Chapter 1138
Chapter 1138 - 1124 Empire
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[Super Kitten (Little Snowball): Level unknown, suspected to be a growth-type symbiotic entity.]
[Meow Refusal! (Current Silver Medium Decree); creates a feline-shaped exclusionary space, repelling all non-self matter. When in use, Little Snowball needs to hold its breath, with a current maximum duration of nine seconds.]
[The creature appears independent, but is in fact not a complete life-form and cannot stray more than three meters from its Master.]
[If the Master is close enough, they can borrow the Symbiotic Entity’s Talent Abilities, at a cost and effect roughly equivalent. But even if Lei Shuiyun’s breath-holding duration far exceeds that of Little Snowball, the ability’s maximum duration is still limited by Little Snowball’s limits.]
Lu Ping’an’s eyes were open and he could discern the vague "network". Little Snowball seemed more like a balloon on a string, drifting about yet drawing "nutrition" from its Master.]
Is it that its situation is special? Or is it limited by Lu Ping’an’s abilities? This will probably require additional samples to determine, but the other two newborns aren’t "symbiotic entities", so it will have to wait until later.]
But there are things that are not convenient to discuss with outsiders.]
[As a Benefactor (Father Body), you can sense the presence of the ’Child Bodies’ and limit their output within a certain range.]
[If the Child Body is within a certain range, its ’life growth’, you can obtain a 1% to 10% dividend (the augmenting effect is similar to investment, and it will change as the relationship between the two parties and individual strength grows).]
[If a Child Body is destroyed, using your life investment ability, you can ’regenerate’ or even evolve it, but each investment amount must be doubled.]
[Child Body Retrieval (Erasure): As your power creation (Gold Coins, Benefactions), you can cancel the release of abilities, reclaim the ’Gold Coin Life’, and receive a certain degree of feedback (the feedback will increase with the biological level of the retrieved life form).]
[Currently retrievable entities: Little Snowball (receives a certain amount of Spiritual Power feedback, obtains ’Isolation’ Decree (weakened), receives Life-points and Life Force feedback, obtains....)]
After just a brief glance, Lu Ping’an knew the vile nature of this ability.]
If Lu Ping’an wanted to, he could act like a Sower, creating a plethora of Child Bodies, then when necessary, enact a grand harvest to benefit himself.]
"Rampant harvesting is suicide, it offends everyone and is a foolish act, but not using it at all is like giving up the active rights of your ability; those fellows truly respect power, not virtue..."
Lu Ping’an did not conceal his reclamation ability; speaking of it in advance was a deterrent and also gave the other party a chance to choose... Are you sure you want to hand over the leverage to me? Be careful when you make decisions later.]
Since the "newborns" currently are creations from two Gold Coins and their owners have relationships above being acquaintances with Lu Ping’an, the impact isn’t significant. It’s better to set the rules while it’s still early.]
"After retrieval, the original entity will suffer severe damage and can no longer have Child Bodies..."
Lu Ping’an straightforwardly stated the limitations and detrimental aspects of his abilities.]
However, this did not stop their enthusiasm... the opportunity to harmlessly possess another ’self’ was something no ambitious professional could refuse.]
"Must it be predicated on two Gold Coins..."]
"That appears to be the case now. But this ability itself is about establishing a link between life with another entity, and with the improvement of my ability and my progress, the limitations might gradually be removed... To be precise, I personally feel that it is certain to lower the requirements.]
"What is the upper limit of strength for the main bodies that can produce Child Bodies?"]
Asking this question was a true Rule-level individual, and Lu Ping’an needed to answer cautiously.]
"It should be the upper limit of my Life Investment Ability... is the limit of life force I can influence. Right now, it’s about sixth-tier, once I reach sixth-tier... to be safe, when I’m at Quasi-rule level, I should be able to influence Rule-level beings.]
What truly impressed everyone was when the Cat itself used Little Snowball’s Talent Abilities and when she clearly stated that her own "stability" had increased, which drove many high-level professionals who had been unable to progress before utterly mad.]
"Out of control is the failure of the ’rules’ and ’chaos’ within the body to counteract each other, but if one-on-one turns into two-on-one, the situation will naturally differ..."
Upon seeing this, Lu Ping’an reflected thoughtfully.
If an individual was accustomed to using Child Bodies to restrain their own "out of control", and if one were to take away those Child Bodies, it could instantly destroy them.
Oddly enough, this ability and characteristic made Lu Ping’an think of a certain Final Boss whose fate was quite tragic...
"Don’t say it, this combination of abilities really is fitting for a Final Boss."
[Benefactor (Fifth-order Gardener/Beast Tamer/Healer)]
In the end, Lu Ping’an settled on this name.
Actually, he had originally planned to call it "Seeder" or something more fitting, seeing as it was somewhat an Advancement of a "gardener".....but the reality of the inability to name it also meant that the name was already taken.
The three characteristics behind this Profession aren’t implying that this is the Advancement of those three Paths, rather one must possess the "basic rules" of the three Paths before Advancing into this special Profession.
"Probably, even though I’ve already sold the rules to the Library, it’s impossible for anyone to grasp them...."
Becoming a Fifth-order Gardener didn’t change much, and the large number of Life-points he harvested were also exchanged for "Abnormal Ability" and "Knowledge".
In the "subject" matter, Lu Ping’an had already cracked the problem and began writing earnestly, and from the current feedback, it seems this Path might be viable.
"Average combat power increase.....second-tier."
Finally, the old stagers have made an assessment of the impact of this ability.
The three professionals who received Child Bodies, all fourth-tier professionals (Meow’s impact was successful), but their current actual combat power has reached the average level of the sixth-tier.
What they found most unbelievable was that the "Child Bodies" acquired by the three professionals were completely dissimilar in all aspects, yet they just happened to complement the parts they most needed and lacked...
"Like a perfect wish machine? No, it should be life’s instinctual desire for completeness..."
Considering that the precondition for having a Child Body is "Two Gold Coins", the other two fortunate individuals actually didn’t have much of a choice either.
Xia Qin received a "Woody Parasitic Child Body" that has several forms.
There is the "Outer Armor Form"...which is like a floating suit of armor, and since the material of the armor is her "body", it naturally complies with the Sword Saint’s need for armorlessness.
There is the "Multi-armed Sword Saint Form"...perhaps the team witnessed too many and too strong multi-armed Sword Saints and Multi-armed Monks, which gave Xia Qin such a desire. As a Sword Saint who was inherently gifted with multiple weapons, the benefit she received in this aspect was incredibly terrifying, a Sword Saint with a flurry of twelve swords is simply a bug.
There is the "Perfect Protection Form"...In any case, this Parasite seems to have no other Abnormal Ability but "Woody Transformation", yet it eerily significantly enhances her diversity and overall combat strength, amounting to a change in Biological Level.
The other lucky individual...or child of misfortune, is naturally the Panda-man buddy who had already helped Lu Ping’an earn Gold Coins.
He obtained a rather bizarre "Taboo Weapon", which in others’ hands could barely be deemed usable, but in his hands, even a Quasi-rule power would have to be careful.
Lu Ping’an’s progress, the ones that benefit first and upfront, are always the people around him....his "family" or his kingdom, is becoming more and more perfected.
— End of Chapter 1138 —