Free Web NovelChapter 628: Chapter 595: You Have Become a... (Double-Length)
Feng Mu habitually adjusted his glasses and encouraged Venom.
Clearly, he was assigning more homework to Venom, unpaid labor and dedication, yet in Venom’s ears, this homework became a great "blessing" from his father.
Venom’s skin began to ripple, as if injected with adrenaline, and immediately focused entirely on cultivating the "Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation".
Feng Mu closed his eyes and meditated beside him.
A few minutes later.
The retina transmitted a prompt:
[Venom is studying "Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation"]
[Venom has comprehended the Boundaries of Life and Death!]
[Venom is neither living nor dead and perfectly aligns with this martial art!]
[Venom has learned "Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation"]
[Venom is crazily cultivating!]
["Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation" Skill Proficiency +1+1+1+1+1.....]
[Substitute Food effective!]
[You have learned Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation·Beginner (1/1000)]
Feng Mu grinned, he truly loved this "Substitute Food" trait, letting Venom parasitize in his shadow, it was a stroke of genius.
Moreover, raising a son is truly wonderful.
Watching Venom’s intense cultivation, the joy and sense of accomplishment of being a father welled up inside Feng Mu.
He silently vowed in his heart:
"I must cultivate this good son into a model of the twenty-four filial exemplars, never letting him go astray~"
Since his son showed extraordinary talent, the father must also show his prowess.
A good father must become the person his son admires the most!
Feng Mu slowly closed his eyes, brimming with confidence, he said:
"Add points!"
[Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation·Beginner (1/1000) → Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation·Intermediate (1/5000)]
"Add more points!"
[Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation·Intermediate (1/5000) → Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation·Advanced (1/25000)]
"Add even more points!"
[Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation·Advanced (1/25000) → Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation·Perfection]
"Add even more points again!"
In one second, four consecutive point additions, universal skill proficiency points flowed like water. freēwēbnovel.com
Thus:
[In the first year, you began practicing Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation.]
[This skill is a secret deceitful transformation evil skill taught by your master, emphasizing "withered like dead wood silent extinction, flourishing like spring rain sprout".]
[When first practicing, you need to sit on a pile of corpses, introducing the extreme yin death energy into your body, then using malice in your heart to burn your vitality.]
[You sat in the dead ward’s pool, the cold water like needles, filled with the prisoners’ death energy.]
[You sat withered in the water for a hundred days, hair and beard turned white, skin wrinkled like century-old tree bark, surrounded by death energy, your body’s vitality withered, but your heart was filled with resentful energy.]
[In death, there is life, and in life, there is death— you glimpse the doorway to Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation.]
[You need more death energy; the entire prison has been remodeled by you.]
[The death ward continuously expands, over half of the prisoners are thrown into the corpses’ pool of the death ward.]
[You soaked in the pool for a full five years.]
[The left arm was eroded by rot, muscles withered black and atrophied, nails fell like worm-eaten; the right arm, however, reborn from death, veins bulging, new flesh growing wildly tearing skin, like the arm of Calamity Corpses.]
[Half withered, half flourishing, half dead, half alive.]
[In the twentieth year, Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation reaches Great Success!]
[The entire prison has turned into a dead lake, no death row inmates, no prison guards, all turned into water in the lake.]
[In the thirtieth year, Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation reaches Perfection!]
[You are at the boundary of life and death, neither living nor dead!]
[This martial art has reached its limit, but you are still not satisfied, you always feel there is more to this martial art!]
[You hate the balance of neither living nor dead, you want to break this balance!]
[You sat withered for 49 days, suddenly one day awakened, shouting:]
["Withering is not the end, flourishing is not the beginning, live towards death, break and then deceitful!"]
[You laughed wildly, tearing open the flesh on your chest, revealing white ribs!]
[You thrust both hands into your heart, gouging out half the still-beating heart, leaving the other half.]
[You crushed the half-heart, forcibly using Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation at life’s last moment, drawing all blood into the heart.] frёewebηovel.cѳm
[Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation surpasses the limit!]
[The dead lake beneath you shallowly disappears, the body soaked at the lake’s bottom slowly floats up.]
[The body was shriveled like a mummy, the skin clinging tightly to the skeleton, with only the heart inside the chest pounding vigorously.]
