408: Pushing forward

“After analysis, the best current option is to give up resistance and calmly accept death.”

After synthesizing all intelligence and comparing the data from both sides, Super Brain quickly provided an answer.

However, this answer was clearly not what Mu wanted, as could be seen from his utterly shocked expression. He even reconfirmed, asking:

“Super Brain, provide a solution to the current predicament.”

Although Super Brain was formed from part of Mu’s consciousness, it had no autonomous consciousness and only responded mechanically. It quickly gave the same answer again:

“After analysis, the best current option is to give up resistance and calmly accept death.”

“Struggling will only deepen the pain the master experiences when facing death.”

Give up resistance? Calmly accept death?

How could I, the dignified head of the Intelligence Pavilion, possibly give up resistance and calmly accept death?

Mu felt that Super Brain was getting a bit ahead of itself, to actually give him such foolish advice.

It seemed it was time to reconfigure Super Brain’s AI and let it know what to say and what not to say.

Thinking this, Mu looked at the flame cage in front of him again.

Since Super Brain was unreliable, he would carve out a bloody path with his own abilities.

Talent Template: Body Shrink (Supernatural) activated!

Although the Chaotic Domain could suppress most Talent Templates, this type of self-affecting template would not completely fail.

Under the effect of the Talent Template: Body Shrink (Supernatural), Mu’s body visibly shrank at a speed perceptible to the naked eye, quickly reducing to a hundred meters in length.

Facing the soon-to-be completely sealed flame cage, Mu chose to shrink his body, staking everything on one throw.

He believed that as long as his speed was fast enough, this seemingly terrifying flame cage would not be able to trap him.

Thinking this, Mu suddenly exerted force, bursting forward with terrifying speed.

Hope was right before his eyes; as long as he could break through the flame cage, he was confident he had a million ways to eliminate Lin Tianwei.

He even felt that if Lin Tianwei hadn’t been so dishonorable, ambushing him when he wasn’t paying attention, this carelessly constructed flame cage wouldn’t have been able to trap him at all.

Mu’s speed was extremely fast, like an arc of light, rushing outwards like a moth to a flame.

He was indeed worthy of being the head of the Intelligence Pavilion; even without Super Brain’s assistance, his calculation abilities were terrifying.

Facing the terrifying flame cage, he ultimately relied on his precise judgment to break through and find a path to survival just before the flame cage completely sealed.

However, to Mu’s despair, the flame cage was a larger flame cage, seamlessly sealed, with no gaps whatsoever.

He had merely moved from a smaller cage into a larger one.

How could Lin Tianwei allow him to escape so easily?

After hope, came even greater despair.

In Mu’s horrified gaze, without giving him any time to react, the larger flame cage had already completely surrounded him, trapping him within and incinerating him.

Mu would naturally not be afraid of ordinary flames; his body had long been impervious to water and fire.

However, he simply could not withstand these flames composed of the Power of Destruction; they ignited upon contact!

Just upon contact, they began to incinerate Mu’s body at an extremely terrifying speed.

At this moment, Mu’s immense vitality became a burden.

The stronger the vitality, the higher the quality of Mu as fuel, allowing for a longer period of incineration and a more terrifying and enduring pain—the pain of incinerating consciousness.

The former arrogance was gone from Mu’s face; his round face was twisted in agonizing distortion, looking utterly ferocious.

Die, die quickly.

For the first time, Mu regretted his tenacious vitality and how long he had lived.

The intense pain of his consciousness being incinerated made him wish he would die immediately.

It was then that he belatedly remembered Super Brain’s words: give up resistance and calmly accept death.

Since he wouldn’t truly die in the Law Arena, doing so would actually reduce the pain of death.

It turned out that the beast who hadn’t realized the severity of the situation was himself.

Super Brain’s words were absolutely correct.

If he hadn’t resisted from the beginning, why would he be enduring this pain now?

The sooner he died, the sooner he would be reborn.

Thinking this, Mu subconsciously suppressed the urge to struggle, and finally, under the incineration of the Power of Destruction, he was completely reduced to charcoal.

“Ding, congratulations on successfully defeating your opponent and winning this Arena match.”

“This match’s offensive rating is: SSS. How long the opponent lives depends on your will!”

“This match’s defensive rating is: SSS. The opponent didn’t even have a chance to touch you.”

