Chapter 638: Void Devouring Beast, Overlord, The Gate of Limits!
It was still that battlefield, still beneath that same sky.
When the Ghost Domain·Endless Purgatory faded, the world returned to its original appearance.
The Taleblade Demon Box fell into Xu Lang’s palm. The Ghost Qi of Endless Purgatory was reluctant to leave, circling the hem of his black cloak several times before reluctantly drifting into his body.
Xu Lang was the Taleblade Demon Box, and the Taleblade Demon Box was Xu Lang; this inside-out relationship only grew tighter.
That was how the ghost-tamers of Taleblade Building had become over time.
Tang Heng knelt before Xu Lang, his feet standing in a pool of blood, and blood-red wraiths crawled all over his body, three Scarlet Herding Chains still jutting from his chest.
Those blood-red wraiths were the sacrificed Herd Spirits.
The cattle and sheep had been sacrificed, condemned forever to the blood river, their resentment rising to the heavens.
And they served only three purposes.
First, they could not be killed; they were already dead, and the dead cannot die a second time.
Second, their base lethality was negligible against the powerful.
Third, they provided extreme negative debuffs. If Xu Lang stuck to one, he would immediately fall into utter weakness, his combat effectiveness greatly reduced.
At this moment, Tang Heng’s body was covered in blood-red wraiths.
Those deceased had done much of the work to bring Tang Heng down.
Of course, the primary force was still the army of Tales.
Tang Heng suddenly raised his head. The frenzy in his eyes faded, leaving only the purest recognition and admiration.
“I have not yet reached the limit of madness. This is merely the limit of my projection...”
“The road of madness has no limit; it is endless.”
“Do you want this power?”
“Seek Mad King Your Majesty. I have a hunch you will be His Majesty’s bravest warrior!”
His words sang with temptation. Tang Heng assumed a man as resolute as Xu Lang would surely scoff.
But Xu Lang bit the bait without hesitation, not a second of doubt.
“I want it. Can you give me that power?” Xu Lang’s eyes shone; he looked eager.
Tang Heng’s face registered surprise for a moment. He twitched his mouth and shook his head. “You must meet Mad King Your Majesty and receive the bestowal of madness from him personally.”
“Then what use are you!” Xu Lang clenched the Scarlet Herding Chains, and their power surged. In an instant, Tang Heng was squeezed into a dried husk.
Tang Heng, Raphael, and the others were ultimately only projections. Even with Nightmare Eye activated, the information they could reveal was limited.
A gust roared through.
Tang Heng’s corpse turned to dust, and a Red Star medal dropped to the ground.
Xu Lang stepped forward and picked it up himself.
The Red Star medal was as exquisite as jade, scarlet like purgatorial flame, yet also like the heated blood of a heart, Blood Qi flowing slowly through it.
[Royal Guard·Captain·Mad King’s Emblem]
[Type: Accessory·Badge]
[Grade: EX]
[Rarity: Mythical]
[Effect: All attributes +7%]
[Description: Wearing it, you are the captain commanding thirteen supreme warriors. Mad King Your Majesty has thirteen such squads; they are unstoppable vanguards who have never failed His Majesty’s trust.]
“All attributes increase, including Ghostly Deity Power and Vitality!?” A flicker of surprise crossed Xu Lang’s eyes. He was about to wear it when the world before him suddenly went dark.
Two scarlet, frenzied flames abruptly ignited in the black void!
The instant those two flames appeared, they plunged into Xu Lang’s body like swallows diving into a warm embrace!
[You have acquired the Constitution Talents "Void Devouring Beast" and "Overlord"]
[Attribute Talents are as follows]
[Void Devouring Beast: Can survive in any extreme environment, immune to 95% of Elemental Attack]
[Overlord: Infinite growth. The six primary constitution attributes—Strength, Speed, Endurance, Resistance, Perception, Elemental Mastery—will grow to the species’ current limits. This growth will not convert into "Constitution" attribute points]
Crack—
Chains manifested around Xu Lang and then shattered!
This was the imagined form of a breakthrough beyond attribute limits, presented in a way a three-dimensional organism could understand!
“I’m already invincible. Now I can survive in the Void, vacuum, deserts, and deep seas, and be immune to 95% of elemental attacks!” A surge of Madness rose in Xu Lang’s chest—recklessness born from guaranteed survival.
At that moment, another hand suddenly snatched at them and crushed those three afterimages to dust!
The scene was extremely abstract, but Xu Lang could only use such means to test his transformation.
The Overlord talent was equally absurd. Both talents had cost fifty Constitution points; others could only be an assassin, a warrior, a tank, or a long-lived observer, but he could be all of them.
He would reach extremes in Strength, extremes in Speed, extremes in Endurance, and those traits would continue to break limits even while he lounged at home—persistently rising until they reached the physiological limits of his current species!
For example, Xu Ruyan had fifty Constitution points: her Agility might rate ten, Strength seven, Endurance five, and Stamina five, whereas Xu Lang’s base ratings were all ten and could self-break into eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen!
Even if both sides had the same total attribute sum, the quality would be completely different!
Under such conditions, the percent increases from SAN value drops and various direct attribute boosts became ridiculously powerful.
After the fight with Tang Heng, Xu Lang’s dual attributes broke past five thousand, while Tang Heng’s projection likely broke into five figures.
“If I’d had the Overlord talent earlier, I might have stood a real chance against Tang Heng!” Xu Lang felt the gold value of these two talents was absurdly high, so high it made him question life itself.
Could ordinary players really chase the high-level players?
Putting himself in an ordinary player’s shoes, the thought was bleak.
Just then, the deep void ahead suddenly trembled, as if an invisible giant hand were tearing at the fabric of reality!
This place had already been void, yet now something even more void descended, like an abstract entity turning real.
A black gate slowly rose!
The gate seemed to grow out of nothingness, as if it had stood since antiquity in the stillness of the void. A hundred meters tall, it was entirely pitch-black—not a black that swallowed light, but a depth of blackness that made consciousness sink.
There were no patterns, totems, or words on the gate—only a barely perceptible crack snaking from the top down, forming an opening.
Without that crack, the gate would look more like a wall.
“Is this asking me to shatter it?” Xu Lang felt such a summons. His fist tingled.
Before he could act, a system prompt popped up.
[Detected: Material Realm·Gate of Limits]
[Explanation: The body is the weapon of the Material Realm. The Gate of Limits is the embodiment of the body’s rule-layer shackles. Break it to complete your metamorphosis.]
[Mechanic 1: The more cracks on the gate, the weaker the force of constitution rule constraints.]
[Mechanic 2: Breaking the Gate of Limits grants Attribute Talents.]
[Mechanic 3: The Gate will disappear after 30 minutes.]
[When the Gate is shattered, that is the day you transcend racial, bloodline, and status limits to step into a new domain.]
[Tip: The Gate of Limits is player-exclusive. This is the only fair competition chance low-tier races have against gods and mythical races. Cherish it!]
“You turned abstract limiters into a gate. I like that!”
“But when did I become a low-tier race?”
“Thirty minutes is way too long!”
Xu Lang clenched his fist. Wind rolled from his knuckles, condensing inward, and then he struck the black gate with a single punch!