From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

"You need to complete a task first—"

The goddess Serket turned and looked at the slowly opening door on the inner side of the hall, and the tall, dark figure inside. "Take up the spear of fate and defeat the Scorpion King!"

The Book of the Dead and the Book of the Sun have both been removed from their original positions.

The land of Serket is recovering, but the presence of the Scorpion King is hindering this process, preventing oases from spreading across the desert and providing rest for desert travelers…

Suddenly, Ades Bay seemed to understand his mission: to defeat the Scorpion King! To revive Serket! To spread oases across the desert!

The goddess still loves the world so much!

and also--

[The goddess definitely wouldn't choose someone with British ancestry! O'Connor's blessing and power must be due to the Scorpion King's influence! I must deal with this!]

# Chapter 557 Possessing Oneself?

As the stone door on the inner side of the inner hall slowly opened, a figure with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a scorpion slowly walked out... crawling out.

It's described as human, but it looks more like a male scorpion that has become a spirit, with its head resembling a human body, while its lower body remains that of a beast.

The saying "a beast in human form" perfectly describes this situation.

The scorpion-turtle stepped out of the door and saw many people in the inner hall. Its face was ferocious, and it roared and laughed, brandishing its pincers, and went to grab Imhotep, who was closest to it.

Imhotep's eyes trembled as he realized this was a monster no ordinary person could defeat. Without a word, he immediately knelt down and recited in the language of ancient Egyptian slaves, saying, "Master! I am your servant!"

as predicted!

The Scorpion King's pincers stopped in front of Imhotep's forehead. Its eyes widened, but it didn't completely believe him. It simply said, "Prove it to me!"

"Master, they're here to kill you!"

Without hesitation, Imhotep turned his attention to the group outside the ravine, including the goddess Naselkat.

Although Imhotep knew the truth before, he was determined to gain the power of the Land of Selkhate! And to save his own life—

Serket has clearly abandoned him!

Therefore, he could only resort to using someone else to do his dirty work, hoping to use the Scorpion King's power to get rid of Serket as well!

"For Serket!"

Ades Bay rushed forward, spear in hand.

Serket said to Zheng Zha, Zhao Yingkong and the others, "Give me a hand, everyone from the Central Continent Team, don't let Ades Bay die."

"We are not your followers."

Xiao Honglu directly denied it, but—

[Mission: Assist Ades Bay in defeating the Scorpion King. All members will receive a B-rank side quest and 5,000 reward points! Defeating the Scorpion King directly will reward you with an A-rank side quest and 7,000 reward points!]

[Mission failed. 5,000 reward points will be deducted. If the reward points upon returning to the Main God Space are negative, the user will be eliminated!]

As a result, the Central Continent Team had no choice but to get involved.

"Brother Jiang, what happened to you?" After everyone in the Central Continent Team got moving, Lu Jin asked Goddess Serket.

"What? She's Jiang Liu?"

Duanmu Ying's eyes widened, and then she looked at the goddess Serket's attire with great interest, saying with a playful expression, "Is this how you use the phrase 'when in Rome, do as the Romans do'?"

"She can't really be called Brother Jiang, can she?" Lu Jin chuckled, but still explained for Jiang Liu, revealing the origin of Houtu Huangdiqi.

"Little Lu Jin, you're getting bolder and bolder."

The goddess Serket grabbed Lu Jin by the back of his collar and lifted him up, chuckling coldly, "You dare to joke with me? Don't you know I inherited a part of the 'turbidity' in Jiang Liu's soul?"

"I was wrong, Brother Jiang... oh no, I mean, Empress Houtu, I was wrong! I was really wrong!" Lu Jin was covered in sweat, but could only force a smile and dared not put up any resistance.

Indeed.

