Chapter 8: Raising Severing Soul Shadow by 3 Levels, Pushing It to the Limit, Consuming a Total of 24 Soul Energy Crystals.
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Given Su Xiao’s current physique, enhancing his mastered Law-Destruction abilities would not send him into slumber, nor would he rush them all at once. He began enhancing them one by one according to the plan above, with Azure Shadow King being the first to complete.
[Azure Shadow King: X (Ultimate Skill)]
Skill Effect (State 1: Shadow Form Active): No change.
Skill Effect (State 2: Annihilation Shadow Active): Immediately consume 3000 points of Azure Shadow King Energy. The next attack deals True Damage equal to 180% of the enemy’s lost body energy.
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As long as Su Xiao’s physique is strong enough, once the enemy’s body energy is burned away by the Azure Steel Shadow ability, they will then face a Law Destroyer whose every blade strike carries Annihilation Shadow.
The enhancements to Supreme Blade, Devouring Core, and Magic-Null Physique were all major amplifications of their original traits, with no new features added. As for the bonus from Adaptive Force to True All Resistance, it increased from 10% to 25%. Among the series of abilities, the enhancement to Combat Prosthesis was somewhat unique.
[Combat Prosthesis, X (Passive)]
Skill Effect 1: Increases Proud Song state intensity by 2060% (an increase of 1100%). Crystal formation and adhesion speed increased by 223% (an increase of 125%). Crystal stability has reached its maximum value.
Skill Effect 2: If an upper or lower limb is missing (arms or legs), a combat prosthesis can be quickly formed using Proud Song crystals to replace the lost limb’s function. The combat prosthesis can stably exist for 568,000 natural days.
Combat Prosthesis Strength: 100% restoration (maximum).
Combat Prosthesis Speed: 100% restoration (maximum).
Combat Prosthesis Touch: 99.99% restoration (maximum).
Combat Prosthesis Nervous System: 99.99% restoration (maximum).
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As for the two abilities, Demon Spirit Awakening and Demon Devouring Physique, Su Xiao no longer needed them. In the simplest terms, these two abilities were:
Demon Spirit Awakening: Fully release the demon spirit. Within the subsequent 30 seconds, can slay Abyss Spawn with the indestructible trait of one-third health.
Demon Devouring Physique: Seize 50% of the demon spirit’s absorbed demonic energy, enhancing Base Health Points and Abyss Resistance.
Now, these two abilities have merged into a single ability called Shadow Granting.
[Shadow Granting, X (Passive)]
Skill Effect: By consuming this ability, you can transform one of your currently mastered abilities into a Law-Destruction Shadow System ability.
Note: This transformation has a 50% success rate.
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Seeing this passive, Su Xiao immediately had a choice: Perfect Block. He estimated that if this ability were transformed into the Law-Destruction Shadow System, the success rate should be over 80%, rather than the maximum of 50% for other abilities.
Perfect Block was originally an ability of the Silver Moon Wolf system, but Su Xiao had raised it to an unprecedented level. If it successfully transformed into the Law-Destruction system now, it meant this ability could be enhanced using Soul Energy Crystals.
The enhancement began quietly. Su Xiao felt the technique-protecting energy throughout his body grow scorching hot. When everything settled, the Perfect Block ability appeared in his Law-Destruction system skill list.
This left only Severing Soul Shadow yet to be enhanced. Consuming 24 Soul Energy Crystals to raise Severing Soul Shadow, this enhancement felt very unique and smooth to Su Xiao. Moreover, this feeling was not like completing the enhancement of Severing Soul Shadow, but rather something more rooted in his own power, a more peculiar... ability awakening?
[Extreme Shadow: X (Passive)]
Skill Effect: Based on your main attribute’s strength, it will raise the level cap of your core abilities, and more importantly, break through the Absolute Limit.
Note: This is currently the only ability in the Star Realm that can break through the Skill Level Cap Absolute Limit.
Note: Due to Extreme Shadow’s characteristic of extreme intensity escalation, when your Supreme attribute exceeds 50 points, subsequent increases to your Supreme main attributes will provide an extreme magnitude increase to your Core Ability Level Cap, far exceeding the current increase ratio (the Core Ability Level Cap brought by the Supreme attribute range of 50 to 60 points alone can surpass the increase from the current 1 to 50 points of Supreme attributes).
Currently enhanced core ability: Heaven Edge Shadow Slash.
