I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1356 - 966: Something Not So Useful

"Even Proxy Agents can’t withstand this, since when did Proxy Agents become so powerful?" Watching Zheng Yichen’s one-against-many combat prowess, the surviving high-level members of the Devouring Faction were beyond terrified.

They had faced Proxy Agents before, even suffered from some Proxy Agents’ ’counter-invasion,’ where some hot-tempered Proxy Agents, after dismantling the Devouring Sky Pillar, would storm over to try a massacre.

Some even rushed over before the Devouring Sky Pillar was dismantled, aiming to earn more merit points at once.

Yet, when they faced the Heavenly Person developed on their side, those Proxy Agents could ultimately exert only limited influence, as several Heavenly Persons could intercept Proxy Agents.

Or even kill them.

First and second-generation Heavenly Persons were already obsolete; first generation predominantly male, second having both genders, while the third generation is predominantly female.

The optimized version of the fourth generation is mainly concentrated here, the third generation being sent out as cannon fodder, primarily to block the Proxy Agent, Du Gang. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

From the surveillance, Du Gang seems rather passive, with seven or eight third-generation Heavenly Persons focusing their attack on Du Gang, the Might of Heaven and Earth Power making Du Gang extremely passive.

While on Zheng Yichen’s side, over twenty Heavenly Persons couldn’t take him down, not only that, Zheng Yichen seemed quite unruffled and even used some method to simulate a member of a certain organization.

However, although Heavenly Persons lack self-awareness, being entities with Unity of Heaven and Man characteristics, they are not easy to deceive. Even slight anomalies cannot escape the identification of artificial Celestial Beings.

Zheng Yichen’s little trick didn’t work, so he started displaying his solid strength, looking at Zheng Yichen exerting his hard power.

They felt this Proxy Agent might as well stick to those little tricks; now, the remaining high-levels of the Devourers were plunged into a dilemma.

Initially, they thought of fleeing with the fourth-generation Heavenly Persons and some research materials, believing this batch of newly cultivated fourth-generation Heavenly Persons was sufficient to develop more powerful fifth-generation versions, or even directly create perfect Heavenly Persons.

Yet, the cost of artificial Celestial Beings is too high, with only so many now being held up by Zheng Yichen. If they escaped now, developing new Heavenly Persons would be too difficult.

They were all major consumers of resources.

"We can’t wait; we’ll lose our lives if this continues!" A decision was made very straightforward by one of the high-level Devourers, as the Heavenly Persons sent out couldn’t be recovered, they might as well retreat.

With someone making a decision, the remaining people, though still hesitant, quickly made their choice too, only to find the corpse of the first departing Devourer leader when they left.

Standing beside the corpse was a fourth-generation artificial Celestial Being.

One of the Devourers showed a puzzled expression: "Is she... Number Six?"

Artificial Celestial Beings freshly cultivated had no names, only receiving one after complete cultivation, though these fourth-generation artificial Celestial Beings had been booked in advance.

Now recognizing this artificial Celestial Being, the Devourer had originally booked Number Six, except he remembered this artificial Celestial Being was dealt with during intercepting the Proxy Agent, he even lamented for several minutes.

But how is she appearing here now?

An unnerving atmosphere filled the entire corridor, where quick-reacting Devourer executives had already pulled out anti-artificial Celestial Being items.

Though artificial Celestial Beings were designed from inception with mechanisms prohibiting any attack or influence on them, this appearance is itself an anomaly.

Dead Heavenly Persons reappearing here cannot be any good.

Crack—

A subtle noise emerged in the corridor, this sound was imperceptible to normal individuals but had excellent influence on Heavenly Persons, and this sound could only be made in certain ways.

The simplicity of the sound was even more demanding in conditions than releasing high-level Spells; even if recorded with the best equipment and replayed, it would be ineffective.

"?" Seeing the blurred figure, the artificial Celestial Being appearing here seemed somewhat puzzled, she tilted her head, and her figure disappeared from the spot in an instant.

A hand grabbed the Devourer producing this sound.

"So there is such a method?" the artificial Celestial Being spoke, filling the grabbed Devourer’s face with terror.

What happens when artificial Celestial Beings gain self-awareness?

Hmm... That’s pretty awful.

Once there was an incident of artificial Celestial Beings losing control, where they attempted to implant false self-awareness into artificial Celestial Beings, but the Unity of Heaven and Man characteristic forcibly refined the false self-awareness.

The massive information obtained passively by Unity of Heaven and Man drove the artificial Celestial Beings extremely crazy, and the perfected false self-awareness couldn’t bear the vast information, doing insane things; they abandoned the related ideas following that incident.

