Chapter 279: Final Reward

But Mu Yi hadn't finished being moved yet; when he glanced down, he saw something that stirred him even more.

3. Non-targeted Legion Talent Activation

Description:

Detected that the player does not possess the Legion Talent; this option allows early activation, with a small chance to generate a Spiritual Talent and an extremely small chance to generate a Monarch Talent.

The player may spend Brilliant Military Merit to exchange for this reward.

Seeing this, Mu Yi became a little unsettled.

The Legion Talent is obtained after a Military Strategist Promotion Legend, when an individual's abilities are collectively refined—a synthesis that merges all forces together.

Back then, at the Hundred Schools Conference, watching others use the Legion Talent, he was truly envious.

All along, Military Strategists have regarded the Legion Talent as the true metamorphosis of a Military Family Descendant, from "soldier" to "general".

Spiritual Talents usually arise among civil officials and strategists, while Monarch Talents are born of emperors and princes.

Zheng He's case is special; although he is a Grand Legion Commander and a Military Strategist Legend, due to his status, the talent he generated is a Spiritual Talent.

Zheng He's Spiritual Talent was named First Assistant; it can bind a loyal individual, enhancing all aspects of the bound person's abilities, and the stronger the bound person, the greater the boost Zheng He receives.

This is why Zheng He could traverse thousands of miles to directly contact the Ming Emperor; this kind of causality‑bound Spiritual Talent links both parties, supplying the empire's will with positioning and coordinates, as well as a channel for descent.

4. 5,000 Heavenly Court Celestial Soldier Legion

Description:

Detected that the player holds a Fifth Rank Divine Position and possesses a special recruitment building, yielding a specially selected reward.

After exchange, obtain the following of the 5,000 Heavenly Court Celestial Soldiers.

Heavenly Court Celestial Soldiers, Biological Level 19, possessing Triple Elite Talent, leader panel.

The player may spend Brilliant Military Merit to exchange for this reward.

Another heavyweight reward; this full‑strength Celestial Soldier Legion could almost push all the troops under Mu Yi's command aside in one go.

The two are now completely on different levels.

Each Celestial Soldier is almost a being standing at the Transcendent Apex; many Supernormal Beings might spend a lifetime cultivating without ever reaching such a state.

Strictly speaking, they belong to the Heavenly Court Ninth Rank Divine Office hierarchy.

However, Celestial Soldiers of this caliber are generally counted in units of hundreds of thousands within the Heavenly Court.

And the accompanying Celestial Generals, equal in status to the Yin Commander, each essentially possess power beyond the Legend level.

Strictly speaking, these five thousand are the most immediate boost for Mu Yi, far more effective than the previous options; they require no command from him and can effortlessly form formations to encircle and slay Legends on their own.

Anything that made it into this exchange list is essentially worthwhile; each holds great value, and the key lies in how Mu Yi chooses.

7. Massive Incense Power

8. Qualification as an out‑of‑structure personnel for the Thunder Division, Dou Division, Wealth Division, Plague Division, Fire Division, Water Division, Pox Division, and Tai Sui Division.

9. One Fifth‑Stage Golden Core from Doushuai Palace.

Each option gave Mu Yi an urge to obtain it, yet he could only pick one, which made him somewhat restless.

Some options Mu Yi was happy to discard, such as option 84.

84. One-time qualification to attend the Peaches Banquet.

It guarantees a chance to eat genuine Peaches at least once; even if it's the batch that ripens only once every three thousand years, it's a rare heavenly and earthly treasure.

Although this exchange option is good, Mu Yi already has Fifth Rank New God Benefits and an immature Peaches Tree, so he eliminated this option immediately.

Options like Targeted Divine Skill Cultivation, a full‑strength Celestial Soldier Legion, and Targeted Advanced Profession made it hard for Mu Yi to choose.

After hesitating for a moment, Mu Yi still chose Targeted Divine Skill Development.

The Talent Recruitment Hall grants qualification to exchange for Underworld Ghost Soldiers; assembling a full Ghost Soldier Legion is merely a matter of time, and the two may not differ much.

Advanced professions are appealing, but having the Lord of Reincarnation bound to him leaves only ten profession levels for advancement, which may not yield much improvement.

