Lord of Mysteries: Taiyi

Chapter 100 "Refining" Contamination

Sequence Seven: The Virtuoso Main Materials: All seeds of an adult psychedelic bellflower, one complete spine of a phantom stalker.

Additional materials: 120ml pure water, 15ml of ink from a magpie octopus, and one tentacle from a real sniffer.

Abilities: Significantly enhances the mental strength of extraordinary individuals and to some extent strengthens their physical attributes. The mind gradually stabilizes, allowing for the stable separation of 1-3 distinct selves. One can begin to foresee the "predestined" fate of others and influence their destiny through various means.

It can also consume a certain amount of spiritual energy to trap the target in a "future" deduction, while the target remains in place. For oneself, this allows one to choose the more correct path from among many possible future outcomes.

The id can only exist in illusions, dreams, the subconscious, or in more abstract places that are clearly different from the real world.

Possessing the ability to pre-configure illusions, within which the ego is born, and the ability to place the ego in dreams or other things such as the subconscious or even memories, allows for targeted defense against extraordinary individuals in this regard.

It can forcibly pull 1 to 3 people into a pre-prepared illusion. The original body can move freely in the real world, and can also "hide" in the illusion for a short time, temporarily disappearing from the real world.

The "Id" Stand can consume the Id to perform a Stand. After the Id is damaged, the original body will suffer a certain amount of mental pain.

Kurt spent time organizing the recipe and abilities of "The Virtuoso" and found that this Sequence 7 was very strong, much like a plus version of the Nightmare, and very effective against Beyonders of the "Audience" and "Sleepless" pathways.

He now has the ability to extract the Virtuoso's abilities and "bestow" them upon himself, but Kurt naturally wouldn't do that.

Everything takes time. Directly accepting the power of Sequence 7 may not cause too much of a problem, but it will definitely bring some threat, just like drinking a magic potion in a leaping manner.

He also made an interesting discovery: because there were no extraordinary characteristics to enhance him, the enhancement he received seemed to come directly from the "contamination" of the source matter. Ordinary consecrated individuals need a period of time to adapt to the consecrated abilities in order to gradually "familiarize" themselves with the aura of the source matter and finally make use of it to maximize its effect.

This is similar to the process by which extraordinary beings who are unaware of the role-playing method "master" and "become proficient"—they don't need to specifically play the role, and Kurt himself already possesses a great deal of source quality authority.

Therefore, this "familiarization" process is definitely much faster than for ordinary people. As long as one is completely "familiar" with this trace of source matter contamination, one can obtain the next stage of Sequence Eight strength conferment.

Having realized this, Kurt was somewhat disappointed. His plan to mass-produce Sequence Beyonders had ended before it even began, and as for the process of "mastering" it—

There must be some way to stabilize the "contamination" and speed up adaptation—this sounds a lot like "refining," Kurt felt the energy within his body automatically merging with his own—

"Cultivation—" Kurt found two Hermes words and created a new vocabulary. Although he had a feeling that Roselle had invented it before, he still decided on this name.

The process of "refining" the "contamination" of the source material is called "cultivation." Once cultivation is complete, my "followers" can pray to me again to obtain the extraordinary abilities of the next stage.

Hmm, I'll figure it out myself first. Maybe I can figure out a system similar to the role-playing method. Then I'll call it a "cultivation method" and "bestow" it on his followers to help them quickly improve their strength.

Then I'll have my own organization to help me collect extraordinary materials and the information and clues I need, and I'll also have a doctrine—

After considering the various measures, Kurt felt overwhelmed and eventually abandoned the specific plans—intending to combine them with practical experience to arrive at a solution.

With that in mind, Kurt took out a newly made silver "Self" talisman and a brand new potato, and used the "Eye-Dotting" technique to imbue the potato with the extraordinary properties he had obtained from the "Inner Demon Candle".

Then he obtained a super low-end version of "Inner Demon Potato," which only promoted self-hypnosis and did not help people enter their inner world.

Kurt, holding a potato, began practicing the self-hypnosis he had learned from Melanie. As for why he wanted to learn this stuff, Melanie said it was for "self-rescue" when mental problems occurred. Although the effect was not great, it could still have some stabilizing effect.

With the help of the inner demon potato, Kurt smoothly entered a suggestive state. In this state, on his own mental island, he used a "self" talisman and saw a Kurt exactly like himself appear there.

Thanks to the storyteller's enhancement, Kurt can now withstand the burden of two selves. If someone tries to hypnotize me into entering this place and discovers there's another me here, I'll simply jump out and fight him.

Kurt smiled briefly, then withdrew from his subconscious and returned to reality; the silver piece in his hand had vanished.

Speaking of which, what happened to all the gold I used before? Could it be in that space too? — Maybe I'll explore it next time I go in.

After a morning of fussing, it was already 7:30. Kurt stretched, got up from the somewhat messy table, and spent some time tidying it up. Then, Kurt used his finger to open the spiritual wall that enveloped the bedroom.

After breakfast, they headed to the Harvest Church. On the somewhat bumpy carriage ride, Kurt suddenly realized a problem: "We're spending too much time on transportation every day; it's such a waste of time."

Kurt's watch shop is located on the street where the West End and Queens meet. From there to the Harvest Church in the South End of the Bridge, you have to cross the entire West End and pass the Tasok Bridge next to the Kingdom Museum to reach the South End of the Bridge. The whole journey takes about 2 hours.

Taking the subway would be faster, but it would be very troublesome. I wish Sorin could take me to the spirit world, but she doesn't have that ability yet. However, according to her, her power will also be restored after she regains her memories.

Let's discuss moving when Lori gets back. Lori's workplace isn't far from the South Bridge area—but moving to River Bend Avenue would be too far from Backlund First People's Hospital—

Kurt seriously considered the issue of moving, and soon arrived at the Harvest Church.

Without even looking at his watch, he knew from his extraordinary abilities that it was 3 minutes to 10 o'clock. As he entered the church, he saw Marcus, who looked like a bear, and Melanie talking about something.

After Kurt greeted them directly, the rugged-looking Marcus took the initiative to say, "We were just discussing the previous mission; unfortunately, our operation failed."

Kurt raised an eyebrow and casually asked, "What happened?"

Melanie continued, "Our capture mission was interfered with by high-sequence powerhouses, and we haven't found any trace of the Truth Association members—"

P.S.: Sorry, I stayed up all night studying yesterday. After finishing my exam this afternoon, I took a nap, but when I woke up I realized I didn't have enough time — I'll only update once today, and I'll start updating three times a day from tomorrow! I'm a little sleepy now, and I need to come up with some ideas for the plot, so I won't stay up late tonight to write. I apologize to everyone for that.

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