Capítulo 1203: Chapter 349: Becoming the Father of a Venerable? (Part 2)
In the diary, what the Blood Crocodile Venerable anticipated most was the third possibility: the revival of his own consciousness. In this way, not only could the Blood Crocodile Clan be resurrected, but he and his dozen demigod brothers would also have the hope of revival.
As for Fang Ze, he hoped more for the first…
With this thought, Fang Ze once again transformed into a mass of darkness and silently left the Blood Crocodile Swamp, then reunited with the Flower God, and entered the Late-Night Investigation Room.
Arriving at the Late-Night Investigation Room, Fang Ze, as he did when dealing with the Venerable Moon Rabbit last time, directly activated Peace Mode, and then summoned the Blood Crocodile Venerable.
Perhaps because the Blood Crocodile Venerable had been in a dormant state, he did not awaken after arriving at the Late-Night Investigation Room.
Fang Ze tried to awaken him using the method for awakening demigods.
Moments later, the Blood Crocodile Venerable slowly opened his eyes. He seemed to have lost combat instinct and memories spanning tens of thousands of years, not feeling at all that Fang Ze in front of him was “dangerous.” He even carefully looked at Fang Ze and then began scrutinizing the room.
Judging from the bewilderment and curiosity in his heart about everything, Fang Ze confirmed that he was not pretending — he truly had no memory.
So, Fang Ze directly called upon his assistant An Yan, letting her conduct a series of tests on the newborn Blood Crocodile Venerable.
Soon, Fang Ze received a report on the Blood Crocodile Venerable’s condition: the Blood Crocodile Venerable indeed lost his memory; his intelligence equivalent to that of a five or six-year-old child, yet his learning capability was incredibly powerful.
In addition to this, his basic combat instinct remained intact. If someone attacks him, or if he is prompted to attack a target, he will react accordingly.
Furthermore, perhaps because his abilities are linked with his soul, the Blood Crocodile Venerable can freely use his abilities, and very smoothly at that. However, compared to his abilities, the divine skills and martial skills developed through memory and personal growth were completely forgotten.
Overall, the newborn Blood Crocodile Venerable is not only strong in martial prowess but also possesses a powerful learning capacity, and is effectively a blank slate, allowing Fang Ze to write and draw upon as he pleases. He is the ultimate war weapon!
As for whether this newborn Blood Crocodile Venerable inherits the “curse” of the Blood Crocodile Venerable, due to its complexity, Fang Ze and An Yan were unable to verify this for now.
However, Fang Ze surmised, from the Blood Crocodile Venerable retaining the Awakening Ability, that he likely did inherit it.
Fang Ze speculated that the newborn Blood Crocodile Venerable is essentially the Blood Crocodile Venerable himself — just “restored to factory settings,” devoid of any memories.
This also conforms more with the legend of the indestructible demigods.
However, with the divine soul and body unchanged, but without previous life experiences, memories, or the original consciousness, Fang Ze was unsure if he could still be considered the original Blood Crocodile Venerable.
This would be considered a deep philosophical question in Fang Ze’s previous life.
After verifying the situation with the Blood Crocodile Venerable, Fang Ze gained some confidence concerning the next steps for the Divine Fiend Revival Plan.
He decided that after concluding this investigation, he would commence the plan together with the five chairpersons.
Through this plan, Fang Ze believed the power of the Human Race would be greatly enhanced.
As for the pioneer Blood Crocodile Venerable’s wishes, Fang Ze had considered that after the Domain War, he would help revive the other demigods of the Blood Crocodile Clan, and whether these demigods wish to sacrifice for their race would be their choice…
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After thoroughly considering everything about the Blood Crocodile Venerable, Fang Ze set his heart at ease and continued to educate this newborn Venerable along with An Yan.
Soon, an entire night had passed.
It’s undeniable that the learning capability of a demigod is indeed terrifyingly strong. In just a few hours, the Blood Crocodile Venerable mastered the Human Race’s language, learned various common knowledge, and understood the history of the Human Race, growing mentally equivalent to a teenager.