As for the Legion Talent, he will naturally obtain it when his Legend ascends, so there's no rush to activate it early; Mu Yi has never doubted his ability to become a Legend.

"Should the Great Mist Divine Skill be developed in a targeted manner?"

"Yes!"

In an instant, Mu Yi felt himself plunge into a vast world; he could no longer sense his own body, and all his will was drawn into the Sea of Consciousness, immersing toward the radiance that represents the Great Mist Divine Skill.

Between heaven and earth, a tide‑like force swarmed him from all directions, aiding his comprehension of the Divine Skill; a massive, subtle transformation continued within Mu Yi's consciousness,

while ancient, world‑recorded information gradually surfaced in Mu Yi's mind.

"Wooo!"

Between heaven and earth, the ancient bugle sounded...

Immediately after, Mu Yi fell into the Great Mist.

Great Mist, a mist that filled the heavens...

He could not see or touch; all senses failed, and Mu Yi was completely isolated and helpless, as if the world had directly cut him off.

Time, space...

Everything here became chaotic and unfathomable...

Flickering shadows in the mist appeared and vanished, and the bugle that pierced the heavens seemed abnormally distant...

Just as Mu Yi was bewildered, a tall figure gradually emerged from the Great Mist...

Its face resembled a bull's head, its back bore two wings, it had three heads and six arms, each arm clutching a strange weapon—knife, sword, axe, halberd… Though it only had six arms, it seemed to wield every weapon in the world.

Mu Yi knew, this was Chi You!

Chi You approached...

Finally he stopped at a subtle distance...

Seeming to scrutinize, to watch, to judge...

Mu Yi and Chi You stared at each other.

Separated by the hazy mist, by the long river of time, by the boundary between illusion and matter.

Mu Yi saw the joy emanating from Chi You's four eyes.

He nodded in an unfathomable manner.

In the next instant, the mist concealed everything!

This time, Mu Yi was no longer a prisoner in the mist, but its master.

He began to command the mist!

Although he still could not achieve unilateral shielding, Mu Yi could now vaguely sense things within the mist, at least discern the approximate direction of enemies.

"Zongwang Prompt: Directional development of the divine ability succeeded, deep development in progress..."

"Zongwang Prompt: Detected abnormal fluctuations in the Plane consciousness..."

"Detection in progress!"

"Detection complete, the current Plane consciousness is undergoing gifting inscription, within the scope of positive development, warning lifted."

"Development complete, the current 【Great Mist】 upgraded to 【Mighty Sky Mist】."

"Affected by the Plane consciousness, your bloodline is beginning to revert to its ancestors..."

"Your bloodline: innate Human clan (Yanhuang) is reviving!"

"Your physique has changed, your attribute growth has been enhanced!"

"Bloodline reversion failed, acquiring bloodline template: related information of innate Human clan (Yanhuang)."

Ignoring the flood of prompt messages, Mu Yi felt his own changes.

Because his spirit, Qi, and essence had been temporarily perfected, even the body's subtle changes did not escape his perception.

The hazy mist spread through his consciousness, completely enveloping his body, and Mu Yi could feel its weakening effect on his awareness and perception.

While within his body, the mist does not affect Mu Yi's self‑examination, but it creates a shielding effect on external perception; it can be determined that most investigative methods become ineffective against Mu Yi.

When the mist spread further, Mu Yi's control over it began to wane; as the Mighty Sky Mist fully unfolded, he could only sense faint things, no longer precisely perceiving the opponent as before.

Under normal conditions, within a ten‑li radius, Mu Yi could perceive exactly how many hairs were on a rabbit.

Now, merely sensing that something moved over there was the limit; he could not even tell whether it was a rabbit or a monkey.

The sensation was oddly unsettling; accustomed to perceiving with will, he now lacked that ability, as if one eye were covered, then a pair of sunglasses added, and finally the sunglasses were fogged.

But this is only Mu Yi's perception; a trapped enemy whose consciousness and five senses are sealed would have most people instantly lose combat ability.

Satisfied, he withdrew the Mighty Sky Mist; the divine ability still needs development, and achieving unilateral shielding of the opponent's perception will be the final form.

He glanced at the information he had missed, not caring much about his bloodline template.

