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Chapter 1124 - 510 The True Greed_3

Chapter 1124: Chapter 510 The True Greed_3

The power of the incarnation was far inferior to that of Gusha’s original body, but for that very reason, there was a possibility of taming it.

The serpent skin shed by Gusha was lifeless skin without sensation before the will was transferred, since it clung to the surface of Gusha’s body and merged with its flesh, making it very difficult to detect without close inspection.

The Medicinal Plant Gatherer had stumbled upon Gusha’s subtle movements by chance, due to a fortunate mistake.

After that, he immediately devised a plan, he obtained a Shadow Fur Ball from Ling Long and then surreptitiously transferred it beneath that dead skin. Utilizing the Shadow Fur Ball’s ability to cut and Devour Shadows, he began to gradually eat away at the shadow of that piece of serpent skin, allowing the Shadow Fur Ball to quickly grow by absorbing Gusha’s power.

Every time Gusha shed a sliver of scale, the Shadow Fur Ball would instantly devour the shadow of the scales. Over time, its presence had completely merged with that of the scales. Even without the Gatherer’s cover, it could move beneath the serpent skin undetected by Gusha.

However, the whole affair had to be conducted with extreme caution — the Gatherer must not be discovered by Gusha, nor by the Watchman, Ling Long, and their likes.

Firstly, because this was an exceedingly bold plan, the premise of capturing Gusha started with allowing Gusha to complete its ’jailbreak’ plan, to let its incarnation successfully escape confinement.

If anything went wrong at that time, leading to the Shadow Fur Ball’s capture failing, and Gusha escaping to the skies, then they would have completely botched the operation, and the consequences would be impossible to estimate.

Such an undertaking, by the natures of the Watchman and Ling Long, would probably not be agreed upon. Telling them would likely result in them thwarting his actions.

Secondly, Gusha was extremely sensitive to the emotions of intelligent creatures, especially when Gusha was mentally focused. Simply standing near Gusha and having a fleeting evil thought of capturing it would immediately be detected! In such case, the entire plan would naturally go to waste.

For these reasons, the Gatherer had to keep this matter secret from everyone, and even before coming underground, he would use a forgetting spell to erase his memory of capturing Gusha. Later, he would use an Archive device to restore his memory and continue to covertly control the Shadow Fur Ball to Digest Gusha’s shadow.

The reason the Gatherer had become increasingly silent and solitary was due to the great risk involved in the affair, necessitating utmost secrecy. He could not reveal a word nor show any flaws. For this, he had to disguise himself as an obsessed fanatic, wholly engrossed in the study of Magic Potions, to make his behavior seem more natural.

In this manner, over the next 4,000 years, while Gusha meticulously plotted its escape in the shadows, it was oblivious to the fact that its actions had already been discovered, and moreover, someone was using its plan against it, secretly scheming an even greater conspiracy...

"You this..."

Mu You, having quickly sorted through these memories, turned to the Medicinal Plant Gatherer, his forehead breaking out in a sweat, while recalling the words Ling Long had once said to him, "True greed is the disregard of risks, seeking what should not be obtained!"

Now, Mu You came to a real understanding of this remark.

Without a doubt, greed was a trait found in the Gatherer. However, his greed wasn’t the trivial sort of taking minor advantages under certain conditions like Ling Long. No, it was real greed — he had actually dared to dream of subduing the Beast of Catastrophe for his own use!

This kind of deed was something not even the Demon God himself could have possibly imagined...

Indeed, the moment Mu You regained this portion of memory, the part of the Bone of the Demon God related to ’greed’ quieted down instantly, calming more thoroughly and quickly than the previous five temperaments.