Infinite Chimera Creation

As for monsters, although they can sometimes obtain a small amount of life essence after killing the child of a monster, the amount of life essence they obtain is far less than the amount of life essence they originally possessed, so it seems as if nothing has changed.

This war, driven by the chimeras, is like a process of poisoning. Although the two sides do not devour each other, they do grow stronger as they kill more and more enemies.

Because of this change, the bloody and cruel battlefield gradually developed a tacit and harmonious feeling. It seemed that the original reasons for the war were no longer important; what mattered was becoming stronger through killing.

However, this distorted harmony did not last long.

Suddenly, from behind the ranks of the Demon Child, tens of thousands of Gastrea, all at least at the second tier, rushed out. Their bizarre appearance made one wonder if they had all teleported there.

Of course, such a large number of Gastrea couldn't possibly have teleported over; they were simply lying in ambush on both sides, and were driven over at the opportune moment.

Looking at the Gastrea creatures rushing out from behind, Hongye frowned slightly, not understanding why the demon race would bring out so many pitifully weak creatures.

Although the sight of tens of thousands of Gastrea charging together is imposing and visually striking, it doesn't change the fact that they are just weak Gastrea. The Children of Monsters could easily send a few people to deal with them without taking any damage.

"I don't know what use these junks are, but we can just destroy them."

With a cruel smirk, Hongye suddenly waved her hand, and a large number of electric snakes rushed towards the Gastrea army. It was foreseeable that if these electric snakes were to rush into the Gastrea's ranks, they would definitely cause massive casualties.

However, Momiji's attack was blocked by a dense swarm of thorns that emerged from the bodies of those Gastrea creatures, surging like a tide.

Momiji's attack was blocked; not a single Gastrea was struck by the electric shock, but not a single Gastrea survived.

After absorbing all of the second-tier Gastrea's soul as nourishment, Thorn tore its host's body apart and fell to the ground.

The thorns surged like a tide, gradually forming tens of thousands of human-shaped thorn clusters. Then, to everyone's astonishment, the surface of these thorn clusters became smooth, and finally, they turned into tens of thousands of young men with identical appearances.

P.S. I've been very busy these past few days. I'll try my best to keep updating, but double updates are probably not going to happen.

Chapter 146 Acting Skills

"Guluo, you finally decided to come out? Damn it, if you had come out any later, you could have been collecting my and Bailu's corpses!"

Looking at the tens of thousands of thorn men, Zhu Bi breathed a sigh of relief and roared at Gu Luo.

Although he appeared relaxed, Zhu Bi was under immense pressure, facing a combined attack from powerful and well-coordinated elves, and also having to guard against Hongye's electric shocks that could nullify his opponents' abilities. He only pretended not to show it so as not to worry Bailu.

Upon hearing Zhu Bi's roar, tens of thousands of Gu Luo simultaneously turned to look at him and said in unison,

"I was preparing something, sorry I'm late."

The bizarre scene of being stared at by tens of thousands of identical-looking people startled Zhu Bi. Forgetting all his complaints, he quickly said…

"Alright, alright, hurry up and take care of these guys."

All of them nodded in unison, said nothing more, and swung their whip-like arms at the various demon children.

"Junior, it seems your experiment to create life for Yukari Yakumo is going to fail."

Through the gap in the white light, Blanche watched as tens of thousands of Guro's clones simultaneously launched an attack, completely overwhelming the Demon Child. He revealed a gloating smile, glancing sideways at Yuan Yuan, waiting to see him make a fool of himself.

Before Yuan Yuan could react to Blanche's words, Yakumo Yukari, who had been keeping a close eye on the situation, couldn't help but speak up.

This obviously lazy demon, holding a half-peeled orange, suddenly poked his head out from the gap, stared at Yuan Yuan, and shouted, "..."

"Is she telling the truth? Bro, your experiment failed? No way? Bro, didn't you guarantee success? Ah! Despair! Gensokyo is completely doomed now!"

