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Chapter 1158 The Method of Obtaining the Domain of God
Chapter 1158 The Method of Obtaining the Domain of God
With the fall of the Shadow Demon King, everything seems to have returned to calm again.
Nefaya restrained the golden light that filled the sky, brought the ball-shaped corpse to Zhang Xiaoman, saluted respectfully and thanked:
"Thank you Star Lord for giving me this opportunity, and thank you Star Lord for your care. On behalf of the entire family of holy angels, Nefaya has the highest respect for you!"
He knew that in order to avenge himself, the other party directly gave up this opportunity to subdue the extraordinary level subordinates.
And Transcendent level is not a Chinese cabbage, how rare is a Transcendent level subordinate, this seraph is like a mirror in his heart.
Zhang Xiaoman nodded his head, as a way of thanking Nefaya.
If it was in the past, he would definitely wave his hand and say it's nothing, so that the other party doesn't need to care.
But with the growth of his strength and experience, now he will no longer make those meaningless greetings.
He knows his current status and identity, too much humility is not a virtue, it will only make the other party more frightened, sometimes maintaining majesty is also an indispensable means.
In front of Zhang Xiaoman, the corpse of the Shadow Demon King Nevin Moore slowly floated there. Just like other spirit units, the Shadow Demon will keep a corpse after death, which is a kind of black pure energy Small balls, which condense a part of the monster's essence, can not only absorb and increase points with the eyes of stars, but also a very good forging material, which can create many special spiritual power equipment.
Zhang Xiaoman raised his right hand, intending to absorb the black ball, but stopped halfway through the movement.
Because he suddenly felt that Yuan Jie seemed to like the essence in this small ball very much, and wanted to absorb it as if he was about to move.
This is the same as in the first universe. After the alien species from the second universe died, if they could not absorb the essence of it immediately, then after a period of time, the essence would slowly pass away and be absorbed. The universe is absorbed, and the points can no longer be extracted.
Therefore, after each kill, if conditions permit, as long as the corpse is not clearly recorded as having a higher material value, the awakened members of the Star Alliance will dispose of the monster's corpse as soon as possible. Prevent the loss of purification.
In other words, this is to let the universe fight for the spoils with itself.
But now, in the original world, the dead body of Nevin Moore was not snatched by the universe, but remained unmoved until now.
There is no way, after all, Zhang Xiaoman is the master of the original world. In a sense, he is the world consciousness of this world. If he hadn't opened his mouth, how could the original world absorb the essence of Shadow Demon on his own initiative? .
Similarly, as the master of the original world, Zhang Xiaoman can now feel how much this world longs for this small black sphere in front of him.
He hesitated for a moment, and didn't start to absorb the points immediately, but pondered for a while.
He was making a choice, whether he wanted to absorb the corpse directly and convert it into system mall points, or let it be lost and absorbed by the original world.
After a while, Zhang Xiaoman slowly withdrew his hand, and the Starry Eye symbol in his palm gradually dimmed.
He decided that he could try the latter option. After all, as the master of the original world, he could clearly perceive his desire for these essences.
Absorbing it by myself is nothing more than adding some points. Although I don't know how many points can be added by extraordinary-level aliens, but for him now, although there are never too many points, there are not only ways to obtain them. a path.
And if the original world absorbs it... This is a road that has not been tried before. Zhang Xiaoman decided to follow his original desire and make a bold attempt.
Soon, under the promise of him, the master of the original world, the corpse of the Shadow Demon King began to be absorbed by this world. After about a month, the corpse was finally completely digested.
Zhang Xiaoman used this time to go back to Water Blue Star to deal with the post-war matters last time, and explained the next development plan of the organization with a few others to prepare for the next step.
After completing the star pattern branding this time, Zhang Xiaoman's strength jumped to the pseudo-extraordinary level.
Now his attributes in all aspects have been raised to a very terrifying number, his physique has reached more than 1000 points, and his mental power has reached as high as [-] points. If he is equipped with the Zixiao Excalibur, he will go straight to [-] points. The upper limit of its own dark spiritual power has also exceeded one million, which is more than three times the total upper limit of Bigonia's dark spiritual power.
