Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 352: Opening the Book of the Abyss Again

Until consciousness regained consciousness from the chaos, until Luo Xiu opened his eyes again.

Inside that magnificent and ancient palace, Amber, the "False Guardian", was still guarding him.

"……call."

Luo Xiu let out a long sigh, stood up from the golden throne, and stretched his muscles.

He felt the surging, almost primitive and instinctive power filling his limbs and bones, and the deep spirituality of the Abyss was like a river or sea, almost rushing into and shaping his blood.

This power made him feel fascinated, and he had a strong desire to destroy or devour something.

This is the fourfold destiny of the Abyss...

Luo Xiu thought to himself.

He clearly felt that there were some foreign things mixed in with his own spirituality.

At this point in time when he had just been promoted - when the power of the fourth destiny of [Abyss] had not yet completely stabilized, bewitching and persuasive whispers continued to reach Luo Xiu's ears.

But these whispers from the Abyss, like the Abyss spirituality that attempts to dominate itself, are all enveloped and isolated by a more majestic and essential divine spirit.

That is the spirituality of the Light - like a veil, more like a permeable membrane of some kind of "spiritual" essence.

Eliminate those evil influences and only draw upon their most fundamental spirituality for use - this is the protection mechanism that Luo Xiu established for himself with [Glory].

This is not only to prevent the power of the [Abyss] from causing him to lose control and fall, but also to prevent investigations from the outside world, whether good or bad - the extraordinary people below the sixth level of destiny cannot discover the impure impurities in Luo Xiu's spirituality through "perception", and the principle is the same.

And now...

Soothing and guiding the deep spirituality in his body to return to stability, Luo Xiu opened the panel and his gaze fell on the [Abyss] fate column.

During his promotion, Luo Xiu obtained a new [Abyss] profession - "Demon Mentor", and at the same time, he also obtained three [Abyss] destiny skills "Bath in the Styx", "Evil Bloodline", "Demon Summoning", and one [Abyss] destiny skill "Demon Fusion".

Because the "Seven Abyss" has not yet been truly opened, "Bath in the Styx" is temporarily unavailable.

However, "Devil Summoning" and "Evil Bloodline" can take effect immediately - the former will be used to summon and contract a real "devil", while the latter can prevent the "devil" from attacking him after being summoned, and make Him truly obedient to him.

This is a necessary sequence, and it is also the reason why even though Luo Xiu obtained the vacant contract slot of "God", he still decided to wait until he was promoted to the fourth level of the [Abyss] destiny before summoning the devil - in Luo Xiu's promotion plan for his own destiny in the [Abyss], obtaining the skill of "Evil Bloodline" is indeed quite critical.

In his memories of his previous life.

After the power of the Abyss truly emerged, some extraordinary beings who were not destined to be part of the Abyss obtained the ritual knowledge of summoning the "devil" through certain means and tried to summon him.

As for the results, most of them are quite tragic.

Those pagans who were not followers of the Abyss did summon demons.

However, those demons of lower or middle rank attacked their summoners when their spiritual energy was exhausted and they were quite weak at the beginning of their summoning. They killed their summoners in a very cruel way, devoured their souls, and took over their bodies.

All of a sudden, the number of extraordinary people whose bodies were taken over by the demons of the [Abyss] increased rapidly at a terrifying rate, and even led to a massive [World Mission] - [Pseudo-Demon Hunting Campaign]!
That was a mission issued by the Ring of Apocalypse to all the Adventers.

Their mission is to hunt down all demons that have entered the mortal world through the "summoning ritual" and usurped the bodies of their summoners.

And this is indeed a task that can only be accomplished by players - because under the circumstances at that time, in the entire Fanor continent, except for the saints who were at least "fifth level of destiny" or above, who could distinguish the subtle differences between the spirituality of these disguised demons and the real extraordinary people through "perception", only the players with "panel" had the means to directly detect "disguised demons".

In his previous life, Luo Xiu also participated in this massive hunting activity - he still clearly remembered the horrifying scenes he saw during the "game" at that time, and now, these scenes may become real.

"..."

Recalling these in his heart, Luo Xiu shook his head, patted his cheeks, and cleared his mind.

Even if these things may happen in the future... at least not now. Now I have more important things to do besides reminiscing.

