145: Chapter 145 The Heaven-Shattering Sword Technique, Third Form!

"Yes!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen You willed it and chose to comprehend it immediately.

In an instant, that ancient-looking skill book transformed into a deep, abyss-like black stream of light, shooting straight into the space between his eyebrows.

Unlike the sharpness of 'Startling Swan' or the violent fury of 'Chaotic Stars', the feeling brought by this stream of light was one of ultimate control and stability.

It felt as if it wasn't just a sword move, but a system of governance that had lasted for ten thousand years, a divine mountain suppressing heaven and earth, being forcibly poured into his soul.

A massive amount of insights and information exploded in his mind.

【Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique Third Form—Control Below】

【Type: Status/Defense】

【Effect: Circulate your own sword intent throughout the body, transforming it into invisible sword qi to protect the body and isolate all laws.】

【While active, exempts all control-type effects of the corresponding level based on the current strength of the caster's sword intent.】

【Remark: The stronger the sword intent, the more stable the Control Below. When your sword intent is enough to shake the stars, perhaps even the laws themselves will make way for you.】

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Super Armor!

Absolute immunity to control!

Chen You's eyes instantly lit up.

Back during the White Jade Capital defense battle, he had suffered because of control skills!

He really needed a Super Armor effect!

With the upcoming chaotic battle at the Wind and Snow Divine Mountain, this added another layer of security!

Newbie protection allowed him to ignore damage from other players, but it didn't guarantee he wouldn't be pinned in place by some weird control skills.

For example, group freezing, large-area stuns...

Once he was controlled and couldn't deal effective damage to the BOSS, then damage contribution would become a moot point.

And 'Control Below' perfectly filled in the final shortcoming!

The only variable was that phrase: 'based on the current strength of the caster's sword intent.'

What level was his current sword intent at?

Was it good enough?

Chen You wasn't sure either.

"I have to test it first."

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

He immediately opened the monster setting interface of the training room, his gaze quickly scanning the dazzling array of monsters in the list.

Finally, he stopped on a name.

【Level 30 Elite · Shadow Succubus】

A magic-type monster whose main means of attack were Mental Shocks and Soul Bindings; its control skills were quite disgusting.

"You'll do."

Selection confirmed.

In the center of the training room floor, a cloud of black mist rose up, condensing into a female monster with a seductive figure but a distorted and terrifying face.

"Woo—"

As soon as the Shadow Succubus appeared, it let out a soul-piercing shriek, and a visible black ripple spread rapidly toward Chen You!

【Mental Shock】!

Previously, even if Chen You could rely on his powerful spirit attribute to tank it, he would inevitably feel some mental discomfort.

But this time...

"Control Below."

Chen You chanted silently in his heart.

Buzz—

There were no earth-shaking light effects, nor even any visual changes.

There was only an almost imperceptible invisible ripple that gently pulsed outward with him as the center.

The moment that aggressive black mental shockwave touched this ripple, it instantly dissolved and collapsed, failing to cause even a single stir.

Chen You stood in place, his expression normal, not even a corner of his clothes fluttering.

"It works!"

His eyes brightened.

Immediately after, the Shadow Succubus formed hand seals, and pitch-black chains suddenly burst out from the shadow beneath Chen You's feet, coiling toward his ankles.

【Soul Binding】!

However, the moment those chains were about to touch Chen You's body, they seemed to hit an invisible wall.

With a 'sizzling' sound, the dark energy on the surface of the chains was rapidly worn away, finally falling powerlessly and dissipating into black smoke.

Complete immunity!

Chen You didn't even feel the slightest sense of obstruction.

"Not bad, the control of a Level 30 Elite is already completely ineffective."

This result made him quite satisfied.

As for the consumption...

He glanced at his spiritual power bar; the pale blue tube was slowly decreasing at a visible, but not exaggerated, rate.

He calculated silently.

With his current Fifth Layer of Qi Refining and a high spiritual power limit of 2688 points, fully maintaining the 'Control Below' state, he could probably... last for about ten minutes.

In ten minutes, his spiritual power would hit rock bottom.

"It's a bit of a mana burner."

Chen You rubbed his chin, unable to resist complaining.

He didn't think at all about the fact that this skill could be used only at critical moments instead of being kept on constantly.

At this moment, he just felt that this skill was an out-and-out mana hog.

In a battle of attrition, this would be a fatal weakness.

But...

That thought only existed in his mind for less than a second.

Battle of attrition? Weakness?

That was for ordinary players.

For him, was this even an issue?

The corners of Chen You's mouth curled slightly as he pulled out a round blue pill and tossed it into his mouth like a jelly bean.

【spirit recovery pill】, 1 gold coin for 10 pills.

Gulp.

The pill entered his stomach, and a cool, warm current instantly dissolved; the section of the spiritual power bar he had just consumed was directly refilled.

Chen You estimated again.

The consumption rate of 'Control Below' was about 270 mana per minute.

And one spirit recovery pill could restore 300 mana.

The conclusion was out.

As long as he maintained a frequency of eating one spirit recovery pill per minute, he could perfectly offset the consumption of 'Control Below' and achieve theoretical infinite uptime!

"I need to increase skill proficiency anyway, so I might as well keep it on when nothing is happening."

Chen You muttered.

A trump card that others would need to calculate carefully and time precisely became a permanent passive that could be covered 24 hours a day for him.

After thoroughly understanding the mechanics of 'Control Below', Chen You looked at another item in his backpack.

【Chapter of the Ultimate Realm · Chaotic Stars】.

With a thought, he chose to use it directly.

Buzz—

The scene of the training room in front of him instantly faded, his consciousness was pulled and then reconsolidated.

This was a vast sea of stars.

There was no up or down, no passage of time.

Billions of stars floated upon the black curtain, each emitting light of varying brightness.

Just then, a slender figure in white appeared silently in the center of the star sea.

He couldn't see the person's face clearly; he could only feel a supreme sword intent that seemed to merge with this universe.

He saw the white-clothed figure slowly raise his hand, pressing his fingers together like a sword, and lightly slashing toward the billions of stars.

There was no earth-shaking roar, no world-destroying explosion of light.

The entire sea of stars 'came alive' with that single slash.

Billions of stars broke away from their original orbits, transforming into billions of brilliant sword lights, frantically weaving, colliding, and annihilating in a seemingly chaotic and disorganized trajectory!

Chaos, violence, disorder.

However, within this extreme chaos, Chen You's Spiritual Sight captured a trace of absolute regularity hidden in the deepest depths!

All trajectories and all collisions followed some profound principle.

They seemed to be destroying each other, but in reality, they were using the most violent method to construct a brand new, absolute order!

The true intent of Chaotic Stars was not simple destruction, but to use disordered trajectories to construct a net of certain-kill order!

Boom—

The image shattered, and Chen You's consciousness instantly returned.

He snapped his eyes open, and in the depths of his pupils, it seemed as if billions of stars were being born and extinguished.