"Do you want to retain Nightmare's will?" Wu Meiniang asked.
In her opinion, Nightmare Xiao's talent and ability made him a valuable helper worth keeping to assist them.
However, everything had to be based on Xiao's will; the existence of the vice-head was to help Xiao identify and fix deficiencies.
Xiao pondered for a moment, then said, "I am primarily male, and you are primarily female. It's reasonable to keep one that can be both male and female!"
"Then why not? Are you hesitating?" Wu Meiniang asked, somewhat puzzled.
A Xiao as excellent as Nightmare Xiao was extremely rare among all the Xiao Clan members, and she didn't understand why Xiao was hesitating.
"Because I want to gather three god-kings!" Xiao said somewhat helplessly.
Xiao had three heads.
The middle head controlled the Law of Heaven, making him the Heavenly King.
The left head controlled the Law of Death, making him the King of the Underworld.
Therefore, for the right head, Xiao really wanted to add a Sea King.
"Wasn't Sea King Xiao fused with Nightmare? If he fused with Sea King, wouldn't it be fine for him to become the Sea King?" Wu Meiniang quickly persuaded him.
"What you're saying isn't entirely wrong, but it's too far-fetched. It still feels a bit off!" Xiao was still hesitating.
Although he knew Nightmare was a good fit, it felt a little awkward.
"That's enough. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an illness that needs to be treated. When a Sea King appears in the future, Nightmare can fuse with him then!" Wu Meiniang rolled her eyes in exasperation.
Xiao's situation was the result of being accustomed to smooth sailing. Now he was getting picky.
This made him seem a bit like he hadn't experienced the harsh realities of society.
"Then I'll listen to you!" Xiao finally chose to follow Wu Meiniang's suggestion, separating Nightmare's will and integrating it into his right brain.
Otherwise, Nightmare, being a dual-plug that could be male or female, would have to be given to Wu Meiniang to fuse with, as he was a staunch believer in heterosexual relationships.
He would absolutely not fuse with any consciousness that dared to change his XP system.
In fact, Wu Meiniang thought the same way. Accepting giving birth once was already her limit; she truly couldn't handle any more.
However, Nightmare didn't care about such things.
After fusing with the Succubus Soul, he had completely opened up in that regard.
Being male or female didn't matter, and even being human or not was irrelevant, as long as it met his aesthetic standards.
Calling him the "Sea King" was indeed accurate because, in a sense, he really was a "Sea King"; his fish pond contained countless "fish."
"To be honest, I think I should be the Heavenly King Zeus!" However, the first thing Nightmare said upon being awakened was to refute Xiao and Wu Meiniang, insisting that he was the one most like the Heavenly King.
But neither Xiao nor Wu Meiniang paid him any mind because, at that moment, after Xiao had fused with Nightmare, Nightmare's power was also transforming him.
The integration of demonic power and Chakra, two distinct forces, was accompanied by a holistic sublimation of the Xiao Clan bloodline.
...
...
In the dozens of worlds under the Xiao Clan's command, all those with Xiao Clan blood, while asleep, received the infusion of Nightmare's power.
All Xiao Clan members woke up the next day and stared at themselves in the mirror, completely stunned.
After everyone came to their senses, the family chat group immediately erupted. They couldn't believe they had become so handsome and beautiful.
"Holy moly, who is this? Who absorbed such incredible genes?"
"Heaven help me! Even though I have money, power, and ability, I lacked good looks. Whenever I thought of those young ladies flattering me and saying I was handsome against their conscience, I felt uncomfortable all over. Now I can finally hold my head high. The Ancestor has finally decided to give me a handsome face. Thank you, Ancestor! Boo hoo hoo hoo T_T"
"I'm so beautiful now, I can't believe it. My face is still the same face, but why do I look so much prettier just by slightly adjusting my facial features and face shape?"
"So far, among the worlds controlled by the Xiao Clan, there hasn't been a being with such overwhelmingly beautiful looks that could improve the entire clan's bloodline!"
"If it's not someone from below, then it's probably because the Ancestor has absorbed another one of his counterparts!"
"Everyone should have experienced a momentary flicker last night, right?"
"There was a momentary sense of spatial-temporal dislocation. Most likely, Dad found a New World!"
The Xiao Clan members chatted among themselves. Many powerful Xiao Clan members had noticed a momentary spatial-temporal dislocation, which was likely when the change occurred.
"Am I too weak? I didn't feel anything!"
"Didn't feel it +1"
"+1."
However, just as there were geniuses who could sense the summons from the Great Firmament Arena, there were also completely oblivious slackers.
"If you don't have the Three-Headed Dragon's kingly bloodline, don't speak. Only the Three-Headed Dragon's spatial-temporal characteristics can sense it!"
"o(╥﹏╥)o, this isn't fair!!!"
