My skills have mutated again!

Chapter 446 Absolute Balance and Fair Trade!
The flow of time in the promotion space is abnormal; in reality, only a moment has passed.

The five people, including the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable, were completely unaware that Xia Lin was using the false body he had created in the past to shield himself from disaster and tribulation, while his true body was secretly cultivating a level twelve artificial Immortal Emperor (incomplete version).

"The overall situation has been decided!"

Five voices rang out from the mouths of the five Spirit-Binding Immortals in the eyes of the five ghosts, like divine decrees from heaven, announcing the end of this battle!

They all turned to look at Xia Lin, who was now trapped in the ghost's eye, until they saw the chaotic and profound light of the skill emanating from Xia Lin's hand.

The Immortal Lord of Binding Spirits was unaware of the power of absolute balance, so at first, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. The Binding Spirits skill was not perfect in one aspect: after capturing an enemy, it could not seal the enemy's innate skills.

But such defects are insignificant.

The Ghost Eye is a special skill space created by the Spirit Binding skill.

The strength of this space is astonishing. Even if one is ten times stronger than the Bound Spirit, one cannot forcibly destroy this space and escape. To do so, a difference of a hundred times in strength might be necessary.

Xia Lin was clearly not a powerhouse of that level.

Once containment is complete, the spirit-binding skill will offer two options:

First, annihilate them directly!

The Soul Binding skill will completely annihilate the captured target within a few breaths, leaving not a trace!
This is permanent annihilation, a conceptual annihilation, the kind that ignores resurrection items and skills.

Second, refine slowly!

Depending on the target's strength, the Binding Spirit skill can transform the contained target into a life ghost completely controlled by the Binding Spirit Immortal Venerable within one to ten days—two of the three level twelve life ghosts of the Binding Spirit Immortal Venerable were created in this way.

After being refined into a spirit ghost, all of the target's memories and all their items will belong to the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable.

At this moment, when facing Xia Lin, the Spirit Binding Immortal Venerable chose the second option without hesitation!

All I can say is, if you were in my shoes, you'd have to make the same choice...

This Xia Lin is so fat, so incredibly fat.

Although his level and strength are insufficient, he possesses an astonishing number of treasures.

Putting everything else aside, let's talk about the Spirit Realm Book that everyone wants. Even the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable has no reason to give it up.

Speaking of the Book of the Spirit Realm, the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable suddenly noticed something unusual... Xia Lin wasn't wearing the pendant-like Book of the Spirit Realm around his neck.

'Perhaps it was put away? But why would it be put away?'

The doubt vanished in an instant.

Xia Lin, however, was no longer giving the Spirit Binding Immortal Venerable any more time to think.

Light burst forth from his fingertips, and just as the light reached its peak, Xia Lin slowly raised his hand and gently pointed in front of him.

The arrival of the old day has already revealed the eeriness of the six pillar core techniques.

The Heavenly Equation is even more intuitive and powerful.

"Then let me see what the Demon Emperor's absolute balance is all about!"

With these thoughts in mind, the light of the skill burst forth in the next second, rendering the entire Ghost Eye Space a chaotic mess.

Time stood still for a moment!

The black and white aura spread rapidly from Xia Lin as the center, quickly filling the entire Ghost Eye Space, and through the direct connection between the Ghost Eye Space and the Binding Spirit Immortal Venerable, it penetrated into the Binding Spirit Immortal Venerable's body!

This resulted in the Bound Spirit Immortal's body becoming stiff and motionless at this moment, with only his thoughts functioning normally.

He stared at Xia Lin in astonishment, still not understanding what kind of ability Xia Lin had released.

Until a violent convulsion and tearing sensation surged into his heart, like a world-burning fire, igniting everything about the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable!
Balance, begin!
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Beyond the boundary, within the Heavenly Palace.

When the fake Xia Lin activated Absolute Balance, the real Xia Lin instinctively opened her personal information panel and looked at the Absolute Balance CD.

