After Niu Ben left, Lu Yuan sat in his office thinking for a while.
He was thinking about what kind of transformation to make to Niu Ben's body.
Niu Ben himself already had extremely strong defensive abilities, just lacking in attack.
Finally, Lu Yuan decided on an ability that was very fitting for Niu Ben's honest personality.
However, Lu Yuan didn't currently have the ability genes for this power, and would need to get them separately "on order".
Normally, Lu Yuan actually quite enjoyed "ordering" things like this.
But for some reason, all the sources of pollution around Cloud City, as well as the exotic beasts in the various secret realms, had become somewhat timid over the past couple years.
Whenever Lu Yuan approached, these exotic beasts could often smell Lu Yuan's presence and would disappear without a trace.
They were not nearly as ferocious as the rumors made them out to be.
To the point that more often than not, Lu Yuan could only stare blankly at the exotic beast corpses hung up for exhibition on the first basement floor, or the dismembered exotic beast parts soaking in the preservation tanks on the second basement floor.
Thinking that he hadn't been out and about for quite some time, Lu Yuan decided to go out for a walk after daybreak.
Glancing at his watch, it was 3 AM.
"It's already this late, sometimes, I'm moved by my own professional dedication."
After arrogantly praising himself, Lu Yuan stretched and went back to his bedroom to sleep.
At 10 AM after eating breakfast, Lu Yuan set off by himself in his car.
When he returned in the afternoon, it was already 10 PM at night.
When he left he was alone with one car, and when he returned the configuration was still the same, except with the addition of a frozen exotic beast corpse in the car.
Furious Three-Eyed Ape.
This kind of exotic beast possessed a berserk ability that it could control on its own. When berserk, all of its physical abilities including special powers would explosively increase by multiples!
Moreover, the stronger its bloodthirsty, frenzied, murderous desires when using its innate ability, the better the effect of its berserk state!
What Lu Yuan valued most was that after using its berserk ability, this kind of exotic beast would only feel tired, and would not suffer any damage to its own faculties!
This was the ability Lu Yuan had chosen for Niu Ben!
In addition, Lu Yuan had also prepared several auxiliary ability genes, like strength enhancement, agility enhancement, physique enhancement, and so on.
And that wasn't all, Lu Yuan had even added some of Lin Youyou's self-healing ability genes.
That's right, Lu Yuan wanted to transform Niu Ben into a berserk heavily-armored warrior!
After the youngest brother, this was the second time Lu Yuan was performing such a complex integration transplant of so many ability genes. It might succeed, or it might succeed after some beautiful accidents.
Of course, failure was not a possibility.
This was Lu Yuan's confidence in himself.
Finally, Lu Yuan took from the car a retractable giant wolf fang club.
This was something he bought midway at the Xifu City Superpower User Weapon Shop.
Looking at the wolf fang club in his hand, Lu Yuan silently nodded.
"Mm, if today's surgery is successful, then I'll have someone to collect inventory from the various secret realms for me in the future..."
In the first hour after Lu Yuan returned, he went to the lounge to eat a meal.
The cafeteria had no more food left at this time, so he could only eat the food Liu Yuan had prepared for him in the fridge.
Or get Lin Youyou to make him something, but Lu Yuan couldn't wait that long.
In the second hour, the 2.2 meter tall, 300 jin hulking Niu Ben was lying on the operating table in Operating Room #4.
On the operating table, while recording on a handheld camera, Lu Yuan asked Niu Ben one final question, "Niu Ben, let me say this first, free surgery, I'll do my best, you bear the risks alone."
Niu Ben nodded firmly, "Doctor Lu, just get cutting! I'll say it again, even if I die I absolutely won't hold you accountable as a ghost!"
"OK!"
Putting down the camera, Lu Yuan first drew some circles and ticks on this broad torso with a marker pen, then started cutting.
That night, Lu Yuan busied himself on this hulk's body.
