Chapter 252

The schemes of the great gods, Mu Yi was unaware of.

But only when he accessed the Zongwang information did he discover what generous gift Chi You had given him.

Mu Yi chose a divine ability, and Chi You also gave him one, but Chi You exploited a loophole by not specifying the number of divine abilities.

Originally he could only give Mu Yi one divine ability, but this time Chi You gave him three at once.

【Weapon Lord】, 【Great Fog】, 【Totem】.

Of course, only 【Weapon Lord】 is a complete version of the divine ability; 【Great Fog】 and 【Totem】 are both defective limited versions. Trying to exploit a loophole is not that easy, especially given Chi You's poor condition.

Nevertheless, Mu Yi still got a great bargain.

【Great Fog】 is a well-known divine ability of Chi You; even great gods like the Yellow Emperor would find it hard to escape once enveloped by the mist. If it weren't for the Yellow Emperor ordering Feng Hou to imitate the Big Dipper and invent the south-pointing chariot, thereby breaking this divine ability, the outcome of the great war might have been reversed.

However, what fell into Mu Yi's hands was the sealed defective version.

【Great Fog (Defective)】:

When the skill is released, the user's surroundings will be shrouded in great fog; within the skill's range (which is based on the user's level), perception and perception-based skills are weakened, the five senses are restricted, and divination, deduction, evasion, teleportation and similar spells are interfered with.

In the defective version, the effect within the skill's range applies to both allies and enemies alike.

ps: I can't see my opponent, I can't see my enemy, oh right, I was never able to see them! — Mist Blind Knight·Mark Duo

It is a very powerful divine ability; the only problem is that after activating the skill, Mu Yi himself can't even tell which direction is southeast or northwest.

The mist mixes with Mu Yi's own will attribute, yet it also restricts him; the complete version can achieve unilateral sealing of vision and senses, while the defective version can only be used to buy time and such.

Another 【Totem】 is the same; although called a divine ability, it is actually the same as the Yellow Emperor's method of making drums, and it also belongs to the method of making totems.

It is somewhat similar to the portable temple barrier that Mu Yi and they once created in the trial; judging by their manifestations, the two share many similarities.

Within 【Totem】 are contained two methods of making totems.

They are 【Ox Totem】 and 【Bird Totem】, respectively corresponding to Chi You's ox-like head and double-winged back appearance.

The method of making is also simple: obtain the Nine Li Bloodline Essence and the corresponding exotic beast's blood, then produce the materials according to a specific pattern and method, and finally paint the materials into a totem.

Different qualities have different effects; if one can obtain Chi You's bloodline, even if the corresponding exotic beast's blood is lacking, one can at least guarantee a Legendary outcome; in a sense, this is indeed a divine ability.

【Ox Totem】:

Effect 1: Copper Head, Iron Forehead – immune to decapitation damage, removes the head's vital spot, doubles the head's innate defense, can be regarded as an innate weapon, granting an attack bonus.

Effect 2: Immune to Blades and Spears – immune to ordinary weapon damage; using one's own damage reduction ability, it increases resistance to spell damage (the reduction magnitude is determined by physique and totem quality).

Effect 3: Ox Totem's Power – comprehensively strengthens blood and qi recovery (recovery speed based on physique and totem quality).

【Bird Totem】:

Effect 1: Wings Grown on Back – by consuming a certain amount of Zongwang Disaster Coins, the user can generate a pair of wings, which are regarded as innate limbs and enjoy the user's full damage reduction.

After gaining wings, the user can fly; flight speed is based on the user's strength, physique, and wing strength.

ps: The flight effect of these wings is not a magical flight effect; it consumes stamina.

Effect 2: Power of the Killing Wind – gain the ability to control killing winds.

After a standard action, the user summons a mass of killing wind to control (the killing wind's power is based on perception and totem quality).

Killing wind belongs to magical flight effects and can be dispelled, consumed, strengthened, or amplified.

Effect 3: Bird Totem's Power – comprehensively strengthens energy recovery (recovery speed based on perception and totem quality).

【Ox Totem】 leans toward the warrior side, 【Bird Totem】 leans toward the mage side; it's hard to say which is higher, but combining both is the true way.

