His words were earth-shattering!
Gasps echoed on the bridge nonstop. Almost all the qi-trainers from Iron Plateau jumped to their feet. Only a few Cultivators of the Heaven's Origin Sector were confused. The red-haired captain of the assault team stared at Li Yao on the light beam and frowned. He asked Professor Mo Xuan, "What is the Blood Stripe Virus?"
On the light beam, Li Yao's shadow scratched his hair and intentionally said in a casual tone, "After my soul was wounded by the star child's self-detonation in the battle against him, I fell into a long coma.
"While I was in a coma, I often had bizarre nightmares. All the nightmares had one thing in common, which was that they were persuading me to give up the will to live and fall into eternal sleep.
"Had it not been for certain unexpected factors, I might've been dead a long time ago, and my soul would've been obliterated, wouldn't I?
"After I woke up, I couldn't stop worrying about the Blood Nightmare.
"I don't think that I'm a man who will give up easily. Besides, the way home was right in front of me, and I was about to reunite with my family and friends in the Tian Yuan Realm. Was there any reason for me to be lost in the moment before the victory?
"If dreams reflect a person's subconscious mind, then my subconscious mind is very different from normal thinking."
"At that time, I was already suspicious.
"After I woke up, I felt that something was wrong with me. I often had nightmares, and the dreams were more and more horrifying. Every time I got rid of the nightmares, I would feel that my killing intent was even more intense, and my temperament was more violent and brutal, too!
"The suspicion in my heart grew bigger and bigger. I started observing the people around me in secret.
"I thought that, if my soul was truly invaded and infected by an 'alien species', it might interfere with my senses in a certain way and make it difficult for me to detect its existence.
"But my abnormal behavior would certainly raise the abnormal reactions of the people around me.
"Then, I only needed to consider the people around me as a 'mirror' in order to infer my situation.
"As I expected, I discovered that my disciples were strange. Wu Mayan and Xie Anan's attitude toward me became very weird. "
"In the past, the two of them were quite relaxed when they were around me. They are more like partners who cultivate together. "
"But now, the two of them are extremely cautious, trembling with fear, as if they're walking on thin ice."
"One day, I even put it on Wu Mayan's neck. I found a very deep choking mark, as if someone had used a great amount of strength to choke the neck for a long time before it was left behind. "
"In those days, Wu Mayan followed me to cultivate and didn't go out to fight with others."
"Furthermore, if this was done by someone else, Wu Mayan would definitely tell me."
"But he didn't even mention it, so it must have been me."
"And I've already completely forgotten about this matter. It's really strange."
"There are two possibilities. First of all, it wasn't me who did it. It was another existence, an anomaly, or a second personality lurking in my body who did it. "
"Secondly, it was indeed me who did it, but later, a certain 'anomaly' forcefully erased the memory, or at least 'covered up' it.
"In any case, through this incident, I've finally confirmed that my Divine Soul is a Divine Soul. He has been 'infected' by something. "
"I thought hard for a long time and recalled my battle experience in the past, trying to find the culprit."
"Skeleton Dragon? Yan Xinjian? Xiao Xuance? The star child? "
"Those enemies all boasted immense soul power. But what if they can sneak into my brain and corrode my soul in a subtle and subtle way? "
"I didn't think they were capable of that."
"Eventually, I found the answer."
"The Blood Stripe Virus!"
"The Blood Stripe Virus is a mysterious alien species from outer space. They are invisible and unpredictable. They can live inside the brains of living creatures and influence their behavior. Their killing intent is food!
"Billions of years ago, the Blood Stripe Virus used the Titan Warriors as their puppets. After the Sector of the Titan Warriors was destroyed, they came to the Flying Star Sector through the apocalypse and landed on Iron Plateau. Then, they tried to modify Iron Plateau and the Iron Plateau natives in tens of thousands of years and transform them into new 'hosts'.
"Among them, the essence of the Blood Stripe Virus even infiltrated Yan Xibei's body and tempted him to modify the apocalyptic body so that the Blood Stripe Virus could corrupt human beings faster.
"When I fought Yan Xibei, we had a lot of head-on clashes. Blood splashed everywhere. Although I was highly vigilant, it was possible that one or two drops of blood splashed on my body. Maybe the Blood Stripe Virus was lurking inside and invading my body.
"However, the Blood Stripe Virus might not have foreseen that my soul was ten times more solid than Yan Xibei's. It never found a way to enter my soul. Therefore, it simply lurked until my soul was blown up by the star child. It was not until then that it found an opportunity to infect me with the bloody dream during my year of coma. Finally, it successfully invaded my soul and my brain!
"If that was the case, there were only two questions left.
"Firstly, what was the purpose of the Blood Stripe Virus? Secondly, how deeply did it infect me?
"It's not hard to figure out the Blood Stripe Virus' purpose if you put yourself in its shoes. It wanted to go to the Tian Yuan Realm with me.
"Although the Tian Yuan Realm is only a small Sector, all the population is gathered on the Heaven's Origin Sector. It is like a crowded public place. It is the best place for the parasites to proliferate.
"Besides, the Tian Yuan Realm is in the middle of a war with the Blood Demon Sector and will have to deal with the minor apocalypse of the Imperium of True Human Beings later. The Blood Stripe Virus feeds on killing intent. Such a Sector is exactly what it wants!
"As for how deeply it infected me, and how far it eroded my brain … It seems that this is a question that I can't find an accurate answer to."
