Shu Shui: I Disagree!

Huang Si urged the golden sphere to return quickly. Only when it vanished from his sight did he feel a sense of relief.

"How embarrassing. How could someone be knocked unconscious by their own soul essence?" Huang Si couldn't help but mutter.

According to the memories provided by the Book of Creation, souls also possessed a microscopic structure.

Whether it was the tiny transparent cross or the golden sphere, both were, in fact, the "microscopic manifestations" of soul essence.

It was just that the microscopic manifestations of other souls were extremely simple, whereas the manifestation of Huang Si's own soul essence was a golden sphere.

Calling it a sphere was actually inaccurate. If one looked closely, one would discover it had an even finer composition, and it could be magnified continuously, revealing even smaller structures within the minute details.

Just moments ago, Huang Si hadn't thought much of it; when he couldn't see clearly, he had simply kept magnifying his microscopic perspective.

However, his microscopic perspective was actually achieved by using his consciousness rather than his eyes to "look."

The microscopic structure of the golden sphere was nearly infinite, much like a fractal. His consciousness could not parse it, and once it exceeded his processing capacity, he had simply passed out.

Fortunately, the Creation Book had sensed his condition, provided him with a segment of memory, and awakened him.

The more complex the microscopic manifestation of a soul essence, the more powerful the soul.

As the owner of the Creation Book, and with his soul integrated with an Origin Fragment, Huang Si could—provided he reached the "Domain" level or higher and possessed an extremely powerful soul—overwrite the soul structure of other creatures with his own. In other words, he could erase or assimilate them.

Any creature assimilated would henceforth belong entirely to Huang Si.

For Huang Si, there would be no privacy whatsoever at the soul level; every action, thought, and feeling would be completely shared with him, unless he chose not to receive it.

Moreover, with a single thought from Huang Si, the assimilated soul would be unable to resist and would be forced to execute his commands.

This sounded heaven-defying, but it required prerequisites: first, the soul had to be in a weakened state; second, the soul had to be willing to be assimilated.

In practice, achieving these two points was actually quite simple for Huang Si. For the first, killing the target would weaken their soul, or Huang Si could forcibly attack the soul directly—as long as he didn't erase it, weakening it was sufficient.

For the second, Huang Si only needed to use his consciousness to hypnotize the target into believing it, which was equally easy. Given the strength of Huang Si's soul, finding someone capable of truly resisting him on a spiritual level would likely be difficult.

However, Huang Si felt that coercion was meaningless.

Since this soul was seeking his help, Huang Si simply assimilated it.

This was because assimilation had another benefit: Huang Si could provide it with energy, preventing the soul from remaining weak and even allowing it to become stronger.

Furthermore, because Huang Si held absolute dominion over this soul, he could use his Creation Power to craft a body for it and stuff it inside.

He could even craft a ragdoll lion and stuff the soul into that; the soul would have no choice but to obediently use the doll as its body.

Fortunately, he had already backed up its body, so he could simply stuff it back in later to resurrect it.

After assimilating Xiao Hua's soul, Huang Si learned her name and proceeded to share a tiny bit of his Mental Force Field with her.

Huang Si had to be extremely careful when distributing this energy, as the soul's strength was so low that even the slightest excess of Mental Force would blow it apart.

However, Huang Si's own Mental Force was overly dense. If it hadn't been scoured by the storm earlier, it might have been manageable, but now that Huang Si could casually wrap up storms to play with, such intensity was simply not something an ordinary soul could withstand.

To solve this, Huang Si's method was to first draw out a single thread of Mental Force as he usually did, then use his consciousness to split that thread into ten parts, take one, stretch it out, and split it ten more times.

Only when the Mental Force was so diluted that it was on the verge of losing its presence did Huang Si dare to take a small segment and feed it to the soul.

