Chapter 719: Chapter 50: Update
"It’s fine..."
Feeling the sonic boom ripped at close range, hearing the fierce windstorm driven by the immense power of a punch, Miss Naoki raised her eyebrow, still seriously scrutinizing his condition, carefully sensing his aura, nodding noncommittally, she then asked:
"Should we notify Kikyo and the others?"
"By the way, where did they go? It’s been a while since they seemed to be around the island."
She originally looked exactly like Kikyo, and now she no longer donned the dashing swordsman attire, but instead, she wore the classic witch outfit composed of white clothing and red hakama, thus making her extraordinarily similar at this moment.
"No need for that, they already know... They’re all in another world now."
Gu Mo blinked, hesitated for a moment, and still replied like this.
"Is... is that so..."
Miss Naoki was immediately taken aback, her smile becoming somewhat forced.
So they went on another team-building without her?
"Ahem, actually, the plan hit a little snag, plus there’s a lot going on over there, and they’re really good at dealing with demons, so they’re staying there for a while..." Gu Mo noticed Miss Naoki’s gloominess and earnestly explained.
"Moreover, not going over might not be a bad thing, Naoki, you have no idea the chaotic events happening over there, I’ve even married several times..."
As if recalling some troublesome experiences, he said with a somewhat nostalgic expression.
Naoki: "???"
"But not everyone is over there, Tamamo no Mae’s main body is still in the real world, usually on the Moon, and right now, she went with Hiri to Jupiter’s Moon Europa, my main body is there too. Naoki, if you have the time, you can actually take a look around..."
Gu Mo didn’t explain further, instead, he gently stroked his chin and observed the witch before him as he spoke.
Seeing her appropriately confused expression, he added: "Don’t worry, I already have a way to solve your problem..."
Previously, due to the extremely slow time flow speed on Penglai Island, Miss Naoki didn’t feel much, but now with the need to adjust the time barrier, this issue needs addressing... It’s no longer appropriate to leave Miss Naoki guarding the place alone.
Furthermore, she hasn’t left Penglai Island until now, having come to this world, she’s never had the chance to go out and explore, which is indeed rather pitiful.
Miss Naoki hesitated for a moment, then as expected, displayed a delighted expression: "Really?"
"Of course it’s true, why would I lie to you..."
Gu Mo couldn’t help but chuckle, seeing the girl with Kikyo’s face showing such an expression, he almost had the urge to reach out and pat her head, but thankfully stopped himself just in time, instead extending a long index finger to scratch his cheek.
The witch pressed her lips together, unable to hide her jubilation.
After all, if she were to have the opportunity to escape her current constrained state, akin to being a "Earth-bound Spirit," she would undoubtedly be exceedingly happy.
Even if she doubted the feasibility of such a thing, upon merely contemplating the Divine Dragon form just demonstrated by this person—terrifying yet sacred, possessing the majesty matching the name of a god—he had clearly reached an unimaginable "extreme" realm.
Even though she couldn’t understand what it was all about, and even questioned why this person, whose true self should have been a Nine-tailed Fox, suddenly appeared in such a form, it didn’t prevent Miss Naoki from comprehending that he had ascended to a realm she couldn’t fathom.
Then—
Accomplishing the task she considered impossible seemed only natural.
After another brief conversation to confirm the matter, Miss Naoki became cheerful, happily going to check the condition of the Clanging Cauldron... Gu Mo watched her retreating figure ascending the mountain, shaking his head, somewhat doubting that even if she regained her freedom, she wouldn’t have much use for it.
Just as now, she’s always uneasy about Penglai Island, constantly worried that there might be some area she hasn’t overseen that would have issues...
Perhaps it’s a psychological trauma left from back then?
Gu Mo speculated as such, after all, Miss Naoki had always been concerned about the attack on Penglai Island by the Four Fighting Gods, believing that if she had been more cautious and diligent, there wouldn’t have been an issue... But really, it wasn’t her fault, they specifically targeted this, seized a fifty-year cycle window, and attacked all at once.
And she did everything she could, directly using a forbidden technique, leveraging the power of the Clanging Cauldron to perish alongside four Great Demons, sacrificing her own life...
Nonetheless, such thoughts are inevitable—
That’s just how she feels, and despite others, including me, trying to alleviate her worries, some psychological knots remain. It’s tough to find a good solution unless undergoing a direct mental surgery, or time slowly soothing it.
He shook his head, sitting cross-legged on the altar by the lakeside within this silent mirror space, habitually looking up.
A pitch-black sky, no bright moon.
Because it’s not nighttime, it’s just darkness outside.
No further spatial rendering, no additional map modeling, just pitch-black darkness as a background because this is the mirror space of Penglai Island, replicating only the space within the Great Barrier of the island, nothing beyond it.
