I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 206 - 176: Not All Ultimates Are Created Equal_1

Chapter 206: Chapter 176: Not All Ultimates Are Created Equal_1

"Hair’s all tied up."

Katrina looked at Zheng Yichen, who was facing the mirror, with a smile. Zheng Yichen glanced at his reflection in the mirror, and his eye twitched slightly. In just ten or fifteen days, his hair had grown back to drag on the ground.

As for his appearance, he didn’t feel any particularly abrupt changes due to seeing himself every day. It was only by measuring that he could confirm the subtle changes happening to him every day.

But getting back to his original state still required time.

Don’t even mention being fully developed by the teens—that he didn’t deny. The problem was that his rejuvenation wasn’t a normal case of reverting to youth.

His change was similar to that of the giant serpent. The reduced-size growth even affected his body’s ’normal development.’ Recovery growth continued, but the standard for daily appearance remained at the lowest level of growth. Otherwise, with his regular physical training, he would’ve already returned to that ’this is seriously an eight-year-old!?’ level.

"Feels weird."

Zheng Yichen felt that wearing clothes from the world of martial arts wouldn’t be an issue now, but wearing regular modern clothes was very... well, you know.

"What’s so weird about it? The quality of this hair is so good. Do you really want to cut it later?"

"Cut, cut, cut. It’s just too inconvenient to keep," Zheng Yichen said decisively. He was only keeping his hair long at the moment as a source of materials since there were no other matters to attend to, and he could endure it for a while. Properly tied up, it didn’t impede his daily training.

Once grown long enough, it would be more convenient to use for making certain things. The creations that the two witches researched made Zheng Yichen marveled. He didn’t even know he was so awesome. The curse artifacts made from his hair could actually be passed down by bloodline?

The same was true for blessing artifacts.

"I’ll skip breakfast."

Katrina nodded and watched Zheng Yichen leave for a research institute.

Whenever Fire Dragon Klakauska had nothing important to do, he would be at this research institute. He was somewhat taken aback when he saw Zheng Yichen, and like others, he wondered if Zheng Yichen had been struck by a curse...

"Could it not be a blessing?" Zheng Yichen looked at the fire dragon with dissatisfaction as he saw significant expression reveal on its colossal dragon face.

"Huh? How can a blessing be like this? A blessing that makes someone younger would only transform the recipient’s body to its peak condition, not this little kid state." The fire dragon’s claw gestured, "How strong you were among humans before, but now you seem far too frail."

Prior to this, Zheng Yichen’s shoulders and arm muscles were incredibly well-defined. Now? Once clothed, you could hardly see any sign of training.

"..." After moving its head a bit closer to Zheng Yichen, the fire dragon’s initially eager expression turned serious, and it sniffed gently, "What’s going on, are there gods in this world? Where does that god-like aura on you come from?"

The fire dragon’s mind was filled with curses. He wanted to gloat, but after smelling the god-like aura lingering on Zheng Yichen, he felt like a fool. It would have been alright if that aura was of an evil god or the like.

But the lingering aura was pure.

It was different from the gods in his own world, yet had similarities, sharing the same divine nature.

Ever since learning about the Environmental Adjustment of the world, the fire dragon realized that those lofty deities, if they accidentally came to a world with a lower environment, might well be slain by mortals. Even if mortals had to pay a great price to slay gods, the chance had jumped from nearly zero to highly probable.

"You can smell that too?" Zheng Yichen was feeling like the fire dragon’s nose was a bit too sharp. He hadn’t felt anything himself; it was just that the Performance Coefficient of his body’s attributes was a bit higher.

"I’m a dragon, after all. Ordinary humans must look up to... Ah, you’re no longer an ordinary human."

Noticing that Zheng Yichen’s eyes narrowed slightly, the fire dragon immediately toned down the pride on his face, "Cough, cough, I’m very curious what you’ve encountered, tell me. I’ll trade you a forbidden spell."

He had previously provided Zheng Yichen with quite a bit of magical knowledge, but that knowledge was generally common and of a universal type. Some specific ones were still in his mind, including forbidden spells. He couldn’t use forbidden spells in this world, but in other worlds, they could be utilized.

In the one-plus month that Zheng Yichen had been away, he had participated in several interventions into Alien Phenomenon worlds, some of which made him feel even more oppressed.

Once there, he was left mostly with his inherent dragon breath talent and sturdy dragon body; he could barely release any magic. In this world, holding back could manage to muster some decently powerful intermediate magic, but in those worlds, it was merely playing tricks...

Even though the dragons’ tricks are considered low-level magic within the human scope of his own world, they are still tricks after all.

After that, he doubted the information provided by Ahn Qi a bit less; arbitrarily wandering through different Alien Phenomenon worlds, the situation might not get better but instead worse, and what somewhat relieved him was that the technological development in that world was rather unimpressive.

There were Knights, but they were clad in ordinary tin can armor, wielding weapons like Crossbow Arrows—siege crossbows and the like could pose some threat to him, but ordinary crossbow arrows? Forget it, the tinkling sound they made when hitting him was rather pleasant.

