Chapter 216 Digestion and Death

Wang Xiaoming put down the data in his hand, and before he could say anything, Ye Zhen, who was already bored to death, noticed it and walked over and said, "Professor, when will our experiment start? This is too boring."

"You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. This is just the beginning. Next, I will analyze the evil spirit in your body, which involves the subsequent strengthening of your evil spirit ability." Wang Xiaoming explained.

"Okay then...what should I do?" Ye Zhen said helplessly.

The corners of Wang Xiaoming's mouth curled up, and he could finally get a glimpse of the secret of the scapegoat.

Then, under Wang Xiaoming's direction, Ye Zhen sat there, like a model, and his body was constantly analyzed by the painter.

During the whole process, Ye Zhen behaved unnaturally. Although he liked to show off in front of others, no one could stand being watched by Wang Xiaoming with a magnifying glass like this.

However, for the sake of subsequent experiments, Ye Zhen still forced himself to remain calm.

But Ye Zhen also had his limit of patience. By six o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Xiaoming had not yet called for a break. Ye Zhen could no longer bear it, so he stood up and said he would quit.

"Well... don't you want to make up for your own shortcomings as a fierce ghost?" Wang Xiaoming put on black-framed glasses and closed his peeping eyes, not worrying at all that Ye Zhen would regret it.

After all, for a ghost rider, strength is the foundation. How could Ye Zhen give up such an opportunity to integrate his own abilities and make up for his shortcomings?

Sure enough, after Wang Xiaoming finished speaking, although Ye Zhen looked a little reluctant, he still said: "I was thinking that it's time for dinner now, and I should rest and eat."

"Okay, then let's go eat first and continue tomorrow!" Wang Xiaoming did not expose Ye Zhen and followed his words.

The three of them then came to the restaurant inside the building. A little later, Wu heard the news and came over. He brought up the luxurious meal that had been prepared long ago. The various delicacies from land and sea stunned Zhou Tong, who had never seen the world.

At the dinner table, Ye Zhen was eating alone, not caring about other people's eyes. After a while, he patted his belly and said to A Wu: "I'm going back to the office first. Please entertain Professor Wang for me."

After saying that, he said hello to Wang Xiaoming and the others and left.

After Ye Zhen left, A Wu showed an awkward smile: "Professor, you guys eat, our boss is like this, please don't mind it."

During the last meal, Awu was so restless that he wanted to go to the office and pull Ye Zhen over.

After dinner, Awu sent someone to send Wang Xiaoming away and came to the office on the top floor. As soon as he entered the door, he heard the sound of anime. It turned out that he was watching anime again.

Seeing Ah Wu coming, Ye Zhen said without even raising his head: "Let's talk about it later. I'm catching up on some anime right now. I haven't watched any for the whole afternoon, so I need to catch up now."

There is no hope, destroy it!
Awu sighed lightly and left without saying a word.

However, after leaving the building, Wang Xiaoming and Zhou Tong did not go directly back to their residence, but drove to the suburbs.

By the time we arrived in the suburbs, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening. The night was dark and the lights from the distant city illuminated the sky.

After sending the driver away, the two came to the top floor of an abandoned building. Wang Xiaoming took out the extraordinary telescope he had made and prepared to watch the stars.

He would not forget that the most important thing this time was to digest the potion.

"I wonder if this will trigger triple digestion speed?"

Wang Xiaoming was thinking in his mind while adjusting the angle of the telescope with his hands constantly moving.

The last time he was in Southeast Asia, he had tripled the speed of potion digestion by stargazing at night. Almost one night of stargazing could accumulate 1% of the potion digestion rate.

This time he came to Dahai City, which is more than a thousand kilometers away from Dajing City. There should be differences in the digestion of the potion during observation.

After adjusting the angle, Wang Xiaoming focused his mind and began to observe, while Zhou Tong stood in the corner, carefully observing the surrounding conditions to prevent any unexpected situations from affecting the professor.

Not long after entering the state, Wang Xiaoming felt the vibration of the magic potion in his body. As he understood the starry sky, the magic potion began to be digested.

"Sure enough, it was right to come out this time." Wang Xiaoming felt happy. Just now, he felt that the speed of digesting the magic potion had reached the speed of last time in Southeast Asia, which was three times the speed of digesting the magic potion when he first observed the starry sky in Bulaotun.

