My skills have mutated again!

Chapter 392 The Older Generation and the Newer Generation
A crimson shadow streaked across the desolate starry sky and vanished into the distance in an instant.

Behind him, Xia Lin's roars continued unabated!
"Don't run! You fucking stop right there!"

With the ability to quickly switch skills, Xia Lin incorporated the lightning-fast skill system of a powerful figure under the Fifth Prince into his skill panel.

However, skill switching requires a certain amount of time, and even a very short time can still delay the opportunity to fight.

The main problem is that Nikolai is too fast.

【Pale Glitter (Racial Heritage Level): Passive Effect: Greatly increases your reaction speed in close combat, greatly increases your attack speed, and greatly increases your absolute movement speed.

Active Effect: You can consume the substitution attempts provided by Pale Crimson to further enhance your agility and speed. The enhancement depends on the number of substitution attempts consumed, and there is no upper limit to this increase!

During the previous battle, Xia Lin discovered that even though his attributes had been boosted by the Emperor Engine to a level comparable to Nikolai's, Nikolai's speed was still far superior to his own.

That's the reason for this skill.

Now that Nikolai's goal is no longer to kill, but rather to escape, speed is everything.

Xia Lin suddenly stopped and spat out a mouthful of saliva.

Because just as the speed-enhancing skill system was fully implemented, Nikolai could no longer be seen.

The causal entanglement spread far and wide, ignoring spatial distance, attempting to lock onto Nikolai's location.

However, just like the situation Wuxin encountered, the entanglement of cause and effect, a skill that is considered omnipotent in the professional system, immediately became ineffective when it encountered the level 12 exclusive power of divine transcendence.

The thread of cause and effect has broken.

Witnessing talent brings feedback.

【Pale Cleansing (Racial Foundation Level): Active Skill. Consumes 10 Spirit Points. Upon activation, it removes all negative status effects and foreign energies you are currently experiencing. If this skill is sealed, you can consume ten additional substitution attempts to forcibly break the seal. This skill has no cooldown.】

……

Xia Lin's presence and profanities faded away instantly.

Nikolai, however, felt no joy at escaping death...

He just felt aggrieved.

A level 12 player was beaten so badly by a little guy who hadn't even left the Ashes Zone that he was forced to run away in terror... This is something that deserves to be recorded in history books, because it is a first in history.

Yes, Nikolai had heard Yuan Zhuo say that three monsters had emerged from the Ash Zone in this generation, and their strength even surpassed that of the former Ash Zone's pinnacle—Martial God, Spirit Treasure Immortal Venerable, and others.

Yes, Nikola also knew that these three monsters had all received substantial investment from the Six Pillars, and their combat strength and trump cards were not to be underestimated.

But the difference in rank and status was real and undeniable. Nikolai could never have imagined that he would be defeated by the new generation.

The madness of the primordial child welled up within him and was uncontrollable.

This caused Nikolai's body to tremble, his lips to curl upwards, and his eyes to begin to redden.

However, he did not turn back to fight Xia Lin to the death. Instead, he accelerated again to widen the distance between himself and Xia Lin as much as possible.

Because he knew very well that this little guy named Xia Lin had formed a strict restraining relationship with him in terms of skill system.

Especially that unknown ability that can imprint and make one immune to one's own offensive skills.

He was like his own nemesis.

This was the first time in Nikolai's life that he had such a thought.

"Did I make the wrong choice...?"

"No...no no no no no, I'm not wrong, my skill system is invincible! My Pale System is unbeatable! I can even kill the Six Pillars! I am the strongest level twelve below the Six Pillars!"

A crack was torn in the solid wall of self-confidence.

Trembling eyes reflected the lingering images of the past.

That was the moment he achieved level twelve.

……

There's a saying circulating in the Black Domain: Only with blood and an iron will can the path to Level Twelve be forged!

This statement corresponds to the greatest opportunity in the Dark Realm: a cosmic bug unconsciously created by the primordial dark side.

This is the sweetest fruit in the Black Domain.

More than three million years ago, this fruit fell into Nikolai's hands.

It's hard to describe the wonderful feeling of being promoted.

