novelno Chapter 765 - 738: Punching Bag
Chapter 765 - 738: Punching Bag
As it turned out,
The Goddess of Agriculture fled a little too soon. If she had been bolder, it might have been a different outcome.
Several minutes later, Chen Shouyi fell from the metal sphere to the ground, struggling to stand, his body tottering.
At this moment, blood flowed from all seven orifices, his eyes had turned into two bloody holes, looking inconceivably miserable.
He had vastly underestimated the terror of "Tamu".
Previously, nothing happened simply because he wasn’t paying attention. When Tamu truly opened his eyes to stare, all Chen Shouyi’s preparations and countermeasures were rendered useless, absurdly ridiculous.
If he hadn’t decisively activated Insight at the last moment, his consciousness would likely have dispersed under Tamu’s gaze.
Even so, he suffered severe injuries.
His injuries were more severe than what the eye could see.
This time, being "looked" at by Tamu, it felt as if his whole body had been contaminated by His will. When consciousness activated Insight, it barely held together, but the weak cellular will seemed to have been "washed away", disappearing without a trace.
At this point, his body felt paralyzed, numb, slow, even standing was wobbly.
Not only that, with his self-healing ability, the wounds should have healed by now, but in reality, there wasn’t even a sign of healing.
More severely, a crazy and chaotic will lingered in his mind, refusing to leave, polluting his consciousness. Escaping from the metal sphere had been a Herculean effort.
"However, it’s not unsolvable." Chen Shouyi sighed.
He opened the attribute panel with a bit of hope.
Strength: 26.2
Agility: 26.6
Constitution: 26.2
Intelligence: 26.2
Perception: 30.0
Will: 27.3
Energy Accumulation: 12.13
Faith Value: 41670.4
Talent Abilities: Self-Healing (Super): 50.01%; Giant Battle Body (Super): 99.99%; Control Atmosphere: 55.01%.
Chen Shouyi just took one "look" and felt his heart twitch vigorously.
Faith Value directly dropped by over twenty thousand, leaving only 41670.5 points.
Chen Shouyi originally had some wishful thinking; after all, he was in a Memory Virtual World back then, never expected that the consumption was synchronized in reality too. However, to say again, the illusionary Insight couldn’t resist Tamu’s gaze.
Thankfully, Perception increased by a full point, as well as a 0.3 point increase in Will, giving Chen Shouyi some solace.
But it required consuming Faith Value once more.
He invested a thousand Faith Value into Self-Healing.
Warm currents rapidly emerged from all parts of his body, grinding away at Tamu’s will, yet only lasted a brief moment before plummeting from a peak, disappearing without a trace, leaving Self-Healing progress static, as if it never existed.
"Still not enough?"
Helplessly, Chen Shouyi added another thousand points.
But it was still far from enough.
...
Like a black hole.
He continuously invested Faith Value.
Three thousand.
...
Five thousand.
...
Eight thousand.
...
Chen Shouyi consumed twelve thousand points of Faith Value in total before finally washing away the residual will of Tamu, and even the will’s remnants were significantly weakened, no longer greatly affecting his ability to concentrate his will.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But seeing the remaining thirty-eight thousand plus points of Faith Value, Chen Shouyi’s heart was again discomfited.
"Forget it, saving a life is already a blessing."
Thinking about it, credit must go to Tamu’s apparent lack of emotions, or perhaps thinking he was nothing more than an insignificant ant, thus only briefly looking before losing interest."
He tried recalling the situation then but found he couldn’t remember at all.
Memory was a blur.
...
Once the Self-Healing ability recovered, it exhibited astonishing efficiency.
In just a few seconds, eyeballs were regenerated, and the whole body condition quickly restored, strength returning to him.
"Huh!" He noticed a lush green area in the distance, his face turned cold.
"A Barbarian God has been here?"
At that moment, winds and clouds surged again at the distant skyline, cloud layers rolled, and a figure flew in at high speed.
"Another one? True body descending?"
Chen Shouyi’s eyes lit up with ferocity, he had a temper that needed venting.
...
The God of Power hurried over enthusiastically, Tamu’s will summon was like a sudden whim, and mind was clouded.
Take for example, descending in true form; nonetheless, descending to Earth requires a significant cost, and just the risk alone is enough to make a Barbarian God think thrice, one careless move leads to demise.
Yet, at this moment, not only did the God of Power descend, but approached the Great Xia.
Feeling as if sensing an extraordinary opportunity.
The closer, the more pleased he felt, even the divine personality seemed to begin metamorphosis.
His accumulated Faith Value had long been sufficient, his follower count enough to support a mid-tier Divine Power, only a foot away from achieving it.
Ordinarily, personality advancement is a high-risk endeavor, and time-consuming too.
Quickly taking one to two months, longer ones lasting one to two years is possible, but natural advancement like today never happened before, as if the whole Original Force favored him.
Unfortunately, this was merely a sacrificial banquet before death, what awaited wasn’t opportunity, but an abyss of death.
As he barely entered the Himalayas, destructive strikes began descending.
Air suddenly ceased movement.
A will-formed spear of light-speed arrived in a flash.
The spear shaped like illusion, intangible, even passing through air at light speed left no ripple, invisible to the naked eye, yet in reality, it was sharper by thousands than steel.
Flying God of Power prematurely sensed intense danger, originally delighting expression swiftly changed, at the critical moment, godly forces unrestrainedly poured out, simultaneously retreating desperately.
But it was too late.
Though the God of Power was a weak god near mid-tier Divine Power, the force he could exert on Earth was only Weak Divine Power, unable to resist the near weak-tier Divine Power strike of the illusionary spear.
The illusionary spear instantaneously pierced his divine force defense field, penetrated his body, traversed through his chest, leaving behind a massive blood hole.
Such an injury was no mortal wound for the God of Power; what truly despaired was the will impact accompanying the spear. This will was unlike the scattered mixed divine power formed from collective telekinesis, instead unprecedentedly pure and sharp.
His weakened divine force was utterly powerless against this will, akin to empty vessels, consciousness momentarily blanked from the impact of will.
While a single second, in battle, was ample time for him to perish numerous times.
His final vision was of a large hand, tearing through chaotic air, grabbing towards his head.
...
"Boom"
Chen Shouyi grabbed the corpse of the God of Power and crashed down from mid-air, creating a ten-meter deep, thirty-meter diameter crater.
Momentarily, he felt invigorated.
Even the heartache from consuming more than half of the Faith Value temporarily vanished.
After all, everyone needs a punching bag.
And the God of Power appeared just in time, it was his unlucky day.
Speaking of which, he didn’t even know who the opponent was?
Though he didn’t care, finding out in due course.
Quietly awaiting the divine personality to dissipate in mid-air, he tossed the corpse into the space, just then transforming back when noticing two small figures eagerly flying towards him.