"What the hell?"
Dai Changsheng suddenly sat up, staring at the snack bags slowly drifting down. He pondered to himself, Could it be that, like Alice, I've awakened psychic powers?
To test his guess, Dai Changsheng hurriedly fixed his gaze on the shards of glass on the floor and tried using Mental Power to gather them together.
"Bzzzt, bzzzt, bzzzt..."
As Dai Changsheng's thoughts raced, an invisible force of Mental Power emerged from his mind, transforming into two unseen hands that swept all the glass shards into a pile.
Dai Changsheng could not help laughing. "I really am a genius!"
After the original movie's heroine, Alice, was infected with the T-Virus, it had taken her a long time to awaken psychic powers. Dai Changsheng, on the other hand, had awakened them in only a few hours.
However, the reason Dai Changsheng had awakened psychic powers so quickly was mainly because his current spiritual power far surpassed that of ordinary people.
Psychic power was also known as "Mental Power." As the name implied, it was a derivative ability of spiritual power.
Therefore, the stronger a person's spiritual power was, the easier it was for them to awaken psychic powers, and the greater the power they could unleash.
After conducting a simple test, Dai Changsheng gained a rough understanding of the psychic powers he had just awakened.
Perhaps because they had only just awakened, his psychic powers were still rather weak. At most, they could lift an object weighing around seven hundred jin.
Their range was also limited. At present, Dai Changsheng could only use psychic powers to control objects within a hundred meters of himself.
"Not bad!"
Though his newly awakened psychic powers were somewhat weak, they had immense potential for growth, and Dai Changsheng was quite satisfied.
In the original plot, several years after Alice awakened psychic powers, she could even directly destroy Umbrella Corporation satellite components, giving her an attack range of at least several hundred kilometers.
If even Alice could reach that level, then Dai Changsheng, whose spiritual power far surpassed hers, would certainly do even better in the future.
Besides finding a way to increase the macroscopic power of his psychic abilities, Dai Changsheng also needed to improve their microscopic precision.
If he could develop his psychic powers to the atomic level, he could directly alter the atomic structure of objects. Turning charcoal into diamonds would be no more than a thought.
Of course, developing psychic powers to the atomic level was extraordinarily difficult. Dai Changsheng could not possibly achieve it anytime soon.
If psychic power were compared to a woodcutter's axe, controlling objects like beer bottles would be like chopping wood with that axe—it only required a little effort.
But using psychic powers to alter an object's atomic structure would be like using that same axe to carve a miniature Along the River During the Qingming Festival onto a strand of hair. An ordinary person could never accomplish such a thing.
After testing the general capabilities of his psychic powers, Dai Changsheng's excitement gradually calmed. He closed his eyes again and soon fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning
When the first ray of morning sunlight filtered through the window and gently fell across Dai Changsheng's face, he slowly woke from his sleep.
"Ahhh~~~"
After waking up, Dai Changsheng first stretched lazily, then got up, washed up, and ate a breakfast made of snacks and canned food.
Intercepting Xiao Wu
Having eaten and drunk his fill, Dai Changsheng was in no hurry to head out exploring. Instead, he sat cross-legged in the living room and cultivated the Nine Yang Divine Skill.
Only after cultivating for a full two hours did Dai Changsheng stop. Carrying a backpack full of water and food, along with several hundred coins, he left the house.
The reason Dai Changsheng had found so many coins was because the child in this household had a habit of saving money. The piggy bank in the bedroom contained over three hundred coins in total.
Under the control of psychic powers, one-yuan coins made of metal could not only unleash power comparable to bullets, but also improve Dai Changsheng's control over his psychic abilities.
"Roar, roar, roar..."
The moment Dai Changsheng stepped out of the apartment building, the zombies wandering around the plaza pounced at him with bared fangs and claws like sharks that had smelled blood.
A trace of disdain flashed through Dai Changsheng's eyes. He raised two fingers and lightly waved them.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
Four thumb-sized coins shot from Dai Changsheng's pocket like bullets leaving a barrel, instantly piercing through the heads of the four fastest zombies.
At that moment, Dai Changsheng was like an orchestra conductor, gently waving his baton as the coins and zombie heads jointly performed a bloody yet beautiful requiem.
Under the slaughter of the four coin bullets, the several hundred zombies wandering in the plaza did not even last a minute before all falling into eternal sleep.
After dealing with every zombie in the plaza, Dai Changsheng placed his right hand over his heart and gave a slight bow toward the apartment building.
The few survivors hiding in the apartment building immediately thought of two words—elegant!
Though those survivors were shocked by Dai Changsheng's strength, none of them dared approach him rashly.
