115: Chapter 115 Tang Zheng's Talent: Battle God!

Chu Xuan remembered that the first mission objective he received was to escape the dormitory, and the mission penalty was none. This wasn't a big deal because he would have died if he couldn't escape, so it made no difference whether there was a penalty or not.

But immediately following that, a System prompt popped up saying he had violated the rules and was to be directly obliterated. At that time, he had truly felt the threat of death.

However, the System immediately began to correct itself, replacing it with a much more difficult mission: stopping the Night Demon's promotion. The mission penalty was forced obliteration.

This completely cut off his initial idea of immediately heading to the roof to escape. He had to spend a significant amount of time fighting his way from the first floor to the roof, increasing his strength while searching for Qin Qing to find the safest way to complete the mission.

Furthermore, afterward, when Qin Qing guessed that his mission might have been as difficult as stopping the Night Demon's promotion, she also appeared quite shocked.

In other words, his mission shouldn't have been so excessive, and the penalty shouldn't have been so severe.

When first binding the System, there had been a prompt saying that because he had awakened a talent, the option to bind the System appeared. Although it was framed as a choice, the binding was actually successful in less than a second.

At that time, Chu Xuan had a feeling that the System was very eager to bind, giving him no chance to refuse.

Additionally, after the successful binding, not only was he given 30 spirituality value points as a reward, but there was also an extra Transcendent Skill reward for the first Specter kill.

All of this indicated that the System intended to nurture those who had awakened talents, yet this was inconsistent with the harsh mission difficulty and penalties.

So, what was the variable in all this?

Four words instantly flashed through Chu Xuan's mind.

Violating the rules!

Chu Xuan immediately pulled out his phone and searched through his chat history with [Future Tang Zheng], quickly finding two sentences.

—[This is not only because the transmission of every piece of information causes me wear and tear, but also because your current level is not high enough. Especially regarding matters involving rules and secrets, the more you know from me, the faster you will die.]

—[You must remember, we have already violated the rules!]

Violating the rules... was it because he had established communication with [Future Tang Zheng]?

Chu Xuan immediately thought of the message [Future Tang Zheng] sent him this time, which clearly contained memories of the previous dream.

Afterward, he was struck by lightning, and in the hints provided regarding slaying the Great Buddha, there were contradictions, errors, and omissions.

At this moment, a phrase [Future Tang Zheng] had mentioned multiple times surfaced in his mind once more...

This is a gamble between worlds, a collision of rules, and a scramble for spirituality!

Combining this with his knowledge of the invasion of Strange Creaturess from the Dark World, Chu Xuan summarized his own understanding...

If the real world and the Dark World were compared to two countries, the so-called collision of rules during the gamble would be like the 'legal statutes' promulgated by each country, forming new rules under mutual collision and fusion.

And the ultimate objective was to scramble for spirituality!

Spirituality could be seen as an important resource similar to gold or oil. The Dark World used the invasion of Strange Creaturess to devour humans and plunder spirituality.

The real world's countermeasure was to directly obliterate the invading Specters through the power of certain rules.

Under such restrictions, Specters had to abandon their Physical Bodies and find a suitable vessel in a manner similar to 'Souls' or 'consciousness,' and they had to follow certain rules to kill people.

These rules were closely related to the host's behaviors, habits, or obsessions before death. For example, the Night Demon's original form was a werewolf kill enthusiast, and its killing rules were similar to the werewolf kill game...

Different levels of Specters could manifest different killing methods. For example, an A-rank Night Demon could manifest a small-scale Domain, forcing a state of night, and could also use the power of rituals to expand a Domain capable of enveloping an entire dormitory building.

Qin Qing had even mentioned that once S-rank is reached, killing rules are no longer a restriction but a terrifying special ability.

Under the real world's counter-mechanism, humans could also obtain a portion of spirituality by slaying Specters to strengthen themselves. Thus, the System, God-Ascension Sequence, and talent Awakening emerged as the times required.

And many seemingly contradictory and unreasonable points were perhaps, as [Future Tang Zheng] said, the results derived from the collision of rules.

For example, the System's Charm attribute was tainted by the Dark World; while it seemed to suppress Specter: Parasites, it was actually a hidden danger.

Or the God-Ascension Sequence, where its various skills pointed toward the evil gods of the Dark World. According to [Future Tang Zheng], these were rubbings of the authority of these evil gods, now being used by humans to increase their strength and slay Specters.

Since many of the Transcendent Pathways of this world had been severed, leaving only the sole sequence of Purifier, was talent Awakening a remnant of those severed Transcendent Pathways?

Or the formation of Dark Rifts and the ability of Specters to use Forbidden Domains—these might all be factors of the rule collision...

Perhaps in the near future, as the collision of rules becomes increasingly intense, many new rules will emerge, such as the World Collapse mentioned by [Future Tang Zheng] and the arrival of numerous horrors.

Compared to the entire world, the changes in his System missions seemed insignificant.

For now, Chu Xuan was only using a way he could currently understand, using disputes between nations as a reference. The gamble between worlds and the many unpredictable changes derived from the collision of rules would surely far exceed his imagination and be difficult to estimate.

But even so, a gradually clearing picture had already quietly unfolded in Chu Xuan's heart. At the same time, this further strengthened his resolve to quickly become stronger.

The great tide is crushing down; the sky is about to fall.

Rather than pinning the hope of survival on others and hoping for a savior to turn the tide, it was more reliable to think of every possible way to strengthen himself.

While Chu Xuan was quietly pondering, Tang Zheng suddenly leaned in and said excitedly:

"Let me tell you, my talent is [Fighting God]. I can use it for 1 minute every day, and my strength and agility attributes aren't subject to any restrictions, directly crossing a major stage."

"If I want to extend the time after 1 minute, besides increasing the load on my body, the spirituality value spent needs to be calculated by the second, and each extension will stack the spirituality value consumption!"

"For example, I extended it once yesterday, and it consumed 1 spirituality value point per second. If I want to extend it again today, the spirituality value spent will be 2 points per second, and so on..."

So that's how it is!

Chu Xuan suddenly thought of his own talent [Precognitive Dream]. If he extended its duration, would the required spirituality value also stack layer by layer?