The most important thing is that Zhang Xiaoman's current star pattern talent can be used in all aspects. With the support of the fourth star pattern, he is no longer restrained in using the talent ability as before, always worrying about consuming something , which undoubtedly made his combat ability have once again improved by leaps and bounds.
It can be said that this breakthrough allowed him to finally have the ability to fight against the extraordinary level. The strength of the pseudo-extraordinary level allowed him to barely transform into the last few sequences of the domain of gods. The consumption of these domains of gods is It is very frightening, even Zhang Xiaoman's current dark spiritual power cannot support him to use them to fight for too long.
It's just a pity that Zhang Xiaoman has no clue about the mastery of the domain of gods, so far he has never been able to use it once.
Although he already has the ability to exert his power, he suffers from the lack of a corresponding skill formula, so even with the domain of gods, he has no way to activate it.
It is undoubtedly a very difficult thing to obtain the skills that can integrate the domain of gods. Just like the previous king of shadow demons, there is only one kind of attack that can contain the domain of gods from beginning to end. It's the ability to attack with black flames, which is quite monotonous.
No way, this is no wonder for him, after all, he has just broken through to this realm, and was even interrupted by the people of the Star Alliance at the critical moment of his final transformation. Being able to release the black flame is considered to be his talent. It should be obtained through the inherited memory of the race, and he realized it by himself when he just entered this realm.
Zhang Xiaoman was not as lucky as him. There was no racial inheritance memory that could help him solve the problems of the God's Domain. If he wanted to obtain the method of using the God's Domain, there were only two ways.
One is self-creation, just like Lin Sisi developed skills, by arranging and combining Martian dark spirit particles by himself to create a skill in the domain of God that belongs to him.
It's a pity that this method takes too long, and there are many uncertainties in creating skills. In addition to having a strong enough talent, it also has a large part of luck.
The former Zhang Xiaoman is satisfied. Although he doesn't have any talent for creating skills, his talent for dark spiritual power is top-notch. With the help of this relationship, he can make up for some of his lack of creativity.
But he doesn't have much confidence in the latter's luck. That thing is too metaphysical, and he doesn't have time to waste it slowly.
It would take several months or even years to complete a complete set of development and improvement of ordinary dark spirit spells, let alone the domain of gods.
So Zhang Xiaoman can only choose the second method, which is to directly control the power of the domain of gods by learning the skills that his predecessors have completed.
The advantage of doing this is that it is convenient and fast, which saves him a lot of development time and allows him to directly use the realm of ecstasy.
But correspondingly, the disadvantage is that it will cost a lot to do so, and it is difficult to get access.
After all, this is also a skill in the domain of gods. At least it is perfect at the beginning. Even if it is placed in the Dark Star Alliance, it is basically the rarest of scarcity. Even ordinary people are not even qualified to preview in the mall. No.
In other words, this type of extraordinary skill mall is not sold publicly, and most of them are kept in the hands of major ancient families, and the quantity is rare, so the price you need to pay if you want to obtain it must be not small.
Zhang Xiaoman has no way to get those skills and exercises for the time being, he can only place his hope on Ni Yang.
Ni Yang had previously taught him several supernatural powers, and all of these supernatural powers are powerful and have amazing effects.
It's just that because he was too weak at the time, the supernatural powers Ni Yang taught him were all weakened versions. These versions did not involve applications that did not involve the realm of gods, so they are no longer suitable for Zhang Xiaoman now.
Zhang Xiaoman felt that it was time for him to grab another wave of Niyang's wool, but unfortunately this guy was still in a deep sleep after absorbing that fog heart last time, he was inconvenient to disturb the other party for the time being, so he could only Wait until the other party wakes up before making plans.
"I heard that there are many inheritance skills in those ruins, especially the ruins left by the ancient gods, which may contain the abilities you want in the domain of gods. The plague ruins you mentioned seem to be one of them. One, I heard about it when I was in the Protoss Council, but I don’t know much, so I can’t help you..."
This is the suggestion that Ziwei gave him.
