Age of Evolution

Chapter 612: Chapter 613: Memory Deprivation!

Looking at the extremely excited Xu Xingyao, Lin Zhen said coldly: “Exorcism?”

“Exactly! You could say that from now on, Xu Xingyao will be dead, and you, Lin Zhen, will still be alive. But the one who truly dies is you, and the only thing living is your shell!”

Xu Xingyao slowly approached Lin Zhen: “I will live on as you, as the new chairman. With your body, I even have some confidence of reaching the Longevity Realm!”

“Do you think you will succeed?”

“Of course, Exorcism is just a legend for you all, but the art of alchemy is vast and profound, always able to achieve impossible things. As long as I kill you, I naturally have a way to become the master of your body.”

Xu Xingyao was extremely excited and even began to fantasize about the future: “With your body, becoming a World King is a piece of cake, and there’s a great hope for attaining Longevity. It’s just a matter of spending a little more time practicing. Ah yes… I heard you and the beauty, Feng Qingluan, share an intimate relationship. I will care for her tenderly on your behalf. Ah! Youth is truly priceless.”

Lin Zhen did not panic as Xu Xingyao imagined but calmly said: “Chairman Xu, you have studied the art of alchemy for many years. You must have endured a lot of hardship.”

“Nonsense! Is alchemy something that can be easily mastered? I started learning alchemy in the New World and have been studying for over four thousand years. I have only reached the peak of the fourth grade… No! After I killed Huang Yong yesterday, I used his flesh and blood in alchemical pills and successfully advanced to Fifth Grade!”

“You’re actually a Fifth Grade Alchemist?” Lin Zhen was shocked as well.

“Of course! If my lifespan wasn’t approaching its end, I wouldn’t have resorted to such measures. Do you know how valuable a Fifth Grade Alchemist is? They are even more important than a World King Powerhouse. In the future, I will not only become a Longevity Realm Martial Artist, but also a Seventh-grade Alchemist!”

Lin Zhen laughed, “Your plans are great, but they can’t be realized.”

“Nonsense! You are now trapped in a barrel. Are you still thinking of turning things around?”

“Chairman, how much Star Power do you have?”

“Hmph! When I crossed the Heavenly Gate, my Star Power had reached 1.05 million. But after arriving in the Original World, my death is approaching, my vitality is beginning to decline, and my Star Power is weakening day by day. It’s down to less than 750,000 now, otherwise, I wouldn’t have had to go to such lengths to keep you trapped.”

Xu Xingyao, who had been talking a lot, let out a big sigh: “Enough yapping, Lin Zhen, this is where it ends. Don’t blame me. Everyone wants to live. After all, your body will still be perfectly alive. I will certainly not let anyone see through it. Lin Zhen, this can be considered as a mercy to you.”

“Die!”

A sword appeared in Xu Xingyao’s hand, and he stabbed at Lin Zhen fiercely!

Lin Zhen didn’t divert his gaze, he watched the opponent’s sword stab towards him!

Halfway through the stab, Xu Xingyao stopped.

“No, this body is mine now. If it gets damaged, it will be troublesome for me later. I need to find another way.”

Saying so, Xu Xingyao suddenly moved closer to Lin Zhen, and took out a golden pill.

“If you swallow this, you will die painlessly.”

A hand struck like lightning, intending to grab Lin Zhen’s throat and force the pill down!

“Puh!”

His hand only grabbed emptiness. Lin Zhen had disappeared from his spot!

“Bang, bang!”

The metal handcuffs fell to the ground.

“Where is he!?”

Xu Xingyao looked around in disbelief. He had prepared this room for a long time. The entire space was locked and unable to teleport, and handcuffs were used to bind Lin Zhen’s hands. How could Lin Zhen possibly escape?

Suddenly, a massive amount of Star Power surged from the ground. A tiny pebble rose into the air and instantly transformed into the appearance of Lin Zhen. A sharp long spear stabbed directly at Xu Xingyao’s face!

“You likely have never heard of transformation art. As long as I’m willing, I can turn into anything of any size. Who can your handcuffs shackle!”

The long spear broke through the air, it was too late for Xu Xingyao to dodge, so he raised his sword to block!

“Clang~~!!”

After the huge collision, Xu Xingyao’s body was violently thrown into the wall, and then bounced back hard from the room’s defense barrier.

Xu Xingyao surprisingly was not a match for Lin Zhen who was prepared!

He never dreamed that Lin Zhen would be so difficult to deal with. Feeling that he was not Lin Zhen’s match, his first reaction was to resort to his trump card.

However, Lin Zhen’s combat experience was exceedingly rich, and he simply did not give Xu Xingyao the chance. After gaining the upper hand with one spear strike, his whole body’s Star Power burst forth, and a Black Hole emerged!

The space contracted by the Black Hole filled the entire room, firmly enveloping Xu Xingyao!

Lin Zhen’s Star Power was at 670,000 now. Even if Xu Xingyao was at his peak power of 1.05 million, he could not resist the Black Hole Devouring, let alone now.