After all, in an apocalypse where social order had collapsed, human nature was often more dangerous than zombies.
Over the past month or so, many naive, saintly survivors had already paid a painful price for their naivety.
Since Dai Changsheng could kill several hundred zombies with superpowers in such a short time, he could naturally use those superpowers to kill people as well.
Before figuring out Dai Changsheng's temperament, no one dared rashly approach such a dangerous person.
Dai Changsheng paid no attention to what those survivors thought. He swaggered out of the residential complex and headed toward a nearby department store.
Influenced by the memories of his other selves from other worlds, Dai Changsheng had also developed considerable ambition and already regarded the entire world as something within his grasp.
Therefore, Dai Changsheng planned to first seize a department store, then establish a survivor base and take the first step toward conquering the world.
Douluo Continent
Heaven Dou Empire, Nuoding City.
In Nuoding City's western district stood a junior Soul Master Academy, the famous Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy.
Xiao Wu, dressed in a pink dress with her hair tied into a scorpion braid, bounced around Tang San like a restless little white rabbit. "Little San, the academy's closed today. How about we go shopping?"
Xiao Wu had only gone to Spirit Hall with Tang San two days ago to collect last month's Soul Master allowance, so she wanted to spend the extra money she had on hand.
"Sorry, Xiao Wu. The blacksmith shop has been busy these past few days. I already promised Uncle Shi San that I'd help out there for the next two days."
Uncle Shi San, whom Tang San mentioned, was the owner of a blacksmith shop in Nuoding City, where Tang San was currently working part-time.
Seeing Xiao Wu's disappointed expression, with even the rabbit-ear ornament on her head drooping, Tang San said helplessly, "All right, all right! I promise I'll go shopping with you next weekend, okay?"
"That's more like it. Go get busy, then!"
Having received the answer she wanted, Xiao Wu nodded with a sweet smile before heading into the city alone to browse around.
Dai Changsheng, disguised as a street vendor, saw that Xiao Wu had finally separated from Tang San and silently followed after her.
After following Xiao Wu around for over half an hour and seeing her enter the newly opened clothing store with his own eyes, Dai Changsheng could not help revealing a wicked grin, as though his scheme had succeeded.
The owner behind that clothing store, named 'Anima,' was none other than the disguised Dai Changsheng.
The reason Dai Changsheng had deliberately opened a clothing store in Nuoding City was primarily to snatch Xiao Wu away right under Tang Hao's nose.
Hidden in the underground storeroom of that clothing store was a tunnel over a hundred meters deep that stretched for more than ten kilometers and led directly outside the city.
As long as Xiao Wu entered the clothing store, the clerks would guide her into a changing room and light incense mixed with a special knockout drug.
Once Xiao Wu had fallen unconscious, the clerks would transport her through the underground passage into the forest outside the city.
Since the clerks in the clothing store were all ordinary people without Soul Power, unless Tang Hao had been secretly following Xiao Wu the entire time, he could never have imagined that Xiao Wu would be kidnapped by ordinary people.
A little over half an hour later, the store clerks, whom Dai Changsheng had controlled with poison, finally transported the unconscious Xiao Wu into the woods outside the city.
After delivering Xiao Wu to the designated location, the clerks did not linger. They returned to the clothing store by the same route.
Once the clerks had left, a Ten Thousand Year Snow Eagle with a wingspan exceeding five meters and a somewhat illusory-looking body descended from the sky. It grabbed the unconscious Xiao Wu and shot into the air, vanishing beyond the horizon in the blink of an eye.
That Ten Thousand Year Snow Eagle flew at full speed for several hours before finally stopping over a remote, uninhabited sea.
Dai Changsheng, hidden among the clouds, did not immediately reveal himself. Instead, he waited another half hour. Only after confirming that Tang Hao had not followed did he ride the Ten Thousand Year Light Swan and fly over to the Ten Thousand Year Snow Eagle.
That was right! This Ten Thousand Year Snow Eagle was also Dai Changsheng's Soul Battle Slave.
Since Dai Changsheng still had no way of excavating the Dragon King Bone buried beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, there was no need for him to enslave so many Soul Battle Slaves skilled at burrowing underground.
Thus, Dai Changsheng released Benson's soul, hunted down another Snow Eagle with thirty-thousand-year Soul Power, and enslaved its soul instead.
After all, enslaving human souls sounded far too evil and could easily provoke the disgust of other Soul Masters.
Ever since Dai Changsheng had enslaved Benson's soul, he had not dared summon it in front of others. It was better to replace it with the soul of a soul beast.
"Hmm? Where is this?"
