Settling the World with a Move (3) (Revised)

Settling the World with a Move (3) (Revised)

"Very true." Ye Qingcang praised Qian Renxue's treasonous remarks, though in his words and bearing, he showed no particular respect or reverence for the Heaven Dou Imperial Family either. "But taking the field yourself isn't the best choice. A ruler can only be the player, not enter the game. If you do enter the game, it means you've already chosen the inferior move."

"Then what am I supposed to do?"

"Don't tell me you have some other genius under you?"

"Or are you willing to lend me that little maid of yours?"

Qian Renxue picked up a piece and pressed it onto the board in annoyance. "Before you appeared, I'd originally made a twenty-year plan to slowly eat away at Heaven Dou. After you appeared, I revised that plan into a ten-year plan to swallow Heaven Dou whole. And today, you're telling me to speed up again, saying you'll make a major move before the Soul Master Competition. Come on, tell me, how long has it been since I changed my last ten-year plan?"

"Just over two years..." Ye Qingcang scratched his cheek, then waved a hand in explanation. "But that isn't important. What matters is what you need me to support you with. Those twenty-some geniuses who possess domains?"

"I'd like that!" Qian Renxue pursed her lips, and a hint of emotion like a girl acting spoiled with her boyfriend unconsciously appeared between her brows. Though it looked rather strange on the male face she was disguised with, neither Spear Douluo nor Porcupine Douluo, standing nearby, dared to remind her. They could only sound the alarm bells hard in their hearts, deciding they had to tell the High Priest about the Young Master's changes if they ever got the chance. "But do you have them?"

"Not right now."

"But I can."

Ye Qingcang touched the white jade thumb ring on his hand, took a silver suitcase from it, and handed it to the utterly confused Qian Renxue, deliberately keeping her in suspense. "Do you know the two secret techniques I'm famous for?"

"Of course I do."

"The Magnetic Field Secret Technique born from the foundation of Stellar Martial Arts."

"And the Alchemy Secret Technique born from the foundation of Soul Guidance Technology."

Qian Renxue took the suitcase and placed it on her lap. After hesitating for a moment, she still didn't open it right away, instead teasing him in a joking tone. "Is there some secret weapon inside?"

"If you consider them weapons, then they can be weapons."

"If you don't consider them weapons, then they don't have to be."

Ye Qingcang picked up a piece and placed it on the board.

His gentle tone was filled with something that made the soul tremble.

"The Alchemy Secret Technique is the ultimate form of Soul Guidance Technology."

"It can turn worthless soil into precious gold, and it can also turn precious gold into worthless soil."

"But almost no one knows that the Alchemy Secret Technique also has four stages."

"Black Earth."

"White Chalk."

"Red Completion."

"Gold."

"Among them, Black Earth involves the transformation of properties, such as turning soil into gold. White Chalk involves the transformation of form, such as turning soil into a butterfly. Red Completion involves the transformation of life, such as turning soil into an Artificial Human. The final Gold involves the transformation of the soul, such as turning soil into a true person. A person created by the hand of a Gold Alchemist can even learn alchemy, and in every aspect, they are identical to a true human."

"What do you think? Is there perhaps some connection between those twenty-some geniuses with domains who are utterly devoted to me and my Alchemy Secret Technique?"

In an instant, the carriage fell silent.

Even Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo, the two Titled Douluo, held their breaths, not daring to voice the possibility that had instinctively come to mind.

Qian Renxue also realized what Ye Qingcang meant.

Her pupils shrank, and she opened the suitcase.

A cluster of tops, each with a different design, entered her sight!

"Nothing happens in a single step, and no one can ascend to the heavens in one stride."

"When I created the Alchemy Secret Technique, I also climbed up step by step from a Black Earth Alchemist. Perhaps the upper limit of the Alchemy Secret Technique isn't Gold. It's only because I've currently reached the realm of Gold that the upper limit of me, its creator, is considered the upper limit of the Alchemy Secret Technique."

"And before reaching the Gold realm, a large number of alchemy experiments was indispensable."

"These are creations from my Red Completion period."

"They possess their own consciousness."

"Place them in flesh and blood, and they will control the flesh and blood to generate a new self."

"By the same principle, they can hide themselves in any part of that body. As long as they don't shatter, even if the body is beheaded, its heart crushed, or it is dismembered, they can still control the parts that haven't yet separated to fight."

"And it is precisely because of this advantage that they don't seem like living people."

Ye Qingcang's description, calm to the extreme, instantly raised an uncontrollable layer of goosebumps on the arms of Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo. Even Qian Renxue, whose mental fortitude had always been excellent, couldn't help feeling a chill down her back. As she recalled many things she had never understood before, she suddenly understood them.

Looking at the twenty-some exquisitely made tops of varying shapes in the suitcase, she gave a helpless bitter smile. "That Violet who's always inseparable from you, always calls you Master, and I heard has also become an alchemist—she's the perfect proof that you stepped into the Gold realm, isn't she?"

