Chapter 355 : Chapter 355

Chapter 355: Earth Vein and Chains

The price of using an extraordinary item was indeed to absorb a person's flesh and blood.

As someone who had complete control over my own body, I could clearly feel that this was a flesh and blood plunder that had a higher priority than the sacrificial ritual completed by those Nightmare Demons.

For the previous sacrificial ritual, I could ignore its effect just by achieving perfect control over my whole body.

But now, the price of using this extraordinary item, I actually couldn't resist it perfectly.

But I found that as long as I completely concentrated on controlling my body, the price of using the extraordinary item could be offset by my own strength.

And the effect... was not diluted!

What did this mean?

This meant that the principle of operation of an extraordinary item was not to consume a "price" to complete an "effect," but a higher level of operation, somewhat similar to completing a ritual to produce an effect.

Then could this be understood as an extraordinary item being a special ritual?

Paying a price to complete a ritual, and the ritual producing an effect.

No wonder that the first City Lord had consumed that flesh and blood energy so quickly back then.

It was because he didn't have his own strength to offset the price of the extraordinary item, which was equivalent to having zero resistance to the side effects.

So he needed a huge price to achieve a general effect.

So, if I used my body as the price, the effect I could achieve should not be worse than that of the first City Lord.

As expected... the insurance of the Resurrection Spell was really used correctly.

At this moment, my right hand, because it was the first to touch the extraordinary item, was the first to become withered.

This effect gradually spread to the entire right half of my body.

But at this moment, I once again obtained the blessing of Destiny.

That's right, this time the blessing was completed by my own means.

The power of Destiny did not take effect just because it was on me.

Its use required a prerequisite.

For example, a Child of Destiny, in a desperate situation, a special state like turning the tables against the wind, only then would the Destiny erupt.

And now, with the help of this extraordinary item formed by this Seed of Destiny, I only needed to pay a price to complete the active eruption of the power of Destiny.

That Nightmare Demon before was right.

The power of Destiny, to become a person favored by the world, this kind of thing would really make people addicted.

But I hadn't reached the point of addiction yet.

I was using the power of Destiny naturally to find and lock on to the so-called abstract concept of the Earth Vein chains.

Although I wanted to find this thing to sever it, Destiny was not some kind of artificial intelligence search thing.

What did it care what I was looking for?

When I put this thought in my first important position at the moment of the Destiny's eruption, then this unreasonable power of Destiny would make an effort to push the script forward.

The Academy Head still wanted to use the power of the script to promote the creation of a Grand Spellbook.

Couldn't I use the Destiny to find something?

And I even had a clue.

The successive deaths and resurrections, personally experiencing the boundary of death, feeling the existence of the soul, and the Earth Vein chains that were deeply rooted in the essence of my life.

The Earth Vein chains that carried the spellbooks and Magic Power Source in my body, this was the basis for me to find them.

To get something in this world, it was only divided into two steps.

The first was to discover it, and the second was to reach for it.

No matter how complicated something was, for example, the starry sky, for example, the truth, people first saw it, understood the concept of its existence, and the rest was all preparation for reaching for it.

When I accepted the effect of the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell, from then on, my mentality had undergone a slight special change.

Perhaps this was the embodiment of wisdom?

Of course, maybe this was just my one-sided understanding of wisdom.

But you can't deny that I did get something useful from it.

The fact that the effect of the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell always existed would not change.

And now... faced with this Abyssal Demon whose name I still didn't know, I just needed to provoke it.

"Now!"

I said to myself in my heart.

In the next moment, I took advantage of a gap and struck directly at its face, or rather, its eyes.

For most life forms, the eyes were the window to observe the world, and also an extremely fragile organ.

Now, this blow used body cultivator strength as the main means, and the focused Fireball as the means to break through its eyelid defense.

It directly smashed the entire structure and organ of its right eye.

But just this was not enough.

Acid Corrosion Curse, Explosion Trap, floating spells, to completely and continuously destroy its vision.

Aren't you good at healing?

Aren't you good at limb regeneration, organ regeneration?

Then I will make your passive regeneration become the starter of your pain.