[Above, a vulture discovered you and swooped down.]
["Poof!"]
[The claw-like left hand grabbed the bird’s neck. Death energy spread, and the vulture instantly turned to skeletal dust, from which dandelion-like mycelium began to sway.]
[You have comprehended the Limit-Breaking Skill - Nirvana Breath (Active)!]
[When you kill an opponent, you can choose to let them rest in peace or choose to have them reborn. The soul of the reborn dies, but the body remains active, and is even stronger than in life!]
[You laugh maniacally!]
[You feel that your oil is about to run dry, and the light of your lamp is about to go out. Decades of sitting withered have fused the lower half of your body with the dead lake, beneath which lie the ruins of the prison, buried with tens of thousands of skeletons.]
[You are dying!]
["I understand, I understand, the boundary between life and death is... Ha ha ha—"]
[You laugh wildly, then suddenly shatter your own skull with a palm strike, exposing the wriggling gray-white brain tissue.]
[The laughter ceases abruptly, and you die!]
[But you are still alive!]
[Three seconds later, your corpse suddenly moves, crawling frantically from the ground, moving back and forth on the ground at a rapid speed. You are hungry, searching for food!]
[Nirvana Breath activates!]
[You have become a... zombie, and a peculiar type at that?!!]
Feng Mu suddenly opens his eyes, his heart slightly chilled.
The worst outcome of training before was a miserable death. This time, training [Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation] went a step further and directly turned himself into a walking corpse.
Nirvana Breath?
What a Nirvana Breath!
Your family’s Nirvana is to transform into a zombie!
Feng Mu doesn’t know if it’s the system’s cultivation method that’s wrong or if there’s an issue with [Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation].
Thinking about it this way, every time I add cultivation points, the outcomes seem to be terribly insane.
Feng Mu suddenly falls into a philosophical introspection:
Is it that every cultivation technique I practice is too evil, or is the breakthrough of the Limit-Breaking Skill inherently evil, or is the system’s "guidance" always leading to an evil and insane direction?
It can’t be that my nature is evil, that I have madness in my bones, and that’s why all the martial arts are ultimately cultivated into dangerous scriptures, right?
"Impossible, absolutely impossible, I’m just a villain, but my nature isn’t bad, and I’m certainly not a madman!"
Feng Mu vigorously shakes his head, as if doing so can throw away the senseless self-doubt in his mind.
He threw it away!
So, the answer is—the system’s guidance is responsible for all of this!
After all, it’s a villain system, so it makes sense for the system to take the blame.
System: "..."
The system cannot refute Feng Mu and can only quietly display a prompt:
[You have comprehended the Limit-Breaking Skill Nirvana Breath!]
[You have consumed a total of 31,000 points of General Skill Proficiency, leaving 36,817 points remaining.]
[Limit-Breaking consumed 1 Universal Skill Point, leaving 4 points.]
Feng Mu takes a deep breath and is about to turn off the system prompt when suddenly a small line of text appears:
[Tip:
[Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation may be a split from some combined Martial Arts, collecting the whole set may have a combined effect!!!]
Feng Mu is slightly stunned, as if a thunderclap exploded in his mind:
"I’ve heard of equipment having sets, but it’s the first time I’ve heard of Martial Arts having combos. However, if this is the case, it proves that [Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation] indeed has some issues. It’s a fourth-grade Martial Arts, but not completely a fourth-grade Martial Arts!"
Beside him.
Venom was already stunned.
He had a mental connection with Feng Mu and could vaguely feel that his father had already mastered the Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation to Perfection and Limit-Breaking.
How much time has even passed?~
minute or 2 minutes?
No wonder father always said my talent was just a little bit worse than his, this is not just a little bit worse, it’s a billion times better.
Father must be afraid of hurting my confidence, father’s words are really too tactful, too gentle!
Venom was greatly affected, and then courageously felt ashamed and more determined, looking at his father with increasing reverence.
Venom silently resolved in his heart that in the future he would seize every moment to practice crazily, absolutely, absolutely not letting father leave him too far behind.
I, Venom, although my talent is mediocre, I can make up for it with hard work!
Work tirelessly?
Work tirelessly!!!
Work tirelessly—
At this moment, even Venom’s mucus was boiling...
