How Am I Still Alive?-Chapter 1355 - 1341: One Third

To truly discern a person’s real attitude, one often must not look at what they say, but at what they do.

Chris, or rather the Balance Disaster Beast, has been changing her attitude continuously, but she has yet to say a single kind word.

When she had wasted a great deal of time and energy, earnestly teaching lessons to Lu Ping’an...perhaps, she truly regarded this man as her successor.

"...If your level is not sufficient, and my new body is substandard, it is I who will suffer," she said.

But Lu Ping’an felt it peculiar because if he were in that realm... why wouldn’t he use the Quasi-God’s cultivation to directly create a complete blueprint for himself?

No matter how hard he studied, the gap in standard between him and the Big Cat was not something that could be bridged in a year or two.

"I can take a plan, even present you with a blueprint that you could use, but it is not your ’Life System.’ In the long run, it might not be beneficial..."

System, this was the focus repeatedly mentioned by the Big Cat in the lessons given to Lu Ping’an over this period.

Each Life system’s attitudes and concepts of life are entirely different; the same "knowledge point" could be entirely different evolution materials for abnormal abilities to different professionals, a fact most evident in Lu Ping’an’s "Ten Thousand Spirits" and the Big Cat’s "Mother Goddess."

Perhaps just reading the description might seem somewhat similar, but in essence, these are two entirely separate "truths."

"...Knowledge is material; you construct the modules that compose your understanding of ’life.’ High-Tier Life systems can only go far by relying on their understanding of life..."

By now, Lu Ping’an understood the foundational reason for the Big Cat’s repeated lessons.

"Low-level Life systems represent science, while high-level Life systems represent metaphysics. Yet, the foundation of metaphysics is science... The basis of warping reality is having ’true reality’."

The Big Cat was a good teacher; she had no intention of replicating her own path but hoped that Lu Ping’an would base his own path on hers, incorporating her past experiences.

This could also mean she had given up on "ambushing" Lu Ping’an in this regard... at least for now, Lu Ping’an needn’t worry about having the Big Cat lying in wait on his professional journey.

"Flesh, blood essence, and ’brain’..."

Lu Ping’an’s "Life Illustration" was his answer and also his catalog for studying "life."

"Flesh... A body of steel."

With his low chant, the book large enough to be used as a weapon, turned to a new page.

This time, it featured anatomical and functional analysis diagrams of various life forms. The previous Lu’s codex featured only gatherings and functions of extraordinary powers, but now it held an extensive accumulation of common knowledge.

Blood vessels, skeletons, nervous systems... Lu Ping’an might not be able to act as a Healer at present, but there was no issue in speaking authoritatively like a pseudo-doctor.

"...A cat of steel?"

Looking at the "half-cat" in the culture dish, Lu pondered.

He tried changing its culture medium, pouring a large amount of "Hua Xueyi cells" into it... Indeed, Hua Xueyi truly bled a lot this time; she would probably need to recuperate for a few months.

The Life Encyclopedia was the "omen" of Lu Ping’an’s Creation study; now, he slowly overcame the limitations of his original form with his "skills."

"The future body of Chris needs to be sufficiently hardy; it needs a body of steel..."

Among the many "metal life forms," Lu Ping’an ultimately chose Hua Xueyi. The reason was quite simple: her status as a Rule-level entity had a lower purity... but adaptability was strong with a high upper limit, and most importantly, there was enough of it!

"There was no need for the flesh to be too high-end; suitable was good enough. A vast amount of flesh as a culture medium was very suitable for her nourishment and evolution..."

Now, the "half-cat" in the culture dish had regained its heartbeat, and its shell shimmered with a metallic luster.

But just this level was not enough for a Quasi-God soul...

"Zhi Xi, Mumu..."

Zhi Xi had discarded part of her "flesh," entering a lengthy period of regeneration.

And Mumu... that wooden shell, along with the "energy nullifying/absorbing" epidermis, might be the peak "close combat talent."