However, spending too much time flying around such a world could be exhausting, with magic limited to mere tricks and despite a dragon’s body being robust, he seriously doubted he’d fare well in that world even without worrying about any weapons threatening him.

Time, after all, is a form of power; once his physique was adjusted again, robust it was, but it couldn’t resist the force of time anymore.

In his world, a dragon could live tens of thousands of years without illness or disaster without any pressure; however, the longer he lived, the higher the probability of encountering death would rise—how many centuries would he live in the previous Alien Phenomenon world he visited? That was just absurd.

Besides those worlds with lower environments, he had also visited other high Environment Adjustment worlds, where he could unleash high-level Magic; although releasing a forbidden spell was still difficult, and the expressiveness of magic wasn’t as strong, he felt no significant change in his physical condition in that world.

There was not much difference from Hazy City’s world, which meant that in that world, he couldn’t rely on his dragon constitution to physically resist powerful energy attacks—he had to use shields, otherwise those energy attacks that he could ignore in his native world would leave him bruised and even peel off his skin if severe.

"Would that kind of thing be of any use to me? I don’t know how to use magic." Zheng Yichen looked at the Fire Dragon with disdain; magic counted as a skill, but when it came to worlds associated with the Alien Phenomenon, it wasn’t just about the higher the power, the better—it depended on the cost.

Low-level magic could be conjured even in low environments, though it was particularly mediocre in high environments due to a low upper limit, but the influence of the environment was minimal.

Forbidden spells? Once he learned them, could he just throw them out like Fireballs? It would be better to practice Blood Asura more. After finding out there was nothing wrong with that martial art, he started training; only after truly practicing did he realize that the martial art and his own Extraordinary abilities had a lot of overlap... or rather, a very high compatibility.

With compatibility so high, once he grasped Blood Asura, many effects didn’t require extra specialization; they were directly covered and maximized by his own Extraordinary abilities.

If there was a benefit, it was that it became more convenient to gather blood energy—no need to rely on the wind anymore.

Furthermore, the core Inner Strength cultivated through Blood Asura allowed him to use Blood Combustion Transform to Origin more efficiently. He significantly reduced the loss rate during Return to Origin, doubled the temporary storage limit, and the temporary enhancements used to be only physical, but with Inner Strength, they included skill power as well.

It was like having an additional energy bar. The previous idea of converting the part of blood absorption that overflowed into a ’shield’ could now actually be implemented with the Inner Strength of Blood Asura.

The operation of storing the extra life origin that overflowed in daily life still needed him to develop it himself. Blood Asura, a martial art nurtured by combat, included many related skills: auxiliary, burst, and endurance, but all these were effective only during immediate combat.

As for the daily maintenance? There was none, nor was there really any need. Once one learned Blood Asura, continuous fighting would skyrocket the leveling speed; no need for daily meticulous training at all.

It wasn’t necessary to think too much about daily meticulous refinement of martial arts or sculpting them to perfection—more effort, less reward.

Blood Asura itself was an Evil Path martial art with high burst and endurance; when encountering enemies, just steamroll through them—Blood Combustion Transform to Origin, Blood Sacrifice Burst, Asura Battle Intent, Demonic Abyss Seven Kills... none suitable for calm daily practice.

Asura Battle Intent involved invoking the combat will in the midst of battle, significantly boosting one’s own battle spirit; simply put, it accumulates a special state alongside charging, making one increasingly resistant to mental anomalies.

Even the most cowardly could stand tall and become a Battle Maniac Asura with enough build-up, inducing enemies to also become more immersed in battle—sneaky fighters deeply affected might even opt for head-on confrontation, and Blood Asura’s cultivation itself required the nourishment of battle intent, though this was only one way to use Asura Battle Intent.

While invoking the enemy’s battle intent, it also allowed for confrontations based on battle intent, directly crushing the opponent’s battle will—this tactic could kill with a glance, and with the character of the Battle Maniac Asura, the first part is probably all he would employ.

Demonic Abyss Seven Kills could pair with Asura Battle Intent; among the martial arts compatible with Blood Asura, the enhancement of battle intent could influence output. Demonic Abyss Seven Kills is a skill not easily activated in normal combat, not something one could use whenever desired.

When battle intent peaks in combat, one’s own murderous thoughts, demonic thoughts, rage, grudges, and the overflowing intent from enemies during battle can all be incluced under related factors of demonic thoughts... and only after reaching a certain level, this skill could truly be used.

The battle intent in Blood Asura martial art could influence output, and Demonic Abyss Seven Kills had even greater influence, so much so that it was hard to activate. With thoughts deep as the abyss, this move was far more dangerous than Blood Sacrifice Burst, as it required the user to stir their own demonic thoughts as well as those emitted by the enemy that weren’t inherent within them.

It’s easy for the user to be affected by this move, whereas Blood Sacrifice Burst only required consuming the life source within one’s blood.

This move is strong but difficult and risky to use; yet, unlike magic, which couldn’t be cast without sufficient "mana," this martial art could be tried out in ordinary worlds as long as the conditions within oneself and the environment were right—let’s not even mention the required range; this is an abnormal martial art, not magic.

Compared to forbidden spells, this move was also a big deal.