2631 Exclusive Skill: Vine Tempering Garrotte!
Fortunately, most feys at that level had strong spirit qi professionals accompanying them. These professionals helped the feys endure the challenging ordeal posed by their inner demons. Consequently, over half of the feys who underwent this grueling confrontation with their inner demons managed to advance successfully to the Eternal Breed.
However, the situation was quite different for wild feys, who lacked contracts with spirit qi professionals. Their likelihood of successfully transitioning from the Immortal Breed to the Eternal Breed was less than 10%!
Lin Yuan had readied himself to assist Green Vine during its inner demons’ trial. When feys reached the Eternal stage, they became unable to handle the evolution trials on their own.
Upon hearing Lin Yuan’s words, Green Vine composed itself and began absorbing the spirit qi crystals. It sensed the security of its evolution toward the Eternal stage and the imminent transformation of its life rank. This was indeed a prime opportunity for it to augment its power.
While engrossed in absorbing the spirit qi crystals, Green Vine suddenly felt an overwhelming surge of power welling up within it. This burgeoning power brought along a multitude of thoughts and desires.
Simultaneously, Lin Yuan grappled with these very thoughts and desires, undergoing an experience mirroring Green Vine’s.
A long tug of war against Green Vine’s inner demons thus began!
With Lin Yuan’s help, Green Vine managed to emerge victorious in the tug of war and successfully evolved to Eternal. It was now a true Eternal Breed fey.
Green Vine should be considered Eternal I now.
Lin Yuan did not have the time to check the new exclusive skill that Green Vine gained after evolving to Eternal as he quickly moved on to help it with its second battle against its inner demons.
Now that they had already experienced it once, Lin Yuan and Green Vine both had an easier time during the second grilling by inner demons.
Green Vine’s path had been relatively simple thus far. Hence, its inner demons were all rather mild.
Nonetheless, after taking on 12 waves of attacks from the inner demons, Lin Yuan and Green Vine were psychologically exhausted, especially Lin Yuan, an A-rank spirit qi professional.
Green Vine’s body had become its Eternal Heart, which was able to help defend against the inner demons.
Luckily, after Green Vine produced the Eternal Heart, the burden that Lin Yuan needed to shoulder decreased substantially.
The evolved Perfect Touch Wisteria went over to Lin Yuan’s side and did not hesitate to place its inky green Eternal Heart in his hands. It was just like a child who was happily showing off its perfect test score to its parent.
When Lin Yuan held up Green Vine’s Eternal Heart, he saw that it resembled a dark green phantom quartz. The image of Green Vine’s original body could be seen within the crystal.
Green Vine said seriously, “Yuan, my Eternal Heart’s ability is Accommodation. It can be triggered in many different forms during battle. When I’m under attack, I can try accommodating the energy within the target’s attack and absorb it to replenish myself.
“My Eternal Heart will then analyze the target. The more energy I accommodate, the better understanding I will have of the target and the easier it will be for me to find a way to counter the target!”
Lin Yuan nodded lightly.
It appeared to be very simple if that was all there was to Green Vine’s Eternal Heart ability. Yet, it was not ordinary in the slightest.
It was actually the opposite in that it could even bring a powerful enemy to its knees. It was also possible for Accommodation to fully analyze a target after absorbing its energy, turning the tables of the battle.
Furthermore, Green Vine’s abilities mostly came from the abilities it gained from absorbing the eight entities.
Lin Yuan only chose the best options to fill these eight spots. Thus, it was very unlikely they would have overlapping properties as powerful entities usually had unique abilities that could not be replicated.
Examples would be the dark gold snake scales, faerie blood, and High Sovereign metals. All of them had completely different abilities.
Hence, if the Eternal Heart’s ability could only benefit a small number of entities, it would not be as useful as Accommodation, which could affect anything it came into contact with!
Lin Yuan returned the Eternal Heart to Green Vine.
Looking at Green Vine, he felt a strange feeling come over him.
