Chapter 639: Xia Feng’s Background, Treasures, Concepts, and Attributes
Chapter 640: Forty-Six Days
Darkness ebbed and flowed before his eyes like a calm tide.
Xia Feng could not feel light, nor could he hear any sound.
He only felt himself sinking continuously into an abyss with no bottom. The acceleration of weightlessness with nothing to anchor him filled him with dread.
However, Xia Feng quickly adapted. The thought particles in his hazy consciousness vaguely showed signs of resuming operation.
It was like a computer that had its memory overloaded and was forcibly shut down, now receiving a reboot.
It was just that this reboot process was somewhat slow.
The rotating halo in the middle spun endlessly; he remained unable to truly awaken.
But fortunately, even though the world was dark, and he could not sense light or sound, as if isolated from the world, his thoughts could already spawn ideas.
He was accustomed to this feeling of loneliness, similar to being in Nightmare River.
He estimated that it would take some more time for his spirit substance to fully restart and return to normal. While waiting, Xia Feng studied his spirit artifacts.
[Enlightenment Domain Remaining Time: 8 hours 12 minutes]
This indicated that he had been unconscious for half a day.
It was quite a long time.
Furthermore, he discovered that the large amount of Obsidian he had accumulated previously had dwindled to only 53 stones, enough to activate the Enlightenment Domain just once more.
The consumption required by the Enlightenment Domain was indeed high. He would need to find a way to collect more Obsidian in the future.
[Spirit Artifact Slots: 6]
After ascending to Venerable, he gained another permanent spirit artifact slot.
However, he still felt a bit stretched for resources.
To reach 7 permanent spirit artifact slots, he could only do so by entering the Rank of Sage.
Promoting from Venerable Two to Venerable Five through Condensing Fruit did not grant him any increase in spirit artifact slots.
Fortunately, his B-class Spirit Artifact, Spirit Artifact Book, could store an additional four spirit artifacts.
This gave him the equivalent of 10 permanent spirit artifact slots.
[Current Spirit Artifacts (6/6): ‘B-class Spirit Artifact Book’, ‘B-class Vermilion Bird Demonic Armor’, ‘Limitless B-class Spirit Restricting Coin’, ‘Limitless A-class Nascent Ten Sacred Armor’, ‘A-class Yin-Yang Mirror’, ‘Saintly Solved A-class Absolute Twin Pupils’]
[Spirit Diagram Stored Artifacts (4/4): ‘B-class Vajra Ring’, ‘B-class Ten Dragon Magic Cannon’, ‘Limitless A-class Saint Hand Guanyin’, ‘Calamity Solution A-class Eye of Misjudgment’]
The Vajra Ring was obtained during the process of entering the Sky Fortress, acquired from a high-ranking officer. It was the most practical spirit artifact copied by the Enlightenment Domain.
It could form a barrier called the Vajra Realm within a certain range around oneself. Within the Vajra Realm, all short-range spatial abilities of enemies, except for his own, would be rendered ineffective. However, if the target had extremely high mental power, they could ignore the Vajra Realm’s restrictions.
The Eye of Misjudgment came from Princess Mei Ling, Yi Nanxi. It could cause life forms under its gaze to lose their sense of space. It could also cause attacks with physical substance to have their spatial points misaligned, resulting in a physically deflected effect.
The ability of this spirit artifact was defense-oriented, which somewhat overlapped with Absolute Twin Pupils.
However, Xia Feng kept it. After all, using Absolute Twin Pupils consumed quite a lot of energy. The Eye of Misjudgment served as a backup option.
With this, Xia Feng realized he already possessed quite a few permanent spirit artifacts.
Five B-class and five A-class, with one A-class being a pseudo S-class spirit artifact that had undergone Saintly Solution.
Yet, Xia Feng found himself still feeling dissatisfied. He now desperately wanted to fill all ten spirit artifact slots with A-class artifacts!
Not for any other reason, but purely for the satisfaction of looking at them!
If they were all filled with ten S-class artifacts…
Well, that was perhaps aiming too high.
