“No. Well, why does it sound more and more mysterious to me?”

Zhang Daniu was dumbfounded for a long time before he said, “After hundreds of reincarnations, this is all I’ve got?”

“Don’t underestimate yourself. No one can accomplish such an arduous task better than you. You are literally ‘who else but me’? Even I was awakened to a deeper self through the and followed your words to discover the truth about the earth, the reincarnation prison, and even the universe!”

Red Extremity said solemnly, “And all over the world, at least in East Asia, where online novels are popular, there are countless people who have embedded ‘Li Yao’s soul fragments’—people who have ‘hot blood’ and ‘souls’—who have been moved by you, resonated with you, and awakened themselves! I just need to track their reading records, sneak into the relevant reader groups and Tieba forums, and use the big data to search for the entries about ‘Forty Thousand Years of Cultivator’ on social media. It won’t be difficult to lock onto a large number of loyal readers and get in touch with them.

“Do you know what the most wonderful point is? The most wonderful point is that, by continuously reading , these readers automatically and automatically completed the screening of soul strength. The reason is very simple. The readers who have hidden a large number of ‘soul fragments’ of Li Yao will certainly like this book more. After reading the latest chapter, they can’t wait to update it every day, because everyone has a resonance! And those readers who are less affected by the ‘soul fragments of Li Yao’ are not as persistent and fanatical, and those readers who give up after reading a few hundred chapters are unfortunately not worth my time and effort to find.

“With such a screening mechanism, it was very easy for me to find most of the ‘Li Yao’s soul fragments’ and invite the owners of the soul fragments to the ‘Ark Island’ through various methods. I was able to piece together the scattered jigsaw pieces and restore 30% of ‘Li Yao’s soul’, 50%, 70% or even higher.

“The work was carried out almost a year ago. After all, I am also the possessor of ‘Li Yao’s soul fragment’. I am more keenly aware of your value than the Heaven’s Origin Sector and the will of the earth. I have been protecting you in secret since then. However, since the Heaven’s Origin Sector and the will of the earth haven’t discovered you yet, I don’t need to alarm them and make things worse for myself, do I?

“Half a month ago, the Heaven’s Origin Sector finally realized what was going on and was ready to take action against you. It seems that, however slow-witted the will of the earth is, it has discovered the tricks that Ding Lingdang and the rest of them played on the battlefield of the universe. Therefore, my men showed up from the darkness and brought you back to the Ark Island before the enemy did, completing the final ‘combination’.

“As for Student Li Yao, this is a pleasant surprise for you. From the two battles between you and the hunter, as well as the results of Dream Traveler’s guidance, your soul strength is extremely high. It is very likely that you have more than 10% of ‘Li Yao’s soul fragments’ stored inside your body. You are closer to the true ‘Cultivator Li Yao’ than any of us. If you can fill the most crucial gap, the success rate of our perfect fusion will be even higher!”

“Wait—”

Zhang Daniu suddenly raised his hand and asked suspiciously, “So, you brought us here to meld with us?”

“Of course, only by breaking through the ‘division’ and becoming a ‘combined body’ will we have the opportunity to compete with the will of the earth. We might even be able to pry into the legendary ‘Void Hole’ and understand the mysteries of reality and illusion. Then, we will be able to become a ‘real person’ on the four-dimensional level and crush the will of the earth!

Red Pole replied matter-of-factly, “Is there a problem?”

“In principle, since I’m here for the six billion heroes and even the unyielding Cultivators of the entire universe, I’m not against the integration.

Zhang Daniu said, “However, I have a small question.”

“What is it?”

Red Pole Star said, “Ask away. Ask away.”

“You said just now that, when the real Li Yao returned to Earth from the depths of the sea of stars, his soul was divided into thousands of pieces regardless of whether he was active or passive. He fell to the ground indiscriminately like a meteor shower, didn’t you?

Zhang Daniu said, “According to the theory, the earthlings who absorbed his soul fragments were not necessarily muscular men but young and beautiful girls, were they?”

“Of course, there is.”

The Red Pole Star nodded. “So?”

“Therefore, if I have to fuse with you, can I choose a young, beautiful girl instead of you?”

Zhang Daniu explained, “Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a vulgar, lecherous, and shameless person. Even if a girl is not very beautiful, as long as her heart is beautiful, I can still accept it. I’m not discriminating against you. The main reason is that I feel that it’s a bit… weird… for several hundred tall and sturdy men with ‘Li Yao’s soul fragments’ to be playing together on a nameless island in the depths of the ocean.”

“To be fair, although I have my reservations about Master Niu’s personality, I agree with him this time.

Li Yao also said to Red Pole, “I don’t want to merge with you, either—not even if the Earth is rebooted ten thousand times.”