And now... perception enhancement, five senses improvement, to instill the concept of pain in its mind.

But unfortunately, I didn't have any spells like numbness dispelling, so when this monster adapted to this pain and visual deprivation, then I would still be in danger.

But this was enough for now.

After all, I just wanted to provoke it.

Provoking it was to make it release an even more terrifying power.

And blinding it was to increase the fault tolerance of my operation, and by the way, to buy me more time.

"Earth Vein chains..."

I might not be able to turn an abstract concept into a concrete thing.

Only when you actually do something will you understand how difficult it is.

But when you start to solve the difficulty, you will find that this is just a deduction from the known to the unknown.

"Found you!"

When I said this sentence, the extraordinary item had already completely drained me.

And it was precisely because of this that it once again sent me to the edge of life and death.

And this time, with full preparation, I would not miss this opportunity again! In this void, I tightly grasped that thing that I thought was the Earth Vein chain.

It carried the Magic Power Source and the spellbooks.

Even though these two things had never truly belonged to me, at this moment, they became the lighthouse that pointed the way for me, pointing in the direction I was pursuing.

In this void, there was always a wisp of golden Destiny accompanying me, always guiding me in the direction of progress when I was lost.

It was a shore that seemed to be forever unreachable, but I still went on without hesitation, because I had no choice.

Until that ray of light was magnified in my eyes, getting closer and closer, within reach... a white brilliance enveloped my entire world.

I came from that void to a place I had never been before.

Until I turned around, a river that reached the sky was hidden in the horizon.

It came from an unreachable distance, rushing over.

And its end was also unclear.

It seemed to be flowing on the boundary of the world, winding and flowing, passing through countless twists and turns, and dividing into tributaries and sections.

Because of the rushing of the river, the world had vitality.

The river carried endless unknown power, and the waves that splashed at every turn turned into phantoms of life, from birth to death in just an instant.

It was a long river, carrying endless information, and flowing with soul-substance.

It seemed to be the source of all life's development, attracting me forward.

"What is that?"

My voice echoed in my consciousness, but no one gave an answer.

But that rushing river, and that familiar feeling, my intuition told me that this was the Earth Vein.

Then could this be the Earth Vein river?

Just as I wanted to go forward, that wisp of golden thread wrapped around my waist, pulling my figure and hindering my forward steps.

But I still moved forward.

As I took another step forward, more and more golden threads wrapped around my body at this moment, binding my wrists, ankles, and neck...

But I still moved forward, because that long river of the Earth Vein, there was always a tributary that was aimed at me.

I didn't know what that was.

Maybe that was the most original, the Earth Vein chain that protected me.

"Just a little more..."

I stretched my arm desperately, reaching for that Earth Vein chain that was just a hair's breadth away.

More and more threads of Destiny wrapped around my body at this moment, taking root in my body.

Until my fingertips touched that Earth Vein...

Tch!

The tributary of the Earth Vein pierced through my body the moment it came into contact with me.

No... here, even my body was just an abstract concept of my consciousness.

In the next moment, I felt a series of unknown things begin to appear in my body.

It took root in every part of my body, controlling my entirety.

And the source of all this was connected to the tributary of the Earth Vein that had pierced through my body.

"So... this is the Earth Vein chain... finally... I see it..."

That tributary from the Earth Vein, rather than piercing through my body, it was more like establishing a connection with me as a life.

It was precisely because of this connection that my Spirit Vision shared the information of the Earth Vein chains.

So in my field of vision, the Earth Vein chains slowly appeared, because it was originally rooted in my life.

At this moment, it was as if all my energy had been drained.

I let the threads of Destiny pull me back.

If I had looked back at this moment, I would have found that the source of the threads of Destiny... was also a long river...

When I opened my eyes again, I knew that I had already returned at this moment.

The ritual of the Resurrection Spell had dissipated after being used because of my consciousness blackout.

In that void of consciousness and the process of seeing the Earth Vein river and then seeing the Earth Vein chains, I felt that a long, long time had passed.

But now it seemed that all of this was just an instant.

The monster that had lost its vision was still roaring.

