Chapter 22: Fusion
[Finality]
Origin: Reincarnation Paradise.
Quality: Reincarnation Rank·Third Seat.
Category: Twin Long Blades.
Durability: 4800/4800 points.
Attack Power: 4210～4500 points.
Equipment Requirement: Supreme Stamina 50 points.
Basic Effect·Infinite: Any target meeting the equipment requirements can use this equipment.
Equipment Effect 1: Finality Awakening (Core·Active), awaken the blade spirit within this weapon, the wielder will enter the "Awakened State", body size increases by 50%～80%, base attributes increase by 10%, maximum health increases by 100%, movement speed increases by 2.5 times, and during the subsequent duration, all attributes will increase by 1% per minute. Every 30 seconds, you can use a slash that ignores distance. This attack carries full damage status and reduces the enemy's speed by 99.99%. This "Absolute Slowness" status lasts for 5 seconds and decreases continuously during that period.
Tip: When the "Awakened State" causes your current body attributes to reach more than 50% of your "base attributes", all enhancements from the "Awakened State" will increase by an additional 12%～15%.
Tip: When the "Awakened State" causes your current body attributes to reach more than double your "base attributes", all enhancements from the "Awakened State" will increase by an additional 55%～70%.
Warning: The body attribute gains from the "Awakened State" theoretically have no upper limit, but exceeding the wielder's "attribute cap" multiple times will pose great risks, even causing instant death.
Warning: The physical burden from the "Awakened State" has no direct physical sensation and may even give you a feeling of power pleasure, but the moment it exceeds the critical point, you will die instantly.
Equipment Effect 2: Breaker Free (Core·Passive), when the "Awakened State" causes your current body attributes to reach more than double your "base attributes", this is "Deep Awakening". Successfully breaking free from "Deep Awakening" and ending the "Awakened State" will enter a 2～3 natural day weakness period. During this time, you can use the "Finality" twin blades to absorb a small portion of the "Stellar Origin Power" of the current world, permanently enhancing your supreme main attribute.
Equipment Effect 3: Finality·Blood Demon (Core·Passive): When using this weapon to kill a sufficient number of powerful beings, this weapon will fully awaken and revive as "Finality Blood Blade", increasing all characteristics by 25%.
Warning: After reviving as "Finality Blood Blade", the difficulty of breaking free from the "Deep Awakened" state will also increase. Once you die, you will transform into a "Blood Demon Asura" until killed. The "Finality" twin blades will detach and be collected back into the vault by Reincarnation Paradise according to certification.
Reincarnation Paradise Warning: This weapon is extremely dangerous. If you choose to abandon it, you can select an equipment ranked 4th to 10th in the Reincarnation Rank from the current equipment vault.
Rating: 30000+ (Reincarnation Rank weapon rating is 15000～30000 points).
Description: Is this... the price of power? Truly a... peerless murderous blade.
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After seeing the attributes of this weapon, Su Xiao's eyes lit up considerably. Forget equipment effects 1, 2, and 3; he only saw:
"Attack Power: 4210～4500 points."
Su Xiao had been forging Dragon-Slaying Flash for so long, yet it only had "Attack Power: 1240～1455 points."
Even so, the current Dragon-Slaying Flash with an attack power of "1240～1455 points" already had a much higher attack power than other blade-type weapons of the same Reincarnation Rank 15000-point rating.
Unless it was an extremely special blade-type weapon, a truly good blade-type weapon at Reincarnation Rank 15000-point rating would have an attack power lower limit of 900 points, which was considered passing. 950 points was a solid legendary blade, and 1000 points or more was the big brother among legendary blades.
As for Dragon-Slaying Flash reaching a 1240-point attack power lower limit at 15000-point rating, calling it unprecedented was an exaggeration, but it was certainly among the top five legendary blades in the entire history of the Star Realm at this rating tier.
But now, this twin long blade named [Finality] actually had "4210～4500 points". A Reincarnation Rank·30000-point full-rating·top-tier blade-type weapon with 3000 points of attack power was already extremely powerful. Across the Star Realm, weapons with such high attack power were rare. And now, this weapon was simply outrageous.
