Free Web NovelChapter 368: Chapter 361: Becoming the Kun
A miniaturized Kun, several inches long, swam into Shi Ming’s palm.
It was spiritually connected to Shi Ming.
At Shi Ming’s command, the wondrous Origin Power within the Kun’s body flowed from the tiny, inches-long fish—or rather, from his own avatar—through his palm and into his arm without any resistance.
It was as if something he had lent out was returning to its rightful home.
Meanwhile, Shi Ming’s right arm began to voraciously devour the power, completely converting it into a part of himself rather than relying on a "form" whose destiny had been stolen.
’I’ll take the origin, but not the karma!’
There were no obstacles.
The entire process was incredibly smooth.
...
The power of the Destiny Origin was exceptionally gentle.
It wasn’t ferocious and violent like the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s "Destruction Origin," nor was it as overtly malicious as the Abyss Lord’s "Corruption Origin."
Instead, it was as nourishing as rain, gentle and silent.
It made Shi Ming feel as though he were truly indulging himself. One moment, he was soaking in a hot spring; the next, strolling among the clouds. Sometimes it felt like a spring stream caressing his cheek, other times like winter snow refreshing his spirit.
Dopamine and endorphins were released in tandem.
Yet, it was quite restrained.
A gentle, steady stream.
’There’s nothing better in the world,’ he thought, earnestly savoring the pleasure until a reminder from the Eye of Destiny appeared again.
[Apologies, the Eye of Destiny has interrupted your enjoyment. But as you know, pleasure is fleeting, while strength is eternal.]
[...]
[Destiny is just that miraculous.]
[You bloodlessly annihilated the Ten Thousand Forms Kun’s consciousness in an instant, seizing everything it had. Filtered through your Right Arm Red Pattern, you extracted its essence while discarding the impurities. Because you are highly compatible with the Destiny Origin, you spent only a single day acquiring the power of the Destiny Sanctuary’s Origin.]
[Of course, you have the Eye of Destiny to thank for that.]
[Skill Acquired: Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary]
[Touch of Extreme Evil Increased: 312 (Total: 1468)]
[You have obtained your first "form." (That’s right, you need to start accumulating them from scratch.)]
[You can transform into the Ten Thousand Forms Kun on a 1:1 scale. When you change into the Ten Thousand Forms Kun, you can use its other four skills: Southern Netherworld Phantom Dream, Ten Thousand Rivers Autumn Water, Mist Ascending Thousand Realms, and Oblivion Ruins Returning to Dust.]
[Attack Power: 602] (+111)
[Physical Strength: 589] (+83)
[Endurance: 611] (+87)
[Defense Power: 563] (+104)
[Spiritual Power: Unknown]
[In this battle of directors, you won, as expected. Indeed, fate favors you more...]
The text vanished.
Shi Ming was amazed.
’This fast?’
The last few times he absorbed the Holy Hall Tier power and Origin from the Abyss Lord and the Great Black Heaven Dragon, it had taken him nearly three days to transfer the Origin from the beasts’ corpses and blood into himself, then absorb and fuse with it to acquire their skills.
But this time, it only took a third of the time?
He extended his right hand. Activating the destiny power within him, a tiny speck of light gathered in his palm before rippling outward. An inches-long Kun appeared in his hand, its body translucent and shimmering with a faint blue halo.
This was the Kun form.
With a thought, Shi Ming’s body became illusory.
He gently tossed the Kun in his hand. As it flicked its tail, its body scattered a dreamy, hazy stardust.
This stardust split into countless fine points of light that swirled upward, like a sudden burst of light-blue motes from the seabed. Then, the points of light unfolded wings as thin as a butterfly’s and, with a gentle flutter, transformed into a swarm of dancing, light-blue butterflies.
On the seafloor, they reassembled into the shape of a massive Kun.
It was an incredibly fantastical sight.
Using the power of the Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary, Shi Ming mobilized this one and only "form" and transformed into a six-hundred-meter-long Ten Thousand Forms Kun.
The Kun could continue to grow even larger.
Shi Ming familiarized himself with this new "form" while sensing its four accompanying skills—
Upon activating "Southern Netherworld Phantom Dream," the Ten Thousand Forms Kun became transparent and vanished into an illusory state, granting it immunity to 80% of physical attacks. As for the attack skill "Ten Thousand Rivers Autumn Water," tens of millions of streams were empowered by destiny, transforming from supremely soft to supremely resilient, like innumerable wings made of clouds hanging from the sky.
ROAR~
A ’ruin point’ appeared in the mouth of the illusory Kun and rapidly expanded, turning the surrounding one-thousand-meter area of sea into a ’ruin realm’ that could return all things to dust. This was "Oblivion Ruins Returning to Dust."
As for "Mist Ascending Thousand Realms," it was a passive skill. Wherever the Ten Thousand Forms Kun swam, large amounts of clouds and mist would appear. These clouds and mist could conceal its aura, and it could also hide within them, making its "Southern Netherworld Phantom Dream" even more illusory and difficult to perceive.
Four complementary skills.
Unlike the transformation from the Nine-Headed Sanctuary, when Shi Ming used the Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary to transform into another "form" like the Kun, he truly *was* the Kun. There were no time limits, no thresholds, and no other extra conditions.
This was just the tip of the iceberg for the "Ten Thousand Forms Sanctuary."
Its terrifying aspect wasn’t experiencing ten thousand forms.
But in lurking, masquerading, and usurping.
With this skill, Shi Ming could, when necessary, usurp an enemy’s destiny and silently continue living in their identity to achieve other goals.
This was also why the Eye of Destiny had said the skill wasn’t strong in combat but was extremely nauseating.
...
The Ten Thousand Forms Kun had become a form, leaving behind no flesh or corpse, but there was no need to worry about materials for the Holy Hall.
If Shi Ming needed its flesh and blood, he could transform into the Kun when necessary and be self-sufficient. For a body that could grow to several kilometers in size, the few kilograms of flesh and blood required by the Infinite Brain to upgrade some items was like shedding a thin layer of skin.
He roamed the seabed, like a fish in water.
But he only experienced the life of a Kun for a short while before stopping.
Deep within the Earth’s Lung, another strange object was waiting for him.
The Unceasing Water.
Just thinking about it gave him a headache.
Other treasures brought him clear and definite benefits, but this super-strange object, ranked second, was like a ticking time bomb.
The three-hundred-meter-long Kun once again dissolved into butterflies, which then gathered together and reformed into Shi Ming.
He arrived at the area with the densest concentration of Sea Crystal Stones.
With the Ten Thousand Forms Kun dead, this area returned from illusion to reality. It was an undersea spring, with water gushing forth. And inside the spring itself lay the true form of the Unceasing Water.
"Eye of Destiny, get me intel!"
The Eye of Destiny had brought him information about it twice before.
One time was a vague, riddle-like rules-based horror story using metaphors. The other was superficial, incomplete intel that only described the danger. This time, however, Shi Ming planned to use the Eye of Destiny to proactively investigate this second-ranked strange object.
’If I can take it with me and use it as a material to upgrade my grand destiny, that would be for the best!’
’A win-win that makes everyone happy.’
’If not, finding another way to resolve the crisis would be good too.’
’And if all else fails, I’ll just leak this problem to the other factions. We can all solve it together, figure out how to "scoop it out and plug it up"!’
