Crime Prison Island

Gao Xin realized he had become a True Dragon the moment he awoke.

Same old, during the Demon phase, breaking through three levels in succession, just transformed into a dragon and reached the peak.

Without a doubt, the force capable of driving the Demon Nature to break through like this must be at the Divine Level.

This can be sensed from the biological field, where molecular microscopic perfection is achieved.

Additionally, cellular resistance has increased, his body weight multiplied by thirty thousand and then by ten.

Instantaneous energy consumption has reached equivalent to a million tons of TNT, combined with a hundred times Super Boundary, Gao Xin can now unleash attacks with the equivalent of a hundred million tons of TNT without the need for Throne support.

If he first used the [Atomic Breath] at ten times Super Boundary and then the Crimson Reverse Moon Slash at a hundred times, the maximum burst could reach ten billion tons of TNT equivalent!

Of course, the premise is he has that much energy.

Gao Xin now feels abnormally weak, as frail as a thin dog.

However, the Devil Worship High Energy is still there, and it has also transformed, efficiency has reached 10% energy absorption per second, so recharging energy is not too hard.

"I feel some modules are not right. What exactly happened? Xiao Yuan."

Gao Xin searched Xiao Yuan's system log to understand some details.

Sure enough, after handling the aircraft carrier fleet, two gods appeared again,

Xiao Yuan existed in every cell, passively detailedly recorded the battle details between the Demon Tree and the Dual Gods, no need for Gao Xin to understand the situation from others like last time at Elephant Level during the Demon phase.

"Too strong... Demon Nature, constantly getting stronger."

"Continuously learning, repeatedly transforming, various modules sublimating... If I hadn't defeated it in the Thought Palace, it could have repelled the Dual Gods; the opponent would either flee or die."

"Such a thing would be virtually impossible for me, Demon Nature's Heart Power is endless."

Gao Xin solemnly acknowledged, Demon Nature has always been his greatest opponent.

They mutually restrain, yet mutually achieve each other.

Gao Xin suppresses Demon Nature deep within, Demon Nature restricts his physical breakthrough.

In terms of hard power, he is inferior to Demon Nature, who can obliterate self, while Gao Xin cannot; Demon Nature can utilize Infinite Heart Power, Gao Xin cannot.

Indeed, Heart Power is infinite, Gao Xin knew this from the very beginning.

And the reason why Gao Xin has been experiencing Heart Power depletion, from start to finish, has only one cause, which is mental melting, subsequently yielding to Demon Nature.

Demon Nature is the true state of infinite Heart Power utilization, and it has no concept of mental melting.

Or rather, all transformed personalities become it, like rivers flowing east into the sea.

Perhaps there are still limits on output, but the reserve of Heart Power is limitless.

This supports Demon Nature's continuous bodily productivity; its body is industrial Cthulhu.

If not for Gao Xin being backed by numerous Divinity, it would truly be impossible to defeat Demon Nature.

Even then, it escaped.

The Dual Gods battling Demon Nature was actually Gao Xin plus the Dual Gods fighting Demon Nature.

And Gao Xin was the main force...

Unless someone gives directly supreme power to the Demon Tree body and annihilates it instantly, no one can oppose the Demon Tree for long; in the end, it is certain to lose.

It has a type of energy that is endless and specifically grows stronger, creating miracles.

Continuous life miracles, who can withstand this...

Equivalent to the manifestation of a 'Hero's Aura'.

However, Demon Nature and he also mutually achieve each other; the stronger Gao Xin becomes, the stronger the Demon Nature.

Conversely, all kinds of abilities developed by the Demon Nature's body are readily available to Gao Xin when he awakens.

Although the soul is lacking, resulting in a lack of four-dimensional perception.

But through [Vibration Module], [Crisis Sensing], combined with [Elemental Exoskeleton], [Molecular-level Super-speed Regeneration]...

Gao Xin feels he can arm-wrestle with Divine Level beings.

"Xiao Yuan, am I down to just one cell now?"

Gao Xin is now so frail, even parasitized within a normal Wolf Level seahorse body, just one cell.

Of course, having one cell is enough; the trouble is always zero to one, not one to a million.

Xiao Yuan said, "Precisely speaking, you have ten thousand cells left."

"But they're all occupied by that Demon Tree; also, most have just been destroyed and are continuously decreasing."