The only issue was… he seemed to misunderstand the relationship between Fang Ze and An Yan — thinking that Fang Ze was his father and An Yan his mother.
Even though Fang Ze and An Yan explained multiple times that there was no blood relation between the three of them, he still insisted on acknowledging them as foster father and foster mother.
Though it felt somewhat “life-draining,” considering that he and An Yan were practically his rebirth parents, Fang Ze ultimately accepted it.
After a whole night of education, Fang Ze also began pondering how to settle the Blood Crocodile Venerable.
Initially, he thought of keeping the Blood Crocodile Venerable by his side, but recalling his need to continue “recruiting” Venerables, he figured that taking one more person would increase the risk of exposure. So he quickly abandoned that idea.
Later, he considered sending the Blood Crocodile Venerable to Polaris City in the Real World, but upon further reflection, he felt the Venerable’s current personality and worldview were too unformed and susceptible to negative influence, making him unfit for the Human Race’s world.
Thus, after much deliberation, he ultimately decided to let the Blood Crocodile Venerable stay in the Late-Night Investigation Room to work for him: primarily training those Absolute Pinnacle Divine Fiends and the already soul-parasitized Venerable Yuan Gu, leading them in executing the tasks assigned by Fang Ze.
These Absolute Pinnacle Divine Fiends and the newborn Venerable Yuan Gu are blank slates, unlikely to corrupt the Blood Crocodile Venerable, and since positions for Venerables need to be freed, the prisoners would have had to leave the Demigd Prison, having nowhere else to go.
So Fang Ze pondered forming a resurrection team by reviving these Absolute Pinnacle Divine Fiends.
At that time, the Blood Crocodile Venerable would serve as the captain, and Venerable Yuan Gu as the deputy captain.
A team consisting of two Venerables and eight Absolute Pinnacle Divine Fiends, plus one at the Ascension Pinnacle level, would be formidable enough to contend with three to four Venerables.
With this thought, Fang Ze prepared to head to the Monster Integrated Office to appoint the Blood Crocodile Venerable as his assistant, then introduce him to the Absolute Pinnacle Divine Fiends and Venerable Yuan Gu…
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At this moment, as Fang Ze prepared to have the Blood Crocodile Venerable take office.
In the Demigd Prison, Venerable Yuan Gu’s cell.
Venerable Yuan Gu sat withered on the ground, with plant roots already filled within the gaps of his bones.
Those plant roots, like muscles and blood vessels, connected every bone, rendering him nearly immobile.
In contrast to his body being controlled, his divine soul was almost entirely occupied by the Spiritual Parasitism.
Feeling the gradual loss of control over his body and spirit, Venerable Yuan Gu’s internal torment intensified.
He realized that if Fang Ze had given him a swift death, without hesitation, he would have accepted it: a dignified man fears no life or death!
However… being gradually parasitized and eroded, sensing the slow loss of control over his body and autonomy, he started to fear…
He discovered that he was afraid of death too, afraid of a fate worse than death. Although he had lived long enough, without many regrets, given a choice, he still wished to continue living.
Consequently, over these days, he contemplated much, thinking of his clan, Dahei Jialuo, and the beautiful life in the Real World.
But the more he thought about it, the less he wanted to concede to Fang Ze, for he wanted not a mere survival but to live honorably!
Thus he did not want to beg for mercy, only survival!
During this time, he observed Fang Ze. He discovered that although Fang Ze appeared strong, he actually had a fatal weakness.
That is: Fang Ze’s strength was borrowed, not cultivated by himself.
This meant that if Fang Ze hadn’t borrowed the power of an Absolute Pinnacle Demigod or Venerable, Yuan Gu, attacking with full force, would only need one move to take down Fang Ze!
Moreover, he noticed that every time Fang Ze visited him in prison, it was personally.
Additionally, he was aware that only within this prison was his ability constrained.
Thus… he believed that if he quietly lurked by the door and, when Fang Ze came to visit, suddenly burst out to reverse the situation by killing Fang Ze!
Perhaps… all issues would be solved…
He might still have a chance to turn the tables!