My skills have mutated again!

Chapter 388 Ascension to Heaven, Unwilling to Take Action, X Factor!

Of course, it's not just a contest between Ash Walkers...

The complex environment and the presence of more and stronger native inhabitants of the Black Domain will inevitably bring many variables to this main competition.

However, variables and the unknown are the norm.

There aren't that many relatively fair combat environments in the world, like one-on-one arena battles.

Just as Chaoxing said.

To become the undisputed number one among all races, at the pinnacle of the Ash Zone, overcoming external difficulties and slaying all powerful enemies are merely the necessary qualities.

Moreover, the ability to effectively utilize external resources is itself a part of one's personal capabilities!

Just as the second additional rule took effect, Wuxin, far away, was reaping the eleventh-level villain in front of him and converting him into points, while slowly raising his head and looking into the distance.

Within its body, a total of 48065 soul lights flickered slightly, emitting hidden and difficult-to-detect energy fluctuations that attracted unknown beings in the distance.

The causal connection established by the soul light, perceived through the entanglement of cause and effect, also made Wuxin realize what he was about to face...

That was a joint hunt by seven level-twelve evil gods and fifty-six level-eleven evil gods!

Even someone as strong as Wuxin wouldn't dare claim that he had the slightest chance of winning against such a lineup!

However, there was no anger at being targeted, nor any lament about the unfairness of the rule.

Wuxin just grinned and looked at Ning Feng behind him.

"Your time to act has come... and I think this is the only way you, this piece of trash, can help me."

They have no intention of looking down on their opponents, let alone their teammates.

He looked down on all the weak.

This personality trait had already been clearly revealed before, and Ning Feng didn't take it seriously at the moment.

Who told you that you are the son of the Creator of Heaven?
Who told Ning Feng to be born a helper whom Heaven, the creator, unintentionally selected?
"It's what I should do, young master..."

Ning Feng bowed respectfully to Wu Xin and raised his hands.

The light of skill shone brightly and quickly enveloped his entire body!
[Ascension to Heaven (Six Pillars Level): Active Skill, exclusive to Immortal Path class! At the cost of everything, activating this skill will allow you to merge with the Heavenly Dao of this world, temporarily becoming its embodiment! After becoming the Heavenly Dao, you will gain all its authority, but at the same time, your life force and soul will continuously drain away as the price! Ultimately, this will inevitably lead to your merging with the Dao, a fate of certain death!]

The time it takes to achieve enlightenment depends on the total amount of your life force and soul power!

This is clearly a skill that trades life for power!
Moreover, it is a support skill.

But to create an advantage unintentionally with skills and life itself is the mission Ning Feng was born to shoulder and the meaning of his existence!
Just one second later, Ning Feng had already activated the skill without hesitation.

He vanished completely, his entire being disappearing from reality.

And in the darkness, the entire Black Domain was also affected by the ascension to heaven, resulting in unknown changes!

……

The essence of ascending to heaven is to pre-grant the user the Dao Integration state of the twelve levels on the Immortal path.

On the surface, this is not much different from the Tongtian Summoning God that Xia Lin created for Scarlett, but in reality, they are quite different!
The difference lies in the intensity.

The Dao Integration state is an exclusive state for a Level 12 Immortal Venerable. Its effects vary depending on the user – the same skill will have different effects on different people.

However, the skill of ascending to heaven, which was specially created for Ning Feng by the Creator of Heaven, violates this law.

—Using life and soul as bargaining chips, its strength far exceeds that of summoning gods to heaven, and even surpasses the Dao Integration state used by a normal level twelve immortal!
First, there's the scope.

Even the Dao-merging state of the Immortal Venerable cannot cover a very large area—after all, the true heaven of the main universe is the Six Pillars, not the so-called Heavenly Dao.

Therefore, the Heavenly Dao that is integrated into the state of merging with the Dao is not the Heavenly Dao of the main universe, but the Heavenly Dao of a certain region.