Lin Yuan’s power had never been linked to his spirit qi professional rank. His power came from him using special methods to take control of other experts and make them submit to him.
But now, he was a spirit qi professional who had only recently reached A-rank but possessed a High Sovereign X/Eternal XII fey.
No one would believe that this was true if he told him about this!
Lin Yuan had only been a spirit qi professional for two years.
However, there were no shortcuts to increasing one’s spirit qi professional rank.
Lin Yuan could only stay the course and increase his power as he waited for the Sleeper’s Revival plan to begin and the dead spirits to rise up.
The battle against the dead spirits would be a long and drawn-out one.
During this time, Lin Yuan would definitely be able to raise his spirit qi professional rank.
As the war progressed, the alien and demon insects would be able to develop and grow.
Lin Yuan would also be able to use this time to build up the resources in the Spirit Lock spatial zone, so he would not have to worry about his supply of resources once he went to the Sky Beyond the Clouds!
Lin Yuan used True Data to check on Green Vine, which was now his highest-graded fey.
[Fey Name]: Perfect Touch Wisteria
[Fey Species]: Strong armor wisteria species/long wisteria species
[Fey Grade]: High Sovereign (10/10)
[Fey Type]: Wood
[Fey Quality]: Eternal XII
Abilities:
[Forbidden Growth]: After contracting any lifeform, it can break the limit that comes with the contract. As long as it has sufficient energy, it will be able to continuously increase its power. When it has absorbed the maximum amount of energy, it will be able to comprehend a required Willpower Rune.
[Peak Sturdiness]: A large amount of the absorbed energy can be used up to increase the durability of the vines. When injured, the energy can also be used to repair the vines.
[Long Vine Application]: Choose two vines that will be applied to one vine. The vine with the two vines applied on it will be able to gain the two vines’ abilities.
[Paralysizing Vine Sap]: When damage is sustained, the vine sap with paralyzing effects can be sprayed out from the wound.
[Brutally Pushing Out of Soil]: When faced with the opponent’s defenses, the seeds’ sprouting strength can be activated to help break past the opponent’s defenses.
[Root’s Parasitic Restraints]: Pick a target, and the target’s body will become soil where roots will grow. The roots will absorb the target’s vitality to cause harm to the target.
[Splitting Illusionary Spikes]: When the illusionary spikes pierce a target’s body, the illusionary spikes will turn into a seed that will germinate in the target’s body and produce even more illusionary spikes.
[Avoidance Wedge]: Every time Green Vine is injured, a wedge will grow over its surface. Every three layers will turn into a sharp spike that will be able to increase the vines’ effects while boosting them.
[Combined Vines Defense]: Pick a target to apply to and help it to defend against external attacks. Green Vine’s own vitality will be sacrificed to protect the target it is applied to.
Exclusive Skill:
[Swallow Same Source]: Every vine will have the same grade and quality, but they can be separated to act as individual entities. Every vine can consume something and take control of its attributes. The swallowed entity cannot be spat out, but an even higher level item can replace it. (Once it gains attributes, the vine cannot be separated again.)
[Broken Vine Replacement]: When a vine is destroyed during combat, another vine can be picked to take on the damage instead to save the first vine.
[Energy Gather Illusionary Thorn]: The energy within the vines can be gathered at a certain spot. An illusionary thorn comprised of energy will sprout from this spot. The illusionary thorn will be undetectable.
[Tactile Vine Wood World]: All of the wood-type energy and vitality stored within the vines will be released. The wood-type energy and vitality will transform into a large number of vines. The vines will intertwine and form a world of vines. The main body will fuse with this world to attack targets. Before the wooden world is broken, all the damage sustained by the main body will be reduced and shouldered by the wooden world.
[Entire Body Medium]: Sacrifice the item that the vine had absorbed and release the source of the item through a medium. The released source will not have any knowledge but will possess all of its original power. (Compare the proportion of energy that the source comprises of within the item to determine how long the released source will be able to remain outside.)
