Chapter 386: Chapter 388: Will, Spiritual Wisdom! Chapter 386: Chapter 388: Will, Spiritual Wisdom! [Additional garbled code, recovery at 3:50, if unable to recover open the directory and long-press the chapter to re-download]
“Umbrella Company seems to be on the right track now, but this name ‘Niu Dehua’… What is he trying to do, play the role of Piggy?” Qin Muye quipped.

“No, rather than symbiosis, it’s more like being fed. The calculations are quite good, but they haven’t considered the essence.”

“The first step is to extract the Martial Arts Will.”

“Indeed, the previous paper data weren’t just empty talk. Only when Martial Arts Will is fused with a Secret Spirit does it become a complete life form. It’s precisely because it’s missing the other half that it needs to symbiose with humans.”

“Looks like an eagle, what a freakish thing,” Qin Muye remarked sarcastically, then immediately turned his attention to the Starry Sky experiment.

“A completely new species?”

“So, let’s proceed with the experiment I want to do first.”

“They don’t care about who the host is, only if the host can provide them with a suitable growth environment. Otherwise, without the host, they should die or dissipate, not develop all over again.”

“The transformation process for Martial Artists is quite abrupt due to the increase in strength, but for Secret Spirit Masters, erosion of the psyche begins the moment the Secret Spirit is implanted, and it’s of the imperceptible, subtle kind.”

“Martial Artists give me the impression that their external appearance and behavior are influenced by their own Martial Arts Will, much like the adage ‘the heart’s content molds the outward form’.”

“Let’s finish up the experiment at hand first. If all goes well, we can consider the next steps,” Qin Muye didn’t get distracted by new prospects and decided to proceed cautiously.

“Interesting. It seems this Secret Spirit also has its own self-awareness. It must have understood that I forcibly extracted it from its host, which is why it not only wants to return but also wants to kill me,” Qin Muye couldn’t help but smile, realizing he had underestimated the Secret Spirit before.

“As for the Secret Spirit Masters, they seem unaffected, but in reality, they’re probably more affected than the Martial Artists.”

“It feels like a breeding farm.”

Martial Artists and Secret Spirit Masters of the fifth rank haven’t reached four digits, let alone achieving a successful fusion with the sixth rank.

Furthermore, the Martial Arts Will displayed by the other party is extremely authentic, having reached the degree of thorough understanding and integration with oneself.

Moreover, placing the two existences together and consciously guiding their development.

Not only that, the patterns on the skin resembling feathers began to twist and bleed, whilst the original characteristics of the hawk were fading away.

Apart from some closely guarded secrets passed down orally, Qin Muye had the entire world’s system at his fingertips.

But on second thought, that would be too troublesome. It would be simpler to just capture a couple and use them for now since there are wild ones available. If they run out, then cultivating domestic ones is also an option.

Of course, this presupposes having technical means like Qin Muye’s, and it has to be of the fifth rank, otherwise, it’s basically impossible.

Of course, these matters aren’t Qin Muye’s to handle; he’s just responsible for checking the reports. More often, his energy is spent on deciphering the systems of Martial Artists and Secret Spirit Masters.

The life-support device was quickly installed on the other party. Extracting the Secret Spirit within them is no easy feat; after all, the entity has formed a symbiosis with its host. If extracted, it would definitely lead to death, so in order not to waste this experimental subject, Qin Muye naturally had to provide some assurance.

The Sky Eagle Martial Arts Will, once extracted, emitted a violent aura that kept lashing out at Qin Muye. However, it was too weak–so weak that Qin Muye didn’t even feel like mocking it, casually squeezing it into a clump and restraining it.

Then he gathered the Sky Eagle and Starry Sky together, further simulating the bodily environment of the strongest Martial Artist and the strongest Secret Spirit Master, creating an illusory signal of delusion.

Moreover, the Secret Martial arts of Martial Artists were dismantled; they were not in a complete form. If it weren’t for Qin Muye, it probably wouldn’t be successful.

According to the intelligence obtained from the Spirit Monsters, there are only about 5 to 10 Transcendents of the sixth rank in this world, with five confirmed solitary individuals.

Sure enough, with enough supply, both the Sky Eagle Martial Arts Will and the Starry Sky Secret Spirit showed signs of further development.

It’s a world that’s both Extraordinary and intermixed with ordinary society, which means there are no external enemies, allowing it to develop. If enemies were to emerge, they’d likely die without knowing how.

