Chapter 739 - 457: Understanding (2)

The panel was simple.

His Talent, Divine Techniques, and Bloodline were all gone.

After all, this wisp of his consciousness had been extracted from its original body.

Any life-saving items from his original body had been left behind with his Clone’s physical form.

There was no way to bring them here.

The only thing that remained was the Heaven-Seizing Technique.

After all, it existed within his consciousness and wouldn’t be stripped away when his consciousness was extracted.

This was also why he had been able to break free, kill those militiamen, and escape.

The Heaven-Seizing Technique.

What it could plunder was far more than just the Great Dao.

Vitality, Qi and Blood, Lifespan—anything that existed in the world could be forcibly seized.

Although he had cultivated the Heaven-Seizing Technique to the Perfection realm, making it incredibly easy to use, this frail body had become his greatest constraint.

Only through deeper contact, such as touching a living creature’s blood, could he manage to activate the Heaven-Seizing Technique.

For this very reason, Hu Qi had bitten through Rock’s neck without a moment’s hesitation.

This body had long been on the verge of collapse.

Prolonged starvation had led to malnourishment, and the severe torture had only made things worse.

Even without Hu Qi’s possession or the execution by fire,

this severely depleted body was destined to live for only a few more days.

With such a physical constitution, escaping from that situation would have been nearly impossible.

However, Hu Qi was, in essence, a True God.

Although he was limited by the possession and the rules of this world,

he was still beyond comparison to ordinary people.

He had used Spiritual Suggestion with his gaze to lure Rock over.

Then, he used the Heaven-Seizing Technique to seize all of the man’s Vitality as nourishment, replenishing this body’s deficit.

It was his first time using the Heaven-Seizing Technique, and the results did not disappoint him.

While it couldn’t refine power from something like eating a rock, as the Spirit Devouring Talent could,

it could directly plunder everything from other living beings for sustenance.

’Next, I need to gather more information about this world.’

Hu Qi’s eyes glinted.

The situation he had encountered earlier was dangerous,

but for a being like a True God, it was nothing.

As for the three Managers who entered this world with him, even if they encountered the same situation as Hu Qi,

they would likely be fine.

Although entering the world this way meant they couldn’t use any of their own power,

a True God was still a True God.

Which of them didn’t have some trump cards and methods up their sleeve?

Therefore, he needed to gain a clearer understanding of this world, and his best bet was to make contact with its Transcendents.

He would use them as a stepping stone to learn about the local Extraordinary Path and begin cultivating.

While completing the main quest, he would also find those three and kill them.

Although he had now obtained the original owner’s memories,

he still knew very little about this world.

He only knew that this place was called Gray Leaf Village.

It was so named because the village was surrounded by a forest of gray-leafed trees—the very place he was in now.

Beyond that, he knew of two other villages nearby, as well as Oak Town, located ten kilometers away.

He didn’t know anything about places farther away.

In his sixteen years of life, the farthest the original owner had ever traveled was to Oak Town.

Besides staying in Gray Leaf Village, the farthest the original owner usually went was to the plains five kilometers away to graze cattle and sheep.

Therefore, if Hu Qi wanted to get more information, he would need to leave this area or find someone of sufficient status to inquire with.

In this regard, Hu Qi already had a target in mind.

As he thought of this, Hu Qi tilted his head slightly, his gaze piercing through the gaps in the leaves and the darkness of the night, locking onto a village not far from Gray Leaf Village.

That was White Bear Village.

His high vantage point allowed him to overlook the entire settlement, where scattered lights twinkled like fireflies clinging to the ground.

Only one building in the center of the village was brightly lit, a glaring sight in the darkness.

That was the residence of Ired, the village chief and Sheriff.

Under the unique social structure of this world, a village was generally governed jointly by a village chief and a Sheriff.

The village chief was chosen by the villagers through voting or consensus.

Their main responsibilities included maintaining order and managing the village’s land and resources.

In some ways, the village chief was like the Emperor of the village, and no one dared to defy their orders.

The Sheriff, on the other hand, was directly appointed by the Lord from above. They were responsible for maintaining public order, arresting criminals, and carrying out judgments based on the Lord’s laws.

The difference between the two was that the village chief managed village affairs, while the Sheriff was an official sent from above who had the authority to mobilize the militia.

However, the situation here was a little different.

Perhaps to save costs, or for some other reason, the higher-ups had appointed Ired to serve as both village chief and Sheriff.

Not only was he the chief of Gray Leaf Village, but he also governed the two surrounding villages, wielding enough power to decide the life or death of anyone in the region.

This Ired was also the master of Rock and his men.

The original owner’s capture and scheduled execution by fire must have been authorized by him from behind the scenes.

As the most powerful person in this area, he was the perfect target for gathering information.

However, Hu Qi did not act immediately.

He sat where he was, adjusting his condition.

His body felt sticky.

It was all blood.

Some belonged to the men he had killed.

And some was his own.

If one could see through his skin at that moment, they would discover that countless capillaries in his body had ruptured, with blood seeping out through his pores.