novelraw Chapter 607 581: Changes in Natural Healing
Chapter 607 581: Changes in Natural Healing
Chen Shouyi did not stay on the battlefield for long.
After packing up his belongings and leaving the battlefield, he suddenly pushed off the ground, his body soared into the sky, heading towards the command center.
He flew faster and faster.
A dozen seconds later, there was an explosive sound in the air, leaving behind a ring of white sonic boom clouds.
His body officially entered supersonic speed. With this transformation, his flight speed, which had long been stuck at subsonic, finally achieved a breakthrough.
The viscous atmosphere was forcibly pushed aside by immense force.
He charged through the sky like an arrow, with a layer of transparent shock waves around him.
At this moment, he suddenly felt a sudden dizziness in his mind, his body plunged downward, and with the speed of sound, his body collided with a mountain like a cannonball, with a "boom," directly collapsing half the mountain peak.
Amidst the flying rubble and dust in the sky.
A massive boulder weighing several tons was pushed aside, and a disheveled figure, clutching his dizzy head, stood up.
"Why is this Godslayer curse so severe this time? Last time with the God of Blood, I barely felt anything!" Chen Shouyi stripped off the tattered clothes that had been shredded by the fierce wind, changed into a new set, and couldn't help but ponder:
"But that's true!"
"The two are not on the same level at all. The God of Blood only had weak divine power, while the God of Light is likely of medium divine power, a full two levels apart."
"Fortunately, this is a good thing, and I wonder what change the Book of Knowledge Space will undergo this time. I hope it's more than just an increase in size."
In his current state, he could no longer fly and had to continue forward on foot.
However, he still underestimated the terrifying extent of this curse. Before he had walked far, his thoughts became increasingly muddled, and he felt nauseated and irritable, stumbling as if he were drunk.
A journey that would normally only take one or two hours.
It wasn't until nightfall that he finally reached the rear command post.
He barely held it together as he dealt with the high-ranking officials from the combat district who came after hearing the news.
As soon as he returned to his room, he didn't have a chance to say a word to the surprised Shell Lady before he collapsed heavily onto the bed, losing consciousness.
The Shell Lady, looking perplexed, stared at the unmoving Chen Shouyi, then jumped onto his chest and felt his giant nostrils.
Discovering that the great giant was still alive, she breathed a sigh of relief.
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That night was filled with nightmares.
Chen Shouyi seemed to be battling the incarnate grudge spirit form of the God of Light all night.
Despair, fear, gloom, evil, absurdity.
Fortunately, the dim red sun, a manifestation of the Soul Pearl, protected his mind from collapsing.
...
From eight o'clock last night, he slept until noon.
Only then did Chen Shouyi slowly open his eyes, with countless dust particles dancing in the air and countless voices and footsteps coming from afar.
He felt completely refreshed, and the dizziness from last night was long gone.
Then he closed his eyes again.
Entered the Book of Knowledge
With a spatial shift.
Once he could see clearly, Chen Shouyi was slightly surprised; the place had undergone a dramatic transformation.
In addition to expanding to a radius of a hundred meters, the World Tree at its center had also become much smaller.
The trunk was less than half a meter, looking like a small sapling just sprouted from the earth.
Yet this several times smaller sapling gave him an indescribable, mysterious feeling.
The whole little tree was lush, with the dark gray bark covered in complex, mysterious patterns, emanating an eternal, tranquil aura.
His thoughts stirred, and he quickly flew over, unable to resist reaching out to gently stroke the leaves.
The leaves were green as jade, extremely hard, with a hint of coolness.
This offered an incredibly real texture, unlike before, where no matter how real the tree looked, it was actually just illusory light and shadow.
However, these leaves were still the condensation of his daily memories.
As he stroked the leaves, countless memories transformed into real images that flickered by, quite miraculous.
At this point, Chen Shouyi finally noticed the transformation of his soul.
He saw his soul's surface emitting a clear, dense radiance, solid as if it were substantial, clearly indicating this breakthrough also transformed his soul.
"Perhaps it can now be called a Divine Soul!" he thought to himself.
...
After watching for a while, Chen Shouyi withdrew; looking here wouldn't reveal anything more.
The attribute panel was still more intuitive.
With a thought, he opened the attribute panel.
"Huh, where's my Natural Healing?" Chen Shouyi looked baffled.
He saw that under the sub-option of gifted abilities, the original Natural Healing had disappeared, replaced by a "Self-Healing (Intermediate): 0.00%".
"What's going on here?"
He couldn't remain calm any longer and couldn't lie on the bed any longer.
He carefully pulled the sleeping Shell Lady out from his T-shirt, placing her aside.
Then got up from the bed.
Since it first manifested when he visited the other world, Natural Healing had always played a significant role, with its powerful effects bringing him back from the brink of death several times.
If it weren't for Natural Healing, he estimated he would have died countless times over by now.
However, the changes in the Book of Knowledge bewildered him.
"But… this might not be a bad thing!" He calmed down, pondering.
Natural Healing always seemed less like a gifted ability and more like the World Tree cohabiting within him taking effect.
For example, he couldn't enhance it using Faith Value, whereas "Control Atmosphere" and "Giant Transformation" could be, yet Natural Healing could not and had no levels.
This was clearly unreasonable!
On the other hand, while strong, Natural Healing had significant limitations.
It relied on the Original Force of heaven and earth, rendering it ineffective in a force-absent environment, but this change eliminated that potential risk, becoming a more universal ability.
Chen Shouyi keenly sensed that perhaps, from the lesson of that close brush with destruction on Earth, it was instinctively aligning and adapting to this universe's rules, and even after merging with him, it didn't stop changing.
It gradually shed all incompatible or less-compatible powers, redirecting its development towards computation.
Perhaps, compared to the original Book of Knowledge, it was two entirely different concepts, and even if the God of Knowledge resurrected, it likely wouldn't recognize this as His Divine Artifact.
"I wonder what the effect of Intermediate Self-Healing is?" He suddenly thought.
Taking out the Shadow Sword from space, he aimed it at his arm.
...
Half a second later, he lightly brushed his finger across the blade.
It didn't cut!
He exerted a little more force!
...
Exerted more force.
...
Until he applied one-third of his strength, his resilient skin finally split open, creating a bloody cut.
Thick blood, glistening with a clear and cold radiance, slowly seeped from his finger as he closed the wound, the original cut closed into a seam.
He continued to watch the wound.
Five minutes passed, no self-healing.
Half an hour passed, still no self-healing.
Chen Shouyi felt greatly disappointed; Intermediate Self-Healing was so much weaker compared to Natural Healing.
Finally, he left the wound alone and went to the bathroom to wash up.
It wasn't until the next day, when Chen Shouyi left the command center and returned home to Hedong, that the wound had completely healed.
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ps: Sorry, there's only one chapter today, I'll see if I can write three tomorrow to make up for it.