Gao Xin knows, these are other parasites, and the official is constantly exterminating Demon Tree remnants.

After a while, Xiao Yuan said, "The quantity stabilized, now there are twenty-five initial Taixui Blood cells left, among which three are rapidly developing and have already massively proliferated."

Gao Xin pondered, the three rapidly developing ones should be the escaped Demon Tree.

The remaining twenty-one are, therefore, captured by the officials...

At this moment, Silver Hand said, "Mouse, your soul replenished a bit."

Gao Xin's eyes brightened, "Oh? Because other parasites died?"

Silver Hand replied, "Yes, parasite dead, soul does not return to the Great Saint Spirit, because you haven't died, as long as any part is alive, the soul's attributes are alive."

"So, when the host dies and parasite consciousness vanishes, those dispersed souls will replenish the remaining consciousness hosts."

"Now there are twenty-five parts left, you are the largest part, over sixty percent, the remaining twenty-four parts combined total approximately over thirty percent."

Gao Xin frowned, this is still a massive deficit.

Fortunately, replenishment is possible, as long as other parasites drop off.

"The battlefield with Demon Nature finally became the real world..."

"By the way, Demon Nature separated, am I no longer concerned about mental melting now?"

Silver Hand nodded, "Theoretically yes, but don't forget, you still have a 'worst in the world' kid brother..."

Gao Xin pursed his lips, so now if he experiences mental melting, it means kid brother ascends the throne.

However, it also provides him with another idea.

That is, he doesn't necessarily have to consume internally to conquer Demon Nature, he can separate, directly transform into three people.

In this way, as long as he cuts out the two Heart Demons, he is the singular humanity, no more Heart Demons, can freely use Heart Power, reserve unlimited.

However, even if he gives them one ten-thousandth, the soul is still deficient.

Can souls be supplemented separately?

Absorb someone else's soul? Truth be told, Gao Xin indeed can; currently, he has Fujihara Tomohiro's soul at hand.

But achieving devourment is fundamentally impossible, physical laws do not allow such things.

To be honest, the only possibility is on the boundary of life and death, consuming the Great Saint Spirit's.

But that's even harder, the disparity in mass and quality is unimaginably vast; all damage results in tremendous backlash.

Even reviving the seahorse relies on deceit, hypnosis, exploiting the Great Saint Spirit's lack of self.

"It seems separating Heart Demons can only be considered once I attain four-dimensional perception and step into Divine Level."

"First cut down the Sensibility Demon, enter the Divine Level, then cut down the Rational Demon. From then on, I will become the sole master of my inner self."

Gao Xin voiced this thought, and Aunt Yao emerged from the lake.

"Chongguang, isn't this just like cutting off the Three Corpses?"

Gao Xin was taken aback: "Cutting off the Three Corpses?"

Immediately, his mind surged with Aunt Yao's Taoist knowledge.

Aunt Yao said: "The saying 'cutting off the Three Corpses' has many interpretations, with different interpretations from each school. Some speak of greed, anger, and ignorance, others of the Dan Tian God, while yours is a more literal embodiment, a true 'Heart Demon.'

"But the core essence of the idea is the same, which is to overcome and transcend inner negative factors, and pursue a pure mind and spiritual elevation."

"This is also the pursuit of us cultivators. There's a saying, 'Cut off the Three Corpses and then achieve the Great Dao.'

Gao Xin mused: "Cutting off the Three Corpses... eliminating the Heart Demon... but I only have two Heart Demons."

Aunt Yao frowned: "The third corpse is 'the self.'"

Gao Xin was shaken to his core.

Beside him, Gao Jiaoji shouted: "Hey! Don't talk nonsense, the Tao you learned can't be the same as the child's situation, can it?"

Aunt Yao also waved her hand: "I am indeed speaking nonsense. Who in history has achieved the Great Dao? Taoism is just what it is, mostly conjecture. One could say Radiation has cultivated more realistically than us."

"Don't take it too seriously, child. You have your own path."

She realized she'd misspoken; this was not like before when she would crack sunflower seeds and discuss metaphysics with people.

Everything on Gao Xin, however, really existed.

If she pointed him in the wrong direction, it would have significant consequences.

