Chapter 92: Azure Shadow King
Su Xiao's vision was pitch black, but his perception remained clear. He was still inside the Law-Destruction Hall, and the Cyan Steel Shadow energy within him was nearly berserk.
This situation was far from good. When the Cyan Steel Shadow energy within him completely lost control, it signaled the failure of the Azure Shadow King's awakening. He would most likely die, and even if he barely survived, his Strength, Agility, and Endurance attributes would plummet drastically.
In the current situation, whether his Willpower was strong enough determined success or failure.
Su Xiao concentrated his mind to control the Cyan Steel Shadow energy within him, gathering the scattered energy back into his torso.
This process went relatively smoothly. After stabilizing the Cyan Steel Shadow energy, Su Xiao began trying to move his fingers. A few seconds later, his fingers could move.
After initially adapting to the intense pain throughout his body, Su Xiao attempted to open his eyes. At first, he only opened them a slit. Everything before him was blurry. Three seconds later, he successfully opened his eyes.
Su Xiao rose from the ground, changed to a cross-legged sitting position, and took a deep breath. He prepared to enter a meditative state. Once he began meditating, his mind would become very calm, and the intense pain throughout his body would also ease significantly.
Su Xiao's breathing slowed. The difficulty of entering a meditative state in this situation was imaginable. The effect of persisting in daily meditation showed itself at this moment, and he gradually found his rhythm.
The intense pain throughout his body noticeably subsided. Su Xiao perceived that around him, there were many blue threads distributed throughout the Law-Destruction Hall. These blue energy threads were slowly surging toward him, merging into his body.
[Tip: Azure Shadow King has been successfully awakened. The intensity of this ability is increasing...]
Upon receiving this prompt, Su Xiao felt a wave of relief in his heart. It was this momentary lapse of concentration that caused nearly half of the blue energy threads slowly merging into him to snap.
The Azure Shadow King had been successfully awakened. Its initial intensity depended on how many blue energy threads Su Xiao absorbed. These special energies only existed within the Law-Destruction Hall, and there was only this one chance to absorb them.
Su Xiao steadied his mind and continued maintaining his meditative state. The broken energy threads recovered and gradually merged into him.
Almost every second that passed, the intense pain within Su Xiao increased by a degree. If not for his meditative state, he would have long since been unable to endure.
Hiss~
The speed at which the special energy surged into Su Xiao's body grew faster and faster. Just as Su Xiao was about to lose consciousness, he noticed that his Health Points were rapidly dropping.
The advantage of having high Health Points showed itself at this moment. For every additional second Su Xiao could stay within the Law-Destruction Hall, his Azure Shadow King would become stronger by one degree.
At most, a dozen seconds later, Su Xiao's Health Points dropped to 5%. If he continued to endure, he would die here.
Realizing this, Su Xiao opened his eyes. The last wisp of blue energy merged into his body. He had reached his limit, with Health Points remaining at only 2.7%.
Crack, crack~
Cracks appeared on the four walls of the Law-Destruction Hall. Six hundred-meter-tall statues collapsed.
Boom!
The Law-Destruction Hall shattered. Su Xiao disappeared from within the hall and returned to his Exclusive Room.
As soon as he returned to his Exclusive Room, the intense pain in Su Xiao's body vanished. His Health Points recovered at a visible rate, and his entire body felt comfortable.
Success. Su Xiao had successfully awakened the Azure Shadow King. Not only that, but he had also persisted to his limit.
[You have successfully awakened Azure Shadow King.]
[Azure Shadow King: Lv.1 (Ultimate Skill)]
Activity Level: 0%.
Passive Effect 1: Cyan Steel Shadow energy intensity increased. True Damage dealt increased by 100% (each attack inflicts 1315 True Damage; this bonus will increase with the level of Azure Shadow King).
Passive Effect 2: For every second the Cyan Steel Shadow ability is activated, the activity of the Cyan Steel Shadow energy will continuously increase. When the activity of the Cyan Steel Shadow energy reaches its limit, the Shadow Flame state can be entered.
Shadow Flame State: Speed increased by 2.1 times (Movement Speed, Attack Speed, Neural Reflex Speed, etc.). Self-developed Blade Dao techniques receive a significant enhancement effect. When the Cyan Steel Shadow ability is deactivated, the Shadow Flame state ends.
Tip: In the Shadow Flame state, the Mana Points consumed by the Cyan Steel Shadow ability increase to 480 points per minute.
Tip: Shadow Flame state has no cooldown time.
Tip: In the Shadow Flame state, killing an enemy of the same rank will immediately restore 20% of maximum Mana Points.
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After reviewing the attributes of Azure Shadow King, Su Xiao knew that the Cyan Steel Shadow ability had undergone a qualitative change.
The True Damage dealt by the Cyan Steel Shadow ability increased by 100%, and this increase would also rise with the level of Azure Shadow King. Currently, Azure Shadow King was only Level 1, yet it already had such a powerful enhancement effect.
