My skills have mutated again!

Chapter 322 Let’s go!

His mental energy fluctuated slightly, and under the effect of energy conversion, it transformed into the power of annihilation and the power of crimson.

Two completely different forces slowly merged within Xia Lin's body...

Then Xia Lin's face turned pale, and a crisp popping sound rang out from within his body.

Fusion failed.

It's not that they can't be fused, it's just that they were unlucky and something went wrong during the fusion process.

Speaking of luck, Xia Lin is indeed currently experiencing the backlash of trying to defy fate.

It would be a miracle if they could successfully fuse under these conditions.

"Try again in three days."

Muttering this to himself, Xia Lin continued to look down.

Skipping over the slightly modified constant skill bar, we arrive at the significantly modified regular skill bar!

……

All nine regular skill slots are full.

1. Five-Wheel Devouring World Demon Art.

2. All kinds of martial arts.

3. The Eighteen Forms of the Evil Sword.

4. Battle to the death (inferior).

The first four skills need no further explanation.

5. Backstab (Racial Heritage Level).

[Backstab (Racial Heritage Level): Limit-breaking skill, passive. When you backstab your own faction, all attributes are permanently increased based on the impact caused.]

The original backstab was just a mutated skill, and mutated skills cannot be upgraded with evolution points.

However, the skill upgrade rewards obtained from the Heavenly Gift Essence can raise the level of mutated skills to the racial foundation level.

The description makes no mention of any changes to the backstab.

But the effect is definitely stronger.

The reason Xia Lin brought this skill back is because, as a simple limit-breaking technique, the backstab is effective and efficient, and Xia Lin uses it very smoothly.

6. The Nation of Ten Thousand Winds (Racial Foundation Level)!
[The Kingdom of Dongfeng (Racial Heritage Level): Active Skill, bound to the Dongfeng Dominator. Summons Dongfeng missiles, sealing off space to isolate the inside and outside, forming the Kingdom of Dongfeng! Within the Kingdom of Dongfeng, all summoned Dongfeng missiles automatically gain permanent basic intelligence. While within the Kingdom of Dongfeng, your speed receives a huge boost, and all attacks from you and your followers ignore enemy defenses! Simultaneously, the Kingdom of Dongfeng will inflict a racial heritage level debuff on enemies every minute. This skill has no cost and no cooldown.]

This is a domain-specific skill, and it's also the second skill combination Xia Lin has achieved.

The components include the East Wind Immortal Slaughtering Formation, the Mysterious Heaven Sword Domain, Spirit Attachment, Cluster Tactics, and three other skills.

As for the effects, there are trade-offs. In terms of strength, it's not as strong as the combined strength of the former Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and Profound Heaven Sword Domain.

However, it is certainly not weak either. Its combat effect is definitely stronger than the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation and the Profound Heaven Sword Domain taken out individually, not to mention that it also retains the effect of the spirit-attaching skill.

The main benefit is that it saves skill slots.

Xia Lin's four forms require far too many skill slots. His main reason for gambling on skill combinations is to save as many skill slots as possible while preserving the original system.

7. Faith sublimation (racial foundation level).

[Faith Sublimation (Racial Foundation Level): Active skill, exclusive skill for gods, limit-breaking skill.]

Passive effect: You will receive Faith Power from any creature that has faith in you at all times. The amount depends on the strength of the believer and the degree of their faith in you.

Active Effect: Consumes Faith Power to permanently increase your racial stats and base attributes!

This is a foundational skill that mutated from an unstable mutation. After a brief look, Xia Lin chose to keep this skill.

For no other reason than that the effect of this skill is too well-suited to the Black Source Overlord form.

Imagine if Xia Lin possessed this skill in the Outer Gods and Immortals Legend: Ash Zone, the final harvest would surely be another round of reaping!
8. Transcending the Three Realms (Racial Foundation Level).

[Transcending the Three Realms (Racial Foundation Level): Active Skill. Consumes half of your spiritual power, thus completely disappearing from this realm. During the skill's effect, you are unable to attack or communicate with the outside world. You will be trapped in a special interdimensional space, losing all senses and information about the outside world until you actively deactivate the skill! This skill has a one-month cooldown.]

This skill, taken out of context, is actually quite ineffective...

It's nothing more than forcibly disengaging from the battle.

But it holds special significance for Xia Lin.

First, there's the negative effect of deceiving fate—after using this skill, Xia Lin will be able to disappear and be exempt from the bad luck of deceiving fate.

Then there's the newly acquired Life and Death Showdown (Inferior).

The negative effects of most known resurrection methods are powerful.

The "Deathmatch (Inferior)" skill transforms the permanent negative effect of resurrection into a temporary effect, but the duration is rather long—a full ten days.

These ten days will undoubtedly be Xia Lin's period of weakness.

What is the best way to combat a period of weakness?
It's invisibility...

This is the same logic Xia Lin used to deal with the negative state of deceiving fate.

Do nothing.

The skill of transcending the Three Realms perfectly matches Xia Lin's needs!
9. Deterministic Release Flow (Racial Foundation Level).

