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Chapter 527 Interlude
After some discussion, everyone decided on their next objective.

Since the world of "Legend of the Gods and Demons" has items that can allow people to directly enter the fourth tier, it must have conducted considerable research on gene locks.

It will be helpful whether you want to resolve Zheng Zha and Zhao Yingkong's inner demons or to study the secrets of the Main God Space.

While everyone was talking, the two beams of light that had never dissipated finally began to thin.

Zheng Zha's figure was the first to appear.

He looked down at his undamaged hands, feeling the boiling killing intent within him that had been completely calmed down after being repaired by the God, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

Memories in the state of inner demons are chaotic and fragmented, like a bizarre and fantastical nightmare.

All he remembered was the endless destructive urge, the impulse to tear everything in front of him to shreds.

He wasn't even sure what exactly happened in the final stages of his loss of reason.

At that moment, he raised his head and his gaze swept over everyone in the square.

Zhang Qi, Chu Xuan, Zhang Jie, Zhan Lan... the team members are all still alive. Although their expressions are different, some are tired, some are solemn, but at least they are still standing here.

This result is much better than his worst expectations.

Just as he calmed down, a soft figure could no longer suppress her emotions and, with a soft sob, suddenly threw herself into his arms.

"Thank goodness...you're alright..."

Lori hugged him tightly, as if she wanted to embed her whole body into his chest, afraid that if she let go, the person in front of her would disappear again.

Zheng Zha's body stiffened for a moment, then relaxed, and he hugged the girl back.

He could feel the trembling of the delicate body in his arms, the deep-seated fear and worry clearly transmitted through their close skin.

The other people in the square reacted in various ways when they saw this.

Zhang Jie, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, awkwardly turned his head away, but a faint smile played at the corners of his mouth.

Zhan Lan looked at them gently, her eyes filled with relief;
Zero Point, Overlord, and the others were able to temporarily put aside their heavy hearts amidst the warmth of surviving the ordeal.

After a brief moment of warmth, everyone's gaze turned in another direction without prior arrangement.

Zhao Yingkong.

The healing light of the Supreme God had long since faded, but she did not awaken like Zheng Zha.

She kept her eyes closed, showing no sign of waking up.

"Why is this happening?"

Zhan Lan's voice was filled with confusion and worry.

"Wasn't the main god's healing over? Why is Sakura still..."

"This means that, according to the judgment of the Supreme God, inner demons are not something that can be cured..."

Chu Xuan pushed up his glasses and spoke.

"Well, we need to make some preparations before going to the world of Gods and Demons."

Let me try and see if I can solve this problem...

Zhang Qi nodded, and as he spoke, he stepped forward and picked Zhao Yingkong up.

"Ah."

Chu Xuan nodded, then turned around and began redeeming items from the God's redemption list.

He naturally understood Zhang Qi's meaning; the development value of the Legend of the Gods and Demons world was even greater than that of the Alien world.

Whether it's the magic of the ancient Egyptian system or the mask that allows one to enter the fourth-order gene lock, both have unimaginable value.

However, if they wanted to develop a world and turn it into their logistical base like the Alien world, a few people wouldn't be enough.

Just like what Zhang Qi did in the Alien world, they also need a company-like force to help them integrate resources.

The good news is that the history of the world of gods and demons, as well as various technological products, are all very affordable in the Main God Space.

"The rest of you should rest first."

Zhang Qi addressed the group of people with varying expressions,
"Take care of yourself, the next match... might be even more tiring." After saying that, he didn't linger, picked up Zhao Yingkong, and walked straight to his own room.

The room was as simple as ever.

Zhang Qi carefully placed Zhao Yingkong into a device that resembled a medical pod.

This is a self-cultivation furnace that he replicated using technology, capable of directly interfering with the user's mind and body.

The [Body Cultivation Furnace] was activated, beginning the deepest scan and analysis of Zhao Yingkong's physical and mental state.

Virtual screens unfolded in front of Zhang Qi, displaying massive amounts of data.

Cell activity, gene sequences, energy flow, electroencephalograms... everything is revealed.

He soon came to a conclusion.

The strange cells that the young monk from the Indian team used for the invasion have indeed been completely eradicated by the power of the main god, leaving no trace.

After all, that was just a trigger, a fuse that ignited the explosive barrel.

The real problem lies in another personality within Zhao Yingkong who is trapped in a state of inner demons.

As the experiment progressed, Zhang Qi began to use the "One Person World" method to separate his inner demons.

Unfortunately, the inner demons of this world are fundamentally different from those of the inner demons of the world he is familiar with, the world of Under One Person.

In his cognitive system, the inner demons of "Under One Person" are more like a byproduct born from the unique energy system of "Primordial Qi".

A more concrete manifestation of this is the technique of "severing the three corpses".

The "Three Corpses" are the "filth" formed when a practitioner's distracting thoughts, desires, and evil intentions are attracted and condensed by the nature of the Qi during the process of condensing the primordial Qi.

Although it originates from itself, it is more like a semi-independent existence that can be stripped away, eliminated, or removed.

Therefore, the essence of spiritual practice in one's own world is "restraint," which is how to use one's own "nature" and "destiny" to let one's acquired subjective will overcome, control, and refine the innate physical instincts and acquired distracting thoughts.

That's why there are methods like divine spirits and Samadhi fire that can directly and specifically "eliminate" inner demons.

However, the gene lock system is completely the opposite.

It doesn't emphasize restraint, it only emphasizes liberation.

It focuses on the ultimate development and release of the body's potential, from surpassing ordinary people in the first stage to even having subtle control over one's own body at the cellular level in the fourth stage.

The direct consequence of this liberation is that the powerful, unrestrained bodily instincts have come into fierce conflict with the relatively fragile subjective self of humankind, which is based on social ethics and personal experience.

When the body's desires and instincts become strong enough, they will turn around and try to devour the rider called "self".

The advantage of this system is obvious: speed.

The speed at which power is acquired is astonishing.

A similar intermediate stage of the fourth level, in the world of one person, is called "enlightenment and seeing one's true nature," which is the realm of a grandmaster capable of establishing a school of thought.

Those who reach this stage are all exceptionally talented like Zhang Sanfeng, and they also need to spend decades of painstaking effort, gradually harmonizing their mind and body over a long period of time, before they can even begin to grasp the basics.

In this God's Space, if things go smoothly, it might only take the time it takes to watch a few horror movies to achieve this.

But its downsides are equally deadly.

This inner demon came too fiercely and too suddenly, without any gradual build-up.

Whether one can pull through depends almost entirely on luck and a burst of personal willpower in an instant.

Looking at Zhao Yingkong's sleeping face, a mixture of pain and peace, within the [Cultivation Furnace], Zhang Qi understood.

It is precisely because of this fundamental difference that the methods for dealing with "filth" in a one-person world are completely useless.

This was not an invasion by external evils, but the outbreak of civil war.

The only solution is to rely on ourselves.

In that case, we'll have to go check out the world of gods and demons first...

(End of this chapter)