Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 654 Intuitive Development

Two hours later, in the Land of All Living Things, the second floor.

A gentle sea breeze blew across the boundless ocean, creating tiny waves on the water. A silent and quiet atmosphere lingered on the lonely island until...

——A black shadow like a meteor passed by the horizon.

boom! ! !
[Reminder: The Block Master's "Block Enhancement·Secondary" effect has been triggered. The impact damage received this time has been...]

[Hint: Due to the effect of "Strong Overlord", the "Strong Knockback" and "Strong Stun..." received this time...]

[Hint: The "Divine Protection" effect has been triggered. This time...]

“Ahem, ahem…!!”

In the huge meteorite crater, Xin Lailai, covered in dust, holding Yuan Mo in his hand, climbed out from the edge of the pit while coughing. After taking two breaths, he glanced at the series of prompts at the edge of his vision, and when he found that there was no content related to space resistance, he let out a light sigh.

"Tsk, I feel like our paradise is getting more and more stingy. Now they are not willing to put in much effort even for space teleportation."

"Hmm...why do I feel like it's your problem, Lailai?"

"No way, I'm just trying to help Paradise test the space teleportation array out of kindness!"

Xin Lailai answered without any guilt, then casually cast a gust of wind to blow away all the dust and haze around him. Then he took out dozens of soul storage crystals of various sizes and found a place to put them.

In the two hours before coming here, he and Ling Yuzi had successfully condensed six "Soul-Destroying Techniques" and enthusiastically invited the Death Master to help "test" them.

The specific results also made him very satisfied. Even the Death Bearer, who was a master of swordsmanship and had a soul strength of 100 points, showed no symptoms when hit by the first three "Soul-Destroying Gazes", but when he was hit by the sixth "Soul-Destroying Gaze", he already showed an extremely obvious pause in his movements. When he was hit by the eighth, he directly showed symptoms of "severe soul shock", which theoretically only people with soul strength one level lower than theirs, or who had no soul and mental resistances at all, and only had a soul strength of 3 points.

By the time the tenth "Soul-Destroying Gaze" came, even a strong team like the Death Bearer, who had 10% soul damage reduction + 50 points of soul strength + various soul and mental resistance abilities inherited from the underworld, could not avoid falling into a 100-second long "severe soul shock" state and the fatal "deep soul disability" effect after being hit by 10 "Soul-Destroying Gazes" in a row, and was completely defeated.

This is the terrifying impact brought about when the "number" accumulates to a certain level. If it is just a single ultimate-level "Soul-Destroying Gaze", it would be fine, but if the ultimate is used as a basic attack, "Soul-Destroying Gaze" is unbearable for anyone to withstand.

Of course, this style of play is not without its flaws.

The first thing is to lock the distance. After their tests, in order to exert the maximum power of the Soul-Destroying Gaze, the opponent should not be more than 100 meters away from them, otherwise the power will quickly decay.

Not only that, because the soul fluctuations when released are too obvious, although the speed of the "Soul-Destroying Gaze" is so fast that it is almost impossible to dodge, if someone predicts it in advance and uses the "space shuttle" ability at the moment they release the "Soul-Destroying Gaze", there is still a great probability of dodging this attack.

The second thing is the frequency of casting. Although it only takes them less than one second to release a Soul-Destroying Gaze, it requires a full 1 points of soul energy, and the combined soul energy limit of him and Ling Yuzi is only 5000 points.

With such horrific soul energy consumption, considering that they must ensure that they have sufficient soul energy to condense sword power during battle, and that the soul energy absorption rate of the Soul Absorption Secret Technique is 1500 points per second, it means that even if there are enough soul crystals or soul storage crystals to support it, the release interval of their "Soul-Destroying Gaze" will be difficult to compress to less than 4 seconds.

Of course, the above is based on the situation where only he or Ling Yuzi is using the "Soul-Destroying Gaze". If two people take turns, the interval between their releasing the "Soul-Destroying Gaze" can be compressed to less than 2 seconds. However, considering that someone must concentrate on body control in actual combat, this rotation method is not suitable for battles between technical systems.

As for more tests, although he wanted to conduct them very much, the "advanced training mode" of the training ground could only restore the soul energy they consumed, but could not restore the "Soul-Destroying Ritual" that was in an overloaded state. So after testing it once, Xin Lailai did not hesitate to show the other party in front of the Deathly Hound how they increased their "space resistance".

——Yes, that’s right, he was just in a hurry to come to the Land of All Living Beings to train, and he had absolutely no other ideas.