“Ding, since the opponent’s strength exceeds yours by two major stages, the overall rating for this match will increase by two levels.”

“Ding, your final overall Arena rating is: SSS, enjoying a 3000% point bonus.”

“Ding, after calculation, you have received a total of fifteen million points for this Arena victory (base points 5000 * SSS-level rating bonus 3000% * Hell difficulty bonus 5000% * personal top-tier rating bonus * 200%).”

...“Ding, congratulations Host on eliminating a new target.”

“Ding, Talent extraction successful. Host has acquired Talent: Core Code (Supernatural) (Incomplete) (385/10000), Talent: Super Brain (Supernatural).”

“Note: Congratulations Host, your Talent: Core Code (Supernatural) (Incomplete) collection progress has reached 673/10000.”

“Ding, Talent extraction successful. Host has acquired Talent: Super Brain (Supernatural).”

“Ding, please confirm whether to use this Talent.”

“Super Brain (Supernatural): A Supernatural-level Talent, melting a part of one’s consciousness into a Super Brain that can assist in combat.”

“Note: The more consciousness melted, the stronger the Super Brain’s ability, and the greater the damage to oneself.”

...“Ding, your rating and ranking have been updated. You can view them via the panel.”

...“Name: Lin.

Age: 39 years old.

Strength: Cosmic Level 7.

Ranking: 978.

Points: Thirty-three million+.

Rating: Top-tier (Challenge points +100%).

Note: No beast can escape the retribution of the matching mechanism!”

...“Ding, in recognition of your first entry into the top one thousand of the rankings, you are awarded 100,000 points.”

“May you achieve immortality soon.”

100,000 points? Lin Tianwei really couldn’t care less about such a small reward.

Compared to that, he was more interested in the new Talent he had just extracted: Talent: Super Brain (Supernatural).

It was the first time Lin Tianwei had extracted a Talent in the Law Arena, a Talent other than Core Code.

This meant that the Law Arena had more possibilities, and it wasn’t, as he had initially thought, unable to extract the Talents of defeated opponents.

Connecting the Talent: Super Brain (Supernatural) with the difference from other Talents, and considering the way he accessed the Law Arena, Lin Tianwei suddenly realized that perhaps he could only extract consciousness-related Talents in the Law Arena.

After all, it wasn’t the Cosmic Beasts themselves that entered the Law Arena, but only their consciousnesses.

Such a situation was perfectly reasonable.

This was an unexpected joy for Lin Tianwei; he had gained another avenue for acquiring powerful Talents.

He felt that the Law Arena was simply amazing, like an inexhaustible treasure mountain waiting for him to excavate.

Every dig of the shovel could lead to new discoveries, new gains, containing endless surprises.

Moreover, the Talents extracted from the Law Arena had another characteristic: they could be used directly within the Law Arena.

In other words, Lin Tianwei could now use Talent: Super Brain (Supernatural).

Without hesitation, Lin Tianwei directly used this new Talent. He wanted to know what special abilities the so-called Super Brain possessed.

Talent: Super Brain (Supernatural) activated!

Pain, intense pain.

Lin Tianwei felt as if his head was about to split open, the pain was immense.

As his consciousness differentiated, a small portion of Lin Tianwei’s consciousness began to separate from his main body, gradually transforming into the entity named Super Brain.

This feeling was completely different from the Avatar that he could fully control; it could be completely controlled, yet mutually independent, and even had a huge gap between them.

Lin Tianwei felt that he could control Super Brain, could access all the knowledge contained within Super Brain, but could not fully synchronize with Super Brain.

This feeling was like operating a supercomputer.

After a brief thought, Lin Tianwei completely imported the part of his consciousness containing Filiche’s memories into Super Brain, making this knowledge Super Brain’s database.

Filiche had lived for countless years and was the beast in charge of the Lotus Slave Market; his memories were undeniably vast.

Even with Lin Tianwei’s powerful Mental Power, he had only managed to absorb about twenty percent.

The remaining eighty percent was sealed within Lin Tianwei’s consciousness, waiting for him to digest it little by little.

It would undoubtedly take a long time to completely master the knowledge Filiche possessed.

After all, Lin Tianwei was still a bit too young.

Overexertion could easily lead to being influenced by Filiche’s memories, making him no longer feel like himself.

