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Chapter 48: Excessive Normalcy is the Greatest Abnormality
🕑 Added 2025-04-27 17:02:20 +0000 UTCThe ending remained one of virtuous perfection, yet Solon detected an unusual undercurrent beneath it all.
Precisely because everything was too normal—that in itself was abnormal.
Even the most righteous person couldn't possibly spend six or seven centuries without a single ripple of turmoil.
The simulated version of himself seemed deliberately low-key, as if a pair of cold eyes were silently observing everything from behind the scenes.
Solon had a premonition that "he" was playing a long game, and this was merely the incubation phase.
[Fourth Life: You are born.]
[You possess unparalleled talent in medicine—yet no one knows this.]
[By age six, you had already mastered...]
[To others, you were nothing more than an average physician with mediocre skills.]
[Unnoticed by anyone, you began secretly conducting experiments on cadavers.]
Obtaining corpses on the Xianzhou was no easy feat. When a Xianzhou native was on the verge of Mara transformation, the Ten-Lords Commission's underworld enforcers would intervene.
When a Vidyadhara's lifespan ended, their body would transform into an egg.
In other words, only those who died unnatural deaths left behind corpses—most of which came from wartime. That was the easiest time to act.
[Through various human experiments, your medical skills and related techniques improved dramatically.]
[You covered your tracks well. No one discovered your actions before your natural death.]
Solon's premonition had come true—"he" had finally begun his schemes.
Now, he was like a mad scientist without moral constraints. The only reason he hadn't acted earlier was that his skills weren't sufficient, and he lacked confidence.
So he spent three entire lifetimes leveling up—while also practicing how to masquerade as a good person.
Such calculation and temperament were the hallmarks of a true final boss.
[Fifth Life: You are born again.]
[This life mirrored the last—a low-profile existence, scheming in the shadows.]
[Through continued experiments on corpses, your medical prowess advanced further.]
[...]
[Sixth Life: Your research continues.]
[After relentless study, your medical skills reached mastery—especially the alchemy of the Luofu's Alchemy Commission, now peerless. A single casually brewed batch of your elixirs could save countless lives.]
[Yet no one knew you had mastered the anatomical structures of every species. A mere scalpel could effortlessly end a life.]
[You also attained profound expertise in poison refinement.]
[But you weren't satisfied. Your skills hadn't peaked—after all, the dead could never compare to the living.]
[However, due to the Xianzhou's traumatic history with the Abundance, they strictly forbade research into immortality or bodily modification. Human experimentation was especially taboo.]
The Ten Unpardonable Sins—the Xianzhou Alliance's gravest crimes—listed immortality and modification as the top two offenses.
If obtaining corpses for experiments was difficult, live subjects were outright impossible.
[So you devised a plan: leave the Luofu under the pretext of scholarly travel to other Xianzhou ships.]
[Each Xianzhou's Alchemy Commission had its specialties—Luofu excelled in elixirs, Zhuming led in acupuncture and moxibustion, Yaoqing mastered dietary therapies, and so on.]
[It was the perfect cover. To others, you remained a reclusive, kind-hearted scholar devoted to medicine.]
[En route, you secretly established hidden labs, capturing interstellar pirates as test subjects.]
[These pirates—murderers, slavers, arsonists—were wanted across the galaxy. Disorganized and despised, their mass disappearances drew no attention.]
[Unnoticed, abundant, and diverse—they were ideal specimens.]
[Your scholarly travels weren't entirely a lie, either. Synthesizing knowledge from multiple Xianzhou was the righteous path to medical advancement.]
[Using pirates as test subjects was the unorthodox path.]
[The two complemented each other like yin and yang, propelling your medical and toxicological skills to unprecedented heights.]
[Seventh Life]
[Through cycles of reincarnation and relentless research, your medical arts neared perfection—transcending mere skill, even drawing a fleeting glance from Nous, the Erudition.]
[You mastered life and death itself. A flick of your fingers could grant longevity or deliver instant demise.]
[Even the Xianzhou's greatest affliction—Mara—could be suppressed for millennia under your care.]
Solon watched the simulation's unfolding narrative with the awe of witnessing a final boss's rise.
Prudent, patient, and adept at deception—this was no ordinary antagonist.
Solon found himself eagerly anticipating the chaos "he" would unleash.
Truly, everyone had the potential to be an Aha devotee.
[Eighth Life]
[With medical mastery achieved, you grew weary of pure academia and turned to cultivating connections among the elite.]
[No noble would refuse the friendship of a top-tier physician—especially one who could genuinely prolong life.]
[Yet even as you expanded your network, you maintained humility, caution, and discretion.]
[Your reputation remained impeccable. Most saw you as a harmless, selfless saint.]
[A highly useful, non-threatening "good person"—exactly the kind everyone preferred to associate with.]
[Quietly, you mapped the rot within the Vidyadhara elders and even the Xianzhou Alliance's upper echelons.]
[The Cloud Knights, backed by the Hunt, retained some purity under the generals and arbiter.]
[But the Ten-Lords Commission—older than Lan's ascension—embodied the Alliance's corrupt old guard. The bureaucratic Six Chariots, the power-hoarding Vidyadhara Dragon Elders—all festering with decay.]
[The Dragon Elders were the worst. By doctrine, a Vidyadhara's rebirth should erase past memories, making each life a new person.]
[Yet to retain power, the Elders risked forbidden arts to preserve their memories, ensuring their reincarnated selves remained rulers.]
[Under their grip, the Vidyadhara had become a stagnant pond.]
[Some Elders craved authority, others indulgence, some immortality—and many were hypocrites just like you.]
[You didn't act this life, merely cataloging their depravities.]
[Nine is the number of culmination. The time approaches...]
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Fuji Tatsumaki
First, Aha, then Yaoshi, and now, Nous? Mmmm~ This is really interesting 😏