First, there was a surge in attributes.

Nikolai, whose attributes were already at the limit for professionals, saw his racial stats and base attributes increase more than tenfold under the blessing of unlimited growth.

Then comes divinely granted transcendence.

A powerful golden energy flows through the body, symbolizing a fundamental change.

Finally, he ushered in system integration.

The soul seemed to be pulled into a mysterious space, while time in the outside world stood still.

Nikolai turned his head curiously to survey everything—his gaze seemed to penetrate this mystical space, revealing the wandering evil gods, the hideous Level 11 competitors, and a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of the great, indescribable being deep within the Dark Realm.

In the darkness, light descends and penetrates deep into the soul.

Then, Nikolai had an epiphany.

He understood the principles and logic of so-called system integration.

The God-given Stone itself possesses the ability to create things from nothingness and transform the fake into the real.

This ability was projected onto the system integration gained during the level twelve advancement.

If this moment were transformed into a system notification sound in the Ashes Zone, the first thing Nikola would hear would be:

What skill set do you want to acquire?

Nikola gave his answer without hesitation: "I want the strongest skill system! I want a skill system that can overturn the Six Pillars!"

Nikolai, who was young... no, I should say younger than he is now, certainly had such aspirations.

As a vampire and a primordial child, Nikolai was hated by everyone in the main universe, and his entry into the Dark Realm was out of necessity.

He had had enough of the Six Pillars and their henchmen's pursuit and malicious targeting. Overthrowing the throne and becoming the new king was Nicholas's greatest desire buried deep in his heart.

I cannot grant wishes that are too unrealistic or vague; please suggest something more practical.

Nikolai: ...

Okay, as expected.

System integration is not a magic wish-granting machine, and there is no such thing in this universe.

System integration is not the kind of ultimate formula where you can give me a general idea and I can give you the integrated result.

This also involves the issue of "foundation".

The foundation refers to your existing skill set.

You can't say that just because you were originally a limit breaker, you can become the master of ten thousand armies under the rewards of system integration—because your foundation is not that foundation.

But Nikolai was still amazed by the power of the system integration.

Because when he made the request, "I want anyone to be unable to kill me, and I can kill anyone, including the Six Pillars skill system," the system integration truly fulfilled his wish.

Your existing skill set provides the prerequisites to meet your requirements.

[First system integration complete: You will receive the Pale Funeral system.]

You may choose to abandon this system, but it has been determined that this system best suits your needs.

A wealth of information welled up in Nicholas's mind, forming components known as the Pale Funeral System.

System integration is not the ultimate solution... but it's only slightly weaker than that.

[Limit Break Technique: Blood Praise, Slaughterer.]

These are Nikola's two original limit-breaking techniques. Their basic functions remain unchanged, but their effects have been enhanced. After Nikola breaks through the eleventh level limit, these limit-breaking techniques will surely shine again.

[Defense System: Pale Crimson, Pale Purification.]

The two new skills have been restructured based on Nikolai's original skill system.

With just two skills, a near-perfect immortality system was formed, which also satisfied Nikolai's need for "no one to kill me".

Pale crimson takes the place of death.

Pale Cleanse removes negative status effects, and there are sealing skills that are most effective against Pale Crimson.

The premise is that Nikolai needs a certain amount of time to accumulate the number of times he can die in place of others.

To reiterate, system integration is not a magic bullet. If your foundation is weak, the answer it provides will inevitably be imperfect. It simply adds and integrates certain elements to build a near-perfect "super skill system" based on your foundation and needs.

[Supportive Skills: Pale Glitter, Mind Control Bloodline, Mind Interference.]

Pale Glitter increases speed.

Mind control and mental interference are abilities to build a power base and control subordinates. These two skills were originally Nikolai's skills. Even though Nikolai didn't say it, his instincts still guided him, keeping these two skills on his skill panel. He was able to snatch the level 12 opportunity from the gaze of countless competitors and evil gods, and the cannon fodder controlled by these two skills played a crucial role.

[Offensive Skills: Pale Wave, Pale Erosion, Destruction Mark, Pure White Crystal Engraving.]

