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Chapter 281: Live Like Summer Flowers, Die Like Autumn Leaves

White plasma replaced flames, molten glass fluid replaced lava, and endless white plasma spheres emanated from within. This land became a twisted mixture where heaven and hell coexisted.

Bai Mo, positioned at the very heart of the plasma Xuanhua, projected his will into the amorphous, bizarre monsters outside, just as he had previously tried to create so-called "kin" by infusing matter with his will in the Antarctic.

Every second, hundreds of monsters formed from his Xuanhua emerged from the super plasma sphere and began to advance around the city of Maysuo.

Originally, Xuanhua of this kind would quickly dissipate after losing its controller, but Bai Mo, who cultivated both the Martial Path and was adept at will projection, largely compensated for this flaw.

The Burning Legion, carrying his projected will, now seemed to have transformed into his countless avatars and began to wreak havoc in Maysuo.

Thanks to his training in cultivating his martial will within the VR system, Bai Mo possessed extensive experience in controlling large groups of monsters.

To outsiders, it was utterly unimaginable that these countless monsters, each moving differently and seemingly possessing their own life force, could actually be controlled by a single person.

"What exactly do you intend to do? If your goal was to destroy this place, you could have leveled half of Maysuo by simply not decelerating just now."

Ning Yan Huo was completely bewildered. Harboring an intense hatred for the One-Wheel Cult, he wished a meteorite would just smash them all to death. What was the point of landing now and then sending out a bunch of strange creatures to wander around?

"But you promised the One-Wheel Cult would be utterly annihilated... Aren't devils supposed to be the most trustworthy?"

"Yes."

After speaking those two words, Bai Mo paid no further heed to Ning Yan Huo beside him, but instead took out the tree heart, which had been meticulously protected on his person.

This tree heart, which had gathered all the essence of the Apple Tree demon, Ying Huo, contained such surging vitality that even Ning Yan Huo, reduced to just a head, was stunned!

It turned out that for the past few days, the fragment that had been sustaining his life was merely an insignificant portion of it.

He even speculated that if he could possess this entire tree heart, he, with only his head remaining, might be able to prolong his life by at least another ten years?

The tree heart was densely covered with runes that Bai Mo had etched onto it over the past few months. To ensure it truly met the requirements of his plan, he had expended a tremendous amount of effort on the design of these runes.

As the birthplace of rune research, the European Union, in this field, still held the world's most leading position, yet no one could have imagined that one of their three most celebrated rune masters was actually an avatar infiltrated by Bai Mo.

To acquire the most cutting-edge research findings from various nations, he had dispatched numerous psionic avatars, controlling one or two of the most inconspicuous individuals within their research departments, and then, by participating in the research, gradually entering the core.

With countless resources as backing and a terrifying intellect formed by hundreds of superimposed thoughts, no matter which foreign research institute it was, the low-level researchers he controlled would rapidly rise within a few years, becoming a prominent expert in their field and thus gaining access to various core research materials.

It wasn't that no one suspected the miraculous rise of these individuals; it was just that each of them very quickly disappeared...

Moreover, the avatars had indeed produced many outstanding achievements, and their individual capabilities were universally recognized. No one believed an organization would use such top-tier researchers as scientific spies constantly facing mortal danger.

Bai Mo painstakingly used his psychic power to cut his finger, squeezing out a drop of blood, using blood as ink to add the final, crucial stroke to all the runes etched upon it, thus awakening Ying Huo, who had been sealed in slumber.

Just as the final stroke was added, Ning Yan Huo, who had been watching Bai Mo from the side, felt that the piece of wood in Bai Mo's hand suddenly transformed into a colossal dragon! A terrifying life form was on the verge of emerging from its cocoon!

Aided by the runes, the awakened Apple Tree demon, Ying Huo, began to grow wildly.

Countless roots sprouted from one end of the tree heart, rapidly seizing all available energy. Inside the plasma sphere where Bai Mo was located, the ground, previously covered in molten glass liquid, was continuously cooling, transforming into a layer of crystalline substance.

After extensive special treatment, the tree demon's growth rate and vitality were now beyond anything the original entity, which Bai Mo could easily suppress a few months ago, could comprehend.

The tree's expansion speed far exceeded its rate of converting carbon dioxide into organic matter. To compensate for this massive deficit, instinctively, its attention fell upon the single person and single head before it.

"Its name is also Ying Huo; let it devour you, and then Ying Huo will complete the rest of your revenge for you." Bai Mo said faintly to Ning Yan Huo.

"Live like summer flowers, die like autumn leaves." Ning Yan Huo, who had already come to terms with life and death, closed his eyes and recited these final eight words with a smile, then allowed the Apple Tree demon's roots to pierce into his head, rapidly siphoning away everything that could be devoured.

Until only a desiccated skull remained did the densely packed roots withdraw from it.

A cultivator who had consumed vast amounts of spirit materials over several years and had already stepped half a foot into the Xuanhua Stage, even if reduced to just a head, still contained a substantial amount of nutrients, and in a certain sense, could be considered a precious natural treasure.

At least for the tree demon, Ying Huo, this could be considered a potent supplement.

However, this was not Bai Mo's primary reason for allowing Ning Yan Huo to be devoured by the Apple Tree demon. The true reason lay in the terrifying ability of the tree demon, Ying Huo, to partially convert the thoughts and memories of devoured creatures into its own.

As the tree demon, Ying Huo, after being subjected to Bai Mo's extensive memory cleansing, had no memories, like a newborn. Although it possessed an extremely terrifying capacity for thought, everything was still a blank slate.

After devouring Ning Yan Huo, all its movements ceased. It continuously received Ning Yan Huo's most primal and profound memory—the annihilation of the One-Wheel Cult.

Ying Huo, which had virtually no concept of self, began to have its personality shaped by these incomplete, devoured memories, indirectly becoming a part of a second Ning Yan Huo.

"It seems to have succeeded." Using his Eye of Emotion, Bai Mo noticed that the tree demon before him was gradually developing human-like emotions, a red light that represented hatred.

With a casual spirit art fireball, he cremated Ning Yan Huo's remains on the ground into ash, truly transforming him into smoke and fire. He then began to release various spirit materials compressed within his 'A Thousand Miles in a Foot' to feed the tree demon, which still required extensive sustenance.

'A Thousand Miles in a Foot,' which compressed a spatial area on his body, for Bai Mo, was no different in use from the legendary spatial ring.

He had placed a vast quantity of items within the compressed space and then used his psychic power to maintain their perpetual relative stillness with himself, thereby achieving the effect of carrying them.