I Can See Health Bars in Real Life

Chapter 688 - 27: Kindred Spirits? (Part 2)

After some thought, he couldn’t help but shake his head in exasperation, dismissing both the Tengu and demons from the list of potential collaborators.The former only ever seemed interested in eating melons, either engaged in the act or on their way to do so. Getting them to settle down and focus on serious business seemed impossible.

As for the latter, they were even more troublesome—a group that spent every day in a drunken stupor, hardly the kind of mindset one could rely on.

So... choose the Demon Realm?

As the thought crossed his mind, Gu Mo involuntarily considered this option. It seemed the best choice from all angles, with a bond of kinship that meant neither Shinki nor the citizens of the Demon Realm would likely refuse to help. However, after pondering for a moment, he regretfully decided to pass on this option once again.

——This can’t continue, maintaining some distance would be better...

——His situation had already become somewhat precarious, and if this continued, it might not end simply with an apology through death...

Pulling a wry smile, he rubbed his temples in slight headache, then lifted his gaze to the sky, where the luminous full moon lay. He gently extended his hand to catch a beam of moonlight.

From a direct line of sight, the civilized world on the moon’s surface was not visible—perhaps concealed on the dark side of the moon, or perhaps hidden by a powerful barrier. Such a thought flashed through his mind briefly, and Gu Mo calmly flicked the beam of moonlight from his hand.

The moonlight seemed to solidify in mid-air, forming steps one level at a time.

It resembled a long rainbow, stretching straight across the canyon to the other side, spanning miles, like a rainbow bridge or a path of starlight.

——It appeared both dreamlike and clear.

His expression remained largely unchanged; he roughly knew how to utilize the power of moonlight, though replicating the Moon Transformation Ability of a True Body, or the Moon Phase Dharma Body, which could turn the illuminated area into the Otherworld and stop time, showed little progress.

"The Bright Mirror Still Water Technique, I still have no clue on it... Is this something that can only be mastered when I’ve truly developed a Divine Body?"

Mumbling to himself, Gu Mo felt that many of his projects had hit a bottleneck.

"Bright Mirror Still Water" was indeed a powerful ability, though mastering it was indeed challenging. Given the right conditions, Kikyo, also a Celestial Maiden of the Moon, had ways to perfectly replicate this formidable world-class Curse Technique, capable of recreating all that Kaguya once achieved.

However, just because Kikyo could, didn’t mean he could as well.

After all, the hardware gap between the two was no small matter. Kikyo’s Celestial Maiden body inherently contained such laws and mysteries, enhanced with system-approved bloodline materials, making her a perfect and legitimate inheritor.

His own body was reshaped postnatally, collecting live sample data that included Akai Hinako’s samples, combined to create a physique based on the Cauldron of Everything’s wish. It wasn’t perfect, not purely authentic, merely tangentially related, replicating some Extraordinary Traits.

Strictly speaking, this wasn’t a formal Bloodline Enhancement.

Its nature resembled what Emperor Shi did—growing a True Body in a biological cultivation tank.

And it wasn’t until he obtained legendary Bloodline Material from Tima that he first engaged in Bloodline Enhancement according to system rules, still incomplete even now.

That’s how it was, an incomplete inheritance meant that the replicated Extraordinary Traits were likewise incomplete—

For him to indirectly recreate the ability to stop time was already quite impressive; expecting a complete inheritance in such circumstances was unnecessary.

Gu Mo could only comfort himself with the thought that the future was promising. Once he grasped the complete Power of Life Origin, theoretically, he could gain mastery over evolution. His clone would also have a chance to instantly evolve to immortality in terms of biological evolution, eliminating past complexities, achieving successful replication through Self-Transformation.

From this perspective, indeed the future was promising.

Thud, thud, thud—

It was at this moment that the sound of hurried footsteps came from the deck behind.

"No, no! I still want to ask, Gu Mo!"

The silver-haired girl, who had returned unbeknownst to him, appeared in front of him like the wind, yanking a chair from the opposite side with evident displeasure, glaring at him with puffed-up cheeks.

She realized that she still cared a lot about the news she had heard that evening. Glumly, she had returned to the Demon Realm to absentmindedly do some things—or perhaps do nothing at all—and in the end couldn’t resist running back.

"...Mmm, what do you want to ask?"

Gathering his thoughts, Gu Mo looked at the somewhat agitated silver-haired girl, hesitating slightly.

"It’s just, it’s just about what you said earlier!" Shinki bit her lower lip, "You said you wanted to give a gift to someone very important, and it’s a girl, right..."

"Yes, what’s the matter with that?"

Gu Mo nodded lightly, then raised an eyebrow in slight confusion.

"Uh... I’m, I’m saying, I’m saying..."

The silver-haired girl furrowed her brows tightly, unsure what to say. She couldn’t help but run back to question him, yet found herself unable to articulate her question at this moment.

——After all, he wasn’t someone who had just newly appeared...

——Probably traversing this world long before they met...

Was she supposed to criticize such circumstances and say it shouldn’t be that way?

At this thought, Miss Shinki felt a bit down. She didn’t know exactly why, but in any case, her mood just suddenly dropped.

"How can this be, we are of the same race after all..."

In a statement that was somewhat sulking, the silver-haired girl muttered softly, indeed acting somewhat petulantly as she kicked the table with her leg under it. She really hated the current situation, as if her most cherished possession was about to be taken, which made her fume.

Previously, she had been wary of that demon and her Fox Elf shikigami...

But it turned out the true enemy wasn’t even before her, possibly had arrived much earlier?

What kind of situation was this! She hated it, really hated it! It shouldn’t be like this; something must be wrong!

"I think, whether we are of the same race or not isn’t the deciding factor here..." On the opposite side, Gu Mo blinked, speaking with a bit of humor and helplessness. He initially wanted to pat the silver-haired girl on the head but reconsidered, retracting his outstretched hand.

"It’s like I get along with Zi not because we are of the same race, and she doesn’t have that kind of thought either..." He thought seriously for a moment before explaining, while also comforting the silver-haired girl: "If we weren’t of the same race, does it mean we couldn’t be friends?"

Gu Mo remembered their first meeting, an unexpected encounter...

Uh, well, it should be said it was a sudden collision.

The silver-haired girl was trying to rescue the situation in a flustered manner at the time, and her reaction was her truest one at that moment... The subsequent misunderstandings and what she considered certain things came with time afterwards.

Though perhaps this strange understanding caused her to subconsciously feel closer, it was merely an odd misunderstanding. He didn’t believe Miss Shinki inherently discriminated against others because of lineage.

She was still a gentle good kid by nature, he firmly believed this to be true.

"And truly speaking, it’s not a matter of what if; I’m really not of the same race with you, Shinki, sorry about that..." Seeing the silver-haired girl still dejected and reluctant to speak, he hesitated a bit further, yet felt he needed to honestly add this.