And after I had experienced that strange encounter, when I looked at myself again with my Spirit Vision, I saw the Earth Vein chains that were rooted in every part of my body, like a network covering my entire body.

It was more like a cage, imprisoning my life in the chains woven from my body.

So... now I finally understood why the so-called severing of the Earth Vein chains was so difficult.

Perhaps after being promoted to a transcendent, the new life level would have enough power to remove these chains one by one.

But I had no choice.

To completely escape this chain, the only way was to completely destroy this whole thing!

But my repeated use of the Resurrection Spell proved that even the Resurrection Spell could not sever this Earth Vein chain that was like a maggot clinging to the bone, because it was not just locking my body, but also the connection with my essence.

Otherwise, no matter how I replaced my body, the Earth Vein chain could still use me as a medium to turn the body into a cage.

It was hard to imagine how desperate the first person to discover the Earth Vein chain must have been.

So... I have to "die" one more time.

As for death, I'm not afraid of dying, just afraid of dying without value.

It is precisely because the Earth Vein chains are rooted in every part of my body that I can't use the Resurrection Spell anymore.

At least, the Resurrection Spell used before completely severing the Earth Vein chains is meaningless to me.

Only the loss of the body can expose the connection between the Earth Vein chains and my essence to my eyes.

But now there was another difficult problem, and that was that without a body meant that there was no carrier to carry my soul.

Without a carrier and five senses, there was no channel to contact and perceive the world.

Just like the void I was in every time I died, it was formed by the loss of the channel for information exchange with the outside world.

Can one really not perceive the world without a body?

No... there was one thing that clearly told me that even if there was no body to carry the consciousness in reality, they could still observe this world in the dream, especially here where the dream and reality overlapped.

The Nightmare Demon.

So... the dream could also carry consciousness... then can the dream carry an independent soul?

How does it carry it?

Perhaps I need a Nightmare Demon to deduce a primal rune ritual just like when I researched the Nightmare, and finally summarize it into a Nightmare Spell.

Then I can also summarize a Nightmare Demon spell through the Nightmare Demon... even if I can't do it, because I just need to prove one question, that is, whether the dream can carry my soul after I lose my shell, and let me get the channel to perceive the world.

But... now there was another problem, a very serious one, and that was that those Nightmare Demons had all been killed by me... No, there was still hope.

There were still the Nightmare Demons in the extraordinary research base that I hadn't had time to deal with.

Although those Nightmare Demons seemed to be just simple defective products, they could travel between the dream and reality, which was enough.

I was confident that with the blessing of Destiny, the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell, Spirit Vision, the Memory Bookshelf spellbook, the Unity of Knowledge and Action, and the Flexible Learning and Application, I could turn their talents into a spell I could master.

Unconsciously... I had already mastered so many learning means... but it was not enough, far from enough.

As long as I was still hindered by difficulties for even a moment, it was not enough.

Greed, at this moment, was displayed by me to the fullest.

"Hmm? It seems I don't need to run that far to the base."

Just as I was about to run, I suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure.

It was the Nightmare Demon who had brought the extraordinary item to the underground before.

Sure enough, it was right not to kill her back then!

When I locked onto this Nightmare Demon, the other party also directly looked at me.

After all, she was still here in the hope of seeing that Blackstone Troll crush her enemy.

The Blackstone Troll did indeed crush me several times as she wished, but the other party was obviously not very smart, and in the end, I was resurrected.

"Don't... don't come over ahhh!"

"It's okay! It won't hurt. I'm not going to kill you."

I showed her a "kind" smile.

To be able to meet her at this time was really my good fortune!

"As long as you cooperate with me nicely, I will guarantee that you will not be in any danger during this period. If you don't cooperate, I can't guarantee it."

I grabbed her.

To understand her talent ability, to travel between reality and the dream, I naturally needed her to constantly demonstrate it and cooperate with my observation.

And more, I still wanted to understand how she used the dream as a carrier to carry her consciousness in the dream, and through what channel her consciousness received information from the outside world.

After solving this problem, I could officially try to sever the Earth Vein chains.

Wasn't this the purpose of my trip?

Everything was for the sake of breaking away from the script as soon as possible.

For this, I could pay any price.