Chapter 356: Chapter 356: Unclean Ecstasy (18)_1
Once Lanaia realized what Ian was talking about, even in her fury, she unconsciously took a breath.
The visual shock had been too great, but now, as she calmed down, she could actually feel a different aura emanating from the person before her.
Was it possible that Ian had reached the status of a demigod before Li Weixuan!
The emergence of a new demigod was theoretically good for the Academy, but—
Lanaia glanced again at the twisted scene beside her, her tone icy cold.
“What in the world is going on here? As the head of the Punishment Department, I demand a clear explanation.”
“Of course, I’ll explain. After all, this is a monumental achievement.”
Ian was utterly unconcerned with Lanaia’s stern tone and looked at the scene before him with rapture.
“It signifies that the Demigod Path we’ve been groping in the dark for years has a brand new direction.”
“A wonderful, genius path.”
“It even consumes almost no traditional Transcendent materials, because I’ve developed an alternative resource.”
“Oh? What resource is that?”
Fu Qian asked this with great interest at that moment.
“Professor Fu Qian, I must say, you’ve also given me quite the surprise.”
Hearing Fu Qian speak, Ian turned and assessed him with a click of his tongue.
“To become a demigod sooner, I’ve been secretly rivaling Li Weixuan, but who could have guessed that Heaven’s Commencement Institute had such a low-profile demigod.”
“My choice was indeed the correct one.”
“While I’m unsure of your true motives, if it weren’t for the incident with Jia Yi occupying you, my plans could indeed have been affected.”
His perception is quite sharp, isn’t it!
Fu Qian thought to himself.
Even with deliberate concealment, Yuan Shan couldn’t be certain of his status.
Yet he was able to confirm it with just one meeting.
Fu Qian returned the greeting with a beaming smile.
“You’ve just ascended and might not know, but real masters are always as modest as the Caring Valley.”
Ian was momentarily dumbstruck by Fu Qian’s reply, and Lanaia beside him felt her head pounding, missing the rest of the conversation.
Lanaia whipped around, pointing at Fu Qian, her voice trembling.
At that moment, the world seemed completely unreal to her.
“How can you be a demigod? Exactly… when?”
“It’s a long story, and even I’m not quite sure what’s happening.”
Fu Qian sighed and gestured towards Ian.
“But that doesn’t seem like the focus right now, does it? Brother Ian seems to have cleared me of suspicion, hasn’t he?”
After several seconds of silence, Lanaia finally processed what Fu Qian had said and glared at Ian.
“Yes,” Ian replied calmly.
Lanaia’s voice was unusually hoarse.
“Of course, to prevent Professor Fu Qian from interfering with my plans.”
Ian said at a leisurely pace.
“I wasn’t sure why he showed up at the ball, but my operation was at a crucial phase and couldn’t afford any mishap, so I had you all hold him back.”
“So it was all your scheme? But now that you’ve confessed…”
A tangible murderous aura surged from Lanaia.
“There’s no need to be so tense, I’m not going to run.”
However, Ian nonchalantly waved his hand.
“I bear no ill will towards Professor Fu either.”
“Because I believe that once you understand my discovery, you will all realize that those things don’t really matter.”
“What exactly is your discovery?”
As soon as Lanaya began to speak, she felt her chaotic thoughts boiling like water in a pot.
In the room, under the influence of the eerie sounds, a myriad of contemplative bubbles formed in her consciousness, endlessly surging and shattering.
Lanaya commanded coldly.
“Uncomfortable? It seems Professor Lanaya still suppresses herself too much,”
Ian said with a smile and snapped his fingers.
In the blink of an eye, the pink-white tree in the room, along with every person on its branches, all stopped moving and no longer made any sound, lightening Lanaya’s head.
“So, what exactly did you discover?”
“What do you think is the difference between us and ordinary humans?”
Instead of answering, Ian posed a question to her.
“I’ve felt for a long time that we’re fundamentally different from them.”
“They’re too weak, in some sense they’re already a different species.”
“You’d best not let the Night Watchman hear you say that,”
Lanaya coldly retorted.
Ian said with a smile on his face.
“However, I later realized I was wrong, they are meaningful to us.”
“Admittedly, they’re fragile, foolish, ignorant, but there’s one aspect in which they are the same as us, and that’s desire.”
“Weak as they are, their desires are no less than ours.”
Ian tenderly stroked a hand that hung down in front of him.
“During my search for the Demigod Path, I made many dangerous attempts. For instance, severing parts of my own will, or implanting special ideas.”
“Most of these attempts were painful and dangerous, but they also gave me a lot of novel experiences.”
Although Lanaya didn’t speak, Fu Qian keenly noticed that her fist was clenched even tighter.
Indeed, those from the Academy were one more perverted than the other, even this well-informed individual was nearly unable to bear it.
“During one of those experiments, I had an unexpected gain, desire actually came to life.”
Ian continued to speak as if in a world of his own.
“It no longer depended on me, became an independent entity filled with mesmerizing qualities, and I named it ‘Ecstasy’.”
“In this journey of self-observation, aside from many surprises, I also conceived a strange idea.”
“Could ‘Ecstasy’ be a higher form of existence that grew from the human body as its soil? Were we merely the nurturing bed for it?”
Faced with what Ian claimed, Lanaya gave a brief and simple evaluation.
“Madness, after all, is just a cognitive symbol,”
“The facts proved that my discovery led me to the true Demigod Path.”
“All I want to know is what you did to them.”
“Don’t rush, I’m getting to that point.”
Ian let out a cold chuckle.
“After unraveling the secret of Ecstasy, it wasn’t long before I thought of our broadly defined kin. They might be feeble, but they possess a different kind of value.”
“Ultimately, under tentative guidance, I found that Ecstasy wasn’t exclusive to Transcendents; it could also emerge in ordinary humans.”
“Even their activity levels didn’t differ too noticeably.”
“This revelation was rather surprising because it meant that every person had become a valuable resource.”
The fury in Lanaya’s voice was becoming uncontrollable.
“Don’t be impulsive, Professor Lanaya,”
Ian remained unperturbed.
“Think about it carefully, this discovery not only presents another possible path to becoming a Demigod but even makes the ritual itself extremely low in consumption. Isn’t that great?”
“Sacrificing ordinary people to ascend, and you call that greatness?”
Lanaya laughed in outrage.
“She’s not an ordinary person,”
After hearing her words, Ian’s expression suddenly turned serious.
Looking up at the deformed figure in front of him, his voice was fraught with desperate appeal.