Zhang Xiaoman did not hide her upcoming itinerary from him. Ziwei is one of the few people in the second universe that she can trust completely, and as a former member of the Star Spirit Council of the Dark Star Alliance, she knows the news more than skin There are far more ordinary people of K's type, and there is certainly nothing wrong with consulting her.
"There are also skills in the domain of gods in the plague ruins... that's a good choice..."
After Zhang Xiaoman thought for a while, he made a decision. He could go to the plague relic first. Anyway, there is only less than a month left before the time agreed by Lan Gu and himself. During this time, Ni Yang may not be able to After waking up, I'd better go to the ruins to try my luck first.
"By the way, I am developing a new set of spells here, which is a high-level spiritual enlightenment array. Once the development is completed, even dark spirits can use it. If you want, I can help you brand it Mark of the Starry Eye."
Zhang Xiaoman revealed another plan of his own.
Ziwei's eyes lit up when she heard the words, and the ends of her purple hair curled up, showing that their owners were in a good mood.
"Really? That's good! That's good! If you have anything else to help, just tell me, I'll be sure!"
She patted her chest and took over the task of helping the development.
She has been envious of the Spirit Enlightenment Formation for a long time.
After coming to the Star Alliance, Ziwei naturally saw the scene of people awakening here. She was very surprised by this method that could directly awaken people without talent into dark spirits, and said that she had never been in the Dark Star Alliance. I heard that such a magical method still exists in the world.
The most important thing is that Ziwei also understands one thing now, that is, all the dark spirits who have awakened through the spirit enlightenment array are obviously much higher than themselves in terms of subsequent communication with the dark spirit sequence.
This kind of talent may not have much effect in the early stage, but after the strength reaches a certain level, when the dark spirit particles in the front-end sequence become more and more difficult to communicate, the difference will be obvious.
Ziwei even suspected that the reason why Zhang Xiaoman was able to break through so quickly was because of those spirit enlightenment arrays.
It's a pity that if you want to use the Spirit Enlightenment Formation, you must be an ordinary person, and as a dark spirit master, she has no way to use it, unless she gives up her current power to rebuild.
Of course, re-cultivation is impossible. After all, Ziwei has now entered the upper control level. After more than 300 years of cultivation, she gave up and started again. She felt that she would vomit blood.
Fortunately, now that Zhang Xiaoman told her that she is developing a high-level Spirit Enlightenment Formation, how can she be excited to be able to directly obtain that talent without having to retrain.
"The high-level spirit enlightenment array was developed by Sisi and I. If you want to help, you can go to Sisi and ask."
Zhang Xiaoman said.
Lin Sisi was also at the side, and she expressed that she welcomed Ziwei to join.
At this time, the girl has been very thoughtful to help Zhang Xiaoman prepare the routine supplies needed for this operation, and they are all neatly placed in the storage ring.
Zhang Xiaoman stroked her hair affectionately, he felt very guilty about this girlfriend whom he had known for ten years.
After I formed the Star Alliance, I have been busy on the road of developing the organization and improving its strength, and I have almost no time to accompany the other party.
And Lin Sisi is also very well-behaved and has never complained about anything, and has even been silently helping herself behind her back. In the past few years when she is not around, she will cooperate with Su Changqing, Mom, Ye Yunxiu and others to manage the organization in an orderly manner. He also created hundreds of skills and won the title of "Master of Creation" in the organization.
This girl even exchanged all the contribution points she obtained through creating skills into stardust at the World Tree, and then threw them into the original world to increase her boundary value.
How can Zhang Xiaoman not feel sorry for such a girl who selflessly gives for herself and never seeks anything in return.
But on my own side, due to various reasons, I have never had time to accompany her. It has been 11 years since the two met for the first time, and Lin Sisi is nearly thirty years old. Thanks to the blessing, the years have never left any traces on her years, but no matter how you say it, for the Shuilan star, the best ten years of a woman have just passed away.
If you were an ordinary person, if you sighed at your girlfriend of 11 years, then the child would definitely be soy sauce, but here, the two of them spend very little time together.
Zhang Xiaoman naturally felt a little guilty.
He decided that when he came back this time, he must find a chance to marry Lin Sisi. His mother had urged him more than once on this matter, and Zhang Xiaoman felt that it was time for him to give the girl a real title.