Not only that, but after Su Xiao activated the Cyan Steel Shadow ability for a period of time, the Cyan Steel Shadow energy would become active, entering the Shadow Flame state. At that time, his speed would increase by 2.1 times, and his self-developed Blade Dao techniques would be strengthened, meaning Blade Path: Azure Demon, Absolute Nether, and others.
What satisfied Su Xiao even more was that if he were surrounded by enemies, he wouldn't need to worry about running out of Mana Points at all. Killing one enemy of the same rank restored 20% of his Mana Points. As long as there were enough enemies, he wouldn't have to worry about Mana Point consumption.
To put it simply, Azure Shadow King had two passive effects and one active effect.
The two passive effects were: increasing the True Damage of Cyan Steel Shadow and accumulating activity level. The active effect was allowing the Cyan Steel Shadow energy to enter the Shadow Flame state. In this state, Su Xiao's speed was greatly increased, the power of his Blade Dao techniques was greatly increased, and killing enemies could restore Mana Points.
That is to say, after entering the Shadow Flame state, the Cyan Steel Shadow ability became a type of buff ability.
A very crucial point was that Azure Shadow King could actually increase the power of Blade Dao techniques. This was something Su Xiao hadn't expected. Previously, Mawen Hua'erzi had said that every Law Destroyer's Azure Shadow King ability was different.
Su Xiao suspected that the reason his Azure Shadow King enhanced Blade Dao technique power was because he had meditated while awakening the Azure Shadow King, and he had absorbed a lot of energy within the Law-Destruction Hall after the awakening.
What Su Xiao wanted to know now was how long he needed to activate the Cyan Steel Shadow ability before entering the Shadow Flame state. If he needed to activate Cyan Steel Shadow for over ten minutes to enter Shadow Flame, then everything would be cold by then.
Thinking of this, Su Xiao took out a stopwatch. The moment he pressed the timing button, he activated the Cyan Steel Shadow ability.
As soon as he activated the Cyan Steel Shadow ability, Su Xiao felt a change in the Cyan Steel Shadow energy within him. It was much more condensed than before.
1 second, 2 seconds...
When the time on the timer reached 65 seconds, Su Xiao felt the Cyan Steel Shadow energy within him become fully active.
Blue electric arcs surged over Su Xiao's body. With a whoosh, 'blue flames' emerged on his body surface. Blue light bloomed in his pupils, and black-blue patterns appeared on both sides of his cheeks.
Su Xiao suddenly felt that everything around him had slowed down. Dust particles drifted. This was an illusion caused by the surge in speed.
Su Xiao closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them. The world returned to normal. He drew the Dragon-Slaying Flash from his waist.
'Blade Path: Azure Demon.'
Clang!
The Azure Demon slashed against the opposite wall, leaving a cut that spanned the entire wall surface. If this weren't an Exclusive Room, the wall would have long been cut through.
Su Xiao's face showed obvious astonishment, because the size of the Azure Demon had increased at least three times, and its speed was unreasonably fast. He felt that the Azure Demon in the Shadow Flame state had the power of a finishing move.
'Blade Path Sword: Time.'
Thump!
The impact spread. Lines of blue patterns sealed off the surroundings. Not far away, Baha's eyes were full of disbelief, because within the range affected by 'Blade Path Sword: Time,' not only had its speed plummeted to a crawl, but even the usage speed of its spatial abilities had slowed down significantly. Breaking through space within this area was extremely difficult. It could confirm that before it could break through space to move, Su Xiao would have already cut off its head.
The domain of 'Time' dissipated. Previously, Su Xiao thought that Azure Shadow King was similar to Blood Beast, a high-power active ability that, once used, had a long cooldown time.
The current situation was clearly not the case. Azure Shadow King didn't give Su Xiao a single finishing move. After entering the Shadow Flame state, all his self-developed Blade Dao techniques were at the finishing move tier. He had gained a bunch of finishing moves.
The Blade Dao techniques that Su Xiao had painstakingly cultivated for so long were now being rewarded many times over.
To put it simply, Azure Shadow King enhanced True Damage, speed, and brought the average power of Blade Dao techniques to the finishing move level.
Of course, Azure Shadow King wasn't without drawbacks. Its consumption was very high. After entering the Shadow Flame state, even if Su Xiao didn't use other Mana Point-consuming abilities, after the Shadow Flame state lasted for half an hour, his Mana Points would be completely drained.
The increase in Blade Dao technique power wasn't without reason. Su Xiao's Stamina consumption would also increase. Fortunately, his Endurance attribute was very high.
Su Xiao raised his left arm. Translucent blue flames rose slowly. This wasn't fire, but Cyan Steel Shadow energy activated to the extreme, evaporating.
With a bang, Su Xiao disappeared from his spot and appeared in front of Bubu Wang.
"Woof!"
Bubu Wang was stunned with fright. Compared to before, Su Xiao's current speed was ridiculously fast.