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Chapter (2)
“It wasn’t easy, but I finally waited you out…”
He did not hesitate and immediately clicked the plus sign.
[You used 1 point of divinity. Soul talent level +1.]
[Soul talent: Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms +5. Your soul possesses a unique flavor, embracing all forms, rejecting none. Possessing any Shell becomes effortless. Talent Effect: Greatly increases compatibility with Shells (+65%), Shell Slots +16.]
Compatibility had once again risen by ten percent as expected.
With a 65 percent compatibility bonus, aside from some extremely deformed aberrant monsters with very abstract appearances, or enormous behemoths with colossal bodies, there were basically no humanoid monsters that could escape his clutches after death anymore.
If the talent went up one more level to reach +75 percent compatibility, then he really would be able to possess whatever monster he killed.
Lin Xun could not help recalling what Li Long had once revealed to him about soul talents.
When an Apostle’s soul talent rose to +6 and reached +7, the soul talent would undergo a major change and gain certain special abilities.
This was because mythic grade, that is, the demigod level, already allowed one to touch upon the rules and do some extraordinary things.Once the soul talent was raised to mythic grade divinity, it, too, could enjoy some ‘extraordinary’ abilities and thereby slightly touch upon the essence of the rules.
In hindsight, this also made sense. Once compatibility reached 75 percent, basically no monster could escape the tragic fate of being used by Lin Xun after death.
Although the talent was still outrageously strong, the benefit from raising it again would be far less than it had been earlier on.
When the soul talent reached +7 and gained a new improvement, Lin Xun, whose talent was already monstrous, would only get an even greater upgrade than ordinary Apostles.
There was no way he would ever complain that his cheats were too strong. Everyone despised others for joining the Moonshadow Wind Spirit Sect, but if he was the one turning on the cheats himself… that was perfectly fine.
With Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms now giving him 16 extra Shell Slots, and adding the 1 Slot from the game’s initial settings, his Shell Slots had reached 11/17. If other Apostles saw that, they would probably be so jealous they would scream “kill the cheater first.”
[Your Shell Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit has broken through the critical value of 103 percent Compatibility (+65%). Shell Quality has improved.]
[The Shell’s quality has risen from Legendary grade to Legendary+ grade.]
All Shell compatibilities in his Slots had been raised at once, and the compatibility of the Purgatory Angel was now at 99 percent with the bonus, just one step away from rising from Legendary+ grade to mythic grade.
“What a pity, just one percent short.”
In reality, as his soul talent rose, Lin Xun felt an inexplicable power sprouting and swelling in his mind.
Unlike before, the pain of this soul talent upgrade was not intense and remained within the range he could endure.
At +4, the upgrade had given him rudimentary spiritual perception. This time, it was pushing that perception ability into continuous strengthening and expansion.
After a long while, the strange power slowly ebbed away.
Lin Xun quietly sensed the changes brought by the soul talent upgrade.
His consciousness stretched out of his mind in an instant, spreading through the entire living room, through the whole villa, and over half the manor.
Everything within, like the ants crawling in the corners, the birds perched on branches, the water dripping from the eaves after the rain, every movement and sound, all unfolded before his careful perception without missing the slightest detail.
It was as if he were observing everything up close with a magnifying glass, unable to overlook even a single hair.
Compared to the last spiritual power upgrade, this enhancement of his perception could already be described as a leap.
And the benefits of his soul talent upgrade did not end there.
He could sense that the Flesh Authority in the depths of his soul had also improved somewhat. It was not an increase in control, but rather an increase in the speed at which he could grasp the authority and develop its power.
If Soul Secret – Beginning of the Holy Spirit was like injecting a powerful stimulant into his soul, causing his existing level of control to temporarily spike to the limit he could currently bear, then the soul talent upgrade was like taking a long term tonic, slowly raising his development and mastery speed bit by bit.
“The soul talent is truly the foundation upon which an Apostle stands.”
Of course, the soul secret Beginning of the Holy Spirit was not a useless skill either.
According to the game’s usual logic, a soul secret with such a high profile name definitely would not be trash.
Lin Xun guessed that Beginning of the Holy Spirit did not increase authority by a fixed number, but rather by a multiple, perhaps even by an exponential curve.
It was just that, at the moment, his base level of control over the authority was too low, so Beginning of the Holy Spirit looked like it merely ‘began’ things and nothing more.
Once his control over the authority rose to a certain level, the soul secret would raise him from a slightly stronger soul to the soul of a god.
Only that would match the kind of high level tone in the description of Beginning of the Holy Spirit.
Ever since the Disciple War, it had taken a full week for Lin Xun’s maximum soul strength to recover by just one point, finally returning to 3/3.
This period of rest had allowed him to completely relax.
“It is time to truly begin the seventh difficulty…”
Lin Xun felt he could not waste a whole month doing nothing, waiting for his maximum soul strength to recover to full and for the pasture districts to be fully assigned.
He had a vague feeling that, if he did not seize the time and push forward to the game’s final chapters as quickly as possible, something unexpected might happen.
The wheel of fate was always turning forward, and he had no time to stand still.
“At worst, if I run into monsters I really can’t beat, I’ll wait for my soul cap to recover and for the leeks to be assigned and ready.”
Entering the seventh chapter of the World of Omniscience required an Anchor Bookmark.
He only had one Anchor Bookmark on hand. If he used it on the World of Omniscience, he would no longer be able to anchor and enter the Evil God world, but in the New World that was not much of a problem.
Lord Cain had already released word that whoever in the organization could hand over an Anchor Bookmark the fastest would become one of the First Disciple’s proxy agents.
The moment this news came out, it caused an uproar.
Not only the middle and lower tier Disciples, but even candidate Disciples were pulling out all the stops, searching far and wide for an Anchor Bookmark.
Lin Xun believed that before long, he would be able to get what he wanted without lifting a finger.
He took out his phone and manipulated the Shell to stand before the Book of Salvation in the Library.
[You step forward and touch the Book of Salvation. Your powerful soul resonates with the book.]
[Do you wish to unlock the next chapter and begin your next journey of salvation?]
[…]
[You used an Anchor Bookmark.]
[Please select the subsequent chapter you wish to anchor…]
[1. Chapter 327 (Nightmare)]
[2. Chapter 82740877 (Hell)]
[3. Chapter 63942577 (Hell)]
There were only three options before him. The first was the Blood Sun world, the second the World of Omniscience, and the third the Evil God world.
As for the subsequent chapters of the Firefly world, they would no longer appear in the Book of Salvation.
Lin Xun pressed the second option.
[You have chosen to anchor Chapter 82740877 (Hell).]
[You have entered the apocalyptic chapter.]
[Chapter 82740877]