"I can only make inferences based on the known information.
"The most important piece of information was that I proposed to build 'Firefly' and train myself in the broken void by myself.
"After discovering that I was infected by the Blood Stripe Virus, I found a lot of suspicious points when I looked back at the production plan of 'Firefly'. It did not seem to be a plan that I would have proposed under normal circumstances. It was more like a scheme that the Blood Stripe Virus was tempting me to propose in order to swallow my soul completely in the broken void.
"Then, it at least suggested that the Blood Stripe Virus had not completely controlled me yet, and it was about to make the most critical step.
"Perhaps, it can subtly stimulate the fear, anger, hatred, bloodlust … and other negative emotions in the depths of my brain. Under the influence of these negative emotions, I will be able to control my emotions. Under the influence of the negative emotions, it could slightly manipulate my behavior.
"It could also erase or cover part of my memories. When I had strong suspicions, it could dispel my suspicions in a way that was close to 'hypnosis'.
"But I think … Whether it is manipulation or concealment, it cannot be used without limit. "
"The reason is simple. On one hand, the strength of the Blood Stripe Virus is limited, too. Otherwise, it wouldn't have lurked for so many years without showing up.
"More importantly, if it were to twist my will by force all the time, my memories would be completely different. If you erase my memories, you will create a completely different me. Myself, including the people around me, will definitely become suspicious. "
"That was the last thing that the Blood Stripe Virus wanted to see.
"Therefore, there should still be a chance for me to turn the tables.
"My judgment was that, when my soul was blown apart by the star child's self-detonation, the Blood Stripe Virus probably peeped into most of my memory pieces and knew everything about my past. It was even possible that some 'backdoors' were hidden deep inside my soul.
"But I don't think that it could know my every move and every thought.
"It's like a person with 'dual personality'. The two personalities appear alternately. It is impossible for one personality to know everything about the other.
"Since it was impossible for me to perceive every thought of the Blood Stripe Virus, there was no reason that the Blood Stripe Virus could perceive every thought of mine, either. At the very least, I hoped so.
"I began to think of a way to deal with the Blood Stripe Virus.
"At first. I wanted to tell everybody about it so that we could work together to deal with the Blood Stripe Virus.
"But hardly had the idea popped up in my head when I dispelled it by brute force.
"The Blood Stripe Virus is unpredictable and unpredictable. Even if I told everybody about it, you might not have a solution. Instead, you would only alert the Blood Stripe Virus.
"What I was most worried about was that the Blood Stripe Virus would escape from my body without caring about the cost, like a lizard cutting its tail.
"While it was still inside my body. I could figure out a way to deal with it. But if it escaped into somebody else's body, even a snake, an insect, or a rat, and lurked for hundreds of years before it came out again, nobody would be able to prepare for it at all.
"So, not only can this matter not be handled by others, it has to be handled by me personally. Moreover, it can't be made a big fuss and can't be exposed in the slightest."
"The most critical thing was that I didn't know whether or not it could see and hear everything that I saw and heard in a certain mysterious way.
"I have no choice but to give it a shot!"
"First of all, I ran a minor test.
"I recorded my recent anomalies in a training journal. I also said that I had strong suspicions that an alien species had invaded my soul and that I needed to examine it in a certain way.
"When I was writing this training log, my mind was very clear. I wasn't disturbed in the slightest."
"It suggested that the Blood Stripe Virus's interference with me was not real time. It could not perceive my every thought in real time. Otherwise, it wouldn't have asked me to write such a training journal at all.
"Once I wrote the training journal, it was even less likely that it would manipulate me to erase it, because erasing a journal would leave traces. The more traces there were, the more suspicious I would be.
"The Blood Stripe Virus could only avoid my examination in other ways.
"Then, I began to study the magical equipment that could detect the soul and attack.
"A year ago, the Immortal Cultivators crafted a lot of magical equipment that could attack the soul in order to deal with 'Bai Xinghe', who had returned to life in another body. But the Immortal Cultivators failed before they had the chance to use most of them.
"I borrowed a large batch of magical equipment from the magical equipment and studied them carefully. Eventually, I crafted a piece of magical equipment that could detect the soul and named it 'Soul Analyzer'.
"As long as I wore the Soul Analyzer on the back of my head, it would automatically scan my brainwaves and soul waves to determine whether or not my soul was pure and whether or not there was any abnormal interference.
"Of course, I knew very well that the Soul Analyzer would not work at all.
"Since the Blood Stripe Virus allowed me to craft the Soul Analyzer smoothly, it suggested that the Soul Analyzer would not work on it at all. It was confident that it could avoid the scan of the Soul Analyzer. Therefore, I was completely reassured.
"However, it might not be able to see through the real purpose of the Soul Analyzer that I crafted.
"I'm not trying to scan the Blood Stripe Virus out. I'm just taking a gamble. I'm betting that the Blood Stripe Virus will enter a certain 'hibernation' state when I scan my brain with the Soul Detector and will not dare to release the slightest abnormal waves.
"It meant that, through the Soul Analyzer, I would be granted a very short time of absolute safety. I would be able to do whatever I wanted without worrying about being discovered by the Blood Stripe Virus.
"Every time I used the Soul Analyzer, it would take an hour. I could not use it too many times. If I did not find anything wrong after a couple of times, I would have to stop. Otherwise, the Blood Stripe Virus would be more suspicious.
"A couple of times, an hour each time, would be a couple of hours in total.
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