Moreover, judging by the sole complete divine ability 【Weapon Lord】, this 【Totem】 is also a defective version.

Weapon Lord is the only thing Mu Yi has at hand, in terms of rank, that can match the teachings of Reincarnation as a divine ability.

Weapon Lord:

Effect 1: You can skillfully master all weapons, automatically obtaining that weapon's grandmaster-level specialty, and when using multiple weapons you automatically possess the trait of multi-weapon combat mastery. (Specialty level is based on character's profession level and personal weapon proficiency)

Effect 2: You can treat any item as a weapon; when holding an item you can forcibly transform it into a special weapon, granting it special abilities according to weapon quality. (Weapon quality is based on item level and character's perception attribute)

Effect 3: You are the embodiment of combat; your attacks cannot be dodged, your attacks will definitely hit the opponent; enemies cannot hit your attacks, and your attacks will definitely miss them.

(This effect is ineffective against beings with divinity higher than oneself, ineffective against causality-type skills, ineffective against divine ability attacks, ineffective against holy-type skills, ineffective against chaos-type skills.)

I'm invincible!

Mu Yi only had this feeling.

The might of Weapon Lord and the might of Reincarnation are vastly different, filled with a simple and brutal style.

If one must describe it, then Reincarnation belongs to the mechanic-type monster, while Weapon Lord belongs to the stat-type monster.

Mu Yi picked up a stone from the ground and used the Weapon Lord divine ability.

The originally ordinary stone emitted the sheen of a magic weapon; Mu Yi could feel from it the dual traits of solidity and spell-breaking, and judging by feel, the stone's quality after being blessed was as extravagant as epic-tier equipment.

This was just a stone he casually picked up from the ground.

Moreover, as he tossed the stone up and down, countless stone-throwing techniques naturally surfaced in his mind; at this moment, hardly anyone in the whole world could surpass Mu Yi in skill with stone combat.

A rather wondrous realm.

Mu Yi even had a feeling of 'man and stone as one,' as if the stone had become an extension of his body, and he could freely use the stone to achieve whatever he wanted.

Mu Yi pondered for a moment, flicked his finger to launch the stone, and the stone instantly blasted a large pit into the nearby cliff wall.

He hardly used his own strength, instead relying entirely on the force of an ordinary person's flick, and the destruction was entirely due to the might of his technique.

What surprised Mu Yi even more was that, even after the stone had been flicked away, the knowledge of stone-throwing techniques in his mind did not completely fade, as if he truly had mastered the skill of attacking with stones.

"Terrifying..." Mu Yi's lips twitched slightly; this divine ability, if given to anyone, would instantly create a monster.

Moreover, this is not the full extent of the Weapon Lord divine ability, after all Mu Yi hasn't even set foot in Legend, so how could he truly glimpse the essence of the divine ability?

Mu Yi discovered that the shortcomings he encountered when challenging Legend seemed to have been mostly smoothed out all at once.

After thinking it over, Mu Yi closed his eyes and began to continue sensing the changes within his body...

Weapon Lord, like Reincarnation, merely gave Mu Yi a key; they are both the beginning of the path to deeper powers, and the description on the Zongwang Panel is just their foundation, with much latent power waiting for Mu Yi to uncover himself.

When Mu Yi devoted himself wholeheartedly to uncovering power, an unexpected guest also arrived silently.

Chaotic Void, the dark place between worlds.

If the world is likened to an island, then the Chaotic Void is the ocean.

Legend says that as many worlds symbolizing order exist, so too does the corresponding dark void grow……

The Chaotic Void has no north, south, east, west, nor up, down, left, right.

For beings accustomed to ordered matter, their eyes cannot perceive anything substantive in the true void; to them it is a distorted land exuding the deepest darkness.

Yet even such a place can give birth to life; the strange creature Mu Yi killed in the hospital earlier is one kind of void life.

If demons are incarnations of the Chaotic Will, then void life is an incarnation of the Void Will.

Their forms vary, and they automatically adjust their bodies according to the environment, but their chaotic, dark, evil essence never changes.

In a sense, they are the natural enemies of material-world life, feeding on material existence to strengthen themselves.

