Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 996 Witnessing the Extraordinary Details
The suicide pact cannot be used before the ceremony begins, but such an important ceremony cannot be insured in advance, so the suicide pact can only be used when the ceremony is about to end.

While this can prevent fusion errors and allow for a reversal if the fusion result is unsatisfactory, it also wastes various materials used for setting up the ceremony, so the cost is undeniably high.

Xia Shou took a deep breath, stood outside the magic circle, and began to walk the specific steps according to the ritual book. He began to chant the incantation, which seemed to have been localized and was entirely in Chinese, so it was not particularly difficult.

However, it must be said that the amount of text in the spell is truly astonishing.

Time passed second by second, and beads of sweat began to appear on Xia Shou's forehead. Fine sweat on his back clung to his clothes, and his thoughts began to drift, with distracting ideas starting to grow uncontrollably.

Walking and chanting incantations were not physically demanding for Xia Shou. What he found difficult was the high level of mental concentration required. The ritual emphasized being single-minded, and the incantations could not be wrong. Everyone knows how difficult it is to read an article that takes several hours to finish without making a single mistake.

Moreover, he also had to multitask and do other things at the same time. If it weren't for the Scorpion Spine's ability to enhance nerve responses and establish complex conditioned reflexes, he would never have been able to perform the ritual so quickly.

This ritual is not meant for beginners to simply imitate. The proper way is to memorize it perfectly before moving on to the next step. People like Xia Shou, who can read it quickly a few times and start trying on the same day, are as rare as polar bears in Antarctica.

The fragrance of flowers is wafting in.

The fragrance of flowers appeared out of nowhere.

Very good, this is one of the empirical signs recorded in the ritual, indicating that the ritual is indeed working and that all the previous steps were correct.

After a while, flowers began to bloom in the center of the magic circle, all kinds of flowers.

Xia Shou dared not relax and continued to follow the steps recorded in the ritual.

Gradually, due to the intense concentration, Xia Shou felt that his mouth was not his own mouth, and his eyes were not his own eyes. He mechanically recited the words his eyes saw, without missing a single one. It was as if he was reading with a sincere heart, or as if his body was numbly reciting them on its own.

After an unknown amount of time, when he finished reciting the last word, the entire room had turned into a flower field. Flowers grew everywhere under his feet, and except for the magic circle in the very center which had only a short clump of flowers, the rest of the area was covered with flowers that were half a person tall.

Above the central magic circle floated a pair of scissors emitting golden light.

To be precise, it's a pair of scissors made of light.

"Success..."

This is the empirical description recorded at the end of the ritual book: the birth of a pair of light scissors.

Xia Shou pushed aside the flowers and stepped forward, picking up the golden scissors. His eyes were also enveloped in a golden light, and the scene before him began to transform into something indescribable.

He saw the power hidden in the shadow beneath his feet, the extraordinary energy that was being devoured and bound within the shadow, or rather, the laws... Superpowers are essentially the influence of rules on a small scale.

Using the word "rules" to describe his superpowers is too broad, but Xia Shou genuinely couldn't find a suitable word within his limited knowledge to describe his feelings. He was like Leeuwenhoek seeing cells through a microscope, but as the first person to see cells, even before the name "cell" was defined, Leeuwenhoek couldn't accurately convey these things to others in words.

Scientists use scientific terminology to explain cells, but if the first person to discover them were not a believer in science but a wizard, they might describe it like this: a piece of tree bark contains trillions of cities, each with its own walls (cell walls) and tightly connected to each other. Inside, countless children of light work (chloroplasts), converting sunlight into wondrous nutrients, and within each city is a large pool of water (vacuole)...

The reason why cells can be given specific terminology is because everyone can use a microscope. However, if a microscope did not exist, then without conveying information through pictures, the only means of communication would be analogy.

The cell wall cannot be more vividly described than the walls of a tiny kingdom, much like the war in the snail-horn kingdom described by Zhuangzi.

At this moment, Xia Shou possesses this extremely subtle "vision," but it is not the kind of microscopic magnification that is constantly magnified; rather, it is an exploration of the essence of a thing.

He can see the connections and causal relationships between things within a force.

He saw the components that made up the pinnacle of achievement in solitude.

This reveals the true cost associated with each effect within this skill.

When the ultimate skill is activated, it actually has two effects: one is to ignore the target's super resistance, and the other is to directly refresh all skills that are on cooldown.

The ultimate power that ignores the target's resistance requires a price to pay: the root of the sea sinks, but this is not actually reflected in the skill's effect of a sudden, violent sinking in the sea.

The price of ignoring superhuman resistance is a slow descent, and a superhuman cooling that can only be calculated after this price has been calculated.

The reason why reaching the pinnacle in reality results in an instantaneous drop of several hundred meters is due to the cost of another effect—skill refresh.

The moment the Peak of Mastery is activated, all skills on cooldown will be refreshed. The cost of this effect is that whatever skill is refreshed will sink to the required depth, and it will also come with a negative effect of sudden, intense sinking for a short period of time.

To put it simply, the "Peak of Perfection in a Deserted Place" is actually composed of multiple effects. If you simply ignore the opponent's resistance, then sinking into the Root Sea will be very slow, just like the bleeding buff in the game, which will cause the user to slowly lose health.

However, the effect of another refresh skill can make the slow blood loss resolve all at once, instantly draining all the blood that the bleeding buff should have caused!

"I see, I understand now." Xia Shou was amazed by the profound mystery of this power.

Only by deeply experiencing these extraordinary details will you realize how crude your previous use of it was!
Just as someone who had been applying a formula suddenly understood the process of deriving it, Xia Shou immediately realized how foolish his previous approach had been.

Every time... every time he used the "Peak of Perfection" technique, it was when he was on the verge of suicide, because the margin for error was the highest at that time, and even if he died in the end, he could be saved by rewinding the self-inflicted death.

But what he didn't know was that it was precisely this cautious approach that greatly increased the depth of Dengfeng's descent!
Because refreshing the skill when activating the ultimate skill will also cause a corresponding drop, and the depth cost required to refresh a skill like "Self-Destruction" is considerable.

(End of this chapter)