Chapter 2227: The Direction of Successful Experimentation

"It's Beika!" Dong Rui suddenly realized, "You mean that demon spawn has been alive until now? Oh wow, that would make it over a hundred and fifty years old."

"Yeah. Devourers can take human form and interact with normal people."

"You mean it's been living in human society for over a hundred years?" Dong Rui frowned, "Devourers are extremely brutal monsters—if they don't stir up bloody storms in the human world, that's already good enough. How could they possibly coexist peacefully with humans?"

"That devourer in the Demon Nest Swamp is actually quite different." He Lingchuan recalled the graffiti in the Demon Nest and that mother's grave, "It should have human emotions. Don't forget, it also has human blood flowing in its veins."

He stroked his chin, thoughtful: "Maybe I saw him when I was with Beika."

"Huh?" Dong Rui's voice jumped up three pitches, "Who?"

But He Lingchuan didn't say more, only: "During your absence, many major events occurred. The Great Heavenly Demon Jia Lou Tian captured the Hidden God Lord."

He combined the intelligence on Naluotian with the materials provided by Mu Di and explained it all, then said: "If the heavenly demon could use the Hidden God Lord's incarnation to craft a divine descent skin sack……"

In his view, the Great Heavenly Demon wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice troops and generals just to capture the Hidden God Lord—wasn't it precisely for this purpose?

"Not that easy." Dong Rui waved his hand, "Even without replicating the meridians, the human body has muscles, blood vessels, and five viscera and six bowels. The heavenly demon would need to use the Hidden God Lord to replicate a human body, and a powerful one at that—tsk tsk…… not easy at all. The human brain is the most complex among all living things in heaven and earth. Think about it—making something without a brain grow a brain—how difficult would that be!"

"Yin puppets and Yao beasts are both created through divine blood experimentation and transformation." He Lingchuan pondered, "I've seen the bodies of the demonic beasts I've encountered—when they bear the power of divine blood, most of them mutate into deformities. If we used the Hidden God Lord's body to divide it, perhaps we could avoid this trouble altogether."

"Divine blood has almost no effect on immortals and above." Dong Rui clasped his hands behind his back, walked to the railing, "The greater the power gap between divine blood and the experimental subject, the stronger the effect."

The gap between immortals and demons is small, so the heavenly demon's blood struggles to trigger their mutation.

"What if we used the blood of the Lingxu Holy Sovereign?" He Lingchuan had already thought deeply about this, "The power of the Lingxu Holy Sovereign far exceeds any Great Heavenly Demon—even the skin sack of Cangxi True Lord cannot bear His true power. It seems most immortals and He have a gap."

Dong Rui glared at him: "You really can give me a tough problem! After saying all this, do you have the Hidden God Lord's skin in your hand so I can run an experiment?"

"Of course……" He Lingchuan paused, "No!"

"……" Empty joy.

"Why is it called the Hidden God Lord? Because it likes to lurk in the deep sea without surfacing—even Ling Mountain can't find it. Where am I supposed to go to get you a skin?"

He Lingchuan added: "If the heavenly demon uses the Hidden God Lord to replicate a human body, you say creating a brain is difficult. But what if we used an existing brain?"

Dong Rui's brows tightened instantly: "You mean transplantation?"

"Back then, the owner of Red Lodge transformed the infant wolf—wasn't that done this way?" He Lingchuan knew Dong Rui had later discovered that Cao Wendao didn't just transfer Xiao An's soul and spirit into the infant wolf's body, but moved the entire brain over!

Although the brain capacities of the two species are clearly different, so Cao Wendao only performed a partial transplant, and Xiao An still survived. This method could be called divine craftsmanship—even Dong Rui admired it immensely.

"Although Cao Wendao is dead, the heavenly palace is full of talent—those skilled in this craft certainly aren't just Cao Wendao alone, right?"

"This……" Dong Rui shook his head repeatedly, "Not that easy, still not that easy! Brain transplantation isn't just digging it out of the original body and stuffing it into a new trunk—there are countless blood vessels and nerves that need connecting. The infant wolf itself is a mature organism, though not human, it also has these blood vessels and nerves. But can the body replicated from the Hidden God Lord have these?"

"Don't ask me." He Lingchuan raised both hands, "Isn't this what you should be researching?"

Dong Rui was a bit irritable, because although He Lingchuan's question sounded amateurish, that direction might not actually be impossible.

He absentmindedly pulled out a fish bone, picked his teeth: "Alright, alright, if there's nothing else, I'm heading back. I brought back quite a few things from the Thousand-Eyed Cave—I'll continue researching later."

"Go ahead."

Dong Rui asked for two jars of fine wine at the banquet hall, saying he wanted to bring them to the elder lady, then slipped away.

He Lingchuan then returned to the elegant gathering hall, seeing Du Shan and Guan Huan huddled in the corner chatting and laughing leisurely.

These two are both pillars of the great nation, both have eight hundred ideas, and both are helping their sovereign formulate state policy.

Openly and secretly, they regard each other as rivals, but at this moment, they seem to be chatting especially freely—almost arm-in-arm, shoulder-to-shoulder.

The Soul-Capturing Mirror snorted: "Not a single good thing!"

He Lingchuan laughed: "If they were good people, would bad people have to be done by me?"

……

Three days later, Mu State and Cang Yan announced a series of bilateral agreements.

In fact, the agreement content had already been basically drafted before the two great emperors met—these two days were just minor adjustments.

When monarchs of great nations meet, they usually don't discuss administrative details—that's left to subordinates to communicate and negotiate, unless the event itself is exceptionally major and subordinates can't make a decision.

The agreement content is nothing more than deepening cooperation between the two countries—Cang Yan provides various supplies to Mu State at more favorable prices, mutual trade tariffs are reduced, investment entry barriers are lowered, and Mu State relocates dozens of sects to Cang Yan, all of them with long lineages and sound cultivation systems.

Both people and cultivation techniques came together.

This is also what Cang Yan urgently needs now.

Heaven and earth spiritual energy has revived, causing domestic cultivation demand to surge. Although the Nine Abysses Great Emperor brought out a batch of cultivation methods from Panlong City, most people's cultivation path requires finding a teacher—self-practice easily leads to deviation——from ancient times to the present, cultivation has never been an easy matter. In ancient times, cultivators and immortals were numerous, but commoners were even more so.

Cultivation methods exist, but enlightened teachers are lacking.

The relocation of these sects can well alleviate the severe imbalance in Cang Yan's domestic cultivation education system.

Therefore, even if Cang Yan's ministers have some reservations about the composition of these sects from Mu State, the Nine Abysses Great Emperor still waved his hand decisively to open the door and introduce them, because the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

In critical times, don't just fixate on minor contradictions.

Pure benefit with no side effects—where in the world is there such a good thing?

After this monarchs' meeting, Mu State gained Cang Yan's support, and the war against Beika became more winding but resolute.

The fierce war between the two great nations did not end as quickly as many expected—it stretched from autumn to the following spring, then into midsummer, and still shows no sign of stopping.