Chapter 1322

As the words fell, Zhang Yong and the others sitting behind also came to their senses.

Although Lin An's tone seemed flat when he mentioned the set attributes, just a moment ago they had almost been knocked unconscious by the pressure...

If it weren't for Zhang Tie casually extending his mental power to shield them, these three elite third-stage experts, who would be formidable anywhere, never would have imagined that on their way to seek Lin An's help, upon seeing Lin An they would instead be almost crushed to death by the leaking aura...

The gap is truly so large as to be incomprehensible.

Swallowing dryly, Zhang Yong wore a complex expression; looking at Lin An's profile, he couldn't help but feel a sense of awe.

He could also be said to have personally witnessed Lin An from...

Well, there was never a time when he was weak.

From the very beginning, Lin An's strength was already monstrous.

All that can be said is that now he has surpassed the limits of his cognition.

Now, he's probably even stronger than just a moment ago!

Without paying attention to Zhang Yong and the others' current mood, Lin An simply focused his mind again, examining the set skills.

He couldn't test the physical enhancement, but he could still clearly see the skill effects.

Of course, except for the Death God Form.

Although he really wanted to try it out now, Lin An hesitated a moment and still chose to go back first. He faintly felt that switching to the Death God Form would bring about something unexpected.

"Six S-rank skills.."

"Descent of Death, Life Judgment, Soul Severing, Undead Legion, Soul Slash, Death God Form..."

"When the first Descent of Death is activated, it simultaneously forms a death shockwave around the body and summons a large-area domain stance."

"Enemies within the range will continuously suffer deathly corrosion and also generate a fear effect..."

"It looks like the previous Death God Aura plus mass Withering?"

"Life Judgment: select a living being and directly pull it into an alien space for 3 seconds. Inside the judgment space, movement is impossible and space-type abilities cannot be used. Within that space, the target's life force is continuously devoured."

Silently reading the skill description, Lin An couldn't help but a flash of unusual color appear in his eyes.

Obviously, this skill's effect is similar to Space Seal plus life-force drain plus a confinement skill.

Just casually thinking about it, he could already imagine many monstrous uses...

"Pulling into an alien space is essentially three seconds of invincibility.."

"Unable to move, then my previously idle Judgment skill (Fool) can finally be useful..."

"Trap the opponent, while triggering fear effect, continuously bombard them with Judgment Thunder, and absorb their life force..."

"After three seconds, even if the target pulled in doesn't die, they become an idiot... or rather, their life force is sucked away... reversing, three seconds of absorbing life force combined with the Eternal Body... I effectively have nine seconds of recovery time..."

"Plus self-healing speed..."

"Kind of disgusting..."

Under hyper-efficient thinking, Lin An hardly needed to think; in an extremely short time he mentally rehearsed a scenario of using Life Judgment.

This skill, which seems to lack instant burst damage, is actually more useful than Descent of Death.

After mastering the Judgment (Thunder) skill, Lin An has had few opportunities to use the Fool's effect.

The reason is simple.

Against weak foes he instantly kills them; against strong foes he doesn't have time to bombard them. Although Thunder is fast, condensing it takes time. Though not long, for his previous high-speed battles it's really somewhat redundant.

Any opponent he can't instantly kill can basically easily predict where the Thunder will land and dodge.

But if switched to Judgment Space, it could then be effective.

Suppressing the urge to experiment now, Lin An looked again at the next entry.

"Soul Severing."

"Inflict a single will shock on the target, and temporarily sever the link between its body and soul. Duration depends on the target's strength."

"After the effect ends, devour part of the target's soul."

"Passive effect: after killing the target, absorb all of its remaining energy!"

His mind flickered slightly.

After reading the Soul Severing description several times over, Lin An's mind jolted sharply.

So strong...

Mental damage plus control, plus soul devouring?

What is the soul? Is it mental power? Or something else?

Not quite understanding the newly appeared term "soul," Lin An could only interpret it as an energy form he had never seen before. But regardless, it's the passive effect of this skill that makes him feel monstrous.

Isn't this just an enhanced version of the Death Seed? Since reaching third stage, the Death Seed has become somewhat redundant.