Not to mention the equipment attributes of [Finality]'s Blood Demon characteristic. The durability of this weapon should be at the top tier among blade-type weapons. From this perspective, the current Dragon-Slaying Flash was quite excellent in this regard, with:
"Durability: 2950/4050 points"
Was Dragon-Slaying Flash a heaven-chosen blade? No. Since mastering "Perfect Block", Su Xiao blocked all attacks, even successfully "Perfect Blocking" an invisible mid-range instant death skill. This was like repeated forging for Dragon-Slaying Flash. It had only two choices: shatter or become tougher. Clearly, Dragon-Slaying Flash chose the latter.
[Finality] becoming one of the three strongest Reincarnation Rank equipment also had its reasons. This weapon indeed had the Blood Demon characteristic, but its equipment effect 2·Breaker Free allowed the wielder to gain enhancement after enduring the test of "Deep Awakening". Although the amount and quantity of "Stellar Origin Power" absorbed this way was far less than "Power Origin".
However, while [Finality] had the Blood Demon characteristic, its combat performance was truly astonishing, increasing all attributes by the minute.
Also, seeing it was a twin blade, one would subconsciously fall into a misconception that it was for melee combat. In reality, this weapon was simply a divine-level summoning/necromancy equipment, meant for summons. The "Basic Effect·Infinite" meant that summons and followers could use this equipment.
And for those who had successfully reached the peak in summoning or necromancy, having a summon with supreme stamina above 50 points was perfectly normal.
If operated properly, a melee-type summon would use [Finality] to kill enemies, and then its master would use the summoning contract to make the summon trapped in "Deep Awakening" break free. After that, the wielder of this blade, the necromancer, would use the small amount of "Stellar Origin Power" absorbed by this blade over the next 2～3 days to enhance their main attribute.
From this perspective, it was not surprising that [Finality] ranked among the top three Reincarnation Rank equipment. It did not belong to the melee system but was the strongest divine artifact for all necromancy/summoning systems in the entire Paradise faction, without equal.
It was worth mentioning that the strongest blade-type weapon was in Death Paradise, a "Death Rank" long blade.
For other melee fighters, this weapon was a passing divine artifact, and they would definitely exchange it for a suitable one among the Reincarnation Rank 4th to 10th. But for Su Xiao, it was a divine artifact in a certain sense.
Su Xiao had never thought that Dragon-Slaying Flash could perfectly seize [Finality]'s attack power. But seizing a quarter of it would be around 1000 points, instantly boosting its attack power. And this opportunity might only come once in a lifetime.
The "Supreme Blade" ability activated. The substance in the form of black iron sand emerged, enveloping [Finality], beginning the initial devouring. The iron sand-like substance spun like a vortex, accompanied by intense friction sounds, and actually started to turn red.
Bang! The iron sand-like substance scattered. [Finality] was undamaged, while the "Supreme Blade" ability entered a cooldown phase of 5 hours. This was only because Su Xiao sensed something wrong and interrupted "Supreme Blade"; otherwise, this ability would have entered a cooldown of several days or even months.
Seeing this, Su Xiao understood the reason. It was both because [Finality]'s rank was extremely high and because the current Dragon-Slaying Flash was not strong enough. After devouring a few more legendary blades and raising its rating to over 25000 points, it might be possible to devour [Finality].
Besides this, there was another more critical factor: the current "Supreme Blade" ability was not strong enough to break [Finality]. Su Xiao had a solution for this. The Law Destroyer's exclusive resource [Soul Energy Crystal] could enhance the "Supreme Blade" ability. However, he had not considered enhancing this ability before, so he had simply ignored the enhancement effect of [Soul Energy Crystal] on it.
Now it seemed that enhancing the "Supreme Blade" ability needed to be put on the agenda. A large number of Law Destroyer abilities required [Soul Energy Crystal] to enhance. But it was still uncertain whether the "Law Destroyer Talent·Shadow Hunt" could condense [Soul Energy Crystal] after awakening. It was only a possibility, and not a low probability at that.
Putting away [Finality], which was beginning to reveal its Blood Demon malice, continuing to hold this peerless murderous blade carried risks. But as the holder of the "Book of Original Sin", this level of risk was like daily life for Su Xiao.
Checking the prompt that had just appeared, the content was:
[You have submitted the "Golden Crown" bounty.]
[Due to the multiple bounty + bounty correction of the "Hunt List: Blood Pact", you will receive a bounty of 150,000 ounces of Space-Time Power in total value.]
[You have obtained Time Stone Fragments × 12,300 pieces (this is an equivalent item, can be sold to Reincarnation Paradise at any time for 123,000 ounces of Space-Time Power).]
