Chapter 270: Heavenly Bestowal

Zhang Gui knows that, according to the scientific view of his previous life, it is now extremely difficult for him to be defined as a pure human.

But in his understanding, "the soul is unique, cognition endures forever".

In other words, as long as he is born with the initial perception of his race as "human", he will forever be human.

And since he is human, the label "ghoul" is something Zhang Gui refuses to admit.

Therefore he carefully feels the changes in his body and finally notices something abnormal.

Letting instinct take the lead, he releases the control over the Main Divine Cluster "Great Water Entering Spirit" in his skull.

"So it's not me, but Great Water Entering Spirit that is yearning for something."

The Primordial Spirit is originally the term for the elevated human soul.

The brain is the sole organ for human thought.

Linked with the brain, and also the Main Divine Cluster that governs the "Primordial Spirit", its influence on my subconscious is straightforward.

But this brings unpredictable fortune and disaster.

"Great Water Entering Spirit" was never a divine cluster naturally grown from my bloodline inheritance.

It is a back‑hand left by the ancient demon god Chiyou Dadi, transplanted into my divine cluster.

In ancient legends, Great Water is a gigantic fungus that brings calamities to people.

That explanation is itself bizarre.

Yet at first, because the manifestation and abilities of "Great Water Entering Spirit" closely matched the legend,

I never gave it much thought.

In hindsight it isn't that simple.

Still, it makes sense; originally it bore the supreme sage status of the Yan Emperor and Shennongshi.

Later, after losing the contest with the divine king Xuanyuan Huangdi for the first human‑race ruler of Dongsheng Continent, it was stigmatized as the demon lord "Bing Zhu Chiyou".

A figure who, in ancient human mythic history, played three top‑tier "roles".

How could it possibly leave its most outstanding descendants a "fungus", confirming the demon‑lord path and "benefiting" all humanity…"

While pondering, Zhang Gui splits his mind, waves his hand to summon a sandstorm with "Great Celestial‑Geographic Confrontation", concealing his form.

He watches the changes of Jiao Datou and Kong Liu's corpses closely.

As time passes.

The two bodies continuously hollow inward, gradually revealing the shape of their skeletons.

In the end they simply become skull frames draped in human skin.

Strangely, although it is clear that the internal organs of Jiao Datou and Kong Liu's corpses have vanished,

each corpse's abdominal cavity contains a wrist‑thick, snake‑like protrusion that intermittently slides beneath the skin.

At that moment.

The Main Divine Cluster "Great Water Entering Spirit" in Zhang Gui's skull spontaneously begins to extend the mycelium sprouting from its surrounding pores.

It stretches toward the corpses of Kong Liu and Jiao Datou.

As the mycelium draws nearer,

the serpentine protrusions inside the two bodies start moving incessantly, accelerating rapidly.

"The hunt begins!"

Letting "Great Water Entering Spirit" run wild, Zhang Gui watches this scene, seems to guess something, and feels a slight excitement in his heart.

He did not expect that when the mycelium extending from his pores was less than a foot away from Kong Liu and Jiao Datou's heads,

just as everything seemed to fall into place, the mycelium did not tear the carcasses' skins but suddenly pierced deep into the ground.

Immediately, a faint "woo…woo…" wailing sound emanated from deep underground.

When the mycelium withdrew back to the surface,

it emerged with two thumb‑thick, scaleless flesh worms.

They looked just like two slightly plump earthworms.

Except they bore the heads of Jiao Datou and Kong Liu.

"What the hell is this thing!"

Even though Zhang Gui is well‑versed, he shivers, restrains the mycelium produced by "Great Water Entering Spirit", and sucks the human‑head flesh worm.

He reaches out and squeezes the worm with Jiao Datou's head in his hand.

Yet the worm, despite having a human head, shows no sign of human intelligence.

It does not fear the disparity in size or strength, and suddenly opens its mouth to bite his finger.

The bite is so fast Zhang Gui cannot react in time, and a soybean‑sized chunk of flesh is torn from his thumb pad.

"I'm screwed…"

From the moment he mastered the extraordinary and rarely gets hurt, Zhang Gui feels both pain and anger, and throws the Horned Big‑Head flesh worm back to the mycelium of "Great Water Entering Spirit".

Watching them, driven by instinct, turn the flesh worm into pure "meat juice", sucking it clean.

Afterwards it unexpectedly triggers a mystery.

It lets Zhang Gui perceive that the origin of this human‑head flesh worm is the greatest perennial enemy of humanity: the Earth Demon Hundred Races!

"Earth Demon Hundred Races, this is a clan or subspecies of the Earth Demon Hundred Races.

No way, it's this thing, hiss…"

Zhang Gui, startled, thinks, and suddenly feels a sharp pain in his fingertip.

Looking down he sees that the finger bitten by the human‑head flesh worm has half‑turned to stone.

In horror he hurriedly activates the Main Divine Cluster "Hundred Herbs Life Mandate" inherited from Shennongshi, hoping to heal himself instantly, but finds it ineffective.

"This isn't a wound but a sustained magical attack; I can only cut off the finger."

Then he rebirthed with the "Great Growth" Divine Cluster.

Or try using the principle of "Mutual Generation and Overcoming of All Things".

A thought flashed through his mind, and Zhang Gui first, without hesitation, cut off his own finger.

Instead, he triggered the Divine Cluster's "Tai Sui Entering Spirit", causing black slime to gush from Lu Gate, coiling around his injured, petrified finger.

As a result, after a gut‑wrenching, heart‑rending sour pain, the finger surprisingly returned to normal.

Having a way to suppress it, Zhang Gui let out a sigh of relief.

Out of curiosity, he also squeezed the flesh worm that had a Kong Liu head into his hand.

This time he was very careful, but did not expect that the worm with a Kong Liu human head seemed to have inherited Kong Liu's faux‑cultured temperament.

Its behavior was completely different from the flesh worm with a Jiao Datou head.

Not only did it show no intention to attack Zhang Gui at all, but it also smiled obsequiously.

Its slender, soft body gently began to writhe.

Seeing this made Zhang Gui's hair stand on his back; he hurriedly threw the Kong Liu‑headed flesh worm into the "Tai Sui Entering Spirit", which devoured it cleanly.

Then it triggered the mystery again.

But this time it did not grant him the "Heavenly Bestowal" knowledge of the Earth Demon Hundred Races.

Instead, it only slightly deepened, by a minuscule amount, the imprint of Zhang Gui's created "Civilized Path" in the mysterious realm.

Although "Knowledge is power" is a truth, it is ultimately less enticing than power itself.

"As long as one accumulates and deepens the imprint of the "Civilized Path" in the mysterious realm, one can receive feedback that raises the "Transcendent Level".

And according to the logic of "Striking evil is promoting justice", killing the Earth Demon Hundred Races equals benefitting human civilization.

There's nothing wrong with that, very good, very good.

It seems I must formally put the plan to travel through the "Di Ku Jie" on the schedule.

It would be best to bring a "Mysterious Domain" along, to achieve instant back‑and‑forth teleportation.

However, my own "Mysterious Domain" should be equivalent to my Earthly Divine Kingdom.

It seems I must first use the "Earth Vein Point‑Opening Grand Mysterious Domain Creation Method" to create a Mysterious Domain on True Dragon Island for a trial.

In size, half a cubic meter would suffice…

(End of chapter)