Abstraction for a bad world

Chapter 156: First Tier: White Iron, Upper Limit of 999 (5.5k)

【Original Cleansing】

【Age: Two years and seven months】

[Rank: Zero Rank]

[Physique: 462 (231×2)]

[Soul Strength: ∞]

[Blessing: Blessing of the Saint of Reincarnation, Twins on the Other Shore, Blessing of Flandel]

[Achievements: Hell Start, Milk Hunter, Cereal Killer, Fighting God (Unlocked)]

[Number of evolutions: 6]

[Evolution progress bar: 0%]

After throwing in [Body of the Molten River] and [Moonlight Fighting to Madness], Yuan Qingzhuo only threw in [Hell's Start], and with [Blessing of Flandel] the progress bar was almost full.

And speaking of Farandel's blessing...

Yuan Qingzhuo focused his attention on the brief introduction.

[Flandel's Blessing: Grants you the unique inheritance "Anchored in the Present"]

[——People live to create an ideal future. ]

Anchored in the Present

[Effect: Every 24 hours, you can reverse your state to 10 seconds ago, up to 10 times. Passive activation upon death.]

A completely unreasonable time-related ability.

Theoretically speaking, Yuan Qingzhuo has ten chances to commit suicide every day. After connecting with Caroline, he doesn't have to worry about overflowing damage leading to his death.

For a strong man like Yuan Qingzhuo, more ideas and clever uses appeared in his mind almost instantly.

This skill is almost the same as Andre's [Time Reversal], except that the time range of [Anchor the Present] is more limited.

Therefore.

Yuan Qingzhuo just wanted to try to incorporate [Flandel's Blessing] into the promotion ritual.

He wanted to try to see if he could use the ritual to fuse skills and gain more powerful time-related abilities for him to use and study.

Unfortunately, the colors of the several phantoms that appeared above the sacrifice bar - several skill names - were at most exactly the same as [Anchor the Present], and some skills were even of worse quality than it.

——This is where we need to consider.

Yuan Qingzhuo took out Ronghe Yuehua, and after seeing the progress bar turn into 20/100, he tried again to arrange and combine his achievements and blessings.

Finally, I accomplished the 100/100 feat.

It’s true, the permutation and combination game is quite brain-intensive.

Yuan Qingzhuo casually crushed the Molten River Moonlight and gained an upgraded combat skill.

But now is not the time to focus on this.

Because [Body of the Molten River], [Beginning of Hell], [Human Beast], [Blessing of the Saint of Reincarnation], and [Blessing of Flandel] had been thrown into it by him.

Then, a row of red-gold [? ] appeared above the sacrifice bar.

There is no doubt that the color of quality is indeed better than [Anchored in the Present].

"I don't know if it's possible to carry out the fusion upgrade according to my idea..."

Damn it, it's just like the card drawing in the second game of Sharuan.

When will the bad habit of drawing cards be eliminated?

Yuan Qingzhuo cursed inwardly, feeling the pure spiritual essence slowly flowing through the ritual, and rechecked the integrity of the ritual.

everything's ready.

He slowly poured his spiritual essence into the sacrificial pit; just a little was enough.

Thus, the promotion ritual here was officially initiated.

"here we go."

Caroline stood outside the ritual, and swept her stern eyes over any demon that tried to approach the ritual.

But the demons didn't care about this ignorant dragon girl at all.

They just gazed fanatically and quietly at Yuan Qingzhuo in the center of the ritual, at their "Grand Duke Rashi".

What a privilege it is to witness the young Grand Duke's first promotion...

Yuan Qingzhuo closed his eyes, and after a moment he felt his soul falling under the influence of a large amount of spiritual essence.

After this, the concepts of time and space became blurred, and everything could not be described in words.

Even with the soul strength that Yuan Qingzhuo's system could not calculate, he could only vaguely feel that his soul seemed to have spent a short, long period of time in the ritual, or in some mysterious place where the ritual led.

First, it seemed that as I fell, I passed through a door that had no top or bottom, no visible foothold, and no end.

Then, after figuring out the situation, he embarked on a road that seemed to have no end.

In the end, I still had to cross a long river alone.

It all ends here.

Yuan Qingzhuo could sense that after his soul had completed all this, it slowly rose from the end of the river and finally returned to his current body.

The long and short Baitie promotion ceremony ended here.

Yuan Qingzhuo opened his eyes again.