The deity Houtu Huangdiqi is not good at fighting, but she is connected to Jiang Liu's six internal organs. Internally, she can help Jiang Liu comprehend the four seasons and six energies of heaven and earth and make them her own. Externally, she can evolve the six paths of reincarnation, capture all the spirits in heaven and earth, and destroy them, returning them to the natural world.

Theoretically speaking, if Jiang Liu wanted to, he could directly extract the soul of a living person and obliterate it, thus turning that person into a fool or an idiot.

Although Lu Jin was 100% certain that Jiang Liu wouldn't do such a thing to her, she couldn't guarantee that the Earth Goddess Houtu, who was loyal to Jiang Liu but also had her own independent consciousness, wouldn't try to scare her and then capture her soul to play with—

He was really scared!

"So, you have Jiang Liu's innate special ability?"

Only then did Duanmu Ying realize that the goddess Serket in front of her, or rather, the Empress Houtu, was actually the legendary Jiang Liu's mutated child-deity, who could autonomously divide his own soul to construct a god.

I first heard about this ability during the ceremony when Ghost Hand King withdrew from Quanxing. At that time, Jiang Liu's only deities were Heart Monkey and Will Horse.

Now it seems that he has all five gods in his heart and has opened the door to grant amnesty to the other gods.

"If that's how you see it... fine, from now on we're best friends."

Serket hooked his arm around Duanmu Ying's shoulder and chuckled, "Becoming friends with Houtu, you probably never even dared to dream of such an experience before, right?"

Duanmu Ying remained silent, her face filled with disdain, and said, "I think I understand now. The deities that Jiang Liu pardoned and enfeoffed all inherited a part of his personality, right? You inherited his unreliability?"

"Wrong! I inherited a sense of humor!"

Serkett corrected.

"What exactly happened to Imhotep? Why did his cultivation level disappear completely?"

Duanmu Ying didn't bother with the situation of the Empress Earth God in front of her, and asked about Imhotep, who was waiting on the side, ready to seize the Spear of Destiny held by Ades Bay and launch a sneak attack on his subservient master.

The cultivation you achieve through practice cannot be taken away; it can only be destroyed, such as by damaging your meridians or severing your limbs.

The only thing that can be taken away is one's innate Qi, not one's cultivation level.

"Because Imhotep's soul has returned to Tuat and I have already helped him pass on. The current Imhotep is a new, independent individual with his own soul. He just thinks he is the Imhotep from thousands of years ago."

Serkett uttered a tongue twister-like phrase, “You are also familiar with the concepts of Cabané and Cabanelli.”

Imhotep is a Kabaneri, a Kabaneri who has completely inherited the soul memories of Imhotep from thousands of years ago. His will, thoughts, and self are all consistent with that Imhotep, which is equivalent to being a copy.

Kaba, this word is equivalent to the word for life in our dialect.

The cultivation of life lies in perseverance.

The reason why Imhotep, who was fully resurrected, was able to use magic was because his 'soul' from thousands of years ago was still in his body, allowing him to perfectly control the power of his body. Cultivation is about constantly integrating one's own power and making reasonable use of it.

But when that 'soul' was stripped away, even though the current independent Imhotep has complete memories and his will and thoughts are consistent with that 'soul,' his newly born soul consciousness has not undergone any kind of cultivation.

Having 'memories of his past life,' it wouldn't be difficult for him to embark on the path of cultivation again; it might even be easier and simpler, but he wouldn't gain power immediately.

Duanmu Ying understood and said, "So, Imhotep in his mummy state is just the Imhotep who had an affair with the Pharaoh's wife thousands of years ago. But when he seized another's innate Qi and used it to evolve a real flesh and blood body, and had a brain like a normal living person, his soul memory information was copied and imprinted into his brain."

Therefore, even though his soul was separated, he was completely unharmed, only losing his power, because he was not the same person as Imhotep from thousands of years ago!

"It seems you truly understand now."

Serket smiled slightly, "So, life is precious, and you only have one. Once you die, even if you are resurrected, it's just two souls overlapping, which can barely be considered as you possessing yourself!"