Number of Absolute Limit breakthroughs: One (the Absolute Limit that appeared when Heaven Edge Shadow Slash reached level 200).
Current increased level cap: 30 levels (Heaven Edge Shadow Slash’s level cap successfully reached Lv.205, having broken through the Absolute Limit once).
Note: The higher the level cap of Heaven Edge Shadow Slash, the more difficult subsequent enhancements become. When reaching the level cap of Lv.200, it is an extremely difficult level cap to break through. Currently, it can only be broken through using the Extreme Shadow ability (successfully broken through). If other abilities or Star Realm curios with this trait are used to enhance it, your Heaven Edge Shadow Slash level cap will inevitably stagnate upon reaching Lv.200, wasting subsequent enhancement power.
Note: The creator of this ability is Law-Destruction Shadow Su Xiao.
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Indeed, the Severing Soul Shadow ability had changed. This involved the current Soul Annihilation effect of Severing Soul Shadow, which was that the severed soul part of Su Xiao’s target was immediately destroyed, even at the causal level of soul destruction.
However, when fighting the Abyss Avatar before, Su Xiao had severed its head, and the Abyss Avatar immediately regenerated it. Did Severing Soul Shadow suddenly fail? Not exactly. An Abyss Avatar, as such a powerful Abyss existence, had an immense Spiritual Volume. Having a part severed and destroyed, while it was wary of this, it was not enough to prevent it from continuing to fight.
Moreover, Su Xiao had always developed in the direction where normal slashes were his ultimate moves. This allowed him to first sever souls, then advance from there, to the point where he could now sever causality with his blade. The effect of Severing Soul Shadow Soul Annihilation was essentially to causally destroy the severed part of the Spirit.
Su Xiao’s current blade technique slashes already carried causal annihilation with every strike. Naturally, he did not need to lower dimensions, first sever the Spirit, then causally destroy that part. The reason for this was that his current system had already reached the limit achievable by the Severing Soul Shadow ability. To climb to the highest peak, one must continuously progress and surpass one’s predecessors.
The Extreme Shadow that Su Xiao now possessed was the path he had forged. This also meant he could inscribe it onto the Awakening Stele. If future Law Destroyers wished to walk this path, they could choose among Severing Soul Shadow, Space-Rending Shadow, Demon Devouring Shadow, and Extreme Shadow.
Severing Soul Shadow could touch upon Spirit severing, transformation, and destruction.
Space-Rending Shadow was the fastest, representing sharpness and extreme speed.
Demon Devouring Shadow devoured demon spirits, turning all means of enhancing the demon spirit into self-enhancement, making them extremely difficult to kill.
Extreme Shadow was of moderate strength in the early to mid stages. In the super late game, relying on a powerful physique and technique abilities, it could reach the point where the blade in hand could sever causality.
Why were the Abyss Descendants so wary of Su Xiao? Because being cut by the blade in his hand meant true death for them. There was no need for abilities that specifically countered Abyss Descendants or temporarily activated powers. Every strike from this Law Destroyer was lethal.
Ultimately, the Origin Clan Emblem ensured the Abyss Descendants’ immortality through causal anchoring. The extreme slash that shattered everything was an absolute power that broke through all flashy abilities.
Now, with the existence of the Extreme Shadow ability, it meant Su Xiao could continuously raise the level cap of his Heaven Edge Shadow Slash ability by increasing his Supreme main attributes, thereby raising his technique abilities to a higher degree, and thus converting his powerful physique into combat power on a greater scale.
To make an intuitive conversion analogy, if the base combat power of all Supreme attributes was 1,000,000, then with the current Lv.150 Heaven Edge Shadow Slash ability’s combat power amplification, the final combat power would reach an incredibly absurd height.
Now, with Extreme Shadow, it meant Su Xiao’s snowballing enhancement method in the super late game had achieved a wonderful perfect cycle. Increasing all Supreme main attributes raised the technique ability level cap. Raising the technique ability level brought stronger overall combat power. Stronger overall combat power meant obtaining more resources (Space-Time Power) in subsequent actions, thereby allowing him to increase more Supreme attributes, and then continuously cycle and snowball beneficially.
The various Law-Destruction system abilities had all been enhanced to a considerable degree. This meant that Su Xiao only had four Law-Destruction system abilities left to enhance using Soul Energy Crystals in the future, which were: