Chapter 866 - 861: Hero
[Your Composite Secret Technique System "Four Symbols" has been established. All your Four Symbols Compound Mystical Arts skills will calculate damage bonuses and special effects based on the number of Mystical Arts they contain.]
[1/2/3/4/5 Mystical Arts: 180%/360%/540%/720%/900% damage bonus]
[Shattering Mountain Mystical Arts Special Effect: Omitted]
[Tide Mystical Arts Special Effect: Omitted]
[Red Lotus Mystical Arts Special Effect: Omitted]
[Dancing Wind Mystical Arts Special Effect: By using the Dancing Wind Mystical Arts, your dodge rate for ordinary attacks increases by 180 points (equivalent to the dodge rate brought by 180 points of Agility), and your Dancing Wind Secret Skills can more effectively deflect hostile energy attacks. Your attacks containing the Dancing Wind Mystical Arts are even harder to trace.]
[Space Mystical Arts Special Effect: Omitted]
Among Bai Pu’s current Four Symbols Secret Skills, the one with the highest damage bonus is [Mountain and Sea Calamity], but it only contains three compound Mystical Arts, with a 540% damage bonus.
However, Bai Pu feels that this skill can continue to integrate the damage and special effects of the Red Lotus Mystical Arts and Dancing Wind Mystical Arts.
Moreover, Bai Pu first comprehended the Composite Mystical Arts, then deduced the Mystical Arts Skills, which is a case of going with the flow and achieving twice the result with half the effort.
Theoretically, after comprehending the Four Symbols Composite Mystical Arts, all of Bai Pu’s skills can be transformed into the Secret Technique System, becoming Compound Mystical Arts skills.
But this is just theory, and truly doing so would require a lot of time and effort.
Bai Pu plans to push several main battle Mystical Arts skills to the extent of five Mystical Arts, while other Support Skills are deemed unnecessary.
Bai Pu stepped out of the cabin slowly.
"Xiao Bai, have you succeeded?"
The Great and Small Witches, who had been waiting beside him, were overjoyed to see Bai Pu nod.
Bai Pu said, "This trip to the Heart Demon World was more fruitful than I expected. [Xiyuan Clan’s Demon-Controlling Secret Technique] I still have the most important second chance for enlightenment that I haven’t used, and I’ve already completed the fusion of five major Mystical Arts."
This Demon Control Secret Technique, the second chance for enlightenment, is a reward from the S-level Golden Branch.
Bai Pu plans to keep this opportunity for enlightenment in the Demon-Controlling Secret Technique as a seed for himself to refine the "Four Symbols True Intent Prototype."
The Water Element Mystical Arts and Space Mystical Arts information contained within are helpful to Bai Pu in refining the True Intent Prototype.
Dongbo Cheng walked over:
"Are you leaving?"
Bai Pu nodded and then asked back, "About... the matter of breaking free from the cycles, what have you decided?"
Dongbo Cheng replied, "I will eventually break free. However, before that, I need to return to the Eastern Wilderness Forest Sea... to bring the White Dragon Fang to my father."
When he first obtained the "Sword Scabbard of the White Dragon Fang," Dongbo Cheng had mentioned this.
The White Dragon Fang was the ancestral sword, passed down from generation to generation through the Cyan Dragon Oath until it was lost in his father’s generation.
As a result, Dongbo Cheng’s father was severely hit, became depressed, and stopped concerning himself with demon-eliminating tasks.
In truth, Bai Pu feels that Dongbo Cheng’s father let him down to some extent.
If it weren’t for Dongbo Cheng’s remarkable talents, surpassing his contemporaries like the Flame Blade Princess and Beiming Mian, and being on par with older generation powerhouses like Zhu Que and Beiming Jihu, the Cyan Dragon Oath might have fallen into decline.
Dongbo Cheng’s initial purpose in coming to the Underworld was to find the White Dragon Fang. Now that the sword has been found, going back to inform his father and bring him closure is only natural.
Bai Pu reminded, "The White Dragon Fang helped you break the World Mystery because your ancestor, the Duke Yue, implanted memories into it. Now that you’ve obtained the memories, the White Dragon Fang has lost its mediating ability to break the World Mystery. Even if your father gets it, you won’t be able to share any information about the World Mystery with him."
Dongbo Cheng nodded, understanding this point as well.
After bidding farewell to Dongbo Cheng, Bai Pu found an excuse to leave the Beiming Clan’s Turtle Ship with the Great and Small Witches.
What Bai Pu didn’t know was that on the Turtle Ship, a fiery red figure had been gazing at his back from afar.
...
An enormous scene flashed across the endless starry sky.
