Chapter 1863 - 1437: Lost Soul! Heaven and Earth’s Forgiveness!
As waves of stabbing pain surged through his brain, the next moment, the panel that was previously vague and stuttering solidified completely in Jiang Dali’s mind, becoming clear.
"Jiang Dali [Black Wind Village Chief (Returning to Truth Realm Boss), Qi-Blood 18721/2345000 (3051680), Essence Qi 7291/1637800 (2130000) [Silver Blue Blade Qi +100%] [Great Strength Divine Skill +150%] [Divine Demon Golden Body] (Heavenly Thunder and Earth Fire Baptism) [Dragon Turtle Blood 1%] [Primordial Spirit Perfection])"
Realm: Returning to Truth Realm (810000/1000000) (Thunder Fire Primordial Spirit XI: Index [18000] can roughly unleash a full power Primordial Spirit Shock with Heaven-defying Destruction attribute 10 times, accompanied by Thunder and Fire Damage and Resistance, each time can amplify power unknown)
Status: Black Wind Village Chief (Champion King, Side-by-side King, Mighty King, Holy Dynasty Heroic Marquis)
Martial World Title Reputation: Martial World Supreme (3500000/10000000)
Pets: Mutated Demon Eagle, Divine Phoenix, Zhu Jian City’s Holy Beast Fire Phoenix, Demon Dragon, Fire Qilin
Life Chart: Heaven-defying Destiny Chart (Attribute: Heaven-defying Destruction): Index: [300] When using Life Chart power against any enemies in the Heavenly Human System State, can obtain significant damage enhancement, but also easily incurs Heaven’s Punishment.
Mutually Exclusive: Heavenly Destiny
Life Pattern Reliance: Emotion (Effect: Can induce tremendous power from emotion under certain conditions, greatly increasing Life Chart index, enhancing Life Chart power)
Martial Arts: Returning to Truth Ultimate Skill "War God Chronicles" (Realm 8 Divine Transformation), Returning to Truth Ultimate Skill "Divine Demon Golden Body" (Realm 7 Peak) [Breaking Skill State], Breaking Realm Ultimate Skill "Shattering Void" (Insight Progress 97%)...
Current Cultivation Points: 62000311
Current Potential Points: 85171899
Current State: Weakness Level 1 (Spirit weakened by thirty percent, lasting one hour) [Remaining Time: 52 minutes 23 seconds]..."
’Seeing’ the panel suddenly emerge in his mind, Jiang Dali instantly understood that his previous suicide evasion attempt was successful, but seemingly also a failure.
At least the environment he was in now still seemed to be within the sky abyss, rather than directly revived from the secret Resurrection Point under Wuliang Mountain Sword Lake Palace.
But now, having revived again, the panel emerged once more in his mind, which was great news, representing that he could now mobilize the numerous accumulated Potential Points.
The only trouble was that he might have been too heavily injured earlier, leading to his Realm falling to the level of Returning to Truth Realm 8, and there’s even a risk of instability causing further decline.
Moreover, he was still in the weakness penalty period after death, with Spirit weakened by thirty percent, and the Shattering Void skill he had just started to understand fell back to the insight progress stage due to death penalty...
The decline in skill proficiency manifested concretely as a sudden inability to recall important related skill memories whenever he tried to use Shattering Void now.
Or rather, he couldn’t regain the inspired feeling he previously had when successfully using Shattering Void.
"The panel has already reappeared, all these injuries are minor issues."
Jiang Dali, though surprised, did not panic, sensing the faint hostile red light flashing amidst the surrounding black mist with his Spiritual Sense, temporarily ignoring those apparitions whose Qi Mechanism did not seem strong, directly mobilizing a large number of Cultivation Points to start recovering the fallen Realm and Shattering Void skill proficiency.
Shattering Void skill fell to 97% insight progress, the remaining 3% insight progress only required three million Cultivation Points and Potential Points to recover.
Whereas the decline in Power Realm required nine million Cultivation Points to recover.
As tens of millions of Cultivation Points were consumed.
Jiang Dali immediately felt his declining Realm rapidly rise, mysterious powers were born, acting on his body, the weak Spirit immediately seemed infused with powerful newfound energy.
"Hm?"
At this moment, Jiang Dali suddenly sensed within the mysterious power acting on his body, a familiar Qi Mechanism akin to Earth Intent, this Qi Mechanism at this time and place was so intense that it even allowed him to grasp the source direction of this Earth Intent, as if pointing to a certain location, his mind instantly lightning-flashed.
"Earth Intent... The families through controlling the Earth Crystal Core, using Earth Intent to counter Heaven’s Will, creating a ’Earth Dao’ outside the Heavenly Dao, silently influencing this world, enabling players to come to this world under the support of Earth Intent’s power... And allowing free revival, all influenced by Earth Intent’s supporting power, which includes the special effects offered by Cultivation Points and Potential Points."
In essence, the entire world could be converted into energy, and energy could also be transformed into matter.
Thus, all living beings could be regarded as clusters of energy.
Both Heaven’s Will and Earth Intent are wills that can control energy to complete a certain cycle order in heaven and earth, only when ’energy’ is endowed with the will of heaven and earth, does the corresponding energy birth its due meaning, and move according to heavenly and earthly wills, which includes the life and death cycle of all things, the normal operation of the four seasons, etc.
Having understood this key point, Jiang Dali couldn’t help but birth a sense of crisis and stronger ambition in his heart.
If the truth was truly as he now speculated.