To merge with the Heavenly Dao of the entire Black Domain, perhaps only the most powerful Immortal Venerables can achieve it; even spiritual treasures cannot. Yet Ning Feng has accomplished this solely through the skill of ascending to heaven.

Secondly, there's the duration!

In the darkness, the gaze of Heaven descended from above and fell upon Wuxin.

"Little Lord……"

The "Heavenly Way" issued a call, but it was in Ning Feng's voice.

Wu Xin slowly nodded: "How long can it last?"

"One month."

This ascension to heaven effect can last for a whole month!

Of course, this is not only due to the powerful skills, but also because Ning Feng's system is mainly based on enhancing vitality and soul power.

During the Thousand-Layer Tower assessment, he chose a puzzle-solving type of assessment. His proficiency in puzzle-solving was only one reason. The main reason was that his skill system was entirely centered around the Ascension to Heaven technique, which could only be used once. He himself did not possess considerable combat power!
Finally, let's talk about the results!

As the heavens descended, Wuxin began to glow.

As one who has been abandoned by heaven, Wuxin possesses a unique talent: divinely granted evolution!

There's no need to reiterate the explanation of this talent; what we'll discuss now is one of its effects: you are born with the favor of Heaven!

This is the first sentence in the description of this talent. It may seem unimportant, but it is actually the most important sentence!
Especially in the current situation!

When the Heavenly Dao, as a servant, encounters the Heavenly Grace, as its master, a true transformation begins.

[You are blessed by Heaven; your skill, Karmic Entanglement, has been upgraded to the Six Pillars level!]

Ning Feng, who transformed into the Heavenly Dao, did not need Wu Xin to do anything or pay any price. Through the connection between the two, he helped Wu Xin raise the entanglement of cause and effect to the sixth pillar level!

Then, more threads of cause and effect spread out from Wuxin's body and disappeared instantly.

It wasn't that the skill failed, but rather that all these causal threads surged into Ning Feng's body, which had become the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao.

This is a combo!

Ning Feng used the power of the Heavenly Dao to elevate the entanglement of cause and effect to the level of six pillars. The entanglement of cause and effect at the level of six pillars, in turn, bound Ning Feng, who had become the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, making him and Wuxin one.

Thus, through the entanglement of cause and effect, Wuxin became the Heavenly Dao of the Black Domain at this moment!

Then, Wuxin opened his eyes.

That eye is called the Eye of Heaven!
Wuxin, who has transformed into the Heavenly Dao, has activated the Heavenly Dao Eye, which possesses the judgment of a six-pillar level.

Thus, within the Dark Domain, nothing could hide anymore!

Wu Xin saw Luo Zhidao looking up in astonishment, his Great Luo Weaving Heaven Technique interrupted... Poor Luo Zhidao was following his usual approach, trying to create a home-field advantage with the Great Luo Weaving Heaven Technique, but was excluded after Ning Feng activated Ascension to Heaven.

It's normal for someone with a solid foundation to lose to someone with six pillars of strength.

Unwittingly, he saw those evil gods, their forms twisted and varied, some even shapeless, heading towards this place...

Attracted by the 48065 soul beams, these mindless evil gods swarmed towards them like flies drawn to excrement.

Wu Xin also spotted Donald and Xia Lin speeding by.

The causal entanglement at the sixth pillar level overwhelmed Xia Lin's foundational causal entanglement. With Ning Feng's support, even though Xia Lin's aura was barely perceptible, it still shone brightly in Wu Xin's eyes.

Even if Xia Lin were to immediately use the power of the Six Pillars to raise the entanglement of cause and effect to the Six Pillars level, he still wouldn't be able to stop Wu Xin's prying eyes.

After all, both Ascension to Heaven and the Eye of Heaven possess the judgment of the Six Pillars!

Sitting cross-legged, he smiled without thinking.

"Do you think you're worthy to be my opponents?"

"It's just that the assessment rules saved your lives."

"And now I declare: the idea that you can rival me is just a misconception you shouldn't have!"

