"..." Mr. Xugou seemed to agree with my statement by default.

He did not hold back during the battle, and for the most part, he was going all out. However, when my Flame Magic Power and his Sword Gang Storm fiercely interweaved at an extremely close distance, I sensed his hesitation.

I vaguely understood what he was hesitating about at that moment—he didn't want to affect Little Bowl, this little girl who looked only about ten years old.

His Killing Move was so fierce that even though my power was much stronger, I had to give my all from the beginning to ensure I could overpower it. During this process, any slight relaxation of my strength would result in Little Bowl, who was under my protection, being in mortal danger.

I was confident in my ability to protect Little Bowl during the conflict, but from Mr. Xugou's perspective, regardless of whether he was aware of the gap between us, standing against me meant he would need the resolve to destroy me and Little Bowl at all costs.

Because he couldn't muster such ruthless determination at the critical moment, he was defeated more easily than I had anticipated. And precisely because of this, an option appeared before me: "Even if the combat goal is adjusted to capture Mr. Xugou, Little Bowl's safety can still be ensured."

Little Bowl was so eager to contribute, and if possible, I naturally wanted to follow her wishes. Previously, lacking absolute confidence, I had dismissed her proposal outright; but now that the situation had changed, I wouldn't stubbornly insist on my position.

I briefly explained my reasoning, then looked at Mr. Xugou and said, "I didn't expect you to be so naive on the battlefield, but this naivety saved your life."

"Were you always the type to be so considerate of others' feelings?" Mr. Xugou asked in an odd tone.

"I don't know what you're talking about, but I've always cared about my own people," I replied. "And for those who aren't my people, I don't have that much patience."

"...I understand." Mr. Xugou slowly sat up.

His more than three-meter tall heavy armor sat on the ground, resembling a metal hill with great visual impact. Not to mention Little Bowl, who was originally a child; even I, standing in front of him, felt like a weak and powerless child. However, possibly due to being in a state of losing combat ability and being vulnerable, Mr. Xugou no longer held the previous sharpness. Blood continued to flow from the cracks in the armor, soon forming a pool of blood beneath him.

He took a deep breath, and the sound of bleeding from inside the armor ceased. Perhaps to prevent misunderstanding, he looked as if he didn't intend to repair his grievous soul wound, intentionally maintaining a state where he couldn't continue to wield fighting power.

"Now my life is entirely yours, and you haven't killed me immediately but are talking to me like this..." Mr. Xugou looked at me calmly, "Does that mean you really intend to turn me? What you said before about being able to summon Ai Ye's soul... wasn't a lie you made up to lower my fighting spirit?"

"Yes, Mr. Xugou, we are serious," Little Bowl said sincerely. "Afterward, please leave your body to us, and then I will use it as a medium to summon the soul of that female researcher."

Mr. Xugou still seemed incredulous, asking in a doubtful tone, "But... how can one summon the soul of someone who has been completely annihilated?"

"Leave it to us," I said. "Trying won't cost you anything, and besides... if we really wanted to dig your flesh, could you even resist us now?"

Mr. Xugou nodded reluctantly, still appearing as if he was torn, muttering, "But... Ai Ye shouldn't be able to come back to life unless..."

"Unless it's in a dream?" I pondered and then said, "No, you probably don't truly believe in 'Paradise'... If you did, you wouldn't have held back earlier. This involves the possibility of reuniting with the most important person to you, and I don't think you would easily waver in your resolve on that matter... Ultimately, why did you join Taoyuan Village Master's camp?"

Mr. Xugou hesitated for a long while, then seemed to come to a decision and said, "...It was for Ying Lingyun's technology."

"It actually involves Ying Lingyun?" I was surprised.

Mr. Xugou nodded and proceeded to explain his motivation for joining Taoyuan Village.

After destroying Fufeng Base, he obtained ownerless Divine Seal fragments that could be exchanged for resurrection methods with the Master of Divine Seal. However, before he proposed the exchange, the Void Realm was destroyed first. He lost the platform to meet and communicate with the Master of Divine Seal, having no choice but to wait for the Void Realm to repair, hoping for the chance to trade with the Master of Divine Seal.

But the experience of almost obtaining the method he wanted made him more anxious than ever before. He didn't know when exactly the Void Realm would be repaired, if it would never be repaired, or if things would change further in the future, preventing him from fulfilling his wish to resurrect his loved one. Many fluctuating thoughts circled and twisted in his mind, prompting him to make a decision.