# Chapter 558 Last Stand

"cough!"

Zheng Zha, who had unlocked his third-tier gene lock, was sent flying by a single pincer strike from the Scorpion King. He crashed through a stone pillar, tumbled down beside Serket, coughed up blood, and cursed, "Damn! This thing is so strong?"

In the plot of "The Mummy Returns", the Scorpion King's performance is not outstanding. He is just a humanoid scorpion with slow movement speed. O'Connor even found an opportunity to pierce his heart with the Spear of Destiny!

How come his actual performance is so outrageous?

It actually managed to knock away myself, even after I had activated the third stage of the gene lock!

"normal."

With a wave of his hand, Serket melted the four seasons and six energies, using the method of refining pills with lotus in fire to refine the innate primordial energy, which was then poured into Zheng Zha's body to replenish his consumption. "The Scorpion King's current state is due to the transformation of his body into a 'scorpion' by simulating the flow path of Serket's energy and fixing it within himself."

The human body is inherently a close-knit and complex energy field.

He replaced his original human aura with the flow of Serket's aura, which can be considered as an aura that has become sentient and taken human form, or as an external avatar.

However, its will originates from the Scorpion King, not from Serket.

Having activated the third-order gene lock state, Zheng Zha's control over himself also greatly improved. He quickly adjusted his state and, upon hearing that the Scorpion King was a "spirit of the Qi Formation" and an external avatar, his eyes widened. "So, he can draw upon the power of the entire Qi Formation?"

"It is able to enhance one's own power with the power of the aura."

Serket said quietly, “My mind and body are in harmony with the Qi, and I am experiencing the principles of Serket’s Qi, but there is one obstacle, which is this Scorpion King, which needs to be removed.”

"Then why get Ades Bay involved?"

Zheng Zha had broken through to the third level and developed his brain, but he used this computing power mainly for combat rather than to simulate Jiang Liu's thinking. He watched as Jiang Liu held the Spear of Osiris and looked for an opportunity on the periphery, wanting to strike the Scorpion King who was entangled with Zhao Yingkong.

“You’ve completed your mission and can leave now, but I can’t.”

Serkett looked resentful.

This startled Zheng Zha, who trembled and said, "We have no choice. Our current mission is to help Ades Bay kill the Scorpion King."

Having said that, he went back into the battlefield.

Facing the Scorpion King, Zheng Zha and Zhao Yingkong were the main force, while the rest of the Central Continent Team, including Isaac and Hermione, could only provide support and harass from the sidelines.

Close combat?

They will be crushed in one blow.

Fortunately, this Scorpion King only knows how to fight hand-to-hand, unlike Imhotep who is a priest and cannot cast spells. Otherwise, if it stirred up the Selkhather's aura and stirred up a storm, the threat would be far greater than its current almost indestructible body, which only knows how to wildly swing its two giant pincers and the scorpion tail behind it.

Although Zhao Yingkong had broken through to the fourth level and awakened the light of the mind, her strength was comparable to that of the Scorpion King. Every time the iron rod collided with the scorpion pincers, it produced a rumbling sound, causing the entire pyramid to hum.

Amidst the surging air currents and fluttering cherry blossoms, Zhao Yingkong twisted her waist, swept her long staff horizontally, creating a pink halo, and slammed it straight into the Scorpion King's waist, sending him flying.

However, the latter, whose waist and abdomen were covered in scales, was not injured at all. He twisted his lower body in mid-air, his eight scorpion legs gripping the wall firmly, and moved quickly to avoid the hail of bullets from Zhang Jie, Zhan Lan, Chu Xuan and others. Then he leaped up and swung his right pincer down at Zhao Yingkong's head.

Undeterred, Zhao Yingkong swung her staff to block the opponent's pincers, took a step, twisted her waist, and stepped into the air, striking the Scorpion King's jaw with her knee.

boom!