[Destruction Mark (Racial Heritage Level): Active Skill. After dealing effective damage to an enemy 100 times, you can consume 100 Spirit to cast a Destruction Mark on the enemy. The Destruction Mark greatly increases your damage output against the target and suppresses the enemy's self-healing ability! You can cast the Destruction Mark on the same enemy multiple times, and the effects of multiple Destruction Marks can stack! This skill has no cooldown!]

【Pure White Crystal Engraving (Racial Heritage Level): Active Skill, Nikolai's Exclusive Skill. Consuming a certain number of Pale Crimson Sacrifice Charges and a large amount of the target's blood, and taking a certain amount of time, creates a Pure White Crystal Engraving of the enemy! The Pure White Crystal Engraving is under your control, fights for you, and possesses all the enemy's racial stats and basic attributes, but lacks class, talents, and skills. This skill has no cooldown.】

The three skills, Pale Wave, Pale Erosion, and Mark of Destruction, are all easy to understand.

Simple, high-frequency attack skills.

These skills are based on Nikolai's original skills. Nikolai's fighting style used to be a high-frequency, high-speed, attrition-based style.

It seems that the integration of the level 12 system will also take into account combat styles.

But this pure white crystal engraving puzzled Nikolai greatly.

Because this skill is basically meaningless.

Creating a pure white crystal is time-consuming and laborious. If the opponent is a Limit Breaker, it's fine, as the crystal can possess a certain combat power. However, if the opponent is not a Limit Breaker, the strength mainly lies in the skill system.

A pure white crystal with no profession, no talent, and no skills is no trouble at all for the enemy.

"And what about my Blood Eye Technique? Where did my reconnaissance skills go? Where's my Blood Nest? Where are my domain skills?"

"I still have three extra skill slots provided by my talent! Why aren't these three skill slots being filled?"

The system integration removed some skills, but it didn't fill all of Nikolai's skill slots.

Eleven skills were provided, which only filled the regular skill slots, but no additional skill slots were filled.

Nikolai was puzzled, but when the twelfth skill appeared, all his doubts and dissatisfaction disappeared.

[Level 12 Core Skill: Pale Funeral!]

【Pale Funeral (Racial Foundation Level) (Level 12 Core Skill): Active skill. This skill is exclusive to Level 12 and can be released after being infused with the power of divine transcendence, negating all enemy judgments!】
Flowers adorn a funeral, music sets the mood, a thin coffin, a few handfuls of soil, I bury your body in the ground, I create a pale funeral for you.

Prerequisites: 1000 effective hits of Pale Wave. 100 effective hits of Pale Erosion, and the enemy must be in a corrupted state. 10 stacks of Destruction. One enemy with Pure White Crystal Mark as the main target. Time: 1 minutes.

Within ten minutes, once you have met all the conditions for a single enemy, you can initiate a Pale Funeral for that enemy! This skill ignores distance, guarantees a hit, and guarantees an effect. Once the skill is activated, the enemy will inevitably die, their soul scattered, and they cannot be resurrected in any way!

Note: After the ceremony, the music ended and the audience dispersed.

—I want no one to be able to kill me, while I can kill anyone, including the Six Pillars' skill system.

So Nikolai got the system he wanted.

Is Nikolai satisfied?

He was very satisfied because the Pale Funeral skill had an extremely high potential!

The system's immortality provides a safety net, giving Nikolai the confidence to pursue the highest level. This system, called Pale Funeral, seems capable of truly severing six pillars if certain conditions are met.

所以关键就在“满足条件”这四个字上了。

A pale funeral—are the conditions easy to meet?

This is not difficult for Nikolai either.

The Pale Wave attacks very frequently; hitting it 1000 times is very easy.

His speed also ensures the effectiveness of Pale Erosion; 100 Pale Erosions are equivalent to 100 melee attacks that chip away at health, which is something Nikolai excels at.

It's not difficult to stack 10 destruction marks, for the same reason.

If you can achieve the above three points, you can probably successfully create a pure white crystal engraving.

Ten minutes is a really long time at Nikolai's speed.