"I just don't know what the minimum distance requirement is for this digestion speed. I can only wait and measure it slowly in the future. For now, let's just observe the starry sky!"

Wang Xiaoming cleared away his distracting thoughts and began to memorize everything he saw in the starry sky.

It was eight o'clock the next morning. Unlike usual, the weather forecast said it would rain, so the sky was gloomy.

Walking on the road, Wang Xiaoming felt a rare sense of coolness.

At this time, he and Zhou Tong were rushing to the Supernatural Forum Building. Since their residence was not far away and the weather was cool, Wang Xiaoming decided to walk over and relax.

When they came to the laboratory inside the building again, Ye Zhen was playing games inside. Hearing Ye Zhen yelling with the controller in his hand, Wu said awkwardly:

"The boss usually plays games to relax!"

But even Zhou Tong didn't believe what he said. After several contacts with Ye Zhen, Zhou Tong gradually understood Ye Zhen's temper.

He found out that the other person was actually a somewhat immature idiot.

Hearing the noise, Ye Zhen finally put down the game console in his hand and walked up to Wang Xiaoming: "Professor Wang, you are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a long time. What are we going to do today?"

When Awu heard this, he couldn't help but roll his eyes. Awu remembered how much effort he had just put in to pull Ye Zhen off the bed, and then he rushed to the first floor of the building to pick up Wang Xiaoming and the other person. It only took about ten minutes.

Wang Xiaoming looked around and said, "Just like yesterday, I need to learn more about the evil spirit in your body."

"Ah... Is it going to be like yesterday?" Ye Zhen showed reluctance on his face.

"I can't help it. The evil spirit you control is very powerful and rare. If it were any other ghost controller, I would only need to take a glance to see through it, but the evil spirit you control needs at least a week of observation."

Wang Xiaoming explained, and deliberately praised Ye Zhen's evil spirit in his words.

"Of course," Ye Zhen puffed out his chest proudly. Wang Xiaoming's words touched his heart. "I think a week is not enough. We need to observe for at least another month."

"Okay, I'll try my best," Wang Xiaoming nodded, "We can start now!" Ye Zhen nodded and sat back in his seat from yesterday. There was no more reluctance on his face.

Seeing that Ye Zhen finally calmed down, Wang Xiaoming showed satisfaction on his face. He had figured out that if he wanted Ye Zhen to do something, he had to go along with what he said.

However, what he said just now did not deceive Ye Zhen. The evil spirits he controlled were indeed very powerful, especially the scapegoat ghosts, whose power was not much different from that of wish ghosts.

It should be able to be completely analyzed within a week. The main reason why it took a longer time is that the states of the evil spirits are different. The Wish Ghost and the Ghost Cabinet can be analyzed in about three days because these two evil spirits were refined by him using his forging ability.

However, photo curses and scapegoats are all observed while being controlled by ghost riders, which makes the difficulty more difficult.

Especially the photo curse, which not only has a high supernatural power itself, but also connects to four evil spirits and merges with these evil spirits. If one of the evil spirits had not been trapped, Wang Xiaoming would not have been able to memorize all the supernatural runes contained in it in one week.

After dealing with Ye Zhen, Wang Xiaoming began a comprehensive analysis of the evil spirit in his body. Sometimes, in order to make the observation more comprehensive, Wang Xiaoming would let Ye Zhen use the evil spirit's ability to observe the changes in the spiritual runes when the spiritual power flowed.

Five days passed in a flash. On this day, in the open space in the laboratory, Wang Xiaoming put away the instruments he had brought with him, and instead took out some strange materials and piled them aside.

Ye Zhen saw it, walked over and asked curiously: "Professor, what are you doing?"

"Don't you want to optimize the evil spirits that you control? These things are used to arrange the formation rituals and assist in the optimization." Wang Xiaoming explained.

Ye Zhen's eyes lit up: "This is a good thing, when do we start?"

"Tomorrow, I need to make some changes to the battle formation based on your situation. It definitely won't work today. There's nothing for you to do here now. You can go watch anime."

Wang Xiaoming opened a bottle, poured out half a bottle of white powder, then added distilled water and began to mix it.

Today, he had just completely analyzed the evil spirit controlled by Ye Zhen, which was two days ahead of his plan. The main reason was that Ye Zhen wanted to get through this difficult time as quickly as possible and actually took the initiative to ask for overtime.

