Chapter 663 Marching Towards The Enemy Line

Rocky discovered something new from the brain surgery he performed on the wild spirit-manipulated beasts in the Spiritual Fairyland. As it turned out, the brains of spirit-manipulated beasts were just like computers with self-updating ability. If some programs of a computer were damaged, the computer would neither work nor update its software. Similar things would happen to spirit-manipulated beasts' brains if their cerebral cortices were damaged.

Because of that, damages to a spirit-manipulated beast's brain should be prevented by not stimulating its cerebral cortex. But not stimulating its cerebral cortex also meant that the wild spirit-manipulated beast could not be deprived of its self-consciousness. The only way Rocky could come up with to solve this dilemma was to block the cerebral cortices. Blocking some programs in a computer would disable some functions in the said computer, but the computer itself could still accept instructions given to it. Likewise, blocking a beast's cerebral cortex would still allow the beast's brain to read the instruction, but the cerebral cortex would be incapable of following it. This method would allow the beast's brain to function normally and cause its cerebral cortex to lose its function at the same time.

This kind of theory had undoubtedly gone out of the scope of science and technology. In other words, it was something that could not be resolved only with science and technology—it would not be easy to put such theory into action.

But this was not a problem for Rocky. He had already come up with a solution. He wanted to put something he had learned into use. It was a kind of masterstroke unrivaled in this era—the Mysterious Beast Transformation Skill.

As everyone knew, the state of a spirit-manipulated beast's spiritual source was closely related to the condition of its whole body, and the spiritual source also controlled the beast's whole body—including its brain—through its spiritual meridians. The Mysterious Beast Transformation Skill was a miraculous skill that would allow one to go inside the body of a spirit-manipulated beast and access its spiritual source. What Rocky wanted to do was to use the skill to go inside the brain of the spirit-manipulated beast, find the spiritual meridian that controlled the cerebral cortex, and disable it, consequently blocking the cerebral cortex's function. What would not change was that the cerebral cortex would still be under the control of the brain. It would just lose control of the spiritual source and could no longer follow the instructions given by the brain.

However, everything was always easier said than done. Rocky was but an amateur regarding the Mysterious Beast Transformation Skill. For him, to do such a detailed and precise operation was even more

as quite like striking a rock with an egg.

Nevertheless, Rocky had expected all of these.

"Head Allen, how's the investigation about the Roaring Flame Empire's army going?" Rocky, who was poring over a topographic map of the area, asked when he saw Allen walk into the commander-in-chief's tent.

"Commander in Chief, I come to report something. The Elite Regiment's scout we sent to the Roaring Flame Empire's army base just returned with detailed information," Allen answered with a slight smile.

"And?" Rocky raised his head and looked at Allen.

"This time, the person acting as Commander in Chief for the Roaring Flame Empire's army is some kind of big shot. People called him Blood Lord Leo, and he's reached the fifth grade of the Supernal Stage already. Rumor has it that even the devil will take a detour when they see him. He's just been conferred as Duke of Loyalty and Valor, and he's even been granted a military right to lead an army of one hundred thousand men by the emperor of the Roaring Flame Empire," said Allen.

"Blood Lord Leo? The name sounds creepy," Rocky said mockingly.

"Blood Lord Leo is infamous for his cold-bloodedness. He can kill without even batting an eyelid. He's wicked, merciless, and cruel. However, he's indeed a competent and skilled army leader. When I was in the Roaring Flame Empire, I often heard about him too. It is said that Blood Lord Leo never lost even once in the wars against other countries during these past few years—he's not one to be looked down upon," Allen continued to explain.

"Is that so? It seems… the battle against the Roaring Flame Empire's army will be a very fierce one," Rocky said with a dry tone. And yet, there was nothing on his expression but utmost self-confidence. It was as if the fifty thousand men of the Roaring Flame Empire were not up too much in his eyes.