Chapter 246

Weilan.

Medical laboratory, a secret underground laboratory.

In the experimental hall, three legendary Elves lined up in a row, each undergoing various examinations and analyses in turn.

Drawing blood with syringes, observing soul fluctuations, analyzing magical power, finely scanning bodily structure, and so on.

In short, everything that could be done besides bodily dissection was done.

The three Elves cooperated tremblingly, wanting to resist but powerless.

Beside the experimental hall, Luosen held analysis report after report, examining them very seriously.

He paid particular attention to the structure of the Elves' brains, because the brain is the primary abode of the soul.

How long a cultivator can live depends entirely on how long his soul can remain stable, and the soul's lifespan is closely linked to the brain.

Currently, various experimental results show that the Elves' bodily structure is largely the same as that of humans, and no essential difference has been found in the macroscopic structure of the brain.

One could even say that Elves and humans are identical.

These analysis reports plunged Luosen into contemplation.

"This matter is truly strange."

The three Elves were very cooperative, answering Luosen's questions without reservation.

Through their descriptions, Luosen learned that the sun god Osella of the Elf race had lived for over seven thousand years, and at least half of that time was spent awake.

By contrast, the Heavenly Father of Divine Might and the Lord of Radiance, although they had lived for over three thousand years, were awake only one-tenth of the time.

This gap in the quality of life is not ordinary.

For beings whose outward appearance is nearly identical, what reason is there that one can live less than a hundred years, and even if promoted to the peak of the tenth ring, can only remain awake for five or six hundred years?

While another kind can live tens of times longer?

After Luosen carefully analyzed, he arrived at a preliminary conclusion.

"Since the main outward appearance shows no difference, it indicates that the core genes are the same; what truly affects the bloodline is likely just a few key genes."

Then let's begin focusing on researching the expression of cells.

Anyway, we have three living Elves, and they are all male; various cells, especially reproductive cells, are practically inexhaustible, so results should come soon.

After assigning the next task to the research mages of the secret laboratory, Luosen left the secret laboratory.

Because outwardly it is a medical laboratory, and medicine mainly studies various diseases, especially infectious diseases.

For safety's sake, the laboratory was set up in the suburbs of Mondaniya City.

After leaving the laboratory, Luosen himself drove an unremarkable-looking electric car, following the newly established traffic regulations, all the way back to Swan Castle.

Along the way, one could see lanterns and decorations strung up at the roadside, with many ribbons and colored lights hung, and from time to time some brightly colored promotional slogans could be seen.

Such as 'Aaron and Weilan share the same origin and species, the peoples of the two countries are brothers and sisters,' and the like.

All of this is in preparation for his coronation and ascension.

The populace is very lively, but the myriad trivial affairs before the enthronement are as numerous as cow hairs.

Fortunately, all of this is handled by Duke Luosen, while that avatar currently occupies only 10% of Laifu's computing power.

The true main body of Luosen is deeply hidden behind the scenes, becoming an observer of all the worldly prosperity.

As the saying goes, those involved are confused, while observers see clearly.

By stepping away from the chessboard, Luosen can instead better perceive the developmental context of mortal society.

After driving a stretch, he saw several piles of nature believers gathered at the roadside praying, quite an atmosphere of religious fervor.

"Oh~ this is not a good thing."

Although this greatly increased the harvest of faith power, it also greatly increased the authority of the Nature Temple, and greatly increased the time and energy people invest in religion.

However, religion is a kind of empty activity; in leisure it relieves boredom, passes time quite well, and can prevent people from idle speculation.

But if it is used as a societal pursuit goal, it will greatly hinder the development speed of the arcane arts.

This is absolutely unacceptable.

Because Luosen's various new achievements in the arcane arts are due first to Laifu's computational assistance, and second also because the populace's various new arcane achievements feed back to him.

"Mortals, an individual alone still has reason, but once gathered in a crowd, they always tend to go to extremes."

Whether on Earth or in another world, it's the same.

It's either extreme left or extreme right; to obtain balance, one must have a leader who 'governs the state as if cooking a small fish' constantly holding the helm.

"When the activities of these zealous nature believers make most people start to dislike them, I will issue a divine edict to let these fanatics' brains calm down."

In the midst of his thoughts, the electric car entered Swan Castle through a concealed rear gate.

At this time it was roughly five in the afternoon, almost dinner time.

However, tonight there is still a relatively important household matter to be settled.

At dinner, Luosen, as usual, was attentive to his wife Selena in the smallest details.

After dinner, when he and his wife Selena returned to the bedroom for privacy, he pondered a moment and said, "Dear, there is something I must tell you."

"How?" Selena was at her dressing table, undoing her tightly coiled hair.

Luosen organized his words and said, "Do you know Qi Ge Rui La Na?"

Selena paused her motion, looking puzzled: "Isn't that the divine name of Mother Nature?"

Luosen nodded: "Yes, and also no."

"I don't really understand."

"Simply put, Mother Nature has two aspects. One is the supreme true god. The other is the vessel of that true god in the mortal realm."

"The Qi Ge Rui La Na I refer to is this vessel."

Luosen did not tell Selena the truth, because the fewer people know about the faith puppet, the better.

If Selena knew, it would be of no benefit, but rather bring a host of drawbacks.

Selena is also a mage, her magical knowledge very solid, she instantly understood Luosen's words: "Is it related to Aaron?"

Mother Nature issued a divine edict supporting her husband; this Selena did not expect, and at the same time felt very unbelievable.

Now combining her husband's words, she felt that the reason her husband could obtain Mother Nature's support was mostly because they had reached some agreement with Mother Nature.

