Abstraction for a bad world

Chapter 161 The Seventh Evolution, Awakening Ceremony at the Age of Twelve (4.4k)

If you want to advance from the first level, tin, to the second level, mercury.

In addition to the most basic promotion rituals, the only additional condition that needs to be met is to allow one's own spiritual energy reserves to reach the upper limit of the white iron level.

——That is 999.

As for aspects such as physical fitness and soul strength which are relatively more difficult to improve, there are no rigid requirements.

This is also one of the reasons why many mercury-level beings are easily eroded by the abyss - they have the power of mercury-level, but their soul strength is only that of galvanized iron-level.

Because the difficulty of being promoted to the Mercury Rank... or it can be said to be a benefit - [Reshaping Bone and Blood] simply transforms the body and will not increase the strength of the soul even a little bit.

Whether reshaping bones and blood is a challenge or a benefit also has a lot to do with the attitude of the person being promoted.

Yuan Qingzhuo took the red marker that Rush used to number the toy figures, and drew a spell on the floor according to the book to speed up the increase in the upper limit of spiritual energy reserves.

After having a physical body, infusing spiritual essence or superimposing martial arts will will be easier and more efficient - even if this physical body is just a simple graffiti.

"For cowards, reshaping bones and blood is often a bonus by the way - because they just want to get by, and making their bodies a little stronger is enough."

Rush came over like a curious baby, sat next to Yuan Qingzhuo and read a sentence from the book:

"But for the brave who are not satisfied with this, this is a matter of life and death - if you want to gain ten times the power, you must naturally pay a hundred times the risk."

"If you want to gain extra benefits, you must take risks, and the risks are often far greater than the benefits. This is always the case in the abyss."

Rush read stupidly, and found that he could neither understand nor comprehend.

She could see and read each word clearly, but why did she not understand anything when she read the words together?
Strange, strange.

"Brother Zhuo, what do these words mean?"

Rush just asked without disturbing Yuan Qingzhuo's hands, nor did he expect Yuan Qingzhuo to answer.

So Yuan Qingzhuo, who was concentrating on drawing the ritual, replied casually:

"——For example, Sister An is handing out candies today, and everyone can get one. But you, Rush, want to have ten candies, but Sister An won't give them to you, so you can only take them secretly."

"But Sister An knows you better than you do. If you are discovered by Sister An who has been waiting there for a long time, you will not be eating candy, but chestnuts."

"Ugh."

Rush was so frightened by Yuan Qingzhuo's vivid metaphor that she stuck out her tongue. She was about to nod and say "I understand", but the little girl immediately reacted:
"If I ask for ten candies, Sister An will definitely give them to me!"

"You're so happy, Rush. It turns out that Sister An also has special treatment."

Yuan Qingzhuo put down the paintbrush and paused for a moment. After the paint on the floor was completely dry, he pressed his palm on it. He said to Rush beside him, "Don't touch this technique. It might be dangerous."

So Rush obediently took off his little shoes, put away his two white and tender little feet, sat cross-legged on the bed and looked at Yuan Qingzhuo.

So, first of all, we need to infuse spiritual essence to see if the spell can be triggered.

Under Rush's gaze, the simple spell, which was not complicated and could even be copied by her, lit up slightly.

"Brother Zhuo, it's bright."

Now that we have verified that the technique can be triggered, let's first try to see how much it can improve efficiency.

Yuan Qingzhuo sat in the center of the ritual, spent three seconds entering a meditative state, and then began to try to absorb the ownerless spiritual energy that was scattered throughout the heaven and earth.

There are two principles for absorbing spiritual essence in the air and increasing one's own spiritual essence limit.

One is to absorb external spiritual essence - that is, the concentration of spiritual essence in the external environment. The higher the purity, the easier and faster it is to absorb.

The second is to use the absorbed external spiritual essence to increase one's own spiritual essence upper limit - the key point of this step is that the external spiritual essence must break through the barrier of the physical body, and the spiritual essence that enters the body must be assimilated and transformed into one's own spiritual essence upper limit.

The above are some basic theories about early childhood education that Yuan Qingzhuo read in books.

So he also knew that there was an 80% or even 90% chance that these theories were wrong, and that they were only slightly simplifications made to make them easier for lower-level children to understand.

There is no essential difference between this and the fact that junior high school knowledge is wrong when you reach high school, and high school knowledge is wrong when you reach college.

A minute later, Yuan Qingzhuo opened his eyes and looked at the ground.

A slightly humorous conclusion was reached.

——This simple technique, with his full martial arts will in mind, can increase the speed of improving the upper limit of spiritual essence by about one millionth.