Gu Mo closed his eyes, carefully sensing the authority of Penglai Island. His Perception quickly spread out, along the Clanging Cauldron, the heart of the island, rapidly analyzing the island’s time-space structure through the network woven by Spiritual Power and magnetic fields, preparing to figure out the essence of the Time Barrier.
The ancient Immortals who left the entire island were definitely strong, their Immortal Dao techniques were also outstanding.
But now, he was no longer the unknown Ah Meng, and naturally qualified to make modifications.
...
...
The main body at last.
To completely grasp that full Divine Power and adapt to the full original world Divine Body is not an easy task; the time and Heart Power required are naturally more significant than what the Clone side expends.
However, the reward gained is also extremely astonishing.
Yet, the system seemed to be stuck in the process. Even after Gu Mo completely digested the huge enhancement brought by this most critical Bloodline Enhancement and finished his Ascension to Divinity, the foolish system had no reaction— the frame still trembled slightly, the page remained blurry.
——It never redisplayed the information.
Only when he finally returned to the Moon surface did the system interface react.
It seemed like countless streams of data were flowing, like infinite bytes were jumping and refreshing. The monotonous sound like gears meshing came from the panel, slightly grating. Gu Mo quietly watched the panel unfolded before his eyes, his Cyan Star Pupil reflecting the basic elements of time and space, yet unable to capture anything special.
The panel seemed just like a pure image, visible to him, but beyond that, no other means could verify it.
What exactly is its origin?
This thought had fleetingly crossed his mind an unknown number of times; he gently exhaled.
When Gu Mo used the system’s functions, he did so without hesitation; otherwise, he wouldn’t have reached this height from a mere blank slate. However, this didn’t mean he hadn’t considered deeper issues. It simply meant thinking too much about heaven and earth was pointless, better to be practical.
And now... it seems still far from reachable?
Of course, this is also quite normal. Even though he evolved to this extent, he merely thought he reached a terrifying height, which actually is nothing notable. His gaze flickered... Even in the Fate Dungeon, be it Tiamat or Gai Tia, they could only probably be considered first-rate experts.
But not the top-notch ceiling, even far, far away from it.
——Like the Wandering Star Vanguards sweeping across Earth’s various pantheons, and the true body of the Wandering Star entering the Milky Way Galaxy every sixteen thousand years to prey on civilizations...
——And incredibly mysterious high-level figures in Buddhism, Enlightened Ones or Buddhas, seemingly long beyond that dungeon, rumored to have left that universe early...
——And like that dove Yahweh, relying only on subordinates to posture, never having appeared himself...
Thinking slightly like this, his current insignificant achievements indeed seemed far off. Gu Mo sighed gently, calming down at once. It was indeed better to stay practical at present.
"Fizz... System update complete, now re...integrating...data...fizz..." At this moment, the foolish system finally emitted a prompt, as always grating and intermittent, like a radio affected by strong electromagnetic interference.
Gu Mo was immediately shocked. Were you just updating? I thought it was stuck... But what the heck are you updating? The priority isn’t fixing bugs and optimizing player experience? Even now, the prompt function hasn’t returned to normal; what are you updating for!
"Data integration completed... fizz...detected...fizz...overwriting, collecting a Legendary Key..." The foolish system disregarded his user experience, continuing with that maddening intermittent prompt, and throwing out a new piece of information.
This made him fall silent immediately.
So, what issue required an update for overwriting? What exactly did you detect? Just like that, deducted his Legendary Key?
Gu Mo felt a subtle amusement, yet facing such a fait accompli, he could only grit his teeth and endure, comforting himself—thinking carefully, the foolish system never muddled in fee-based service provision; it should be for something good... something good...
It had better be!
At this point, there was no way to get a refund, was there?
He took a deep breath, watching as the trembling page froze, the fuzzy content became clear again, the familiar style appearing before his eyes... Not even a UI animation changed, what did this update accomplish! A bad review! With preconceived malice, he gave such an assessment.
Just before he could click into the abilities page, a series of prompts popped up, this time very complete, not fragmented intermittent information——
"True Spiritual Attribute Value reaches 30 points, you can choose two additional effects from the following three options..."
"Skill Badge ’Lie’ upgraded to Red Legendary Quality; Level resets to zero..."
"Legendary Level reaches the third stage, unlocking achievement ’Famous Far and Wide’, unlocking new permissions and Dungeon gameplay, please check for details..."
"Legendary Level meets requirements, code-named ’Fate’ Dungeon World can set automatic idle mode, presented as Summoning of Heroic Spirits, default uses ’Player’ class template, please check for details for settings..."