Eggs should not be placed in one basket. During the time he waits for the Void Realm to repair, he wants to explore methods outside the Divine Seal Fragment Transaction to fulfill his wish.

And during the ongoing hidden exploration, he investigated the organization called the Taoyuan Village.

Then he came up with an idea.

Firstly, this idea wasn't something like "reuniting with a lover in a dream"; he wasn't desperate enough for that. Instead, during his investigation, he found undeniable similarities between the "monks" produced by the Taoyuan Village and the eccentrics from the Human Bureau. After further in-depth investigation, he realized that the Human Bureau, which created him as an artificial Impermanence, once had intricate cooperative trading relations with the Taoyuan Village.

To be precise, it wasn't the Human Bureau and the Taoyuan Village working together, but rather Ying Lingyun and Taoyuan Village Master Meng Zhang colluding in secret, sharing almost all their technologies and knowledge.

Among them, there was very likely technology and knowledge Ying Lingyun developed to resurrect the true Yinyue.

Xu Gou hated Ying Lingyun immensely because it was Ying Lingyun who turned him into a laboratory subject in the Human Bureau, living a life worse than death; on the other hand, he had to admit that Ying Lingyun possessed unimaginably dark scientific wisdom. In some sense, Xu Gou was probably the person in this world who could personally experience Ying Lingyun's technical prowess the most. Even though he himself could find no method to resurrect his beloved, relying on the technological legacy left by Ying Lingyun, even impossible things might be rendered possible.

For this reason, Xu Gou followed the trail to the Taoyuan Village Master Meng Zhang, requesting to join him, and the latter welcomed his Grand Impermanence Level Power that descended from the heavens.

"I didn't tell the Taoyuan Village Master my true purpose but disguised myself as someone wanting to reunite with a lover through dreams. Because if I exposed my real goal too early, it might result in what I wanted being dangled in front of me like a carrot that could never be reached," Xu Gou said, "But I don't know whether the Taoyuan Village Master discerned my true purpose because he never showed me the most crucial parts of Ying Lingyun's technological legacy..."

Little Bowl raised a question: "Could it be that the Taoyuan Village Master simply doesn't have the technology you want? The resurrection method was Ying Lingyun's most important research goal during his lifetime, and the Taoyuan Village Master seemingly doesn't have the need to resurrect anyone, so they might not have shared that part of the technology with Taoyuan Village."

"I also had doubts in this aspect, but there was something that alleviated my concerns," Xu Gou said, "In the hands of the Taoyuan Village Master is Ying Lingyun's brain."

"Brain?" I was surprised.

"According to him, it was retrieved before the Human Bureau Headquarters was destroyed," Xu Gou said.

I recalled the experiences from that time.

Back then, Meng Zhang suddenly opened a spatial rift and intervened in the Human Bureau Headquarters, intending to rescue Ying Lingyun, but due to my sudden intervention, Ying Lingyun was blown to pieces by my power, and his remains all fell behind that spatial rift.

It also included Ying Lingyun's severed head.

So Meng Zhang didn't discard it, but instead wanted to make use of it?

How to use it? Could Meng Zhang possibly rely on the power of Reboot from the "Paradise" to resurrect Ying Lingyun?

No, the power of Reboot cannot accomplish such things... Although the power of Reboot can resurrect the dead, the prerequisite is that all "components" of the deceased must be within the range of the reboot site. This is similar to the Reboot power achieved through the Power of Divine Seal Fragments by Ying Lingyun.

However, Ying Lingyun's soul had long since been entirely incinerated by me, transformed into "furnace slag." Even if Meng Zhang rebooted a thousand times, in the end, he would only obtain an empty shell.

Moreover, although Ying Lingyun himself possessed no mana, the difficulty of reviving him compared to reviving those unsuccessful ordinary people is worlds apart. As someone who had connected with Divine Seal Fragments, deeply stirred the world order, and created an artificial Impermanence, Ying Lingyun was entangled in too much fate and causality.

Through the ability of Impermanence to alter history and revive the dead, even casually reviving a hundred or so unsuccessful ordinary people is effortless, but when it comes to reviving Ying Lingyun, it's out of the question. The historical correction force needed to revive Ying Lingyun is just too overwhelmingly powerful.

Other forms of resurrection would also encounter very strong resistance, and coupled with the fact that I was filled with killing intent when I killed Ying Lingyun, the path for resurrection was completely sealed.

"Stored in the biological brain of Ying Lingyun, who is in a state of death, is all the memory he had during his lifetime. If combined with his technological legacy, it might be possible to extract information from it, including all the technological knowledge he had mastered," Xu Gou said.