[You have obtained Wriggling Egg (Unique Characteristic·Lucky Item, this item is equivalent to 27,000 ounces of Space-Time Power in this judgment).]
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A golden pupa egg appeared ahead. This thing was about the size of a chicken egg and looked quite lucky and sacred. However, with Su Xiao's "Absolute Perception", he could feel the extreme malice at the core of this item.
Lucky items generally had a characteristic: they would absorb the wielder's misfortune, thereby making the wielder lucky. This was a top-tier method of improving fortune. If temporarily boosting luck was compared to pain relief, then absorbing the wielder's misfortune was treating both the symptoms and the root cause, solving the problem of bad luck from the source.
And this [Wriggling Egg] was a top-tier lucky item. It could massively devour the wielder's misfortune, thereby enhancing the wielder's luck. The problem was that it would gradually nourish the evil at its core through the devoured misfortune. When it broke out of the egg, that would be the beginning of devouring its master.
Su Xiao was very interested in this item. A proper lucky item would devour a bit of misfortune and then rest for several days (for Su Xiao, a bit of misfortune was actually a considerable amount). In contrast, this evil lucky item would definitely devour misfortune desperately whenever it had the chance.
To put it more intuitively, one had to be coaxed into use; if it devoured a bit more misfortune, it would need extra rest for several days. The other could be used freely; even if it devoured misfortune to the point of nearly exploding today, it could still persist and continue tomorrow, without any complaints.
And the final evil born from this thing could also be taken back to the Alchemy Laboratory for research.
However, there was a problem: avoiding scaring this [Wriggling Egg] with one's own aura. Su Xiao had a good method for this. He held his hands in a virtual grip around the [Wriggling Egg] floating ahead. He had not yet touched this item, which was in a dormant state.
Layers of seals quietly formed. These seals were as thin as nothing, their function not to seal the power of the [Wriggling Egg], but to seal its perception.
In layman's terms, it was to put a filter on the [Wriggling Egg]'s external perception. When the [Wriggling Egg] was awakened, its perception of the outside world would have its danger level greatly reduced.
Originally, in its perception, Su Xiao, the terrifying human with upright blood energy, would become a blade grandmaster with some blood energy but no threat to it. Then, there would be no worry that the [Wriggling Egg] would not desperately absorb misfortune.
Su Xiao grasped the [Wriggling Egg] with one hand. He clearly felt the chicken egg-sized golden egg in his hand wriggle a few times, then awaken. A sacred and gentle aura emanated from within the [Wriggling Egg], like a beautiful, sweet-voiced, and voluptuous holy angel. Aside from that, the disguise of this aura was very skillful.
After the [Wriggling Egg] initially perceived its current wielder, its wriggling slowed down, and it began to gradually absorb the wielder's misfortune. At first, the [Wriggling Egg] maintained restraint. But after gradually sensing the amount of misfortune of this generation's wielder, it gradually forgot restraint and began to violently devour Su Xiao's misfortune.
Su Xiao had just used "Fate Reversal". According to the laws of fortune, he would be unluckier than usual for a while afterward, though not to the point of danger. But the value of -13 million fortune was no joke. He was long accustomed to this.
In just a few minutes, the [Wriggling Egg], which was the size of a chicken egg, became a full meter in diameter. Its golden surface was covered with black patterns. It looked like if it continued devouring, it would have to show some evil appearance. After all, they had just met, and the [Wriggling Egg] was still maintaining some restraint.
Su Xiao did not put the [Wriggling Egg] into the team storage space, lest it devour the resources inside. Instead, he showed enough "trust" in this lucky item, letting it hide in an alternate space, and used mental fluctuations to indicate that he would summon it again next time to devour misfortune.
In response, the [Wriggling Egg] showed some "reluctance", but was actually overjoyed. It had devoured too much misfortune this time and needed to find a quiet alternate space gap to absorb this misfortune. By then, it would inevitably show its evil appearance. If this super unlucky blade grandmaster saw it, it would inevitably arouse suspicion.
The [Wriggling Egg] faded away. Su Xiao finally did not need to continue restraining his aura. At that moment, dark red fluctuations appeared ahead. He pressed his hand on it, and a summoning array diagram was sketched out of thin air, like growing and spreading flesh.
Buzz!
