Lin En: "I'm a Next-Generation Species?! What the hell is personal reality?!"

"I'm really not human?!"

"The previous world wasn't an ordinary world?"

Lin En was utterly shocked. In his previous world, he had never encountered anything supernatural, so he had subconsciously assumed it was merely an ordinary rebirth.

He had never expected that place to be the Dragon Clan world. He wasn't some half-blood little dragonkin, but a pure-blooded Dragon Clan member.

In other words, that overpass had been Odin's Nibelungen, and the boy who had driven the Maybach and sent him flying had been Chu Zihang?

What? Was this a joke? Wasn't that damn place Hefei? Where had the sea come from?!

That brat had better pray he died here forever. If Lin En ever got back, he would definitely teach that little punk a harsh lesson. Why was he driving so fast without a license? Was Maybach insurance really that tough?

"Master, regrettably, memory playback indicates that the person who dealt you the final blow was a mysterious figure riding an eight-legged divine steed. This matches the characteristics of Odin, the King of Sky and Wind."

"Would you like me to retrieve the footage for you?"

Little Sage's voice interrupted Lin En's thoughts. Lin En shrugged, shook his head, and said,

"Forget it. Thinking about who killed me is meaningless now."

"Little Sage, can you run a self-diagnostic and see how much power I have left? Can you get me out of here alive?"

He put matters concerning Odin aside for now. Those were already in the past. If he didn't find a way to deal with the present, the Evil Soul Masters might torture him to death in this dungeon.

That old man in white had said he wanted Lin En to become a Holy Servant, but who could trust the words of an Evil Soul Master? Those people were temperamental, slaughtered without hesitation, and had enough blood on their hands to stain a river red!

He absolutely could not use normal reasoning when dealing with them. They were all lunatics! Only lunatics could understand lunatics.

As a fusion of the Word Spirit Tianyan, local Soul Power, spiritual power, and Martial Soul, Little Sage swiftly began a comprehensive examination of Lin En's body.

What little spiritual power and Soul Power he had were swept clean. Under the dim yellow corridor lights, his face seemed edged in gold, concealing its sickly pallor.

"Model refinement complete."

It should have been a place called the Sea of Spirit. A vast amount of complicated data appeared across the human-body model. Surging blood flowed through it, while every inch of bone was marked with its maximum attainable performance.

"Severe loss of strength detected, but elements still exist in this world. Your authority over the elements remains, and your spiritual power still possesses the mechanism to pry at them. Therefore, Word Spirits may still be used."

"Cocooning ability normal. Dragon body cannot manifest. Bloodline self-check complete. Dragon Clan Memory Bank fully preserved. Alchemy knowledge may be accessed."

"Martial Soul Nervous System and Immune System scan complete. Host has obtained the highest interpretive authority over both systems. Life-editing permissions and the genetic treasury have been fully unlocked."

"Severe energy deficiency. Blood sugar, blood lipids, blood cells, and proteins are all at extremely low levels. Severe malnutrition detected."

Little Sage listed every aspect of Lin En's current physical condition. He couldn't understand most of it, but he could grasp some of the blood test results. The situation was extremely grim.

His body was now like a Bugatti Veyron on the verge of being scrapped. Every component, even the engine, was letting out piercing grinding roars, and the fuel tank was nearly empty.

In his current condition, even encountering a polar bear would be a fight for his life.

"Little Sage, analyze my chances of escape. Give it to me as directly as possible."

"Don't lie to me. Be objective, or your buddy here might really end up as a guest in the Myriad Souls Banner."

Little Sage's clear voice echoed in his mind. "Three point seven percent. The chance of escape is extremely slim."

Hearing Little Sage's words, Lin En smiled. "There's actually still three point seven percent? That's way better than winning the lottery."

"Using every resource currently available to me, and allowing for the greatest possible sacrifice, tell me how to seize that three point seven percent chance!"

A ruthless glint flashed through the black-haired boy's eyes, lava-like golden light flickering within them.

Perhaps if he obeyed these Evil Soul Masters, he truly could survive. He could become a Holy Servant of the Holy Spirit Cult. He would have no freedom, but he would stay alive.

But that was the mindset of trash!

Lin En didn't want to cling to life like that. It was too degrading. The dignity in his bloodline made him rather choose to blow himself up and rot into the earth than become an Evil Soul Master's dog.

He had to take a gamble. With the gift left behind by his previous world, perhaps he could make it out!

This time, Little Sage took especially long to think.