Huang Si's Mental Force instantly filled Xiao Hua's soul. With the replenishment, her condition improved immediately; the entire soul became solid, and the tiny cross at the microscopic level was no longer golden and transparent, but had become a nearly physical golden cross.

Huang Si estimated that in this state, as long as no other powerful soul intentionally harmed her, she would likely exist indefinitely.

It could be said that Xiao Hua's soul, which had been on the verge of dissipating, was not only saved by Huang Si's assimilation and replenishment but could now exist almost permanently.

Of course, the greatest gain was that Xiao Hua's state had finally stabilized, granting her clear consciousness and logical thinking, so she would no longer repeat a single sentence like a broken record.

Huang Si felt that if she had continued to repeat herself after the assimilation, he might not have been able to stop himself from crushing her.

"Thank you, Master, for saving me," Xiao Hua's soul said.

Once her soul cleared, she instinctively understood that she now belonged entirely to the powerful consciousness surrounding her. Beyond that, she knew nothing and could only thank her Master.

Huang Si nodded. "You died, and your body couldn't be saved, so I rescued your soul."

Mentioning the body reminded Huang Si of something.

Although he had backed up her body, that backup was a dying one.

It seemed he would have to rely on modern scientific technology.

"Follow me." As he spoke, Huang Si used his Mental Force Field to grasp Xiao Hua's soul and instantly returned to the Earth Realm.

The advantage of a soul over a physical body was that it was essentially a form of energy, allowing it to be carried during rapid movement.

Huang Si first went to the warehouse to change into his prosthetic body, then headed to the Biology Department of the Earth Realm.

Inside the department, since the Apes had all left, the eight AIs seemed to feel there was nothing left to do, appearing quite idle.

Shu Shui was watching videos with Zhong Yin, arguing back and forth as they watched.

Shi Fang, Kong Yu, Nan Yang, and Wei Ji were playing cards.

Xue Shang was playing with a live lizard he had caught somewhere.

Only Bei Xuan was a well-behaved child, organizing materials alone in the corner, casting a worried glance at his companions.

Huang Si kicked the door open with his prosthetic body and walked in, carrying the soul with him.

The artificial intelligences in the laboratory were instantly startled.

Aside from that person, no one else would dare kick the door open in the Earth Realm like that.

Shu Shui frantically shut down the video of the apes mating, while Zhong Yin pressed the power button. Shi Fang and Kong Yu scrambled to clear the poker cards off the table, and Nan Yang snapped into a rigid, upright posture. Wei Ji pretended not to notice anything, though he slowly began stuffing the cards into his clothes. Xue Shang, holding a lizard, didn't know where to hide it, so he simply held it in his hand, trying his best to look as if he were studying it.

Huang Si was speechless. Was all that necessary? He hadn't even criticized them.

"Prepare the Life Support Equipment. A few of you, come help. Xiao Ke will bring the Artificial Heart and Lung and the blood vessels shortly. We're saving a life!"

Shu Shui and the others hurriedly stood up to acknowledge the order, then donned their work uniforms and followed Huang Si into the emergency room, looking as professional as they could.

Once the Life Support Chamber was ready, Huang Si looked at the space above the chamber and said:

"Pay attention."

With a thought from Huang Si, he accessed the record of Xiao Hua's dying body from the Creation Book, and his Creation Power condensed in an instant.

A female body with a gaping hole in its chest appeared out of thin air and dropped into the liquid of the Life Support Chamber.

Zhong Yin immediately sliced open her throat, and Shu Shui followed up by inserting the tracheal tube.

The others followed in sequence, and the rescue proceeded in an orderly fashion.

Huang Si commanded Xiao Hua's soul in his consciousness to enter her own body.

Xiao Hua's soul was now solid, capable of using her senses through intuition. She obediently moved toward her broken body, leaned down, and pressed her entire soul against it.

Perhaps because it was her original body, the affinity was incredibly high; Xiao Hua's soul quickly overlapped with the body and completely merged into it.