Luo Xiu's gaze immediately fell on the table in front of him.

The dark, ancient book that exuded a dark and ominous aura, The Holy Book of the Abyss, was quietly placed on the table.

The time has come.

Successfully advancing to the fourth level of the Abyss was the perfect opportunity to once again look through the Abyss Scripture.

Luo Xiu then slowly stretched out his hand, and his fingers lightly touched the black seal of the holy book.

The dark and mysterious mist lingering and flowing above it soon wrapped around him like a silk mist, and he could even feel a faint suction force on his fingertips.

This was something that had not happened the previous times he opened the "Holy Book of the Abyss"... After upgrading [Abyss] to the fourth level of destiny, perhaps even the resonance with the Book of the Abyss had been slightly deepened.

Even the strange whispers that had just quieted down in his ears began to sound again the moment he touched the Book of Abyss... Turning the spiritual power of [Glory] to block out these influences, Luo Xiu stroked the cover with his fingers and immediately opened it.

Skipping over the detailed but not very useful [Abyss] skills before the triple destiny, Luo Xiu quickly turned to the end of the [Abyss] triple destiny skills and opened a new page -

- Om!

In Luo Xiu's ears, the strange whisper suddenly exploded, accompanied by a kind of drum-like throbbing, which made his spirit stand passively on the cusp of trembling.

And in front of him - the brand new page that had just been opened was also covered and wrapped in a deep spirituality as black as ink, and it was impossible to glimpse the real content inside.

Something flooded into his mind like a brain worm, and at the same time, new content popped up on Luo Xiu's panel -

【…】

[You looked directly at the taboo]

[Triggering "divinity" immunity judgment]

[The minimum divinity requirement is "242", your divinity is "1168"...]

[Triggering "Resistance" immunity judgment]

[The minimum resistance requirement is "143", your resistance is "687"...]

[Immunity successful, immune to this mental pollution]

[……] The light and shadow on the panel floated, and at the moment when "Immunity Successful" was displayed.

The restless feeling like beating a drum gradually subsided, and the infection of taboos soon disappeared.

Looking through the "Sacred Book of the Abyss" that records the four destinies and subsequent skills and knowledge, the attribute that needs to be judged is no longer just "divinity", but two or three or more attributes.

But no matter what, the attribute judgment requirements of the "Quadruple Destiny" level are easy for Luo Xiu to pass now.

He gazed at the holy book in front of him, and its contents, shrouded in profound spirituality, gradually revealed themselves like clouds and mist dissipating.

[Soul of the Most Evil (Abyss, lv.1): The most evil people will enter the Hall of Sin. 】

[When you challenge an enemy that is 5 levels higher than you and successfully kill the enemy, you will receive an additional 50% basic experience correction... At the same time, you will receive 10 points of attribute correction from "Hostile Target - Highest Attribute" (attribute correction cap 0/200).]

This is the first of many skills listed in the fourfold destiny of [Abyss], and is also a higher-level skill than Luo Xiu's existing skill "Soul of Evil".

However, the upper limit of attribute corrections that can be obtained has increased a lot, and the condition has changed from "defeat" to "kill"!
Without hesitation, Luo Xiu paid the experience and learned the [Abyss] skill [Soul of Extreme Evil].

The profound knowledge from the [Abyss] turned into an intangible stream and flowed into his mind, causing one more item to appear in the [Skills] column on his panel.

For Luo Xiu, with his current level of Fifth Fate lv.50, it is somewhat difficult to find enemies higher than level 5 to kill... but this is not the focus of Luo Xiu's attention.

What he cares more about is the new additional 50% basic experience bonus for killing rewards. Together with the first two lower-level skills of [Extremely Evil Soul] [Evil Soul] and [Scorching Soul], he can now obtain an additional kill reward of up to 100%!

……

After successfully learning [Soul of Extreme Evil], Luo Xiu continued to turn the pages of "Holy Book of the Abyss".

Still, page after page was obscured and blocked by the deep and dark spirituality, and his panel showed new pollution tests again and again.

The judgment of "divinity" and "strength", the judgment of "divinity" and "perception", and even the judgment of the three attributes of "divinity", "wisdom" and "resistance" together... Luo Xiu passed these tests very smoothly and finally selected three [Abyss] skills to learn.