(End of this chapter)
With the fall of the Shadow Demon King, everything seems to have returned to calm again.
Nefaya restrained the golden light that filled the sky, brought the ball-shaped corpse to Zhang Xiaoman, saluted respectfully and thanked:
"Thank you Star Lord for giving me this opportunity, and thank you Star Lord for your care. On behalf of the entire family of holy angels, Nefaya has the highest respect for you!"
He knew that in order to avenge himself, the other party directly gave up this opportunity to subdue the extraordinary level subordinates.
And Transcendent level is not a Chinese cabbage, how rare is a Transcendent level subordinate, this seraph is like a mirror in his heart.
Zhang Xiaoman nodded his head, as a way of thanking Nefaya.
If it was in the past, he would definitely wave his hand and say it's nothing, so that the other party doesn't need to care.
But with the growth of his strength and experience, now he will no longer make those meaningless greetings.
He knows his current status and identity, too much humility is not a virtue, it will only make the other party more frightened, sometimes maintaining majesty is also an indispensable means.
In front of Zhang Xiaoman, the corpse of the Shadow Demon King Nevin Moore slowly floated there. Just like other spirit units, the Shadow Demon will keep a corpse after death, which is a kind of black pure energy Small balls, which condense a part of the monster's essence, can not only absorb and increase points with the eyes of stars, but also a very good forging material, which can create many special spiritual power equipment.
Zhang Xiaoman raised his right hand, intending to absorb the black ball, but stopped halfway through the movement.
Because he suddenly felt that Yuan Jie seemed to like the essence in this small ball very much, and wanted to absorb it as if he was about to move.
This is the same as in the first universe. After the alien species from the second universe died, if they could not absorb the essence of it immediately, then after a period of time, the essence would slowly pass away and be absorbed. The universe is absorbed, and the points can no longer be extracted.
Therefore, after each kill, if conditions permit, as long as the corpse is not clearly recorded as having a higher material value, the awakened members of the Star Alliance will dispose of the monster's corpse as soon as possible. Prevent the loss of purification.
In other words, this is to let the universe fight for the spoils with itself.
But now, in the original world, the dead body of Nevin Moore was not snatched by the universe, but remained unmoved until now.
There is no way, after all, Zhang Xiaoman is the master of the original world. In a sense, he is the world consciousness of this world. If he hadn't opened his mouth, how could the original world absorb the essence of Shadow Demon on his own initiative? .
Similarly, as the master of the original world, Zhang Xiaoman can now feel how much this world longs for this small black sphere in front of him.
He hesitated for a moment, and didn't start to absorb the points immediately, but pondered for a while.
He was making a choice, whether he wanted to absorb the corpse directly and convert it into system mall points, or let it be lost and absorbed by the original world.
After a while, Zhang Xiaoman slowly withdrew his hand, and the Starry Eye symbol in his palm gradually dimmed.
He decided that he could try the latter option. After all, as the master of the original world, he could clearly perceive his desire for these essences.
Absorbing it by myself is nothing more than adding some points. Although I don't know how many points can be added by extraordinary-level aliens, but for him now, although there are never too many points, there are not only ways to obtain them. a path.
And if the original world absorbs it... This is a road that has not been tried before. Zhang Xiaoman decided to follow his original desire and make a bold attempt.
Soon, under the promise of him, the master of the original world, the corpse of the Shadow Demon King began to be absorbed by this world. After about a month, the corpse was finally completely digested.
Zhang Xiaoman used this time to go back to Water Blue Star to deal with the post-war matters last time, and explained the next development plan of the organization with a few others to prepare for the next step.
After completing the star pattern branding this time, Zhang Xiaoman's strength jumped to the pseudo-extraordinary level.
Now his attributes in all aspects have been raised to a very terrifying number, his physique has reached more than 1000 points, and his mental power has reached as high as [-] points. If he is equipped with the Zixiao Excalibur, he will go straight to [-] points. The upper limit of its own dark spiritual power has also exceeded one million, which is more than three times the total upper limit of Bigonia's dark spiritual power.