In addition, Wang Xiaoming has made considerable progress in digesting potions, which has exceeded 10%. His strength has improved to a certain extent, and his various abilities have also been synchronously increased.

"Ah...yeah, really!"

When Ye Zhen heard that the formation could not be used today, he was a little disappointed. However, when he heard Wang Xiaoming say that he could leave directly, his mood immediately improved.

After saying hello, Ye Zhen left the laboratory directly.

Wang Xiaoming did not pay much attention to Ye Zhen's departure, because his heart was now filled with various supernatural runes of scapegoats.

He was doing two things at once, mixing the various materials for setting up the formation while analyzing the mysterious runes in his mind.

"This trip was really not in vain. The ability of the scapegoat is really too magical. Not only can it improve my starlight clone, but it is also helpful for my research on curse control."

"The core ability of the scapegoat is actually 'replacement', or 'transfer'. It can transfer any force imposed on itself."

"Even some idealistic things can be transferred. This is a huge effect."

The more Wang Xiaoming studied the scapegoat's abilities, the more excited he became, because he discovered that the scapegoat's abilities were a panacea that could be applied anywhere.

For example, when he was researching curse control, he encountered the problem of spiritual erosion. As long as he added the ability of a scapegoat and transferred all the spiritual erosion away, there would be no problem of spiritual erosion.

Although this is somewhat difficult, at least we have a direction.

Also, his previous experiment of using contracted evil spirits to control supernatural weapons was temporarily shelved because the conflict between the contract rules and the supernatural weapons was too intense.

Now that he had the ability to die for someone else, it was like having a lubricant between the two, allowing the contract and the supernatural weapon to coexist peacefully. If it succeeded, wouldn't this be a kind of contract control similar to curse control?

He could even create a more perfect way of controlling it by combining the advantages of the contracted evil spirit and the photo curse.

This is just the application of the ability of death substitution in the field of research.

If used in combat, the ability to die in place of others is equally powerful. You can understand this by just looking at Ye Zhen.

In the original novel, Ye Zhen has been the world's top ghost rider from the early to the later stages of the novel by relying on the dead ghosts.

Diverting all the force acting on yourself, what is the difference between this and being invulnerable to all forces?
Moreover, this transfer is also controlled by the Ghost Rider and can be directly transferred to other people nearby. This means that Ye Zhen can kill most of the enemies around him without taking any action.

"The most important thing is to maximize the ability of death substitution, and even become truly immortal. Time changes but I don't change. Because of the passage of time, physical aging is also a negative state, a state that can be transferred by the ability of death substitution."

This was originally inferred by Wang Xiaoming based on some of Ye Zhen's conditions in the original work, but now he has confirmed this guess after analyzing the ghost runes of substitution.

Time passed, and at ten o'clock in the evening, on a hill in the suburbs of Dahai City,
Wang Xiaoming put down the extraordinary telescope in his hand and sensed the changes in the digestion of the magic potion in his body.

These days he travels back and forth between the suburbs of Dahai City every night. His previous state of triple potion digestion lasted only two days before disappearing. Now he can only increase the distance by thirty kilometers and experience twice the speed of potion digestion.

In five days, about six percent of the potion was digested, which was an astonishing speed.

It would probably take a lot longer than he expected to completely digest the potion of the Sequence Five Astronomer.

After one night, the prosperous city of Dahai became bustling again.

In the laboratory of the Supernatural Forum Building, Wang Xiaoming was making the final adjustments to the formation, while Ye Zhen was standing aside, eager to try.

Zhou Tong sat quietly in the corner as usual, undisturbed everyone. Only A Wu stood nearby, pacing back and forth with a worried look on his face.

"Alright!" After Wang Xiaoming modified a few patterns in the formation, he stood up and called Ye Zhen: "Come here!"

Ye Zhen smiled and stood up to walk into the formation, but suddenly Ah Wu pulled his arm away. He turned around and saw Ah Wu worriedly saying, "Be careful!"

"Haha!" Ye Zhen patted Ah Wu's shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry! It's just a small experiment. I can easily defeat your boss!"

Wang Xiaoming looked at the scene in front of him and did not urge him. He thought to himself, "In this spiritual forum, Ye Zhen is the spiritual pillar. His importance is self-evident, but the one who really manages the forum affairs is A Wu. In the spiritual forum, both of them are indispensable."

(End of this chapter)