"Gensokyo has at least 100,000 years of lifespan. Even if I fail ten times, Gensokyo will not be finished, let alone fail once."

Seeing Yakumo Yukari muttering "despair" while her hands continued peeling an orange without stopping, her expression languid, Yuan Yuan raised an eyebrow and said in a low, displeased tone,

"And when you say things like that, make sure your facial expressions and gestures are on point, especially that damn orange, put it down."

Yukari Yakumo glanced at Yuan Yuan, whose face was full of displeasure, then at the peeled orange in her hand. She tilted her head back, stuffed the whole orange into her mouth, and began to chew vigorously.

Despite Yuan Yuan's murderous gaze, Yakumo Yukari finally swallowed the orange before Yuan Yuan could explode.

"Is she telling the truth? Bro, your experiment failed? No way? Bro, didn't you guarantee success? Ah! Despair! Gensokyo is completely doomed now!"

Before she could wipe away the few drops of orange juice that had spilled from the corner of her mouth, Yakumo Yukari stared at Yuan Yuan and anxiously repeated what she had just said.

This time, Yukari Yakumo's expression, actions, and tone were all spot-on, as if she were truly at her wit's end and had completely sunk into the abyss of despair.

However, watching Yakumo Yukari's perfect acting, Yuan Yuan felt as if he had been fooled. A vein bulged on his forehead, and his fingers twitched slightly, as if he was about to launch an impolite physical attack on the noble demon, the Idle One.

Sensing Yuan Yuan's intention to attack, Yakumo Yukari's eyelids twitched. She quickly adopted a serious demeanor, sat up straight, and said in a deep voice,

"Alright, buddy, let's get down to business. Did your experiment really fail?"

Yuan Yuan twitched his fingers twice more, took a deep breath, suppressed the urge to attack, and calmly said...

"Of course I can't fail."

Although Yukari Yakumo had great confidence in Yuan Yuan, she was still somewhat apprehensive before. However, upon hearing Yuan Yuan's answer, she immediately felt relieved and became much happier.

Upon hearing Yuan Yuan's answer, Blanche and Yakumo Yukari reacted quite differently. She walked a few steps to Yuan Yuan, pointed at Guro who was displaying his divine power in the white gap, and asked...

"Although I don't know the specifics of your experimental plan, mutual combat and the devouring of life essence are a very important step. But now this little guy named Guro is taking on the entire Demon Child race by himself, and all the Demon Child's life essence is hitting him alone."

"In the end, what you'll get is definitely not a satisfactory race, but rather a powerful individual with some strength. Even so, isn't the experiment a failure?"

"Of course not."

Glancing at the visibly agitated Blanche, Yuan Yuan calmly replied,

"If it really turns out like you described, all I have to do is shatter Guro's soul and consciousness, control his body to create a large number of clones, inject some simple artificial souls into these clones, and then let them reproduce to create a second generation of Thorn Demons with normal souls. That way, I can create a Thorn Demon race. There is no failure."

Blanche's breath hitched. She was about to say that shattering the soul consciousness and creating an artificial soul was impossible, but she suddenly shut her mouth and didn't say another word.

Staring at Blanche with a calm demeanor tinged with coldness, Yuan Yuan said softly,

"Senior, I hope you remember that just because you can't do something doesn't mean I can't. I don't care why you want me to fail, but this is the last time. I don't want you to question me again. When it comes to experiments, I am absolutely certain."

Blanche fell silent. She knew she had just stepped into a very dangerous line. If she crossed it, no matter how well she and Yuan Yuan got along, she would probably be killed by him without mercy.

Blanche knew that her actions were extremely unwise, but at the time she simply couldn't control her emotions.

Although it wasn't outwardly apparent, Blanche did accumulate a lot of pressure after returning to being Yuan Yuan's assistant, pressure stemming from the various routine experiments Yuan Yuan conducted daily.