He did not even possess a single genuine S-class spirit artifact at the moment.
However, at the Black Moon Holy See headquarters, there must be someone who possessed an S-class spirit artifact, right?
For example, the Pope?
Xia Feng was greatly looking forward to this possibility.
Besides A-class spirit artifacts, he had also learned quite a few A-class Spirit Robes.
Musashi Tengu, God King Statue (had not consumed a Divine Faith Fruit yet), Blood Spirit Throne, Blood Spirit Construct, Photon Annihilation, Spirit Base Infant Transformation.
Spirit Base Infant Transformation, as a legendary A-class Spirit Robe, possessed terrifying power, provided that the Spirit Infant realm used for self-destruction was sufficiently high. In Xia Feng’s Mental Sea, a faintly formed human-like ball of light was suspended.
This was the ‘Venerable Four Spirit Base’ that Xia Feng had extracted from Ye Li Dongjun’s body with Spirit Snatcher before his death. It was now condensing and transforming into a Spirit Infant.
The self-destruction of a Venerable Four Spirit Infant could easily kill those in the same realm, and even those in the Venerable Five Sacred Realm would have to flee madly to avoid its edge.
It had to be said that he had gained quite a bit from this trip with Ye Li Dongjun.
Besides the pseudo-S spirit artifact and the Venerable Four Spirit Base, he had also secured the ninth seat in the competition for the Sumeru Throne.
Xia Feng sank his consciousness into the mirror surface of the Divine Mirror Without Stand and placed a spirit artifact light cluster into it.
On the spirit artifact light cluster, there was an identity marker for the ‘Life Roulette’.
Through sensing, Xia Feng quickly received information in his mind.
[Player Sequence: No. 27]
[Record: Sacrificed 10031 Lost People, 99003 Desired Life People. Killed 8 players.]
!
[The ninth Life Roulette game has concluded. Your Life Points are the highest. You are the winner of the ninth Roulette and have obtained the Sumeru Seat.]
[Seat: 9]
[Time until Sumeru Throne Competition Begins: 46 days]
[Current Life Points: 2100 (Can be exchanged or transferred during the Sumeru Throne competition to gain an advantage)]
[Note 1: Sage rank and above cannot participate in the Throne competition.]
[Note 2: Players can be promoted to Sage during the Throne competition.]
[Note 3]
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There was a lot of information, but it did not specify how the Sumeru Throne would be initiated, where the competition would take place, or the specific rules of engagement.
However, Xia Feng speculated that only nine people could participate in the Sumeru Throne competition. Perhaps these nine individuals would be placed on a fixed map for a battle royale.
The sole survivor would obtain the Sumeru Throne.
Of course, it might also be similar to before, with mutual pursuit throughout the entire Three Realms.
In any case, it was unlikely that the nine people would sit down and play a game of checkers.
While contemplating, Xia Feng again directed his consciousness into the Nascent Ten Space. A crystalline red ancient and profound token floated there.
This was the Sumeru King Order, snatched from the Sky Lantern Pavilion. It was said that this item could grant Spirit Masters a first-mover advantage during the Sumeru Throne competition.
Now that he had obtained the player identity for the ninth seat, this token still showed no reaction.
It seemed he would have to wait until the game began for specific information about his advantage to be revealed.
Xia Feng had to admit that he initially had no interest in this Sumeru Throne at all. He participated in the Life Roulette game purely to “farm” Life Points for his own benefit.
But now, he felt immense curiosity.
He wondered what kind of divine object it was that made so many people flock to it.
Lost in thought, Xia Feng suddenly felt his consciousness and body reconnecting.
The tactile sensation of his skin, the hearing in his ears, the scents at the tip of his nose transformed into countless nerve signals, entering his brain and linking to his spirit substance.
He inexplicably felt a heaviness on his body, making it difficult to breathe, and a faint, serene, damp fragrance lingered at the tip of his nose.
His throat felt dry. Xia Feng struggled to lift his eyelids.