[Vine Tempering Garrotte]: Use the long vines to garrotte other lifeforms. If the target’s bloodline is more elite than that of Green Vine, Green Vine can absorb the target’s bloodline to strengthen its own bloodline. This will also strengthen every vine that has absorbed an entity through Swallow Same Source.
Lin Yuan observed that Green Vine had acquired a new exclusive skill named Vine Tempering Garrotte. This skill would allow Green Vine to absorb the bloodline of a stronger target and use it to fortify its own bloodline. This unique ability would lead to a gradual enhancement of Green Vine’s bloodline.
Until now, Green Vine’s bloodline had remained unchanged, proving inferior to the bloodlines of numerous other Eternal Breed feys. It lacked the capacity to reinforce its bloodline by assimilating entities through its own bloodline.
However, a solution had finally emerged, providing a means to strengthen its bloodline effectively.
Additionally, it seemed that this method of enhancing its bloodline had no apparent limitations. As long as Green Vine didn’t reach the pinnacle of its bloodline, there would always be room for growth.
Vine Tempering Garrotte bore a striking resemblance to Green Vine’s Eternal Heart ability. Both involved augmenting the bloodline by absorbing another’s bloodline, but Vine Tempering Garrotte had a more ambitious undertone compared to Accommodation.
While Green Vine only alluded to utilizing Accommodation defensively during disadvantaged situations, Vine Tempering Garrotte seemed to carry a more avaricious implication.
After using Vine Tempering Garrotte to strengthen its bloodline, every one of Green Vine’s vines would be boosted.
There were not many feys with powerful bloodlines in the main world that Green Vine could hunt down. Most feys with powerful bloodlines were linked to spirit qi professionals from powerful factions.
It would not be convenient for Lin Yuan to evolve Green Vine’s bloodline. Once he went to the Sky Beyond the Clouds, where lifeforms with elite bloodlines lived, Green Vine’s bloodline could be evolved immediately!
As he looked over his remaining spirit qi crystals, Lin Yuan realized that Green Vine had used less than 10% of his store of spirit qi crystals to evolve to High Sovereign X/Eternal XII.
Although most of Morbius’ World Grace had gone to evolving the Spirit Lock spatial zone and splitting its body, Lin Yuan still ended up accumulating a significant amount of spirit qi crystals!
Lin Yuan was very curious to find out if the spirit qi crystals could help Green Vine reach World Emperor and the divine-kingdom level.
Lin Yuan asked seriously, “Green Vine, how is your condition now? Are you able to continue evolving your grade, or do you need to rest for a while first?”
Green Vine shook its head. “I can continue evolving now without any issues. If I reach that gate, I will let you know immediately and won’t insist on continuing to evolve!”
Lin Yuan smiled and said, “If that’s the case, you can continue absorbing spirit qi crystals!”
Green Vine immediately started absorbing spirit qi crystals again.
Lin Yuan learned from his communication with Mystic Moon that Above Eternal, the birth-horoscope, and spirit-fire levels did not come with new abilities or exclusive skills. Thus, they were still considered within the rage of Eternal XII.
This was akin to the detailed categories within a large segment.
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While Green Vine absorbed spirit qi crystals, the Major Federation Union meeting continued for half a day.
In the Radiance Sacred Hall, leaders of various federations wore serious expressions as they grappled with the news revealed by the Moon Empress.
They struggled to believe her words. The main world appeared tranquil, but lurking in the darkness was a terrifying danger.
Tower Canon wasn’t unfamiliar to federations with Class 5 Creation Masters. However, factions with only Class 4 Creation Masters were clueless about it. This unheard-of organization was plotting to upend the entire main world, ushering in a new era.
These federation leaders were horrified by this plan and unsure how to address the issue. They felt powerless in the face of this crisis. Could they survive such a dire threat?
If victory seemed unattainable, the purpose of establishing the Major Federation Union came into question.
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