Chapter 333 : Chapter 333

Chapter 333: Resurrection Spell and the Essence of Life

"How is it possible... the Nightmare Demon, the Nightmare Demon could actually be used to monitor my actions in that way... if I had brought something like that to my brother..."

Thinking of this possibility, Ninglan Qiuyue was terrified.

With the known abilities of the Nightmare Demon, it would be all too easy to assassinate Ninglan Qiuyu.

"Look on the bright side, at least that hasn't happened yet. Everything is still developing in a good direction," Tan Han said comfortingly.

Now that Ninglan Qiuyu had the support of so many factions, it could be said that he had gathered so much power as if "mandated by heaven."

Tan Han had never experienced such a change of power, or rather, in the now peaceful main world, no one had experience in this area.

But one thing was certain: a just cause enjoys abundant support while an unjust cause finds little support.

Numbers, factions, technology, or rather, extraordinary skills, were all in their favor at this moment.

At least, as long as Ninglan Qiuyu didn't court death, he wouldn't die.

"Let's meet up with the people from the Earth Patrol Team first. We can't afford to hesitate here either," Tan Han said.

At first, Tan Han had thought there was plenty of time, but Ninglan Qiuyue's arrival brought her bad news.

The fact that Ninglan Qiuyue could sneak out naturally meant that there was a problem at the Ninglan Township Fortress, causing the people guarding her to be negligent.

According to Ninglan Qiuyue's speculation, Ninglan Qiuyu was very likely to take this opportunity to violently initiate a change of power.

After all, opportunities were rare.

If they missed this opportune time and place, who knew when the next one would be.

"Right, let's take people up to support... hmm?"

"What's wrong?"

"I got a text. My brother... he's really going to make a move. He asked me how the progress is on my side," Ninglan Qiuyue said after looking at the text message.

After all, she had contacted Ninglan Qiuyu when she came out, and the decision to come here personally to check the situation was also a result of their discussion.

At least, everything was going smoothly for now.

"Why so eager? Is there no room for error? If our side fails, or even if the progress is not ideal, his rash actions might lead to all his efforts being in vain," Tan Han frowned and commented.

After all, guessing was one thing, but being confirmed was another.

"There is no possibility of preparation for this kind of thing. We all need to do our best. This is not a peaceful change of the City Lord's power."

"That's true," Tan Han nodded and did not pursue any more details on this matter.

And Ninglan Qiuyue was also exchanging information with Ninglan Qiuyu.

And the most important point, about the Nightmare Demon, had to be emphasized!

The factor of the Nightmare Demon was too uncontrollable.

She couldn't even imagine if the people led by Ninglan Qiuyu had the same Nightmare monitoring them, and then deal a fatal blow at a critical moment.

Qiuyue: The underground city is basically settled, but I was attacked by a Nightmare Demon on my side.

Qiuyu: Explain the situation in detail.

Qiuyue: The Nightmare has the ability to possess an item on a person.

It was on me, but fortunately, it was discovered.

Qiuyu: What?

Qiuyu: How did you discover it?

Qiuyue: Oh, you're not going to care about your sister?

Qiuyu: This matter is very important.

Qiuyu: I want to know how you discovered it.

I hope you understand the gravity of the situation.

Qiuyue: An outsider helped discover it.

The means are unknown, but I've brought that person into our camp.

Qiuyu: Understood.

How is the situation on your side now?

Is it convenient to bring the Earth Patrol Team to help suppress the remaining forces in Ninglan New City as soon as possible?

Qiuyue: Not meeting up?

Without our support, your side will be very dangerous.

Qiuyu: I got news that there seems to be a conflict between the City Lord and the Nightmare Demon.

The situation is not as bad as you think.

Qiuyu: The main thing is those Nightmare Demons.

Qiuyu: Just have a few people bring the extraordinary killers from the extraordinary research base and hand them over to my people.

Qiuyu: With this and the cooperation of the outsiders, we can stabilize and suppress them.

Qiuyue: I hope so.

Qiuyue: Contact me immediately if anything happens.

Don't be too proud to face your sister.

Qiuyue: Also, send me the handover location.

Then, after a detailed communication with the other party, Ninglan Qiuyue also had the next target of action.

"Have you finished communicating?"

"Yes. It seems he really did treat us as a backup plan. After the next few days... Ninglan New City might just..."

"There's no time for sighing. Let's go."

"Let's go. But this time, there are a lot of people from the Earth Patrol Team. We can't take the same route we came from. It's not realistic and a waste of time. We also need to take control of the elevator to the surface now."

"I was just thinking the same thing."

"If we encounter any city guards in the dream, I'll have to trouble you."

