Chapter 787: Watermelon
To be frank, if they had a choice, they wouldn't want to rely on Bai Mo's might, but there was no doubt that siding with him would undeniably secure them a better price when negotiating with the Zerg Mother.
Emotionally, the Empire's people mostly harbored resistance towards Bai Mo, but rationally, they were quite honestly standing on his side.
"Let's speak frankly then, shall we?" Bai Mo paid no heed to their petty thoughts, instead suddenly striking a fierce punch towards the void.
"Clang!" People seemed to hear the sound of shattering.
His fist was as if it had struck some kind of glass.
Centered on his fist, rings of spatial cracks extended outwards, and the world seemed to shatter, revealing its true form hidden beneath.
The reek of blood assailed them, and what had been a magnificent palace and a tidy hall had all transformed into slowly writhing masses of enormous flesh.
The ground they stood on was, in reality, woven from long, slender muscle fibers, and it felt slightly slippery.
When Bai Mo had arrived a few days prior, the naked, upside-down sacrificial meat-men waiting for death were nowhere to be seen, only the tentacles that had once strung them up like kebabs remained.
A hell forged from flesh and blood.
As for the watermelon Yi Si Si had originally intended to hand to Ji Er Ke Fu, it had now transformed into a bisected half-brain.
The fresh red blood continuously seeping from it had indeed dyed this half-brain a watermelon-like color.
And the fragrant, intoxicating grapes had turned into segments of intestines.
Several oranges, too, had shed their disguise, revealing their true identities—individual hearts, still faintly twitching with muscle spasms.
"..."
Ji Er Ke Fu retracted the hand he had originally intended to use to take the watermelon.
Though few present were truly virtuous individuals, with plenty of lives on their hands, that didn't mean they'd enjoy such a dark environment, rife with flesh and blood.
Not to mention, this Yi Si Si fellow actually intended to trick them into eating these disgusting, raw organs, from who knows what creature.
"Hmm? You don't like to eat this?" The white-clad girl took a ferocious bite out of the "watermelon" in her hand, red and white juices splattering around her teeth.
If that hadn't been brain matter, but a true watermelon, and if the girl's lips hadn't been stained with pinkish viscous fluid, this cheerful scene would surely have been quite pleasing to the eye.
"..."
Even the most vivacious person would find themselves at a loss when facing a monster casually chatting with them while eating what appeared to be human brain matter.
If not for their clear understanding of the disparity between them, they would likely have swarmed forward, reducing this disgusting, man-eating monster disguised in human skin to ashes and dust.
Of course, the truth was that even if they attacked together, they still wouldn't stand a chance against the Zerg Mother.
The only ones who could maintain their composure in the scene, aside from Yi Si Si who was delightedly "eating her melon," was the silent Bai Mo.
"Then let's continue with the main business." Seeing that her well-intentioned offering seemed to be unappreciated by the other party, perhaps due to cultural differences, the Zerg Mother swallowed the "melon" in a few bites, then lightly patted her flat belly and spoke.
Ever since she gained memory, she had always consumed raw things; to her, these organs truly were no different from an ordinary person eating a piece of fruit.
"Main business?"
After witnessing the preceding scene, the Empire's people suddenly felt a chill run down their spines.
"Purple-Green Spirit Elixir, and Purple-Green Great Medicine." Yi Si Si once again pulled a gourd from her chest, then poured out a single Purple-Green Great Medicine from within.
Instinctively, they knew this was a treasure.
"The Purple-Green Great Medicine, a specialty of the Dao Chen Realm, can aid cultivation..." Yi Si Si launched into a lengthy explanation of the background information regarding the Purple-Green Great Medicine and Purple-Green Spirit Elixir, only barely managing to convince them that such a heaven-defying treasure could exist in this world—one that could not only boost cultivation almost without side effects, but also resist the power of Daoization.
After stepping into the Immortal stage, treasure materials that remained effective for True Immortals were exceedingly rare. Currently, only a minuscule number of Sky-tier spirit materials could provide even a faint auxiliary effect to a True Immortal's cultivation.
Lacking the aid of cultivation treasures, everyone felt their advancement and accumulation were as slow as a snail, and they desperately needed certain materials that could accelerate the process.
"For every twenty years you participate in the war, I will provide one Purple-Green Great Medicine as compensation..."
"One per person?"
"Yes."
Yi Si Si could faintly sense the discord between Bai Mo and the people he brought, so she proactively raised the price, attempting to win over this group of high-level enforcers who could truly be of use to her.
"This is the deposit." After answering their questions, the girl gently blew a breath across her hand, clearing away the traces left from eating the "melon," then lightly tapped the gourd with her finger a few times.
One.
Two.
...
Over twenty Purple-Green Great Medicine pills emerged from the gourd, slowly flying before the gathered individuals.
Each received their own share. Some meticulously examined them, their eyes transforming into microscopes to scrutinize the internal structure, while others didn't even glance, casually stuffing them into their pockets.
They wouldn't be foolish enough to absorb and refine an unknown substance given by a stranger without even testing it. However, as research material, the Purple-Green Great Medicine was indeed an excellent subject.
As the first generation of cultivators, their curiosity and spirit of exploration were exceptionally strong, for there was simply no path ahead. If they didn't venture forth to explore, they would forever be trapped where they stood.
"These are war summons. When there's a need to enter the battlefield, the summons will turn red and heat up." Yi Si Si lightly tapped her storage gourd with her finger again.
This time, several streams of light flew out from the gourd. The streams of light transformed into tokens, flying precisely into each person's hand.
The tokens' material was neither metal nor wood, bearing a slight resemblance to Earth's jade, yet not entirely similar.
"Tokens made of bugs." The Green Wizard King, Yan Huo, who was quite familiar with biological materials, smiled as he looked at the token in his hand.
Under observation with his microscopic divine sense, hundreds of millions of nano-sized bugs interconnected and worked together, collectively forming the entirety of the token.
"Nanobugs can also be bugs." It was over a hundred years ago, when recovering the memories of the brain bug Seres on Earth, that Yi Si Si discovered this creative concept, thereby opening a new world of possibilities.
From then on, she seemed to have become obsessed, spending entire decades to equip her entire bug army with nanobugs of this size class.
"The Dao Chen Realm is exceptionally vast. On normal days, you may pick any location to cultivate at your leisure. This is a partial map of the Dao Chen Realm that our army has explored and charted over the past millennium. If your cultivation techniques have special requirements, you may also consider cultivating in the lower realms of the Dao Chen Immortal Realm.
However, in the lower realms, the combat power of immortal-spiritual beings will be severely limited by the planar forces; less than one-tenth of their strength can be brought to bear.".
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