If it were an ordinary person, they wouldn't be able to feel it at all.
No wonder the book says that this technique is a basic introduction for young children. Even the author himself does not have any expectations of its practicality.

Rush, who was lying on the bed next to him, had no idea what Yuan Qingzhuo was doing and yawned out of boredom.

I feel a little sleepy after eating...

Rush lay down on the soft mattress and watched Yuan Qingzhuo use his martial arts will to silently modify the technique on the ground.

As I was watching, I fell asleep.

The girl's breathing soon became steady. Without even having the chance to cover herself with the quilt, she fell asleep carefree with her mouth slightly open.

When Rush woke up again, she felt like something was trying to suck her away, so she stepped on empty air in her dream and woke up with a bang.

"what!"

Rush screamed in a low voice, and patted his chest with lingering fear: "Why do I always miss steps in my dreams..."

But when she said this, she realized that her feet seemed to be... indeed hanging in the air?
It was as if it was pulled away by an invisible pair of hands!

"Brother Zhuo, why are you glowing blue?"

Rush stood up and tried to save his feet, opening his mouth in surprise. The next moment, he was dragged off the bed by the sudden increase in suction.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

boo~
Before Rush could even finish her scream, she found herself falling onto a very soft layer of...blue liquid?

"Don't be surprised. This is semi-liquid spiritual essence."

Yuan Qingzhuo opened his eyes and looked at the spiritual essence limit that had soared to 530/543. He scooped up a handful of azure spiritual essence and shook it in front of Lash's eyes: "I just made a small change to this spell, but it seems that the spiritual essence sucked in is a bit too much."

"So I improved the spell a little bit, and the spiritual essence that originally made the whole house smoky and foul became just these things around here."

"Come on, Lashi, don't be afraid, come and absorb this spiritual essence... Absorbing more is good for your body."

Yuan Qingzhuo looked at Lash who had already started swimming on the ectoplasm slime and pulled the small horn on her head.

"How to suck it?"

Rush, who was doing the backstroke, made a noodle-sucking motion: "Is that so?"

"You can't eat this, it's poisonous." Yuan Qingzhuo deliberately threatened: "All you have to do is sit on it, close your eyes and keep repeating 'absorb spiritual essence' in your mind."

"Oh! Then let me try!"

After seeing that Lash had also begun to absorb spiritual essence, Yuan Qingzhuo looked out the window with some hesitation. It was true that the improved technique could increase the upper limit of spiritual essence by hundreds or thousands of times, but such a large-scale appropriation of spiritual essence from other places...

I guess Sister Fa and Sister An will come to find me soon.

Just as Yuan Qingzhuo expected, Flandre knocked on his door within two hours. But after opening the door, Yuan Qingzhuo saw that she just said to the people who came to the door behind her but were extremely shocked: "I told you not to be surprised, just let him suck it, it's okay as long as he sucks enough."

Two and a half years passed in a flash.

The progress bar for the [Carbohydrate Godfather] mission has already passed more than half, and Caroline's favorability is not far from [Trust]. It will probably take less than five years to complete this unique achievement mission.

Caroline is a single-threaded, single-celled organism. Even if she has tempered her body to the upper limit of 9999, it is difficult for her favorability not to increase under the day and night manipulation of Yuan Qingzhuo's top-level processor with cores and threads.

Although you can only gain one or two points every day by completing "daily tasks", it is still considerable when accumulated over time.

In addition to this, the most important thing is that Yuan Qingzhuo’s seven evolution bars have been fully charged today.

Another evolution has arrived.

The reason why Yuan Qingzhuo did not break through to the second level, Mercury, earlier was that he wanted to see if there were any options in the seventh evolution option that could be of significant help to him.

Evolution, start!
[Your seven evolution bars are full! ]

[You have met the conditions for seven evolutions, please choose the direction of evolution! ]

[1. Restriction removal (Stainless Steel): Increases the upper limit of your physical fitness, soul strength, and spiritual essence reserves to 9999.]

[2. Dazzling Soul: The degree of erosion by the abyss is reduced by 50%. When you are eroded by the abyss, your soul strength will be increased simultaneously, and your degree of erosion will be slowly reduced.]

[3. Mercury Blood: Purify the blood in the body in advance and convert it into the second-level mercury "Remodeling Bone Blood" blood, thereby increasing the benefits of "Remodeling Bone Blood".]

[It is detected that you are less than ten years old, and the reward for this evolution has increased...]

[It is detected that you have reached the first stage of white iron during this evolution, and completed seventy-seven milestones. The rewards for this evolution have increased significantly...]

Didn’t the so-called “evolutionary limit” get reached this time?

It seems that you still need to eat good food to make the evolution rewards better - but legendary items like the Heart of Duke Obsidian are really rare.

