Chapter 293: Strange Ability Model — Assembly Line?

Baichuan did not hesitate either, preparing to be the first to examine this Tianzun's ability model, to see whether it contained any new information and abilities, and it was also a good chance to compare it with the former Lord of Radiance's ability model.

Accompanied by a flash of the familiar black line in his eyes, a familiar Ability Panel leapt up right before Baichuan's eyes.

After a few taps, within the greyish, hazy space, a massive, wondrous transparent eye model leapt out trailing wisps of cloud and mist, and Its ability panel appeared before Baichuan's eyes:

【Race: Tun Lue Zhe /??】

【Abilities: Planet Tentacle LV5 (Inner), Energy Level 4 (Transcendent), Seal-Food LV4 (Extreme), Soul LV3 (Limit-Break), Wisdom Brain LV3 (King), Mo Li Shi Ying LV2……】

This was an ability model almost identical to the former Lord of Radiance's; the only difference between the two ability models was 【Golden Flame】 versus 【Seal-Food】.

Continuously scanning these two ability models, at this moment Baichuan seemed to feel he understood something.

If his guess was correct, then perhaps the only difference between other Tianzun/Main God ability models was this LV4 (Extreme) level ability.

This was a strange situation; normally in nature, there were almost no creatures with abilities nearly identical, unless they were of the same species.

But was the former Lord of Radiance and the unknown Tianzun before him the same species?

No.

Baichuan could state this with certainty, because the true form of the former Lord of Radiance was a divine bird entirely shrouded in golden flames.

Yet the true body of this Tianzun now was an eye.

An eye and a divine bird — not to mention the information displayed on the panel did not match at all, their true bodies were also completely different species.

Yet now the abilities between Them showed the bizarre situation of differing by only a single ability.

This was abnormal.

So at this moment, looking at these two ability models, Baichuan felt a strange sensation welling up inside, as if they were all uniformly produced on an assembly line, and then matched with different abilities according to need.

But could such powerful beings truly be products off an assembly line?

That was somewhat chilling.

Truly bizarre.

He hoped he was simply overthinking.

Unable to figure it out, Baichuan scratched his head, and without checking the other abilities he already possessed, he simply opened that special LV4 ability:

【Seal-Food: An ability unique to the Tun Lue Zhe. It can give birth to a special "seed," implant it into the body of a chosen target, wait for the target to grow, and once it matures, devour everything about it cleanly, converting it into nourishment for itself. During the implantation period, the target will be invisibly and continuously marked, will lose all resistance when facing the ability's host, the target's talent will grow stronger, and its growth speed will accelerate.】

"What a domineering and vicious ability!"

In an instant, looking at this ability's description, Baichuan could not help but exclaim in amazement.

Without a doubt, this was a completely parasitic ability that harmed others to benefit oneself!

It treated all things as fruits — fruits that required no cultivation at all. All one needed to do was toss down the seed, quietly wait for it to grow strong and mature, and then harvest.

As long as the ability's host wished, they could easily build up a loyal force that served only themselves; once all value had been exploited, they could squeeze out the last drop of usefulness in minutes.

He seemed to already understand the truth behind why so many dynasties in the history of Dongfang Quyu had perished.

Everything was simply because this land had been treated as a dining table by that evil giant eyeball; everything upon it was merely Its food ingredient, waiting only for the finest ingredients to be selected and allowed to develop, and once the fruit ripened, It would devour them.

Moreover, those food ingredients had no ability to refuse — perhaps at the very beginning they did, but later, as the surviving remnants hidden away from generation after generation of fallen dynasties grew in number, coupled with the countless evil beings born from the dense Yin Qi that emerged from Mingtu or because of that divine corpse, those food ingredients lost the ability to resist. To keep a dynasty stable, one had to cultivate the seed system granted by the other party.

Because cultivating Ling Power was too slow.

Baichuan had sensed this during his own process of cultivation and accumulation.

Moreover, every generation's new dynasty's lord, at the very beginning when the dynasty was first established, had all been personally chosen by the other party — how could they resist?

However, it seemed this giant eyeball also did not have what it wanted.

After sighing a few times, Baichuan also came back to his senses; admittedly, this ability was indeed not bad, worth his evolution.

But it still seemed to lack the information on the source of Ling Power he had been longing for.

