He was very familiar with this energy; it could be said that this was the first type of energy he had ever mastered in his life.
This is the superpower that the Mirror God calls "false divine power".
Unexpectedly, at this critical juncture, this energy, which was usually only used to create things, began to have a miraculous effect.
The supernatural power flowed within his body, slowly but steadily, seemingly in perpetual motion.
The two troubling forces within him were surprisingly calmed down after encountering the superpower. Although Xiao Wenbing's superpower was far inferior to those two energies in terms of total quantity and power, these two forces were immediately assimilated by the superpower, just like ice and snow meeting water.
The ocean is vast because it embraces all rivers; its greatness lies in its capacity to tolerate.
After Xiao Wenbing was in dire straits, his miraculous supernatural abilities finally underwent their first transformation.
The Mirror God abruptly stopped its incessant chatter. It stared intently at Xiao Wenbing, for some reason, it had been unable to communicate with him mentally since earlier. What surprised it even more was that Xiao Wenbing, who had been on the verge of death, suddenly became radiant, his entire body enveloped in a faint layer of golden energy.
This energy was unlike any Xiao Wenbing had encountered before; it was neither the divine power within the small golden talisman nor the life energy of the Divine Tree Ancestor. However, it possessed a restorative ability no less than, or even superior to, that of the Divine Tree Ancestor. In just a short while, all the damage inside and outside Xiao Wenbing's body was completely healed.
"Hoo..." A long breath of stale air came from his abdomen, down his esophagus, to his mouth, and then he exhaled. This breath seemed to have released all his resentment, and he felt much better.
The Mirror God standing before him shuddered. What was this thing? How could this aura contain both the bone-chilling cold of the dead of winter and the scorching heat of the sweltering summer? These two extreme energies were mixed together without conflict, which was truly astonishing.
"You...you're alive?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Wenbing, who had just resolved the crisis within his body, immediately became disoriented and nearly suffered another qi deviation.
He quickly took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and silently prayed, "Don't take it to heart..."
After a long while, he finally calmed down.
Opening his eyes, Xiao Wenbing smiled slightly and opened his mouth, about to speak. However, his movements suddenly froze, because he saw that a tiny person, about the size of a fingernail, had actually spewed out of his mouth.
"Nascent Soul?" Mirror God asked in utter surprise.
Xiao Wenbing stared in disbelief as the tiny, almost unrecognizable nascent soul slowly circled in the air before disappearing into his body.
"Hey, what's going on?" Mirror God asked.
"I don't know." Xiao Wenbing closed his eyes and looked inward. After a moment, he said with a wry smile, "The Mirror God..."
"Um?"
“There is a nascent soul inside me.”
"Hmm... Of course you have a Nascent Soul."
"But……"
"But what is it? Speak quickly, don't beat around the bush."
Xiao Wenbing gritted his teeth and said, "But there are too many Nascent Soul cultivators."
The Mirror God was taken aback. What did it mean by having too many Nascent Souls? It stared at Xiao Wenbing suspiciously for a long time, but couldn't figure it out. It seemed that after the changes just now, Xiao Wenbing's supernatural abilities had been shielded by a protective barrier, and no one could fathom the depths of his power anymore.
"Wenbing, what are you talking about?" Mirror God finally decided to ask directly.
Xiao Wenbing said with a wry smile, "Look."
Just as he finished speaking, countless bright spots emerged from all parts of his body, instantly filling the entire space.
The Mirror God stared blankly at the changes around it. With its keen eyesight, it could naturally see that each bright spot was actually a small Nascent Soul.
The tiny nascent souls danced in the air, drifting with the wind. As for how many nascent souls there were, even it could count them in a short time.
Each Nascent Soul carried a powerful aura, surpassing even Xiao Wenbing's original Nascent Soul in terms of sheer power. If the combined power of all these Nascent Souls were added together, even a super expert at the Tribulation Transcending stage would likely be ashamed.
He extended a wisp of energy and gently touched one of the nascent souls. The nascent soul smiled slightly at him. The Mirror God was greatly surprised. Although this nascent soul was small, it looked exactly like Xiao Wenbing. That smile did indeed give him an extremely familiar feeling.
"Mirror God, what... what's going on?"
The Mirror God was taken aback and said, "Are you asking me?"