[Your soul has passed through the pure white door - the strength of your soul has been greatly improved! ]

[Your soul has completed the pilgrimage - Physical Fitness +200! You have obtained the blessing "Ascetic"! ]

【ascetic】

【Effect: The longer the path you walk, the more your physical fitness will increase.】

[——The stairs are broken, and I have to walk the bitter road alone. ]

[Your soul has traveled through a long river - its ability to resist erosion has been greatly improved! ]

[Congratulations, you have unlocked the new attribute "Ectoplasm". ]

[The current upper limit of spiritual essence is 134/488. ]

[Congratulations, you have been promoted to the first level, White Iron. ]

[Note: All future skills and inheritance will be classified as blessings.]

This is the most basic promotion notification.

Added some physique and some soul strength.

Yuan Qingzhuo could indeed feel that his physical fitness had improved many times. He could see things very slowly and even lifting his legs felt light and fluttery.

Moreover, it seems that it has reached a certain "ceiling" and cannot be raised for the time being.

As for the soul... if it is a little more solid, it is better than nothing.

"——He's finished his promotion?"

Caroline could sense that the spiritual essence lingering around the ritual disappeared almost moments after it was activated.

I was just distracted.

How short is this time?

Thirty seconds? Or twenty seconds?
Or even shorter?
The girl gritted her teeth in displeasure - doesn't that mean Yuan Qingzhuo's promotion speed is even faster than hers?

——My mother once said that the shorter the promotion process, the more talented the person is.

Doesn’t this mean that this little guy’s talent is even stronger than Caroline’s?

What a joke!
Mom clearly said that she is the most talented person in the world!
Even though it was just something she said casually before going to bed, she remembered it clearly!
Without paying attention to the sudden and inexplicable hostility coming from Caroline beside him, Yuan Qingzhuo exhaled slowly and focused his mind on the next prompt.

Below is the big part of this promotion.

[Congratulations, you have obtained the blessing "Beast of the Abyss"! ]

[Beast of the Abyss]

【Effects: Growth rate ×5, digestion capacity ×5, physique ×2, soul strength ×2.

The speed of erosion by the abyss is slowed down by 60%. At the same time, the longer the time of erosion by the abyss, the stronger the anti-erosion ability.

Starting from the first level of the abyss, each time you ascend a level, your physique increases by 10%, your soul strength increases by 10%, and your recovery ability increases by 10%. 】

[——Growth, digestion, physique, soul, recovery, corrosion resistance... In the abyss, the lone beast always has no weaknesses. ]

[Note: After reaching the fifth level of the abyss, the blessing "Abyss Beast" will undergo significant changes. ]

It turned out to be the case.

The slightly strange changes in the surroundings that I just felt came from here.

If you were to describe what the so-called "abyss erosion" feels like, even Yuan Qingzhuo would hardly be able to describe it.

Although it has something to do with its intangibility, what is more important is that the abyss erosion on the front line of the second abyss is almost negligible.

To put it in an analogy, the current erosion of the abyss is like an ordinary person whispering the name "Yuan Qingzhuo" a thousand meters away.

After possessing the blessing of the [Beast of the Abyss], the effect becomes a shouting sound two thousand meters or even three thousand meters away.

In this way, Yuan Qingzhuo couldn't even see the appearance of that "person" clearly, let alone describe it specifically.

This blessing is probably a combination of "human beast" and "hell's beginning".

The effect is simple and crude, which is to increase one's growth rate in childhood.

Sure enough, by actively guiding the flow of spiritual essence in the ritual, can the blessings obtained be synthesized in the direction that one wants?

Then, presumably, the remaining three have also merged into one.

Five scarlet-gold blessings were arranged in parallel in front of Yuan Qingzhuo.

He was slightly stunned, and then looked at Caroline with confusion.

This is too...

He remembered that the level he was promoted to was not the first level, White Iron.
[Please note that you can only choose one of the following blessings. ]

【——Please choose carefully. 】

【Future Vision·Tomorrow】

[Effect: You can see everything that happens tomorrow from your own perspective, with no upper limit on usage.]

[——All the future lies in tomorrow, and tomorrow will fall into your eyes. ]

Predict future.

Although he could only predict a short day, Yuan Qingzhuo could easily think of its theoretical best use.

As long as you use it once, you can let your current self know the original "tomorrow". Then the second time you use it, the "tomorrow" you see the second time will be based on the first time you use it...

And so on.

This can be repeated infinitely.

If used infinitely, you can get the best theoretical solution for something tomorrow.

