Chapter 1484 - 697: Waste Utilization

Chapter 1484: Chapter 697: Waste Utilization

"...Eh eh!"

When Xun Lingrui woke up from the shock-induced stupor, she opened her eyes to find the King’s head directly in front of her, seemingly pressing down on her and bending down to bite, nearly frightening her into screaming. She reflexively slapped the head, sending it flying.

Huh? How could the head fly away?

Xun Lingrui regained her senses, sat up straight, and focused her gaze. Fortunately, she was covered in dust and smoke from the explosion, making her clothes tattered and dirty, revealing her white legs. But beneath, her layers of clothing were still neat; her many heavy vestment robes and talismans absorbed the damage, and her inner strength and protective true Qi were full, leaving her internal organs without major harm.

Looking up, she realized that the King was not actually assaulting her but had his head and spine pulled out, made into a human skull staff, casually stuck into the soil beside her, only to topple over... Wait, something isn’t right...

Xun Lingrui stared dumbly at the King’s head for a while before reacting and turning around. She discovered she was in a cave, and the rest of the King of Dui’s body lay not far away, spread like a bear skin peeled open by hunters.

Hmm, the thoroughly stripped human body lay on the ground; beside it, a skeleton was condensing a Qi Blade at its fingertips, cutting open the King’s skin, backbone, tendons, diaphragm, muscle, dissecting his bones one by one.

It gestured, trying its own hand bones in the skin sack for tightness and thickness. Obviously, it intended to replace the King’s bones with its own...

The skeleton raised its head,

"Yo, you’re awake."

"Master, master... senior... what are you doing..."

Xun Lingrui shuddered as the skeleton’s empty eye sockets stared at her, unable to fathom the hellish tableau before her.

"Oh, the ship exploded."

Tie Dan explained as he meticulously peeled flesh,

"Someone attempted an assassination earlier, not only poisoning the food but also swallowing a nuke in their belly, well, maybe it was a Type 90 individual biphasic overpressure combustion bomb aimed at a fortress. Anyway, the whole ship went up in smoke.

But fortunately, I was prepared, had refilled my Qi. I used Escape Skills to avert disaster and conveniently rescued you, no need to thank me."

"Uh, th-thank you, senior..."

Xun Lingrui thanked him, her gaze inadvertently drawn to the scattered flesh."

Tie Dan patted the King’s solid back,

"Oh him, he dug his own grave. His Qilin Divine Light was exposed, and he tried to take a piece of me. Probably wanted to play hero saving the beauty.

Heh, why would I hold back? A waste can still be put to use."

"Put to use..."

Xun Lingrui was bewildered, just stared as the skeleton clattered, crawling like a scorpion onto the King’s back, sliding into the skin sack, standing up as the white bones inserted into the cracked ribs, piecing them together, then pulling at the fascia and tendons, moving hands and feet, arranging the limbs like wearing a one-piece suit..."

"But, but this is the King of Dui Country... Killing him and reincarnating, are you sure this is okay?"

Tie Dan jumped up, pulling the skin sack,"

"It’s crucial, so I didn’t kill him."

Xun Lingrui’s eyes widened,"

"How is this not killing him!?"

"It’s true, this guy has a royal decree and heavenly protection, killing him now would attract too much karma, too heavy a disaster."

Tie Dan gestured the recently flung head-spine staff back, tearing off the King’s facial skin to mask himself, transforming into the spitting image of the King.

"So I used the Primordial Spirit Method to dazzle him, only removing the head, sealing the Three Souls and Seven Spirits in the skull, making it into a magic artifact."

Xun Lingrui’s rationality was faltering.

"No, but, but..."

Of course, Tie Dan completely understood her confusion,

"No, he’s technically not dead. In essence, this guy wasn’t the original king but a dampened figure, a brain worm head swap, puppet acting on command. Thus as long as the neurospinal system isn’t damaged, he won’t die. Not dying means no triggering of heavenly backlash.

As for the body, it was a mass-produced combat-type flesh and blood implant replicating the Immortal Venerable, like the coat robe disguise of the Radiant Aspect Mother, usable like armor."

"Yes, usable, at least for seven days. If not revived in seven days, he’s dead for sure. But what does it have to do with me? After seven days, the great calamity will come, many pieces will fall in despair, who will care about this boy’s fate.

"Still, your concern is valid. Although everyone on the ship died, the Qilin isn’t human; as the King’s assistant, it surely won’t let go easily, definitely pursuing us still. Although I relied on the Nine Heavens Extreme Cloud Flash to gain a temporary advantage, the gap is closing due to limited Qi Power. I can only buy about a stick of incense worth of time."

The enemy might catch up anytime now, so be ready for battle." Tie Dan clamped his jaw, practicing pronunciation, mimicking the wicked, aloof smile of a devilish CEO, waving the bleeding peeled skeleton staff towards Xun Lingrui,