Chapter 271: Emperor Qi's Secret Learning Routine and the Player's Advance

Di Qi was not bothered by this. Since no one could see him, observing these strange, unknown, and curious life forms might offer insight into the exotic civilizations of the powerful and mysterious Guixu World, allowing him to enter their thought processes. It was worth a try. His Daluo Heavenly Scripture, which embraces all phenomena, naturally had to encompass these mystical realms.

A gurgling sound emanated from a Golden Crow that still lay on the ground, eyes rolled back, body convulsing and spasming, spitting saliva, flapping its golden fiery wings, and trembling continuously. Di Qi silently adjusted his body, consciousness, and soul, mimicking those village shamans on Earth who suffer from seizures, tilting his Golden Crow head as if seeing the souls of the dead.

This Golden Crow then mumbled incoherently, "I saw... I seemed to see their images..."

Xu Zhi: ???

He was drinking water and nearly choked! Watching Saint Golden Crow, who was foaming at the mouth and twitching while Di Qi secretly observed him, Xu Zhi found himself in a state of utter incomprehension. "Are you learning the audacious moves of your ancestor, the Funeral Chicken?!"

"However, it truly is so... his ancestor, the Funeral Chicken, was indeed twitching right in front of him, for him to learn from," Xu Zhi mused, realizing that perhaps this was the legendary karma, a predetermined fate.

At this moment, only a few minutes had passed outside in their forum's private messages, but three days had elapsed inside the Ancient Tree World. They continued to twitch in the forest, their vitality still extremely strong, though the intensity and resilience of their spasms were not as vigorous as before. Di Qi also twitched for a full three days, his imitative spasms gradually weakening.

"I saw... I seemed to see..." Di Qi's imitation was vivid, as if he were another plant player. Gradually, he even began to see some blurry images: a room with peculiar furnishings, strange civilized ornaments, an exquisite wallpaper poster of a gorgon on the wall, and a human sitting in front of a chair, facing a square plaque that glowed with an eerie white light.

"I truly succeeded."

Crack!!

The image suddenly broke, and Di Qi awoke from his foaming state, his expression instantly hardening. "It failed. As expected, it is the unimaginable Guixu World."

Just then, the intelligent sub-brain suddenly emitted a mechanical voice: "An unknown stream of consciousness attempted to masquerade as a player's thought channel, trying to piggyback on their mental pathway to return to a player's body on Earth. Interception has been successful!"

Xu Zhi put down his teacup, immediately speechless once more. He looked at the Golden Crow still twitching in place and murmured, "I thought he was just a bronze-level fool mimicking a player, but who knew he was still a king?" He actually did secretly learn. He was mimicking the players' souls, consciousnesses, and physical characteristics, attempting to blend in and become one of those "sand sculptures."

"Indeed, the talent of this 'stealing saint' cannot be underestimated." Xu Zhi showed a wry smile. He found it incredible; Di Qi seemed capable of learning anything. Secretly learning "Alchemy Factory" was already astonishing, but now he was secretly simulating players, trying to enter their bodies via a stream of consciousness? Although he didn't understand the concepts of players or consciousness projection, he had indeed almost stumbled upon the truth.

"It's such a headache. No one is settled. The natives are causing trouble, Di Qi is causing massive trouble, and the players are also causing trouble," Xu Zhi said with a helpless expression, feeling that his life was anything but peaceful.

However, at this moment, several players were ready, prepared for action, and gradually came online. "It's a pity. They've already returned from that dimension of exchange, just as I was making progress," Di Qi murmured, seeing them get up. He frowned slightly, his true form standing deep within the earth's core with hands clasped behind his back. His gaze was profound; he felt this was a good opportunity. Secretly observing these strange reborn beings might allow him to comprehend some unique, heaven-defying martial arts.

At this point, two plants sprang up, dusting off their bottoms, revitalized and shouting loudly. "Shameless scoundrel, how dare you make yourself so handsome!" the Magnet Plant exclaimed indignantly.

"And you have the nerve to lecture me? Why did you, a rock creature, sculpt an extra leg? Are you an impure rock creature, perhaps to wear a skirt?" the Chewing Gum Plant growled.

"Bitch, that's a tail!"

The two cursed at each other, and then, having finished their character customization, began to prepare for reincarnation. However, they hesitated because they started to fear the pain. Previously, Mumu, as a spice species, had pain receptors specifically removed, allowing him to be cut freely for cooking. But these current plant species were different; they still felt pain. In the evolution sandbox, pain could be set to zero, so they had never feared it before. Here, however, it was a real death.

*Swish.* Qiu Mingshan Che Su threw an axe to them. "Give yourselves a quick end. The Reincarnation Altar, the array's set point, is already inside my Copper Coin Fruit. You just need to revive there."

"Making us commit suicide? We can't bring ourselves to do it. As upright and positive youths of the new era, no matter how many difficulties and setbacks we face, we won't do anything so dark,"

"How about we chop each other?"

The two hesitantly picked up their axes, exchanged glances, gritted their teeth, and swung fiercely! "It's not murder; it's just chopping a tree!"

*Crack!*

As a result, they became two twisted-neck trees, lying on the ground, screaming frantically and rolling around.