Chapter 117
Chapter 117: Sublimation That Ignores Resistance
wilderness.
A Train was traveling through here.
In the seemingly small carriage, there was a huge Astrology Platform.
Zhu Xingtu knelt here, her eyes filled with endless stars, and a dozen card sequences swirling around her.
Azure shimmering light drifted wantonly until it gathered into a speck of light before her eyes.
She grasped the speck of light, and the stars in her eyes gradually faded, returning to their original appearance.
“Another fragment of a blasphemy card has appeared? How strange, isn’t the frequency of fragments appearing a bit too fast recently? Hmm… Could it be Ye Qiyan?”
Zhu Xingtu propped her chin in thought for a moment, shook her head, and rejected the idea.
“No, it shouldn’t be him. He already possesses two fragments. Acquiring one more would allow him to synthesize a complete blasphemy card, but the newly appeared one is just a fragment; it won’t be him.”
Leaning back, she lay down on the soft cushion.
Zhu Xingtu silently opened her palm, and her blasphemy card · Star Watcher hovered quietly.
“Tch~ This trip to Solomon City was a huge loss. The card was snatched back, and Monroe Gina, that Charlatan like me, also said she didn’t get the thing inside the seal. Geez, does she take me for a fool?”
“Speaking of which, I still owe Brother Ye a Devil Card. Although I used the floating armor as a substitute, well… it still counts as me breaking my word, right?”
“Fate says I should find the coordinates of a Devil Card for him? Hmm… It’s not out of the question. Heh, one coordinate plus the floating armor will be considered completing the contract. Alright, let’s do just that.”
“Hmm?”
A momentary daze flashed through Zhu Xingtu’s eyes.
“Fate says the floating armor has disappeared? How can that be?”
In some corner of the endless wilderness.
A tall figure shrouded entirely in a black cloak was lying motionlessly on the ground.
Near him, several steel-toothed wolves surrounded him tightly.
“Where… is this place?”
His mask fell to the side; he was none other than the Smiling Man who had left that Forward Station through Ye Qiyan’s Banish.
Bone-only claws extended from the cloak, propping up the ground to let himself sit up.
Leaning against a stone, the Smiling Man stared blankly at his own palms.
“Did I really… come out?”
The steel-toothed wolves rushed forward, but were all cut down by the scythe beside the Smiling Man.
He put on the smiling mask once again, leaned on the scythe, and looked up at the sky belonging to freedom above his head, clear tears sliding from his eyes.
It didn’t matter which direction he chose.
After countless years of imprisonment, the Smiling Man was restarting his own advancement.
In this endless wilderness.
No matter who it was, they could not stand still.
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The next day.
Ye Qiyan felt something gently poking his cheek.
Rubbing his sleep-filled eyes, he stared slightly in a daze at a cute, pinkish little chick sitting obediently in front of him.
“When did I buy a chick? For making soup?”
Wall-E ran over holding a cup of warm water. Seeing the little chick casually held up by Ye Qiyan, it hurriedly waved its machine arms a few times and pointed to the carriage behind, afraid that its master would swallow the little chick in one bite.
“Oh, I remember now. This thing is the Goshawk? Might as well be a housefly! So small? And it hatches this fast?”
Drinking a sip of water, he woke up a bit more.
He brought up the system Light Screen and appraised the little fellow in front of him.
[Arcane Goshawk (Juvenile)]
[Hatched from a Ritual Goshawk egg]
[Can use partial inherited arcane arts.]
[Current: Claw, Cry]
“…”
Claws and crying, are those even worthy of being called arcane arts?
“So weak, but it’s just a tiny tot. Hmm… What would happen if I were to Sublimate it?”
Thinking of this, he suddenly recalled what happened before falling asleep yesterday and immediately opened his personal information.
Looking at the two pieces of information above, his eyes lit up.
[Stamina: 140] [Mental Power: 150]
After a super Sublimation, the floating armor turned into the Wandering Star Holy Mark, providing him with 20 points of Mental Power and Stamina.
This was precisely the growth he needed most.
He bought a mirror on the Trading Platform, had Wall-E hold it, and looked at the golden-red patterns on his back in the mirror. Reaching out to touch them, there was nothing strange about it, as if they had existed on his skin since birth.
“Autonomous defense and autonomous attack. I’ll have a chance to try them out at the next station.”
Taking the five Train Coins generated by the five dragon card: wealth handed over by Wall-E, he picked up the Arcane Goshawk wriggling on the bed like a penguin.
He hadn’t Sublimated any living creatures other than himself yet. Just right, there was a suitable experimental subject.
He poked its beak.
“Sublimation.”
[Stamina: 140 → 135]
The consumption wasn’t much, and the body of the Arcane Goshawk didn’t undergo any changes either.
[Arcane Goshawk → Arcane Imperial Blood Goshawk]
[A Goshawk possessing the imperial bloodline of Goshawks]
Its bloodline had been somewhat purified, and its potential was temporarily exhausted.
The reason it was temporary was that this little fellow clearly couldn’t quite hold on after undergoing one Sublimation. To continue Sublimating, it would have to wait until the Goshawk leveled up.
Ye Qiyan lost interest in it and casually tossed it to Wall-E, telling it to return the little chick to wherever it came from.
Let it properly complete its first round of growth in the breeding carriage first.
Stamina hadn’t been consumed much. After breakfast, it could even recover almost completely.
Time, 9:45 AM.
Ye Qiyan calculated among his current items what could undergo the next step of Sublimation.
Right now, he had two Level 7 items in his hands.
[Delusional Obsession] and [Frost Enchantment – Six-Barrel Rotary Grenade Launcher]
His current Stamina and Mental Power were definitely enough to let one of them complete Sublimation. No matter how much they resisted, it was useless, because his Talent could already ignore this resistance.
It was merely consuming more Mental Power and Stamina, nothing major.
Pondering for a moment, Ye Qiyan picked up that book of Delusional Obsession.
Although he never had the chance to use it, this book, as a super low-end version of the anchor’s Banish ability, still had its unique features.
the anchor’s Banish required removing three Anchor Point coordinates, and he could only place one per day, meaning it would take at least three days to use Banish once.
During these three days, Delusional Obsession could be used as a substitute.
“It’s you.”
Lightly touching the cover of the book, Ye Qiyan silently uttered those two words that he didn’t know how many times he had said since coming to this world.
“Sublimation.”
Mental Power began to drain away.
Azure light streams wrapped around Delusional Obsession.
It was resisting, yet unable to resist.
Sublimation was forcefully changing it.
[Sublimation successful!]
[Mental Power: 150 → 50]
[Delusional Obsession → book of reality and illusion (No Grade)]
The grade had disappeared.
So had the potential.
It was as if Sublimation had torn that book of Delusional Obsession to shreds, then kneaded and reorganized it, transforming it into a brand-new form.
Was this what it meant for Talent’s self Sublimation to ignore resistance?