【…】

[Abyssal Skills: Extreme Evil Domain (lv.1, to be learned)]

[Extreme Evil Realm (Abyss, lv.1): The depths permeate this place, and it will be named "Extreme Evil". 】

[You have penetrated into the origin of the 'profundity'. You are the embodiment of 'evil'. You have reached the pinnacle of 'evil erosion' and can take a further step to attempt to create 'domain' type skills.]

This is a higher-level skill than the existing skill [Dark Realm], carrying the more profound knowledge of the [Abyss] realm.

【…】

[Abyssal Skills: Extreme Erosion (lv.1, to be learned)]

[Extreme Evil Corrosion ((Abyss, lv.1): The eclipse radiates from here and will be named "Extreme Evil".]

[Master this skill. When you cause damage to the target, the spirit of "Dark Corrosion" will corrode everything. You can choose: you will ignore the target's "defense reduction" and "shield" to a certain extent, and cause "Dark Corrosion" attribute damage or origin trauma to the target again according to a certain proportion of the damage caused; or after accumulating a certain number of damage times or damage amounts, give the target a random, difficult to purify or remove negative effect. ]

This is an auxiliary skill that can cooperate in combat to achieve better results.

【…】

[Abyssal Skills: Soul Devouring Eyes (lv.1, to be learned)]

[Soul Devouring Eyes (Abyss, lv.1): You have mastered the soul, controlled the soul, dominated the soul, and finally... devoured the soul. ]

[You gain the ability of "Soul Devourer", which allows you to draw spirituality and even power from the "soul" that you have completely controlled and dominated - if you devour the soul through [Soul Devourer Eyes], you will gain basic experience equivalent to 50% of the kill reward, and there is a small chance that you will gain the skills and techniques mastered by the devoured target, and reshape them into the skills and techniques of [Abyss].]

This is a functional skill, and also another higher-level branch skill of [Soul Manipulator], which allows Luo Xiu to expand his means of utilizing the "soul".

【…】

……

[Soul of Extreme Evil], [Field of Extreme Evil], [Erosion of Extreme Evil] and [Eyes of Soul Devouring], these are the four [Abyss] skills that Luo Xiu chose to learn when he read the Abyss Book this time.

In addition to their own effects, for Luo Xiu, another important use of them is to invest in "creating skills". As for the skills of the [Abyss] domain and even the skills of control, which are exactly what Luo Xiu lacks at this time, he can try to make up for it through these newly acquired [Abyss] skills.

Afterwards, at the level of the fourth destiny of [Abyss], Luo Xiu no longer had any other skills or knowledge that he needed to learn urgently in the "Holy Scripture of the Abyss".

He then closed the "Holy Book of the Abyss" again and put it into his storage bracelet. Then, he stood up from the golden throne and walked out of the hall.

……

As soon as you walk out of the hall, your vision becomes wider.

Luo Xiu saw that hundreds of "Holy Abyss" apostles and their thousands of followers were running back and forth, building various new buildings in full swing.

The "Holy Abyss" apostles he left behind in the royal court were now faithfully carrying out the task assigned by the "Lord" - the time for the public beta test was approaching. Luo Xiu had already issued a task to repair and build the Lost Royal Court in all aspects to accommodate the large number of "Adventers" that were about to arrive.

Compared with the previous "internal test", the number of players that the Lost King's Court can accommodate has now tripled.

But this is still not enough - according to Luo Xiu's plan, the system must accommodate at least ten times more players than during the internal test.

However, according to the construction schedule, after the "public beta" is officially launched in half a month, the construction of the Lost Royal Court should be able to be smoothly implemented... At least judging from the momentum of the apostles' work, Luo Xiu is not worried about the final results of the construction.

……

Trying to avoid the sight of the "Apostles" as much as possible, Luo Xiu went to another altar located in the Lost Royal Court.

It was not like the "Shuyu Altar" before that belonged to [Glory], nor did it even belong to any destiny. It was just a base made of obsidian, and a huge cage carved out of obsidian on it.

There was nothing "imprisoned" in that huge cage - and this strange building was specially built by Luo Xiu at the request of the apostles. It was an "altar" for Luo Xiu to use alone.

And the ceremony he will preside over will indeed require the use of this obsidian cage——

He will preside over the ceremony to summon and contract the "devil"!

……

(End of this chapter)