Of course, you can also use it to obtain intelligence and try more things that you dare not do today... There are too many possibilities.

I can only say that it is worthy of the blessing that was born after I fed two current B-level blessings.

It's so strong that you can't help but squirt.

But don't rush.

Continue reading. [Future Vision Node]

[Effect: You can vaguely see the nodes and scenes of major events that will occur in the next few decades or even hundreds of years, and see the vague direction of future history.]

[——The future, the nodes, the direction, the possibilities, the ideals and hopes... the immeasurably long future has been reflected in the eyes of the chess players.]

pass.

Without even thinking about it, Yuan Qingzhuo ignored this blessing which was in the opposite direction of the previous blessing.

——Because how much time did he spend traveling into one world after another?
I stayed with Susie for a month or two, and it was less than a month from the first time I met Marina to the time I left.

Even the longest one, "Mirror Lotus of the End", only lasted two and a half years.

Do you really think this is some kind of immortal cultivation novel where hundreds or thousands of years can pass by easily while you're in seclusion?

Yuan Qingzhuo shook his head.

A hundred years is too long; I must seize the day.

So he continued to look down.

【Anchor point】

[Effect: You can set the current time point as the anchor point. Within the next seven days, the user will return to the time when the anchor point was set after death.

The anchor point cannot be changed within one week after it is set, and the upper limit of death within a single anchor point time limit is ten times. 】

【——Anchored here, returning here. 】

There is no doubt that this is the orthodox advancement of the original [Anchored in the Present].

The original "twenty-four hours" evolved into "one week", and the original ten seconds of reverse flow evolved into a maximum of one week.

It has also evolved from "flowing back within itself" to "flowing back the entire world."

If it weren't for the following two blessings, Yuan Qingzhuo would undoubtedly consider between it and [Future Vision·Tomorrow].

pity.

"This is also called White Iron Steps..."

Yuan Qingzhuo smiled with relief.

【Reincarnation Time Body】

[Effect: Any damage or abnormal state you suffer will be evenly transferred to the next day - in seconds, all damage or abnormal state you suffer will be evenly transferred to 86400 of you in the future.]

[——To kill you now, it means to kill all of you in the next 86400 seconds at the same time, which means to chop off your head 86400 times in a row.

To poison you, I would need to use 86400 times the amount of poison.

And time passes.

Of course, please rest assured that you don’t need to eat 86400 times as much food to feel full, nor will you feel pleasure within the normal range. 】

86400 times the blood volume.

This is a bit too open.

Even with Yuan Qingzhuo's knowledge, he couldn't help but remain silent for a moment.

He only needed to think about it for a moment... to kill Ronghe 86400 times, or to kill Andre 86400 times.

Can it be done?

It can't be done.

And such a terrifying blessing actually appeared in the blessing of the starting point of the rank, the White Iron Rank.

Perhaps for ordinary people, this is just a simple increase in blood volume, and the beating will be tens of thousands times more severe.

But this is not the case for Yuan Qingzhuo.

The original will of martial arts is limited to the relatively fragile body in the material world. Excessive use of the will of martial arts can easily lead to physical damage.

——So Yuan Qingzhuo could not fully and freely exert his martial arts will. Even if he used his full strength occasionally, it could only last for a very short moment.

But once you have the reincarnation body, it will be completely possible.

The 86400-fold damage reduction allows Yuan Qingzhuo to easily control his martial arts will, with the power instantly reaching full power and returning to zero.

Take the Molten River as an example.

It's almost no problem to beat him with one punch.

Yuan Qingzhuo murmured, "This fighting power is expanding a little too fast."

He didn't know whether this was a blessing given for advancing to the regular White Iron Stage, or whether the blessings from the Saint of Reincarnation and Flandel that he had thrown in were of some importance.

【Future God of War】

[Effect: You can project the power of your future self onto your present self. In theory, you can summon your future self in his strongest state.

But when using it, you need to pay the price of power. The longer the time you seek, the stronger the power, and the greater the price you pay. 】

[——Listen up, latecomers! Don’t choose! Don’t choose! Don’t choose it!!!]

A blessing slightly similar to the [Hell Martial God] that Yuan Qingzhuo himself had developed.

It’s just that the God of War in Hell seeks strength from the past and thoughts, while the God of War in the Future borrows strength from his future self.

In this case, the potential of the future God of War is slightly greater.

"Don't choose..."

Yuan Qingzhuo narrowed his eyes and gave up the option of becoming the future god of war without much hesitation.

