485: Chapter 483 Released Ahead of Schedule

"Don't... hurry..."

Chu Xuan couldn't control his movements, but he didn't feel panicked. At this moment, his perception hadn't been lost; every sign of life within a range of nearly two hundred meters fell into his mind.

As he attempted to use "World-Class Assimilation," everything turned into shades of gray and white.

Whenever his consciousness touched a person, that person's body immediately regained its color.

This, naturally, included White Tiger.

"Hiss—" Gaga Chicken suddenly shuddered, its cross-eyed gaze darting left and right in suspicion. "Could there be another expert?"

Immediately after, it looked at Chu Xuan with a face full of doubt.

Chu Xuan's consciousness swept over Gaga Chicken and finally withdrew, settling on himself. He faintly felt like he had touched something, but it wasn't clear.

"You seem to... have a problem?" White Tiger chuckled grimly. "It looks like you won't be able to escape..."

With a thought, Chu Xuan looked again at White Tiger, who was struggling to crawl toward him. He actually saw the words "World Traitor" labeled in blood-red above the other's head.

At the same time, using his Eye of Insight, Chu Xuan not only clearly observed White Tiger's spirituality value dropping sharply but also intuitively saw a faint layer of shimmering white airflow surrounding him, which was being used to repair his body.

"So, after being resurrected through an item, additional spirituality value must be consumed to accelerate the reconstruction and repair of the physical body..."

In Chu Xuan's observation, when that shimmering white air, invisible to the naked eye, was about to be exhausted, the speed of White Tiger's physical repair instantly slowed down.

Just then, a pile of silver spirit money suddenly appeared in White Tiger's hand. There were about a hundred coins, equivalent to over 100 points of spirituality value, with most of them rolling onto the ground through his fingers.

His fingers trembling, he touched them one by one. As each silver spirit money coin turned to powder, the shimmering white airflow around him replenished slightly.

"Soon... almost there..." White Tiger struggled to stand up.

[Your spirit attribute has been converted to real.]

[Your strength attribute has been converted to real.]

[Your agility attribute has been converted to real.]

Chu Xuan's body suddenly jolted. The 200 points in each of his basic attributes were now entirely converted into 20 points of real attribute.

Ineffably, Chu Xuan felt as if everything in the world had changed. Although the scenery before him hadn't altered, it was much clearer, as if the resolution had been increased.

Not only that, Chu Xuan found that he could now easily perform internal observation; his flesh, bones, and internal organs were all visible in minute detail.

When Chu Xuan focused his attention on the center of his brow, the scene before him changed abruptly, and the world above and below turned into a vast expanse of white.

"The spirit world, the consciousness space..."

The thought surfaced in Chu Xuan's mind as if by divine inspiration.

In this vastness, although he had no physical form, he could roam freely.

Suddenly, something flashed by.

Chu Xuan immediately gave chase. The thing was ethereal and flickering; it felt like he could catch up at any moment, yet he could never quite reach it until it finally vanished.

But after a short while, something flashed again.

He chased it again and lost it again. This repeated several times, but he was consistently unable to capture any trace of it.

"Is that the unfamiliar consciousness?" Chu Xuan was certain; he could feel that it was likely an outsider.

"It's probably because my Mental Energy strength isn't enough... This spirit world seems both real and illusory, like an ordinary person's dream, somewhat indistinct. And now, I don't even have a physical form." Chu Xuan tried to check his own body, but it was just a void.

Suddenly, a System prompt appeared.

Chu Xuan's consciousness immediately returned to the outside world, only to find that just a few seconds had passed. White Tiger, ahead of him, had just finished absorbing the last coin of spirit money.

[Detected that all your attributes have been converted to real. The Dark World's "suppression of attribute rewards obtained through Rank promotion" has been lifted. Every time you level up, you will receive a varying number of attribute points as a reward.]

[Current Rank 11. You have received 5 real attribute points, which can be freely allocated.]

[Promoting to the next Rank LV.12 will grant real attribute points: 10.

Upgrade conditions: Fire of Nirvana LV.6 (Achieved), 1000 spirituality value (Achieved), 5 rule fragments (Not achieved).

Note: For every 10-point increase in each basic attribute, 1000 spirituality value and 1 rule fragment must be consumed to continue increasing.]

"So this is what [Future Tang Zheng] meant when he said that after promotion, every level up would grant attribute points.

And from now on, whether it's leveling up or increasing real attribute, the most important resource besides spirituality value is rule fragments..."

Chu Xuan's eyes flashed. He understood immediately that because all his attributes had reached 200 points before his promotion, converting them all to real attribute now was equivalent to saving an extra 4 rule fragments and 4000 spirituality value in resources.