Entirely out of control, he was being pulled towards the Black Hole, screaming!

“What kind of move is this?”

“There’s no need for you to know. Die!”

Within a black hole, everything is quickly compressed and disassembled. An entire planet can be shrunk to the size of a ball within a black hole. As for a human, they would be reduced to less than a speck of dust.

“I know many secrets, I can teach you the art of alchemy, I can give you money….”

“Haha! Once you enter the black hole, everything you have will be mine!”

Lin Zhen completely ignored him, increasing Star Power once again. The black hole spun rapidly, completely devouring Xu Xingyao.

“Snap!”

Under Lin Zhen’s careful control, Xu Xingyao’s space ring was peeled away. After all, the black hole belonged to him and ran at his command.

Catching the space ring with one hand, Lin Zhen’s spiritual power instantly entered the black hole.

Within the terrifyingly spinning black hole, a phantom image of Xu Xingyao was about to collapse.

This was where his soul resided. When Lin Zhen’s spiritual power wrapped around it, Xu Xingyao could even feel Lin Zhen’s presence and begged loudly for his help.

A person who has lived for thousands of years, in anyway, does not want to die.

Lin Zhen was utterly unmoved and directly displayed his own black hole beast talent.

Soul Searching!

Streams of spiritual power flickered in the air, Xu Xingyao screamed in horror, his soul twisted in the air, his memories brutally stripped away!

It was a horrifying way to die. The body was gone and the soul was forcefully taken. His form and spirit were both destroyed, beyond salvation!

This process continued for full five minutes!

One minute is equivalent to a thousand years!

Massive amounts of memory flooded into Lin Zhen’s mind. If it were an ordinary person, they might be turned into an idiot by the bombardment of memories. But not Lin Zhen. This was his talent, his ability, to absorb other people’s memories without even causing a headache!

Xu Xingyao had completely dissipated. Lin Zhen sat on the bed, starting to sift through his memories.

At first, it was Xu Xingyao’s childhood.

He also had a hard time in his youth, and like many martial artists, he practised diligently.

But Lin Zhen wasn’t interested in these things. He quickly found a trick to completely discard the useless parts of Xu Xingyao’s memory.

What he retained were Xu Xingyao’s cultivation techniques, martial way insights, and expertise in alchemy.

Of course, another integral piece of information was his bank account password!

As the president and a fifth-grade alchemist, Xu Xingyao should be considered affluent.

However, he might have sensed his impending death recently and had spent all his money on buying medicinal materials for alchemy. There was not much left in his bank account, just 1.5 million.

Over a million did provide some relief to Lin Zhen. He immediately withdrew all the money from his card and transferred it to his own.

“His martial techniques do have some merits. However, martial techniques require a long time to cultivate, and compared to his martial techniques, his knowledge in the art of pill refining is too rich.”

Thousands of years of alchemy process is not something that can be completely absorbed in a day or two. Even if Lin Zhen could grasp the other’s memory, there was still a need for a familiarization process.

Lin Zhen didn’t go to the Longevity Temple for worship, but left there and found another inn where he stayed for a full ten days!

For ten days, he did nothing but use all his energy to digest and absorb Xu’s memory. Finally, he claimed Xu Xingyao’s alchemy knowledge as his own.

Apart from ordinary alchemy, Xu Xingyao was also proficient in some evil tactics, such as exorcism, which was generally only heard about but never practiced.

In addition to Exorcism, he also mastered the fabrication of clones and the concoction of poisons.

Lin Zhen had also cultivated a clone previously, but that clone relied on a connection with Xiao Nuan’s bloodline, while Xu Xingyao’s method could use any body to create a clone.

“I should find another opportunity to cultivate a clone. A good clone’s strength will exceed the original body, and the clone I make now, as long as it doesn’t have particularly bad qualifications, should be able to reach the World King level. That would be of significant benefit to my strength.”

He also took over all of Xu Xingyao’s things, like the finished Elixirs, the great looking pill furnace, and the large amount of medicinal materials in the space ring.

Everything that could be planted, Lin Zhen transferred it to the Dark Star Space, planting it in rows in the valley.

Initially, he had planted about ten kinds, but Xu’s ring contained more than three hundred kinds of medicinal ingredients. Lin Zhen selected over a hundred types that could be grown, and after planting them, they almost covered half of the valley.

“Xu Xingyao also has Juyuan Powder here. If I consume all of it, it should be enough for me to advance to Star System Level 5.”

“But I want to try and see what it feels like to refine pills by myself. I currently have enough medicinal materials and can start the pill refining. In five days, the Wood King Mansion will be recruiting guests. If I can refine a large amount of Juyuan Powder before that, it will definitely help me.”

“Whatever I can’t use, I can take out and sell. I heard that there is an Alchemist Guild in the Original World. If I can go there and get assessed as an Alchemist, my Elixirs would definitely fetch a good price.”

With everything in place, Lin Zhen began his second round of pill refining.