Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 998 Divine Power of Spiritual Illumination
The problem of high costs associated with using old skills has been significantly improved by removing skill refresh.

The integrated delayed blade significantly optimizes the skill's usage environment.

Furthermore, the cost of sinking into the Root Sea has been changed to installment payments, which exponentially increases flexibility. The only drawback is that if the installment period is too long, many skills will be unusable during that time.

However, since the choice is in his hands, this cannot be considered a drawback.

Having more room for compromise means that this can hardly be considered a drawback.

Great, the number of skills has been reduced by one. We only need to fuse one more skill to reduce the number of skills to less than five by lending out our special abilities.

Xia Shou had been prepared for this matter; his entry was not solely for this fusion.

The "Self-Destruction" skill can only be used once a day. He activated it at the end of the Triple Ritual of the Golden Mandala, and then immediately performed a normal fusion ritual to test it out.

If you are not satisfied with the normal fusion ritual, you can trigger a rewind to the moment the fusion just ended. This way, you can retain the skills you just gained and avoid a second failed fusion.

Xia Shou felt like he was a master of time management; he had managed to accomplish so much in one seemingly suicidal act!
"Alice, help me out, we need to hurry."

"Yes, Lord Xia Shou."

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Half an hour later, looking at the finished product in front of him, Xia Shou fell into a long silence.

He didn't know how to evaluate the results of this integration.

Was it a pretty good integration?

Perhaps it's fair to say that this skill is weak, because just by looking at its effects, Xia Shou can imagine its potential and the tactical combinations that can be derived from it.

Undoubtedly, this is a skill that will completely change the future tactical style, but it is difficult to judge for the time being which is better or worse compared to the two skills before the fusion.

Because it combines [Peak of Mastery in Solitude] and [Delayed Blade], there are not many other skills left to choose from.

Seeking death, Three-person waltz, Mirror Demon's information scissors, Impermanent Eyes, Superpower Bank, plus two skills obtained from the Rift King.

Among these skills, the Three-Person Waltz occupies an extremely core position, the two skills of the Rift King are both extremely powerful, there is no need to rush to fuse them, and the Superpower Bank is not suitable for minor adjustments.

Therefore, only two are suitable for fusion: the Mirror Demon Master's Information Scissors and the Impermanent Eyes.

Xia Shou hadn't expected to get the desired result in one go, but the fusion of the two skills resulted in a very special new skill.

The new skill's effect is so drastic that it bears no resemblance to the original skill. The effects of the two skills are seamlessly integrated at an incredible angle, resulting in a skill called [Divine Might].

【Divine Power and Spiritual Illumination】

[Synopsis: A type of eye technique existing in ancient texts, though it has been mistaken for a ninja move due to its artistic interpretation in modern animation.]

【[Spiritual Illumination] Effect: When the pupil technique is activated, one can see things that are not normally visible. Spirits within your field of vision can be seen in the mortal world or hidden.

You can guess the abilities of each living creature and spirit once. If the guess is correct, you will apply a curse attack of the Splitting Scissors to the target. If the target is a spirit, it will directly cause irreversible and massive damage.

If the target is a living being, this attack will directly damage its spirit foundation. Even after it recovers, it will still enter a temporarily damaged state if you use [Divine Might] to observe it. [[Divine Might] Effect: You can close one eye and save the spatial coordinates seen by that eye. Even when the eye is closed, you can still see any changes within that space in real time.]

The open eye can directly teleport any object within its field of vision to the coordinate space locked by the closed eye. This action consumes magical power, the amount of which depends on the specific circumstances of the object being transferred.

[[Spiritual Illumination] Cost: If the ability is guessed incorrectly, vision will decline for 24 hours.]

[[Kamui] Cost: When activating its effect with eyes closed, the user will become nearsighted.]

[Note: This is not necessary for most people; basic biological vision is required to use this skill.]

Xia Shou compared the effects and found that the mirror space teleportation of the mirror magic had disappeared, and it had been combined with the "vision" of the Impermanent Eyes, turning into an effect of teleporting objects through gaze.

The Intelligence Scissors have been replaced by the spirit blade in the Eyes of Impermanence. The spirit blade, which could originally be released by consuming curse power, has disappeared and turned into a splitting curse. Now it can be said to be the Spirit Scissors.

The original effect of burning the spirit base with spirit fire was also incorporated into this attack, and the cost of the Intelligence Scissors' wrong guess causing physical imbalance also disappeared.

The methods of spiritual attacks have changed.

The methods of spirit origin attacks have also changed.

The methods of spatial teleportation have also changed.

Although you can still see the influence of the original two skills, this can actually be considered a completely new skill.

The effect of the mirror magic, which is of most concern to Natsumori, has undergone significant changes.

To determine which is better or worse, further testing is needed.

Xia Shou analyzed the situation and found that the self-destructive path could rewind up to one hour, and the duration was three hours. This meant that he still had about half an hour to test this new skill.

If this new skill is not satisfactory, he can still activate Rewind to turn back time to before the second fusion.

Xia Shou looked at the empty space in front of the room, then closed one eye. At that moment, he discovered that even though his eye was closed, he could still see the space he had seen before.

When he turned around, the focus of his vision did not shift in the closed eye, but his eyesight had indeed deteriorated, though he was not nearsighted and could still see clearly.

Because of the scorpion spine, Xia Shou's ability to focus his eyes and the precision with which the muscles around his eyes squeeze the lens of his eyeball are unmatched by normal people. So even if his vision declines, it is only that the upper limit of his vision has been lowered.

To give an example, an average person with myopia might only be able to see objects within half a meter clearly, but Natsumori, who is nearsighted, can still see things within twenty meters clearly.

"So that's how it is. The perspective and state you had before closing your eyes are preserved the moment you close them."

Xia Shou muttered to himself as he walked forward, and then, with his closed eye, he saw his own back.

He reached out and tried to block the view from the angle he saw with his eyes closed, then precisely located the space where his eyeballs were at the moment he closed his eyes.

Of course, there's nothing there now, because Xia Shou has left.

Closing your eyes is like leaving a monitoring device without a physical presence at the coordinates where your eyes are closed.

"It seems it can also be used as an intelligence gathering tool," Xia Shou thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)