It looks beautiful, but Nikolai still has these doubts.

"Can the pollution of the primordial dark side really pollute the six pillars?"

Don't ask.

Tell me, theoretically, could this skill kill all six pillars?

As for whether you can allow the six pillars to be contaminated by the original dark side, that's your problem, and you need to solve it yourself.

Nikola wasn't the kind of fool who thought, "You have to give me this skill so that anyone I glare at dies. I can slaughter the Six Pillars without any conditions, otherwise this skill is trash." His long life experience taught him that everything has its own balance.

……

"But damn it, I can't even kill Xia Lin, let alone kill the Six Pillars!"

The reflection of the past in his eyes had vanished, and Nikolai's eyes were bloodshot.

All his skills served the purpose of the Pale Funeral. After all, having acquired such a causal skill, there was no reason not to treat it as the absolute core of his abilities.

— Repeatedly strike key points, then deliver a fatal blow.

The limited skill slots also forced Nikolai to give up skills with high single-hit damage—including talent bonuses, he only had 15 skill slots in total, so some trade-offs had to be made.

But Charlin's eternal inscription became an insurmountable wall for Nikolai!
In fact, once Xia Lin became immune to the Pale Wave, Nikolai was no longer able to deliver a fatal blow to Xia Lin. Without a finishing move, he could only revert to a strategy of attrition warfare in order to wear Xia Lin down.

But the fair trade without any bargaining chips meant that Xia Lin wasn't afraid of you at all...

When the pale erosion was etched again, Nikolai realized that he was helpless against Charlin.

Madness was replaced by calm.

Without much thought, Nikolai found the optimal solution to deal with Charlin.

Substitution.

Nikolai's absolute control over the system left him helpless against Charin, but it wasn't that Charin was good; it was just that Charin had chosen the right opponent.

Xia Lin: I never chose you as my opponent from beginning to end...

Although this strategy will inevitably lead to the loss of huge profits, and even the sharing of the Spirit World Book with others.

But in Nikolai's calm perspective, this was a price that had to be paid.

One thing is clear—the Spirit World Book must remain in the Dark Realm, forever!

This is the consensus among all the level twelve members of the Black Domain in the face of an increasingly powerful threat from the evil god.

Nikola believed that he was not the only Black Domain Level 12 who could sort out the pros and cons of this matter.

Just then, a faint rumbling sound arose, causing Nikolai to look up.

He seemed to see the heavens and earth shattering, but in reality, nothing happened.

The sky is still the sky, the universe is still the universe, and the dark domain is still the dark domain.

This is merely a special sign "perceived" by those in high positions due to their powerful perception.

A sign that the Way of Heaven is shattering.

This made Nikolai slightly raise the corners of his mouth.

He thought he had found a qualified partner.

……

The Black Domain, another place.

The sound of the Heavenly Dao shattering was especially clear and even more magnificent and spectacular here.

The multicolored power of rules is like a cage, and within the cage, a black hole, like a dark sun, is spinning wildly, tearing apart and devouring everything.

"Run! Young Master, run!"

Ning Feng's resolute voice rang out, like a final swan song of his life.

But Ning Feng's actions were unnecessary and made all the more tragic.

Because long before that, Wuxin had already turned into a beam of light and flown into the distance without looking back.

The heartless being in a state of constant life and death has a bizarre appearance.

Like a fusion of the mindlessness in its living form and the mindlessness in its dead form, it possesses both the delicacy of youth and the uprightness of adolescence, and even occasionally displays the resilience of middle age and the vicissitudes of old age.

But none of this matters.

Importantly, half of Wuxin's body had disappeared, and the black hole power was wrapped around the wound, preventing Wuxin from transferring the injury to the spirit beast through causal entanglement.

The battle was brief and intense, but the outcome was clear.

Even in the face of life and death, Wuxin was no match for Dean. He could only escape with Ning Feng's sacrifice!

Ascending to Heaven is a pretty good skill.

However, at the level of level twelve, it can only be described as "not bad".

Ning Feng merged with the Black Domain Heavenly Dao and withstood Dean for thirty seconds, but thirty seconds was already quite a long time.