"Of course I'm asking you." Xiao Wenbing looked at it hopefully, hoping that this all-knowing know-it-all could give him a reasonable explanation.
"Haha, well..." Mirror God laughed heartily, then, under Xiao Wenbing's expectant gaze, answered frankly, "I don't know."
"Hmm, you don't know either?"
"Yes, this situation is unprecedented, so I don't know either."
Xiao Wenbing glanced at the swarm of Nascent Souls flying all over the sky with disappointment, his heart filled with mixed feelings. He had painstakingly refined tens of thousands of Golden Cores in order to complete his plan for the self-destruction of Golden Cores.
But unexpectedly, so many of these nascent souls appeared naturally without any need for me to deliberately create them.
His mind could clearly sense the condition of each Nascent Soul. Although the number of Nascent Souls had reached tens of thousands, for him, they seemed much more secure than the few small Dark Nascent Souls from before.
With a sudden thought, Xiao Wenbing asked, "Mirror God, have I reached the Nascent Soul stage?"
The Mirror God stared at him for a long time, then shook his head.
"Isn't that so?"
"I can't tell," the Mirror God said honestly. "Right now, you're like a large pool of water. No matter how I scan you with my divine sense, I can't see how deep it is. So, I don't know what level you've reached."
"Is that so?" Xiao Wenbing pondered for a moment, then stretched out an arm. With a thought, the nascent souls swarmed towards the arm like birds returning to their nest. In a short while, all the bright spots in the space disappeared, having returned to Xiao Wenbing's body.
Then, Xiao Wenbing withdrew all the mutated abilities within his body and asked, "And now?"
The Mirror God observed for a long while longer, then finally sighed, "Now, it seems to be the Nascent Soul stage, but... there are just too many of these Nascent Soul stages."
Volume 4: The Divine Artifacts Chapter 334: Mutant Abilities
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After regaining his composure, he still seemed somewhat unable to control himself, never expecting that he had inexplicably reached the Distraction stage.
"Mirror God, what is the Nascent Soul stage like?"
"I can only tell you that the Nascent Soul stage is definitely not like this." Mirror God turned his head to look at Xiao Wenbing, as if looking at a monster: "Because as far as I know, there doesn't seem to be anyone who can split into tens of thousands of Nascent Souls at once."
"This... I know," Xiao Wenbing said with a helpless bitter smile. He thought to himself, "It's not my fault that so many primordial spirits were created; it's all because you wouldn't tell me beforehand."
In fact, even without the Mirror God saying it, he understood that the so-called Nascent Soul stage was simply the energy of the Nascent Soul being cultivated to a certain level, at which point the Nascent Soul could be differentiated.
After the Nascent Soul separates, there are many benefits. The greatest advantage is that the cultivation speed increases significantly with each Nascent Soul that separates. This is because the cultivation speed of two Nascent Souls simultaneously is definitely much faster than that of a single Nascent Soul. The more Nascent Souls there are, the more spiritual energy of heaven and earth can be absorbed, and the faster the cultivation speed will naturally be.
Everyone understands this principle, but throughout history, any cultivator who has split off more than ten Nascent Souls to cultivate simultaneously has been recognized as an anomaly. The vast majority of cultivators, after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, only split off two or three Nascent Souls to cultivate together, and there are quite a few cultivators who have never split off even a single Nascent Soul.
There is no such thing as a free lunch in this world; there is absolutely no such thing as a win-win situation without any downsides.
While the Nascent Soul differentiation has remarkable effects, its drawbacks are equally obvious.
Although cultivating with ten Nascent Souls simultaneously is definitely faster than cultivating with two or three, while increasing speed, one's spiritual realm lags far behind that of the main body's cultivation.
Cultivating one's mental state and improving one's spiritual realm are mutually reinforcing. If the gap between the two is too large, the possibility of inner demons invading increases significantly. However, there are very few magical artifacts in this world that can resist inner demons.
Although the situation improved significantly after Xiao Wenbing promoted the Ancestral Master's House, it is not a panacea. While it can certainly calm the mind and reduce the chances of inner demons flaring up, if one is insatiable and wants to achieve too much at once, then building two more Ancestral Master's Houses will be of no use.
According to Mirror God's estimation, the number of cultivators who can differentiate into ten Nascent Souls after receiving promotional gifts at the Ancestral Master's House will increase significantly. However, even for those almost insane cultivator madmen, being able to differentiate into two or three Nascent Souls is already the limit. As for Xiao Wenbing, he has at least ten thousand Nascent Souls...