Luosen was extremely perceptive, immediately saw Selena's thought, and thus followed her line of thought saying: "Correct, but not only related to Aaron, but to the entire Nature Alliance."

Selena had guessed somewhat, turned her head to look at Luosen, full of disbelief.

Luosen then said: "Mother Nature supports my unification and control of the Nature Alliance; the price is that I must marry her mortal vessel as wife."

Selena stared, her eyes glistening with moisture: "So, you don't want me anymore?" Luosen hastily shook his head: "No no no, of course not."

He and Selena could be considered a couple who have endured hardship together; along the way, she bore him two adorable children, and the child in her womb is about to be born, which must absolutely not be abandoned.

He walked over, embraced Selena in his arms, and softly spoke the plan he had discussed with Qi Ge Rui La Na.

"Qi Ge Rui La Na is the divine wife, the unique one, symbolizing my orthodox rule over the Nature Alliance, but this does not affect my marrying a mortal wife."

Selena's mind immediately calmed considerably.

She came from a great noble family, accustomed to such political exchanges, so she immediately accepted Luosen's explanation.

"So that's how it is, but upon further thought, I feel this is truly strange."

She looked up at Luosen: "My husband actually married Mother Nature, or rather, I actually share a husband with Mother Nature."

Luosen shrugged: "Indeed, it's a bit strange."

He earnestly promised: "Our children will forever enjoy the glory of the Weilan Dawn Duke; this is Mother Nature's promise to me."

Selena then completely relaxed.

She is not a very ambitious woman, nor does she have much drive.

As long as she can preserve the family's honor, she feels she has lived up to her ancestors, and thus has no dissatisfaction.

Luosen also said: "In the future, our days will not differ much from before; I will spend most of my time with you. But occasionally, I must stay with Mother Nature to fulfill my husband's duty."

"About one or two months a year, perhaps even less."

Selena felt more satisfied, but also a bit apprehensive: "As a mortal, I actually take up so much of Mother Nature's husband's time; will the deity be dissatisfied with me?"

Luosen had already prepared his explanation.

He smiled and said: "In the short term it seems a bit much, but if placed in the long river of time, it's only a small part."

"Because mortal life is limited, I will accompany you through your mortal journey; when we reach the God Kingdom, my main time will be spent accompanying the true deity, and a small portion accompanying you."

Selena felt somewhat reluctant, but had nothing to say: "Very fair."

She then became curious: "Will you and Mother Nature have children?"

"Yes, the child of me and Mother Nature is the next-generation Natural God Child."

"In fact, this divine child has already been born, named Haige Lun Na, but needs some time to grow up."

"In a sense, this virtual deity Haige Lun Na was truly created together by him and Qi Ge Rui La Na."

Selena's eyes widened in surprise: "Isn't this the deity of magic, wisdom, and protection from the church's divine edict, Haige Lun Na?"

She is also a follower of Nature; although not very devout, she still knows the content of such major divine edicts.

Yet she did not expect that the impending Natural God Child who will govern the mortal world would have her own husband as father.

Put another way, she is the stepmother of the new deity.

She just felt the matter was rather absurd.

Then she suddenly realized: "You already have a child, no wonder Mother Nature supports you so much!"

Then she became curious: "When did all this happen?"

This matter is really hard to explain in detail; Luosen can only continue to fabricate.

"Before meeting you, I quietly advanced to Ten Rings power; this could be hidden from mortals, but not from Mother Nature; then some things happened, and then we had a child."

Selena had no doubts, and her curiosity flared: "Mmm~ does Mother Nature also like your divine spear?"

"Hmm, probably likes it?"

Luosen wanted to slap himself; he clearly knew Selena had a cuckold fetish, why fabricate such details?

Now it's fine; one lie needs a hundred lies to patch up.

Actually, he hasn't truly gotten together with Qi Ge Rui La Na yet.

That woman is very shy; last time she clearly said she would get things done after returning from Aaron, but when he came back, she avoided him.

Selena didn't notice Luosen's thought, eagerly asked: "When you two are doing it, does she shout loudly?"

"What a mess of questions."

Luosen's face turned stern: "Selena, my dear wife, don't ask such blasphemous questions about the true deity."

Selena utterly unafraid: "What's blasphemous about it? Isn't this just ordinary mortal sentiment?"

Seeing Luosen not speak, she coquettishly pleaded: "I'm very curious about the true deity, dear, just tell me."

Considering she was still pregnant and about to give birth soon, Luosen could only go along with her wish and continue to fabricate.

"She does make noise, but not as loud as you; if I poke harder she gets louder; usually she just makes little whimpering sounds."

"Mmm~ truly interesting, does she have more spring water?"

"More, more than you."

"Does she look like a sculpture?"

"Quite alike."

"What does the naked Mother Nature actually look like? I know your Transformation Technique is superb; transform and let me see."

Luosen was about to go crazy: "This question really is a bit blasphemous toward the deities; although Mother Nature has a good temper, it also has limits!"

"Alright~~~ then I'll ask one more, just the last one."

"The last one."

"What do you think, who's prettier, Mother Nature or me?"

"Both are pretty."

"Perfunctory."

"Selena, enough!"

"The night passed in silence."

"Early the next morning, Luosen was about to continue going to the medical laboratory, when Qi Ge Rui La Na, who had been dodging him for days, finally showed up."

"Her complexion was normal at first, but upon seeing him, her jade-like cheeks flushed slightly, and her eyes flickered."

"But her expression was very solemn, as if something major had happened."

"Luosen, Grandfather wants you to come over; he says there's something very important to tell you."

"Qi Ge Rui La Na still showed such a grave expression for the first time, which made Luosen slightly startled: 'Let's go, we'll go together.'"

"(End of chapter)"