He raised his hand, and spatial power burst forth.

This is a skill that Wu Xin has just acquired, the essence of time travel!
……

As a sixth-pillar level skill, the strength of the Time-Space Essentials is beyond doubt.

Moreover, this is a typical skill where the stronger the user, the stronger the skill effect.

At present, Wuxin has already merged with Ning Feng and transformed into the Heavenly Dao. He doesn't even need to activate his death form to use the essence of time and space to accomplish something like this—transferring the location of most of the beings in the Black Domain from a spatial perspective!

This includes evil gods!

This also includes Charlene and Donald!
At this moment, Wuxin's primary target was Xia Lin and Donald.

However, just as he was about to make his move, Ning Feng, who had transformed into the Heavenly Dao, suddenly spoke up: "Donald, don't target Xia Lin."

"Try to keep these two people in separate locations and prevent them from joining forces, otherwise things may change."

As a mindless external brain, Ning Feng's words make a lot of sense.

Even if Wuxin considers himself invincible in the Ash Zone, it is Ning Feng's responsibility and obligation as a strategist to help the main family reduce risks and variables.

The reason for choosing Donald over Charlene is quite simple.

Wuxin is naturally aware that Xia Lin possesses the Eternal Inscription, and attacking Xia Lin with the essence of transdimensionality could easily lead to the awkward situation of giving this skill to Xia Lin, which should be avoided if possible.

Even though he looked down on Ning Feng, Wu Xin was certainly not the kind of stubborn person who would do the opposite of what Ning Feng said, even if he knew he was right.

Amidst the surging light of skills, aided by Ning Feng and the Eye of Heaven, the light traversed hundreds of thousands of light-years and instantly landed on Donald.

At that moment, multicolored light flashed from Donald's astonished expression.

This is the light of protective skills!
Despite the greater power and higher authority, Donald still couldn't help but notice that the surrounding space was beginning to layer, fold, and change.

When he came to his senses again, he found himself in a vast, empty starry sky.

Wuxin's location was tens of light-years behind Donald, but because of Ning Feng, Donald could not see Wuxin's figure or sense Wuxin's aura.

The danger emanating from ahead prevented Donald from finding Wuxin's location, or even from contemplating the reason for the spatial teleportation that had just occurred.

In Donald's eyes, vibrant colors and distorted shapes quickly appeared before him.

His senses were filled with all sorts of incoherent whispers and spatial storms caused by the conflict of different forces.

Ahead, just a few light-years away, the evil god, who was first unintentionally attracted, has already arrived.

Furthermore, the entanglement of six pillar-level causes and effects silently transferred the attraction of the soul light within Wuxin's body to Donald.

At this moment, Donald, who possessed 5 Soul Lights, became the one destined to face the calamity, who possessed 48065 Soul Lights!
What should be done is this calamity of the evil god!

……

Wuxin, however, was too lazy to join forces with the evil god to attack Donald immediately. When he saw that Donald was already entangled with the first appearing rotten evil god, Wuxin withdrew his gaze and looked back at Xia Lin, who was far away on the horizon.

At this moment, Xia Lin stopped and looked up at the sky with a frown.

He seemed to have realized that there was a problem with the Heavenly Dao of this realm.

This is not surprising.

Donald is a Limit Breaker, a reckless person, so it's normal that he didn't notice. Xia Lin, as an Unstable Shadow, had previously taken advantage of so many opportunities during the Thousandfold Tower assessment.

He's resourceful; there's a high chance this won't be kept from him.

But still the same sentence.

You can't hide it from me, but that doesn't mean you have a way to deal with it!

To deal with you, Xia Lin, I don't need any schemes; a straightforward plan will suffice!

A sharp, unintentional smile suddenly appeared on Wuxin's lips.

The light of entangled cause and effect flickers.

The causal entanglement at the sixth pillar level allowed him to clearly see the thick and large causal lines that had just been established on Xia Lin's body.