"Hua Xueyi is the base, Zhi Xi is the outer shell and the bones that power movement, and Mumu is the skin..." Lu Ping’an used the highest grade materials for Chris’s "doll," and this time, with Big Cat’s "explanation," there seemed to be a possibility of fusion among these materials.

Within the golden "source of water," merged the dissolved corporeal mercury, and the outermost layer was indeed the "sacred tree bark" from Big Cat’s original body surface.

In the end, Lu acquired some golden liquid metal and a silvery epidermis.

At the same time, Lu Ping’an added a substantial amount of his own flesh... Since Lu believed it to be "life matter," it was flesh suitable for crafting materials.

And at this moment, circulating it within half of Cat’s body was also to minimize the rejection reaction... Such a high-level fusion operation might not even be possible by a Quasi-God, but Lu Ping’an’s wishes truly could.

Lu Ping’an’s "Creation study" still adhered to the tripartite approach of blood, flesh and bone, and brain core.

Within a page of the Codex, on the design illustration of a humanoid figure, Lu Ping’an had already drawn his own answer... But just that was still insufficient.

"I need a large amount of spiritualized blood, at least from a Rule-level being..."

Meow met the criteria and had a quite compatible nature, but as she was currently a common Decree-level, the viability of the "flesh" she provided was too low... It was like a flame cast into the vast sea, instantly devoured, being the sole result; no matter how good her traits, they would not be effective.

"I still need higher-grade materials..."

Just that materials above Rule-level, many of them not for sale, were not the main issue; even if someone were willing to sell, he likely could not afford such an exorbitant price... Big Cat required too much, and just one or two items were plainly inadequate.

With the current materials, he probably couldn’t even cobble together one-third of a Big Cat.

At that moment, Lu Ping’an found himself entangled in a bizarre paradox.

If he had Big Cat’s new body, then, with her appearance to command the situation, what materials couldn’t he buy, often without even needing to spend money.

But he needed high-grade biological materials to craft Big Cat’s new body, and only with a new body could he acquire those rare materials...

"...Perhaps, we could change our approach, not aiming for overnight success. Like insects, with stages of larvae, caterpillars, and adult insects, we could also play with stages of Kitten, Adolescence, and full-grown Cat... cough, Kitten, Little Cat, Big Cat."

Lu Ping’an came out with strategies for "assembling Cat" and "Evolving Cat," leaving Big Cat to make her own choice.

But when Lu suggested this, he was directly dragged to the gym by Big Cat herself, who ensured he endured a heart-wrenchingly intense extra practice.

However, when Lu Ping’an laid out all the current inventory of materials, allowing Big Cat to do the calculations and confirming that even one-third of a Cat was doubtful, such a downgraded version might be the only answer.

"First, make do?" Big Cat was so angry at the time her face turned ashen, attempting to kill Lu Ping’an with her glare to no avail.

And then...

"Pfft, hahaha, are you Kerdalais? Kerdalais, my little friend, can you call me big sister?"

When this child, even younger and cuter than an eight-year-old Fei’er... cough, in a certain sense, she was the prototype of Fei’er and Eve.

The two girls could not stop laughing hysterically when they saw this "little sister" who looked so much like their young selves yet remained stone-faced.

Right then, they even brought out their little dresses...

But when this "Kitten," standing silently in front of a certain shop, directly smashed its signboard, forcing out an eighth-tier Big Shot... The look of sheer terror in that Big Shot’s face made onlookers too afraid to laugh. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"Pfft, Kerdalais, aren’t you just the cutest?"

And the golden-haired child, spinning around fiercely, attempted to obliterate the ignorant challenger... only to find herself confronting Lu Ping’an, who was laughing so hard he was rolling on the floor.

"Go die!!" Ultimately, the first instance of domestic violence involving physical bodies happened on the day of her rebirth, right on the streets.

And with half the market street destroyed as testament... she was indeed the true Balance Disaster Beast!