For a moment, thinking of this, Baichuan's mood also turned somewhat sour.

He hoped the mysterious substance extracted from the Tianzun's body could give him a pleasant surprise.

With this thought, Baichuan re-summoned the Immortal-Binding Rope.

In an instant, chains like a spirit snake flicking its tongue probed out from the void, and then, as the Immortal-Binding Rope contracted and spat, what appeared before Baichuan was a clump of blue unknown biological blood, and a pale grey diamond-shaped metal block?

The blue blood needed no guessing — it was the Tianzun's blood drawn out by the Immortal-Binding Rope — but what about that diamond-shaped metal block?

Wasn't that the mysterious substance that had appeared before?

That wisp after wisp of mysterious substance that, apart from being absorbed as Ling Power, he could almost not come into contact with?

For a moment, even Baichuan found it somewhat strange; if what had appeared was some mysterious Crystal, crystal, or gemstone, he would have felt it was perfectly normal.

But he had not expected what appeared to be a piece of metal. Rubbing the metal block in his claw, the cognition in his mind told him with certainty that this was an ordinary metal block; if it had appeared somewhere else before his eyes, he would not have given it a second glance.

Moreover, in terms of texture and material, it should lean toward a metal like tungsten.

Was this something born from Biological Energy?

Baichuan tried to channel the Ling Power within his body and input it.

Yet what awaited him was not the slightest reaction, only the silence of a stone sinking into the sea.

He thought for a moment, and switched to inputting Yin Qi instead.

The result was still no reaction whatsoever.

Then he tried pinching it, and unexpectedly he actually managed to flatten the metal.

In an instant, a substance like viscous liquid seeped out from where the metal had been flattened, smearing across his claw, and immediately an enticing scent began to waft out.

Baichuan could not describe that scent, but it made him feel an unaccountable parchedness, a desire to lick it clean.

This strange change made Baichuan frown in an instant.

His intuition told him something was off, yet his body was inexplicably developing a feeling of craving.

"Buzz buzz……"

Just then, a series of chaotic tremors suddenly appeared on the shattered earth.

Baichuan raised his head and looked toward the source of the disturbance, where a large horde of maddened, starving Yin Beasts had abruptly appeared.

They ran while flapping their huge tongues, splattering countless foul-smelling drool.

Obviously, they had caught the scent of this strange liquid and rushed over.

This liquid is unusual!

One must know that he had set up several barriers; under normal circumstances, basically no living creature would dare come to this area.

Yet now one had appeared.

With a single thought, Baichuan directly manipulated the power of Yin Qi, crushing these incoming creatures with ease. Possessing this power now, he was essentially fighting on half of his home turf in Mingtu.

Afterwards, he reinforced another layer of barrier.

The various strange signs at this moment had already told him that this thing called emotion was directly consumed.

But would he dare to eat this strange substance of unknown origin?

Of course—

He wouldn't dare!

For someone like him with severe persecution complex, how could he be careless without thoroughly understanding it.

Fortunately, however, he had long since anticipated this kind of situation.

Thinking of this, he directly released a fully evolved Star-Devouring Worm Light Point energy. Of course, calling it energy now was no longer accurate.

Because this Light Point was a full fifty centimeters in size, and its appearance was no different from the Star-Devouring Worm of before.

The moment this Star-Devouring Worm Light Point appeared, it radiated a rich, thick aura of flame.

This was a special lifeform he had later cultivated directly from within his body.

Ever since the Light Point energy within his body had upgraded, Baichuan had been trying to see if he could specially develop and utilize it.

Unexpectedly, he really did come up with a special use for it.

That was: select a Star-Devouring Worm Light Point, place it into his own blood, and through drawing on his own power, specially Assimilate it out. After Assimilation, he did not absorb and digest it into the Star Bag, but kept it preserved, allowing it to grow like an ordinary creature.

The energy Light Point born this way could no longer be called energy, but rather a special lifeform between life and energy.

And because this lifeform was extremely closely connected to him, although it was a lifeform, it still allowed him to place his Small Self within it, using the Small Self as a kind of extension of himself, an eye.

Thus, at special moments, he could place his own consciousness within it, making it completely identical to his main body.

Thereby replacing him in doing things his main body wouldn't dare to do, such as evolving the 【LV5 Planet Tentacle】 ability he once didn't dare evolve, and now swallowing strange metals, as well as possibly exploring unknown regions in the future, without missing a single thing.

