[Vitality Teleportation], a spell that ‘Negary’ had developed. By temporarily converting his body into a mass of vitality mana, he would be able to transfer himself through biomass and traverse an extremely far distance. At the same time, he would be able to use that same vitality to alter the form of his body as he wished, and if the biomass was connected to his body – like veins – the transfer would even be faster.
Which was exactly how ‘Negary’ instantly disappeared and reappeared in front of Guangnai.
When his body was reconstructed, the numerous tiny suction cups on his hand attached themselves onto his bone blade, using the tiny bone spikes within to pierce through the blade. Instantly, the entire bone blade collapsed into dust, the vitality mana contained within was absorbed by ‘Negary’.
Taking advantage of that, ‘Negary’s’ other hand also approached Guangnai’s body, exerting several dozen different suction forces on it.
A total of 12 passive defense spells Guangnai had prepared on his body instantly collapsed, the mana contained within was converted into vitality mana and absorbed by the spikes behind ‘Negary’ as well.
Several sharp veins then proceeded to pierce Guangnai’s body as his magic defenses collapsed.
As the veins pierced him, Guangnai’s body turned into a mass of golden beads. Quite a few golden beads had attached themselves onto the veins and infected them in return. As soon as the first wave of beads died off, the rest instantly evolved to form a life structure defensive coating.
The amount of vitality mana that ‘Negary’s’ veins could absorb was instantly reduced by half; by the time they could no longer absorb any vitality mana from the golden beads, it was just a bit less than 1 second later.
The golden beads’ reverse infection of the veins didn’t stop there either; having no other choice, ‘Negary’ could only break off those veins and retreat, preparing to fend off Guangnai’s next attack as well as his own retaliation.
〖 Life is connected. The world itself is a gigantic life form, the individual life forms within the world are separated, but also connected through hidden relations 〗
Guangnai’s body reformed itself, once again glowing with various lights. Having inherited the original Negary’s abilities, the germs he manipulated had spread into every corner of his environment. The more time he had, the larger the domain he could control, so his mana had never been an issue.
〖 Your ability to absorb vitality mana is actually to find those hidden relations between a life form and the world, then remove the life structure within. By removing the foundation, the entire structure would be forced to change, manifesting as total collapse. At the same time, as long as this relation is completely sealed away, you wouldn’t be able to do anything about it 〗
〖 Life Structure Locking 〗Guangnai raised his hand, manifesting several fireballs on top of his fingers: 〖 Unfortunately for you, I’ve researched quite a bit about the hidden relations between living beings and the world 〗
During his time in the SCR world, Negary had conducted a myriad of experiments. For example, the Mi clan’s [Aura Summation] in particular was the research of the hidden relations between living beings and the world. By the time [Aura Summation] reached the third stage, an individual would be able to fully meld themselves into the world, which was both magnification and modification of the world’s hidden connections.
In reality, the perfect method to become a God of a world was to practice both [Aura Summation] and [Heroic Spirit Trials][1]. [Aura Summation] was the research to find a connection between Life and the world, while [Heroic Spirit Trials] was the research to find a connection between the soul and Life.
It was also because of this that after getting a taste of ‘Negary’s’ [Vitality Absorption], Guangnai was instantly able to resolve it, this terrifying accumulation of knowledge was Negary’s strength.
‘Negary’ sighed, he still couldn’t compare to Guangnai at this point in time, as Guangnai’s [Life Structure Lock] had put him at an absolute advantage. He hadn’t reincarnated for very long, and unlike Guangnai who inherited the original Negary’s power, the only power he could rely on right now was Mequik’s book [The Origin of Life].
But research and study took time as well as resources. The original Negary divided the SCR world into over 8000 different parts to conduct numerous experiments over and over; while Guangnai wasn’t comparable to the original, he had still inherited a vast amount of power and knowledge from him.
The conditions provided to both sides weren’t equal, so it was Life ‘Negary’s’ loss this time. Only by admitting someone else’s strength would one be able to grow with a clear heart. If one couldn’t even admit defeat and insist on blaming a difference in luck or other advantages, then one would have already lost on mentality.
The 5 fireballs on top of Guangnai’s fingertips shot towards him; at the same time, ‘Negary’ could sense a tiny fluctuation in his surrounding space. If ‘Negary’ tried to use [Vitality Teleportation] once again, it would become much slower, taking at least 2 seconds to move 100 meters away. That speed was more than enough for Guangnai to kill him 10 times over.
The fireballs weren’t flying particularly quickly, but it gave off a sense of homing. This sensation was instantly noticed by ‘Negary’, realizing that Guangnai’s [Life Structure Lock] wasn’t simply to stop a life structure from being disturbed, but also worked as a beacon suitable for hidden pursuit.
After all, ‘Negary’ had hidden connections to this world as well. When Guangnai’s golden beads infected ‘Negary’s’ veins earlier, it had also registered ‘Negary’s’ life signatures. By casting this spell with a [Life Structure Lock] added onto it, Guangnai had casually optimized a spell to allow homing capabilities through pursuing the hidden connections with the world.
After a single exchange, Guangnai had grown firmly stronger, while ‘Negary’ fell a bit short due to lacking accumulation of knowledge.
Watching the fireballs shooting at him, the letters on the spikes behind ‘Negary’ began to change. A spell with [Life Structure Lock] could not be absorbed through the Vitality Siphon formation, so he needed to make a modification if he wanted to defend himself.
He had absorbed the Sun Shadow Church’s flaming sword earlier and recorded the life structure of ‘fire’, by using that as the foundation, he would be able to form an anti-fire formation. Of course, he also needed to take into consideration the similarities and differences between a spell’s ‘fire’ and a divine technique’s ‘fire’.
〖 Unlike absorbing vitality mana from hidden connections, I need to directly break the structure of something in order to absorb the vitality mana contained within 〗
As soon as ‘Negary’s’ anti-fire formation was put up, vitality mana began to flow across all the layers. The fireballs that struck the formation were diffused by its structure, then a tiny bit of vitality mana was absorbed by the formation to replenish itself.
The process had been reversed, instead of directly absorbing vitality mana to destroy something’s structure, he now needed to first destroy its structure in order to absorb its mana.
The efficiency was like night and day.
As the flames flickered, Guangnai and ‘Negary’ exchanged glances. Having reached their levels of power, the information discerned by the eye wasn’t merely a reflection of light. There was now a tight connection between their eyes and the soul, allowing them to see information through the soul, or even utilize the soul’s interference force through it.
Their eyes only connected for a split second before they broke contact, a slight tremble resounded through the entire forest, which caused the [Life Structure Lock] Guangnai had placed onto their surrounding space to loosen for the blink of an eye. ‘Negary’ swiftly took advantage of that to grab the Great Bear and vanished as a mass of vitality mana.
[1] In case anyone forgot, heroic spirit trials was Olga’s cultivation method, mentioned at the end of vol3
