this infinite world

"How does it feel?"

As the main god's light column disappeared, Yang Yun looked at Zhao Yingkong who was falling from midair: "I have heard of the Book of the Dead and the Cthulhu World. There are no side effects, right?"

Faced with Yang Yun's concern, Zhao Yingkong just shook his head slightly.

Perhaps people with weak wills will indeed have their dark side triggered by this A-level magic in the Book of the Dead, but in front of Zhao Yingkong, who has already awakened the light of her soul, this level of influence is just like a breeze.

Zhao Yingkong closed his eyes and held his breath in meditation. All of a sudden, a black magic mirror in the style of ancient Egypt emerged in his mind. Its mirror surface was as dark as the abyss, as if it was connected to the underworld... and as Zhao Yingkong's thoughts were projected, it suddenly shattered into countless broken lenses, each piece reflecting a different scene of the space around Zhao Yingkong.

Looking at the scene in his heart, Zhao Yingkong's mind moved, and he casually put his spirit into one of the fragments. Suddenly, the "Zhao Yingkong" in reality turned into broken glass that gradually disappeared. Then, the girl's figure appeared out of thin air in another place.

"Space movement." Zero Point confirmed: "It is a mapping-type space ability."

——In other words, it has a similar effect to the “astral projection” that Zhang Jie used before?

Yang Yun touched his chin and looked at Zhao Yingkong as he continued to test the second ability of the "Mirror of Nitocris".

As the fragments in Zhao Yingkong's mind regrouped, the mirror suddenly reflected everything around her. In her field of vision, both the floor of the main god space and the teammates of the Zhongzhou team were abstractly transformed into some kind of white "wave"... and with the infusion of energy, this wave instantly turned into the black light of the underworld.

The wave propagated, the ripples spread, and under the illumination of the black light, a piece of the steel wall specially made for the experiment was silently missing, as if it had been erased by an eraser. The missing part was annihilated without a trace, leaving no trace...

“…I need to study it further.”

Zhao Yingkong opened his eyes and looked at the results of his battle. He frowned unsatisfactorily and said, "It should be even stronger."

"In fact, it's already very strong..."

Before Yang Yun finished speaking, Zhao Yingkong glared at him, so he quickly changed his words and said, "...but it's obviously even stronger."

After that, he coughed and changed the subject, "Who will be the next one to exchange?"

"I will be the second one to exchange it next."

This time, Cheng Xiao took the initiative to step forward. He first looked at Yang Yun, then at Chu Xuan, then at Zheng Zha, and finally at Qi Tengyi… Just when the four of them were puzzled by his gaze and were about to ask, Cheng Xiao exhaled and whispered, "The internal force in my body has reached the critical point of foundation building, and it will soon be transformed into true energy."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Zheng Zha was a little confused, but he immediately congratulated him: "Congratulations, Cheng Xiao, this way, our Zhongzhou team will have one more cultivator."

"To be precise, he is not a cultivator, but a martial artist."

After hearing what Cheng Xiao said, Yang Yun first looked at Qi Tengyi, an orthodox cultivator, and instantly understood: "Do you need me to provide you with some exercises?" "That's not necessary." Cheng Xiao scratched his head, seeming to be a little embarrassed to say: "But..."

"Don't be ashamed. No two leaves are alike. You have your own path, which is different from everyone else's."

Chu Xuan pushed up his glasses and revealed Cheng Xiao's thoughts in one sentence: "Although you have practiced hard for decades to successfully stand at the threshold of foundation building, and your speed of foundation building is far behind Zheng Zha, but people's talents also vary. There is no need to belittle yourself."

“…Although I know that you are trying to comfort me, Colonel Chu, it sounds as if all my martial arts training over the years has been in vain, and I have only just succeeded in building my foundation. This is completely embarrassing for my Cheng family.”

Hearing this, Cheng Xiao looked at Chu Xuan with a slightly resentful look, but thinking that the power of life and death of his subsequent boxing gloves upgrades was still in the hands of the other party, he could only swallow the bitterness in his tears: "... In short, before the battle officially begins, I want to adjust my body to the most perfect state possible and complete the breakthrough of foundation building."

After a pause, Cheng Xiao said his plan: "This time I plan to combine the evil poison body with the life Gu in my body and my understanding of 'wind' to awaken my own 'martial arts will' and break through to the foundation-building stage in one fell swoop."

——The will of martial arts.

For a martial artist like Cheng Xiao, what is more important than the so-called rune analysis and computing power is actually the "martial arts will" as a martial artist.

The "will of martial arts" is born from every martial artist's understanding and pursuit of "martial arts" and "strength". Perhaps it is the desire to challenge the "skill" of the strong with the weak, or it may be the pure "strength" to do whatever one wants, or it may be to become stronger for what one loves... In short, it is a will to implement one's own heart with force.

The martial arts practiced by the warriors and the martial arts will affect each other. If they cooperate with each other, they will promote each other. If they do not, they will even reduce the benefits. Before building the foundation, this is mainly reflected in the difference in the speed of practice. Just like the monks who are more suitable for practicing Zen martial arts than the ambitious tyrants, the latter can achieve twice the result with half the effort in practicing the emperor's martial arts.

This point is not actually obvious to the members of the Reincarnation Team who mainly rely on the reinforcement of the main god. However, once the foundation is established on the path of martial arts, the warriors can not only transform their internal strength and the free energy of the external world into true energy, but their "martial arts will" will also merge with the outside world and transform into the prototype of their own spiritual light... At this time, the synchronization rate between the skills and the will becomes very important.

"Poison, Gu, and wind..."

Yang Yun was stunned. Although these three concepts seemed unrelated, he reacted quickly because he was familiar with Cheng Xiao's past.

In the original world line, Cheng Xiao did not actually exert his full strength. Apart from the "Huanyuan Tai Chi" which he had only displayed once in a sparring match, he basically did not show the poisonous blood in his body that could even melt the alien larvae, nor did he show his natal Gu that could allow him to burst out with even greater "explosive" power than Zheng Zha.

It's not that he doesn't want to, but that he doesn't want to. Cheng Xiao seems to be free and unrestrained on the surface, but even after experiencing the baptism of Nightmare on Elm Street and repairing the loopholes in his heart, he still can't completely let go in his heart. This man has always had some complicated feelings about the poison in his body, and he is not a fighter who is willing to gamble everything and give up tomorrow in order to become stronger.

Cheng Xiao prefers the Nan Dou Shui Niao Quan, which he frequently uses in the later period. The free and easy moves are truly in line with the martial arts style he pursued in the original world line. However, Cheng Xiao has chosen a different path now. He has taken the initiative to integrate everything he has, including the poison and poison in his body, into his martial arts will.

——Life has its own joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, and the moon has its phases.

This poetic saying also applies to Cheng Xiao. His growth and transformation, like the changes in the phases of the moon, has gone through countless ups and downs, and finally found his own perfection at this moment.

A man who finally had the courage to look at himself and reconcile with his past until today. (End of this chapter)