When Ninglan Qiuyue led the group from the Earth Patrol Team and prepared to take over by force, the city guards here had already been waiting for a long time.

"Miss Ninglan Qiuyue, we have been waiting here for a long time. There is no need for us to face each other with swords and blades. We will cooperate with your actions."

"What do you mean?"

Faced with the other party's sudden cooperation, Ninglan Qiuyue subconsciously thought it might be a trick, but then thought it was unlikely.

"This is the City Lord's meaning. Once we lose contact with the City Lord, then we need to fully cooperate with Ninglan Qiuyu and Miss Ninglan Qiuyue's arrangements."

"Lose contact? What do you mean, what does it mean to lose contact with the City Lord..."

"Calm down, miss," at this moment, someone at the side immediately pulled Ninglan Qiuyue and said comfortingly.

"Let's go, everyone. Please believe our words. After all, there aren't many of us guarding here, and we can't beat you. We are aware of this."

"Let's go," at this moment, Tan Han also urged Ninglan Qiuyue.

Even Tan Han was a little surprised by the development of all this.

It was too smooth.

But now, combined with the reactions and words of these city guards, it wasn't hard to deduce some things.

These city guards were obviously not on Ninglan Qiuyu's side, so they could only be the City Lord's men.

For the City Lord to make such an arrangement could only prove one thing, that is, this seemingly rebellious movement and violent seizure of power initiated by Ninglan Qiuyu was essentially a father's test for his son.

If all this, the Nightmares, the Nightmare Demons, and the outsiders had not arrived, perhaps there would not have been such a test, and Ninglan Qiuyu would have just inherited in the normal process.

After understanding this layer, any discerning person could see the haste with which the City Lord had arranged this test.

But Ninglan Qiuyu had given an expected and excellent answer.

In this way, the strange incident in the Ninglan Township Fortress didn't seem to be an accident either.

According to the intelligence Ninglan Qiuyue got from her brother, it was a conflict between the City Lord and the Nightmare Demon.

It should be Ninglan Qiuyun's final counterattack against the Nightmare Demon after learning some key information about them, to clear away most of the threat of the Nightmare Demon for his son.

If nothing unexpected happened... after Ninglan Qiuyu arrived at the Ninglan Township Fortress, he would be able to complete the change of the City Lord's position rightfully, and even easily.

Combined with the information brought by Ninglan Qiuyue and the reversal of public opinion among the citizens on the surface, all of this had long been foreshadowed.

Thinking of this, Tan Han also breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It seemed that things had reversed in an instant, and even the pressure she was facing had been reduced by more than half.

But all of this could not be taken lightly.

Since the current City Lord and the next City Lord already had a plan, and everything was proceeding step by step, when the internal situation in Ninglan New City began to stabilize and unify, then they could unite against the outside to wipe out the Nightmare Demons and the Nightmares, and they could also go back.

But thinking of this, Tan Han also felt a little bit of gain and loss, because she did not find the answer she wanted in all of this.

Could the answer predicted by the Spirit Eye... also be wrong?

Or had she missed the answer at some point?

But unfortunately, no one could give Tan Han this answer.

Ninglan Qiuyue got on the elevator and watched the underground city below gradually move away from her.

Her heart was also not in a good mood.

At this moment, at the Earth Patrol Team headquarters.

"Hello, this is the Earth Patrol Team. What's the matter?"

"Quick! Come quickly! Those cats! The cats are going crazy! Come quickly... ah!"

"What's the situation? Sir! Please be more specific. What cats are going crazy?"

"Sir? Are you still there? Tell us where you are. Are you in danger?"

At this moment, the anomaly on the phone also attracted the attention of the others at the Earth Patrol Team.

"What happened again? A fight?"

"I don't know. He said something about cats going crazy."

And just as they were wondering, another call came in, and they said more or less the same thing.

After a simple differentiation, they learned that the so-called cats referred to those little ones whose scientific name was Fool's Dream.

"What's the situation? Didn't our Earth Patrol Team's main force just leave not long ago? Is there a problem?"

"There's also a report of another Nightmare attack there. Bring the Nightmare killers. Let's go and see what's going on. A few of you stay and watch the house. The rest of you, come with me."

"By the way, Captain, this matter involves that cat. Should we notify that scholar? The one..."

"That's right. Sigh... trouble. You, yes, you. Go to the base and find that scholar. The rest of you, come with me."

At this moment, in my residence.

With nothing to do, I was studying the runes involved in the Resurrection Spell.

I was dismantling the operating mechanism of the Resurrection Spell bit by bit.

