Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible.

Chapter 439 Sentinel
At the edge of Qingshi Town, the thin figure in the pit in the open space was still unconscious, and outside the pit, due to the huge noise caused by the fall, the ferocious zombies wandering around began to gradually approach.

Soon, as the remaining fire in the pit completely dissipated, a living zombie that was almost clinging to the edge of the pit was the first to react. Its big mouth, which had been drooling due to the smell of blood, suddenly opened, and a roar mixed with smelly saliva spread wildly. Along with it, a hungry figure that leaped towards the center of the pit also flew out.

However, before it landed completely, a beam of black light shot out from the front.

The next second, as the black light entered the body, the hoarse roar of the living zombie was instantly interrupted. The figure suddenly lost all strength in the air and fell heavily, splashing a large amount of smoke and dust around the pit.

In the center of the pit, Ji An, who should have been unconscious, had quietly sat up at some point. He still had that childish look, but his brows revealed a gloomy and ruthless look that was extremely inconsistent with his age.

Under his cold and silent gaze, the living zombie that fell to the ground suddenly began to tremble violently, as if a pair of invisible hands were kneading and dismantling it most roughly. In an instant, the flesh rolled up, blood mist spread, and the harsh sound of bones rubbing against each other continued to ring. The scene looked extremely bloody.

After a while, the living zombie turned into a large bone banner that was exquisite yet tinged with evil. The banner was nearly 2 meters long, with human bones as the pole and flesh as the surface. The deep banner was surrounded by black mist. If you looked closely, you could faintly see the shadow of a wailing face rising and falling in the black mist.

As the flag took shape, an extremely cold aura suddenly spread outward, and even the moonlight in the sky became even colder.
The sticky black fog that looked like a living thing gradually spread outward with the flag as the center. Wherever it passed, all living things touched by the black fog fell straight to the ground in an instant, leaving only a series of illusory souls struggling out of the bodies that had been dead for a long time.

After a few minutes, the spreading black fog slowly shrank back, and more than a dozen wailing faces of different appearances suddenly appeared on the banner, wandering around, and one could even hear continuous shrill howls one after another. Just one glance at it gave people a weird and terrifying feeling that made them feel cold to the bone.

However, in the eyes of Ji An, who had lost everything, these cries were the best hymns to strength. At least he was finally no longer the weak child who could only hide behind his parents and watch them pass away in despair.

An unusually pale hand tightly grasped the white bone flag, and a large amount of black mist instantly poured into the body. The next moment, Ji An's messy black hair began to turn white rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. In contrast, his serious injuries were also healing rapidly.

His ruptured internal organs repaired themselves and his shattered leg bones grew again. Under this extreme torture that was comparable to breaking tendons and bones, his body began to tremble constantly, but he always forced himself not to utter even a cry.

After a long time, the cruel treatment of the black fog ended. Ji An, whose legs had been broken not long ago, was able to stand up again. Ignoring the intense pain that remained in various parts of his body due to the serious overdraft of vitality, he looked at the evil bone banner in front of him obsessively, and the suppressed madness in his eyes became more and more eye-catching.

"This is power... but it is not enough. It needs more souls, and so do I..."

After he finished speaking, Ji An pulled out the bone banner that was standing on the edge of the pit with all his might. He first looked at the thick white fog behind him that still covered everything. After a moment of silence, he suppressed the hatred that was roaring wildly in his heart, picked up the bone banner, turned around and strode towards the depths of Qingshi Town.

"...It's still far from enough...Nourish your Yin? Providence?...I will give you a surprise, wait for me..."

The faint voice was gradually drowned out by the spreading howling, leaving only the heavy footsteps that gradually faded away and finally disappeared completely.

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Mind space.

The towering and vigorous giant tree stands majestically in the center of the floating island, with a towering canopy covering it, and quietly casts thousands of tiny points of light as it sways slightly.

At the bottom of the giant tree, the scattered light did not dissipate in the wind, but gathered together on the ancient round mirror below.

Even though the magic mirror only transmits non-physical memory images, when the distance between them is extended to two completely different worlds, the consumption of the connection also expands to an extremely exaggerated level.

If it weren't for the constant replenishment of these pure beliefs, Xu Yue's current meager mana that couldn't even reach four digits would probably only last for a short moment before the "signal" was interrupted on the spot due to insufficient mana.

