Chapter 11: The Pinnacle Realm: When you defeat an enemy of the "Supreme Peak," you will seize all of their "Causal Fate," feed it back to the Star Realm, and receive an equal amount of "Star Realm Primordial Source Power," thereby strengthening yourself (the "Star Realm Primordial Source Power" can randomly enhance your own abilities).
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A total of 19 abilities appeared. Aside from these 11, the remaining eight, while all mastered by Blade Grandmasters, had very low compatibility with Su Xiao.
First was "Spirit Blade." The characteristic of dealing slashing damage regardless of distance was simple yet powerful. The question was, did this count as a melee attack, or a mid-to-long-range attack extended by the blade technique?
If it was a melee attack, this ability was highly compatible with Su Xiao. After all, his various powerful methods were all bolstered by melee attacks, such as the true damage from Azure Steel Shadow and the bonuses from various passives. However, if it was a mid-to-long-range attack, its compatibility with Su Xiao would be low.
The second pinnacle ability, "Elemental Flowing Fire," was directly abandoned. Su Xiao was a Law Destroyer; harnessing elemental power would be jumping into a pit of his own making.
The third ability, "Time Inverse Blade," seemed overwhelmingly powerful, controlling time itself. In reality, it was far inferior to "Extreme Realm: Star Realm." If Su Xiao used "Star Realm Stasis," time-type abilities would immediately shut down. With the Star Realm frozen, time would be as solid as a rock, unmoving. In other words, "Star Realm Stasis" was the absolute superior of the time system.
The fourth ability, "Endless Battle Intent," was worth considering. The fifth ability, "Star Devouring," was one of the backup options.
The sixth ability, "Moonlight Secret Art," was skipped directly. It was completely incompatible with Su Xiao's combat system. At the Supreme Peak, how could Su Xiao allow his system to become bloated because of this ability?
The seventh pinnacle ability, "Soul Severing Power," appeared, and Su Xiao immediately knew whose former pinnacle ability this was. That's right, it belonged to the infamous, most malicious female Law Destroyer in history, Green Gillian. Su Xiao now understood one thing: not only was this female Law Destroyer malicious in personality, but even her pinnacle ability was quite malicious.
Green Gillian was a Soul Severing Shadow. "Soul Slash" was her signature move. Once an enemy was wounded by her slash, the soul area spreading outward from the cut would begin to develop self-awareness. Then, the powerful enemy fighting Green Gillian would discover that this part of their own soul had betrayed them.
Betraying oneself was already shocking enough. The key point was that this independent "soul entity" would desperately break free from the original body. Once it broke free, it would transform into a miniature version of the enemy, leaping onto Green Gillian's shoulder.
This little soul figure would then quickly introduce to Green Gillian what ability systems and weaknesses the original body had. At this point, the ability was merely terrifying, not yet malicious. The key was that after Green Gillian knew the enemy's ability characteristics and weaknesses, she would have the little soul figure deliberately shout out the enemy's past dark history.
For example, what they did in their youth, what embarrassing but unknown things they did when they were young, or various shameful, awkward matters, even things they wanted to rot forever in their stomachs, known only to themselves, never to be known by anyone else, not even their closest family.
Not only did Green Gillian have the little soul figure shout these things out loud, but she would also toss it a terminal. This terminal was forged by the "Slinster Dwarves," extremely sturdy, and could connect to the Void's network in most areas of the Star Realm.
Yes, Green Gillian would have the little soul figure post all the dark history of the powerful enemy she was fighting to the death with onto the Void's "Network Cluster."
If it were just dark history, it might be bearable; they could just go into seclusion. The problem was that it was "themselves." They knew all their own secrets.
Many of the enemies who fought to the death with Green Gillian had their mental defenses broken first, followed by their physical defenses.
Su Xiao naturally didn't need this ability; it didn't match his combat system. As for the eighth pinnacle ability, "My Power," it was also skipped.
The ninth ability, "One Thought: World," was too extreme. Among the "Supreme Peak" enemies Su Xiao would face later, half were from the Abyss system, or even more. Furthermore, Su Xiao also had abilities like "Selfless Realm" that had equally maxed-out lethality.
The tenth ability, "Dark Blade Edge," was also unsuitable. As a Blade Grandmaster who had mastered "Heavenly Edge: Shadow Severing," he didn't lack the most top-tier offensive methods.
The eleventh ability, "Supreme Realm," was included in the backup list. The current backups were: