418: Then open up another path (two in one)

Lin Yang left.

After chatting with He Fatty, he returned home.

He Fatty's wedding was approaching, and he was busy with various preparations, so Lin Yang didn't take up too much of his Time with idle chatter.

At the same Time, Lin Yang also agreed to He Fatty's request: he would make a surprise appearance on the wedding day without announcing his return in advance, otherwise He Fatty was truly afraid their family wouldn't be able to host too many important guests.

Upon returning home, even though it wasn't mealtime yet, his mother, Zhang Fang, had already prepared a table full of dishes. Regardless of whether Lin Yang had eaten or was hungry, she immediately called out, "Lin Yang, come eat! These are all your favorites."

Every Time Lin Yang returned, Zhang Fang would prepare dishes, whether it was mealtime or not.

She still remembered the first Time Lin Yang returned after being out of contact, looking as if he hadn't eaten in years.

He couldn't eat his hometown's food in the universe, so Zhang Fang always prepared a large table of dishes.

Lin Yang naturally ate heartily, but during the meal, Zhang Fang couldn't help but urge him to get married a few more Times.

"Mom, have you met He Fatty's fiancée?" Lin Yang felt a bit overwhelmed and casually changed the subject.

Zhang Fang nodded: "Of course I've met her! Xiao Ming often came to see me when you weren't home. Later, when he had a girlfriend, he brought her to see me. That girl, Xiao Xiao, I really like her. She has big, bright eyes, she's gentle, has a good personality, and her words are so sweet, unlike you, you naughty boy, who argues with me after just a few sentences!"

When she reached the last sentence, Zhang Fang glared at Lin Yang.

... Lin Yang was speechless.

He got caught in the crossfire?

Lin Yang couldn't respond to that, so he could only speed up his eating and then make a quick escape.

Originally, every Time he came back, he cherished the Time he spent with his mother.

But this Time, it really wasn't working out.

He couldn't accompany her at all.

He Fatty getting married clearly made Zhang Fang sentimental, and seeing Lin Yang made her unable to resist urging him to marry.

Although he could understand his mother's feelings, everyone who knows understands the pressure of elders urging marriage.

Lin Yang couldn't stand it either.

He quickly finished his meal, slipped out the door in a flash, and earned two more scoldings from Zhang Fang.

Lin Yang pretended not to hear his mother's angry shouts behind him and returned to the Apocalypse.

Cang Miao had been living on the Apocalypse.

When training He Fatty, Cang Miao would bring He Fatty back to the Apocalypse.

These past few days, because He Fatty was busy with wedding preparations, Cang Miao hadn't made him train.

Lin Yang carefully sensed Cang Miao's physical state and perceived the abundant power within him, a power that he felt was already comparable to an ordinary Primary Super Gene Warrior.

"As expected of a Wu Cang Clan Super Warrior, he has such formidable power even though he has only just become a Super Warrior," Lin Yang couldn't help but exclaim.

The talent of the Wu Cang Clan was truly monstrous!

Cang Miao smiled shyly and said, "Commander Sir, actually, we're not as formidable as you say. It's mainly because the fish meat you gave me before was truly extraordinary, it helped me a lot. Plus, Senior Zhu personally helped me break through and gave me some very precious medicines, so my power is much stronger than that of my clansmen who have just broken through."

"Oh... even so, it's still extraordinary," Lin Yang said with a smile.

The energy contained in the fish meat was indeed very extraordinary and profound, but the talent of the Wu Cang Clan was also evident.

After a pause, Lin Yang said, "You just said that fish meat helped you a lot?"

"Yes, Commander Sir, although the portion of those fish meat was small, the energy contained within it was too immense. Without those fish meat, I might have needed several more years to reach the threshold of becoming a Super Warrior," Cang Miao nodded.

When Lin Yang had given him the fish meat and instructed him to divide it into many small portions, Cang Miao had wondered why there was only such a tiny bit of fish meat and why he had to eat it so many Times.

However, out of unconditional trust and obedience to Lin Yang, he still strictly followed Lin Yang's instructions for eating the fish meat.

After consuming it, Cang Miao discovered the terrifying power of that fish meat.

Even that tiny bit of fish meat contained incredibly immense energy. It was only because he strictly followed Lin Yang's method of consumption; if he had consumed even a little more each Time, he would not have been able to withstand the immense energy and would have risked exploding to death.

Those mere two taels of fish meat helped him immensely!

Cang Miao described in detail all his feelings after eating the fish meat to Lin Yang.

"Is the effect that miraculous?" Lin Yang muttered.

He had also eaten that fish meat before, and in larger quantities. He had even eaten through all the items in the first few layers of Bai Pang Old Man's refrigerator, but he hadn't experienced any particularly unique sensations.

He hadn't experienced what Cang Miao described.

He had only experienced the taste of almost dying!

Although Bai Pang Old Man had rushed back in Time to save him, he didn't feel any particularly significant changes in his body afterwards.

