Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 327

Chapter 327 Assimilation Disease

Professor Feng, delirious and disoriented, squatted on the ground, his arms outstretched, flapping like a bird.

Xia Chao and Qiu Shi frantically dialed for an ambulance.

The ambulance was slow to arrive, so Jiang Li simply picked up Professor Feng and took him to the largest hospital nearby.

The medical staff had seen many cases similar to Professor Feng’s, and they expertly loaded him onto a stretcher and rushed him to the emergency room.

“Why is this patient only in his fifties again?”

“Who says not? I saw online that the age of patients is declining lately. It’s not just us, it’s happening all over the country.”

The two nurses whispered to each other as they followed the doctor into the emergency room.

“Is this common in your world?” Jiang Li realized that there were many cases similar to Professor Feng’s in the hospital.

The patients were babbling, their meaning incomprehensible.

At first, he noticed this with his spiritual sense, but he ignored it, believing that Alzheimer’s disease in this world was generally early-onset.

Now, it seems, that’s not the case at all.

Xia Chao nodded. “Yes, we call this assimilation sickness. It’s been around since the birth of the Beastmaster system.”

“Contracted beasts aren’t very intelligent, their brains are muddled, and we can’t understand their language. Once the contract is signed, the beasts will constantly influence the Beastmaster’s mind.”

“At first, there’s almost no effect, but over time, the influence grows, like a voice in your head, constantly speaking meaningless words.”

“Eventually, the Beastmaster’s mind will be completely taken over by that voice, and they’ll go mad.”

“The instructors always emphasize treating contracted beasts kindly, treating them as friends, and trying to understand their language, because doing so can delay the onset of assimilation sickness.” “

Professor Feng’s condition has reached the late stage of assimilation sickness. If this happens a few more times, I’m afraid he’ll go completely insane.” Qiu Shi was worried, his joy at having just learned how to cultivate vanishing.

Professor Feng was a very good teacher. Although serious, he always included little stories in his lectures, keeping the atmosphere lively, and the homework was minimal.

“Professor Feng has been reminiscing about the past lately. I thought he was reliving his past glory days, but I didn’t realize he was just trying to sort out his memories before going insane.”

The two had long noticed Professor Feng’s abnormality, but neither of them paid much attention. After all,

Professor Feng was only in his fifties, not yet at the age of onset for assimilationism.

“Now it seems the onset is getting earlier,” they overheard the nurses’ conversation.

“I remember Professor Feng specifically mentioning the age of onset for assimilationism. Two thousand years ago, even living to 120 wouldn’t cause it.”

“Later, as the Beast Tamer system continued to improve and we gained power to fight against demonic beasts, the onset of assimilationism gradually advanced: 110, 100, 90… and now, in our fifties.”

Everyone is destined to suffer from assimilationism; some develop it earlier, some later. Overall, the age of onset is getting earlier.

And the Lingxi World hasn’t found a good solution.

Jiang Li frowned. This was no small problem. He stopped blindly researching the effects of the Master-Servant Contract.

“Wait here for a moment, I’ll call an expert.”

Xia Chao and Qiu Shi exchanged glances. Expert? This hospital is home to numerous specialists in assimilation diseases; even those from the capital come here to discuss and learn.

Where could Brother Jiang find such experts?

Jiang Li vanished from their sight, shocking Qiu Shi.

“Don’t worry, it’s just routine,” Xia Chao said calmly. Having been flung into space by Jiang Li, he’d seen the world before. Even if Jiang Li crushed a planet, he wouldn’t be surprised.

“What did you summon?” Qiu Shi assured him that Brother Jiang wasn’t from their world.

“A deity.”

…

“Old Bai, where’s that elder from your Dao Sect who knows the art of contracts? I need him for something.” Jiang Li had originally planned to leisurely study the master-servant contract, but now that something like this had happened, he couldn’t afford to play around.

The art of contracts was a rare form of cultivation in Jiuzhou, nearly extinct, preserved only by the Dao Sect.

Now, the art of contracts has seen a resurgence in Jiuzhou, with Spirit Treasure Contracts appearing everywhere.

The original model for the Spirit Treasure Contracts came from this Dao Sect elder, a master of contracts.

“Are you looking for Elder Tang Xing? He’s on that hilltop.” Bai Hongtu pointed, and Jiang Li turned and left.

“Is Elder Tang Xing here?”

Hearing the Human Emperor’s voice, Elder Tang Xing hurried out to greet him.

With the promotion of the Lingbao Contract, Elder Tang Xing’s status in Jiuzhou has risen sharply, and his salary has been significantly improved.

This is all thanks to Jiang Li’s then-proposed Lingbao dichotomy: within the Great Zhou, Lingbao is governed by law; outside the Great Zhou, Lingbao is governed by contracts.

Jiang Li then summoned the Brahma Tower and had it construct a temporary spatial tunnel to transport Elder Tang Xing.

On the way, Jiang Li briefly explained the Master-Servant Contract. Elder Tang Xing cautiously refrained from commenting, stating that he would need to see the actual object before reaching a conclusion.

Professor Feng was still in the emergency room, so Jiang Li and Elder Tang Xing disappeared and entered.

“It’s the most troublesome soul contract.”

“Let me see the effect of the contract. It can only be established if both parties agree.”

“In a master-servant contract, one party is the master and the other is the servant. The servant must help the master absorb spiritual energy from the air and feed it back to the master.”

“The servant’s cultivation cannot surpass the master’s.”

“The servant must obey all the master’s orders.”

“Well, if the servant cannot understand the master, the master will force the servant to understand the servant’s intentions.”

“The master-servant contract is rooted deep in the soul and is passed down through blood. The more people a servant’s ancestors have signed contracts with, the stronger the servant’s servility will be, and the sooner they will demand to understand the master’s intentions.”

“It seems this is the problem. Monster beasts only awaken to spiritual intelligence when they reach the Spiritual Transformation Stage. Before then, they only speak simple Monster Beast language. Understanding Monster Beast language is too difficult for humans who haven’t cultivated, leading to assimilation and collapse of their spiritual platforms.”

“To resist monster beast attacks, everyone in Lingxi World is a beastmaster, and their ancestors were also beastmasters. As this accumulates, the enforceability of the master-servant contract will become increasingly stronger, and the age of onset of assimilation disease will also be lowered.”

“In another thousand years, assimilation disease may occur in people in their twenties or thirties, and by then, the entire human race will be doomed.”

Jiang Li roughly deduced the slow-death poison that the extraterritorial demons had inflicted on Lingxi World.

It was this master-servant contract.

“Can the master-servant contract be terminated?” Jiang Li knew he could terminate the contract between him and Xia Chao, but he wasn’t sure if he could terminate the contract between others.

“The Master-Servant Contract involves the soul, so it should be difficult. However, after all, the Human Emperor is in the Mahayana stage. Breaking the Master-Servant Contract is not difficult for him, and there is a 90% probability of success.”

“However, if the Human Emperor wants to break the Master-Servant Contract for the entire world, there is probably a 10% chance of failure, and the result of failure is death.”

“In other words, 10% of people will die in the process of breaking the contract?”

“Yes.”

(End of this chapter)