It was precisely because of this that, although Lin Tianwei possessed Talent: Mental Contract (King), he dared not abuse it.

Too much of a good thing would instead lead to self-injury.

The emergence of Super Brain perfectly resolved the current predicament.

Handing these memories that Lin Tianwei couldn’t absorb to Super Brain for filtering and absorption was not only extremely efficient but also wouldn’t cause any adverse effects on Lin Tianwei. This was truly a win-win situation.

Not only that, he also opened terminal permissions to Super Brain, allowing it to learn as much public knowledge as possible from the terminal.

The more knowledge Super Brain absorbed, the stronger it would become, and the better its auxiliary effect on Lin Tianwei would be. He naturally wouldn’t be stingy in feeding Super Brain.

Super Brain needed some time to absorb knowledge, and even more time to understand and master it.

Therefore, Lin Tianwei couldn't expect Super Brain to function anytime soon.

But it didn’t matter; Lin Tianwei believed that Super Brain would eventually come in handy.

Thinking this, Lin Tianwei directly initiated the matching for the next Arena match. Earning points was his most important task at the moment.

He only hoped that the opponent in this match would be stronger, not as uninteresting as Mu, and could provide him with more surprises.

While the matching was in progress, Lin Tianwei’s consciousness quietly left the Law Arena.

Although the AFK hosting feature wasn’t particularly good, it could still save Lin Tianwei some meaningless time.

Almost in an instant, Lin Tianwei’s consciousness had already arrived at the Time Acceleration Star, possessing the faith receiver Lin Tianwei had left behind earlier.

One had to admit that time was truly a force of infinite power.

Under the effect of Talent: Time Acceleration (Supernatural), the Time Acceleration Star had completely shed its desolate appearance from when it was just cleansed, and had clearly developed into a prosperous life planet, even giving birth to Cosmic Beasts at the peak of Stellar Level 9.

However, under the constraints of resources, the development of the Time Acceleration Star had clearly reached its limit, making it almost impossible for Cosmic Beasts of Cosmic Level strength to be born.

But this level of Time Acceleration Star was already sufficient for Lin Tianwei.

Whether for harvesting Power of Faith or serving as a trial ground for Blue Star’s powerhouses, the Time Acceleration Star proved to be very suitable.

The moment Lin Tianwei arrived at the Time Acceleration Star, a massive amount of Power of Faith, as if finding its target, surged madly towards Lin Tianwei’s location.

This Power of Faith was immensely powerful; its energy intensity alone was comparable to the energy contained in one hundred thousand units of origin.

Although it was slightly impure, containing the beliefs of Cosmic Beasts, for Lin Tianwei, it was excellent nourishment.

Especially in the Reinforcement of Mental Power, this Power of Faith, condensed from beliefs, had miraculous effects.

“Ding, congratulations Host on absorbing a large amount of Power of Faith, Mental Power attribute skyrockets, Mental Power attribute +50000!”

The increase of a full fifty thousand Mental Power attribute points made Lin Tianwei feel incredibly refreshed, giving him a feeling of immense satisfaction.

His Mental Power attribute also increased from three hundred thousand to three hundred fifty thousand, becoming significantly stronger.

This was also why he specifically opened up a planet for the development of faith.

Extracting the Power of Faith from believers was definitely a perfect low-cost channel for acquiring powerful strength.

Lin Tianwei only needed to invest a little management time, and on this land called the Time Acceleration Star, faith would grow robustly, constantly producing faith fruits for Lin Tianwei to harvest.

As for how to maximize the extraction of Power of Faith from believers, that was a technical skill, a highly profound discipline.

It required continuous experimentation to find the most correct path.

However, at least from the Power of Faith Lin Tianwei had just acquired, the development of the Time Acceleration Star was very good, at least capable of bearing the important task of providing him with Power of Faith.

With a thought, Lin Tianwei instantly understood the whole story.

Although Aux played the most crucial role in it, Gu Kai, Legisamon, and Zhong also contributed greatly, playing a vital role in this harvest of Power of Faith.

They did not disappoint Lin Tianwei’s expectations; not only were they still alive, but their strength had also advanced by leaps and bounds, increasing their individual strengths to Stellar Level 1st Grade in just a few decades. (End of Chapter)