This big guy's body fully deserved his ability to metalize his muscles. Mid-surgery, Lu Yuan could hear his own heavy breathing.
Hearing this sound, he felt utterly exhausted.
But how could such a small difficulty possibly stop Doctor Lu?
He had Lin Youyou come over to wipe his sweat, and kept steadfastly at his work station.
Seeing Lin Youyou's somewhat odd look at him, Lu Yuan murmured, "Special circumstances, a bit tired."
Lin Youyou looked back with a hint of confusion in her eyes, and nodded, "Oh, oh..."
After leaving the operating table and returning to the adjacent room, Lin Youyou frowned to herself and muttered, "Strange, there wasn't a single drop of sweat at all..."
The next day, 6 AM.
Surgery completed.
With the final suture, Lu Yuan felt like he was just about to collapse from exhaustion.
Without another word, he took off his mask and rushed out to the hallway to guzzle down a huge mouthful of water.
"Gulp, gulp--"
"Phew--"
After letting out a long breath, Lu Yuan suddenly realized...
He didn't actually feel that tired?
Closing his eyes, he checked his own heartbeat, blood pressure, pulse - everything was normal. There was some fatigue from pulling an all-nighter, but far from feeling exhausted.
But...
He had been performing surgery and breathing heavily all night without rest!
What was going on here?!
Clang--
Suddenly, the water bottle in Lu Yuan's hand dropped to the floor.
He hurried back into the operating room and looked towards the operating table--
Niu Ben was staring wide-eyed back at him.
In that instant, Lu Yuan panicked a little.
He looked at Niu Ben with a final glimmer of hope in his eyes, and asked gently, "Um, the anesthetic wore off that quickly?"
"You sure have a strong constitution!"
Niu Ben blinked and asked in his simple tone, "Anesthetic? What anesthetic?"
"Doctor Lu, you didn't give me any anesthetic. From when you made the first cut, I could feel everything clearly."
Lu Yuan: "......"
This time, Lu Yuan really broke out in a sweat on his forehead.
"When you were in pain, how could you not make a sound?"
Niu Ben lowered his head to look at the freshly sutured wounds on his body, and said casually, "It hurt a bit at the start, but after that it started feeling pretty comfortable. By the end, it even felt..."
Saying this, Niu Ben's face flushed red, not knowing how to describe it.
Lu Yuan cautiously guessed, "Was it...pleasure?"
Niu Ben glanced at Lu Yuan, two red clouds seeming to rise on his rugged cheeks.
Somewhat shyly, he nodded, "Yes, that feeling."
Lu Yuan: "......"
"How...how do you feel now? Does it still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt. By the end, I felt your surgical knife slicing across my body, cool and smooth, quite comfortable actually."
Lu Yuan: "......"
"Please don't move for now, let me examine you again."
With extremely complicated emotions, Lu Yuan first examined Niu Ben's various bodily metrics, then took samples of his hair, fingernails, and blood for testing.
The testing would take some time, with results only coming out in the afternoon.
When Lu Yuan saw the ability gene analysis results for Niu Ben, he stood stunned for a full 5 minutes before getting up to grab a bottle of chilled sugar-free cola for himself.
"Stay calm, no big deal..."
"This was just a not-too-serious medical accident. I'd prefer to call it a beautiful misunderstanding."
Having said that, he twisted open the cola bottle cap and chugged it down in one go.
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ts me of treason?" "Correct. The host must return to the capital and gradually build up influence." "Wait—I have half a million soldiers, and you want me to go back to the capital to 'build influence'?" "Host, you are currently the Northern Garrison General, loyal to the Great Xia Dynasty." "Of course I am loyal to Great Xia! Absolutely loyal!" "But you keep referring to yourself as 'We'..." "Never mind the details! Summon all the regional commanders and military officers! We suspect treacherous officials are manipulating the court! They shall march with Us to the capital and purge the corrupt!" "......"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