And unfortunately, I found that there was nothing "unknown" in this Resurrection Spell, and this included "soul" and "soul-substance," which I hadn't touched upon yet.

This Resurrection Spell seemed as if it didn't play with these two, trampling on the information I had learned about the essence of life.

So... this should be considered an outdated "Resurrection Spell."

After all, the Academy Head also said that the interpretation of life represented the iteration and development of the Resurrection Spell.

The previous Resurrection Spell also couldn't be called a Resurrection Spell.

Although I still couldn't fully understand the operating mechanism of this Resurrection Spell, based on my understanding of it, it was probably equivalent to the ability to create a lifeless shell.

But there were also cases that needed to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, for example... the Nightmare Demon that was successfully tried before could be resurrected.

Even the shell, extra rituals, casting materials, sacrificial materials, etc. needed for resurrection were not there.

This further confirmed that the so-called Nightmare Demon did not seem to be a life form widely recognized by the void, but just a strange creature wandering between reality and the dream.

Her life form was not included in the widely recognized definition of life in the void.

Even the soul-substance she absorbed was just a kind of "food" for them, which was ultimately converted into their own source of power.

And I also discovered a very surprising fact, that is, the spell effect of the Resurrection Spell was not to create a shell of a dead person.

The resurrected person, their body, consciousness, memory, etc. did not belong to the spell effect, but were the result of the Resurrection Spell's effect.

After all, if you resurrected a person, and the existence form of that person after resurrection was a spell effect, then when the spell effect dissipated, would that person die again?

If this kind of spell was called a Resurrection Spell, no one would use it.

And this point, the permanent existence of the resurrected person, was not like the permanent spell effect of a Grand Spellbook, but was similar to my "Dream Rewrite Spell."

The various effects I achieved in the dream were not spell effects, but the effect of rewriting the dream's information to drive the dream itself.

The Resurrection Spell seemed to be able to be analogized in this way, but it was more brilliant than this idea of mine.

It rewrote the life and death of a life in the void!

So the interpretation of the existence form of a life was so important.

It directly affected the underlying logic of the Resurrection Spell's rewriting of life and death.

If you don't understand what life is, if you don't define life, then you can't use transcendent skills to define the interval of life and death that can be resurrected.

Through the Resurrection Spell, I came to understand the three forms of life.

One was the living form, which was the most meaningful form of life.

Then the second was the life-and-death form, or perhaps a superposition state?

Anyway, it was something like that.

When any behavior of a life had no meaning, it was death in the general case.

That is, the form of death that people usually think of.

But the Resurrection Spell believed that this was still a living form, which was why I called this form the life-and-death superposition state.

This form was the range where the Resurrection Spell worked.

To bring a life in such a form back to the first form through some means was the guiding basis for resurrection.

And the third form of life was the form of complete death, that is, the death that I had learned before that even the Resurrection Spell couldn't resurrect.

So for the interpretation of life, the reason why the interpretation of soul-substance lasted for so long and was indestructible was because soul-substance more clearly defined the interval of the "life-and-death form" of life.

Even if the interpretation of life now began to transform from soul-substance to soul, that was just a broader definition of the life-and-death interval.

Because the essence of the soul was higher than that of soul-substance, the life-and-death interval was also larger, and the possibility of complete death was less.

At least in the field of the Resurrection Spell, the soul had such an advantage.

After I understood this point myself, my blind fear of the Resurrection Spell was also reduced by more than half.

When a person understood what their essence was, they would not have too much fear in the face of death.

Even if someone worried that the one resurrected by the Resurrection Spell was not me, I just wanted to say one thing.

People always think of themselves as too complicated, thinking that their life is noble and complex, but that is all the added value they give themselves.

My positioning of myself is very clear.

I am a person who has transmigrated.

My essence is soul.

Even if it's not, when I am no longer the person of my previous life, when I come to this world with my memories, my essence will only be soul.

Even if you say that the essence of life is something higher, such as some primordial spirit, holy soul, or something, that is just a different form of life.

If it's really that good, then I will find a way to transform.

Don't forget what the Academy Head told me before.

The essence of the people in this world is soul-substance.

The essence of a witch's life has transformed into soul because of the existence of the Truth Witch of Soul.

Everyone in the Witch Academy, when they become a Transcendent Witch, will have their life essence transform into soul.

So, there is no need to be too entangled in one's own life essence.

So the interpretation of life did not make the original Resurrection Spell obsolete, but guided the Resurrection Spell to develop towards a deeper level of application...

And at this moment, a violent knock came from my door.

"Who is it?"

I said with a slightly annoyed voice.

This was interrupting my thoughts on the enlightenment of the Resurrection Spell.