After spatial teleportation, the strongest Ironblood Hound·Doom Omen appeared. As soon as Doom Omen appeared, it extended its scorpion tail forward. A sharp mouth full of iron-blooded evil teeth opened on it, vomiting out six items wrapped in a mucous membrane. As they contacted the air, the pink membrane evaporated, revealing six metal fragments that were clearly extraordinary.
[You have obtained Ironblood Dark Wolf (Fragment) × 6 pieces.]
The progress was quite good. The collection progress of the Overlord Fourth Seat [Ironblood Dark Wolf] should be nearly half. Su Xiao would not go back on his word. He opened the window and released 600 "Titan Dragon Hearts" in the courtyard ahead. Doom Omen devoured 200 of them. For the remaining 400, its body suddenly enlarged, swallowed them in one gulp, and then returned to its original size. This was to take back for the other Ironblood Hounds.
Not embezzling a single "Titan Dragon Heart", it was no wonder the other Ironblood Hounds were so convinced by Doom Omen.
"Doom Omen."
Hearing Su Xiao speak, Doom Omen stopped and nodded. Doom Omen was proud. But well, this Law Destroyer was originally a strong person with high compatibility with the Ironblood Hound clan. Plus, he was now the golden patron daddy. The proud Doom Omen would also show some respect.
"Help me find the trail of Night Mother."
Hearing this, Doom Omen hesitated for a moment, then nodded. It seemed that it was somewhat hesitant about this very dangerous commission.
"3000 Dragon Hearts."
Su Xiao made an offer. Hearing this, Doom Omen's eyes widened a bit. It pondered for a moment, then finally nodded forcefully, indicating that it would discuss this matter with its other kin and search together. Among them, Styx was very good at finding people.
That was right, Su Xiao's next target was Night Mother. She had taken his "Infinite Origin", but after the game on Doom Star began, she ultimately chose to cooperate with the Underworld God. Although this was the general trend, killing her was also the general trend.
And Su Xiao's things were not so easy to freeload. He wondered how Night Mother's poison resistance was, as the strongest ancient god under the Underworld God. Also, mentioning ancient gods related to night, moonlight, etc., a familiar figure came to mind: the Moon God who had an Apollo stuffed into her head by Su Xiao.
Su Xiao took out the [Talent Fusion Stone] obtained this time. The heavy feel of this crystal stone gave him some sense of security for this talent fusion. At that moment, an inexplicable palpitation made him feel as if he had suddenly left his soul and become an overlooking perspective. But the next second, he gradually descended and finally returned to normal.
A strong sense of imbalance made him support himself on the Awakening Stele beside him with one hand. At the same time, Baha flew into the room and said:
"Boss, the Law-Destroying Blade from the Argo Academy has been delivered..." Baha stopped mid-sentence, finding Su Xiao's expression wrong, and quickly asked, "Boss, enemy attack?"
"..."
Su Xiao raised his hand, indicating it was nothing. He sat down to meditate. A few hours later, he opened his eyes again. The reason for what had just happened was that after Soul Strength + True Willpower reached 6000 points, the "Absolute Will" ability entered the awakening stage. Previously, he thought he would need some rare treasures for assistance. Now it seemed that he only needed to wait. Time was sometimes a rare treasure.
[Absolute Will]
Skill Effect 1: Exempt from mental, spiritual, soul systems, etc., as well as all effects related to illusions, mind control, domination, etc.
Skill Effect 2: You can face the temptation of the Abyss Heart and the seduction of the Elemental Eye without being shaken, maintaining firm will.
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After fully mastering [Absolute Will], to be honest, there was no special feeling. It was not that his heart suddenly became particularly firm, nor did his emotions or feelings become indifferent. In the end, this was a skill enhancement, not a forced change of one's own essence. All external influences on the mind and will could be exempted by this ability. It was the strongest shield for the mind and will.
But there was one enemy that [Absolute Will] could not exempt: oneself.
Just like Deer God's "Undying Battle Intent", no one could kill him unless he felt he had lost, then he would die. For shameless people, this ability was invincible. Deer God was obviously not such a person. Or, according to the law of conservation of abilities, those who did not maintain the dignity and authority of a strong person could not master this ability.
[Tip: Proud Song has completed this enhancement.]
Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao was in a good mood. Starting from defeating Spider Empress, good things happened one after another. Well, thank you, Spider Empress.
