"I was using him for an experiment," Su Chen replied.
"An experiment?" the Goddess of Kindness asked.
"Yes. To be honest with you, Senior, I made a promise to the Silver Dragon King. Once I master the elemental mysteries, I will resurrect her." Su Chen had no intention of hiding this from the kindhearted Goddess of Kindness, who had given him her wholehearted support.
"You want to resurrect her?" The Goddess of Kindness smiled, her eyes brimming with anticipation.
"Yes. Judging by what just happened, the experiment failed. The few elemental mysteries I have mastered so far aren't enough to truly resurrect the Silver Dragon King." Su Chen gazed toward a certain point in the surrounding space, though there appeared to be nothing there.
Golden light shone in Su Chen's eyes. He could see a Soul Imprint there, invisible to ordinary people. It belonged to the God of Waterfall, whom Su Chen had just resurrected and then slain.
As he studied the God of Waterfall's Soul Imprint, Su Chen discovered that it had changed. It was somewhat different from what it had been before. He reasoned that these differences must have come from the failed resurrection and the mutations that had occurred in the God of Waterfall's body. In other words, even if he could properly resurrect the God of Waterfall in the future, the god would still turn into that grotesque thing from before.
A Soul Imprint recorded everything about a creature's life, much like a database. The failed resurrection had added a great deal of indelible data to it, and that data had combined with the original information to form a new database.
The experiment's failure weighed even more heavily on Su Chen's heart. Although it had failed, he had gained an important lesson. There was only one