19: Chapter 19 Divine Fusion!

[ Specialty · Thunder Extreme State + 5 ]

[ Description: Upon activation, lightning patterns will condense on your limbs, releasing electric current to the surroundings. Your speed will be 3.5 times your original base, and weapons enchanted by the lightning patterns will deal 2.2 times the damage to enemy targets, while carrying a piercing effect. ]

[ Specialty · Ice Seal + 4 ]

[ Description: Ice seals a thousand miles, snow drifts for ten thousand li. Locked targets within your mental power range will suffer from frostbite effects for 5 seconds, and your mental power damage against these targets will be multiplied by 2. ]

[ Specialty · Ice Armor + 5 ]

[ Description: Condenses 6 layers of ice armor on the surface of your body, multiplying your base strength and base constitution by 2.2. Attacking targets will apply a 15% slow effect, lasting for 6 seconds. ]

Lin Wan was quite lucky; his Specialty · Thunder Extreme State reached +5, and the two new specialties were both combat power enhancements.

However, the most important thing right now was to consume the advanced strengthening potions to complete the advanced body tempering; everything else was secondary.

After materializing three strengthening potions from his talent tab, he began to decipher them one by one.

"It is time for the wonderful medication-taking session again."

One after another, the happiness was like that of an immortal.

Lin Wan had never felt life was so blissful.

He wouldn't trade this feeling for anything.

This was an elevation of his body, mind, and even his level of life.

The state lasted for a full half hour.

Lin Wan, calming his emotions, used his hand to pinch his rolled-back eyes back into place, silently feeling his current base strength.

If Lin Wan with 30 strength could exert 10,000 kilograms with a single arm swing.

Then Lin Wan with 60 strength could reach 60,000 with a single arm.

Then, with his current state, it was 360,000 kilograms per arm.

You have to know, this was his most basic attribute.

For normal people of other civilizations, reaching this level of strength would require the support of a system.

If their system were destroyed, their combat power would plummet.

But Lin Wan would not; his base strength was right there. Even if his meridians were crippled or his dantian destroyed, he would still possess this much strength.

On the contrary, if he were to cultivate a system, compared to others, it would be a step into the heavens.

"Now, only the Divine Mechanic Awakening Stone and the sword intent inheritance stone remain unused."

Lin Wan knew that after using the Divine Mechanic Awakening Stone and augmenting it with a forbidden stone, he would probably be able to obtain another planetary-limit aptitude.

As for the sword intent inheritance stone...

Lin Wan materialized it.

[ sword intent inheritance stone ]

[ Description: It contains the terrifying Sword Intent of a sword dao master. After use, you can obtain the sword dao master's Sword Intent inheritance. ]

[ Effect: After comprehending the Sword Intent, you can obtain Sword Intent augmentation. The amount of augmentation depends on how much you have comprehended. ]

"It's actually quite a plain and unadorned mechanism..."

After deciphering it, Lin Wan thought for a moment and did not use it immediately. He first materialized the Divine Mechanic Awakening Stone.

The degree of Sword Intent comprehension was related to one's own aptitude and insight. Lin Wan felt that having an additional planetary-limit aptitude should be helpful for comprehending the Sword Intent.

Even if it didn't work, he could just replicate a few more sword intent inheritance stones.

"Let's do it this way."

After deciphering the Divine Mechanic Awakening Stone, he began to touch it.

A moonlight radiance bloomed from the awakening stone.

[ Divine Mechanic System Aptitude: Bright Moon Grade ]

"Bright Moon Grade, is this considered good or bad?"

Lin Wan didn't immediately know which aspect of talent it was measuring.

System: [ Bright Moon Grade, it seems the host's mental power talent is quite good. ]

"Mental power?"

[ That's right. The Divine Mechanic system is a system based on mental power. The better the mental power talent, the better the aptitude for this system. ]

[ This system is mainly composed of nine major aptitudes: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Star Glory, Bright Moon, Radiant Sun, and Galaxy. Host, your current aptitude is already close to the planet's limit; at most, it can only be raised one more level. ]

"System, you seem to know a lot about this system?"

[ Because... my first host cultivated this very system. ]

"Oh, then you must hate him quite a bit; you sound like you're gnashing your teeth."

