Chapter 774: Preparing for the Resurrection

The White Tiger Demon Emperor continued speaking to Mei Gongzi, “You have better judgment than your mother. The boy you’ve chosen is quite good. Even though he’s a bit too cunning for his own good, he’s absolutely devoted to you. But I must say, he’s incredibly reckless. To help you with your evaluation, he chose to summon a tribulation at that moment, even risking the lives of the entire Ancestral Court and forcing all the Emperors to intervene. At the time, I suspected something, but I didn’t really think he was capable of such a feat. I have to admit, I underestimated him. But a man like that will attract a lot of attention. You’d better keep a close watch on him so no one steals him away.”

Mei Gongzi snorted. “I’m not worried. If someone else can steal him away, then that just means I’m not attractive enough. But he’s not going anywhere.”

Tang San turned his head to glance at the White Tiger Demon Emperor. Wasn’t he going to let him perform the resurrection properly? The praise was fine, but the rest was just setting him up for trouble.

He coughed lightly. “I’m going to start now.”

The White Tiger Demon Emperor’s lips curled into a smirk.

Heh, little boy, you think you can do whatever you want? So you do get nervous sometimes, hehe.

At this moment, Tang San stood beside the array, his expression serious. His divine consciousness slowly activated, imbuing the array. By this point, the White Tiger Demon Emperor had already sealed off the entire study with his own divine consciousness, ensuring no energy could leak out.

Within the array, the body of Xiao He lay completely still. The runes of the array slowly began to glow, golden light patterns lighting up one by one, while Tang San maintained his peak mental state.

In a flash of light, the Spacetime Lighthouse slowly emerged from in front of his abdomen.

The Sea God’s Trident resided within Tang San’s sea of consciousness, while the Spacetime Lighthouse was stationed within his dantian, being nourished by the chaos energy of his Chaos Blue Silver Grass.

Even for a divine material like the Spacetime Beacon, chaos energy was incredibly nourishing. Tang San would have to return this drop of chaos energy to the plane before leaving, but as long as he remained here, he could use it for his own purposes.

The Spacetime Lighthouse radiated a milky white light. This was the second time the White Tiger Demon Emperor was seeing this divine artifact in action, and his gaze instantly sharpened as he observed it closely.

Last time, Tang San had used this artifact to forcibly seize a strand of his divine consciousness and performed what seemed to be a time reversal, allowing him to witness the actions of the White Tiger Demon Emperor and the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor. While the White Tiger Demon Emperor had been furious at the time, he had also been deeply shocked. He still didn’t fully understand the mechanism behind it, but he believed that Tang San hadn’t read his memories per se, but rather used a time-related ability to observe what he had sensed with his divine consciousness.

At this moment, seeing this divine artifact that could emit both temporal and spatial fluctuations once again, the White Tiger Demon Emperor couldn't help but feel a bit of excitement. With his discerning eye, he could naturally see the value of this artifact. Time and space—these were the two most mysterious elements! For them to both appear in a single artifact, it had to be a top-tier treasure. Moreover, it seemed that Tang San was highly proficient in using it, indicating that he had been working with it for a very long time. If it weren’t for the golden markings on Tang San’s forehead that suggested the presence of an even more powerful artifact, the White Tiger Demon Emperor would have assumed this was his life-bound artifact.

Tang San focused intently, gathering his divine consciousness onto the Spacetime Lighthouse. White light flowed down from the pagoda, enveloping the body below as well as the entire array.

On the surface, it seemed as though nothing was happening, but upon closer inspection, one would notice that the light patterns shifting on the ground were now moving more slowly; in fact, everything appeared to be moving in slow motion.

Next, Tang San pressed his hands forward in the air, and soft white light gently poured out from his palms. Under the influence of the Spacetime Lighthouse, this energy descended very slowly, like a mist, and gradually entered Xiao He’s body.

This was his internal energy—the energy cultivated using the Mysterious Heaven Technique. If he wanted to use this body to resurrect the Peacock Great Demon King, the first step was to resolve the body’s original ailments.

Tang San continued to pour in energy, and though Xiao He’s body remained motionless, a faint white glow began to emanate from it. Using his energy, Tang San cleared the body’s blood vessels, essentially purifying and refining the body. Taking advantage of the fact that the body was not alive and therefore could not feel anything, he adjusted its bones, meridians, and blood to a certain degree, transforming this ordinary body into something extraordinary.

It was only now that he had reached godhood that Tang San could make full use of his internal energy’s infinite regenerative power. Dense energy continuously poured into Xiao He’s body, as if Tang San were refining a tool, steadily enhancing the body's functions with life energy.

Xiao He had been dead for only a short time, so although his heart had stopped, the rest of his body still retained significant vitality. Under Tang San’s stimulation, the body began to transform. From its pores, dark gray impurities continuously seeped out, which Tang San burned away, causing the body to appear somewhat crystalline and transparent.

Tang San’s face glowed with a faint light, and he seemed somewhat saintly as he clasped his hands before his chest. His internal energy swirled around the body, infusing it and cleansing it from the inside out.

The White Tiger Demon Emperor quietly observed from the side, using his divine consciousness to sense the properties of the energy Tang San was radiating.

The surprise on his face grew stronger the more he observed. He realized that this energy wasn’t any form of bloodline power, and neither was it spiritual power. Instead, it was a pure energy that seemed to be nothing other than refined and compressed spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Moreover, it also seemed to contain a massive amount of life energy, and under its influence, the body was undergoing a complete transformation. Everything about the body was changing. Even its skin became cleaner and its facial features looked smoother.

The White Tiger Demon Emperor could also use his own power to enhance another life form’s bodily functions, but he had to admit that he couldn’t achieve what Tang San was doing—seemingly even elevating the body’s life level. His power was too domineering, not as gentle and easily absorbed as Tang San’s energy.

Tang San took a long time to improve this body, not just curing its original illness, but completely refining it from the inside out. He used the Body Sect’s method of physical refinement that he’d learned on the Douluo Continent. Normally, this process was extremely painful, but dead people feel no pain, so it was the perfect opportunity for refining. Of course, it was something impossible to replicate, unless someone wanted to die and then find a new body to be reborn into.

Tang San wasn’t cutting any corners. After all, this was, in a way, one of his fathers-in-law; even though Tang San had some ulterior reasons for picking a human body, that human body would be the absolute best he could produce.

As Tang San’s energy continued to circulate, the corpse’s bluish complexion gradually faded, and the body began to appear lifelike, even taking on a slight ethereal quality.

Tang San’s lips curved into a slight smile.

Father-in-law, I’m treating you well, aren’t I? With this foundation, whatever abilities you cultivate in the future will be twice as effective with half the effort. You’ll be able to cultivate whatever you want, however you want.

As for how his father-in-law would cultivate in the future... Naturally, he would follow the path of the Demonic God Transformation, specifically the Peacock Transformation. Since he had already mastered the abilities of the Peacock Demon bloodline, that was the best way to go. As for how to obtain said bloodline? Well, he would have to borrow some from a certain queen consort. The Peacock Demon Emperor’s bloodline would bring the best results, and now that Tang San had refined this body to a state of near-perfect purity, absorbing a bloodline would be no problem at all.