The most important thing is that Zhang Xiaoman's current star pattern talent can be used in all aspects. With the support of the fourth star pattern, he is no longer restrained in using the talent ability as before, always worrying about consuming something , which undoubtedly made his combat ability have once again improved by leaps and bounds.
It can be said that this breakthrough allowed him to finally have the ability to fight against the extraordinary level. The strength of the pseudo-extraordinary level allowed him to barely transform into the last few sequences of the domain of gods. The consumption of these domains of gods is It is very frightening, even Zhang Xiaoman's current dark spiritual power cannot support him to use them to fight for too long.
It's just a pity that Zhang Xiaoman has no clue about the mastery of the domain of gods, so far he has never been able to use it once.
Although he already has the ability to exert his power, he suffers from the lack of a corresponding skill formula, so even with the domain of gods, he has no way to activate it.
It is undoubtedly a very difficult thing to obtain the skills that can integrate the domain of gods. Just like the previous king of shadow demons, there is only one kind of attack that can contain the domain of gods from beginning to end. It's the ability to attack with black flames, which is quite monotonous.
No way, this is no wonder for him, after all, he has just broken through to this realm, and was even interrupted by the people of the Star Alliance at the critical moment of his final transformation. Being able to release the black flame is considered to be his talent. It should be obtained through the inherited memory of the race, and he realized it by himself when he just entered this realm.
Zhang Xiaoman was not as lucky as him. There was no racial inheritance memory that could help him solve the problems of the God's Domain. If he wanted to obtain the method of using the God's Domain, there were only two ways.
One is self-creation, just like Lin Sisi developed skills, by arranging and combining Martian dark spirit particles by himself to create a skill in the domain of God that belongs to him.
It's a pity that this method takes too long, and there are many uncertainties in creating skills. In addition to having a strong enough talent, it also has a large part of luck.
The former Zhang Xiaoman is satisfied. Although he doesn't have any talent for creating skills, his talent for dark spiritual power is top-notch. With the help of this relationship, he can make up for some of his lack of creativity.
But he doesn't have much confidence in the latter's luck. That thing is too metaphysical, and he doesn't have time to waste it slowly.
It would take several months or even years to complete a complete set of development and improvement of ordinary dark spirit spells, let alone the domain of gods.
So Zhang Xiaoman can only choose the second method, which is to directly control the power of the domain of gods by learning the skills that his predecessors have completed.
The advantage of doing this is that it is convenient and fast, which saves him a lot of development time and allows him to directly use the realm of ecstasy.
But correspondingly, the disadvantage is that it will cost a lot to do so, and it is difficult to get access.
After all, this is also a skill in the domain of gods. At least it is perfect at the beginning. Even if it is placed in the Dark Star Alliance, it is basically the rarest of scarcity. Even ordinary people are not even qualified to preview in the mall. No.
In other words, this type of extraordinary skill mall is not sold publicly, and most of them are kept in the hands of major ancient families, and the quantity is rare, so the price you need to pay if you want to obtain it must be not small.
Zhang Xiaoman has no way to get those skills and exercises for the time being, he can only place his hope on Ni Yang.
Ni Yang had previously taught him several supernatural powers, and all of these supernatural powers are powerful and have amazing effects.
It's just that because he was too weak at the time, the supernatural powers Ni Yang taught him were all weakened versions. These versions did not involve applications that did not involve the realm of gods, so they are no longer suitable for Zhang Xiaoman now.
Zhang Xiaoman felt that it was time for him to grab another wave of Niyang's wool, but unfortunately this guy was still in a deep sleep after absorbing that fog heart last time, he was inconvenient to disturb the other party for the time being, so he could only Wait until the other party wakes up before making plans.
"I heard that there are many inheritance skills in those ruins, especially the ruins left by the ancient gods, which may contain the abilities you want in the domain of gods. The plague ruins you mentioned seem to be one of them. One, I heard about it when I was in the Protoss Council, but I don’t know much, so I can’t help you..."
This is the suggestion that Ziwei gave him.
Zhang Xiaoman did not hide her upcoming itinerary from him. Ziwei is one of the few people in the second universe that she can trust completely, and as a former member of the Star Spirit Council of the Dark Star Alliance, she knows the news more than skin There are far more ordinary people of K's type, and there is certainly nothing wrong with consulting her.
