[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all":3,"chapter-reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-chapter-217":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Reborn with Infinity Skill Points, I Enslaved All Universes",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1414869,1871,"Chapter 217 -217-Mind Hunt","reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-chapter-217",217,"\u003Cp>Watching the soul manager efficiently carry out his duties, the small soul perched on his shoulder asked curiously:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Daddy, we’re souls just like them... So why are they being dumped here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soul manager gently rubbed the little soul’s head with fatherly affection, then replied in a warm tone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Child, you’re still too young to understand. As souls, we are eternal beings, it’s true—but if we go too long without passing through the Gate of Life, our consciousness will eventually dissipate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And when that happens, we become just like them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daniel had already learned this not long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a soul, if too much time passed without traversing the Gate of Life, they would slowly lose self-awareness and become no more than the discarded remnants in the junkyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Technically speaking, these souls were still \"alive\"—but only barely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was life in the most mechanical sense—existence without awareness, without purpose, without self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daniel had also uncovered a more troubling truth:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason so many souls failed to pass through the Gate of Life was because the city lord Glaton controlled access to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the average soul, one could only gain entry to the Gate by accumulating sufficient \"contribution points.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But under Daniel’s perceptive scan, he discovered something else entirely:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gate of Life actually had no restrictions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were no quotas, no waiting lists, no functional limits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In theory, if left unmonopolized, any soul could pass through and re-enter the cycle of life—renewed, revived, reborn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet this limitless, unrestricted Gate was now entirely under the control of Soul City’s lord, Glaton.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daniel couldn’t help but feel a chill run down his spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was no accident. This was the deliberate manufacture of artificial scarcity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a system crafted for exploitation—a system where ordinary souls would toil endlessly for Glaton’s benefit, chasing a false promise of \"rebirth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire setup was a grotesque display of capitalist manipulation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there was a word worse than \"scam,\" Daniel would have used it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sighed softly, then in a flash of motion, leapt down into the junkyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he began absorbing the soulless husks—those spirits whose consciousness had already dissolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since their minds were gone, Daniel saw no issue in borrowing them for his own use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, without further hesitation, he started harvesting these soul bodies in bulk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While these mindless souls were worthless to others, to Daniel, they held unimaginable value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because to synthesize certain God Rank Skills, he required vast quantities of soul essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unknowingly, Daniel had already collected five billion soul fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that wasn’t nearly enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his inventory and activated [Forceful Convergence], a skill designed for high-efficiency resource gathering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within just five minutes, Daniel’s inventory held one hundred billion souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, despite such a massive intake, the junkyard didn’t look any different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After countless years of accumulation, the place was layered—mountains of discarded souls piled atop one another, a horrifying yet deeply sorrowful sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With one hundred billion fragments in hand, Daniel stopped collecting and opened his God Rank Skill Compendium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[God Rank Skill: Mind Assassination]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Required Materials:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heart of a level 200 abyssal monster10 million souls from the myriad races × 100 = 1,000,000,000,000 (one hundred billion total)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daniel had already gathered all the components.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he had enough, he immediately selected \"synthesize.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[God Rank Skill: Mind Assassination — Acquired]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skill status: Not yet maxed. Would you like to enhance it fully now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Max it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why even ask?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments later, a torrent of spiritual energy erupted before Daniel’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soul resonance lasted nearly thirty seconds before finally dissipating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the light faded, Daniel’s status screen now showed a new divine skill:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[God Rank Skill: Mind Hunt]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Effect 1: Each of your attacks now applies a Sanity Reduction effect. This effect can only be dispelled by a god-tier being. Any creature below god level will eventually fall into complete madness once their sanity falls beneath a certain threshold. (You may manually dispel the effect on any target.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Effect 2: You may exert limited control over any creature driven mad by this sanity loss. The stronger the creature, the weaker your control becomes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon reading the effects, Daniel blinked in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t what he had expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d assumed Mind Hunt would be a direct offensive ability—something like a mental assassination strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as it turned out, it was more of a buff-type skill, one that enhanced his attacks with sanity damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still... it was incredibly powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant Daniel now had another method to hunt monsters—one that didn’t rely solely on brute force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under normal circumstances, an Awakener needed to whittle down a monster’s health bar to zero to secure a kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, with Mind Hunt, Daniel had a second option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than just using his skills to blast enemies into oblivion, he could instead lower their sanity, driving them mad in the process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once a monster went insane, it became far easier to deal with—perhaps even turning on its own kind or lowering its defenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could, in theory, manipulate them into tearing themselves apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, the benefits of acquiring Mind Hunt far exceeded the cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And more importantly, Daniel now possessed a mental attack ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of soul-level technique was particularly effective against certain unique or resistant creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a massive improvement to Daniel’s overall arsenal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of raw offensive power, he wasn’t lacking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as he leveled up, he found that monsters were no longer so easy to defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many of them had special defensive mechanics, and relying solely on brute force became increasingly inefficient and time-consuming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Mind Hunt, things had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now he could strike from the mental plane, bypassing traditional defenses entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Daniel had once considered whether he could truly kill the Emperor of the Abyss, Malkar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a purely offensive standpoint—it seemed plausible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, Malkar possessed numerous buffs and defensive enhancements. Killing him wouldn’t be so simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mind Hunt, however... had the potential to change that.\u003C\u002Fp>",1006,"2026-06-06T00:12:00.792Z",1,"novelbin.me","df0ff85c4f98a4163ade9ce36d27109e9eab4a308aa875942f596103758dbaee","reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-chapter-218","reborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-chapter-216",650,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-with-infinity-skill-points-i-enslaved-all-cover.jpg"]