Looking along the cause and effect line to the other end, what Wuxin saw was a twisted blood shadow sitting high on the throne!
The very next second that the gaze fell upon it, a single, blood-red eye, like a kaleidoscope, suddenly opened within the blood-red shadow.

Three eyes meet across time and space.

Without needing to speak, he and the level twelve being known as the Pale King had already reached a consensus.

Thus, when the power of spatial teleportation descended, Blood Shadow not only did not resist, but actively accepted it, while letting out a relatively peaceful and friendly laugh.

"Little guy, let me give you a piece of advice: the Heavenly Dao of the Black Domain is not so easy to steal."

……

Of course, they're not that easy to snag.

Because the Black Domain has its own rules.

Moreover, this place is owned.

Just as Wuxin was about to send the Pale King to Xia Lin's vicinity, before he could even check on Xia Lin's death, a muffled whisper suddenly rang out and entered Wuxin's ears, almost causing Wuxin to withdraw from his fusion state with Ning Feng!
He only gradually stabilized after activating his death form.

During the transformation, Wuxin had already realized what was happening.

The true ruler of the Dark Realm has made his move...

In the state of Dao Integration, Wuxin's Heavenly Dao Eyes swept towards the deepest part of the Black Domain.

Over there, an invisible and intangible passage to the dark realm faintly appears, connecting to an unknown land!

The muffled whisper just now came from behind the passage... It was just a meaningless, weak groan, like a person sneezing because of a mosquito while sleeping, but it almost broke Wuxin's ultimate move.

It is reasonable and justified.

After all, it was a sneeze from the primordial dark side!

Right after that sneeze, the evil gods who were entangled with Donald, or were about to be entangled with him, seemed to be guided by the unseen force, and collectively changed their tactics, ignoring Donald as he surged toward Wuxin.

This transformation happened extremely quickly.

But Wuxin's reaction was also quick.

"The greatest weakness of the original dark side and the evil gods lies in their minds."

"Because they lack the ability to think and act solely on instinct, many abilities that should not be effective for their status can actually work."

A typical example is entanglement of cause and effect!

While the causal entanglement at the sixth pillar level is indeed powerful, it is illogical to say that it can shake the sixth pillar or even the twelfth level. The causal entanglement without intention and the essence of time and space can only shake the eleventh level at most.

However, precisely because the original dark side of the Six Pillars and its subordinate evil gods lack intelligence, they are easily deceived and blinded by entanglements of cause and effect, thus failing to find the correct target.

The light of cause and effect entanglement flashes once more.

Unintentionally, he transferred the cause and effect of usurping the Heavenly Dao of the Black Domain to Donald.

However, this time, the entanglement of cause and effect did not produce the desired effect.

An invisible blade of light flashed and disappeared in an instant, originating from Donald's hand, striking the air beside him.

A sixth-level artifact, the Blade of Cause and Effect, severing cause and effect!
You have a good plan, I have a wall ladder!
Since causal entanglement is Wuxin's core skill, how could Donald, who knew this information, not be prepared for it?

Just like Wuxin's Eternal Netherworld Blade, this blade of cause and effect was specially prepared by Donald for Wuxin.

Looking back at Wuxin, who was being targeted by the evil gods for usurping the Heavenly Dao and the Soul Light, Donald grinned.

"Got you!"

The reason Donald didn't use the Blade of Cause and Effect just now was twofold: firstly, he was observing the situation and organizing his logic, and secondly, Wuxin had unintentionally hidden himself, making it impossible for Donald to find Wuxin's location.

But now, with the evil god's strange movements and two karmic entanglements converging upon him, Donald has already pinpointed Wuxin's location.

But the next second, Donald's smile vanished.

It's still a tangled web of cause and effect...

This time, however, the target of this entanglement of cause and effect was not Donald, but a certain level eleven evil god within the group of evil gods.

Donald may not be concerned with cause and effect, but someone else will.

With so many targets, and such complex and flexible causal relationships, there is too much room for unintentional manipulation, allowing him to shift blame in any way he wants.

