"Haven’t encountered a Boundary Breaker yet, have they no sense of ambition??" After clearing another area, Zheng Yichen gazed into the distance. Till now, the enemies he encountered were all Evil Spirits, which probably hadn’t received any substantial information.
Upon seeing him, they beca particularly agitated, always wanting to co over for a bite, only to be thoroughly consud by him. Zheng Yichen had also been to Hell, where the situation remained similar to before, with newly spawned Evil Spirits and ntal Aberration creatures being the most prevalent.
Compared to what he had seen before, this was much cleaner.
"BOSS, you must understand that those Boundary Breakers aren’t fools; if they know they can’t win, they certainly won’t seek their own deaths," Lilith seriously explained this fact to Zheng Yichen, having already helped him analyze so situations.
It’s highly likely that the Boundary Breakers have joined forces with the Evil Spirits. By now, they should be aware of the ’Proxy Agent’s arrival, and might even know of Zheng Yichen’s identity...
"That’s really lacking in ambition; by killing , they would achieve fa and success," Zheng Yichen said as he took out the white ball and squeezed it. After being fed by him in large quantities, the white ball had undergone significant changes; its texture had greatly improved, and after being flattened and rolled, no fragnts inside could be felt – it seed as if the fragnts had been completely digested.
He tried to take out the previous fragnts again, but the white ball showed no interest at all.
"You’re picky now, huh? Do you really want to use this in a summoning ritual?" Tossing the fragnt in his hand, since the white ball was so uncooperative, then be it. The souls he had collected were already plenty, not to ntion the accumulated heaps of soul fragnts and debris.
Fragnts and debris couldn’t be used for soul control; besides storing them, they offered no enhancent to him. In contrast, complete souls brought him considerable improvent.
Up until now, the souls had provided him with a 22% base enhancent. He realized that with each increase in the rate of enhancent, he needed more souls to advance further. Otherwise, with the number of souls he had now, he could have increased his base enhancent by at least 35%...
The pathway of quantity wasn’t blocked, but going for volu required vastly more souls, similar to how the number of Dusk nuns corresponded to this world’s population. As long as life continued to multiply, the number of Dusk nuns would always increase and not remain fixed.
It was just that the ratio of increase would significantly spike, and in the future, the number of intelligent beings required to add one Dusk nun in other worlds would allow the number of Dusk nuns there to surge from zero to more than ten.
"While pursuing quantity, one must also maintain a sufficient quality unit." Arriving in Hell and releasing bait, he attracted all the Evil Spirits and ntal Aberration creatures he could. After a battle that didn’t last very long, the summoning ritual Zheng Yichen had prepared began to take effect. The still-alive Evil Spirits and ntal Aberration creatures attempted to escape in terror, but ultimately beca part of the ritual.
Zheng Yichen threw all the useless soul fragnts and debris into it. Inside the White Light summoning ritual, a brief torrential downpour ford by Soul Power took place. After completing this, he tossed the Great Evil God fragnt, now devoid of soul, into the magic array formation.
This ti, the light bursting from the summoning ritual wasn’t a sky-reaching white light; within the brilliance, hints of ice blue were also visible.
"What will it be this ti?" Zheng Yichen once again awaited expectantly, while Lilith, perched on his shoulder, appeared calm.
She said, "BOSS, the summoning ritual has a high degree of randomness. Introducing so guiding materials will affect the result, but if you’re looking for beautiful won or cute girls as summoned spirits, it’s difficult to achieve. Based on my analysis, if you want to summon that type of spirit, perhaps by inserting one or several strong and resilient young female souls, you might get what you wish for?"
"Let’s discuss that when I encounter a powerful and evil sorceress," Zheng Yichen waited for the summoning ritual to end, while the fire dragon rambled on about how summoning rituals in this world are prone to issues. Zheng Yichen dismissed the possibility with a ’Pff’.
So far, the summoning rituals he had used always went smoothly... cough cough.
Alright, except for the summoning rituals released through the fishing rod, they did tend to go awry, starting with environntal distortion. Summoned spirits born out of such distortion were anything but normal; Evil Spirits turned eviler, Heroic Spirits no so heroic, or worse, they might not appear at all.
Moreover, the environntal distortion caused by those rituals could affect nearby individuals, leading them to willingly beco part of the ritual and turn into sacrifices.
With a bit of luck and no intervention, if Zheng Yichen threw an out-of-control summoning ritual into the city center and gained a stable start, then it was only a matter of ti before an entire city fell. The more input a summoning ritual received, the greater its impact, and the higher its intensity would beco.
Zheng Yichen didn’t know whether summoning rituals inherently had this effect, or if it was a manifestation of ’growth potential’ within this world’s special environnt. But anything that exhibited growth potential was always interesting to delve into.
