Chapter 554 Back to Normal, Adrift in Space!

【You chose Yes.】

【You replaced “Mortal Bones” with “Wallfacer.”】

【You replaced “Low-Grade Bone Structure” with “High-Grade Bone Structure.”】

【You replaced “Venom” with “Someone Is Copying My Face.”】

【The whites of your eyes returned, and the black smoke above your head finally stopped rising.】

【You possessed all the memories of the past year, when you had been corrupted by Venom.】

【The first thing you wanted to do after regaining your senses was curse. But after thinking it over, you realized you’d be cursing yourself, so you simply shut your mouth.】

【The vacuum surrounding you was damaging your body, and you had to fight back.】

【First, you needed to stop the effects of all disguise-related trait tags, return to your true appearance, and refrain from using the talents, abilities, or cultivation techniques of other races. That way, the “Live as an Upright Person” trait tag could take effect.】

【In return, your other trait tags would be enhanced, raising both your realm and physical strength by a significant amount.】

【But even that wasn’t enough.】

【You circulated the Qi Refining Art «Triple-Origin Body Tempering Mystic Art» and gathered divine power around your body to form a ring of flames, shielding yourself from the vacuum.】

【With divine power sustaining your vital signs and the Grain Avoidance Divine Ability letting you go without food,】

【you had no problem staying alive.】

【The problem was that your divine power was constantly being depleted. You needed to recover.】

【But there was no Immortal Qi around you!】

【You could only rely on Source Stones to recover.】

【“No problem. I’ve got Source Stones in my Pot Heaven space!”】

【You opened your Pot Heaven space and took a look.】

【“Damn it, where are my Source Stones?!”】

【There were still some Source Stones, but not many.】

【The entire Pot Heaven space was crammed full of Spiritual Treasures, Immortal Pills, rare curios, and other treasures.】

【They were all things you had plundered far and wide over the past year, while corrupted by Venom.】

【He’d thought the Pot Heaven space wasn’t big enough, so he’d tossed out the worthless Source Stones and crammed it full of priceless treasures instead.】

【“What use are these world-destroying Spiritual Treasures and miraculous Immortal Pills to me right now?!”】

【You were like a wanderer stranded in the desert, with nothing left in your backpack but a bottle of mineral water and a bag packed full of gold.】

【“That’s it. I’m screwed this time...”】

【You hadn’t given up on living. You were still trying to find a way to reduce your energy consumption and extend the time you could drift through the vacuum.】

【You had no idea which way to fly, so you simply let inertia carry you along.】

【“Old Wan, Xiao Wu, Grand Steward, have any of you got an idea...”】

【The Five Regions Sacred Pill bounced on your shoulder.】

【“Don’t worry, Master! Xiao Wu will live and die with you!”】

【“Thanks...”】

【Ten Thousand Souls Banner gave a cold snort.】

【“Finally back to normal? You had quite a carefree time over the past year! But you had all the fun yourself and didn’t bring the rest of us along. You locked us in the Pot Heaven space. That was over the line!”】

【“Just pretend the me from the past year wasn’t me. Given our current situation, have you got any ideas?”】

【“Get into the Star Ship! If you keep drifting outside, won’t you eventually run out of power and die?”】

【“But I just checked. There’s no Star Ship. It probably took up too much room, so ‘I’ tossed it out too.”】

【Demon Refining Pot popped out and gave a cheeky grin.】

【“Rest assured, Master. When we noticed something was off with you, we hid your Star Ship inside our belly. We were worried you’d go flying around the universe and suddenly return to normal one day. Well, look at that! We really did see it coming!”】

【As it spoke, Demon Refining Pot spat the Voyager Star Ship out of its pot.】

【You were overjoyed.】

【“Oh, Grand Steward! You’ve really saved the day this time!”】

【You climbed into the Star Ship. At last, you no longer had to constantly expend divine power to resist the vacuum.】

【The inside of the Star Ship came equipped with formations that sustained life and simulated the environment on the ground.】

【Although you no longer needed to expend divine power, the Star Ship itself still consumed Source Stones to operate.】

【The problem was back where it started.】

【You brought out the Five Regions Sacred Pill, the Immortal Artifacts from the human world, and all the intelligent things Venom had acquired.】

【Everyone gathered in a circle and began discussing how to survive.】

【Everyone in the circle except you was not human.】

【“Here’s what I say! Let’s point the Star Ship in one direction and fly at full speed! Maybe we’ll run into a planet!”】

【This was a vase, but it was a primal spiritual treasure, and a primal spiritual treasure with an Artifact Spirit, no less.】

【“And what if we don’t? If we use up all our Source Stones, won’t we be done for? Don’t underestimate how vast the universe is!”】

【This was a spiritual herb. Nobody knew why it could talk, either.】

【“To be honest... I don’t think we Spiritual Treasures are in any danger from drifting through space. Do we really need to worry about this?”】

【“That makes sense...”】

【“Exactly! We’re objects. What do we care about whether there’s a vacuum or not? Hahaha!”】

【You used «Divine Armament Revelation» to awaken the Heavenly Dragon Blade, then wiped its edge.】

【“If I’m going down, I’ll chop every last one of you into pieces first.”】

【All the objects fell silent on the spot, then began seriously discussing how to survive in space.】

【Year Ninety-Three, age one hundred and nineteen.】

【Drawing trait tag...】

【Successfully drawn!】

【“Pain Delay” (Green Rare): You can postpone your pain and have it strike all at once at another time, but no later than one day afterward.】

【Adjust trait tags?】

【Yes/No】

【You chose Yes.】

【You replaced “Horn-Breaking Maniac” with “Super Fast-Charge.”】

【Clearly, you and your collection of objects hadn’t come up with any good ideas.】

【A year passed, and you were still stuck aboard the Voyager, watching the Star Ship drift toward an unknown destination.】

【“Goodbye, Mom, tonight I’m setting sail. Don’t worry about me, I’ve got the oars of happiness and wisdom...”】

【You lay against the porthole, singing listlessly, bereft of the will to live.】

【There was no Immortal Qi, so you couldn’t cultivate.】

【“Mortal Bones” had ceased to function, and your efficiency at comprehending Divine Abilities was abysmal.】

【You felt that aside from drawing trait tags, the rest of your days had no meaning.】

【“Life... If all it’s for is drawing trait tags, how empty. I might as well have stayed corrupted...”】

【Even though the Voyager didn’t consume much energy, it still used up Source Stones one by one. Sooner or later, your meager reserves would run dry.】

【“Life... Even on a second playthrough, you can’t keep everything under control. Sigh...”】

【You began pondering philosophy. You cultivators called it seeking enlightenment.】

【In those bleak days, the only piece of good news was that after Venom had spent a year eating and drinking like crazy, your physique really had transformed quite a bit.】

【Your physical strength was now comparable to that of a genius with a special physique, though you had none of the special abilities such a physique granted.】

【“My cultivation speed is on par with a genius, and my physique is too. Doesn’t that make me a genius? I’m not a good-for-nothing anymore?”】

【You gave a self-mocking smile.】

【“So what? Stranded in this ‘middle of nowhere,’ what good is being a genius...”】

【Year One Hundred and Three, age one hundred and twenty-nine.】

【Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.】

【That day, as usual, you were leaning against the Star Ship’s porthole, gazing outside, when you suddenly spotted what looked like a glowing, white, column-shaped object in the distance...】