"It's a pity that after I go back, I will be dragged by that guy who holds the death to spar with him."

Thinking of the condition that the executioner agreed to let him be a "wooden stake" once, Xin Lailai couldn't help rubbing his temples, with a hint of worry in his eyes.

Although theoretically, he could use the level 40 White Night Contract or the "White Night in the Heart" for testing, but after thinking that all the moves he used on the White Night Contract would be "memorized" in the database of the "White Night in the Heart", Xin Lailai finally chose to ask the dead to be the test subject.

"It only charges about 0.15% in one minute... It turns out that coming to the Land of All Living Things to charge the Soul Storage Crystal was the right decision."

After taking a short break, Xin Lailai looked at the 66 "Soul Storage Crystals (Large)" and 30 "Soul Storage Crystals (Complete)" placed in front of her, with a hint of satisfaction in her eyes.

Among these soul storage crystals, 10 "Soul Storage Crystals (Large)" and 10 "Soul Storage Crystals (Complete)" were made before they entered the White Frontier Star, and they can be used about 27 to 28 times.

As for the remaining 20 "Soul Storage Crystals (Complete)" and 56 "Soul Storage Crystals (Large)", they were transformed by Ling Yuzi in his spare time using the 8500 "Soul Crystals (Complete)" obtained by spending 20w Paradise Points + "Soul Crystal Secret Box (Complete)" and 256 of the 56 "Soul Crystals (Large)" in their storage space. They were only used once during the condensation process of the "Soul Destroying Ritual" not long ago.

After all, just to condense one "Soul-Destroying Ritual" would consume 50000 points of soul energy, and six of them would consume 300000 points. With such a huge consumption of soul energy, they certainly could not directly replace it with normal soul crystals. The way to maximize the benefits would obviously be to transform them into reusable soul storage crystals and then extract the soul energy contained therein.

As for why Xin Lailai specifically took out these soul storage crystals that had consumed all their soul energy from the Land of All Living Beings?

Need I say more? Of course, it was to take advantage of the high concentration of soul energy in the Land of All Living Things for free!

You know, even in Paradise, it takes 100 hours to fully charge a soul storage crystal, but in the Land of All Living Things, it only takes 11 hours to fully charge all the soul storage crystals. How could he not use this natural "charging" treasure land for nothing... Well, why not make good use of it?
——Anyway, these soul energies are just sitting there, so why not give them to him to use?

——As for the violation? He didn't steal or rob. At most, he accidentally consumed a little more soul energy than others during training. It couldn't be considered a violation.

After all, he is a pioneer of the Holy Land. He had already read through all the regulations of the paradise when he was in the world. He knew what was against the rules, how to avoid breaking the rules, and to what extent some things could be done without breaking the rules or losing credibility. Xin Lailai could even proudly say that he knew more than the violators of the same level.

[Tip: You have entered the Land of All Living Things (second floor). Current usage fee: 400000 Paradise Points/hour. Maximum usage time: 14 hours, 58 minutes, 57 seconds]

After confirming the charging status of the soul storage crystal, Xin Lailai glanced at the dwell time at the edge of his vision, and without further delay, he set the timer, took out the "Origin Stone·Remnant" from the storage space, threw it into the accessory space to ensure that it would not be hurt by the residual power of his combo with Ling Yuzi, then took a deep breath, switched Yuan Mo to twin form, and after he and Ling Yuzi each held a Yuan Mo, he thought about it and swung out an identical slashing action at the same time as Ling Yuzi who was standing opposite him.

The next moment, one figure after another made of soul energy appeared, imitating the movements of the two of them, and swung out similar yet different sword lights.

Peng——! !

Instantly, huge waves exploded from the surrounding sea surface, and the entire sea surface was seen retreating into the distance under the vast sword force created by the dozens of slashes. If anyone who was still at the master level of heavy sword technique saw this scene, he would probably say...

The power of the Grandmaster is so terrifying.

……

……

Half a day later.

Zheng——! !

The clear and melodious sound of swords clanging rang out from an isolated island with only two figures, one large and one small, and spread across the endless sea.

On the island, Xin Lailai was seen with his eyes blindfolded, the sword in his hand constantly colliding with the slashes swung by Ling Yuzi in front of him. Every collision would cause slight changes in the surrounding soul energy phantoms.