Just like Qin Muye, who took advantage of the contradictions between various parties, not only did he cut off their roots, but he also seized all the benefits.

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Just like the Sky Eagle specimens, they’re equipped with corresponding life-support devices to maintain their mental integrity, lest the extraction of their Martial Arts Will leads to mental collapse or even brain death.

Observing the ongoing integration of the Sky Eagle and Starry Sky, Qin Muye pondered a question: what would emerge if a person cultivated various Secret Martial Sects and was implanted with multiple Secret Spirits?

The Federation itself is a case of failed transformation from a feudal society, now an oversized malformed civilization. Many vestiges remain, such as the preference for sons over daughters, which persists despite the existence of Secret Spirit Masters, occupying only a small portion of the population.

Unexpectedly, although it was a plant, it possessed no small measure of spiritual intelligence.

The current situation is actually interesting. Although the Duke Federation is the largest, there are few Transcendents within it, and even those that exist are not strong–with most reaching only the second rank–because they are Transcendents who have taken up the path mid-way. In reality, they’re Martial Artists who are at the nourishing will stage, and as for Secret Spirit Masters, they are non-existent.

For now, the changes are limited to physical aberrations with no genetic mutations. However, the mental impact is significant, seemingly resulting in something akin to a dual personality.

Others might find it impossible, but Qin Muye can certainly do it; it’s just a matter of creating a simulated environment, like this time–no host needed.

Without hesitation, Qin Muye forcibly extracted the Martial Arts Will from within the Sky Eagle specimen. At the moment of extraction, the Sky Eagle specimen convulsed continuously, appearing to be in immense pain.

Qin Muye suspected that this scenario had also befallen that group of Martial Artists and Secret Spirit Masters who claimed to be the mightiest. Thus, they chose to live in seclusion, not out of a sense of social responsibility but due to their personality undergoing beast-like or plant-like transformations.

Qin Muye wondered whether to cultivate these two specimens up to the sixth rank; perhaps there would be a surprise?

Under various visual combinations, Qin Muye discovered that the Sky Eagle and Starry Sky were continuously merging, trending towards unification.

It seemed that either the Martial Arts Will or the Secret Spirit within them had undergone some transformation after reaching the sixth rank.

As the two elements drew closer and expanded, they became entwined with each other.

As soon as Qin Muye forcibly separated the Starry Sky Secret Spirit, the moment it encountered the air, it began to diffuse incessantly, showing extreme hatred and malice towards Qin Muye.

So whatever plan the Martial Arts Will or Secret Spirit had, it is basically doomed.

Therefore, Qin Muye surmised that this thing seemed to be transplantable.

So, the bizarre entity that is the Duke Federation is probably one that has awakened, but not fully.

He was always curious whether Martial Arts Will and Secret Spirits were of the same category and if they could further integrate.

They can’t change the mainstream because the Transcendents have never cared about ordinary people.

It’s best to start with researching the wild ones; once we have the corresponding data, cultivating the domesticated ones should also become much easier.

That is the True Martial and True Spirit phases.

Generally, Transcendents capable of reaching this stage are already at their limit. After all, without Qin Muye’s support, these two would probably have been content at around the fourth rank and never dreamt of reaching the fifth.

Because a large number of Secret Martial Sects and Secret Spirit Organizations have been infiltrated by Spirit Monster Spies, their entire legacy and Knowledge have been faithfully recorded in Qin Muye’s Library.

After Qin Muye extracted it, the person became a bloody figure, but the good news is that they have regained a human-like appearance.

This indicates that whether they are Martial Artists or Secret Spirit Masters, the sixth rank may be the limit, not only unlikely to advance further but also possibly at the cost of their lives.

This thing isn’t a real hawk or falcon, so even when squeezed into a ball, there were no occurrences of Death or injury.

This has contributed to his Sky Eagle and Starry Sky specimens’ recent rapid increase in strength; they have now both reached the fifth rank.

The pupils of a normal person had now transformed into vertical slits similar to that of a bird of prey, and their skin had developed patterns resembling feathers. In contrast, their speed, reflexes, and physical strength far exceeded that of a normal True Martial Rank Martial Artist.

At least that was the situation with Martial Artists. The Sky Eagle specimen, which had completed its cultivation of the Sky Eagle Martial Arts, now faced significant issues.

As for the sixth rank, it’s probably not so easy to reach.

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