Time passed gradually in silence for a long time, until the ancient round mirror in front of him turned into fluorescent dots and dissipated. Xu Yue, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed beside the tree trunk, slowly opened his eyes.

"Ji Xiong? Interesting."

"I just don't know how long it will take for this monster to truly mature."

Amid the murmurs, Xu Yue raised his hand and rubbed his slightly swollen forehead with a headache. A large number of unfamiliar memories flooded into his mind in a short period of time, which was not a pleasant feeling.

Even though he had just glanced over some of the important experiences in his memory, his over-exerted brain could still feel waves of pain similar to mental exhaustion.

However, compared with the benefits brought by this memory, the pain seems insignificant.

Unlike the tiny thoughts he had projected into the sea of ​​stars before, the concealment and existence duration of the demon species far surpassed the former, so the information and intelligence it fed back was also greatly enhanced.

Even though only a world gap had passed since he threw the demon seed into the sea of ​​stars, due to the difference in the speed of time flow, several full years had actually passed in the world where the demon seed was.

Although it was not too long, the immersive memory transmission was enough for Xu Yue to build a more detailed and specific impression of that world.

On the other side of the magic mirror is a typical ancient Chinese world with a vast territory and many countries. The area where the monster host is located is one of the more powerful countries: Dali.

However, the strength of the upper class does not mean stability for the lower class. In terms of military strength, Dali can be considered to be strong in both men and horses, but in other aspects it is just unsatisfactory.

No matter how many troops he has, he cannot completely prevent the natural and man-made disasters that frequently wreak havoc in the country.

In fact, it's not just Dali. The situations of other surrounding countries are often similar. Compared with the ordinary world, the most special thing about that world is that the "yin energy" inside the world is extremely active.

It is called "yin energy", but in fact it is a special energy with extremely strong corrosiveness, and this energy is extremely malicious to all natural life forms.

Under the erosion of Yin Qi, any existence may be forcibly distorted and mutated, and the mutation of living forms is the most obvious. Those with inferior qualifications will be transformed into irrational living zombies, and even worse will become various horrible monsters that feed on flesh, blood, and souls.

According to the division of that world, these monsters can be roughly divided into three levels: wandering souls, evil spirits, and disasters. But no matter what level of monsters, they are far from being something that ordinary people can fight against.

Most of them rely on humans for food. Small disasters can destroy cities and strongholds, and large disasters can wipe out countries and races. Therefore, no matter which country it is, natural disasters and man-made disasters have never ceased from beginning to end.

Of course, although weirdness is scary, humans are not powerless to resist, otherwise that world would have been completely submerged by endless weirdness.

Researching, learning, and then transforming it into one's own strength is the strongest adaptive talent of human beings.

Let's not talk about other countries for now, at least within the scope of Dali, there is a special practice method called fire worship. They first cultivate the three yang fires that exist in the human body, and then use secret and unique methods to ignite these originally illusory yang fires, thus turning them into blazing yang flames that can be externalized.

This strange flame born inside the human body is not only extremely powerful and has a variety of effects, but it can also burn away Yin Qi to a certain extent, and even use Yin Qi to temper the nature and upper limit of its own flame.

It is also for this reason that the Dalifang has been able to stand firm despite the invasions of many monsters. In order to obtain enough relatively harmless Yin energy, some forces in the Li country will even cruelly trigger Yin disasters in their own territory, and use this method of nourishing Yin to harvest a large number of controllable low-level monsters.

And in memory, it was precisely because the demon host was affected by this man-made disaster that the demon Ji Xiong was able to obtain a large amount of negative emotions sufficient for its incubation in a very short period of time. At the same time, he also gained the unconditional and absolute trust of his host as soon as he was born.

In that miserable situation where friends and relatives are separated and both parents are dead, the monster Ji Xiong can be said to be the only way for the host to gain power. Even though he himself may realize that this behavior is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst, as long as he can survive and complete his revenge, he does not care whether he will sacrifice more.

As for the abilities of the monsters themselves, the differentiated demon species can not only designate a combined blade weapon as its companion weapon, but can also randomly inherit some of its abilities and turn them into its innate talents.