"Yes." Ye Qingcang admitted this fact openly, then added, "Before stepping into the Gold realm, I did not respect life. There were only four words of truth in this world—survival of the fittest. Either a weak sheep was eaten by a wolf, or an incompetent wolf starved to death alive. But after I stepped into the Gold realm, when I personally turned a fantasy into reality, I suddenly understood the meaning and weight of life. So I didn't alter her memories, nor did I give her any mission. I hoped she would be a person with a complete self. For that reason, since then, I have never created another true person. Therefore, Violet, who believes being created by me, serving me, and following me is a kind of repayment, is not for sale as far as I am concerned, and I have no right to decide where she belongs. But Red Completion-level Alchemy Creations like these—I can make them as long as I want, including enchanting them with domains and soul skills, even martial souls."

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Qian Renxue looked at the tops in the suitcase, speechless for a moment.

After a long while, she finally picked up a piece.

She pressed it onto the board in an extremely perfunctory manner.

At this critical moment when neither Spear Douluo nor Porcupine Douluo dared make a sound, she broke the silence that had lasted so long it could make a heart stop. "Looking at it now, the title Child of God those people gave you was far too conservative. Even a First Level God might not be able to create a soul, yet you've already created a life. I have no doubt that even if you never received a deity's favor, you could create your own godhood like the Angel God and Poseidon and ascend to godhood!"

"You flatter me."

"There are always people beyond people, heavens beyond the heavens."

"Always holding the most basic respect and awe for all things is the only way for us to effectively extend the end of this road of evolution."

Seeing that Qian Renxue was placing pieces so casually, Ye Qingcang also began placing pieces at random. He pinched up a chess piece, found an empty spot at random, and pressed it down. Then he clapped his hands, summoned the spirits lodged within these twenty-odd spinning tops, and introduced them one by one:

"Hermit—Giant Rock Star Shield, defense type."

"Magician—Flying Staff, balance type."

"Judgment—Thunderbook, balance type."

"Justice—Explosive Giant Fist, balance type."

"Grim Reaper—Shadow Scythes, balance type."

"Stars—Spinning Ice Blade, endurance type."

"Chariot—Explosive Thunder Cannon, attack type."

"Tower—Skybreaker Hammer, balance type."

"Count—Fire Thunder Dragon Thorn, attack type."

"Demon—Hellfire Demon Wings, attack type."

"Sun—Primal Light Shield, defense type."

"Moon—Dragon Spring Overlord Blade, endurance type."

"Destiny—Vortex Battle Wheel, endurance type."

"Empress Priestess, also called Priestess—Jade Shadow Divine Bow, endurance type."

"Fool—Raging Waves Magic Jade, endurance type."

"Emperor—Holy Light Armor, defense type."

"Empress—Ten Thousand Flame Snakes, attack type."

"Strength—Fire Scale Divine Axe, attack type."

"Temperance—Rift Tremor Steel Drill, defense type."

"Hierophant—Firmament Fury Hammer, balance type."

"Lover—Earth Burst Mystic Armor, defense type."

"World—Shadow Void Wings, all-round type."

"These twenty-two spinning tops all possess domains with different effects. Their Soul Power levels won't exceed mine, their creator's. I'm currently level forty, so at most, they're level forty too. No need to worry about where their Soul Power comes from. When they construct physical bodies from flesh and blood, they automatically fill their Soul Power to the maximum. The downside is that it consumes too much flesh and blood. But if you're not in a hurry and give them a week, they can also recover their Soul Power automatically, and won't need the support of flesh and blood. Piling up Soul Power with flesh and blood has the advantage of speed. If you dare to provide them with flesh and blood without limit, they can act as semi-perpetual motion machines and fight for you at all times."

Ye Qingcang gave Qian Renxue these instructions with seeming frankness.

In reality, he had concealed the most important secret.

However, Qian Renxue also knew that since Ye Qingcang could tell her these secrets, then these secrets definitely were no longer important.

Because she was his friend.

Perhaps only by going one step further, and adding the words "boy and girl" in front of "friend,"

would she be able to learn those deeper secrets.

Unfortunately, Qian Renxue was wrong on this point. The truth was, even if she was Ye Qingcang's girlfriend, or even Ye Qingcang's wife, Ye Qingcang still could not possibly tell her his deepest secret.

Because that was a secret no one could know.

Even the dead could not know.

That was the secret that belonged to him as a transmigrator, and it was also the golden finger he had relied on all the way to today—Illusion Realization!

A kind of rule that transcended Alchemy Secret Technique!

It could be said that Alchemy Secret Technique was a degraded version of Illusion Realization!

Because unlike Alchemy Secret Technique, with its many restrictions, the conditions for Illusion Realization were extremely simple: set the goal → perfect the details → pay energy/modify = Illusion Realization!

To what extent could this Illusion Realization reach?

To give an example: the alchemy he currently used came from a game called "Genshin Impact." And the reason he could master this alchemy, turning alchemy that existed in a game and in theory into reality, was precisely because of this golden finger of his called "Illusion Realization." Although he himself did not know what this golden finger was truly called, the so-called Illusion Realization was merely the name he had given this golden finger, merely his own definition of Illusion Realization!

These were the true secrets he could not speak of!