After another pause, Lin Yang collected his thoughts and said to Cang Miao, "Since that fish meat helped you a lot, I'll get you some more later."

Bai Pang Old Man valued that fish meat highly, and Lin Yang didn't plan to ask for it, but rather intended to fish for it directly in that lake.

Of course, it was mainly because of the previous incident; Lin Yang felt a bit embarrassed to ask for it.

That Time, he just hadn't opened the back layers of the refrigerator, otherwise, Bai Pang Old Man's entire stash would have been squandered by him.

Lin Yang was quite self-aware and planned to find an opportunity later to have Bai Pang Old Man take him to the lake again, so he could catch a few more fish himself.

"By the way, Cang Miao, you can now consider integrating extraordinary characteristic material. Which type of extraordinary characteristic material do you have a more acute perception of?" Lin Yang asked again.

Wu Cang Clan members could integrate extraordinary characteristic material once they became Super Warriors.

And unlike Gene Warrior, they didn't need to individually sense each extraordinary characteristic material to know which one they were suitable for; they could directly perceive which extraordinary characteristic material they were more compatible with.

"Commander Sir, I think I might be more suitable for integrating mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material," Cang Miao replied.

"Mental will-type?" Lin Yang was a little surprised, "Generally, Wu Cang Clan Super Warrior have a higher compatibility with strength-type extraordinary characteristic material. You're actually more compatible with mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material?"

The reason Wu Cang Clan Super Warrior were powerful was because most of them were compatible with strength-type extraordinary characteristic material.

Wu Cang Clan Super Warrior themselves possessed immense strength, and under this premise, integrating strength-type extraordinary characteristic material often allowed their own strength to increase by dozens or even hundreds of Times, as a starting point.

In battle, they were simply terrifying killing machines.

Imagine an existence whose strength was at least dozens or hundreds of Times greater than one's own, smashing down. Unless there were powerful defensive mechanisms, even a slight touch could turn one's body into a puddle of mud.

One force breaks ten thousand methods!

The strength of Wu Cang Clan Super Warrior was extremely terrifying!

Moreover, as the quality of strength-type extraordinary characteristic material increased and more was integrated, the amplification of strength would far exceed a hundredfold.

But mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material was different.

This type of extraordinary characteristic material could not directly amplify strength; it was more about auxiliary means.

If Wu Cang Clan Super Warrior integrated other extraordinary characteristic material, their combat power would be greatly affected.

According to the information in the system database, the bloodline of the Wu Cang Clan was quite special. After becoming Super Warrior, almost ninety-nine percent of them were compatible with strength-type extraordinary characteristic material, with only an extremely small probability of being compatible with other extraordinary characteristic material.

Lin Yang hadn't expected such a small probability to happen to Cang Miao.

"Yes, Commander Sir, my luck might not be so good. I've become one of that small group of unconventional extraordinary characteristic material compatibles among my clan's Super Warrior," Cang Miao was also very helpless, even a little distressed.

Not being compatible with strength-type extraordinary characteristic material would greatly reduce combat power.

He felt he couldn't properly repay Lin Yang's life-saving and nurturing kindness.

This made Cang Miao feel very bad.

Seeing this, Lin Yang patted Cang Miao's shoulder and said with a smile, "Don't think too much. Although you're not compatible with strength-type extraordinary characteristic material, mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material power is also very formidable!"

At this point, Lin Yang paused slightly, looking at Cang Miao, and said earnestly:

"As far as I know, when mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material power becomes strong enough, it can even create mental illusions, dragging enemies into them, manipulating their souls and thoughts, thereby easily killing enemies. This is also an extremely powerful, even abnormal, ability."

"You are also a Wu Cang Clan Super Warrior; your own strength is actually already strong enough. As long as you can disturb the enemy's mind, you will be invincible. Don't underestimate yourself."

Cang Miao scratched his head and whispered, "Commander Sir, to create mental illusions, the mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material power needs to reach a terrifying level. I'm afraid I won't be able to reach that point."

"Haha, you have to believe in yourself!"

Lin Yang laughed heartily, then continued:

"Even if it's difficult to reach the point where you can create mental illusions, you must know that under normal circumstances, even an Extraordinary Warrior cannot enhance their soul power, but mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material can strengthen the soul!"

"When you have integrated enough mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material, you don't need to reach the level of creating mental illusions. Just a mental will impact can disturb the opponent's mind and impact their soul, causing them to fall into a state of self-confusion. Even if it can only disturb the opponent for a very short Time, it's enough to catch them off guard and severely injure or even directly kill them!"

His words were not merely to comfort Cang Miao.

Rather, it was the truth.

Mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material was one of the very few things that could strengthen the soul.

The auxiliary combat methods that mental will characteristic power could employ also had a very significant effect.

Especially when mental will power became formidable to a certain extent, it could create mental illusions and manipulate people's thoughts.

With a single thought, it could even cover an entire city with illusions and manipulate countless people.