Suddenly, the Mirror God's eyes began to flicker, staring intently at Xiao Wenbing.
A chill ran through Xiao Wenbing's heart, and he immediately thought of the time when the Mirror God persuaded him to undergo surgery to condense his divine essence. The Mirror God's expression at that time was exactly the same as it was now, without any difference.
Without a doubt, the Mirror God was up to no good, so Xiao Wenbing immediately said, "Mirror God, I don't want to try any experiment, no matter what it is." After a moment's hesitation, he emphasized, "Absolutely not."
"Is that so?" Mirror God looked disappointed. He hadn't expected Xiao Wenbing to react so quickly. Before he could even state his request, Xiao Wenbing had already refused outright.
The illusory eyeballs rolled and said, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. Just now, it was clearly not the Dark God controlling your body, but I couldn't sense your thoughts. Why was that?"
Xiao Wenbing was startled, then suddenly remembered that the two forces within his body had been locked in a fierce battle, and in that intense situation, although he wanted to contact the Mirror God, he was powerless to do so. Then, his supernatural power underwent a sudden change, like a tiger descending a mountain, devouring both forces completely.
But whether it was a mutation of superpowers or two strange energies, the spiritual connection between myself and the Mirror God was indeed severed at that time.
As for why it was cut off, Xiao Wenbing had no idea.
He slowly stretched out his hand, as if he sensed a peculiar energy here, an energy that was both familiar and strange.
That was his special ability, an ability he was born with. However, compared to his previous abilities, it had undergone a different change.
Xiao Wenbing couldn't be sure whether the change was good or bad, but he certainly felt a great difference.
With a thought, the void in his hand began to ripple like water, and little golden light appeared in his hand. Soon, in almost no time, a small golden core appeared in his hand.
The Mirror God watched in stunned silence. It stared at Xiao Wenbing and asked suspiciously, "Were you creating the Golden Core just now, or was it the Divine Spark who did it?"
What do you think?
"I don't know," the Mirror God said honestly. "If we're talking about speed, this must have been done by the Godhead himself, but I can't sense the Godhead's aura at all."
A smile appeared on Xiao Wenbing's lips. Finally, he had the chance to turn the tables. He had been with the Mirror God for so long, but this was the first time he had managed to deceive it. Although others didn't know of this feat, it truly gave him a sense of triumph.
"Hey, what are you laughing at?" Mirror God said angrily from the side, "If you don't want to talk about it, then forget it."
"Haha..." Xiao Wenbing finally couldn't help but burst into laughter, but seeing the increasingly ugly expression on the Mirror God's face, he quickly stopped laughing and said, "To tell you the truth, I did not use the power of the Divine Spark."
"Did you make it yourself?"
"Exactly."
"Impossible! How could you wield pseudo-divine power so skillfully?" Mirror God exclaimed incredulously.
Xiao Wenbing smiled slightly, his face unfathomable. However, he was also asking himself in his heart, "Yes, what's wrong with me today? I'm using my superpowers so skillfully; it's unbelievable."
"Hmm, I understand." The Mirror God suddenly clapped his hands and said, "You must be possessed by a ghost."
"you……"
Xiao Wenbing flicked his sleeve, too lazy to bother with it.
After circulating his supernatural power within his body, he found that in terms of quantity, it was at least three times greater than before. As for the quality, the speed at which he created it just now was enough to prove everything.
His gaze shifted and fell upon the fire-type fortress ahead. Seeing the menacing red stripes protruding from it, Xiao Wenbing was secretly alarmed. He dared not look any further and quickly turned back to ask, "Mirror God, what exactly are these stripes? You must tell me this time."
Upon hearing this, the Mirror God's expression tightened, and he angrily said, "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have remembered. Why would you suddenly want to forge this five-element fortress? Don't you know the dangers involved?"
"Would there be any danger in forging my own magical artifact?"
"Of course, your cultivation level is insufficient. Crafting a magical artifact beyond your capabilities would naturally be extremely dangerous," the Mirror God said seriously. "Since you have already survived the tribulation, there's no harm in telling you. These stripes are actually an array, and the function of this array is to absorb energy."
"What kind of energy?"