"OK! My Absolute Balance didn't go into CD!"

Xia Lin jumped two zhang high, clapping his hands vigorously, overjoyed.

The main body is the main body, and the clone is the clone. The skill cooldowns of the two units are calculated independently.

To this, Xia Lin could only say that the Spirit World Book is awesome!
But upon further reflection, Xia Lin realized that it wasn't the Spirit World Book that was powerful, but rather the Primordial Dark Side and the King of Kings that were powerful, and his own absolute balance was a primitive version of the relationship.

The Dark Realm is the realm of the primordial darkness, with a unique rule for natural immunity skills.

The fake Demon Emperor who produces absolute balance is a subconscious creation of the primordial dark side, so fake that it cannot be faked any more. Xia Lin's absolute balance skill is essentially just something "imagined" by the primordial dark side. Of course, when it comes to the Six Pillars, what is real may be fake, and what is fake may be real.

The Descent of the Old Ones was created by the Primal Dark Side and the King of Kings, two of the Six Pillars.

With all these factors combined, the power of the Ancient Descendants subtly surpasses the absolute balance of this version, thus enabling the independent calculation of the cooldown of dual-body skills!
The imposter, with a sudden thought, initiated a fair trade, intending to reset the CD of absolute balance...

But it didn't work.

Fair trades cannot reset the absolute balance cooldown.

But this also aligns with the logic Xia Lin just presented—the Call of the Old is awesome, but fair trade falls short...

Xia Lin wasn't annoyed.

Because of the call of the past, Xia Lin can still achieve a series of consecutive attacks—after the fake body uses a skill, Xia Lin dispels the fake body, creates a new fake body, and then lets the fake body release Absolute Balance.

Each cycle consumes 10% of Xia Lin's Dark Side Completion – the cost is indeed significant, but still within an acceptable range.

The only unknown right now is the effect of absolute balance.

His will was completely devoted to the illusory body.

At this moment, Xia Lin and his avatar's thoughts connected and merged into one, witnessing together the power of absolute balance.

In Yu Xialin's perception, his own body and soul, along with those of the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable, disintegrated and completely transformed into the smallest atomic form.

Consciousness, however, is still preserved.

In the depths of his soul, the notification sound of the professional system resounded.

[Balance begins.]

Please select the balance direction!

The so-called balancing direction refers to what aspects Xia Lin wants to balance with the goal of becoming the Spirit Binding Immortal Venerable.

It can balance racial stats and base attributes.

It can balance skills, talents, and even professions.

It can balance memory and soul.

It can even balance fate and destiny in the unseen realm!
Absolute balance, the balance of all things!
Everything about you is my goal!

Xia Lin suddenly smiled.

"Then let's balance everything..."

If it were the real Xia Lin who were to unleash this skill, he would never dare to make such a choice.

He didn't want to give up his own memories, nor did he want the useless memories of the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable, and he found it even harder to accept that his soul had been mixed with the soul factors of the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable.

The problem is that the skill being unleashed right now is a fake created by the Call of the Ancients.

Xia Lin naturally had this thought: After I balance everything with you, and then I take action to dispel the fake body, how will you deal with it?

The answer will be revealed soon.

As soon as Xia Lin had a thought, the balance took effect instantly!

Xia Lin's clone and the atomic particles that were transformed from the main body of the Binding Spirit Immortal Venerable instantly mixed together.

We are intertwined, each other intertwined and fused together, and then, we will soon be separated in two...

At this moment, Xia Lin suddenly heard a notification from the new professional system (not the Ash Zone system).

Should fair trading be initiated?

[Note: Absolute balance and fair trade can have a synergistic effect. You can use fair trade to perfectly refine your balance goals and dominate the balance process!]

A burst of wild laughter suddenly erupted, originating from both the real and fake Xia Lin.

"That makes sense, that makes sense! That's how it should be, that's how it should be!"

The Demon Emperor once said that fair trade is born from absolute balance.