Many of those experiments were completely incomprehensible to Blanche, but Yuan Yuan handled them with ease, and this disparity put Blanche under immense pressure.

Because she instinctively wanted to release this pressure, she couldn't wait to voice her suspicions after discovering that Yuan Yuan might fail.

Blanche hoped to use Yuan Yuan's failure to prove that the gap between her and him wasn't that big. This desire was so strong that she questioned it even after Yuan Yuan said he hadn't failed.

Yuan Yuan gave Blanche a deep look and said nothing more. He believed that Blanche could adjust her mindset. After all, his senior was a smart person. Otherwise, she wouldn't have stayed by his side when he was in the most danger and wouldn't have lost her life.

Turning his head, Yuan Yuan looked at Yakumo Yukari and said,

"The experiment is now nearing its end, and the final result is up to you. Do you want to introduce a group of thorny youkai like tentacle monsters into Gensokyo, or a group of monsters that are generally large in size and have strange appearances, or perhaps a group of monster children who are little girls in normal times but turn into monsters when they fight? I will proceed with the final step of the experiment based on your choice."

Chapter 147 Lord Zi's Imagination

"Um, I'd like to ask first, do the three races you mentioned have different effects on the development of Gensokyo?"

Yukari Yakumo didn't rush to answer Yuan Yuan's question. Although she wanted to decide based on her own preferences, Yuan Yuan's unpleasant personality made her wonder if the option she disliked the most was actually the best, and the one she liked the most was the worst. After a moment's thought, Yukari Yakumo answered Yuan Yuan's question with a question.

"Differences are something that, if you say they exist, definitely do; if you say they don't exist, then it's the same as not having them at all."

Yuan Yuan tapped his fingers lightly on the table and explained calmly.

"Although these three races are different, they were all created according to my manufacturing philosophy, so their contribution to the growth of Gensokyo is definitely the same. As for differences, oh right, I forgot to tell you some good news,"

When the topic turned to the differences, Yuan Yuan suddenly changed the subject. After a slight pause, a small smile appeared on his lips as he continued.

"Although Gensokyo is unable to generate life on its own due to the mistakes you made when you created it, it should be able to generate life on its own after the stimulation from this batch of life I created."

Hearing this, Yukari Yakumo was overjoyed. She had thought that if Gensokyo wanted to continue to grow, it would have to keep customizing life from Yuan Yuan, which had troubled her for a long time. Now, Yuan Yuan's words completely resolved her worries.

Logically, upon hearing such joyous news, Yakumo Yukari should have been happy, but looking at Yuan Yuan's smile, for some reason, she couldn't feel happy at all, and felt quite uneasy.

Then, under Yakumo Yukari's expectant gaze, Yuan Yuan opened his mouth again and slowly finished speaking.

"But you must understand one thing: the first life form to appear since the birth of the world is of paramount importance to the world. Although the life forms that will emerge in the world afterward will be diverse, they will all have some of the shadow of the first life form."

"The hairy peas that cover the mountains and plains of Gensokyo, strictly speaking, are not life forms, but rather living life essences that can move. In other words, the creatures I created are the first creatures in Gensokyo."

"That is to say..."

Yuan Yuan deliberately kept her in suspense, stopping at the most crucial point. With a vague understanding in her heart, Yakumo Yukari, holding onto a sense of enlightenment, asked with difficulty,

"So you mean?"

"In other words, if you choose the Thorn Monster, then most of the life forms that spontaneously arise in Gensokyo will definitely be plant-based or tentacle-based. I personally highly recommend that you choose this one. After all, Gensokyo has the flower fairy Kazami Yuuka, as well as a large group of fairies born in nature. They should all like plant-based life forms."

