Chapter 42: Supreme Peak!
On the left, a blood-red stone tablet represented abilities like "Supreme Dragon Might" and "Ultimate Evil":
"Supreme Dragon Might (Supreme Peak · Passive/Active, X): All hostile targets within a 50,000-meter radius of 'Heurisel' will be suppressed by dragon might, rapidly losing willpower, with all attributes reduced by 95%, physical defense reduced by 99%, all resistances reduced by 99%, movement speed reduced by 100% (with a high probability of immediate freezing), suffering 30% of maximum health as true frost damage per second, and triggering judgments such as 'Mind Evaporation,' 'Consciousness Domination,' 'Absolute Fear,' and 'Soul Freeze.' Failure of any judgment will result in an immediate 'Instant Death Effect.'
Tip: If 'Heurisel' fully deploys 'Supreme Dragon Might,' the range of 'Supreme Dragon Might' will increase by 8 to 10 times, with a corresponding boost in overall power.
Tip: A powerful being also at 'Supreme Peak' can use their own 'Supreme Peak · Passive' to negate this ability, thereby exempting themselves from all the above debuffs and damage effects."
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Representative figures who mastered such abilities included: Ancient Wyvern Heurisel, Dukain Ancestor, Progenitor God Yashmish, Demon Old Hag, Spider Lady, Moon Witch Seris, Scarlet Monarch Euyishur (before being sealed in Eternal Light), Star-Swallower Akas, Soul Lord, Underworld God, Blade Demon, Mawen Hua'erzi, Old Law Destroyer, Black Moon Wolf Hilaibuh.
On the right, a dark blue stone tablet represented individual-target Supreme Peak attack abilities or self-targeted Supreme Peak enhancements.
Representative figures who mastered such abilities included: Deer God, Green Gillian, and Shiman Aqide.
Whenever a "Supreme Peak" acted, it wasn't hard to determine their system. These two systems were known as the "Domain System" and the "Extreme Realm System."
In truth, nine out of ten "Supreme Peaks" belonged to the "Domain System," with the remaining one-tenth being the "Extreme Realm System." There was no distinction of strength between these two systems, only whether they suited one's own ability system.
However, one objective fact remained: whether the "Extreme Realm System" was combat-capable was hard to verify due to the limited reference base, but "Extreme Realm System" users were genuinely willing to fight others—like Deer God, Green Gillian in her prime, or Shiman Aqide in his youth.
When a "Supreme Domain" clashed with a "Supreme Extreme Realm," the odds were roughly fifty-fifty. The vast Supreme Domain brought unparalleled suppression, but the "Extreme Realm System" could negate about 60% of the "Supreme Domain." Coupled with the single-target lethality or self-enhancement brought by its own "Extreme Realm System" abilities, the two sides remained balanced in this regard.
As a Technique Grandmaster, Su Xiao was compatible with both systems. He could choose either the vast "Supreme Blade Domain" of the "Domain System" or the absurdly potent single-target lethality of the "Extreme Realm System," or permanent self-enhancement abilities.
He raised his left hand, looking at the "Black King Bracer" tightly wrapping his five fingers and forearm. He suddenly felt that the "Dead Silence Arrival" of this equipment was remarkably similar to the "Supreme Domain."
Currently, the strength of "Dead Silence Arrival" was far inferior to the "Supreme Domain," but the issue was that this was under the condition that the seal of the "Dead Silence Origin" hadn't been fully opened. If this seal were completely released...
In essence, the "Dead Silence Origin" was the product of a Transcendent Realm's failed transcendence. However, to say that the Gloomy Continent of the past had no chance of transcendence was clearly wrong. The peak the Eternal Life God once reached had always been an unknown.
Before reaching the Absolute Strength level, one might think the Eternal Life God's peak was perhaps at the Absolute Strength level. But upon reaching the Supreme level, it felt like the Eternal Life God's peak might have been Supreme. The seemingly correct intelligence from the past was overturned by gradually accumulated experience.
Now, Su Xiao had stepped into "Supreme Peak" and witnessed a world's transcendence. He understood that for one person to support a world's transcendence, they needed at least "Supreme Peak."
Even if the result was failure, if the Eternal Life God at their combat peak didn't have "Supreme Peak" power, the "Gloomy Continent" wouldn't have even qualified to take a step toward transcendence, let alone fail.
From this perspective, this "Dead Silence Origin" was highly likely the former "Supreme Domain" of the Eternal Life God, but a version that had been excessively enhanced by the Abyss.
Logically, a "Supreme Domain" imbued into an item would inevitably be less than half as strong as its original form. However, this "Dead Silence Origin" was originally the product of excessive eternal life, evolved under the Abyss's enhancement.
The "Supreme Domain" it carried was again excessively enhanced by the Abyss, giving rise to abilities like "Dead Silence Arrival."
This was why "Dead Silence Arrival," with its five layers of seals, never lost its advantage in battles of the same level. No matter how strong the enemy, the annihilation bomb released after activating "Dead Silence Arrival" would, with a single shot, cause the hit area to wither and decay, crumbling like rotten wood under a heavy blow.
Su Xiao suddenly had a very bold idea: he would currently choose the "Extreme Realm System," using its self-enhancing Supreme characteristics to boost his own combat power.
When fighting a "Domain System" Supreme Peak, by fully releasing the seal of "Dead Silence Arrival," he wouldn't hope to suppress the enemy's "Supreme Domain"—that was delusional. He only needed to negate over 50% of the "Supreme Domain," which would be enough.
If Su Xiao became an "Extreme Realm System" user, he would inherently have high resistance to the "Domain System's" domain. Adding the negation from "Dead Silence Arrival," it would be equivalent to:
While negating the enemy's "Supreme Domain," Su Xiao would also have the additional enhancement of being an "Extreme Realm System" user. This would undoubtedly give him an inherent advantage when facing other Supreme Peaks.
At this moment, Su Xiao was very glad about one thing: he had always restrained himself from fully opening the seal of the "Dead Silence Origin" and possessing this power.
If he had fully unsealed the "Dead Silence Origin" before reaching "Supreme Peak," there would have been only one outcome: certain death.
Su Xiao pressed one hand against the dark blue tablet representing the "Extreme Realm System." A blade and a heart appeared on the tablet. The blade represented Supreme Peak-level single-target attack ability, which would be terrifyingly powerful.
As a Technique Grandmaster who had mastered the core passive "Heavenly Blade Shadow," Su Xiao was confident in developing even more terrifying abilities in the future. So, he chose the heart representing enhancement.
The tablet before him shattered with a bang. A buzzing sound rang in Su Xiao's ears. At that moment, all his vital signs ceased. The surface of his body cracked like ceramic, as if he had shattered a shell. The broken outer layer fell away, revealing a new Su Xiao. At this moment, his life sequence, existence hierarchy, and even causal fate were different from before. To be precise, he had ascended to a new level.
[You have chosen Power Awakening (Supreme Extreme Realm Enhancement).]
[The benefits of this "Power Awakening" are:
1. You gain 100 "Supreme Free Attribute Points" (only a very few gains can yield "Supreme Free Attribute Points." After successfully advancing to Supreme Peak, your world settlement rewards will change to obtaining "Time Crystals." You can only obtain a large amount of this reward when advancing to the "Extreme Realm System" and completing high-risk world missions/war missions/emergency Abyss missions/emergency Star Realm missions, which yield a small amount of "Supreme Free Attribute Points").