[Confirmed Release Flow (Racial Heritage Level): Active skill, exclusive to the Shadow of the Uncertain. Consumes 100 Spirit Points. When this skill hits an enemy, the enemy will randomly release one of all their active skills! This skill has no cooldown.]

Deterministic release streams are undoubtedly an upgraded version of randomized release streams.

When Xia Lin upgraded this skill to the racial foundation level, the name of the skill was changed.

The results were even more satisfying for Xia Lin.

The original randomized release flow did not distinguish between friend and foe, but now it can be targeted, has no cooldown, and has low resource consumption.

When combined with the skills in the Shadow skill bar, it's absolutely brilliant!
Shadow's Skill Bar 3:

1. King of the Soft-legged Shrimp (Species Foundation Level).

[King of the Weaklings (Racial Heritage Level): Passive Skill. Your attributes are higher in less critical situations, up to a maximum increase of 5%. Your attributes are lower in critical situations, up to a maximum decrease of 80%. Additionally, your sanity is lower in critical situations, and your skills may fail to activate!]

Shrimp Bro also received a skill upgrade reward, upgrading from a mutated skill to a racial foundation-level skill.

As for the effect, there is not much change. The attribute increase has changed from 10% to 5%, and the attribute decrease has changed from 50% to 80%.

But Shrimp Bro's strength doesn't lie in the data, but in lowering rationality!
Xia Lin didn't dare to test the power of the Shrimp Brother at the Foundation level... but he figured it wouldn't disappoint him.

2. A grand entrance, and then...

This skill remains unchanged.

3. Desperate Strike (Mutant)

[Desperate Strike (Mutated) (Deteriorated): Active Skill. Consumes a large amount of health and permanently reduces your base attributes by half, delivering a strike with double the power!]

This skill, after being degraded by fair trading, is definitely a negative skill in the system evaluation.

It consumes a lot of resources to start up, but the effect is only so-so.

When used in conjunction with deterministic release streams, the results are excellent!
And the above is Xia Lin's complete skill combination after this round of defying fate.

Unfortunately, Xia Lin eliminated the probability of something not existing.

There's simply no place in the skill bar for the probability of something not existing.

This also means that Xia Lin has temporarily abandoned the miracle mechanism of Unseen Shadow.

But that's alright. Xia Lin didn't upgrade the probability of non-existent items; he could just buy them back when needed.

I opened the attribute panel again and took a look at my own skills.

Xia Lin nodded in satisfaction.

"It's starting to look good..."

Apart from the desperate strike, all skills have been upgraded to the foundational level.

Furthermore, Xia Lin retained three skill upgrade permissions obtained from the Heavenly Gift Source.

Yes, this reward can be retained.

Xia Lin plans to keep three to use for upgrading mutation skills later.

……

It was just 12:11 AM.

Just as Xia Lin finished organizing his skills, he suddenly felt a tremor beneath his feet.

The earthquake came suddenly... Perhaps it was a sign of bad luck.

This made Xia Lin sigh softly, and he decisively activated his new skill: Leaving the Three Realms.

The light flashed and disappeared in an instant; Xia Lin vanished without a trace.

The earthquake that occurred in the Canberra settlement also vanished without a trace.

A slight dragging sensation and dizziness emerged.

When Xia Lin regained her footing, she found herself in a pure white space.

"Start your jail time!"

Xia Lin chuckled and said self-deprecatingly.

This is a space created outside the Three Realms, specifically designed to "imprison" Xia Lin.

The space is boundless and seems infinitely large.

But without blocking Xia Lin's senses or imprisoning her freedom, there was nothing at all.

"Luckily there is light, otherwise it would be no different from being in a dark prison."

After a brief exploration, Xia Lin confirmed that there was nothing there, just a simple cage. Reassured, he sat cross-legged and took out his clock.

The clocks still work, and time flows at the same rate as outside.

To combat this unfortunate fate, Xia Lin will undoubtedly have to stay here for three days.

He reached out and touched the hidden soldier's hole on his right.

The hidden troop shelter still exists, but it is unusable.

Xia Lin had originally planned to enter the hidden soldier's cave or release Scarlett Eileen to keep him company, but now he had no choice.

Fortunately, the personal space is still usable, the items in the personal space are still valid, and the personal information panel can be opened. Xia Lin is not prohibited from using or practicing skills here.

"Thinking about it this way, it doesn't seem so boring anymore..."

……

Open your personal information panel again and look at your professional talents.

"You're the only one missing. Come on, Twin Shadows!"

All of his talents and skills, except for Twin Shadows and Desperate Strike, are at the foundational level.

Xia Lin currently has a whopping 6739 evolution points in reserve.

There's no reason not to raise the level of Twin Shadows.

Originally a Twin Shadows with SS-level talent, upgrading it to the ultimate level only requires 15 evolution points.

For Xia Lin at this point, it's just a drop in the ocean.