Hearing Yuan Yuan's words, Yakumo Yukari's face immediately turned green. Although Yuan Yuan emphasized plant life, as a seasoned veteran who had "read countless books" and even had a special ability called "Abandoned Line - Abandoned Station Disembarkation Journey" for driving trains, the scene that appeared in Yakumo Yukari's mind was all kinds of tentacles.

Imagining herself and Yuyuko sitting under a cherry blossom tree a thousand years from now, enjoying the moon and drinking wine, while a flock of large birds dripping with slime and covered in tentacles fly overhead; the grass on the lawn below also sways its tentacles, trying to climb up her and Yuyuko's thighs; even the cicadas chirping on the trees in the summer night, the glowing fireflies, and the mosquitoes trying to sneak a bloodsuck are all covered with tentacles of different colors, thicknesses, shapes, and functions, Yukari Yakumo feels an urge to destroy the world.

Seeing Yakumo Yukari's unpleasant expression, Yuan Yuan, having achieved his goal, smiled contentedly and continued,

"If you choose monsters, then most of the life forms born in Gensokyo in the future will be strange and bizarre in appearance, with a variety of abilities, and they will be prone to mutating into new species, but they will have low reproductive capacity."

"For example, you might see a cute little bird today and take it home as a pet. But when you wake up the next day and want to go see the cute little bird again, you might find that its head has somehow turned into a husky's and is grinning at you."

Upon hearing Yuan Yuan's words, Yakumo Yukari, who had no real understanding of the "cute little bird," tried to imagine the scene where her fox shikigami, who was both elegant and capable in the kitchen, suddenly turned into a husky overnight. She immediately shuddered and quickly shook her head vigorously to banish this terrible thought from her mind.

"Similarly, if you choose the Child of Monsters, then all life born in Gensokyo in the future, regardless of its nature, will likely have the appearance of a female human. Personally, I don't recommend you choose this. Because the Children of Monsters rarely produce males, it's foreseeable that if you choose this, it will be extremely difficult for male individuals to be born in Gensokyo. The difficulty of reproduction for life is even greater than for monsters. Of course, due to the reproductive instinct of life, the possibility of females giving birth to offspring cannot be ruled out."

"Alright, that's the difference. By the way, didn't I say before that I would send my own subordinates to Gensokyo? I'll just send the guy you chose. The monster leader, Glu, is my subordinate, and I created his body. The leader of the monster children, Momiji, is my disciple, and I taught him all his skills. No matter which one you choose, they are all my people, and it makes no difference to me."

However, Lady Yukari's thoughts had somehow gone completely mad, and she could no longer hear what Yuan Yuan was saying. In fact, upon hearing "childbirth between females," a whole host of figures suddenly flashed through Yukari's mind, such as her best friend Yuyuko, her close confidante Rumia, the Hakurei Shrine Maiden she had watched grow up, Kazami Yuuka whom she always took the initiative to tease, and her own wife-like shikigami known as the Naked Heavenly Fox.

If same-sex marriage and childbirth become normal occurrences in Gensokyo, then, then, then!!!

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Suddenly, Lady Zi realized she had found the truth hidden in the workings of all things, the trajectory of Gensokyo's future development. Wiping away what hadn't actually come out of her mouth, the youkai idler, her face flushed, stared intently at Yuan Yuan and said in a deep voice,

"I've made up my mind, I'll choose the Child of Monsters."

Yuan Yuan frowned slightly.

"Didn't you hear what I said? The child of monsters is the last thing I recommend. Won't you reconsider?"

"No need to think about it anymore, I've made up my mind!"

With a wave of his hand, the yokai Idle Master, who had already firmly resolved his dream of a yuri harem, answered decisively, his expression so resolute that it brooked no doubt or wavering.

Seeing Yakumo Yukari's face growing increasingly red, clearly lost in some unpleasant fantasies, Yuan Yuan curled his lip in displeasure, said nothing more, and opened the white rift to prepare for the final step.

Chapter 148 Accelerated Progress

In fact, Yuan Yuan's experiment has already come to an end at this stage.