The summoning ritual ended, and the chill spread across the ground. Zheng Yichen, feeling the final form of an ice crystal, had an odd expression on his face; the object before him resembled an ice block but was quite stylish. Its shape reminded Zheng Yichen of the Fifth Angel from an ani.
As he approached, he could feel the cold intensifying. However, this chill didn’t bring a physical sensation of cold, but rather a cool feeling. It also gave Zheng Yichen a peculiar sense of déjà vu—was this cold similar to that of the Ice Heart Mantra?
Well, if the silhouette Evil Spirit that beca a shadow after being burned to ashes had the Flas of Rage, then this ice crystal Heroic Spirit, resembling the Fifth Angel, possessed... lazy freezing.
No, it was in its Heroic Spirit form now, not an Evil Spirit. Given the multi-handed Heroic Spirit as a reference, even if the attributes were the sa, so aspects would be inverse. So what effect did this kind of freezing power have?
Zheng Yichen decided to test it out and found that this freezing power was different from what he’d previously experienced. The most straightforward comparison was that the Great Evil God’s freezing made people first feel lazy and depressed, and the more they indulged in it, the stronger the freezing power beca.
The freezing exhibited by the ice crystal Heroic Spirit, on the other hand, was ’stability,’ still related to ’laziness’ but manifested in a different form. The Great Evil God released an energy that made people depressed and lazy, a surrender to all, while this energy made people positively ’lazy,’ to better ’slack off.’
When using this power on one’s allies, it could stabilize their positive ntal state. For instance, when one’s spirit of struggle against evil and disorder ignited, peaking and about to decline.
The ice crystal could freeze this ntal state, keeping it stable at its peak for a long ti. However, once this was done, it would beco difficult to improve upon the existing foundation due to the stable freezing.
Correspondingly, the effect of this stabilizing freeze was ’damage’ when applied to chaos and disorder, including demonic thoughts. The more chaotic and disordered sothing was, the stronger the feedback from the stabilizing elent of the freeze, enhancing the freezing power.
Overall, while the power of the ice crystal wouldn’t make people more active or hard-working, it could keep those who were positive and diligent in their optimal state without change, whereas chaos and disorder were constantly undergoing dramatic changes.
The power of the ice crystal could ’lazily’ freeze them, preventing them from changing with the chaos and disorder.
"Is this not too bad?"
"...Boss, in many ways, this power is already very buggy. As long as the force it exerts doesn’t dissipate, the enthusiasm of the affected person in that aspect will remain forever. That’s very powerful," Lilith observed the octahedral crystal floating in mid-air, one ter in diater and two ters tall.
This Heroic Spirit and the silhouette Evil Spirit had opposite attributes, but their modes of attack were similar; the flas or ice they generated spread from the inside out.
The ash-like silhouette Evil Spirit carried the Flas of Rage which required anger as fuel. The ice from the ice crystal beca stronger with the stimulus of chaos and disorder. When used on allies, since it’s a buff and not considering damage, it was irrelevant whether the stimulation would lead to improvent—it was key for the ntal state to be frozen.
Under this frozen state, if an ally was subjected to a chaotic and disordered type of ntal attack, it would instead stimulate this freezing power, further stabilizing and maintaining the person’s ntal state, forming a unique kind of protection.
Zheng Yichen, a being with multiple attributes, quickly clarified the characteristics of the ice crystal’s power.
He wouldn’t be able to use this kind of freezing during the Demonic Abyss Seven Kills; even though the Heroic Spirit was linked to Zheng Yichen in a master-servant relationship, this wasn’t enough to distort the characteristics of the ice crystal’s power. If he forced the freezing power of the ice crystal on himself, because of the ice crystal’s presence to avoid harm, he would indeed be frozen.
Zheng Yichen considered it a novel idea. Since it could avoid self-inflicted damage, he could attempt to create a specialized ’refrigerator’ form to resist external attacks. By using the demonic thoughts capable of deploying the Demonic Abyss Seven Kills to stimulate the freezing power of the ice crystal, he could surely form a very solid ice block.
"It’s weaker compared to the silhouette Evil Spirit; it needs to be strengthened," Zheng Yichen remarked, patting the body of the ice crystal Heroic Spirit. The object looked like a large ice block, but touching it still only brought a cool sensation, not causing frostbite from continuous contact like holding an ice block.
It would be perfect for sleeping with on hot sumr nights.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t so Frost Queen or an expressionless cute girl, which Zheng Yichen found slightly regrettable as he stored away the ice crystal Heroic Spirit. Having used up most of his rare materials and the Essence of Life almost filling his bones, he didn’t need to hunt extensively anymore. He could gradually fill up the gaps with daily indulgences in food and drink.
It was ti to get back to serious business!
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