[Detected that you possess the following Exclusive Skills: Fire of Nirvana LV.7, All-Cutting Slash LV.4, Hundred Weapons One Heart MAX, Death-Dealing Blade LV.4.

Current quantity of real attribute available for exchange: 24 (1 real attribute point can be exchanged for every 1000 spirituality value consumed).]

"Possessing Exclusive Skills actually grants extra real attribute points, and the exchangeable quantity is clearly related to the skill level.

Only the max-level Forbidden Darkness and Eye of Insight are not listed..."

In addition, Chu Xuan discovered that several changes had occurred on his attribute panel; it seemed that increasing the level of Divine Abilities could also grant real attribute.

However, now was not the time for research.

Amidst his thoughts, Chu Xuan first chose to increase his spirit attribute, attempting to use it to compete with the unfamiliar consciousness inside him and increase his chances of seizing control.

[Your real spirit attribute +5]

[Current real spirit attribute: 25]

Suddenly, Chu Xuan's consciousness cleared. He felt that his entire body was no longer numb. Under the influence of the Fire of Nirvana, intense pain surged. Although he was still incredibly stiff, he now had a slight ability to move.

Just as Chu Xuan was preparing to continue exchanging real attribute points to increase his spirit value and use it to fight for control of his body, he suddenly felt his entire body loosen, and he regained complete control...

"You all must die!!"

With a gnashing roar, White Tiger had risen from the ground to a half-kneeling position. He swayed unsteadily, unable to stand up fully.

One of his arms had mostly repaired its muscles and bones. With a wave of his hand, a glass bottle suddenly appeared, filled with a turbid, yellowish liquid.

The bottle didn't look heavy, but when it landed in White Tiger's hand, it felt heavy, nearly slipping from his grasp.

He struggled to bite off the stopper and tremblingly poured the turbid liquid into his mouth. Most of it spilled onto the ground, sizzling as it produced corrosive Smoke.

White Tiger's entire body trembled, but his spirituality value was surging rapidly at a rate of 10 points per second.

In Chu Xuan's eyes, the shimmering white airflow surrounding him also became much fuller, and with it came an acceleration in the speed of his physical repair.

In that instant, Chu Xuan understood why he had suddenly regained control of his body without any further hindrance.

Clearly, the unfamiliar consciousness inside him had realized the situation was critical and had voluntarily retreated.

Chu Xuan's gaze was profound. He had 3850 spirituality value remaining and immediately exchanged 3000 of it for 3 real attribute points.

[Remaining quantity of real attribute points available for exchange: 21]

Under Chu Xuan's observation, while White Tiger was continuously being injured, under the influence of [Bloody Battle], his current strength, agility, and spirit attributes had all climbed to 25 points, while his health points had recovered to 3% during the constant repair.

Seeing that White Tiger's health was still recovering and that he had already stood up, swaying as he drew closer and closer,

Chu Xuan tilted his head back to take another large gulp of high-grade life essence, then picked up the indestructible flowing shadow from the ground, spending 30 spirituality value to reshape it into a long blade.

The Fire of Nirvana spread across his body, covering the long blade.

He stepped into the hundred-meter range around White Tiger.

In an instant, Chu Xuan felt an intense pressure and restraint.

His already heavily injured body began to tremble again under this pressure, and his wounds even showed signs of gradually splitting open.

Chu Xuan immediately chose to increase his strength attribute to reduce the suppression from the other's [Prison Lock Dragon].

[Your real strength attribute +1]

[Current real strength attribute: 21]

He needed to save a few attribute points in case the consciousness inside him caused trouble, so he could add more spirit attribute points to resist.

"You want to kill me?!"

White Tiger's face, half bone and half flesh, twisted into a hideous smile. He raised his hand, like a slow-moving zombie, and reached out sluggishly toward Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan tried to teleport over directly, but under this heavy pressure, he was forced out of it, so he began to walk over step by step.

The closer he got, the more intense the pressure became.

When he reached the fifty-meter mark, Chu Xuan's footsteps suddenly faltered, and his body's trembling intensified.

"Can't make it?" The smile on White Tiger's face was grotesque and terrifying.

"Heh..." Chu Xuan no longer held back, directly increasing his real strength attribute to 23 and continuing forward with his blade.

"Then let's see who dies first!!" Madness glinted in White Tiger's eyes as crystals slowly spread across his body, replacing the weak spots where flesh had not yet grown.

Everyone outside was shocked as they watched this scene.

The two people approaching each other both had broken bodies; they couldn't even stand steadily and found it difficult to walk, yet they both acted as if they wouldn't stop until the other was dead.