When Dean tore through the prison of Heaven and broke free, he could no longer catch any trace of Wuxin.

"Tch, it can run pretty fast..."

Turn your head to look at the other side.

The evil gods were still fighting, but things seemed to be calming down. The other one, who should be a descendant of a Limit Breaker, had also disappeared without a trace, and no one knew where he had gone.

This made Dean shake his head.

"let it go."

He excels at hard-fought battles and aggressive attacks, but is not good at cat-and-mouse tactics. Dean's style has always been to not pursue a defeated enemy relentlessly.

He lifted his leg and strode off into the distance, but in just a moment, the voice of a familiar person reached his ears.

"Old friend, do you have time to meet and have a cup of tea? My white tea garden has had another bumper harvest this year."

It was Nikolai's voice.

Dean frowned.

He didn't like Nikolai.

Cunning, fickle, and extremely dangerous.

For Dean, Nikolai's pale funeral was a deadly blow.

"Of course, the old rules apply, we'll meet in our own forms, we'll meet in our own forms."

Meeting in person was the only strategy for dealing with Nikolai, but Dean was still unwilling. Despite Nikolai calling him "old friend," he and Nikolai were hardly friends.

"You have something to say."

"It's just a business deal."

As the voice began to play softly, Dean quickly changed his mind.

……

The figure was ethereal, and Wuxin, who had used props and entangled causality to evade Dean's pursuit, suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Ahead, towering demons blocked their path.

Their eyes met, and Donald slowly spoke while wiping the Blade of Cause and Effect in his hand.

"You have to pay the price for doing something wrong... I don't know if you understand this principle."

Unintentionally, he tilted his head, and the wrinkles on his face, which looked like those of an elderly person and could trap mosquitoes, became even more pronounced.

Before Wuxin could respond, Donald suddenly laughed.

A scorching breath spewed from its ferocious maw, like a volcano about to erupt.

"It seems you don't understand... Well, that's right, you probably don't understand either."

"After all, someone will always pay the price for your wrong decisions."

“It used to be your father, this time it’s that guy named Ning Feng.”

After a brief silence, Wu Xin's face had changed from that of an old man to that of a middle-aged man. He suddenly realized and said, "You mean, my decision to have Ning Feng initiate the ascension to heaven was wrong?"

"No, this is by no means a mistake."

"It's just that Ning Feng and I were not strong enough to defeat Dean... If we had gotten past Dean, you and Xia Lin would have been dead without a doubt."

"Oh right, Xia Lin is probably already dead. So trading Ning Feng's life for Xia Lin's life, it's not a bad deal for me."

This is indeed the truth.

Strategy and decision-making do not guarantee success. In this situation, although Wuxin's strategy has been disrupted, he does not feel that he has lost out.

But Wuxin was clearly unaware of the battle situation between Xia Lin and Nikolai on the other side.

He looked Donald up and down for a moment, then lost interest in saying anything more.

"Actually, you might as well be more direct... Just say you're here to get a bargain, that'll be fine."

He saw right through Donald's plan—he was there to kick a man when he's down...

That's a good guess.

"After all, the minds of you Tang family members have always been single-threaded! Your ancestors were, your elders were, and you, Donald, are too!"

Wu Xin made no attempt to hide his contempt for the Tang family.

"But whether it's your Tang family or the Demon Emperor, you're nothing but stray dogs and losers!"

These words made Donald grip his sword tighter.

His gaze was unfocused, yet his expression was intense, though a glint of light flickered in his eyes.

The term "stereotype" has its own reasons for existing.

However, if we can break free from the constraints of stereotypes, we can also turn these four words into a powerful weapon against the enemy!
Donald has always positioned himself as the challenger when facing Wuxin.

Although Wuxin was brutally beaten by Dean just now, the fight further confirmed Donald's judgment—he was indeed no match for Wuxin, and the gap between them was quite large.

However, meticulous design and thorough preparation are enough to bridge this gap.

This first step... Donald set himself a small goal.

—Slash him twice, then run away.

It's that simple, but it's the beginning of victory.

(End of this chapter)