It is not derived from Xia Lin's version of absolute balance, but from the complete version of absolute balance in the hands of the Demon Emperor after the establishment of the new universe.

The two are related and can interact, which is perfectly reasonable and without any problem.

"Then... fair trade, initiate!"

With a thought, Xia Lin suddenly saw the illusory image of the balance scale appear above the mixed atomic particles.

In a way, Xia Lin realized how to handle this step.

Then he had another thought, and tiny, delicate atomic particles fluttered down and landed on both sides of the scale!

"First, I need to balance racial stats and base attributes."

The atomic particles formed from the most fundamental attribute power are scattered on both sides of the scale until balance is achieved.

But soon, Xia Lin discovered a problem—he couldn't use absolute balance to break through the attribute limit.

This may be due to the different rules between the old and new universes—the attribute limit is a product of the new universe.

Or perhaps, this original version's absolute balance did fall short in effectiveness—the new is not as good as the old? Wrong. In the professional system, the new is always stronger than the old!

Standing on the shoulders of giants, you'll become even more awesome!
With each version update, everything evolves. The absolute balance of the old version is no longer as effective, which is understandable.

The inability to break through the attribute limit is not actually a big problem.

Because no matter how old the version of absolute balance is, it is still absolute balance!

This skill has this characteristic—it will not stop until it achieves true and complete balance!
Xia Lin's attributes are stuck... That's alright, doesn't your Binding Spirit Immortal Venerable's attributes still have room to decrease?

Xia Lin's attributes represent the limit of the professional system, so how can we achieve an absolute balance between the two?

Your attributes as the Spirit Binding Immortal Venerable have also been reduced to the limit of the professional system, wouldn't that balance things out?
Silently, on the scale representing the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable, a large number of atomic particles began to float in the air, neither disappearing nor joining either side of the scale.

If the spirit can open the personal information panel, it will be able to clearly see that its attributes and racial values ​​have plummeted to 100y and 100wy in an instant!
In terms of attributes, he has been directly and permanently weakened by more than 99%!
And this is only the beginning of absolute balance.

"Secondly, I need to balance my class, talents, and skills." "Wait a minute... could you give me some time to adjust my skill set a bit?"

This was the first time Xia Lin had used the power of absolute balance.

It wasn't the main body that released it, but the clone.

Therefore, Xia Lin's ultimate goal was not to kill the Spirit Binding Immortal Venerable, but to explore the operating logic and skill effects of absolute balance.

After all, you need to have a certain understanding of your trump cards and special moves in order to formulate corresponding tactics, right?
At this moment, Xia Lin's inspiration kept flowing, and he was ready to try to explore more possibilities of absolute balance.

The professional system did not respond, but the Fair Trade indicator was flashing on Xia Lin's personal information panel.

The answer is: Yes!
The avatar created by the Call of the Ancients possesses all of Xia Lin's skills, including the recipe book of Evil Shadow, and all the skills included in the recipe book.

Without a word, all skills except for Fair Trade and Absolute Balance were wiped out.

Xia Lin then replaced her trash can with a whole set of family-sized trash cans...

Skills that could affect rationality and decision-making, such as the King of Squirrels, were thrown into the Shadow skill bar by Xia Lin.

Other negative skills that do not affect rationality and decision-making appear in the three skill categories: Constant, Regular, and Permanent.

Suddenly, Xia Lin realized another problem.

"Isn't this just pseudo-random permutation!?"

He finally discovered the blind spot...

The Unstable Shadow, a class created by the Demon Emperor himself, is clearly related to absolute balance.

The thought flashed through Xia Lin's mind, but he didn't delve into it, focusing instead on the operation.

Soon, the second round of balancing took effect!
Atomic particles representing professions, talents, and skills began to fly towards both ends of the scale.

In practice, Xia Lin quickly discovered that the principles of absolute balance and pseudo-random permutation are different.

Pseudo-random replacement cannot alter professions and talents, but absolute balance can. Not only that, it can even completely merge the three professions of the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable, Xia Lin's Uncertain Shadow, and the Eternal Pillar, giving birth to a new profession!
[New Profession: ???]

