He kept changing his appearance and identity, spending this unremarkable life, marrying and having children.

It didn’t matter if the woman and the son were pseudo-humans.

Only occasionally, he would recall the wonderful stories from the "Ancestral Human Biography," the old man who aged from middle-aged to elderly, and he would occasionally daze, remembering his face.

That old man hid ignobly, died heroically with steadfast determination and endless weariness in his eyes.

Time continued to fly by.

The man continued to live, to live, to live.

Gradually, this life made him feel bored. Why does one live?

Is it just to live?

The figure of that person in his mind became clearer and clearer.

Unconsciously, the leader who regularly came to chat with him and discuss worldly matters, their acquaintance from youth to old age, had gradually etched into his bones.

He chose to wander the world, searching for the traces left by the Human Ancestor.

As he traveled, he discovered the backup plans and clues left by the Human Ancestor, eventually finding the Human Ancestor, who had turned into Embers, in a glacier.

That old man dragged his weary and frail body, rooted in the ice grave.

His tomb was extremely simple, and in his twilight years, a dull sound emitted from his chest: "Your obsession has changed; as long as a person lives, they will not remain unchanged."

"I have finally influenced you." The Human Ancestor laughed.

"You are now a wandering soul, a piece of Ember, and you will die soon if you cannot realize the obsession in your heart at this moment, you will not live out a second life."

"So, tell, me, who, are, you?"

The old man enunciated each word slowly, like a great bell, striking hard into his heart.

Who am I?

The youth sat quietly for three days.

It only took him three days to understand the true obsession of his current life.

"I accepted it."

He had no grandeur, no oaths, he just peacefully took over the torch from the Human Ancestor’s hands, started planting the Spiritual Root into himself, possession, and finally began formal cultivation from a mortal.

However, there’s only one way to cultivate in this era: planting the Spiritual Root; three crooked flowers sprouted from his neck, and he began to go mad.

He planned to win through quantity, living several lives, dying several deaths, each resurrection reshaping his foundation, planting a crooked-neck flower on his own neck.

Soon his neck was adorned with a colorful garland, with nine pseudo-human Spiritual Roots.

"This is not the Righteous path; it cannot continue like this."

He began to plan with the Human Ancestor, both a mentor and a friend, researching the technique of fusion.

The era continued to change, always passing by, he wandered, always reborn, observing within the era, eventually they researched the No Life Technique, transforming into an infant.

Entering the Holy Embryo to be completely reborn in a life, the result of the birth, the nine Spiritual Roots unified, becoming a naturally born Wood Spirit Root, the ultimate destiny Celestial Spirit Root: Tao Flower.

And he also completely became an infant again, starting to learn, taking a mentor, growing, stepping into the bustling world.

Time gradually flowed, Jiu Shui’s memories returned.

"I remembered, I remembered everything."

All the memories faded and blurred across the alternating of lifetimes, leaving only fragments, a few words.

After all, with each resurrection, becoming Ghost King, were only shells left, the True Spirit Muddy Qi died away.

Resurrecting again and again, like a Phoenix, he was no longer who he originally was.

He quietly watched the battlefield in the sky, suddenly murmured: "Waited for this moment for too long, too long."

And what is the essence of the pseudo-human?

It’s Xinyi’s neurons.

Using pseudo-humans to construct the Earth Vein Network, what is that?

It’s Xinyi’s brain.

Since the founding of the Nine-State, there has been one task, popularizing Earth Veins, promoting Earth Veins.

Slaughtering millions of pseudo-humans to fill the Earth Vein, becoming the greatest killer Emperor in history.

Was it just for convenient transportation?

Just to promote the Postnatal era of Scholar Civilization?

No.

It was using the power of the entire nation...with pseudo-humans, constructing Xinyi’s brain!

"This is my true plan, the Nine-State land refining Array." he murmured in a lost voice.

In the next moment, all the lands and towns of the Nine-State, countless Earth Veins burst into faint white radiance, constantly weaving and moving.

Upon closer inspection, the Earth Veins of the nine continents, intricately connected, actually formed a massive and complex biological brain, pulsating underground.

The humans living on the Earth Veins seemed to be standing on a brain.

Humans using Earth Veins to communicate, transmit, seemed to be sending network neuron signals through the super brain beneath their feet.

"I am a human formed by the neurons of nine pseudo-humans composed of Xinyi, Roses..."

"Today, possess this super neuron made by Xinyi, Roses...Nine-State constructed Earth Veins."

"Different paths lead to the same destination."

"Back then I possessed nine pseudo-humans, today I possess this super pseudo-human brain."

In the world with a rustling sound, countless pseudo-humans spawned by the Pseudo-human Calamity suddenly changed drastically in complexion.

The pseudo-human brain under their feet was frantically absorbing them, cleaning them out.

"What happened?"

"How could this be?"

"The Earth Veins under our feet are actually targeting us?"

"Is this a super national Array covering the entire Nine-State, just for targeting us pseudo-humans?"

"Jiu Shui, how ruthless you are!"

"Jiu Shui, I’ll kill your entire family!!"

"Jiu Shui, you deserve to die horribly!"

"Aren’t we pseudo-humans life? Back then when you founded the nation, you slaughtered the entire world, built a super large Earth Vein, you were a cruel and tyrannical tyrant!!"

"From the start, this was a scheme, the outbreak of the Pseudo-human Calamity was released by your own hands, for today?"

Boom!

Amidst countless screams, suddenly the world was devoid of pseudo-humans.

The Pseudo-human Calamity ended.

Between heaven and earth, only the Embers Disaster remained.

At this point, Jiu Shui’s obsession for this life was finally completed, cleansing the world of pseudo-humans. His will from those years was to spread pseudo-humans, naturally having plans to snuff out their growth, otherwise, how could he truly allow a great enemy to return? 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"Ah, I never intended to partake in this matter."

"Yet unconsciously, pushed by that person all the way, becoming the so-called hero."

He let out a long sigh, stepped down, entering Xinyi’s brain gathered by the power of the entire nation—the Earth Vein.

"I enter Xinyi’s brain, reside in Xinyi’s body."

The entire Divine Artifact Earth Vein of the Nine-State collapsed with a roar, soared up, transforming into an unprecedented pseudo-human brain, returning to Xinyi’s body.

Rumble.

Heaven and earth collapsed, that sealed Xinyi, suddenly flew out into the sky, Xinyi controlled by Jiu Shui, gazed down at the lifelong adversary of the Human Ancestor—the Human God.

Rustling!

A black Three Flowers emerged from Jiu Shui’s head.

Endless radiance fell from the clouds, as if a True God was born from the world.

In a trance, Jiu Shui seemed to recall that day of heavy snow, with snowflakes swirling and wind howling, the back of that old man going to the final battle.

Jiu Shui took a step forward, a timeless sigh echoed between heaven and earth:

"Today, I command Xinyi, and come for this battle."