Artificial Celestial Beings are better off remaining as tools.

They lacked sufficiently refined Unity of Heaven and Man, making control challenging, unable to close information reception, constantly in a fully open state.

Yet, Unity of Heaven and Man doesn’t need to be fully open at all times; passive day-to-day functioning suffices.

The reason why artificial Celestial Beings have short lifespans is related to being fully engaged at all times; they are assimilated by heaven and earth and end their lives in a form of metamorphosis.

However, the Celestial Being that appeared here now possesses self-awareness, looking quite normal and not like a lunatic.

This, instead, made them even more terrified. Knowing the power of artificial Celestial Beings, they were more afraid of their creations becoming enemies.

"What on earth are you??"

The other Devourers couldn’t stand idly by; they started to act, but while their attention was all on the artificial Celestial Being, a dragon’s roar resounded, and a torrent of Dragon Breath filled the entire passage.

Continuous screams followed.

A giant dragon head squeezed into the passage: "Many people have fled outside."

"Noted." Lilith, clad in the skin of an artificial Celestial Being, tossed the skull she was holding.

The artificial Celestial Being, decomposed and analyzed by the Fantasy Great Array Formation, became a skin she could use; although not as powerful as a real artificial Celestial Being, she could utilize the passive abilities.

As for the core aspect of the drive, that was herself. These artificial Celestial Beings were just empty shells, and since she didn’t have a substantial body, it was very fitting to use them.

She came here to obtain more information pertaining to artificial Celestial Beings. As for the external defense forces?

Those were handled by the small white dragon, as she easily slipped past them with her unique characteristics and blocked these high-ranking Devourers trying to escape.

Tanshia Firlo’s Dragon Breath wasn’t enough to kill everyone here. After all, these Devourers had enjoyed the most resources and even if they were useless, they still had enough combat power.

Tanshia Firlo’s sneak attack could only be said to be effective.

The true cause of these high-ranking deaths was her using the power of artificial Celestial Beings, though she couldn’t fully utilize their power, she could share a portion of Zheng Yichen’s strength.

The Unity of Heaven and Man trait?

Apart of it, combined with Virtual Genesis, enabled her to enhance the power of Tanshia Firlo’s Dragon Breath by dozens of times as it came pouring in.

Under such a Dragon Breath attack, any protection was futile, and after these people were taken down, their souls were captured by Virtual Genesis.

Not only that, but some things were dropped as well.

How should I put it? Zheng Yichen’s weapon, strengthened by illusory hazy blossom, had an effect of information solidification, and in this operation, Zheng Yichen truly obtained quite a few new things.

Those items she was responsible for recovering, and with range projection plus the effect of the Fantasy Great Array Formation, she could remotely open the built-in spatial channel directly.

The large pile of stuff he found was mostly garbage to Zheng Yichen, and quite a portion was directly thrown into the World Core inside the virtual world as resource reserves.

Most of the information-solidified items were ’skills’ — knowledge crystals like spell, Magic, Alchemy — there was quite a lot of such knowledge.

Such as grasping information by just holding it, even with no foundation, one could master it. But mastery in this form was limited to making only that category of things; anything outside that range, even if it’s just a lesser variant, couldn’t be made.

Without a foundation, wanting to improve it would require first patching up that foundation.

Lilith picked up the item generated from information solidification on the ground, equipment like this — Zheng Yichen obtained less than ten of these after defeating so many enemies along the way.

And here she got one: it’s a collar, its effect unknown, but Lilith directly put it into her built-in space, intending to simulate and test it out inside the virtual world to understand its specific function.

It was useless for ordinary creatures, but for artificial Celestial Beings, it provided suppression and control effects — essentially the fixation of some Devourer high-rank’s obsession.

The other party was one of those involved in researching artificial Celestial Beings, with a strong desire to possess them. His knowledge, desire, and grasped strength were entwined due to information solidification, forming this piece of equipment.

It could control artificial Celestial Beings.

"...Garbage." Lilith immediately dismantled it; her master didn’t need such a thing, those artificial Celestial Beings were merely empty shells executing commands.

Such control tools were merely a way to forcibly gain control, and this forceful gain was temporary, its effect wasn’t that absolute.

Reality isn’t a game; low-level monsters don’t drop Divine Equipment.

In games, even low-level items possess rule-based power.

In reality, even if rule-based power is involved, it would be neutralized by stronger forces, weakening the effect.

The high-rank Devourer that dropped this couldn’t defeat the Celestial Beings in life, could one expect that what they left behind would fully suppress the Celestial Beings?

If so, there would be too many loopholes to exploit.