"There are also skills in the domain of gods in the plague ruins... that's a good choice..."
After Zhang Xiaoman thought for a while, he made a decision. He could go to the plague relic first. Anyway, there is only less than a month left before the time agreed by Lan Gu and himself. During this time, Ni Yang may not be able to After waking up, I'd better go to the ruins to try my luck first.
"By the way, I am developing a new set of spells here, which is a high-level spiritual enlightenment array. Once the development is completed, even dark spirits can use it. If you want, I can help you brand it Mark of the Starry Eye."
Zhang Xiaoman revealed another plan of his own.
Ziwei's eyes lit up when she heard the words, and the ends of her purple hair curled up, showing that their owners were in a good mood.
"Really? That's good! That's good! If you have anything else to help, just tell me, I'll be sure!"
She patted her chest and took over the task of helping the development.
She has been envious of the Spirit Enlightenment Formation for a long time.
After coming to the Star Alliance, Ziwei naturally saw the scene of people awakening here. She was very surprised by this method that could directly awaken people without talent into dark spirits, and said that she had never been in the Dark Star Alliance. I heard that such a magical method still exists in the world.
The most important thing is that Ziwei also understands one thing now, that is, all the dark spirits who have awakened through the spirit enlightenment array are obviously much higher than themselves in terms of subsequent communication with the dark spirit sequence.
This kind of talent may not have much effect in the early stage, but after the strength reaches a certain level, when the dark spirit particles in the front-end sequence become more and more difficult to communicate, the difference will be obvious.
Ziwei even suspected that the reason why Zhang Xiaoman was able to break through so quickly was because of those spirit enlightenment arrays.
It's a pity that if you want to use the Spirit Enlightenment Formation, you must be an ordinary person, and as a dark spirit master, she has no way to use it, unless she gives up her current power to rebuild.
Of course, re-cultivation is impossible. After all, Ziwei has now entered the upper control level. After more than 300 years of cultivation, she gave up and started again. She felt that she would vomit blood.
Fortunately, now that Zhang Xiaoman told her that she is developing a high-level Spirit Enlightenment Formation, how can she be excited to be able to directly obtain that talent without having to retrain.
"The high-level spirit enlightenment array was developed by Sisi and I. If you want to help, you can go to Sisi and ask."
Zhang Xiaoman said.
Lin Sisi was also at the side, and she expressed that she welcomed Ziwei to join.
At this time, the girl has been very thoughtful to help Zhang Xiaoman prepare the routine supplies needed for this operation, and they are all neatly placed in the storage ring.
Zhang Xiaoman stroked her hair affectionately, he felt very guilty about this girlfriend whom he had known for ten years.
After I formed the Star Alliance, I have been busy on the road of developing the organization and improving its strength, and I have almost no time to accompany the other party.
And Lin Sisi is also very well-behaved and has never complained about anything, and has even been silently helping herself behind her back. In the past few years when she is not around, she will cooperate with Su Changqing, Mom, Ye Yunxiu and others to manage the organization in an orderly manner. He also created hundreds of skills and won the title of "Master of Creation" in the organization.
This girl even exchanged all the contribution points she obtained through creating skills into stardust at the World Tree, and then threw them into the original world to increase her boundary value.
How can Zhang Xiaoman not feel sorry for such a girl who selflessly gives for herself and never seeks anything in return.
But on my own side, due to various reasons, I have never had time to accompany her. It has been 11 years since the two met for the first time, and Lin Sisi is nearly thirty years old. Thanks to the blessing, the years have never left any traces on her years, but no matter how you say it, for the Shuilan star, the best ten years of a woman have just passed away.
If you were an ordinary person, if you sighed at your girlfriend of 11 years, then the child would definitely be soy sauce, but here, the two of them spend very little time together.
Zhang Xiaoman naturally felt a little guilty.
He decided that when he came back this time, he must find a chance to marry Lin Sisi. His mother had urged him more than once on this matter, and Zhang Xiaoman felt that it was time for him to give the girl a real title.
(End of this chapter)
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