[This profession's logic is flawed, its purpose is unclear... This profession cannot be included in the professional qualification system; should it be retained?]

Well, not everything that is combined and balanced can produce a usable finished product.

Clearly, the attempt to achieve a balanced integration of the three classes—Cultivator, Unstable Shadow, and Eternal Pillar—ended in failure.

Xia Lin, however, kept one and then gave it to the spirit binder and himself...

Talents are re-integrated.

Xia Lin's dual-class talents all disappeared, as did the Soul Binding Immortal's class talents.

After a chaotic mess, several talents were freshly produced—all meaningless and ineffective waste.

"But it's not impossible..."

Even distribution, skill re-integration and balance.

This time, Xia Lin thought about it and decided not to refine any waste. Instead, he filled the skill slots of the Spirit Binding Immortal with negative skills, and in return, he obtained the Spirit Binding Immortal's Spirit Binding, Fate Ghost system, and other skills.

In the logic of absolute balance, the two sides are not equivalent or balanced—Xia Lin gives up garbage, but receives powerful skills in return.

Even disregarding the effects and judging solely by level, they are not equivalent.

Just as Xia Lin was pondering how the absolute balance would take effect this time, the attribute atomic particles that had been floating above the scales began to fall, joining the second round of balancing.

The addition of attribute atomic particles greatly enhanced the racial stats and attributes of the Binding Spirit Immortal, thereby achieving a balanced relationship with Xia Lin.

This is not just about the balance of combat power, but also about the balance of the essence of life, and so on...

In short, the skill of absolute balance has its own logic to ensure that after balance is achieved, the weights on the scale are evenly matched.

Having figured this out, Xia Lin had another inspiration.

"Finally, I must balance the memories and knowledge of both sides! The soul remains unmoved, and so does destiny!"

Xia Lin would never try to balance soul and fate with a person like Fu Ling, who is destined to die.

He only wants the knowledge and memories of the spirits he binds.

Atoms representing memory and knowledge fly to both ends of the balance.

As soon as Xia Lin had another thought, the memories and knowledge of the bound spirit immediately fell into Xia Lin's tray.

"Give him attributes."

The attribute-related atomic particles above the scales fell again, strengthening the attributes and racial stats of the bound spirit.

At this moment, Xia Lin used his spirit-binding attributes to gain the spirit's memories and knowledge...

"Makes sense! Makes perfect sense!"

After all, Xia Lin was using absolute balance, not fair trade.

Your spirit binding is stronger, so you naturally become the one being balanced in the balancing process.

"That's fine."

As Xia Lin uttered these words in his heart, the entire process of achieving absolute balance was completely completed.

The black and white light instantly contracted back into Xia Lin's body.

Along with this shrinking, the Dao-merging domain of the bound spirits and the coexistence with the life-ghosts also contracted!
Everything seemed like a long process, but it all happened in a very short time.

In the eyes of the four Blue Witches, what just happened was roughly this: Xia Lin cast a spell, and he and the Bound Spirit stopped moving. After a few breaths, both sides deactivated all their spells.

Then, Xia Lin broke free from the constraints of the spirit-binding skill.

The Bound Spirit Immortal, having returned to his original form, simply rolled his eyes and fell headfirst to the ground!
"Boom" sound.

The Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable struck the earth like a meteorite.

He was unharmed, but stared at the sky with clear, pure light in his eyes!
—After losing memories and knowledge, from the perspective of memory, the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable is a blank sheet of paper.

He had no memories of the past, like a newborn baby, and even crawling, walking, and running had to be learned from scratch.

But he is not a baby after all...

His racial stats and physical attributes, as a balancing factor, still have a large portion remaining.

Summary: A giant doll with physical abilities far exceeding Superman's, standing at 1.8 meters tall, and looking eerily sinister?

Well, the Spirit-Binding Immortal Venerable has ultimately been redeemed by absolute balance...