In the next two days, Su Xiao would not actively make a move. After weighing things, he activated the cooldown-ending "Supreme Blade". Black iron sand enveloped the newly obtained Law-Destroying Blade, and Dragon-Slashing Flash's devouring began.
[Proud Song]
Origin: Void·Demon Blacksmith.
Quality: World Rank.
Category: Ring.
Durability: 880/880 points.
Equipment Requirement: Shadow of Law Destruction, Azure Steel Shadow Lv.105 or above.
Equipment Effect 1: Proud Song (Core·Passive), "Proud Song Crystal" formation and spread speed increased by 550% (increase of 365), comprehensive strength increased by 12 times (increase of 7 times), and grants it "Violent Invasion Characteristic".
Equipment Effect 2: Perfect Flawless (Core·Active), mana consumption of "Proud Song Crystal" increased by 900%, formation speed reduced by 5000%, but the final formed Proud Song Crystal strength will be 5.5～6 times the current limit.
Rating: 29200 points (currently ranked 25th among World Rank equipment).
Description: The proud work of the Demon Blacksmith.
Price: After activation, cannot be sold, transferred, etc., will definitely drop upon death.
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The effect 1 of "Proud Song Ring" had not changed, just super-enhanced. Effect 2 was very interesting: mana consumption increased by 9 times, formation speed slowed by 50 times, and as a benefit, the final strength of the obtained Proud Song Crystal increased by 5.5～6 times.
For defense in combat, this was an extremely useless ability. But Su Xiao had two abilities that were epically enhanced by this characteristic.
[Battle Prosthetic X (Passive)]
Skill Effect 1: Enhances Proud Song...
Skill Effect 2: If upper or lower limbs are missing (arms and legs), can quickly form a battle prosthetic through Proud Song Crystal to replace the missing limb function. The battle prosthetic can stably exist for 45,000 natural days.
Battle Prosthetic Strength: 99% restoration.
Battle Prosthetic Speed: 98% restoration.
Battle Prosthetic Touch: 95% restoration.
Battle Prosthetic Nervous System: 93% restoration.
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With a snap, Su Xiao's crystal left arm shattered. He meditated to restore his mana to full. He put on the Proud Song Ring and activated "Equipment Effect 2·Perfect Flawless". The Proud Song Crystal formed a "Battle Prosthetic" very slowly. But the crystal left arm changed from the original semi-transparent, faintly blue, to a transparent blue crystal quality. After more than an hour, the crystal left arm was finally constructed.
"Azure Steel Shadow·Defense Form: Proud Song (Passive), can generate crystals of any shape to defend against enemy attacks. Crystal strength is proportional to the mana consumed. The single mana consumption upper limit is 10% of the current 'Mana Upper Limit'..."
The current limit of Proud Song Crystal was consuming 10% of the "Mana Upper Limit". After a 9-fold increase, this crystal left arm consumed all of Su Xiao's mana, which was 30 million points of mana.
Moving the newly constructed crystal left arm, it was as flexible as the previous crystal prosthetic. However, the battle prosthetic nervous system might have increased from 93% restoration to 97%～98% restoration. The battle prosthetic strength even broke through from 99% to 100%. The battle prosthetic touch did not improve, still at 95% restoration.
Compared to these, the biggest improvement was the hardness of this crystal left arm. Su Xiao felt that as long as his strength was sufficient, this crystal arm could catch Deer God's battle staff barehanded. At most, the forearm and other parts would crack. It would definitely not be like before, where the battle staff hit his chest and the crystal left arm shattered immediately.
This was undoubtedly a life-saving method at critical moments. Besides this, Su Xiao had another idea: after returning to Reincarnation Paradise this time, in the Land of All Beings·Tenth Layer, he would develop "No-Blade Style", which meant being unarmed as if holding a blade.
It was not to show off with flashy moves, but to use "No-Blade Style" with the crystal left arm, thereby using "Perfect Block". If this succeeded, this crystal left arm would truly be a life-saving trump card at critical moments.
Taking out the [Talent Fusion Stone (Highest Grade)] he had prepared earlier, the Tuanzhang had already told him how to break through the current 500-point attribute barrier. The first step was to fuse the talent ability.
Part of Su Xiao's life force surged into the [Talent Fusion Stone].
[Yes/No to use Talent Fusion Stone for talent fusion. Once talents are fused, they cannot be reverted through any means.]
[Please select the talent abilities required for fusion.]