[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-global-awakening-i-started-with-a-mythical-talen":3,"chapter-global-awakening-i-started-with-a-mythical-talen-global-awakening-i-started-with-a-mythical-talen-chapter-391":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","All-Citizens: I Start with a Mythic Talent, Slaying Gods with One Sword",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1991120,2869,"Chapter 391: Torture!","global-awakening-i-started-with-a-mythical-talen-chapter-391",391,"\u003Cp>Su Ming’s eyes were as calm as a pool of water; he was thin and dressed in black, yet he brought a soul-trembling level of pressure to the shapeshifter.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"High-level shapeshifters don't have many restrictive rules for parasitizing bodies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Ming arrived in front of the shapeshifter and said with a calm gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"As long as the target is sufficiently weakened, let alone Fifth Rank, you can even parasitize Sixth or Seventh Rank bodies and reach the sky in one step.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Because of this, you are also known as one of the most terrifying high-level creatures.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Ming said with an indifferent gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"However, your true form doesn't have much combat capability; it just has strong self-healing ability and is a bit hard to kill.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This can also be considered the biggest weakness of your race.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In his past life, Su Ming had fought shapeshifters, so he was experienced.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was the reason he won.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Vampires feared sunlight, humans feared infighting, ghost races feared holy attributes; every race had its weaknesses, and shapeshifters were no exception.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Their weakness was that when changing bodies, their true form, which had no combat power, would be exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The shapeshifter trembled, looking at Su Ming in fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It never expected Su Ming to actively lure it to appear; such deep thinking was truly beyond its expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Its speed of parasitizing a body was extremely fast, taking only an instant, which was why it dared to leave the body rashly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yet Su Ming was able to react to even this; just how high was his Agility attribute!?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Shapeshifters—even just hearing the name could stop a child from crying at night; even the towering Giant race would feel nervous and flustered when facing a shapeshifter.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But Su Ming, facing a high-level shapeshifter like itself, was so calm, and could instantly come up with a plan, risking himself to reverse the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This kind of shrewd thinking and means were simply mind-boggling.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Was he... really just a youth under 19 years old!?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Now, there are only two paths before you.\" Su Ming said sternly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"First, sign an eternal slave contract with me and bow down to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Second, be killed by me right here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Ming’s eyes never carried a trace of emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although the shapeshifter had strong self-healing ability, Su Ming really had a way to kill it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That was Death Trace!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As long as it stacked to one hundred layers, it would definitely die.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Ming had already stacked dozens of layers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just now, in the slowed time, he just hadn't dealt the killing blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If such a rare creature could be used by him and become a slave under his command, it would be incredibly useful when dealing with the Zhang family.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So he wanted to try to see if he could subdue it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What great ambition!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The high-level shapeshifter recovered some clarity from the lingering pain, horror flashing in its eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This Venerable... is a high-level shapeshifter!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I am the nightmare of all races; everyone wishes they could see me and execute me, fearing I might live one more second. You actually think of subduing me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It endured the pain and grinned.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"You are too confident in your own strength, aren't you?\" It said, pressing its voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Over-ambition will only backfire on you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"No need to bluff me.\" It trembled all over, the tips of its tentacles rising and pointing at Su Ming.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"With my self-healing ability, it’s impossible for a Fifth Rank Sword Master like you to kill me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was covered in black blood, pinned by dozens of swords, looking miserable and no longer having its former majesty, yet it still refused to show weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A high-level shapeshifter, if converted to a human, was basically a peerless genius who awakened Epic or even Ancient-level skills innately.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Its status in its race was equivalent to the level of a ruler of a country among humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So it naturally had its own pride and dignity and couldn't easily bow down to a low-level race as mediocre as humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After saying this, its pupils trembled violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In an instant, a power that bewitched people’s hearts emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was one of its innate skills, Will Occupation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even without taking a body, it could use this move to paralyze enemies from a distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, Su Ming stood in place, unmoved.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The [Pure Soul] talent had top-tier resistance to the effects of most thinking and will influences.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even a high-level shapeshifter couldn't take Su Ming down.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"You really are stubborn.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Ming’s expression was calm, and he didn't say much.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He directly used the Eye of Insight to check its true form.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now that it didn't have Zai Da’s body to wrap it, he could scan its data more realistically and find possible ways to subdue it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Wan Wu (True Form)]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Race: High-Level Shapeshifter]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Level: 55 (123 million 550 thousand experience points)]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Profession: Shapeshifting Demon]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Strength: 240]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Constitution: 239]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Agility: 400]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Spirit: 999]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Luck: 123]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Talents: Ten Thousand Fearful Creatures, Ancient Genes, Body-Occupying Monster]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Skills: Rapid Regeneration, Thought Reading, Will Occupation, Memory Modification, Experience Absorption, Predation, Parasitism...]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[BUFF]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Pain Sensitivity: The nerves of its true form are one quadrillion times more sensitive to pain than normal creatures.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Shapeshifters were different from humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They were in an awakened state from birth and didn't need an awakening ceremony.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But all shapeshifters’ professions were Shapeshifting Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Unlike humans and other races, which had thousands of possibilities for changing professions.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It turned out this shapeshifter’s true name was Wan Wu.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After leaving Zai Da’s body, it lost Zai Da’s skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But its true form had assimilated Zai Da’s experience and reached over level fifty.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Human class-changers needed to kill monsters to level up.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But for shapeshifters, parasitizing and shapeshifting would absorb and assimilate experience; even if they left that body, their level wouldn't drop.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Your true form... is really fragile; except for Spirit and Agility, everything else is inferior to ordinary Fifth Rank human powerhouses.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Ming smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This smile made the shapeshifter feel inexplicably terrified.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"The shapeshifter race, relying only on its own strength, actually doesn't rank high; you rely on the despicable talent of possession to rank as a high-level existence like a demon among all races.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Am I right, Wan Wu?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hearing this, Wan Wu’s voice trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"You... how do you know my true name?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Ming approached leisurely.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Heh, here with me, there are still too many methods you don't know...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As he spoke, Su Ming casually delivered a sword strike, piercing one of the shapeshifter’s eyeballs.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Immediately, it began to scream heart-wrenchingly again, its tentacles trembling and twisting, its fuzz wriggling finely, looking like it was wishing for death.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That eyeball injury soon healed and recovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But the pain it brought was real, lasting, and never dissipated, causing all the dignity it had previously pretended to have to vanish into thin air.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"For example, I know that after your true form loses the wrapping of the body vessel.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Your biggest weakness will be revealed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"That is sensitivity to pain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1181,"2026-06-15T13:07:14.137Z","2026-06-17T08:43:19.283Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","554bc28ac98228e724b37c505e144636dec870c916f07ef8e10d89fd4091435e","global-awakening-i-started-with-a-mythical-talen-chapter-392","global-awakening-i-started-with-a-mythical-talen-chapter-390",492,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fglobal-awakening-i-started-with-a-mythical-talen-cover.jpg"]