Ding ding ding ding ding...!
The sound of swords colliding with each other was as dense as a rainstorm. The small Yuan Mo in Ling Yuzi's hand was like a vicious beast full of murderous intent. It kept slashing at Xin Lailai at various tricky angles, and finally...

clang! ! !
An extremely dull sound of swords colliding was heard. After hundreds of rounds of fighting, Xin Lailai, who had been blindfolded and wearing a blood-red belt, found it increasingly difficult to move his hands. Finally, in a collision, Ling Yuzi accurately seized his weakness and forced him back dozens of steps with a single sword strike. A new cut appeared on his chest.

"Failed again..."

Xin Lailai, who was defeated in the confrontation, did not rush to start the next round of confrontation. Instead, he stood where he was, digesting the insights that surged from the phantoms of soul energy in his mind. Finally, he sighed, took off the cloth belt that was used to blind his eyes and the sealing spell that suppressed his perception, and looked down at the sword in his hand and the rapidly healing wound on his chest, with a hint of contemplation in his eyes.

Just now, he was not developing any new technical abilities, but was trying to develop some kind of perception ability, or in other words, trying to create an 'intuitive version' of the "Star Field".

In fact, this is also Xin Lailai's biggest purpose of coming to the Land of All Living Things this time, or in other words, it is to complete something that he has been trying to do since the last time he entered the Land of All Living Things.

Intuition. Yes, that's what Sinlailai wants to master.

It is not a practical move like Kaiten, Juetian and Ranbu, but a more elusive, but intuitive ability that every serious technical-type contractor has.

In fact, after breaking through to the Grandmaster level in both the Heavy Sword Master and the Fighting Master, and greatly improving the qualification levels of both, Xin Lailai had already vaguely sensed the biggest flaw in his current technique.

Intuition, or rather... a reaction that is almost like instinct.

A master of technique does not need a 'brain'. This statement is never a simple derogatory statement, but a true description.

In other words, if you just look at the bonus effects of the technical master's abilities, you will find that among the various technical master's passive abilities, there are those that increase dynamic vision, those that increase nerve reflex speed, those that increase muscle toughness and strength... but there is no one that increases the brain's computing power and thinking speed.

Because, when a master of technical skills fights, there is no need for real 'thinking'.

Whether you ask the bloodthirsty and warmongering death-seekers, or Yamu who looks frivolous and lazy, or any master of techniques, you will find that when the master of techniques enters the combat state, he will not think about the angle and strength of each move, the trajectory of the enemy's attack, the time of hitting... and other details, but rely on an instinctive reaction beyond thinking, relying on the skills and instincts imprinted deep in the body to launch offensives and resolve attacks.

When this reaction is trained to an extreme, the product that is formed is what the technical masters call "intuition".

There is no doubt that intuition is the "eyes" of all technical masters, and it is also their biggest "shortcoming" at present.

They have always focused more on mage-style combat. In many cases, Xin Lailai even regards himself as a mage rather than a technician. And in the development of abilities, both he and Ling Yuzi are obviously more interested in various spells than in the development of technical moves.

But this cannot be an excuse or reason to avoid the facts.

It is an indisputable fact that their skills have a shortcoming called "intuition". Although they can now rely on the power of Soul Master + Psychic Acceleration to barely handle the current close combat needs with their own reaction speed, as their rank increases, the defect of not having intuition-related abilities will only become more and more obvious, until they are no longer the opponent of the masters of the same level in close combat.

This situation was obviously not what Xin Lailai wanted to see, so after breaking through to the Grandmaster level, he had been looking for a solution, and indeed found a clear direction:

——Develop the "Star Field" into an "intuitive form".

Yes, this is the route that Xin Lailai thought of. Normally speaking, developing an intuitive version of a field-based perception skill is actually not very useful, or it is not as useful as some people imagine.

Because of the natural conflict between domain perception skills and intuitive perception skills, just like a person cannot walk on two roads in opposite directions at the same time, once the domain perception ability is activated, his "perception" can no longer act on the intuitive ability.

but--

This limitation only applies to 'one person'.

It is just like the conflict between the attack-type soul soldiers and the defense-type soul soldiers in the "natal soul soldiers".

Normally speaking, he really can't activate "Star Luo Intuition" while activating "Star Luo Domain", but what if one of him and Ling Yuzi activates "Star Luo Domain" and the other activates "Star Luo Intuition", and then enters the "Elf Assimilation" state?

This is the solution Xin Lailai came up with, which can truly solve the problem that their masters of technical skills lack intuitive abilities, but their masters of magic cannot get rid of the defects of domain perception abilities.

