78: Synthetic skills

Shi Yan focused his thoughts on the 'synthesizable' option after the Lava Body skill.

Flame Jet and Lava Body slowly twisted and disappeared.

A new skill gradually became clear from its blurry state.

Abilities: Shadow Dagger (synthesizable), Shadow Gas (synthesizable), Lava Body +1.

The moment the skill clearly formed, Shi Yan's eyes narrowed, and his heart suddenly accelerated, beating at a frantic pace, as if it was about to leap out of his throat.

Streaks of energy, as scorching as lava, flowed from the depths of his heart, transported by his blood, spreading throughout his entire body. His muscles, uncontrollable, rapidly inflated as if being pumped up, and the hidden lava lines unconsciously lit up with a dazzling, deep red glow.

His entire body suddenly emitted intense high temperatures. The space within a three-meter radius was slightly warped and deformed by the heat. The full-length mirror beside him instantly melted, and the distant sofa spontaneously combusted with a roar.

Shi Yan's body was slightly hunched, and the pain spreading throughout his body caused a few beads of sweat to appear on his forehead, but the sweat beads would evaporate instantly due to the intense high temperature.

He could feel that the organs and flesh within him, through which the energy flowed, were constantly being scorched and destroyed, but immediately, new, stronger flesh would grow. That energy circulated several times within his body, and only after Shi Yan's body had adapted did it stop flowing and return to his heart.

The transformation quickly ended, in fact, it only took about ten seconds. With a thought, Shi Yan slowly retracted the intense high temperature that was constantly emanating from around him.

With a wave of his large hand, covered in lava-colored lines, the unrecognizable, melted full-length mirror in front of him transformed into a larger mirror.

The mirror was three and a half meters high, perfectly reflecting Shi Yan's entire body at that moment.

His black top and black shorts were stretched taut, and clear muscle lines protruded from various parts of his black clothing.

His previously shoulder-length hair seemed to have grown even longer now, and his deep red hair had become even more profound in color, with tiny deep red sparks constantly falling from his hair and then dissipating into the air.

His pupils were still blood-red, but they seemed to be perfectly controllable. With a thought, the blood-red in his eyes flowed towards his pupils, finally becoming a state where only his pupils glowed with a deep red color.

The lava-like lines across his body became more numerous than before, and the physical improvements he gained were also greater.

Lava Fireball, this auxiliary skill of Lava Body, seemed to have no changes. The total capacity was still the same as before, but... he felt as if the quality of the energy was much higher than before.

Shi Yan raised his left hand, and scorching energy slowly flowed from his heart. A high-temperature, light green fireball slowly appeared in his hand.

The moment the fireball formed, the huge mirror in front of him instantly melted due to the high temperature. Fortunately, such things were not valuable, otherwise, Shi Yan would have suffered a huge loss.

Shi Yan examined the light green fireball in his hand.

Although its size was still exactly the same as before, roughly the size of a normal human head, both its temperature and sense of danger were far, far greater than before.

Shi Yan put away the fireball in his hand and looked at the new skill [Lava Body +1] on the ability panel.

[Lava Body +1]

[Effect One: Significantly increases resistance to high temperatures]

[Effect Two: Doubles all basic physical attributes]

[Effect Three: Possesses auxiliary skill: Melting Transformation]

(Melting Transformation: Body expands and enlarges, further increasing all basic physical attributes by two times, gains High Temperature Domain)

[Effect Four: Possesses auxiliary skill: Lava Fireball]

(Lava Fireball: Can consume lava energy to launch ultra-high temperature Lava Fireballs. The more energy consumed, the greater the power of the fireball. Total capacity: 1000, Total recovery time: 60 seconds)

Shi Yan seemed to sense something, closed his eyes and subtly felt it. A light green energy bar with a pattern like rolling lava appeared in Shi Yan's mind.

His current physical quality had increased by about three times. Although it wasn't as much as the Blood Tattooed Transformation, it was still a significant improvement.

He focused his thoughts on the 'synthesizable' option after Shadow Gas on the panel.

Shadow Dagger and Shadow Gas slowly disappeared, and a new skill emerged.

Ability: Shadow Gas +1

The enhancement of this skill did not cause any particularly huge changes; a cold current suddenly appeared in Shi Yan's body, flowed around his entire body once, and then instantly vanished.

Shi Yan looked at [Shadow Gas +1].

[Shadow Gas +1]

[Effect One: Can release a cloud of purple-black mist covering a three-meter radius]

[Effect Two: Gas has a strong corrosive effect]

[Effect Three: Gas has a slight will-reducing effect]

[Effect Four: Gas has a cutting effect]

Shi Yan's face was expressionless as he looked at the skill description. Although it gained a cutting trait, he felt as if there was no difference between this skill being enhanced or not.

At this moment, the ability panel had changed dramatically.

Abilities: Head Deformation, Blood Texture Control +1, Full Body Panel Enhancement, Shadow Transformation, Moon Power, Dan Pill Production, Blood Curse, Laser Eye, Hair Extension and Contraction, Flexibility, Underwater Breathing, Bomb Generation, Vine Power +1, Mental Impact, Super Regeneration, Smell Enhancement, Portable Space, Dizziness Technique, Sonic Oscillation, Danger Perception, Gray-White Body, Ice Power +1, Physical Enhancement +1, Speed Boost +1, Rat Teeth, Azure Poison Wind Blade, Azure Eye, Lava Body +1, Shadow Gas +1.

Shi Yan slowly narrowed his eyes as he looked at the '+1' suffixes after many skills on the panel. He could vaguely sense that if these skills were synthesized a few more times, they would undergo enormous changes, not just the current all-around improvements, but... truly monumental transformations!

He just didn't know how many similar skills would need to be fused if a skill that had already become '+1' was synthesized again...

Shi Yan slowly retracted his thoughts.

"Then, next is..."

Shi Yan did not retract his Melting Transformation. He turned his body and squinted at the half-head in the corner.

Shi Yan had cut it from a point slightly above his own eye. Because he was worried the cut wouldn't be complete enough, leaving a risk, he used a downward sloping arc to cut off both the cerebrum and cerebellum at once.

The half-head was currently standing upside down on the ground, skull down, with the bottom of the bizarre brain matter facing directly upwards into the air.

Shi Yan stepped over and looked down to examine it.

The slightly smaller cerebellum was resting on top of the cerebrum. The cerebrum, which was previously bright red, had now turned completely black, as if it had been soaked in ink. The entire cerebrum had become strangely twisted, with irregular, deep blue, deformed pus sacs protruding from it.

Twisted, bloody thin lines constantly emerged on the surface of the cerebrum, seeming to twist continuously as if they were alive.

As for the cerebellum, only the part connected to the cerebrum was slightly blackened, but that ink-like blackness was still continuously spreading towards the cerebellum.

A rotten stench emanated, a putrid smell like a decaying corpse. Shi Yan instantly held his breath, not because he found it disgusting, but because he was worried if there was anything unusual about the smell.

Looking at his own brain, which had completely twisted and deformed, Shi Yan's face was expressionless, and a hint of anticipation flashed in his light red eyes.

He slightly parted his lips, and a wisp of dark red airflow floated out of his mouth. The dark red airflow slowly flew towards the head on the ground. As it flew, the dark red airflow gradually expanded and enlarged, just enough to envelop the entire head.

The head quickly turned black and melted. In an instant, the foul odor intensified. After about a minute of blowing like this, the head turned into a pile of black powder.