Who would have the last laugh?

Everyone's hearts were tight with extreme tension.

At that moment, someone suddenly pointed toward the sky and cried out in alarm, "What is that thing?!"

In the southeast direction of the Central Battlefield, a rift over ten meters long appeared.

A massive amount of black mist swept out from within it.

"Gloom Invasion!!"

"Wait, the mist is dispersing again?"

The crowd shouted, looking toward the sky in fear.

"The Rank suppression has been lifted?"

An eerie laugh rang out from the black mist. As the mist faded, everyone finally saw a head as large as a water vat squeezing out.

It could vaguely be identified as a man, but he was covered in scars and bloodstains, and his face was covered in dense ice crystals.

A grim, cold air drifted out from him.

Under this cold air, the drizzling rain within a thousand-meter radius turned entirely into small ice crystals as it fell.

"White Tiger, I really didn't expect that you would end up in such a state..."

The man struggled hard, squeezing more of his body out and reaching out a hand, laughing even more strangely: "Do you need me to save you? All you have to do is beg me."

"Black Tortoise, so you're not dead yet..." White Tiger looked up.

The man laughed loudly: "I'm the best at staying alive. That mere Yang Yu won't find it so easy to kill me."

"Stop boasting." White Tiger's eyes narrowed. "Since you're here, why haven't you made a move yet?"

"Hehe, I'll take that as you begging me." The man squeezed out more than half of his body. Instantly, a chilling wind howled, and the ice crystals turned into hail.

As the rest of his body squeezed out of the rift,

People were horrified to find that what had squeezed out behind that giant head was a suit of armor covered in blue ice crystals, followed by a cold wind that swept in all directions.

"Black Tortoise?"

"It's actually Black Tortoise from the Resurrection Society?"

"Is it another promoted Transcendent?"

People began to launch attacks, wanting to kill Black Tortoise before he could fully emerge from the rift.

But those attacks had no effect on Black Tortoise. Instead, as the cold wind blew past them, their bodies trembled and stiffened.

Only Gaga Chicken flew over and launched a few bolts of lightning, making Black Tortoise howl in pain, though he clearly hadn't taken much damage.

Chu Xuan only glanced at Black Tortoise before ignoring him and walking straight toward White Tiger.

"You can't kill me!" White Tiger sneered. "Either come here and be killed by me, or crawl back and be killed by Black Tortoise. You have no chance left."

Chu Xuan's expression was indifferent. He walked slowly but with steady steps, his figure drawing closer and closer.

On the bench, Yan Guofa looked up at the Black Tortoise, who was desperately trying to squeeze through the rift in the distance, and sighed softly, "I missed one..."

Yan Guofa slowly stood up and gently pointed his hand toward Black Tortoise, but as soon as his arm was raised, it instantly rotted and turned to ash.

Not only that, his entire body's skin wrinkled until he barely looked human, and his gray hair had all fallen out. He looked like a dying old man.

"Old fogey, even Yang Yu couldn't kill me, so what makes you think you're worthy? I can see you're already out of life. What are you still lingering for? Die early and be reincarnated early!"

Black Tortoise laughed loudly as his other arm reached out.

Then, he puffed out his cheeks and blew hard. Instantly, a cold wind shrieked, transforming into dense ice blades that shot forth.

Two Night Watchers couldn't dodge in time and lost their arms. They were quickly pulled away by their companions, but ice crystals were already spreading from their wounds, their lips were purple, and they were shivering uncontrollably from the cold.

"Is it all going to be for nothing..." Yan Guofa staggered back a step and sat back down on the reclining chair. He turned his head stiffly to look at Lin Jie, who was no longer struggling in pain but had hollow eyes.

Suddenly, in the distance, dark clouds rolled and thunder roared, and a cry that pierced the clouds rang out.

"Yan Guofa!"

"Yan Guofa!!"

"Yan Guofa!!!!"

Amidst the lightning, a being over a hundred meters tall, a nameless creature whose entire body was full of twisted, writhing forms—like a giant built from countless monsters—marched forward through the bolts of lightning.

The massive body would flicker from time to time, crossing a distance of a thousand meters with each flash, and the dark clouds above its head would move along with it, as lightning continuously struck down.

"Yan Guofa, you forced me to prematurely emerge. I will kill you!!" Accompanied by a furious roar, every step the monster giant took made the earth tremble and houses collapse.

"My spirit gathering holy grail, my teleportation furnace, my eerie bus, give them back to me..."

(Thanks to "Li Xiaolong Who Loves Eating Braised Duck" for gifting a Great God Certification, thank you.)