Among them, the companion weapon is a magic mirror used for cross-border connection, and the innate talent is the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" inherited and evolved from Xu Yue's professional skill "Leading the Crowd", which is the giant bone banner that has been appearing behind Ji Xiong in the memory picture.

Simply put, this Ten Thousand Souls Banner can devour an unlimited amount of living souls and transform them into soul soldiers under its command. The more souls it devours, the stronger the power of the banner itself will become.

Intuitive, crude, but also extremely powerful.

If 'Leading the Crowd' takes the elite route, then 'Ten Thousand Souls Banner' focuses on being both meat and vegetables. As long as the strength of the soul does not exceed the limit of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, it can directly devour it!

With this simple and brutal talent, the monster host created a natural disaster of undead in that yin-nourishing land. In just less than a week, he evolved from an ordinary child with weak power into a peerless demon surrounded by tens of thousands of ferocious souls.

Afterwards, they brazenly broke through the thick fog barrier outside, and rushed all the way from the Yangyin land to the large army stationed outside the barrier in the most ferocious manner.

Then, in an instant, black fog filled the sky, and thousands of souls roared together. With just one attack, the army of nearly a hundred people collapsed directly. If there was not a powerful Zoroastrian in the army who was powerful enough to kill the ferocious monsters, it is estimated that the souls of everyone present would have been reunited in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

However, although they were eventually defeated, the army also lost at least half of its members, resulting in heavy casualties.

Most of the world intelligence that Xu Yue knew in his memory came from the souls of the soldiers that were devoured by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

[Tip: The hunter has been detected to have access to foreign information. According to the initial regulations 46792, the information of the strange world has been included.]

[Hunter's hidden privileges are enhanced, and they are given a special custom title - Sentinel]

.........

"Um?!"

At the bottom of the shade of the tree, Xu Yue, who was sorting out information about the other world, was stunned when he heard the sudden reminder sound of the paradise.

Then his slightly drooping eyelids suddenly opened, and he quickly looked up at the virtual screen floating in front of him.
【sentinel】

Place of Origin: Samsara Paradise

Quality: Special

Category: title

Title Effect 1: Secret (Passive). This title is independent of the conventional title system. It cannot be refined, reforged, or displayed. Wearing it will not suppress the original title wearing qualification.

Title Effect 2: Positioning (Active). When the hunter's main body, soul or demon species are in a foreign world outside the void, the 'world coordinates' can be condensed by continuously improving the 'world weight'.

Tip: 'World weight' is composed of luck, reputation, the spread of living beings and other aspects. When the weight carrier dies or is expelled by the world consciousness, the condensation process will be completely interrupted.

Tip: After the "world coordinates" are successfully condensed, a certain amount of space-time power can be consumed to build a small transmission channel.

Tip: When the 'world coordinates' are used, the space-time fluctuations it spreads will most likely cause a crazy counterattack from the world's consciousness. Once the coordinate carrier dies, the channel construction will fail.

Title Effect 3: Outpost (Active), the hunter can submit the condensed coordinates of the other world to the Samsara Paradise. With the coordinates as the fixed point, the paradise will automatically launch a world invasion. When the invasion ends, the hunter will receive different degrees of world-class rewards based on the nature of the world and the resources it contains.

Tip: World-class rewards include rare resources, special park privileges, customized wishes, a share of world output revenue, and more.

Introduction: Go explore, the universe, infinite possibilities, will slowly unfold before you, but will you choose to fight alone, or choose to join forces to benefit both sides? I await your decision, Sentinel!

Price: Not for sale.

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sentinel?

So that's why you destroyed the system but left me alone?
Xu Yue stared at the various effects in the title introduction with deep eyes, and his mind unconsciously emerged with the past scenes he recalled when he awakened his profession:

Deep in the dark and narrow alley, he was still lying on the ground unconscious after falling straight down from the rift in time and space, and directly above him was a white ball of light that was shattered by the brilliant thunder.

Judging from this memory scene that happened in the past, he had attracted the attention of the Samsara Paradise as soon as he arrived in this world. The system, which was the leader of the invasion, died quite easily, but he, who was also considered an 'accomplice' of the system, strangely did not receive any punishment.

Now it seems that Paradise only refrained from taking any forceful action on the surface, but in reality it was always monitoring his movements, so it was able to show appropriate willingness to cooperate the moment he was connected to the alien world.

(End of this chapter)