Of course, correspondingly, when they die in the material world, they also become part of it.

They give rise to and restrain each other; the ultimate outcome of their evolution is that the strong are revered.

The strong devour the weak, whether they are chaotic life or material life; both sides ultimately fight for survival.

The world's expansion and growth draw power from the Chaotic Void, if the Chaotic Void can provide the nutrients necessary for the world's survival.

Then the existence of these void lives is more like a potent fertilizer, capable of greatly catalyzing world growth.

It is said that the reason the native land of Jiuzhou is strong enough is because Pangu slew three thousand chaotic demons long ago, using those three thousand chaotic demons as nourishment to drive the world's growth.

Now, a crowd of void creatures that have caught the sweet scent of a certain material world have gathered together.

A brand-new Supernormal World is growing stronger, and within this world someone is conducting a large-scale summoning; obviously this will be the opening of their feast.

Generally speaking, when the material world is invaded, it is either by chance, or by the presence of one who invites wolves in, or by having their thoughts eroded by a powerful void creature.

Because after the material world grows, it will develop a protective world barrier.

Void life cannot directly descend into the material world; most of the time they need a long period to gradually erode, until they erode a life, and then that life summons them from within.

Inside the dim basement, a man with a frenzied expression gazed at the magical circle before him.

Blood kept flowing from his wrist, yet his face showed not a trace of fear.

His body trembled unnaturally, his face pallid from excessive blood loss, with a hint of… a frenzied smile.

"Power, give me power!"

Accompanying the large-scale projection of Transcendent cultivation methods from the Spirit Realm, sensates of talent across the globe have undertaken various degrees of cultivation.

But compared to the domestic steady progress of peace and stability, some lawless areas' ruffians always have great interest in taking risky shortcuts.

And they naturally become a primary focus of void life.

In the past, lacking Transcendent Power, idealistic power would not draw the void's attention; but once one possesses idealistic Transcendent Power, constantly invoking it will truly invite something unknown.

Within the main world, Transcendent individuals have yet to arise who can counter thermal weapons; even those from the Transcendent Academy whom Mu Yi recruited as teachers would be hard-pressed to survive a barrage of high-powered thermal weapons.

To some extent, the official military of the main world can kill anything below Legend except Mu Yi.

Of course this is not absolute; some Transcendent monsters of the mind and plague can also directly paralyze the authorities.

Mu Yi cooperated with domestic officials to establish the Transcendent Academy, provided teachers, and even granted Zhiwei the authority to command Netherworld Fire.

But abroad, on a disordered wasteland, evil more easily breeds.

And Kèlīsītuō is a heavy Cthulhu enthusiast; a brief glimpse once made him fervently pursue chaos, even at times not hesitating to take drugs to seek chaos.

And a Transcendent being born with extremely high perception but extremely weak will is the ideal type to attract the void.

"Weaklings, constrained beneath boring rules and order…… you bring shame upon power."

"Cowards, hesitators, those who linger…… how can such feeble you bear this heavy fate……"

"Let me bring new hope to this world!"

"Get ready to embrace the new world!"

Kèlīsītuō laughed loudly, his eyes presenting an unnatural turbidity.

As an addict, his mind was already on the brink of collapse, so he could not possibly resist the void that engulfed him like a flood……

So much so that he didn't even notice his own body beginning to distort.

His skin began to fill with wrinkles, and his eyes began to emanate a gloomy light representing the void and chaos, but that was not power granted by the void; it was him being devoured by the void.

Unable to resist the void, he became fodder for void creatures.

That is the most thorough fodder; after being devoured, not a trace of soul fragment remains, and even the chance of reincarnation is completely erased.

Greedy void creatures never pick and choose; souls are also part of what they devour.

"Fresh flesh…… fallen souls…… and a low wail……"

"Delicious…… delicious……"

"More…… still want more……"

Void creatures devoured everything of Kèlīsītuō, while salivating over everything of the material world.

At the moment the summoning ritual was fully completed, the barrier between world and void was breached, and the material world was completely exposed before these void creatures.

They were like sharks that smelled blood, frenziedly pouring into the summoning ritual, beginning to descend into the material world to devour all material life.