It's not that he can't use the kill-to-recover-mana-and-health ability; rather, the Death Seed's extraction speed is too slow...

But now with Soul Severing as a supplement, there's no doubt he can again perform a near-perpetual combat style. Just wondering... does the "all remaining energy" include rules...

If even the rule power of a slain fourth-stage could be absorbed...

What's invincibility among peers? What's taking out four fourth-stages in one breath?

Facing peers, he might not be unable to slaughter fourth-stages en masse like killing dogs!

"Probably... not possible?"

"If it were possible, this skill would have to be SSS-rank at least..."

Taking a deep breath, Lin An forcibly suppressed his somewhat crazy speculation.

After his battle with Qing Ya, he could clearly sense that his rule's killing power—or rather its effect—is far stronger than that of an ordinary fourth-stage.

Whether electromagnetic rule or Eternal Body, without doubt they give him destructive and defensive power far surpassing other fourth-stages.

But his reserve of rule power is indeed as Qing Ya judged—there isn't much of it.

Compared to before, when he was renowned in the third stage for lasting long with near-limitless energy.

After reaching the Fourth Stage, Lin An gloomily discovered that he had reverted to the state he was in when he first became an Awakened One.

The time he could burst forth at full strength was just a few seconds.

Once his rule power was depleted, at most he was only about four to eight times stronger than an average Third Stage peak.

It can be said that the weak are simply unbearable to watch.

After unleashing that sword using electromagnetic rule and various boosts, Lin An clearly realized he had actually lost his combat ability on the spot.

His spiritual energy was still abundant, his mental power ample, but his rule power had been completely drained.

He seemed fine on the surface, but if there had been just one slightly stronger Fourth Stage at the time, he would have needed to prepare for a bloody battle.

"Two superimpositions of electromagnetic rule, plus fully mobilizing the magnetic field to rotate... essentially I am consuming four times the rule power at once."

"One sword simultaneously empties the reserves of two rule powers..."

"If it could be replenished, my combat power would naturally soar to an unimaginable degree."

"Strike after strike, even a mid-level Fourth Stage would be blasted to death! Even facing high-level..."

A image flashed in his mind of himself being besieged by hundreds of elementary Fourth Stages, and Lin An couldn't help but show a strange expression on his face.

Elementary Fourth Stages became power banks; he slaughtered them in batches while suppressing stronger foes.

It was as if he could unleash ultimate moves without limit; assuming a high-level Fourth Stage had no special circumstances, they would likely collapse when fighting him.

"To test this, I can only try it on a Fourth Stage..."

After suppressing some crazy thoughts, Lin An simply stopped thinking about it. He didn't expect to replenish his rule power, but replenishing other energies was also not bad.

After all, a Fourth Stage's combat isn't solely reliant on rule power.

In the final struggle, spiritual energy and mental power remained crucial.

"Undead Army..."

"Consuming death power to summon Third Stage Death Knights for battle."

"Hmm, there are quite a few optional summoned creatures?"

After briefly reading the description that the Undead Army could number over a hundred, Lin An realized this ability was similar to Mo Ling's summoning of spiritual entities, except the Undead Army was greater in number but lower in eeriness.

"Did the soul points I had accumulated all turn into death power?"

Raising his hand, Lin An gazed thoughtfully at the black mist on his palm.

In the description, this other form of energy is death power.

"It's somewhat like spiritual energy... seemingly used specifically to release certain special abilities?"

After roughly calculating his death power reserves, Lin An quickly reached a conclusion.

"377 Third Stages."

"The death power I have accumulated is enough to summon over three hundred Death Knights."

"I just don't know its exact combat strength... but this thing looks quite suitable as cannon fodder."

"The way to obtain death power remains the same..."

Lin An withdrew his death power and let out a faint sigh.

"It's not easy to collect..."

He could feel that most of his current death power reserves came from four Fourth Stage Alien Species.

Roughly calculating, the death power absorbed from killing a Third Stage would likely not even be enough to summon one-tenth of a death army of the same level.

"This skill requires accumulation..."

"At this stage, it's not very meaningful..."

Shaking his head, he gave up the idea of summoning a Third Stage Undead Army for now; Lin An was still quite frugal.

"The final skill."

"Soul Slash..."