Xia Lin's clone stood in the air, feeling an unbearable stinging pain in its brain—this was the negative effect caused by the binding spirit's memories and knowledge filling its brain in a short period of time.

Using the substitution skill, the fake Xia Lin then pointed a finger at his temple, extracting a crystalline ball of memory light from his own brain.

With a flick of her finger, she sent the ball of light flying into the distance. To the astonishment of the four Blue Witches, the memory orb was caught by another Xia Lin.

Zhen Xialin smiled as he weighed the memory orb in his hand, then tossed it to Scarlett, who was standing next to him.

"Give it to you."

The memories and knowledge of the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable will definitely be useful to Scarlett, the newly promoted Immortal Venerable, and can be considered a good gift to celebrate Scarlett's advancement.

Scarlett smiled as she put away the memory orb and looked into the distance.

In the distance, the figure of the fake Xia Lin slowly turned into black smoke and disappeared.

—Activating the Call of the Old Ones once consumes 10% of the Dark Side completion.

— Previously, Xia Lin had 60.3% completion of the Dark Side. After consuming 10%, she was left with 50.3%... And the existence of clones will also gradually consume the completion of the Dark Side.

The disappearance of the fake Xia Lin was not even something that Xia Lin actively dispelled... but rather it naturally dissipated after the completion rate of the dark side of the Spirit World Book dropped by 50%.

In the short term, the strategy of using absolute balance to create clones will no longer be viable.

Xia Lin didn't mind.

Even if Absolute Balance failed to subdue the Spirit-Binding Immortal Venerable, Xia Lin remained fearless.

He stepped back, shielding Scarlett in front of him.

"give it to you."

"Use these people's lives to find your niche in level twelve."

Level 12 is a general term for a large number of levels.

There are trashy level 12 kings like the Five Kings of the Black Domain, mediocre level 12 spirit treasures like the Binding Spirit Treasure, top level 12 level cultivators like the Hunger God Transformer, and the Wang Family Son, who is also a top level 12 level cultivator but whose strength is definitely stronger than the Hunger God Transformer, as well as the even stronger pseudo-Six Pillars.

It's impossible to predict what level Scarlett will reach after her promotion; it can only be tested in actual combat.

Of the four people present, apart from the Bound Spirit Immortal Venerable, they were all ordinary level twelve. If the four of them joined forces, they could probably fight against the lowest level of the level twelve peak? Perhaps they would be slightly inferior.
In short, everything needs to be discussed after the fight.

But Xia Lin always believed in this one thing:
With the Heavenly Palace and the Heavenly Dao Formula, Scarlett has no chance of losing to the Blue Witch and the other three!
Scarlett nodded slightly, then took a deep breath.

The next second, her body moved on its own without any wind, slowly floating in the air.

The space trembled violently.

The familiar giant shadow slowly appeared before the four Blue Witches, emerging from nothing.

The Blue Witch shuddered, the Fist Demon and the Flame Demon exchanged a glance, their faces grim, and the Soul Singer's guitar playing also stopped instantly. The four-person band gasped in unison!
As former subordinates of the Creator of Heaven, how could they not recognize the true form of the slowly emerging giant shadow?
Supreme Treasure Heavenly Palace!

For the first time since its birth, it has fallen into the hands of outsiders and been controlled by them!
But after a brief moment of panic, the four Blue Witches exchanged glances, showing no fear but rather eagerness to try.

The Heavenly Palace, in the end, was nothing but an inanimate object.

How much power it can unleash depends entirely on the skill of the user.

The woman who was in charge of the Heavenly Palace was clearly a beginner at the twelfth level, and the aura of cosmic grace on her body had not completely disappeared, making her even more isolated and vulnerable.

How could she possibly unleash the full power of such a powerful treasure as the Heavenly Palace by herself?

"This is not a calamity, but an opportunity."

The Blue Witch spoke in a deep voice.

"Recapturing the Heavenly Palace is a great achievement!"

(End of this chapter)