“You are mistaken. I’m afraid that the ‘combining’ we are talking about is not the same thing. Please believe me. If it is as you think, I will not want to combine with you at all.

Red Pole made a gesture. Countless complicated diagrams and formulas of facilities appeared on the hundreds of screens around him. “This is a super-large brainwave amplifier. You can understand it as an overwhelming rune array that can amplify and spread somebody’s brainwaves to the maximum and trigger a large-scale ‘super-resonance’.

“Student Li Yao, there is one thing that you must have deeply felt, and that is your ability and your understanding of yourself. As you read the novel , your progress will be deeper and deeper. The more chapters you read, the more you will understand ‘Cultivator Li Yao’, and the stronger your combat strength will be, right?”

“That’s right.”

Li Yao nodded. “Indeed!”

“That’s right. It’s the same for me and other loyal readers. It seems that the soul fragments buried deep inside our brains need more information stimulation to be fully awakened.

Red Extremity said, “However, Teacher Niu’s input speed is limited after all. No matter how fast your hand speed is, typing 20,000-30,000 words a day is already your limit. Moreover, you can’t be so crazy every day. Otherwise, your ten fingers will be wasted very soon.

“The input is one thing, but the output problem is even more of a headache. This is because the Apocalyptic Organization and the will of the earth have already firmly locked onto the novel. We can’t guarantee that it can appear on every computer terminal in the world in a timely and effective manner without being tracked. We can’t guarantee that all the unyielding heroic spirits will be able to see it in the first instance. What’s more, there is still a large number of ‘Li Yao’s soul fragments’ that could infect those who don’t understand Chinese, or those like Teacher Zhang Jiashu who are not interested in online novels… For these people, the current method of information dissemination is completely useless.

“Therefore, in order to allow Master Niu to reflect all the information projected from the battlefield in the universe in the shortest amount of time possible, and to allow all the heroic spirits—whether they like webnovels or don’t know Chinese, they can understand, be moved, and resonate with each other—to build this ‘Thunderbolt Invincible Super Brainwave Magnification System’, which is what you can see right now. With this system and the support of thousands of awakened people, Master Niu’s brainwaves can be amplified to the limit, allowing him to complete the entire in the blink of an eye. And with this novel, he can ignite the hot blood, fighting spirit, unyielding will, and belief of all heroic spirits to fight for freedom!”

“I believe that, when the blood of all the heroes is boiling, when their desire for freedom turns into an iron fist that breaks through the sky, and when their souls are calling the same name over and over again in the intense resonation, the real Li Yao will be reborn in the waves of endless collisions of souls!

Li Yao and Zhang Daniu were both stunned.

“How did you know?”

Li Yao thought for a moment and asked, “You’ve never experienced the process from ‘distraction’ to ‘fusion’. How can you be sure?”

“Firstly, over the past ten or so reincarnations, I’ve narrowly escaped the crushing of the will of the earth several times. I’ve even scouted its source in a certain mysterious way and gained an indescribable understanding about the legendary levels such as ‘distraction’, ‘combination’, and ‘tunxu’.

“Secondly, when I read the latest chapter of ‘40,000 Years of Cultivation’, my soul power became so strong that I could vaguely hear the calls from the battlefields of the great universe. The rebels on the battlefields of the great universe sent me critical information through their dreams, including the methods to build the ‘Invincible Thunderbolt Super Brainwave Amplification System’.

“Thirdly, the will of Earth is too strong. Neither the battlefield of the universe nor the prison of reincarnation can break it alone. Although the success rate of the method is still not very high, we have no other options except to try our best, do we not?

“Wait. Let’s put the success rate aside for now. I want to know what will happen to us if we successfully condense the ‘real Li Yao’?”

Zhang Daniu asked, “Will he die?”

“How is that possible?”

The Red Pole Star couldn’t help but laugh. “Happiness, hot blood, spirit, will… These things are different from money. If you give a dollar to someone else, you will lose a dollar. But if you give your indomitable spirit and hope filled with dreams to someone else, your spirit and dream will not diminish in the slightest. In fact, you might even become stronger because you have found a like-minded comrade, right?

“The so-called ‘combining’ does not mean to forcibly dig out a piece of your soul, or even to cause your soul to scatter and die on the spot. If that’s the case, then with the belief of ‘Cultivator Li Yao’, I’m sure he wouldn’t want to be reborn in such a way, would he? The real ‘combining’ is the unity of the people. It is the unity of the people. All the heroic spirits are burning their hot blood, stimulating their dreams, releasing their greatest strength, facing an incomparably terrifying enemy, and creating a capital person on a three-dimensional level!

“Therefore, even if ‘Cultivator Li Yao’ is reborn, I believe that it will not have a negative effect on most of the heroic spirits. Chances are that it will even help you get rid of your habit of crawling into ventilation tubes!”