[Future human heroes, please choose your evolutionary direction! ]

[1. Restriction removal (incomplete): Increase the upper limit of your physical fitness, soul strength, and spiritual essence reserves to 99999! ]

This one is ruled out at a glance.

Since Sister Fa has said that after reaching the sublimation stage, the upper limit of the Golden Law will be completely lifted, there is no need to choose this option just for the sake of temporary strength at the Mercury Stage.

What's more, who knows how long it will take to reach the upper limit of 99999.

The difficulty of training spiritual and physical qualities is not an additive operation, but rather a slightly terrifying curve growth.

Yuan Qingzhuo felt this deeply when it took him three full days to raise his spiritual essence limit to 999.

[2. Brilliant Soul: Reduce the degree of erosion by the abyss by 80%. When eroded by the abyss, your soul strength will be quickly increased and your degree of erosion will be quickly reduced! ]

From the pure soul of the sublime stage, to his own blessed abyss beast, to the evolutionary options of the current brilliant soul.

It seems that the world is on guard everywhere against the so-called "abyss erosion".

Yuan Qingzhuo thought that he had no feelings at all at the moment, probably because he had been staying in the safe area of ​​the base for a long time.

——If you stay on the front line battlefield for a long time, or more extremely, enter the third, fourth, or fifth level abyss alone, you should be able to feel the real erosion of the abyss.

However, my soul strength is currently at "∞", so I probably don't need the protection of this evolutionary direction at the moment.

Yuan Qingzhuo continued to read on.

[3. Remove the dross and retain the essence: Remove the dross and retain the essence, reshape the bones and blood - this will achieve the perfect second level! ]

Still a brief introduction.

But this sentence alone is better than the two lengthy descriptions above.

Because, this is what I need!

There was no need to hesitate when comparing the evolution options this time, Yuan Qingzhuo directly chose the third option.

[You have chosen the evolutionary direction of "removing the dross and retaining the essence"! ]

[Some inexplicable changes have occurred in your body, which may not be discovered until you break through to the second level, Mercury.]

?

byd, are you playing Riddler on me?

Well, I will break through to the Mercury Stage right now to see how many faces you, the Riddler, have.

——However, I will have to wait until the [Awakening Ceremony] that Caroline is going to attend today is over, and after she is promoted to the sublimation stage surrounded by everyone, I will make a breakthrough myself.

——We’ve been waiting for two and a half years, so there’s no need to waste a little more time.

In the past two and a half years, Yuan Qingzhuo had learned countless techniques from Flandre and had mastered all of Caroline's skills.

The [Awakening Ceremony] at the age of twelve is as important as the [Baptism Ceremony] at the full moon... It can even be said that the former is more important than the latter - the former is held once a year, while the latter is held at most once every two months.

The vast majority of children will also reach the first level, White Iron, during this awakening ceremony, through the sect’s extensive rituals.

Then, based on your own talents and personal wishes, you can choose your future path.

——There are brave children who want to go to the front line of the Second Abyss to fight against demons, and naturally there are also children who value their lives and want to go to the logistics and civilian departments.

In addition, there are children who want to stay in the monastery because they are worried about their relatives, and there are also crazy people who volunteer to guard other levels of the abyss.

"It's almost time to get going."

In front of Caroline's house.

Yuan Qingzhuo, who had specially changed into a small dress, poked his head into the door and looked at the red-haired girl who had been struggling with her outfit for an hour, and asked in confusion, "What hairstyle are you still thinking of changing?"

The next moment, an unhappy snort was heard in the room: "Forget it! So be it, I can go to this awakening ceremony because my mother presided over it, and it has nothing to do with those other weaklings and trash!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Caroline, who had a classic high ponytail, hurried out the door. She glanced at Yuan Qingzhuo who was standing at the door a few more times and waved to him: "Let's go!"

Yuan Qingzhuo stared at the tall figure for a while, said nothing, and followed.

He was a little worried:
Let Caroline's sharp personality face an environment full of strangers,
——Should we say that you are the center of attention or the target of public criticism?
Yuan Qingzhuo regretted that in just two years, he had not been able to completely change Caroline's character.

Maybe Caroline is now quite tolerant of him and Rush, but to complete strangers, Caroline is still the same Caroline from many years ago.

Yuan Qingzhuo didn't think any more about it.

Because Rush was already standing at the door of the baptistery, waving at them both.

"Brother Zhuo! Sister Caroline! Here~"

He looked around at the boys and girls around him whose average height was much higher than his, and sighed after feeling Caroline holding him with extraordinary strength.

It seems that it is impossible to become the Holy Divider.

Then, he followed the arrogant Caroline into the baptistery that was no different from the one in his memory.

(End of this chapter)