Corruption Forest, Eternal Night Dark Sea, Red Annihilation River, Obsidian Plain, and finally the Black Heaven Abyss. The scene ultimately froze over the ruins of the Black Heaven Palace, with the vision of Great Dark Heaven’s head falling to the ground.
Lines of message prompts appeared one after another.
[Plane World: Heart Demon: Black Heaven Descent]
[Time Taken: 21 days 02 hours 07 minutes 05 seconds]
[Time: Yongzheng Period]
[Intensity: 9.2]
[Range: Red Annihilation River-Corruption Forest-Eternal Night Dark Sea-Obsidian Plains]
[Based on your completed tasks and evaluations, you have received a Spiritual Points reward of 204,796 points.]
[You have cumulatively gained 31,920 points of World Reputation in the Heart Demon World. Your World Fame level in the Heart Demon World is SS-level: Earth-Shattering.]
[You have received an SS-level title: Hero.]
[Hero: Passive, when wearing this title, your damage to all Evil Camp enemies increases by 1%~100% (independently multiplies damage). The higher the target’s evilness, the greater the damage bonus.]
[You can actively activate the Hero title to perform a Moral Judgment on any enemy. The evilness of the enemy subjected to a Moral Judgment will be fixed at 100%. Each main line task duration is limited to one Moral Judgment use.]
"It’s actually an SS-level title!"
The Great and Small Witches were amazed, as it was their first time seeing an SS-level title.
Bai Pu thought for a moment and said, "It probably stems from the fact that I accumulated significant fame in the heart demon world of the Great Wilderness River. Did you notice this time the fame is spread across the entire Heart Demon World! Combining with the past, it brought my reputation past the 30,000-point threshold to reach SS-level."
Wu Qingyun’s big eyes showed an intrigued expression: "This Hero title is interesting. How is ’Evil Camp’ defined?"
Bai Pu looked it up and said, "Everyone’s moral baseline differs, and so does their definition of evil. Because I’m wearing this Hero title, the definition of the Evil Camp is based on my personal moral baseline."
Wu Mingyue pouted: "Then it’s over for you, considering your flexible moral baseline..."
Bai Pu laughed and shook his head: "You’re talking about behaviors, not the inner sense of morality. As an Awakened, I might, for the sake of benefit, do things that go against my conscience, but that doesn’t mean my moral baseline has issues."
The two bickered and incidentally completed the tasks they were supposed to do.
Bai Pu enhanced the new equipment he had just switched to.
Two Immortal King set components don’t need enhancement, thanks here to Mount Tai of the Star-Picking Tower, who strengthened both to +7.
Bai Pu enhanced three Advanced Gold Rings and accessories he exchanged.
Now that Bai Pu has the entire Earth as backing, Enhancement Cards, and Spiritual Points are ample.
Of course, he’s careful not to be too wasteful.
From the Cyan Dragon Oath and Black Tortoise Oath, the two Legacy Gold Rings were enhanced to +4 merely, as they are of [Oath Inheritance Standard] Golden Equipment after all.
As expected, a +4 enhancement increased the numbers of [Wind Chant] and [Heavy Rock] passive skills.
[Wind Chant]’s speed bonus increased to 25, and [Heavy Rock]’s passive power confrontation bonus also increased to 25, as if by agreement.
The accessory [Vermilion Bird Oath and Legacy Sword Seal], which fits Bai Pu particularly well, was enhanced to +7.
[+4 Special Effect: Slow Cook: Passive, increases the stackable layers of Heart-Burning Sword Intent to 30 layers (up from 20 layers).]
[+7 Special Effect: Blazing Heal: Actively activate Heart-Burning to provide instant healing to yourself or an ally around you. The total amount of health restored is 20 times the total of Heart-Burning layers (not exceeding 30 layers).]
"There’s a certain enhancement, but it’s not a qualitative change in terms of damage. However, the +7 special effect offers a healing skill, and coupled with the no cooldown activation of Heart-Burning, it means something."
Bai Pu gave his evaluation.
The three then checked the Merit Exchange booth.
At the moment, the Merit Exchange booth was still at the Quasi-General level. This function had already lost interest to the three of them, except for exchanging Quasi-General’s Honor Potions.
"You need to come to the Inner City District quickly to certify as Major General Gaia."
While repairing the equipment’s durability, Bai Pu urged, "The Major General Combat Power Assessment is going to begin in a few days. After the assessment ends and Earth’s crisis is averted, we’ll have to consider the matter of the Ascension Plane."
"Rest assured, we’ll arrive soon." The Great and Small Witches obeyed.
After fixing the equipment’s durability, the three bid farewell with reluctance and returned to the Inner and Outer City Districts of the Silver Heart Great World.