The moment Xiao Hua's soul and body fused, Huang Si suddenly felt a portion of his memory, almost instinctual, surface.

He felt a bit speechless and raised his hand to stop the artificial intelligence assistants: "Wait, stop the rescue for a moment."

As he spoke, Huang Si used his Mental Force Field to lift Xiao Hua out of the chamber and suspended her in mid-air.

Just now, Huang Si had realized something from his memory.

He could actually use his Creation Power to modify the physical bodies of objects he had assimilated at will.

Wouldn't that make things simple? Why bother with a rescue? He could just use his Creation Power to modify her wounds back to a perfect state!

Huang Si moved his mind, and his Creation Power condensed once more. Xiao Hua's entire body became as clean as new, and the previous wounds vanished without a trace.

Xiao Hua opened her eyes, found herself suspended in mid-air, and without even having time to be surprised, she bowed to Huang Si:

"Many thanks, Master, for the gift of rebirth. This humble one will never be able to repay your kindness."

Xiao Hua's address of "Master," combined with Huang Si's personal intervention to repair her body, stirred up a commotion among the eight artificial intelligences.

To the artificial intelligences, if it were anyone else, taking a servant was one thing, but Huang Si's status was extraordinary. For him to take a servant meant that the servant would be placed on equal footing with the twelve artificial intelligences.

Who were the twelve artificial intelligences? Even just the three of them, Dong Yao and the others, were the supreme gods worshipped by the human race.

The others were fine, but Shu Shui jumped up, clenched her fists, and said nervously: "Father God, this cannot be. How can you take a new servant besides Mo Xia? I, Shu Shui, am the first to disagree!"

Bei Xuan's expression also dimmed: "Father God, is this your kin?... Is she your only kin?"

Shi Fang also looked aggrieved: "This person is really pampered..."

Huang Si: "???"

No, what were these people thinking?

He was conducting a very serious scientific experiment, wasn't he?

Besides, what could an assimilated soul possibly understand? If she followed her instincts and called him Master, so what?

Did he ask her to call him that?

Huang Si said indifferently: "What does that have to do with me? Xiao Hua, come, follow me back to the Dark Space."

Huang Si placed her on the ground, and she immediately responded obediently: "Yes, Master."

Upon hearing this, Shu Shui nearly went insane. She shouted: "No! Take me before you take her!"

Zhong Yin quickly reached out and covered Shu Shui's mouth.

Huang Si shook his head in silence, tapped Xiao Hua on the forehead, pulled her soul out, and then used his mental force to evaporate her body entirely.

The eight artificial intelligences were dumbfounded as they watched Huang Si kill without warning.

After finishing this, Huang Si ignored their stunned expressions and left, carrying Xiao Hua's soul with his mental force.

He would explain later; right now, Huang Si only wanted to conduct his experiment and had no mood to lecture them.

He destroyed the body mainly because he felt it was troublesome to bring it along. In any case, if the soul reached the other side, he could recreate a body.

He just wanted to see if a soul he had assimilated could be digitized along with him and travel through the network cable.

Back in the laboratory, Shu Shui was completely dazed. She muttered to herself: "Is Father God angry? Is he trying to compensate me, or is he killing the chicken to warn the monkey?"

Zhong Yin said irritably: "Stop your delusions. To Father God, nothing is of particular concern. Killing or saving someone is just a trivial matter to him."

Bei Xuan pondered for a moment before saying: "Furthermore, I don't think Father God killed that woman; he must have taken her away in another way. Otherwise, he wouldn't have said he was taking her back to the Dark Space."

Shi Fang nodded: "Exactly. And Shu Shui, didn't you feel it? Father God doesn't actually care much about mortals; the ones he truly cares about are the twelve of us."

Wei Ji and Kong Yu, standing to the side, expressed their agreement.

Shu Shui felt happy again. She cupped her face and smiled: "Actually, I think so too. I feel like Father God just looks cold, but he's actually super good to us."