Chapter 635

"Uncle Zhao."

Bai Xiaoxiao looked at Zhao Yan, who was only a head's length away and had only a head left, and for a moment didn't know what to say.

She did know what was going to happen next, but she wasn't sure whether she should tell him.

Just as the girl was agonizing over this, Zhao Yan spoke up: "Enough, you're the same."

"Once you learn 【Blood Body of Returning Heaven】 in the future, Senior Sister should probably come looking for you."

"When the time comes, trouble you to pass along a message for me—just say, 'Junior Brother hopes Senior Sister can keep on living well.'"

After countless years together, Zhao Yan knew his Senior Sister's temperament all too well.

Upon learning of his death, she would absolutely choose to destroy herself.

But Zhao Yan didn't want that to happen. He was destined to die; there was no need to let his Senior Sister vanish along with him.

However, he also knew that a single sentence clearly wouldn't be enough to stop his Senior Sister's resolve.

So after a moment's thought, he flicked a finger and shot a streak of blood-colored light toward Bai Xiaoxiao, containing the vast majority of his insights from cultivating 【Blood Body of Returning Heaven】.

With the boost from these insights, that little girl behind him should be able to master 【Blood Body of Returning Heaven】 very quickly.

Of course, beyond that, it also meant Zhao Yan had formally acknowledged Bai Xiaoxiao's identity.

As long as that one had no objections, she would be the tenth-generation Sect Leader of 【Wangchuan Art Academy】.

When Senior Sister saw this little girl in the future, she would naturally understand his choice.

And driven by the goal of reviving 【Wangchuan Art Academy】, it should hopefully reduce Senior Sister's death wish just a little.

But if in the end it still—

After a brief silence, Zhao Yan sighed softly, then said with a touch of desolation: "If your Martial Aunt still chooses to destroy herself, then bring the two of us back to our old home."

"You should know where it is."

Sanchuan Town was not the ancestral ground of Wangchuan Art Academy; it was only because he had moved the Men Sect here back then to conceal his Senior Sister's identity.

So if possible, Zhao Yan still hoped his soul could return to his homeland.

Because he had given all of his insights to Bai Xiaoxiao, this once-great Divine Ability seeker could no longer sustain his vitality.

He looked at his own palm, which was slowly dissipating, closed his eyes, and quietly awaited death's arrival.

Just then, a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Master... it'd be better if you said those things to Martial Aunt yourself."

Hearing this, Zhao Yan instinctively opened his eyes and turned around in astonishment.

Looking at the somewhat odd expression on Bai Xiaoxiao's face, he froze on the spot for a moment.

What did that mean—

Before Zhao Yan could figure it out, his entire body had already dissipated into the air.

But the next moment, a pitch-black rift suddenly opened where he had vanished, and an incomparably terrifying attractive force emerged from within.

【Soul-Summoning Marshal】!

Inside 【Master of Heavenly Center】, Li Ang looked at Zhao Yan, who hadn't left so much as a single hair behind, and couldn't help muttering: "This is a bit of trouble..."

One had to know that how much of a living puppet's former abilities could be restored was extremely closely tied to the completeness of the corpse.

With Zhao Yan in this state, Li Ang clearly had no way to hand-craft a body identical to his living self.

But there was nothing to be done about it—after all, Nirvana Corpses all dissipated upon death, and being able to poach from the Ten Thousand Karma Corpse Immortal through 【Soul-Summoning Marshal】 was already pretty good.

"Forget it, this guy probably won't need much time to cultivate back up to Divine Ability."

The good news was that the puppets Li Ang made nowadays all had excellent talent; with his accumulated experience, for Zhao Yan it was nothing more than walking the same path again.

The only thing Li Ang wasn't entirely sure about right now was whether the puppet could awaken its Natal Divine Ability.

If not, then Zhao Yan's combat power would likely drop quite drastically.

After all, once he lost his identity as a Nirvana Corpse, he had no way to continue using 【Great Sin Blood Body】.

While 【Soul-Summoning Marshal】 was still piecing together Zhao Yan's spirituality, Li Ang casually pulled out a generic puppet and began making specialized modifications to it, taking the opportunity to try out an idea that had popped up recently.

Back in the One-Punch Man world, because his abilities weren't yet complete, he could only let the Star Shepherd clan revive in that world's 【Land of Death】.

