Chapter 1312: Third Slaughtering the Calamity

Third Slaughtering the Calamity

"In the 'Basic Principles of Fusion Theory', I divided Fusion into four stages."

In Chen Ling's memories, a figure wearing a black shirt was holding a pointer, earnestly pointing at four heavily bolded vocabulary words on the blackboard and saying:

"The first stage is called [Self-Refinement]."

"The [Self-Refinement] stage is not absolutely necessary during the Fusion process. It is usually used in the preparation stage before the official Fusion begins. Through specialized endurance training, divergent thinking exercises, pain attenuation, combined with super high-intensity physical training, one brings their own mental and physical state to their peak in advance before undergoing Calamity Fusion...

Through a large amount of clinical practice, it can currently be confirmed that completing the [Self-Refinement] stage before undergoing Fusion increases the success rate by nearly 38% compared to rushed Fusions without undergoing [Self-Refinement]!

But for our Integration Faction's children, nearly half are accidental Fusions, or forced to directly fuse while on the verge of death, skipping the [Self-Refinement] stage. Therefore, the weaker the innate foundation, the more difficult the subsequent three stages will become. However, there's no need to worry too much; we also have many examples of achieving a high degree of Fusion completeness without going through [Self-Refinement]."

"The second stage is called [Penetrating the Nether]."

"The so-called [Penetrating the Nether] represents that the body has already been polluted by the Calamity, which is the official 'Fusion'.

If you are very lucky, the fused Calamity's own Rank is not high, and its personality doesn't carry too strong an aggressiveness. If so, then the chances of survival can be greatly increased, and the subsequent Fusion will also be relatively smooth;

But if your luck is bad, the fused Calamity's Rank is relatively high, or its aggressiveness is very strong, then it will be an extremely difficult bitter battle. You absolutely cannot let its consciousness completely swallow your consciousness, otherwise you will completely degenerate into a Calamity.

During this process, your body will undergo some changes more or less. For example, growing a Calamity's tail, sprouting a Calamity's fur, or organ mutation, possessing certain characteristics of the corresponding Calamity. This is a normal phenomenon. However, the higher the degree of completeness in the [Penetrating the Nether] stage, the relatively less obvious the Calamity characteristics will be."

"The third stage is [Slaughtering the Calamity]."

"I must solemnly warn everyone, [Slaughtering the Calamity] is quite a dangerous matter. For the vast majority of you, completing [Penetrating the Nether] is enough. After all, you only need to use the Calamity's organs to obliterate your own diseases, and you don't need to pursue even stronger Combat Power.

The so-called [Slaughtering the Calamity] is the process of actively provoking the Calamity's consciousness and fighting it to the death after resisting the Calamity's pollution. If you win the mortal combat, you will go a step further in acquiring the power that originally belonged to the Calamity.

Unlike the advancement methods of the mainstream Fourteen Divine Paths, Divine Path advancement must be done steadily and surely, and will be limited by one's own talent. Some people might find it difficult to raise their Rank by even one tier for several years... But for us Fusionists, in essence, we are not 'advancing', but 'plundering' the Calamity's power. So as long as we carry out [Slaughtering the Calamity], we can significantly raise our strength in an extremely short amount of time!

But depending on the fused Calamity and one's own state, [Slaughtering the Calamity] also has a maximum number of times it can be done.

Calamities below the Fifth-Tier can at most only undergo [Slaughtering the Calamity] once. Sixth and Seventh-Tier Calamities can undergo [Slaughtering the Calamity] twice. Eighth-Tier Calamities can undergo [Slaughtering the Calamity] three times... According to my summary and calculations, the success rate of the first [Slaughtering the Calamity] is roughly around 35%. The success rate of the second [Slaughtering the Calamity] is only 10%... The third [Slaughtering the Calamity], the success rate is less than 3%.

Moreover, the higher the Rank of your fused Calamity, and the stronger its aggressiveness, the success rate will drop even further. If you are extremely unfortunate to fuse with a Calamity of a very high Rank and very strong aggressiveness, I suggest you at most, at absolute most, only undergo [Slaughtering the Calamity] twice...

A third time is almost Ten Deaths and No Life."

After speaking, Teacher Ye's gaze purposefully glanced at Chen Ling sitting in the front row.

Chen Ling was very clear in his heart that Teacher Ye's final warning was specifically meant for him... The one in his body was the King of Calamities with the highest Rank and strongest aggressiveness in the world!

Don't conduct a third Slaughtering the Calamity on the Calamity of Mockery... Chen Ling understood, but he had no choice at this moment.

Within the spacious and empty Underground Palace, the Great Crimson Theatrical Robe sat quietly on the black throne, his eyes full of indifference and casualness.

Chen Ling glanced at the Audience Expectation Value in the corner. Along the way, the Expectation Value had risen and fallen, and now it stabilized at 69%, right at the boundary between rebirth and liberating the Calamity of Mockery...

"I'm not exactly inexperienced in breaking a Ten Deaths and No Life situation... At worst, I'll just die in the Ghost Mockery Abyss."

Chen Ling chuckled lightly.

He sat on the throne lazily and casually. One hand propped up his chin, while the other hand pulled out a black Handgun from his chest and lightly pressed it against his own temple...

The Great Crimson Theatrical Robe looked demonic and crazed in the darkness.

"Let's fight another round..."

"Calamity of Mockery."

Bang——!!

The bullet pierced through Chen Ling's temple, blood spraying onto the throne like a scarlet flower blooming in the darkness.

...

[Monitored that connection with Actor is lost. Performance interrupted]

[Audience Expectation Value -50]

[Current Expectation Value: 19%]

[Warning! Warning!]

[The Audience has started to intervene in the performance!]

Successive prompts jumped out on the screen. As the spotlights continuously lit up, Chen Ling in the center of the Stage slowly opened his eyes.

He looked back, only to see that in the scene on the theater's curtain, dense Red Paper had actually begun to drill out from the body of himself who had already "died" on the throne, as if some existence was already attempting to seize control of that body!

At the same time, pitch-black figures of the Audience began attempting to climb onto the Stage.

However, 19% Expectation Value was still too high, like opening only the smallest of gaps for this body. Only an extremely small portion of the power of these Audience could extend to the outside world, which was roughly equivalent to a Third Tier level, far inferior to Chen Ling's current Rank.

Chen Ling on the Stage lightly raised his hand and made a grasping motion from afar towards that curtain. The Red Paper drilling out of his body in the outside world was as if grabbed through the air, firmly imprisoned in mid-air!

After controlling himself on the outside, the Great Crimson Theatrical Robe turned around calmly. His cold, gloomy gaze stared at the numerous black shadows in front of him, letting them climb onto the Stage one by one without the slightest intention of stopping them.

He spoke faintly:

"I'd like to see..."

"Just how difficult can a third Slaughtering the Calamity be?"