Originally, he would need to weigh the pros and cons between the reincarnation body and it. Although he would most likely choose the reincarnation body that was more suitable for him in the end, the decision would still take time.

But this unique message made Yuan Qingzhuo give up on it directly.

Because Yuan Qingzhuo is not like those naughty children. He is not the kind of person who, after hearing adults say "Don't touch that wire", would curiously touch the high-voltage wires and then turn his broken body into fire.

If someone warns you, just listen.

[You have chosen to bless "Reincarnation Time Body". ]

A simple, brief reminder flashed by.

There was no powerful force surging out, nor was there any so-called sense of control over time and space.

This also made Yuan Qingzhuo feel unreal.

Until he thought for a moment and raised his head, he used his martial arts will to magnify the scarlet sun in the sky a hundred thousand times, and he could still see it clearly, every detail was clear, and he could even faintly see the outline of a human figure in the sun...

After not feeling any eye pain,
Yuan Qingzhuo suddenly laughed.

"powerful……"

For a moment, Yuan Qingzhuo even wanted to show off this incomparable powerful strength to Caroline, and then call himself a strong man in front of her.

But the next moment, he laughed mockingly at himself in his heart:
"——Yuan Qingzhuo, you are still a child."

What's the point of showing off in front of children?
Just then, a new prompt popped up.

[Congratulations, you have completed all the promotion processes to the Stainless Steel rank! ]

【Congratulations, you are being watched by the abyss. 】

[Congratulations, you have obtained the blessing of the abyss, "Stain of Iron". 】

【The Sorrow of Stainless Steel】

[Effect: Your upper limit of health is permanently reduced by 10%, and your spiritual essence reserves are permanently reduced by 10%. When you are in the abyss, it will be more difficult to increase the upper limit of spiritual essence.

The Abyss erodes you 50% faster. 】

[——This is the blessing and love from the abyss. ]

Ok?
Congratulations for this, congratulations to this awesome guy.

I should also congratulate BYD for putting a debuff on me in the Abyss, right?

After just a moment, Yuan Qingzhuo could hear the "cry of the abyss" coming from far away again, and it was almost the same as before.

What a joy.

Without paying any more attention to such trivial details that would not affect his will even after a hundred years, Yuan Qingzhuo opened his personal panel again to check the differences from the previous one.

【Original Cleansing】

【Age: Two years and seven months】

[Rank: Stainless Steel]

[Constitution: 999 (999×2) (has reached the current rank limit, cannot be upgraded)]

[Spiritual Essence: 134/488]

[Soul Strength: ∞]

[Blessings: Ascetic, Twins on the Other Shore, Reincarnation Time Body, Abyss Beast, Iron Sorrow, Devil's Heart, Molten Body]

[Achievements: Milk Hunter, Cereal Killer, Fighting God (Unlocked)]

[Number of evolutions: 6]

[Evolution progress bar: 0%]

"Molten Body...?"

Oh, Yuan Qingzhuo remembered.

This was a new blessing created by the moonlight that he casually crushed before his promotion.

Molten Body

【Quality: Sublimation】

[Effect: Fire resistance increases to 50%, and you can actively activate the "Molten Core" effect.

After actively activating the Molten Core, your resistance to the Fire Element increases to 90%. When you are fatally wounded, your wound will be temporarily covered by the Fire Element. This effect will continue to consume spiritual essence. 】

All I can say is, it’s better than nothing.

There is also a new achievement that has not yet been unlocked, "Fighting God".

【Fighting God (Unlocked)】

[Fight against a strong person in any aspect 100 times and win to unlock this achievement. 】

[Currently completed 1/100 challenges. ]

Theoretically speaking, can I ask Sister Mage to get this achievement by doing some hard work?

——Frandel is definitely a strong man, both for him now and for this world.

Let’s put this aside for now.

Yuan Qingzhuo focused his consciousness on [Constitution: 999 (999×2) (has reached the upper limit of the current rank and cannot be upgraded)].

Is this the "restraint" he felt before?

At this moment, Yuan Qingzhuo remembered the soul strength of 9999 on Caroline's panel.

Is that the upper limit?

So by analogy, the upper limit of the sublimation stage is 99999?

——But why is there such a thing as an “upper limit” in this world?
Don't you think it's ridiculous?
But whether this is naturally formed or man-made remains to be discussed...

After pondering for a moment, Yuan Qingzhuo asked this question to Farandel.

This chapter's data and blessings are giving me a headache

dizzy
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(End of this chapter)