Because once he discovered it was completely harmless, he could fully reabsorb it into his body, using the blood worm's ability to evolve it out.

At the same time, because this life was originally transformed from his energy, and controlled by his own consciousness, the situation he least wanted to see—splitting himself into two, three, or countless people—would not occur.

Because the consciousness was always that one, he was himself, forever the unique him!

Perhaps if he had more of these special lifeforms, until his very flesh and blood were entirely composed of such creatures.

Perhaps he would gain yet another new ability—blood rebirth, one transforming into ten thousand.

Unconsciously, his methods had become increasingly complex, varied, and miraculous.

While lost in thought, Baichuan also placed his own consciousness through the Small Self into it. In an instant, he felt his perspective suddenly change, seeing a piece of metal lying quietly within the giant claw not far ahead, continuously overflowing with strange liquid.

Honestly, this feeling was quite strange.

It was as if two perspectives had appeared in his eyes, allowing him to control two bodies simultaneously.

But Baichuan didn't hesitate much; after briefly getting used to it, he directly controlled this bizarre body and headed toward the metal.

The next moment, he plunged in in one breath and began to gulp it down.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Baichuan had completely finished drinking all the liquid, and began closing his eyes to quietly wait for changes to appear.

Based on the previous accidental contact, it should probably be……

Just then, Baichuan suddenly froze, falling into a brief daze, because a huge surge of information in his mind exploded like a bomb, directly impacting his consciousness, leaving him unable to process it all.

Normally speaking, this kind of information basically could not cause him to fall into a daze unable to process it, because his computing power, while not truly infinite in the broad sense, could barely be considered infinite in the narrow sense.

But the problem was that what was receiving the information now was one of his Zhou Xiaoxiao extensions, purely used for experimentation.

The consciousness within the extension simply didn't have much computing power to draw upon.

Without time to think further, Baichuan directly gathered his mind, beginning to emit a large amount of Small Self energy Light Points from within his body to serve as computing power. Although it couldn't be fully utilized like in the main body, sharing a portion was still possible.

From here, Time began to continuously slip away as Baichuan processed the information.

In the blink of an eye, another five days had passed.

On this very day.

A mysterious, majestic aura abruptly burst open from above Mingtu, then rapidly spread.

Wherever the aura passed, a flavor as if being taken over by a higher existence began to emanate.

The strength of this aura, in the blink of an eye, swiftly swept across the entirety of Mingtu, then violently surged toward beyond the firmament.

It had clearly broken through the boundary between Mingtu and the human world.

At this moment, an unusual phenomenon simultaneously appeared in the skies above both the human world and Mingtu.

That was: between the heavens and earth, immeasurably high, amid the white, boundless clouds, a bizarre long worm with a strange mouth stretching from head to tail beneath its body was shrieking, as if about to swallow the entire world whole.

Beneath the long worm's shrieking, the heavens and earth clearly emanated an aura of congratulation.

This signified the emergence of a new Tian Zun-level powerhouse!

In an instant, within the Divine Kingdom of the Lord of Radiance, all the Tian Zun Main Gods froze. Not far beneath their feet was a divine bird still continuously dripping golden-blood-like fluid, though this divine bird had long since lost its breath; only that golden blood still burned with raging flames.

A few breaths later, in this Divine Kingdom that had already become battered and lost all its precious things, the many Tian Zun Main Gods present could not help but cast their gazes toward the firmament above, because they had clearly discovered that the Lord of Radiance had not lied!

A second mysterious powerhouse possessing the power of golden flames had truly appeared in this world.

And at this very moment, had finished digesting all the power.

"Sigh, another fellow being has been born; whether it's fortune or misfortune, who knows."

Just then, Yin Bao Tian Zun sighed with some bitterness, then tore open the Divine Kingdom, stepped out in one stride, and vanished.

Because the location of this aura had emanated from Mingtu, and His small heaven was also established upon Mingtu.

The next instant, watching Yin Bao Tian Zun depart, two of the thoughtful Tian Zun Main Gods suddenly thought of something, and without prior arrangement tore open this empty Divine Kingdom, heading toward the place in Mingtu that was emanating an aura.

Whether it was to offer congratulations or something else, that remained unknown.

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(End of Chapter)