Chapter 106: Heritage

Chapter 106: Heritage

Word count = 1597 on 11/2/2023

Once morning arrives, the naked duo take a shower together as they both have their respective tasks. Bibi Dong has agreed to keep managing the empire until a proper successor can be found whilst also setting up an altar hall for himself in his Blood hall organization.

He already has an elder hall in his organization and that is where the Sun and Moon saints along with the guest elder in the form of Dugu Bo preside over. There has been 2 other additions to the elder hall in the form of 2 peak spirit douluos who are just moments away from reaching the titled douluo stage.

His plan is to convert the elder hall partially into the worship hall he is setting up. It's format would be similar to Spirit Hall but not exactly as unlike Spirit Hall, he still wants his pope which is still Du Lie to manage the elders as compared to Spirit hall where they were separate but still relatively united but fraught with disharmony on the inside due to the separation of branches in Spirit hall. Such a set up is doomed to failure and a heavy headache that occupied the original Bibi Dong's troubled mind.

He meets with Du Lie and sees how he is doing as the head of his organization. He is informed about how the original recruits have grown but that there is a massive backlog on the requests for the Ring Ascension Platform due to Xue Tie being away, working on his blood beast experiment. Xue Tie sets down 3 items.

The first is his trident which had been detached from him. Xue Tie's forehead glows due to his death rune and black flames flow into the trident to create 2 rings onto it.

"There, I have ensured the trident has the refinement ability as well as my original blood manipulation ability from my robes 9th ring. Ill introduce you later to the scientists i've been working with to give birth to a new type of spirit beast so that the original ones are not hunted down to extinction and completely disable humans ability for growth. Another thing is that you should prepare yourself or a worthy representative to travel to the Great Star Dou Forest Core for the cooperative business deal I have set up with the beasts in exchange for their blood and small bits of flesh for the experiment." Xue Tie informs him the usage of the trident and how it's vital to both his empire and organization so it's a shared artifact.

The second item is his original robes, Xue Tie infuses the flames into the robes which creates 4 rings.

"The first ring is my immutable which expands the defensive power of the artifact, the second is my primal burst which is a boosting ability in exchange for pain, the third is my fire tornado ability for a mix of offense and defense, the last is a placeholder ring related to the vampirism or self healing ability I had gotten when I first got my domain. Without these two martial spirits I no longer have this self healing ability of mine. I instead use my proto-divine energy to eliminate any internal and external damage I may suffer. As such, I bestow this ability which I extracted from my own bloodline to the armor. Naturally if paired with the trident then it becomes more effective due to my bloodline synergy" He explains the robes and all it's abilities next.

Naturally, Du Lie is quite shocked by the prowess of the artifact but is worried that they are too big for anyone due to the natural height difference between Xue Tie and others. "Hahahahaha", Xue Tie bursts into laughter and inserts his flames into both artifacts to grant them the size manipulation ability, this is an offshoot ability of Body Manipulation which is also an offshoot of the original immutable ability that allowed him to shrink and become girly when he went to visit shrek. With the spirit beast that was the source of his immutable ability merging with his deathcore, he gained the higher level ability of self body modification, aka body manipulation. He informs Du Lie that they can now adjust their size according to their newest ring each.

He now introduces the last object he took out. A crystal clear black orb which is the counterpart to the one he made in the forest when he was fulfilling his end of the deal.

"This is a Death Core Orb. A miniature one of what I have. I've tested it out with my wife and it is capable of talking to me, due to it's higher level energy, it should be able to serve as a communicator once I ascend, you may also use this as an object of faith for my divinity. You and any other worthy successors may also attempt to comprehend some of the energy in it by feeding it your own to see if you are able to absorb any so that you can ascend to become one of my divine vessels or allow me to possibly possess you. I honestly don't know the full usage of this thing since it's literally just a ball of energy that is linked to me. You may assign either yourself or one of the Elder hall members to serve as the worship halls leaders and gather other low ranking members to pray to the orb and thus me as it's creator"

Xue Tie explains the usage of the orb and how it should be handled, along with the general set up of the worship hall. Details ranging from: a special key that only the worship hall elder would only possess and hide away when not using it. To blind folding the lower level members so that they can't find the worship hall. Along with other ideas such as traps to ensure the orb and other treasures aren't stolen from the blood Hall and other subordinate halls without a prerequisite token or something. Du Lie diligently writes these ideas down for future reference as they could be implemented for many other items and treasures the Blood hall collects over time.

Xue Tie suddenly remembers something and takes out a journal that he had been updating over a long period of time. It's start was when he began expanding his business by having his people create fridges and other tools. He had been writing down and drawing down various technological novelties throughout the years. He wrote down the original concept and then hints on how spirit power could be integrated into it through the usage of higher level batteries.

Toasters, bathtubs, mixers (handheld and stationary), blenders (stationary and portable bottles with the idea integrated for on the go blending), to higher complexity machinery like drills, saws, watches and even entertainment based like tvs. Xue Tie does not know the full complexity of the machinery itself but by proposing the general outline of its appearance and usage , the scientists and engineers can figure out how to create these objects as technology advances throughout the years.

He also provided the prototype idea for Battle Armor from SL3. Granted he can't expose his full understanding of it as he truly does not understand it. He writes down the requirements for each stage of the battle armor as that was clearly explained in the light novel but how it integrates with one's body and martial spirit is unknown to him as he has never experienced it before. He has added many clauses to be careful of and emphasized the various roles that go into setting up a proper battle armor as well as for other positions such as Mech Engineers, Mecha Designers and whatever other positions that exist to work together to either make mechas or Battle armor.

To say that Du Lie is shocked is an understatement, as they don't live in a heavily technological era yet, a lot of this is too complex for his brain to process. Naturally he is aware that most of these don't benefit Spirit masters until the later half of the book that describes various spirit tech from SL2 or how he is floored by the concept of the battle armor. He naturally realizes that the book itself is a treasure, the legacy of Xue Tie and the orb is a medium of communication to clear their doubts or in case they encounter something that might bring about their end.

"Work with my empire to make the simplest applications widespread. Don't be afraid to sell some of these ideas in copies or other methods available to you or your successors. This should benefit humanity as a whole to grow stronger, I expect many capable individuals to ascend every few hundred years or so to serve me as my death envoy- god officers." he says the final bit and Du lie begins to go in depth about various questions and how he should proceed on certain matters. Xue Tie ends up setting up a procedure booklet which all future leaders of the blood Hall would have available.

The final matter is that Xue Tie stores some other much smaller booklet within the death crystal orb that he left behind here. He says that when the time coms, the booklet will emerge to provide new knowledge about the world itself and his own thoughts on ascension.

Xue Tie then takes his leave to hopefully find a worthy successor to his empire.