[ I have no need to hate him. That idiot, for the sake of a woman, went to snatch a bride on her wedding day, fought people several major realms above him to confront the ancestor-level figures of others' families, and in the end, said some inexplicable things that left me stunned. ]

[ Ruining my performance record, he deserved to die. ]

Hearing these words, Lin Wan, for some reason, seemed to clearly feel the emotional fluctuations of the system.

After a moment of silence, Lin Wan decided to bypass this topic.

"After my mental power talent increases, will it affect changes in my insight?"

[ It has a certain influence. In terms of acquired factors, life experience, wisdom, and brain development will all affect insight. Of course, these are influences where quantitative changes produce qualitative changes. ]

[ There is another kind, which is heaven-sent treasures, such as the Dao Comprehension Tree in cultivation systems, Cthulhu-related rule products, or even martial arts manuals in martial arts, all of which are possible. ]

"Oh, I understand now!"

Lin Wan casually tossed a forbidden stone and swallowed it.

[ Divine Mechanic System Aptitude: Radiant Sun Grade ]

[ Obtained special aptitude: Divine Flesh Unity ]

He swallowed another forbidden stone... It was ineffective.

However, Lin Wan became somewhat excited.

He looked at the detailed information of Divine Flesh Unity.

[ Divine Flesh Unity ]

[ Description: The true combination of spirit and flesh, with no distinction between the two. ]

Such a simple description, yet it caused a subtle change in Lin Wan's comprehensive combat power.

This was because his physical body template and sword cultivator template could finally link up.

However, he was not in a hurry because the sword intent inheritance stone had not yet been comprehended.

"Come on, sword intent inheritance stone, let me see your limit."

He immediately grabbed the stone and slapped it onto his forehead.

Scattered starlight poured into his mind.

It was as if his body had been pulled out of reality, and his entire being fell into an endless void.

When his vision cleared again, he was standing on the peak of a solitary mountain.

Clouds and mist surged beneath his feet, and at the end of the horizon was a massive radiant sun.

The wind was strong.

It was bone-chillingly cold.

A middle-aged man stood before him.

He wore a grayish-white robe with several holes, and the cuffs were flapping loudly in the wind.

A sword hung at his waist.

That person, just by standing there, made Lin Wan feel that his presence was extremely imposing.

The aura radiating from his body was like an unsheathed sharp blade; his very existence was cutting through the surrounding space.

This is... a sword dao master?

The middle-aged man turned around.

The wrinkles on his face were deep, but his eyes were bright.

"Oh?"

He sized Lin Wan up, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"A spiritual body? A projection? Or some other messy inheritance mechanism?"

"It's been so many years, and I still don't understand how this thing packages and sends out my Sword Intent; it's like a leech."

"But... kid, since you've come, it means you are one of the successors I've chosen."

Lin Wan opened his mouth, wanting to speak, but the middle-aged man raised his hand to interrupt him.

"Don't be in such a hurry to ask this and that; I don't have much time, and this wisp of Sword Intent won't last too long."

"Next, I will only say this once."

His tone suddenly deepened.

"A sword wielder is a heart blade."

"The saber is domineering; it is splitting mountains and breaking cliffs. It is: if I do not keep you, you cannot keep me."

"The spear is unyielding; it is charging forward without looking back."

"And the sword..."

The middle-aged man placed his hand on the sword hilt.

"The sword is... extension!"

Extension?

Lin Wan hadn't even had time to chew on the meaning of these two words before the middle-aged man moved.

The sword left its sheath.

There was no crisp sword ringing sound like when Lin Wan snapped his fingers.

It was just a plain slash.

That sword strike was very slow, so slow that Lin Wan could clearly see the tiny air currents stirred up as the blade cut through the air.

And that sword strike was very fast, so fast that Lin Wan's thinking lagged...

Wherever the sword tip pointed, the sea of clouds for a thousand miles suddenly split open.

In the rift, a pitch-black void was revealed, and in the void... stars were shattering.

A single sword strike shattered stars.

Even space itself was left with wounds by the lingering effect of that sword strike.

The middle-aged man returned the sword to its sheath, his movements clean and efficient.

"Did you understand?"

Lin Wan swallowed hard.

Is this something someone at his level could understand?

"... A tiny bit."