Chapter 1666

After Anthony's linguistic education, Osia realized his greatest value was being situated on the World Tree of Kelania, and otherwise he was utterly useless.

So... he now only needs to offer his soul to Xiang Ange and engrave a soul imprint upon it.

Osia was somewhat bewildered: Is engraving an imprint enough? Do I not need to do anything else?

Just now, having been belittled to worthlessness, Osia had thought others looked down on him, but he never expected a major reversal—no action needed at all to achieve the goal, because uploading memory also requires establishing a soul connection.

Anthony sneered: "What can you do? We'll first create a body for you, you project over and then proceed to the next step—what kind of body do you want?"

Osia said indifferently: "Whatever, as long as it can carry my consciousness."

Anthony snapped: "What are you thinking? 'Whatever'? Isn't that wasteful? You still have to work when you come over."

After a long silence upon hearing Anthony, Osia originally felt he had no value, so he dared not make demands—just needing a body that could hold his consciousness would suffice.

But what did Anthony mean? Previously work was still required—does he still want to give me a more practical body?

Seeing the other silent, Anthony directly arranged: "Give you a sapling of the World Tree as a body—will that do?"

Osia was stunned at once—he was merely a burl on the World Tree, now giving him a World Tree sapling—doesn't that mean he could grow into a World Tree?

Seeing Osia still silent, Anthony smiled and said: "Forget that—how about giving you a Fey Tree sapling instead? Don't want the Fey Tree sapling? How about parasitic vines? Parasitic vines are more troublesome to use, needing to parasitize on other plants—if you want parasitic vines, you'll have to find the World Tree yourself to parasitize."

Osia hurriedly said: "World Tree—I want the World Tree as my body."

Good grief, just stunned a moment, and the treatment dropped from World Tree to parasitic vines—still having to go find the World Tree to parasitize? Why not just directly reincarnate as a World Tree?

But these people's strength is also too formidable—effortlessly producing World Tree saplings—is this the power of the Netherworld Guides?

Osia actually didn't know what Netherworld Guides were; his perception of the outside world was entirely blocked by Kelania's World Tree, and he'd only heard the name from those undead discussing it.

He could know all discussions of the Nether River Council, but only that—information relied on Kelania providing it; if they wanted the Nether River Council to discuss something, they provided that information, and beyond the information he had no way to know.

Next came a somewhat unconventional procedure: Osia first handed Ange an imprint, Ange casually found a white crystal and engraved the imprint upon it.

Then Osia projected onto that white crystal, after which Ange used the Beauty God Fist to extract the consciousness from within the white crystal and impress a soul imprint.

In the next moment, a brand-new node appeared in Ange's soul network.

Afterwards Ange shoved it into a World Tree sapling, casually found a god-star and planted it there.

Ange has so many god-stars under his command, several lacking World Trees—perfect for planting.

After planting, the World Tree came under the sapling's control, Osia's consciousness came under Ange's constraint—double insurance, ensuring it could not betray again.

Then they also preserved a copy of its memory, allowing it to return to its original body—this way, even if it betrayed, it wouldn't matter, Ange could resurrect a body using its memory—triple insurance.

After this series of operations, Osia can be said to be firmly bound to Ange, with no possibility of betrayal remaining.

And Geixia seemed to have resigned himself, pouring out everything he knew completely.

"You're really quite pitiful—from birth onward, have you truly never left Kelania? Not even seen the void?" Nai Ge Li Si asked somewhat pityingly.

Osia nodded—he is a burl on the World Tree formed due to insect damage, counted as a wound on the World Tree, yet a wound actually awakened consciousness?

If not for its special ability, the World Tree would have long since eradicated it—who would care about a wound's wish? Even ordinary people would promptly apply medicine and treat it away.

Though fortunate to have survived, everything of its control remains in the World Tree's hands—without nutrients provided, it cannot even think; without permission, its thoughts cannot extend far.

This amounts to being trapped to death in a space the size of a burl, until the day the World Tree dies—of course, then it too will die with it—meaning its entire life has already been foreseen.

Besides, it must also support a batch of undead; this life has continued for who knows how many years, forever seeing no hope of change.

Thus upon hearing silver coins had a method to contact the outside world, plus memory upload and resurrection ability, its first reaction was not to report to Kelania, but to secretly contact Ange—it would rather serve others as a slave than remain here.

Anthony asked: "What exactly is this Nether River Council again?"

Osia explained: "Kelania periodically takes one or two wise souls... he calls them that, then grafts them onto my body, and I provide them nutrients to maintain their lives..."

Saying this, Osia paused: "... maintaining their capacity for thought, though these people are actually all dead, leaving only a husk, consciousness long dissipated—not life."

"Whenever there's a major decision Kelania can't grasp or make, they come to consult these undead, having them devise solutions."

Anthony nodded: "I guess so—so-called Nether River Council is actually Kelania's external auxiliary brain. No wonder he sometimes acts very human, even naming things in a humanized way—what is the latest resolution of the Nether River Council?"

"Their resolution is to continue searching elsewhere, be cautious not to approach the Sixth God-Star, fearing the Sixth God-Star being used by you to set traps." Osia said.

Anthony slapped his thigh: "How did I not think of this? Yes, we can use the Sixth God-Star to set traps."

The Sixth God-Star's tone tightened, asking: "Anthony, what do you mean by this?"

"My meaning is, this is a loophole—if I didn't know you, the best thing to do would be to use your true body to set traps, but Kelania is too cautious, missed this loophole." Anthony explained.

The Sixth God-Star breathed a sigh of relief—good, not wanting to use his true body as a trap—just about to say something, when Osia suddenly said: "Wait, Kelania just set up a new agenda, saying the Lord of the Smelter Branch Line, Helios, hopes to dispatch some people to help Kelania encircle and suppress you."