A bloodline is merely a starting point, and he had long left that point; later he would just look for something that could boost the bloodline and obtain a reversion artifact, which was no big issue.

However, the bloodline template reminded Mu Yi that Hou Tu Niangniang's Trial was completed, which did not mean he was idle; he still had several piled‑up tasks unfinished.

But that was not urgent; rather, the final grand dish of this campaign was finally about to be served.

Mu Yi tidied his appearance, then bowed three times toward the void.

"Praise the heavens, emulate Hou Tu Niangniang!"

"Praise the heavens, emulate Hou Tu Niangniang!"

"Praise the heavens, emulate Hou Tu Niangniang!"

After completing the ceremony, Mu Yi finally opened the last reward in the Zongwang— the Underworld Treasure Vault.

"Transferring you to the Underworld..."

"Transfer complete!"

The moment Mu Yi opened his eyes, he stood before a gate, its design the familiar Ghost Gate he knew.

In front of the gate stood a robust man Mu Yi had never seen; the aura he exuded, Mu Yi was certain, was not weaker than that of the Eastern Ghost Emperor Shentu and his peers.

Then again, Jiuzhou's Underworld governs myriad worlds; there are probably many of that Ghost Emperor rank.

"You are Mu Yi?"

The robust man examined Mu Yi from head to toe, seeming to sense the reincarnation aura on Mu Yi, his expression softened.

"Enter, you may choose only one!"

Mu Yi felt he had seen this person somewhere before; at least the impression was familiar, as if he had met him not long ago.

When Mu Yi stepped through the treasure vault gate, he suddenly realized the aura on the other was somewhat like Chi You's.

As Mu Yi thought this, the next second he completely cast it aside.

Before Mu Yi appeared a Treasure Mountain with no visible edge.

"This..."

Mu Yi was stunned; this treasure vault was larger than he imagined, the Military Strategist treasure vault now seemed like a mere tip of an iceberg before the Underworld vault.

Similar to the Military Strategist vault, but here the upper and lower seemed inverted; the deeper one went, the stronger it became.

Mu Yi summoned yin energy to curl his form and fly downward.

Each time he passed a spot, a divine artifact buzzed, as if responding to Mu Yi.

Recalling his previous experience in the Military Strategist vault, Mu Yi had no intention to linger and proceeded straight toward the bottom.

As Mu Yi expected, when he approached the middle section, the glow emitted by the artifacts began to press heavily on him, meaning that even without full liberation, these artifacts already possessed the power to threaten Mu Yi.

Mu Yi slowed his pace and began to look around.

Various oddly shaped artifacts floated mid‑air, unintentionally radiating light.

There were lotus flowers, long spears, daggers, wheels...

The garish designs dazzled Mu Yi, and he could no longer continue downward.

When he tried to advance to a lower layer, an artifact shaped like a ruyi emitted a brilliance that lashed him like a whip, forcing him back.

Mu Yi looked at the scars on his arm used for defense, his expression solemn; he was no longer invulnerable, at best resistant, yet the so‑called defense was as flimsy as paper before this attack.

If it weren't for retreating quickly, it might not be just a simple light injury.

Although he was somewhat unwilling, Mu Yi also knew that his current limit lay right here; he was merely a Transcendent who wasn't even a Legend, and even with a divine position at his side, he was stronger than an ordinary Legend in the Underworld.

Before these divine artifacts, he still felt somewhat inadequate.

Mu Yi still felt somewhat unwilling; he wanted to obtain a divine artifact beyond his capacity to bear, and then directly use it as an offering to the Jiuzhou consciousness.

However, the gap is too great; these divine artifacts all possess artifact spirits, so even if he obtained them, he still wouldn't be able to use them.

He sighed, and Mu Yi extinguished the greed in his heart.

He actually came up with a plan: to use the nature of the vast fog, rush straight to the bottom layer in one go, and forcibly take a top-tier divine artifact.

However... doing that might backfire, and if he accidentally let loose a super demon, that would be a crime.

After extinguishing his greed, Mu Yi didn't find any sword-like weapons, so he simply went straight toward the peculiarly shaped lotus.

Among the divine artifacts, this shape could also be considered unusual.