Then it’s evident, his panel and the golden fingers like Cultivation Points and Potential Points aiding in his rise, including the control rights of all players entering and moving within the Mixed Martial Arts World, were all under the control of Earth Intent, or rather within the control of the Four Great Families.
But since the Four Great Families never managed to lock onto him using Earth Intent, even unable to investigate his background thoroughly, it clearly was as Moluo suggested, the families currently can only control part of Earth Intent, rather than fully mastering all Earth Intent, hence unable to completely comprehend his situation.
Yet if the families fasten the progress of mastering Earth Intent, eventually fully mastering it, there will come a day when he becomes the turtle in the jar.
Just as Jiang Dali pondered over this, the ominous red light of Earth Intent in the surrounding black mist rapidly approached, seemingly sensing his state was poor, various daunting and hideous figures, of varying heights and appearances, gradually emerged from the black mist.
Among these figures were bizarre individuals with eerie dark green scales all over, others covered in hair with hideous appearances, and still others emitting rotten stench, with seaweed-like hair.
Although their appearances differed, they all held the same look in their eyes—a look of abhorrence, evil, and spite. Every pair bore a scarlet bloodthirsty gaze, none deviating from their relentless stare at the figure of Jiang Dali lying on the ground.
Jiang Dali felt his panel tremble, and received a prompt.
"You have encountered a batch of dangerous life forms known as ’Lost Souls’ in the Sky Abyss. You have triggered the main quest ’Heaven and Earth’s Forgiveness I’.
Quest Description: In an ancient era rife with danger, where countless creatures must evolve to survive, a great change occurred in heaven and earth. The Heavenly Will fell into corruption amidst the resentment of creatures, and the Earthly Intent mysteriously emerged. Ancient people trapped within the Sky Abyss due to various desires and grievances gradually lost their sanity under the resentment of Heavenly and Earthly Intent, becoming ’Lost Souls’.
They are not particularly strong, but they are certainly one of the most dreadful monsters any creature would want to avoid facing directly.
’Lost Souls’ are engulfed by their most despised and hated traits, unable to control the expansion of desire or extricate themselves from their grievances, until their spirituality falls and malevolence grows rampantly.
They lose their dreams and lose their original intentions, and exist without any love or hope. They even become extremely fearful upon hearing any related words.
There is no longer any beautiful thing in this world that can touch their hearts filled with evil.
The truly terrifying part is, ’Lost Souls’ do not realize their own transformation. After becoming evil, they harbor hatred toward all beings whose spirituality hasn’t yet disappeared, using their greatest malevolence, mockery, and attacks to torment others until they too become the same, falling together.
Quest Requirement: [Purification]: Rescue or at least dissolve the evil thoughts of all Lost Souls, which will be the first step to dissolving the resentment of heaven and earth;
Quest Reward: 1000 goodwill with Heavenly and Earthly Intent.
Note: (This is likely a task that cannot be completed by humans, definitely not a dangerous task that an ordinary person can accomplish or even touch! This will involve the greatest secret within heaven and earth, this time, you will no longer be enemies with humans, very possibly, you will be enemies with heaven and earth. Please choose carefully...)
Will you accept?"
Jiang Dali’s spiritual intent instantly scanned the task information appearing in his mind, feeling astonished and bewildered.
This suddenly appearing main quest, demanding as it is, actually rewards so-called goodwill, yet goodwill with Heavenly and Earthly Intent does indeed seem precious.
However, the final annotation of the quest conflicts with the quest content. Since the quest is supposedly Heaven and Earth’s Forgiveness, and the reward is goodwill from Heavenly and Earthly Intent, why does the annotation warn that undertaking such a quest is actually being enemies with heaven and earth?
"Swish swish! ——"
While pondering, a deep piercing sound suddenly came through.
Jiang Dali’s gaze shifted, and he saw a red-haired monster extending sharp claws towards him ferociously.
"Clang!"
The seemingly sharp claws landed on him, emitting a sound akin to metal clashing.
The red-haired monster’s claws were directly deflected, retreating with a terrified yell.
The other Lost Souls were startled, but seeing Jiang Dali just coldly watching them without retaliating, their malicious intent became even more apparent, continuing to swing their claws or weapons to attack.
"Ding ding dang dang" a clanking sound of metal clashing rang out.
Jiang Dali showed a trace of mockery, coldly watching a group of Lost Souls who couldn’t injure him at all, shaking his head secretly.
Indeed, as indicated in the quest, this group of Lost Souls is far too weak, the strongest may only be comparable to the Heavenly Human 1 Realm.
With the strength of his body, even if seriously injured now, it’s comparable to a 2nd-grade divine weapon; lying still, this group of Lost Souls can’t do anything to him.
Seeing a group of monsters start to panic, exchanging glances and beginning to communicate strategies through spiritual transmissions.
Jiang Dali was about to summon his slightly recovered energy to kill this group of monsters.
Suddenly his spirit caught the communication messages among the panicked Lost Souls.
"This person’s body is too strong, we can’t hurt him."
"Surely he must be a big figure, maybe related to the earthquake that happened earlier in the distance."
"Carry him back, sacrifice... the master will surely like such powerful offerings."
"Yes..... yes. Carry him back."
"Master? Offering?"
Jiang Dali’s heart moved, thinking again about the content hinted by the quest, which is to purify this group of Lost Souls, not kill them all.
He immediately abandoned the thought of killing this group of Lost Souls, deciding to let these monsters carry him back to see what kind of being this master was, perhaps the master would welcome him too...
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