"Not fair +1." T^T
Xiao Yufeng: "What are you yelling about? If you haven't awakened yet, go cultivate properly. All you do is lie flat all day. It's a miracle if you can sense anything!"
"Lying flat isn't our fault; it's the Ancestor's genetic problem. He's the biggest slacker in the clan!"
One second later~
Message recalled~
"..."
So, many of Xiao's children began to @ Xiao one after another.
"@Ancestor ~ screenshot"
"@Ancestor ~ screenshot"
"@... screenshot"
"Damn, are you guys that fast?"
Xiao: "It's you again, kid, spreading rumors about me. Didn't I beat you enough last time? Death Thorns Beating Up Three-Headed Dragon.jpg!"
Xiao Wenshun: "Damn it~, which little bastard turned your Ninth Grandpa into an emoji?"
The loving family instantly fell silent as Xiao Wenshun's shouting began. Everyone tacitly chose to go invisible.
Everyone quietly left the group chat and continued admiring their own faces, then began showing off their beautiful selfies in their smaller group chats.
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Sequence 1, The Boys World, the main world where Xiao himself was born.
The time had already reached 2009.
Speaker Sebastian and Homelander had already rotated governance twice, and forty years had passed.
The upcoming change of Speakers once again plunged the entire world into fierce political struggle.
At this moment, The Boys World was completely dominated by Superhumans. Almost everyone possessed superpowers, and the difficulty of Superhumans reproducing had also been overcome.
As long as a newlywed couple was ready to have children and passed the parenting test, they could receive free fertility drugs for conception.
Of course, if someone could conceive without fertility drugs, they didn't need to take the test.
Furthermore, with the Superhuman Gene Fusion Project underway, Superhumans began to selectively choose partners with complementary superpowers to conceive offspring.
As a result, the children's abilities became stronger with each generation. Although regressive mutations occasionally occurred, most were beneficial mutations.
The root of all this came from the Gene Optimization Act, which was primarily pushed through by Homelander.
Through a year-long screening of both parents' genetic factors, the most perfect fertilized embryos were selected and implanted into the mother's body, ensuring the birth of the most outstanding children.
Of course, this procedure required extremely high fees, basically a desperate expense for lower-class citizens, who simply couldn't afford such exorbitant costs.
After all, the human and material resources consumed were not small; it required a full year's worth of work.
Previously, such screening had been illegal, and this technology could not be popularized; only the wealthy could enjoy it.
This broke the ironclad rule that "all Americans are equal"; it was not freedom.
However, under the governance of Homelander, a Speaker who would stop at nothing for justice and believed necessary sacrifices were acceptable, the bill was passed by a single vote.
As Homelander put it, one could not sacrifice the overall evolution of humanity for the sake of so-called equality for all.
Therefore, human genetic optimization must never stop.
But as the saying goes, "It is not scarcity but inequality that causes unrest." The passing of the bill infringed upon the interests of the majority of the lower-class citizens.
This bill meant that the wealthy would become increasingly outstanding, while the lower class could only rely on luck.
It was like a gacha game: the rich played with open cards, freely choosing from the card pool, while the poor could only gamble.
This also led to the current Speaker election becoming an even fiercer struggle between the two factions.
Most people wanted Xiao to abolish the bill, while a small number of wealthy people hoped it would be maintained.
After all, they all wanted their bloodlines and families to continue for a longer time, and this required even stronger superpowers.
Some ambitious individuals even hoped that one day, through continuous optimization, their descendants could be born with superpowers surpassing Homelander and the Captain.
At that point, they too might gain the qualifications to run for Speaker.
The Captain and Homelander had controlled the world for too long—so long that many people had begun to grow dissatisfied once again.
But they also hadn't forgotten Homelander's massacre of those who disobeyed him when he first came to power.
So they chose to quietly accumulate power rather than resort to violent resistance.
There was no other way; Homelander basically didn't tolerate opposition, and whenever something displeased him, he would use his laser eyes to violently intimidate people.
Compared to the tyrannical Homelander, Xiao was much more restrained in his use of power.
No matter what happened, Xiao remained exceptionally calm.
His conduct was also more like that of an ordinary person; he never resorted to violent threats but acted within the rules.
Therefore, for most high-ranking officials, they preferred Xiao to be in power.
In fact, during the Captain's terms, it was also the era when they enjoyed the greatest degree of freedom.
But the problem was that Xiao always acted from the perspective of the majority.
And the Gene Optimization Act clearly did not align with the interests of the majority.
Most importantly, Xiao tolerated no compromise.
Once he discovered that his orders were not fully implemented, he would immediately unleash Homelander to weld people with his laser eyes.
Therefore, once the Gene Optimization Act was abolished, it had to be abolished completely.
Anyone who dared to use it privately again would, once discovered, either be lucky enough to be killed on the spot or be thrown into Time Hell to serve as a slave.
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