What a monstrous method this was!

The power of mental will characteristics could be said to be the most monstrous characteristic power apart from the three supreme characteristic powers!

It once held a very special position during a certain period of Time.

However, later people discovered that it was too difficult to reach the point of creating mental illusions, and this type of characteristic power gradually faded from view.

Firstly, very few people could perfectly align with mental will characteristic power.

Due to the special nature of mental will characteristic power, if one could not perfectly align with it, the power of mental will characteristic power that could be exerted would be greatly reduced.

Secondly, the difficulty of integrating mental will characteristic extraordinary characteristic material was extremely high, requiring more Time to integrate.

And ordinary quality mental will characteristic extraordinary characteristic material did not significantly improve soul strength.

Higher quality mental will extraordinary characteristic material was needed for integration to strengthen the soul and control mental illusions.

But high-quality extraordinary characteristic material was too scarce, and one might be stuck at a certain realm for their entire life, unable to progress.

Under these circumstances where the effort and reward were not quite proportional, people gradually lowered the status of mental will characteristic power.

However, even so, the effect of mental will extraordinary characteristic material being able to enhance soul strength was still very useful.

The soul, though intangible, was truly existent.

The soul strengths of most people were actually at roughly the same level.

The soul strength of healthy adult ordinary people and Super Gene Warrior actually didn't differ much.

As for Super Gene Warrior's brains reacting much more acutely than ordinary people, it was simply because the Gene Potion had strengthened their brain nerves.

Strengthening brain nerves does not mean the soul is strengthened.

These are two different concepts.

The former can be understood as strengthening the brain nerves, leading to further development and enhancement of the brain, thus significantly improving intelligence and reaction speed, far surpassing ordinary people.

But the soul strength remains the same.

To put it more directly, if an ordinary person would become an idiot from a soul impact strong enough to make them one, then a Super Gene Warrior would also become an idiot under that same level of soul impact.

However, if the soul is strengthened, it can resist this level of soul impact, leaving one unharmed.

This is the most intuitive difference between the two.

It is also the most direct manifestation of the benefits of a strengthened soul!

Gene Warrior are stronger than ordinary people in physique, strength, speed, and overall physical qualities, but their soul strength actually doesn't differ much.

It's only after becoming an Extraordinary Warrior that the soul, nourished by extraordinary power, might become slightly stronger after a long period of Time.

Besides this, only mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material and a very small number of rare natural treasures can directly strengthen the soul.

And when soul strength far surpasses that of the opponent, mental interference with the enemy can also play a significant role in battle.

The human soul is very fragile.

A soul shock has a particularly great impact on oneself.

And a strengthened soul, in some situations and to some extent, is far more important than an increase in strength.

In Cang Miao's situation, although his combat power might not be as good as other Wu Cang Clan Super Warrior in direct combat, as long as his mental will characteristic power is used properly, the effects he can achieve may not be worse than his fellow clan's Super Warrior, and might even be stronger!

The only problem, however, is that mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material is relatively scarce, especially high-quality ones.

And Cang Miao is a Wu Cang Clan member, so he needs three Times the amount of extraordinary characteristic material.

This is Cang Miao's biggest obstacle.

As for the high difficulty of integration and longer Time consumption, Lin Yang could solve these problems through the system.

But the quantity issue truly required a solution.

Because extraordinary characteristic material could not be exchanged in the system store for now.

"As long as I can get enough and high-quality mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material, it's not impossible to cultivate Cang Miao into a Super Warrior in the mental will extraordinary domain."

Lin Yang pondered.

To achieve sufficiently high accomplishments in the mental will extraordinary domain, besides the difficulty of finding enough high-quality mental will-type extraordinary characteristic material, the high difficulty of integration was also the biggest problem.

A person's lifespan is limited; it might take over a hundred years to complete the integration of even one high-quality extraordinary characteristic material.

Therefore, there haven't been any extraordinary-level powerhouses in this field for many years.

But he could solve this problem.

Previously, when he was absorbing Gene Potion, the system provided him with a Gene Potion Integrator.

After being integrated by the Integrator, the Gene Potion's absorption efficiency and Time were greatly reduced.

And after the system's last upgrade, he discovered that extraordinary characteristic material could also be integrated.

As long as he paid national treasure value, the system could unbind the extraordinary characteristic material integrator's gene lock from him personally, allowing it to also work for Cang Miao.

This way, the integration Time, which would originally take three Times or even more than other Extraordinary Warrior, could be ignored, and he would only need to acquire enough extraordinary characteristic material.

"Cang Miao, I will figure out how to get the extraordinary characteristic material. Before that, just focus on improving yourself and don't think about anything else. I will help you become a Super Warrior in the mental will extraordinary domain."

Lin Yang's eyes were burning.

Since Cang Miao could no longer follow the conventional path of a Wu Cang Clan Super Warrior, breaking all methods with force, then he would open up another path based on his current situation!

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