship."

He Ao half-wrapped the corpse of Black Shadow with a carpet, then went into the inner room to find a luggage bag to put it in.

If Black Shadow’s Talent Sequence was indeed the continuation of a C-level Talent Sequence of an ’Assassin’, then perhaps He Ao could make use of his Talent Sequences, since He Ao had experience with Talent Sequences related to Assassins.

But the precondition was that He Ao needed to know the name and the ritual of his C-level Talent Sequence.

If all else fails, he would have to go back to the old path of a warrior.

Once everything was handled, He Ao returned to Ennie’s side. "Give me your hand."

?

Ennie looked at her father with confusion but still extended her hand.

He Ao grasped her wrist.

There were many methods to test for Martial Arts Talent.

For example, teaching the method of breath control to see the efficiency of energy operation and absorption, or teaching a simple Body Tempering Technique to see how efficiently the body absorbs energy.

Martial Arts is a power that requires practice to reveal aptitude, so in most cases, the method to test for Martial Arts Talent is through cultivation.

Of course, that’s in most cases.

For someone like He Ao, a C-level ’Qi Refinement and Spirit Transformation’ Martial Artist, there was a method that was quite costly but extremely fast.

Using Divine Sense.

Ennie felt a ticklish sensation on her wrist where her father held it, as if a warm current was seeping into her wrist.

This was He Ao’s first time using Divine Sense to penetrate the body of a living person, but the situation was all within his expectations.

Judging by Ennie’s expression, she should be able to somewhat sense the presence of Divine Sense.

He Ao’s Divine Sense continued to delve deeper.

The resistance of flesh to Divine Sense was considerable, stronger than that of non-living materials.

However, when He Ao’s Divine Sense passed through Ennie’s outer layer of flesh and entered her body’s ’circuitry,’ the whole situation changed.

It was as if He Ao had traversed through an extremely narrow gorge to enter a vast plain, everything suddenly became clear.

If the previous penetration through the flesh was like climbing a thorny and treacherous peak, then entering the ’circuitry’ now was like stepping onto an eight-lane highway.

He Ao’s Divine Sense flowed unobstructed in this pathway, swiftly moving towards deeper parts.

Ennie’s Martial Arts Talent surpassed his expectations.

However, He Ao soon encountered areas where the pathways were narrow and difficult to traverse.

At these points, he modeled the sensation he had felt after consuming the Vermilion Fruit, gathered his Divine Sense, and forcefully widened these pathways.

"Dad, it hurts,"

Ennie suddenly clasped her shoulder, clenching her teeth and gazing at He Ao; the pathway that had been forcibly widened was located in her shoulder.

"Endure it,"

He Ao said in a low voice.

His Divine Sense flowed swiftly, encountering a few narrow spots, which he forcefully widened, clearing all the obstructions within Ennie’s body.

Only when his Divine Sense could move unimpeded throughout Ennie’s body did he stop it at her chest.

"Follow me, take a deep breath,"

he said softly.

Ennie hadn’t recovered from the pain that had just coursed through her body and looked at He Ao with a touch of grievance.

But after seeing He Ao’s stern face, she obediently followed his movements and took deep breaths.

"Calm your mind and sense your chest. Is there a ball of energy there that feels like it’s about to dissolve?"

"I can’t sense it..."

"Stay calm, follow me and breathe deeply. Imagine a lotus blooming at the top of your head, picture its petals, its patterns, and its petals unfolding one by one."

...

"Can you feel it now?"

"There seems to be..."

"Don’t rush, can you sense my Divine Sense?"

"There’s a...warm current..."

"Calm your mind. Imagine the lotus from the top of your head falling into your chest, into that ball of energy. The petals merge with the energy. Now, guide this energy to follow the path of my Divine Sense, keep up..."

...

Having spent an hour guiding Ennie through her first breathing and energy circulation session, He Ao then took another half hour to familiarize her with the process several times.

"Dad, I think I’ve become stronger."

Excited, Ennie swung her little fists in front of He Ao, throwing a somewhat unrefined straight punch.

"In the future, follow this standard practice of breathing and energy circulation, and whenever you have time, practice more,"

He Ao retracted his nearly exhausted Divine Sense.

Ennie’s Talent for martial arts was quite good, and after He Ao’s ’Marrow Cleansing,’ she had improved further, now only slightly weaker than Regit.

If she could dedicate herself to practice, perhaps she could reach heights that even the old man had never achieved.

He Ao planned to outline the Body Tempering Technique as well, allowing his daughter to practice it, and in doing so, find a successor for the old man.

If she could practice Martial Arts, he wouldn’t have wanted Ennie to enter the path of the Talent Sequences.

The Talent Sequences were fraught with madness and distortion, with each advancement being like passing through the gates of hell, and the chances of entanglement with the Evil God increased, growing more and more dangerous as one progressed.

"Dad, are you some kind of hidden mage?"

Ennie said excitedly, looking at He Ao. She was still sensing the energies that appeared in her body with each breath, "Is this magic?"

"Watch fewer movies,"

He Ao said coolly, shaking his head.

The little girl’s excited expression deflated a bit.

At this time, He Ao had already activated his bracelet.

Displayed on the bracelet was the information about the ’Fountain of Youth’ that Eve had collected for him.

The legend of the Fountain of Youth was widely prevalent throughout the Federation and various literary works.

In most legends, the Fountain of Youth was a pool of clear spring water, and those who drank from it possessed the ability to stay young forever.

This time, what stopped He Ao was not a lack of information, but rather its abundance, making it hard for him to distinguish the valid details.

He limited the scope of his search to Limen City and then began to monitor the data carefully.

Most narratives about the Fountain of Youth within these materials were similar to the Federation’s main legends, clearly derived from other cities.

Then he had Eve set aside such duplicate legends, focusing instead on filtering out information originating specifically from Limen City or its surroundings.

Soon after, He Ao came across an interesting post, one made by a travel blogger on a forum.

The post described their travel experiences near Limen City, and one part in particular caught He Ao’s attention.

[...They say this city was built upon the Fountain of Youth, which is the blood of the sky and the earth... Whoever drinks from the spring is granted ’eternal life’... But not all who attain ’eternal life’ are human...]