But now with the general skill 【Eternal Recurrence · Remnant】, he could undoubtedly try to set save points for these puppets he carried with him.

As for the location, naturally it was 【Master of Heavenly Center】.

And if this idea of his could be realized, the Ten Thousand Karma Corpse Immortal would probably have to step aside.

After all, that Lord of Nirvana could only raise the dead once; he had no way to make them repeatedly play dead and come back.

Of course, Li Ang also couldn't, like Him, span several hundred years and still make the dead stand up and work for him—that's all there was to it; each had its own advantages.

Just as Li Ang was buried in tinkering with the puppet in front of him, 【Soul-Summoning Marshal】 had already successfully taken control of Zhao Yan's soul.

At this moment, the former supreme of Wangchuan Art Academy looked at the scene before him with a somewhat dazed expression, and couldn't help murmuring: "Where is this?"

It wasn't his first death, so he naturally knew that after death there was nothingness; this scene before him was actually his first time seeing it.

But soon, Zhao Yan noticed a young man standing not far away in front of a "corpse," seemingly busy with something.

He drifted over slowly, just about to speak up and ask, when he noticed that the body on the table looked somewhat familiar.

Wasn't that him?!

Upon realizing this, Zhao Yan was dumbstruck on the spot.

What on earth was going on?!

Before he could figure out what was happening, he heard the young man say with a hint of dissatisfaction: "Tch... still no good."

At this moment, Li Ang stared at the puppet on the workbench before him, brows tightly knit, lost in thought.

The plan to add save points to these puppets had failed, because 【Eternal Recurrence · Remnant】 couldn't be applied to anyone other than himself.

Or to put it more accurately, he currently had no way to share this ability with others.

Fortunately, he already had a rough idea of how to solve this problem.

One method was to imitate the 【System】 created by that God of the Bible in the DXD world, and "bless" these puppets with his own abilities.

However, since the God of the Holy Scripture's own strength and vision were rather lacking, to achieve this step he would probably need to make major modifications to the 【System】.

Besides this, Li Ang thought of another method.

Glancing at the other route previously provided by the 【Traveler】 talent, he couldn't help stroking his chin: "Astellar God?"

If he could go to the Honkai: Star Rail world and obtain a Path-related profession, it would clearly solve this problem easily.

Unfortunately, even if the 【Stellar God】 profession could be generated, Li Ang estimated it would be at least an eighth energy-level profession.

Honestly, this was clearly a bit far off for him; in the short term, he could probably only place his hopes on the 【System】.

Thinking of this, Li Ang couldn't help but reach a decision in his heart.

If the next journey didn't refresh a suitable world, then he could indeed drop by the Honkai: Star Rail world for a spin.

Anyway, that world had no shortage of oddballs; he probably wouldn't be targeted by that Fufilling Archdeacon the moment he arrived, but rather that Blissful Stellar God would very likely come looking for him.

'Can the Path thingy be walked on two at once?'

With such thoughts, Li Ang couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Whether it would work would have to wait until he got there; if it didn't work, he could only look at which Path suited him better, preferably one whose Stellar God had already died.

Since this matter wasn't urgent, after a brief consideration Li Ang pressed it to the back of his mind, then turned to look at Zhao Yan beside him, who seemed to want to speak but held back.

"How do you feel? Unlike that little girl, since I acted in time, your spirit body condition should be quite a bit better."

Hearing this, Zhao Yan was first stunned, but immediately swallowed back the words at the tip of his throat.

He had originally wanted to ask who the other party actually was, but now it seemed unnecessary.

This person was actually the elder behind Bai Xiaoxiao!?

Realizing this, Zhao Yan couldn't help opening his mouth wide, at a loss for what to say.

Just as his mind was somewhat dazed, Li Ang spoke: "If there's no problem, then try out this body and see if it suits you."

After saying this, he also muttered a low complaint: "It's all that guy Wanye Corpse Immortal's fault, I couldn't even put it to waste use."

Hearing these words, Zhao Yan gradually came back to his senses.

He glanced at the corpse on the platform beside him, really wanting to ask what the origins of the person before him were, after all the other's actions were hardly any different from Wanye Corpse Immortal's.

But in the end he still asked nothing, and directly threw himself into the body beside him.

Immediately the next moment, the puppet on the platform opened its eyes.

At this time, Zhao Yan, feeling his incomparably sturdy body, once again wore a dazed expression.