Now, the only problem is...

"I thought that with the Blood Will and the Origin Stone, development would be much smoother, but in the end, we are still missing the most crucial step..."

Xin Lailai lowered his head and looked at the scarlet belt around his waist, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

……

[Blood Will]

Origin: White Star
Quality: Overlord level
Category: pendant

Equipment requirements: Willpower no less than 80 points

Durability: 3/5
Equipment Effect 1, Blood Corrosion (Passive): After wearing this equipment, you will continue to suffer from the effects of "will erosion" and "perception suppression". During this period, your own perception acuity and range will decrease by 50%, but the efficiency of developing and improving perception abilities will continue to increase, up to a maximum of 500%.

*Tip: This effect will place a great burden on one's own mental strength and soul. According to the Pioneer's current comprehensive physical attributes, the safe wearing time is 24 hours, and it must be worn again after at least 72 hours of buffer time.

Equipment Effect 2, Blood of Wild Beast (Active): Consumes 1 durability point to use. After activation, you will enter the "Fury" state, with sanity reduced by 99%, nerve reflex speed and dynamic vision +99%, pain reduced by 99%, true strength, agility, and stamina +10 points, and lose 1% of maximum health per second. All blood attacks will be accompanied by a "blood explosion" effect, which lasts for a maximum of 10 minutes. After the end, you will enter the "Weak" ~ "Severely Weak" state based on the length of use.

Rating: 523
Introduction: With this body, I have fallen into the state of a beast.

Price: Not for sale

……

Blood Will, this overlord-level equipment was obtained by him, the Death Bearer, Yamu and others from the White Frontier Star. Although its active ability is of no use to them, its passive effect is like a treasure to them who possess the ability of a master of techniques.

The maximum 500% increase in the development and improvement of perception abilities, combined with the "Land of All Living Things·Level 40" which can independently increase the efficiency of technical ability development by 3 times, plus the temporary +200-level amplification effect on the potential rank of the corresponding category of the ability system of "Origin Stone·Remnant", is equivalent to them currently developing intuitive abilities non-stop with a development efficiency of times + A+ level qualification level.

But even so, after 10 hours of hard training, they still couldn't find the most critical opportunity to transform "Star Luo Domain" into "Star Luo Intuition".

No, to be precise, it's not that I didn't find it, but I vaguely touched upon a clue, but I couldn't really grasp it. There was a subtle sense of gap that no matter how hard I tried, I was always a step short of it, or in other words, I was missing a certain thing -

"Pressure..."

On the devastated island, Xin Lailai murmured, looking up at Ling Yuzi who had the same look in his eyes, his eyes slightly lowered, and he said nothing.

That’s right, they are still lacking the most crucial pressure to develop their “Star Intuition”.

It was not the tension when fighting with a strong enemy, nor the excitement when facing life and death, but the endless darkness that they felt when facing the extreme blade Yuanying's destructive sword that was enough to cut the world in half in the world of Dicuo, and all their senses were eroded, leaving only their own heartbeat, the sword blade, and the terrifying oppression of touch.

In other words, the reason why they were able to grasp the hint of "Star Intuition" was because they faced that knife head-on in that battle, but the insights that knife brought them were only enough for them to perfect "Star Intuition" to the point where it was just one step away, but it did not allow them to completely complete this special perception ability that could switch freely between the domain form and the intuition form in one breath.

The problem is that……

——Where can they find a battle like the one with Jiren Yuanying?
"Tsk, do we have to wait for the guy who is plotting against us behind the scenes to send an even more powerful boss over here?"

Xin Lailai rubbed his temple, complained, then took a long breath and looked at Ling Yuzi again, discarding the meaningless thoughts in his mind and his eyes regained calm.

Perhaps the opportunity for them to perfect their "Star Intuition" will only come when the "dark road" in the words that Shirona asked the Dead to bring comes true, but this does not mean that they can stop here.

There is no technique in the world that can be achieved overnight. Even if they really need to rely on a life-and-death battle to find an opportunity for a breakthrough, it must be based on their accumulation of extremely strong foundations. Therefore...

——They just need to continue along the path they have chosen.

Zheng——! !

The next second, the crisp clanging of swords exploded again from the sea surface, once again raising layers of huge waves on the empty sea surface.

Talent, chance, inspiration... maybe these things can play a crucial role on the road of technique, but in the end, as long as you are still on the road of technique, you will always be inseparable from that sentence:
The art of technique requires hard work.

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(End of this chapter)