157: Chapter 156 Clash of Rune Creatures

After listening, Gu Yanxiao was stunned for a moment, then let out a bitter laugh.

"How could there not be?" He shook his head, raised his right hand to look at it, "Fortunately, my core nearly shattered back then, and I lay in a coma for a while. When I woke up, I couldn't even use my skills. Later, it actually recovered slowly, but I never used them in front of others again."

Gu Yanxiao lowered his hand, his tone flat, as if talking about someone else's affairs: "Some people came looking for me several times. They pinned me to the ground and snapped my four fingers one by one. I didn't want to be taken away, so I endured it without saying a word, pretending to be a cripple. Later, I simply rented out my Divine Kingdom and completely gave up, which finally fooled those people."

Listening to this, Gu Han felt a sudden sting in his nose.

A scene from the depths of his memory surfaced. When he was a child, his dad once came home with his hand wrapped in bandages and recuperated for a long time, lying to his mom that he had crushed his finger in a work accident. It turned out he had been interrogated and had his fingers forcibly snapped.

Gu Yanxiao patted Gu Han's shoulder and added with a smile: "After that, I took plenty of beatings in other people's Divine Kingdoms. But after those people beat me, seeing that I was truly crippled, they didn't come looking for trouble again. As for who was behind those people, I still remember them clearly to this day."

"What about the military?"

Gu Yanxiao sighed: "How can you tell if the people who come are good or bad? I still have you all; I would rather suffer a bit than dare to gamble on others."

Gu Han took a deep breath, suppressing the emotions in his heart. He gave his father a thumbs up.

"Dad, you are the best. I will help you find some good races recently, and you hurry up and get the poisonous plants in your Divine Kingdom sorted out. For a gentleman, revenge is a dish best served cold, even if it takes ten years."

Gu Yanxiao laughed heartily: "Good lad, this time your old man is relying entirely on you to carry him. I guarantee I'll be there whenever you call and won't hold you back."

Gu Han saw his father off and turned his consciousness back into the Divine Kingdom.

Afterward, the Needlefish Ant-men who had been sent back to the Kuanglan Divine Kingdom to gather intelligence returned.

According to the report from the Needlefish Ant-men, the Leviathan Ant-men had already reached a large scale and had been continuously releasing high-voltage electric nets for several days.

Because Gu Han had drained a small portion of the seawater, the temperature of the entire sea area rose rapidly, causing the Merfolk and a large number of low-Rank marine believers to lose their mobility from the electricity and die in droves.

The low-Rank Kuanglan Race had basically all died out because they couldn't withstand the baptism of lightning.

More importantly, the high-intensity interference brought by the lightning made it impossible for those Advanced Kuanglan Race members to calm down and comprehend the runes.

The Kuanglan Race were rune creatures and had to constantly comprehend runes to resist "Rune Entropy Increase." Once interrupted, the runes within their bodies would begin to degenerate and diminish.

Now, the Advanced believers of the Kuanglan Divine Kingdom were completely desperate and were frantically hunting down the Leviathan Ant-men everywhere.

The Leviathan Ant-men followed the tactics Gu Han had set in advance, hiding deep in the seabed.

When the enemy pursues, we retreat; when the enemy rests, we harass.

Gu Han stroked his chin, very satisfied with this battle situation.

As long as the Kuanglan Race could not quietly comprehend, the entropy increase effect would continue to amplify. Once that batch of Rank 9 Kuanglan fell to Rank 8, it would be the best time for a full-scale counterattack.

Taking advantage of this lull, Gu Han turned his attention to the ten Rank 9 Kuanglan from the previous march card.

The appearance of the Kuanglan Race was between that of water elementals and translucent mollusks, with complex rune patterns flowing across their bodies.

Gu Han had a keen interest in these rune creatures. He had already tested [Forced Breeding] on them before.

Even though the Kuanglan Race had no clear concept of gender, under the effect of the skill, two Rank 9 Kuanglan were still forced to reproduce. As the runes on their bodies intertwined and flickered, and after consuming some rune power, both Kuanglan split off a smaller Kuanglan.

Although these rune creatures had no psychological discomfort with Forced Breeding, every Reproduction would consume a small amount of the rune power they had painstakingly comprehended.

Moreover, he also discovered that the rune power of the Kuanglan Race was essentially like a transcendent characteristic that could create a "continuous overlapping" effect.

The higher the Rank, the greater the power of the overlap.

To verify his hypothesis, Gu Han had once risked releasing all the Rank 9 Kuanglan, using Green-skinned Mushroom Men to block their attacks.

The first magic water arrow was fired, and immediately after, the runes on the Kuanglan's body lit up. An almost identical water arrow appeared out of thin air, overlapped with the first water arrow, and instantly blasted the Green-Skinned Mushroom-Men blocking the way to pieces.

Not only was this true for magic attacks, but even normal attacks could trigger the overlap.

Rank 9 Kuanglan could overlap 90% of the power of the original skill.

Gu Han gasped.

Wasn't this thing somewhat like the God-Lord skill he encountered when fighting underground matches in the black market that could cause double damage? It was just that the Kuanglan Race had solidified this ability into their runes.

A bold idea suddenly popped into Gu Han's mind.

What would happen if the rune characteristics of the Kuanglan Race were grafted onto the Ant-man Race?

The Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man's punch was astonishingly powerful; would the attack add this overlapping characteristic?

Gu Han quickly combined the Kuanglan and the Queen Ant. It is worth mentioning that the Kuanglan still split off small Kuanglan, which should be related to them being exclusive believers.

The newly born Rank 3 ant eggs were quickly matured. The new generation of Ant-Fist Shrimp-Men did not have any changes, but fortunately, there were blue runes flowing on their chests, indicating that the crossbreeding had not failed.

"Go, throw a punch." Gu Han issued the command.

The Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man kicked off the ground, its figure rushing out violently. Its fist shrank, accumulating power to the extreme, and then it slammed fiercely onto the hard mountain wall, the runes lighting up and bringing out an afterimage.

A loud, overlapping boom rang out; the mountain wall was smashed into a large crater, and rubble flew everywhere.

Observing the large crater on the mountain wall, one could see traces of a second impact at the deepest point.

The second overlapping damage!

Gu Han had the smart assistant help calculate it; the power of the second overlap was exactly 30% of the first punch.

The current Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man was Rank 3 Transcendental, corresponding to 30% power; this fully conformed to the law summarized earlier.

Gu Han was overjoyed. The Kuanglan Race would be plagued by "Rune Entropy Increase"; if their runes were not constantly comprehended through Acquired means, they would gradually degenerate until death.

But the Ant-man Race was different.

Their transcendence would not degenerate, and they didn't even need to start comprehending from simple runes. The Ant-men's transcendent characteristic was Born Transcendental; they were Rank 3 Transcendental from birth.

"What is going on! It seems I've exploited a bug in the Divine Kingdom rules!" Gu Han rubbed his hands excitedly.