Published: March 2, 2025
It was obvious that Wen Yu wasn't in the mood to listen to Feili's reminiscing. His gaze was intensely fixed on Feili until Feili finally sighed.
“At that time, we could only watch as my old buddy's physical body decayed until it completely died... No, it wasn't completely dead; his physical body perished, but his soul still existed. That's different from death.”
“Now that I think about it, the poison that struck the one-eyed guy was likely developed by the spirit of the demon lord based on eternal torture."
Although Feili's deduction seemed far-fetched, there was some internal logic to it.
However, whether it was true or not didn’t really matter. What Wen Yu wanted was simply a solution to eternal night's sleep.
Perhaps noticing Wen Yu's urgency, Feili quickly got to the point.
"Eternal torture causes the death of the physical body, but the soul still remains. At that time, we thought about giving our old buddy a new body. You're a soul system powerhouse; you should understand that as long as the essence of the soul is immortal, the physical body is just a container. Changing containers isn't a big deal."
"However, the skill of eternal torture is indeed formidable. Even if you change the body, the decay continues—this can at most be considered a delay of death, not a complete solution to the problem."
"So..."
At this point, Feili paused, looking at Wen Yu with a smile on his lips.
"We gave him a different body, a special body..."
Wen Yu was taken aback, then suddenly enlightened!
Eternal torture invades the soul, and a conventional physical body simply cannot withstand the torment of eternal torture. Similarly, eternal night's sleep should work the same way.
In fact, Wen Yu had indeed thought about giving the one-eyed guy a new physical body. The potential of the new body might not be as great as the original, but being able to keep his life would already be extremely fortunate.
However, the problem arose—without Wen Yu, who could give the one-eyed guy a new body?
The answer was no one.
On the entire planet, besides Wen Yu, there was simply no one capable of using such means as a soul system powerhouse.
This was indeed a potential solution, but as soon as this thought emerged, it was snuffed out at its inception.
However, there were indeed alternative approaches regarding "changing bodies."
Shifting the focus to the effects of eternal night's sleep.
This thing could cause the physical body to decay, but strictly speaking, it didn't do much harm to the soul— the poison rooted deep within the soul only targeted the physical body.
So once the perspective shifted, everything became exceptionally simple...
If a normal physical body couldn't withstand the effects of eternal night's sleep, then we just needed to switch to an abnormal physical body— like a mechanical one...
Flesh and blood couldn't resist the erosion of eternal night's sleep, but machinery might just be able to withstand it. Moreover, compared to changing a physical body, implanting the soul into a machine wouldn't be that difficult!
There was indeed some difficulty in the matter, and the issue of soul transplantation still didn't have a solution. However, most of it could be dealt with using technological means— transplanting a human's thought process into a machine was something Wei Tian was quite adept at.
Wasn't Lin Haifeng just a product of that?
Feili prompted Wen Yu, and Wen Yu thanked him.
Just as he was about to leave, Feili spoke up again.
“Don’t be so quick to thank me. I actually think you're a bit caught up in a thought trap.”
Feili said this and continued, “In fact, I believe that dealing with the one-eyed guy doesn't need to be so complicated. Based on the effects of the poison you mentioned, I think the spirit of the demon lord made a mistake this time.”
“Their original intention was to let the one-eyed guy fall into sleep, completely perish in the dream, while the soul remained trapped in the dream, preventing you from ever finding the one-eyed guy. This way, your second soul realm would be thoroughly wasted, and the skill system you painstakingly built would also have gaps.”