Chapter 384: A Mess Of Thoughts?
Jiao Fan even started to wonder if Lin Wu was even a beast or not. To him, he was proving to be a completely different existence. Jiao Fan was then suddenly reminded of a certain thing that he had read a long time ago.
The thing that he had read about were mechanical puppets. These were different from the hypnosis controlled cultivators in that they were not living beings. Rather, they were made from different materials and resources like metals, crystals, precious treasurer, etc.
They could then be used for various things such as war, alchemy, testing out formation arrays, guarding areas, automating formation arrays and many more. Though there was one special use of them that was rather rare, but also very valuable.
A mechanical puppet such as that could be used as a second body for cultivators. The ones that had died or lost their original bodies could inhabit in these mechanical puppets and live on.
Plus, depending on the kind of materials that were used for the puppet, they could have better talent than the original cultivator’s body. There were even said to be some rich and influential cultivators that kept several such puppets on them, just in case their real bodies were ever killed and destroyed.
Jiao Fan was now believing more and more that Lin Wu was actually not a beast at all and was rather a mechanical puppet. The only difference was that the person who had made it was rather eccentric and made it in the form of a serpent.
Jiao Fan could not understand the reasoning behind this, because if a cultivator made a mechanical puppet that was not human shaped or at least Humanoid, they would not be able to control it to the full extent.
Even if such a mechanical puppet was made out of the best material and had a great potential, the cultivator would be unable to exert his full power due to the incompatibility. But seeing Lin Wu Jiao Fan certainly did not think that he was weak or was having any issues.
This only left him with a few options in his mind. And either of those options was rather terrifying to him. The first option about compatibility was that the reason Lin Wu could exert his full strength was that he truly was a beast or used to be one, and then his Nascent Soul was transplanted into this mechanical puppet.
Now doing this would be quite difficult as no beast would be able to procure nor make a mechanical puppet like this. Which meant that another cultivator must have made this mechanical puppet and then transplanted Lin Wu’s souls into it.
This could mean that Lin Wu had an even more powerful background that he thought as someone who was able to transplant the Nascent Soul of a beast that was at the Dao Shell realm must be many times stronger than them. While another Dao Shell realm cultivator might be able to kill a Dao Shell realm beast, they wouldn’t necessarily be able to control the Nascent Soul well enough to transplant it.
There was a great chance that the beast’s Nascent Soul would resist and struggle and once it found that it could not escape, it would choose the only option that it had left, which would be to self detonate.
This seemed to be rather far fetched as there were too many variables mixed in it for it to succeed. Thus Jiao Fan passed on this option and moved onto the second option, which was also quite shocking.
Since he knew that there could be an incompatibility between different forms and that the power of the original cultivator would be reduced depending on the level of compatibility, the only way Lin Wu would have his level of strength would be if the power of the original Nascent Soul was that much.
This meant that the power of the cultivator was still at the Dao Shell realm, despite being suppressed by many times. Jiao Fan was quite sure that even a Dao Treading Realm cultivator would not be able to maintain their cultivation at that level when put in an incompatible body.
This left him with the thought that the Nascent Soul that belonged to the cultivator was at a realm higher than that… being at the Immortal Ascension realm. As soon as this thought appeared in Jiao Fan’s mind, everything clicked in place.
‘That may be the reason why he did not attack us straight away upon appearing. There is no way another beast would have reacted like that.’ Jiao Fan thought.
Lin Wu, who had been observing Jiao Fan closely for about three minutes, now found his expression varying greatly. First, the man was shocked, then he was terrified, then surprised, and now he had a face of realization.
‘This guy is really taking too long to talk. I’ll just continue what I was going to do…’ Lin Wu thought.
“Since you can’t remember the words that I had said to you, let me remind you.” Lin Wu said, snapping Jiao Fan out of his thoughts.
Jiao Fan recalled what Lin Wu had asked him about originally.
‘What had he promised me exactly…’ Jiao Fan wondered with a confused expression which soon turned into a nervous expression.
“The exact words that I had said were… ‘If you can, you guys can try to see what you can get from the temple. I will not interfere and you can take whatever.'” Lin Wu repeated.
To Lin Wu, who had the system continually recording everything, repeating something like this was a piece of cake. If he wanted to, he could even play all the memories from the past month like a video and browse through them.
But once Jiao Fan heard Lin Wu’s words, he understood where he had gone wrong.
Lin Wu had only promised him that ‘he’ would not interfere. Lin Wu never promised that the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle would not do the same.
~gulp~
Jiao Fan finally understood. He had been mistaken from the very start.
