Chapter 555
Chapter 555 - 535: Sun, Moon, and Stars
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The story of Gemini Moon and the Sun God provided Lu Ping’an with much inspiration.
He became more convinced that the real powerful ones are not the kind of lone heroes from legendary novels, who can defeat a group in an instant.
A suitable and complementary combination of abilities is quite strong even at the high-end combat power level.
Perhaps, different from low-level professionals who mainly rely on individual battles, higher-level combat strength requires more compatible partners to supplement strengths and weaknesses.
For low-level professionals, it’s important to first improve their individual abilities. After reaching a certain level, tactics, combinations, and formations become necessary.
For Lu Ping’an, studying his own tactics was too early, but if he just copied them, he could start now.
"A Holy Fire Knight, huh? Feeding is enough..."
In front of Lu Ping’an, the Little Flame was awakened once again.
In terms of its energy strength, it was at least at the fourth-tier level, and as a new "Holy Fire Knight," it had improved quite fast.
Catherine had noted that the Holy Fire’s intensity on the Little Flame had reached its third-tier peak.
This wasn’t cultivation, just a simple "conversion." The flame on its body was subconsciously transformed into a flame with a higher intensity, greater power, and more potential.
"The Sun-Moon-Star Tactical System, the Sun part, is solved."
The Little Flame’s biggest advantage has always been the infinite power contained in its Silver bloodline.
[Boiling Blood Passion (Silver Lower Passive): This creature is bloodthirsty and never knows fatigue, and its special physical structure allows it to have nearly infinite physical and endurance recovery before blood depletion.]
The blood of the Little Flame is the source of its power but also the flame itself. Now, like other Holy Fire Knights, it has completely turned its own body into flames... but in fact, it was originally an avatar of the flame, so its rapid progress makes sense.
As the "Sun," its bloodline attribute determines that its light and fire are endless before it falls.
While Lu Ping’an, the "Fire Prayer," has the ability to "summon Holy Fire," he needs to determine the "fire source" in advance.
If it were in the Silent Mountain Range World, this would be no problem. Holy Fire prayers of any extraordinary system can summon Holy Fire from the "Holy Fire Network" of that planet, but after leaving that world, most of them are useless.
However, Lu Ping’an completed the "locking" of two Holy Fire sources.
One, of course, was the Golden Holy Fire in his own palace... but it went out of control instantly during the prayer-guiding moment.
It almost turned Lu Ping’an, who forcibly connected to it, into ashes... Clearly, a first-tier Fire Controller trying to control such a powerful flame was too ambitious.
[Holy Fire Summoning (Black Iron Lower Level): Designate a target, complete the three to five-second hymn and mental lock, and summon the Holy Fire.]
With Lu Ping’an’s current profession and abnormal ability, it’s best not to consider flames that are too powerful.
On the other hand, the Little Flame is an ideal source of fire... In a sense, after completing the connection, Lu Ping’an also became the "moon" reflecting the sunlight of the Little Flame.
The other "Moon" is naturally Zhi Xi. Her Moon Goddess Knight cultivation is progressing quickly.
Lu Ping’an, with these two magic pets, can be said to have a long-term tactical core with two "satellites"; of course, the Little Flame can also be seen as having two "satellite cannons."
This imitation of the Silent Mountain Range World’s tactical combination is not Lu Ping’an’s original creation. Moon Goddess Knights and Holy Fire Knights also have similar classic tactical cooperation, but because both parties mostly keep their distance, low-level knights have limited understanding of it and only mention it in the royal library.
However, with this tactical combination, Lu Ping’an seems somewhat redundant.
He is just borrowing the Little Flame’s fire, and his output is definitely lower than it’s, his fire-control ability is limited, and the so-called "Sun-Moon-Star" tactical combination is just him in a limited role.
"... So, if I improve my ability as the ’Sun’ and become a ’Sun-Sun-Moon’ or ’Moon-Moon-Sun’ combination, the lethality will increase significantly."
Under normal circumstances, this is not very realistic. Even if Lu Ping’an needs to improve his fire-controlling ability, it will take a long time to accumulate and train.
But life system professionals are best at defying the limits of life.
"... Is it almost time? Then, let’s start."
Lu Ping’an held a seed in his hand.
[Unnamed Life Seed (Lower Gold): Its bloodline is derived from Lamplight Grass and Bloodvine (Sun Bloodline), and the sun’s rhythm can be vaguely sensed within.]
It’s the ultimate result of Lu Ping’an’s work these days.
The Bloodvine of the Beast God’s bloodline that Lu Ping’an got back then had been tested and experimented with. It was determined to be a parasitic species on the "God Corpse" of the Beast God... That means it has swallowed a large amount of Divine-Blood and had a powerful symbiosis with it.
However, this does not mean that it can use this bloodline. For carnivorous plants, they have merely consumed it instead of turning it into their "weapon" and "tool."
Lu Ping’an tried to propagate this Bloodvine and used the "Lamplight Grass" idea to increase its "fire ability" and "solar symbiotic ability."
But the result was quite subtle. Generation after generation, only weakened Bloodvines could be obtained, and they couldn’t symbiotically... Their descendants’ power was significantly reduced, and they still couldn’t use the Divine-Blood gene they contained.
"There’s no need to continue. If you keep going down this road, even if you succeed by chance, you’ll just get another Lamplight Grass, which is meaningless."
Power from an undigested and unadapted species will naturally weaken and fade as the bloodline becomes diluted.
Fortunately, Lu Ping’an reacted in time.
However, by that time, only seven seeds of the first generation remained, which were the last blood relatives of the Beast God Bloodvine.
After adjusting his train of thought, Lu Ping’an directly removed the "Lamplight Grass module" and "invested" it into these seeds... This is undoubtedly gambling, but also the way to make the best use of its Divine-Blood.
Grafted with Divine-Blood and loaded with factors that use Divine-Blood and Holy Fire, theoretically, it is possible to breed the perfect plant.
But the result is that of the seven seeds, only two succeeded in the end. One was evaluated as Silver Mid-position, and the other was the Lower Gold on Lu Ping’an’s hand.
This is just its rating as a seed, and its evaluation mostly comes from its bloodline and potential.
"There’s only one chance..."
With another seed, Lu Ping’an planned to use it as the mother body and leave it in the Life Courtyard.
Facing this unique and rare plant, even Lu Ping’an himself is somewhat hesitant.
After all, according to his tutor, symbiotic Magic Plants should be in their juvenile state and not too strong at first. Otherwise, they may be eroded by the Magic Plant.
But in the end, he chose to trust himself... and his courtyard.
"Given my resistance, it shouldn’t be a problem."
Blood flowed from his separated arm, and Lu Ping’an picked up the seed, initiating the fusion process.
— End of Chapter 555 —