The upgraded description of Twin Shadows has changed as follows:

【Twin Shadows (Racial Heritage Talent): Your shadow has been molded into a vessel of negative misfortune by the power of the Unseen Shadow! It has no self-awareness, is not a living being, and cannot move on its own. Twin Shadows possess 8 skill slots and 10 debuff slots. You can freely swap the skills on yourself and your shadow at any time, but the Twin Shadows' skill and buff slots can only hold negative skills and debuffs!】

When you cast a spell, all spells targeted at yourself will be redirected to Twin Shadows! When an enemy casts a spell at you, there is a 50% chance the spell will land on Twin Shadows! Regardless of type or kind!

The skill bar and the debuff bar have been increased.

But these are all quantitative changes, not qualitative changes.

The real game-changer lies in the last sentence: When an enemy uses a skill on you, there's a 50% chance the skill will land on the Shadow! Regardless of type or kind!
This can be considered a special type of defense.

Because of this effect, Twin Shadows has been transformed from a pure support talent into a strong defensive talent!
"But that's not what I want..."

What Xia Lin really wanted was to remove the restriction that the Shadow skill bar could only hold negative skills.

This is because it essentially frees up several more skill slots for Xia Lin.

Unfortunately, the mechanics of Twin Shadows were different from what Xia Lin had expected—this wasn't a matter of luck, but simply a matter of talent type.

The Shadow will not provide a normal skill bar.

Shaking his head slightly, Xia Lin stopped worrying and didn't replenish the negative skills for Er Ying.

Firstly, the existing three negative skills are already disgusting enough.

Secondly, the more empty skill slots E'ying has, the better Xia Lin can exchange skills with others.

A 3-for-10 trade is clearly more effective than an 8-for-10 trade.

……

After organizing his talents and skills, Xia Lin was not idle.

He began to comprehend all kinds of martial arts.

This skill is expensive, but there's a reason why it's expensive.

Because this skill encompasses the entirety of Black Star Martial Arts!
It contains tens of thousands of martial arts moves, making it a veritable encyclopedia of martial arts. If Xia Lin can understand and master this skill, he will be comparable to a martial god, and close combat may even become Xia Lin's strength.

Three days is far from enough time to develop this skill.

Three days passed by in a flash.

When the alarm clock rang, Xia Lin finished his cultivation on time.

I still feel a slight dizziness and dragging sensation.

When Xia Lin opened her eyes again, she was greeted by the view outside the Canberra settlement.

"So the skill of transcending the three realms, after disengaging from combat and returning, will not stay in the same place, but will randomly transfer me to a nearby safe area... In this light, the strategic significance of this skill is even more important."

Xia Lin was quite satisfied with this skill.

The cooldown time is a bit long—it's a full month.

But it's not a big problem; the blind box from the God-given gift yielded dozens of race-level cooldown reset items.

First, we returned to the hidden troop cave and glanced at County Magistrate Scarlett and the others. Everything inside the cave was functioning well.

I stayed for two days and had a small experience of the effects of spiritual elevation.

The effect is not bad.

Scarlett and her daughters, the county magistrate, and the bomb-wielding boys in the hidden cave were undoubtedly Xia Lin's loyal followers, and their strength was truly formidable.

The faith points they provide to Xia Lin each day are all converted into racial stats by Xia Lin—on average, Xia Lin can increase his racial stat by 0.1 per day through faith sublimation!
Xia Lin found this number to be quite outrageous.

The key is that with the launch of the Beyond World Project, or if Xia Lin pulls off another daring feat like the Legend of the Outer Gods in the Ashes Zone, this number will inevitably increase exponentially!

"The future is promising! The future is promising!"

Both of the newly acquired skills are very powerful.

Satisfaction left the hidden troop cave and returned to the miniature abyss, overseen by Nelson.

With the Unified Boundary Core, the Beyond Boundary Project proceeded quite smoothly, and the Unified Boundary Core gifted by Superstar also had the effect of isolating external spying.

Xia Lin decisively gave instructions: it's okay to make a lot of noise.

With the Soul Light in hand, Xia Lin was originally quite afraid of the Abyss Evil God... but the problem is that compared to Super Star, the Abyss Evil God is only fit to sit at the children's table.

Comprehend all martial arts principles.

Research on energy conversion.

Harvesting the power of faith.

Time slowly passes by amidst the busyness.

After having a family and a career, Xia Lin was in no hurry to venture into the Ash Zone—why risk going to the Ash Zone when he could improve his strength in reality?
Now he understands why many Ember Walkers time their entry into the Ember Zone.

There are those who are cowardly and try to survive.

However, some highly skilled individuals do not need to frequently venture into the Ember Zone to improve their strength.

In fact, Xia Lin's Gu worm has grown to this stage, so its need for the Lower Ash Zone is really not that great anymore—it has too many ways to strengthen itself.

"No wonder the Ashes area is called the newbie village..."

Xia Lin had a slight understanding.

January passed in the blink of an eye.

Urged on by the Ash Zone System, Xia Lin finally arrived at the entrance to the Canberra settlement at a leisurely pace.

(End of this chapter)