But what Aunt Yao said was unintentional, while Gao Xin listened meaningfully. As Aunt Yao mentioned this knowledge, countless similar memories emerged in Gao Xin's mind.

Eliminating the Demon Nature was just a stage; ultimately, he'd have to cut off the 'self' too?

He had preserved his own humanity up to today; what would remain if he lost himself?

Gao Xin thought of a being... the Great Saint Spirit!

Neither good nor evil, without self, the body becomes the Great Dao.

Once he cut down the two Heart Demons, he would have Infinite Heart Power, but only the quantity would be infinite, not the intensity.

His self was still a small faucet.

But if he also cut off the self, would he become the Great Saint Spirit?

Cut off the Three Corpses and then achieve the Great Dao!

Gao Xin's Dark Logic Heart thought rapidly; he wasn't just listening to Aunt Yao. In fact, his Dark Logic could verify that much of Taoist knowledge was pure nonsense.

Yet part of it fit mysteriously.

Dark Logic is a rational path, with its own deduction method.

Gao Xin exchanged looks with Silver Hand, realizing that theoretically, it made perfect sense: to reach the height of the Great Saint Spirit, he'd have to cut off the self ultimately.

In other words, the him who thought of himself as 'Gao Xin' couldn't achieve the dimension of the Great Saint Spirit.

"Child, never forget your humanity at any moment," Gao Jiaoji cautioned.

Gao Xin waved his hand: "I know, I won't give up on myself. Why would I want to become the Great Saint Spirit?"

"The Great Saint Spirit is the Great Saint Spirit, and I am myself!"

He no longer pondered these troubling matters, instead exiting the Thought Palace.

The urgent priority was to first restore his strength, seek revenge on the Emperor Penguin, completely eradicate the Demon Tree, and reclaim his soul.

"Xiao Yuan, help me reshape my body."

Gao Xin's voice reappeared in Zou Ming's mind.

Zou Ming was taken aback: "Who are you? Why are you speaking in my mind?"

Gao Xin didn't respond to him, only urging Xiao Yuan.

Xiao Yuan, however, replied pitifully: "I can't, I don't have energy."

"What about your Silver Tower Energy?" Gao Xin already had a suspicion.

Sure enough, Xiao Yuan said: "It was all used up by the Demon Tree..."

Gao Xin was speechless; the Silver Tower Energy was Xiao Yuan's core energy source. Without it, the System's creation ability was greatly diminished.

Theoretically, other four-dimensional energies could be used, but that would require an enormous volume.

And now Gao Xin was reduced to just a single cell.

"Repair Field!" Gao Xin immediately initiated self-repair.

In an instant, Zou Ming wailed, his body rapidly withered.

This startled Xiao Ye, who rushed over, crying out: "What's wrong with you?"

The old man immediately raised his laser gun: "Xiao Ye, get back!"

Seeing a person withering away inexplicably, the old man didn't hesitate to shoot.

Instantly, a beam of scarlet laser shot towards Zou Ming's head.

However, it only singed a bit of his hair, emitting a faint smoke, and even the skin on his temple wasn't broken. The laser vanished into thin air.

"What!"

The old man was shocked and continued to pull the trigger.

This time, the laser gun's light screen lit up, then dimmed again, and it couldn't fire a single shot.

Not only that, but even the yacht stalled, its engine stopped.

The old man didn't know what phenomenon this was but, despite his severe injuries, sprang up, pulling Xiao Ye back to the corner of the cabin.

The violent movement worsened his injuries, causing him to violently cough up blood.

Some barely healed wounds split open, oozing frothy blood.

Yet this blood was inexplicably drawn up, forming a blood mist, surging towards Zou Ming.

"Gurgle..."

Zou Ming convulsed, a mouthful of blood poured into his body.

Only then did he calm down, moaning: "Help me... there's a ghost..."

The old man and Xiao Ye watched this scene in shock. The laser gun inexplicably malfunctioned, the yacht mysteriously stalled.

The intangible force caused even the blood he spat to fly through the air, being absorbed into Zou Ming's body, indeed making it seem like there was a ghost.

The old man didn't dare get close, pulling Xiao Ye instead towards the door.

But now, adrift at sea, severely injured, Xiao Ye couldn't swim — where could they go?

The old man gritted his teeth: "Xiao Ye, stand here and don't move. I'm going to throw him into the sea."

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