Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 649: Garbage, all garbage

Chapter 649: Garbage, all garbage

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"This is... a Taotie host body?!"

Wu E was dumbfounded.

He immediately realized things had gone terribly wrong.

As the Ancestral Dragon's lackey, Taotie had opposed them in every cycle of reincarnation. Throughout the ages, Taotie had both victories and defeats, ultimately being suppressed by the great beings of the Celestial God Clan each time. But typically, Taotie only appeared after the Well of Heaven had fully opened.

Now that they had found Taotie so early, he could have thoroughly extracted all of Taotie's plans and secrets for this reincarnation cycle through Soul Searching.

But now...

The damn thing had self-destructed its demonic soul.

The so-called Taotie host body was a physical shell inhabited by Taotie's soul. Due to Taotie's nature of devouring and merging with all things, even if the host started as a mere fly, it would eventually grow into the true Taotie form through continuous consumption and power enhancement.

Capturing a Taotie host body was essentially no different from capturing Taotie itself.

"However..." Chen Niu paused: "Why is this Taotie host body just an empty shell? Where is its soul?"

When asked this.

Wu E awkwardly averted his gaze.

He scratched his butt and stammered: "Big brother, didn't you tell me to kill all the fierce beasts in the Well of Heaven to forcibly open it? I was thinking about finishing quickly, and then I ran into this thing, so I just casually killed it. Its demonic soul also... also self-destructed when I wasn't paying attention..."

"What?! The demonic soul self-destructed?" Chen Niu's eyes widened with rising fury.

"You idiot!"

"How many times have I told you! Don't act impulsively, don't act impulsively!"

"Did you absolutely have to kill it? Did you absolutely have to force its demonic soul to self-destruct? Now look, the prize we had in our hands is completely gone!"

Chen Niu felt furious just looking at Wu E's foolish expression, wishing he could slap him to death right then and there.

But Wu E was, after all, his own blood brother, so he had to endure it this time.

"Big brother." Wu E said pitifully: "Wasn't I thinking you have supernatural powers and could perform Soul Searching through the physical shell? Besides, the demonic soul self-destruction happened in an instant. Without prior preparation, who could react in time?"

"Still making excuses for yourself!"

Chen Niu said coldly: "Are my supernatural powers omnipotent? Can their effects compare to proper Soul Searching?"

Seeming to realize that further scolding was pointless, Chen Niu took a deep breath and calmed the fury in his heart.

Since things had come to this, he could only try using his supernatural powers.

Taotie's secrets must definitely be related to the Ancestral Dragon.

If they could find the Ancestral Dragon's successor early, the troubles they'd face in this reincarnation cycle would be much smaller.

It would also make it more convenient for them to later find the variable that the great beings needed.

His massive body slowly approached Muscle Tyrant's shell, cold scales scraping against the ruined ground, emitting a heart-palpitating rustling sound. Those eyes burning with eerie green flames stared intently at Muscle Tyrant. ṙ𝐚ＮổᛒËŝ

Suddenly, the flames in his eyes erupted violently.

An ancient and heavy pressure exploded outward from Chen Niu as the center.

The remaining air among the ruins seemed to instantly solidify.

Even the dark red patterns on the surface of that faceless stone statue seemed to briefly glow slightly.

Chen Niu's enormous serpent tail slowly lifted, its tip moving like the most flexible tentacle, gently touching the spot between the eyebrows of Muscle Tyrant's remains.

Buzz——!

A dark blue-green energy stream composed of countless tiny symbols injected from Chen Niu's tail tip into Muscle Tyrant's body.

This energy stream wasn't gentle.

Instead, it carried a brutal, tearing force.

It rudely pierced into that empty shell.

Attempting to extract fragments of the past belonging to Muscle Tyrant's self-destructed demonic soul from the flesh, bone marrow, and even every trace of remaining demonic power imprint.

Muscle Tyrant's remains convulsed violently.

Eerie green flames burst forth from throughout his body.

Wispy strands of soul were drawn toward his shell.

But only a tiny amount of demonic soul was forcibly retrieved.

It had already been the time it takes an incense stick to burn since Wu E brought back the shell, and the demonic soul had long dispersed throughout heaven and earth.

"Mmm——!" Chen Niu's massive ox head tilted back slightly, his burning ghost-fire eyes suddenly closing.

His consciousness was following that dark blue-green energy stream,

Forcibly breaking into a chaotic, fragmented, rapidly collapsing and dissipating wasteland.

The scene before him swayed violently like turbid water into which a stone had been thrown, constantly reassembling and shattering.

Countless fragmented images with no logical connection madly flooded into Chen Niu's mind.

A thin black cat rummaging for food by a dirty trash can, being pelted with stones by children and fleeing in disarray...

The icy, dark cage of Containment Area 0, a figure curled up in the corner trembling with fear.

Eating cat food... thinking cat food was delicious...

Playing with a cat teaser toy...

Playing with a scratching post...

Devouring dried fish treats wildly...

Violently beating up a pink teddy bear and a strangely shaped fire poker with eyes.

Defecating in the litter box...

Infiltrating different Demon Sealing Pagodas, devouring Fierce Beast essences, the satisfaction from rapidly expanding power...

Finally, there was Wu E's ferocious crocodile head and the shadow of his sky-covering giant foot, along with the desperate madness before the demonic soul self-destruction.

What the hell was all this?

Memories of Taotie being a cat actually made up eighty percent of the fragments!

These memory images were fragmented, jumping around, with no focus.

Most were just trivial daily routines from this black cat's growth into a Taotie host, combat fragments, and its thirst for power.

There were even scenes of it bullying other female cats...

Chen Niu's consciousness traveled through the storm, desperately trying to capture any information possibly related to the "Dragon Soul successor."

His powerful Divine Sense acted like the most precise sieve, filtering through every memory fragment.

However, nothing!

The further he went, the more memory images there were of bullying female cats.

He had even categorized all the female cats around the Exorcist Division!

There was one existence that the Taotie host had consistently relied upon.

The Governor of C Province Exorcist Division, Chen Huaian.

Although this person had decent strength, he had no relation to the Dragon Soul successor.

The memory fragments only showed Muscle Tyrant's one-sided reverence and dependence on Chen Huaian,

And his own imagined so-called 'Big Boss.'

"Worthless!" Chen Niu suddenly opened his giant eyes.

The burning ghost fires danced violently in his pupils.

Disappointment!

So disappointing!

Throughout the cycles of reincarnation, Taotie had always been their powerful enemy.

But in this generation, Taotie was actually such trash!

The search for information about the Dragon Soul successor had also failed.

The "Blood Tracing Soul Pursuit" supernatural power he had expended his origin energy to perform had only retrieved a pile of worthless, fragmented memories.

"How was it? Big brother!" Wu E looked at Chen Niu opening his eyes, his face full of urgency.

Chen Niu didn't speak.

His massive ox head slowly lifted.

Deep within those eyes burning with eerie green ghost fires, coldness and fury gathered like volcanic magma about to erupt, almost becoming tangible.

He suddenly whipped his serpent tail!

Boom——!

Muscle Tyrant's already battered and broken shell was sent flying like a ragged cloth sack, heavily smashing into a giant overturned Buddha statue in the distance. A dull thud echoed as flesh and blood splattered everywhere, completely losing any recognizable shape.

"Trash!" he snorted coldly.

"However..." Chen Niu's tone shifted as he turned his head to coldly stare at Wu E: "Even if it's trash, it's not completely useless!"

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