It was probably midnight now. In the silent dungeon, only dripping water could be heard. Droplets fell onto the muddy stone slabs like crystalline flowers.

"If you rely solely on the Dragon Clan Bloodline and attempt to unlock Word Spirits and Alchemy to escape, there will not be enough time."

"However, you possess the Martial Soul Immune System and Nervous System, as well as the highest-level authority over both systems."

"Spiritual power can interfere with reality, while you, as Dragon Clan nobility, inherently possess authority over the elements."

"Therefore, the only route to success is to take an unconventional path and place all hope in spiritual power."

"First, the authority over the two systems must be used to modify the brain, transforming a human brain into a Dragon Clan brain."

"Call upon the Immune System's microglia and oligodendrocytes. Use the highest-level authority over the neuroimmune system to control metabolism and synthesize a special myelin protein."

"Through exhaustive optimization, grant this protein perfect conductivity, allowing neural signal transmission to break through physical limits and achieve computation without delay."

"At the same time, establish a spiritual-power conduction system between neurons."

"Modify cellular channels and gain complete control over neurotransmitters such as dopamine and glutamate."

"Create hundreds of millions of new synaptic connections between neurons, giving them boundless plasticity."

"Completely unlock the brain's development restrictions and shift it from user mode into developer mode."

"Use the new brain for computation and find a new bodily energy currency to supply the body, completely replacing the human body's original energy currency, ATP—adenosine triphosphate."

"The original energy currency relies on chemical energy to power the body's various life processes."

"The new energy currency must combine Soul Power and spiritual power. It requires a special structure capable of carrying both forms of energy, which means the original ATP must be modified."

"Once the energy currency model is confirmed, use the neuroimmune system to transmit the information to hematopoietic stem cells and fully activate growth hormones!"

"Control them to differentiate into new energy cells possessing brand-new endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus."

"Disperse these special energy cells throughout the body's capillaries."

"Concentrate them in the lungs, meridians, heart, and muscle groups. Through physiological circulation, they will absorb high-energy power for the body."

"Modify the blood-brain barrier and use the Immune System to construct directional channels. The Dragon Clan brain is strong enough to turn the defensive blood-brain barrier into a special sorting center."

"The barrier can allow oxygen, gene-editing enzymes, gene-cutting enzymes, and the new energy currency to enter the brain, supporting the full range of computations and later modifications, completing the final stage of brain transformation."

Looking at the dazzling mass of data and the implementation report that was thicker than all a medical student's textbooks combined, Lin En voiced a heartfelt sentiment.

"Damn."

"I shouldn't have compared you with those low-performance AIs. As expected of something from the Dragon Clan."

"But other than turning me into a biological supercomputer, what else is this good for?! Am I supposed to calculate pi for the Evil Soul Masters?"

"Master, don't worry."

"The elemental system and Alchemy system still need to be connected. So long as a Dragon Clan brain has sufficient computing power and spiritual power, it can use alchemical matrices and the world's most fundamental elements to rewrite reality."

"The Nibelungen is the pinnacle of this. Dragon Clan will stands above the world and can alter or overturn physical laws."

Lin En's eyelid twitched. "Do you know how complicated a Nibelungen is? Even if you have the Dragon Clan Memory Bank, how many materials would it consume?"

Nibelungen was the realm of the dead from mythology, a special space built through Alchemy with dragon spirits as its core.

Within a Nibelungen, dragon spirits stood above the world itself. Personal reality could overwrite true reality, allowing feats such as stopping time and endless looping paths.

Under normal circumstances, only Dragon King-level beings could create a Nibelungen. Entering one was basically like opening a hell-level Dragon King dungeon.

But there were exceptions. A small number of Next-Generation Species and third-generation species could also possibly construct one.

Lin En was a Next-Generation Species of the Bronze and Fire King lineage, the lineage of the strongest alchemical masters. The Dragon Clan Memory Bank contained methods for constructing a Nibelungen.

"There is no need to construct a Nibelungen. We only need to verify the feasibility of the theory in this world and use Nibelungen Theory as the foundational theory."

"We only need to rewrite reality, use spiritual power and computation to interfere with and guide the collapse of the original chaotic quantum state, and construct a personal reality that overlays the world. Then there is hope of escaping."

"According to the data in your archive, the spiritual domains in Soul Land 3 are also lower-level applications of this theory."

"Little Sage has calculated the optimal spiritual domain for you: the Vector Manipulation Domain. The next step will be to modify your brain with this as the objective."

Lin En said, "Nice."