After Dai Changsheng fed Xiao Wu the antidote, Xiao Wu, who had remained unconscious, slowly opened her large watery eyes.
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Xiao Wu's Sacrifice
"Xiao Wu, look into my eyes!"
Before Xiao Wu could figure out what was happening, she saw a pair of eerie silver-glowing double pupils, and her gaze became unfocused.
"Xiao Wu, Tang San is in grave danger right now. Only by choosing to sacrifice yourself can you save his life. Please, save him..."
While circulating the Nine Yang Divine Skill, Dai Changsheng fully activated the Soul Shifting Great Method and used a voice filled with magic to hypnotize Xiao Wu.
The Soul Shifting Great Method was one of the supreme techniques from the Nine Yin Manual. It was somewhat like an enhanced form of hypnosis, best suited for dealing with opponents who possessed strong martial arts but weak resolve.
Placed in Douluo Continent, the Soul Shifting Great Method was equivalent to an extremely rare spiritual-type soul skill.
Xiao Wu's Soul Power was only at rank seventeen. Faced with Dai Changsheng's full-force Soul Shifting Great Method, she had no ability to resist.
"Little San is in danger. I have to save Little San. I have to save Little San..."
The confusion on Xiao Wu's face soon gradually turned into determination.
"Xiao Wu, I'm Tang San. I'm in so much pain. I'm about to die. Please, save me..."
Seeing that the Soul Shifting Great Method was beginning to take effect, Dai Changsheng immediately disguised himself as Tang San and imitated Tang San's voice as he pleaded to Xiao Wu for help.
"Ah—"
Mistaking Dai Changsheng for Tang San, Xiao Wu's eyes turned blood-red. Throwing back her slender neck, she let out an incomparably shrill cry of grief that spread across the sea for hundreds of miles.
"Swish!!!"
Dazzling red light abruptly spread from between Xiao Wu's brows, transforming into a ring of crimson radiance that instantly expanded outward.
Wherever the red light passed, everything was dyed the color of blood, as if even time had been frozen.
Xiao Wu's entire body turned blood-red, a clear and translucent dark crimson. Her clothes had already turned to ash and vanished, exposing her flawless, translucent body.
"You... you're not Little San..."
As red blood-flames ignited around Xiao Wu, she temporarily regained the cultivation of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and forcibly broke free from the hypnotic state.
Unfortunately, once the sacrificial ritual began, even Xiao Wu could not stop it. She could only stare at Dai Changsheng, that despicable man, with despairing and unwilling eyes as she cursed him.
The blood-flames burned ever more fiercely, gradually changing from red to dark crimson. Xiao Wu's body also slowly faded during that transformation, becoming like an increasingly transparent red crystal.
All the red light began slowly contracting, forming a massive red soul ring that descended toward Dai Changsheng.
"Ha ha ha..."
Gazing at Xiao Wu's hate-filled eyes, Dai Changsheng could not help laughing maniacally. "Rogue Rabbit, I'll gladly accept your hundred-thousand-year soul ring!"
As soon as Dai Changsheng finished speaking, he directly summoned his Tiger Head Saber Martial Soul and drew that blood-red hundred-thousand-year soul ring onto it.
Because the method of sacrifice Xiao Wu used was more overbearing than the one used by the Blue Silver Emperor, sacrificing not only all her life force but also her soul, Dai Changsheng could perfectly fuse with this hundred-thousand-year soul ring whether or not he met the requirements to absorb it.
Strictly speaking, Dai Changsheng tricking Xiao Wu into sacrificing herself to him was actually a good thing for her.
According to the original plot, hundred-thousand-year soul beasts that became soul rings through sacrifice were essentially similar to soul spirits.
Therefore, as long as Dai Changsheng became a god in the future, Xiao Wu could be resurrected in the form of a subordinate deity. Like the Titan Giant Apes in The Unrivaled Tang Sect, she could simply lie back and win.
Perhaps because Xiao Wu had been schemed against too miserably by Dai Changsheng, as the hundred-thousand-year soul ring slowly fused with the Tiger Head Saber Martial Soul, the originally silver-white martial soul gradually transformed into an eerie blood-red saber wreathed in a cold, sinister aura of resentment.
Seeing this, Dai Changsheng showed no concern whatsoever. Instead, he revealed an amused smile. "Since you've evolved into something so handsome, I'll call you the Tiger Soul Saber from now on!"
"..."
Upon hearing this, the resentment emanating from the Tiger Soul Saber became even denser. It must have really liked that name!
At the same time, information about the First Soul Skill awakened by the Tiger Soul Saber slowly emerged in Dai Changsheng's mind.
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