"That's fine."

Ahead, without intending to reveal himself, he slowly rose to his feet.

With a flash of light, the Eternal Netherworld Blade appeared in his right hand.

Wuxin, who had transformed from a timid boy into a simple and honest young man, slowly raised his knife and pointed it at Donald: "Even in a fair fight, you are no match for me!"

When their attempt to trick someone failed, they resorted to a direct attack.

"Unintentional" means that it doesn't matter to me.

Absolute power is the source of his confidence in facing everything!

Just as the battle between the two peerless heroes was about to begin, and the emotions had been built up, suddenly a light flashed from afar.

The light grew stronger and eventually stopped beside Donald and Wuxin, creating a three-way confrontation.

As the light slowly faded, the face of this uninvited guest finally came into the view of Wuxin and Donald.

He was five meters tall, strong, with messy hair, dark skin, and a gaping mouth full of teeth.

Wu Xin and Donald immediately recognized the newcomer's identity.

He is ranked eleventh on the bounty list.

A level 12 powerhouse, the Devourer, Dean.

Dean, who suddenly appeared, gave Wuxin and Donald a slightly sinister smile.

"Who can tell me who just tampered with the Black Domain Heavenly Dao, and who is it that has plunged these damned evil gods into infighting?"

The Devourer Dean arrived due to the strange changes in the Heavenly Dao of the Black Domain, and discovered an unexpected gain—a scene of infighting among the evil gods.

While infighting among evil gods is not uncommon—these mindless beings often fight amongst themselves—the scale of this conflict, especially the one-against-one fight, clearly indicates that it was orchestrated.

His unintentional arrogance prevented him from lying, so he remained silent.

Donald simply pointed at Wuxin.

"he!"

Dean turned to look at Wuxin, his eyes filled with undisguised malice.

"Has anyone ever told you that this Black Domain Heavenly Dao is my personal property, Dean's?"

The Pale King's statement that the Dark Domain Heavenly Dao was not easy to seize stemmed from two factors: firstly, the unconscious resistance of the primordial dark side, and secondly, the fact that it was still the prey of the Devourer Dean!

To disrupt the natural order of this place is tantamount to starting a war with Dean!
In fact, Wuxin had vaguely heard about this matter before arriving in the Black Domain. However, the benefits of letting Ning Feng ascend to heaven outweighed the hostility of the level twelve, so he simply chose this tactic.

In a one-on-one situation, it's still uncertain who will win between him and Dean!
However, Donald used the sword of cause and effect to break Wuxin's trick, which unexpectedly put Wuxin in the current predicament of being outnumbered by two.

The light of causal entanglement flashed again, landing on Dean.

Wu Xin wanted to shift the blame between himself and the evil god onto Dean, and use the evil god to deal with this person.

However, with a flash of black light, Dean easily escaped the causal entanglement—proving that even a sixth-level causal entanglement is by no means unsolvable in the face of a twelfth-level one.

Dean laughed immediately after his unintentional action.

"die!!"

……

Xia Lin, who was walking forward, suddenly stopped.

In the starry sky ahead, the distorted blood shadow slowly lengthened and condensed, finally revealing a handsome middle-aged man with a pale face but striking features, a tall and straight figure, and wearing a tailcoat.

He bowed slowly to Xia Lin and spoke softly in a voice and tone familiar to her.

“I guessed you wouldn’t come looking for me… but because of that Spirit Realm Book, I had no choice but to come looking for you.”

As he spoke, the Pale King Nicholas slowly extended his hand.

"Give me the Book of the Spirit World."

Xia Lin sighed softly.

This Black Domain Hunt is indeed not just a contest between Ash Walkers.

Whether it's Dean, Nicholas, or those evil gods drawn by the soul light, they have all become the X factor in a de facto sense.

Xia Lin hadn't expected that he would have to encounter the level 12 of the Black Domain before he even ran into Wuxin.

"But perhaps this is the significance of the King of Kings choosing this place as the examination venue."

(End of this chapter)