Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 774 Entering the Illusion
【Sword Sweeping Across Mountains and Rivers: Template skill, active skill. Uses supernatural powers to control flying swords and launch a comprehensive and indiscriminate attack on evil forces.】

Because your abilities 'Knight's Throw', 'Phantom Sword', and 'Judgment Arrow' are highly compatible with 'Sword Sweep', you will receive additional effects when using this skill while maintaining the equipment of 'Arthur's Proof' and 'Sun Mask'.

You can summon a maximum of 131 derivative flying swords (based on your Spirit attribute). Each sword summoned consumes 10 MP and also summons a corresponding Phantom Sword of Retribution. (Phantom Swords are added later.)
You can pre-select at least one sword-type weapon you possess as the main flying sword, or you can randomly draw one from among your sword-type weapons when releasing the skill; the derived flying sword will retain all the main weapon's stats and has a chance to trigger weapon effects; the damage of the Punishing Phantom Sword is fixed at 9 points, but it can also trigger the full weapon effect without any stat reduction; the weapon effect trigger cooldowns for all flying swords are calculated separately. (Knight's Throw + Sun Mask additional)

All flying swords gain an "enhanced hit detection" buff, making them difficult to negate by other projectiles; the swords can be paused at your control, hovering as orbiting objects, and can be fired single, in bursts, or in groups as needed. (Added to Sun Mask)

Once all flying swords are used up, the skill enters a cooldown period of 60 minutes.

[Additional comment: It's a bit cliché, but I still have to say it... Ten Thousand Swords Return to Their Origin!!!]

Under Tianmu's control, the flying swords, which gathered together like swimming dragons and soared through the air, burst forth towards the goldfish spirit in a massive, overwhelming attack!

This includes all the sword-type weapons that Cheng Tian currently possesses.

Balford's Twin Swords, Prince's Sword, Flame Dragon Sword, White Wolf Silver Sword, Geviel, and the Devourer of the End.

Although it couldn't compare to the scale of the flying swords personally released by Erlang Shen in the real Black Myth, with the support of high mental strength and special equipment, a total of 262 flying swords, both real and illusory, all rushed towards the Goldfish Demon, this living target.

Faced with a near-desperate situation, the goldfish spirit went almost mad and bit its own left wrist!

As the huge gash appeared, blood gushed out as if pumped out.

But the blood didn't just flow onto the ground; instead, as the crazed goldfish spirit muttered incantations, it formed a blood-red tornado around its body!
Although the current scene is not a desert, but a forested area with mountains and water, it is still impossible to draw water to release water-based magical abilities compared to places like the Tongtian River where there is water everywhere. Not only is the casting animation extremely long, but the power is also incomparable.

When her life was at stake, the goldfish spirit chose to use her own demonic essence and blood as the material for casting a spell, forcibly releasing an even more powerful water tornado barrier.

The cost of doing this was extremely high. The goldfish spirit's strength attribute, which had initially exceeded 100, suddenly dropped back to double digits. This was a semi-permanent loss of strength and a severe blow to its vitality. If it did not receive adequate conditioning afterward, the semi-permanent loss would become permanent.

However, under the current circumstances, it is better to be severely injured than to lose one's life directly. The goldfish spirit does not want to be riddled with holes like a fishing net!

However, it must be said that the magical barrier released using essence blood was indeed remarkable. When Cheng Tian's flying sword struck it, it produced a clanging metallic sound, rather than the ordinary sound of metal hitting water.

Although some of the flying swords were blocked, the special effects triggered by chance followed one after another without hesitation.

Some blades shattered on the spot into smaller fragments, continuing a second wave of cutting around the blood tornado.

There are instances where large bursts of earth vein energy erupt.

But the most interesting thing is the special effects of the secondary flying swords and phantom flying swords derived from the Prince's Sword.

Whenever the Prince's Sword flashes, at least a whole squad of "Erlang Shen's personal guards" roars in... only to be instantly blasted away by the blood tornado. However, thanks to the guards' special effect, these blown-away guards only lose their mounts or armor.

What Cheng Tian found most interesting was actually the composition of these personal guards.

He not only saw the silver-armored heavenly soldiers who should belong to the Heavenly Court in the guard, but also a large number of mountain spirits and grass-root gods with different appearances, races and identities.

From this perspective, these silver-armored heavenly soldiers should be Erlang Shen's soldiers under the command of the Heavenly Court, while the grass-root gods, mainly mountain spirits and monsters in the mortal realm, are pure followers of Yang Jian himself. Although they come from different backgrounds, they can all be considered as part of his personal guard.

Since the Erlang Shen template used by Cheng Tian comes from the world of "Black Myth", the prototypes of these heavenly soldiers and monsters obviously also come from "Black Myth", rather than the current "Journey to the West".

This wave of flying swords shot out, allowing Cheng Tian to indirectly spawn a large army. Nearly a thousand heavenly soldiers and monsters surrounded the goldfish spirit who was still inside the blood tornado!

It can only be said that although Cheng Tian did load the Erlang Shen template, his own abilities inevitably affected the template.

A perfectly powerful flying sword technique was somehow turned into a swarm of soldiers by him...

This scene was something even the local Erlang Shen had never seen before, let alone the goldfish spirit.

When the blood tornado dissipated, the goldfish spirit, clutching its wound, saw the densely packed enemies around it, and its eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets!

What's going on! ?

Was I forcibly teleported to the enemy camp by some kind of supernatural power?!

Because he was so dazed, he couldn't react effectively when a serpentine beam of light rushed into his head.

【灵感大王（金鱼精）：首领模板。通天河金鱼妖，莲花池金鱼精。HP=3.8W/3.8W（原4.32W），MP=1.82W/2.02W。力量95（108）、敏捷50、精神101、魅力69。】

[Unit Characteristics/Abilities - Water Element, Lord of the Tongtian River (Approaching), Guanyin's Pet, Tongtian Tornado, Blizzard Domain, Enter Illusion.]

The goldfish spirit's panel popped up above its head, immediately attracting Cheng Tian's attention, which then focused on the last ability entry, "Enter Illusion."

Cheng Tian paused slightly, then calmly opened his panel and saw a description called "Five Elements Fire" in the attributes derived from the dungeon entries.

Erlang Shen is indeed the God of Water, but Cheng, born on September 9, 1996, has a strong Metal and Fire element in his birth chart. Ultimately, he was likely determined to be "Fire" by the Chosen Space due to his connection to the Sun God Gem. The loading of the template does not affect his original element, meaning—

The four large characters “Enter the Illusion” appeared without warning above the goldfish spirit’s head, and directly enveloped Cheng Tian in mid-air!

(End of this chapter)