I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 458 - 359 Let’s Keep it Normal_1

Chapter 458: Chapter 359 Let’s Keep it Normal_1

Diviners, drained to the point of risking their lives, looked exhausted, and what they finally achieved was a compass. Yi Nan, trembling in his arms, handed this compass to Zheng Yichen; the middle-aged man now looked as old as one crossing the threshold of seventy.

The rapid depletion over a short period took an even heavier toll on the diviners’ appearances.

"Boss, no issues detected so far," Lilith’s projection appeared on Zheng Yichen’s shoulder, looking at the compass in Yi Nan’s hand. Through energy monitoring, it had been confirmed that the compass now contained some kind of power, and traces of Supreme Demon energy were also discovered in the monitoring.

However, that energy wasn’t aggressive; it was rather constrained by some force within the compass. This object was now akin to a fantasy version of a location tracker. She wasn’t a rigid computer system and could easily classify such things after encountering corresponding examples.

While a location tracker can pinpoint locations, correspondingly if the person being tracked possesses the relevant equipment, they can also attempt to reverse track the approximate or exact location of the tracker. Generally, however, the person being tracked doesn’t hold such devices.

"Are you all okay?" Zheng Yichen was the first to ask, a bit worried that the four diviners might suddenly drop dead on the road.

"Cough, cough, there’s definitely no problem for now," Yi Nan couldn’t help but cough lightly. Then he did something that made the corner of Zheng Yichen’s mouth twitch slightly: they took out a ’little flour figure’ that they had with them, which seemed to be made from some kind of ingredient.

All four diviners had one each, and in front of Zheng Yichen, they ate them as one would eat a bun, though the taste likely wasn’t very pleasant.

After eating this item, the complexions of the four diviners improved slightly; at least they no longer seemed to be trembling and on the verge of dropping into their graves. Could this actually work?

"This is a little trick of ours, Diviners, to distribute some of the backlash when using the Divination Art," Yi Nan explained about the item they just ate, "It’s just that this distribution can only take effect after the fact."

"Got it," Zheng Yichen understood it as a special health points regeneration drug. The energy drained by the backlash was partially stored by this substance, and once the diviners completed the divination, eating it allowed them to recover a portion of the energy consumed.

It’s a distribution, but it’s a lonely one; it effectively reduces energy drain but is useless during the divination process. If they couldn’t withstand it and perished, the item would be of no use.

After employing universal measures, Yi Nan and the others began to display their own unique tricks. After a flurry of activity, Zheng Yichen, through thermal vision, saw that their lifeforce ’heat sources’ were successfully pulled back to nearly half the level—a huge improvement from having spent over half their lives earlier.

"..." Fine then, Diviners have a long history in this world, and it’s normal for them to have accumulated so many ways to tackle the backlash. But Zheng Yichen had realized that these methods essentially could only be used after the divination had ended, and any good tricks were useless if one expired in the process.

"Don’t you have ways to reduce consumption during the process?"

"Of course, we do. Our previous preparations could reduce the consumption during divination to less than a tenth," Wei Xue spoke up. Specifically, about 5%—a small amount, yes, but for Diviners, this was an extremely potent method.

Any reduction in exhaustion was a cause for quiet celebration; it’s always better than nothing. A slight reduction here, plus some little tricks to fill the gaps, and the overall reduction was not insignificant. Just like now, adding up the reduction during the process and the subsequent replenishment, their total consumption had been reduced by almost a quarter.

Within the community of Diviners, this was an outstanding reduction. Nowadays, virtually no single Diviner could achieve this alone; before the Land of Calamities, perhaps there were a few who could. Now? They had managed this feat collectively.

Once the diviners had recovered somewhat, Zheng Yichen began to use the compass, which had already successfully located the trace of the Supreme Demon. The final results would not be much affected by who used it next.

Observing the changes in the device, Zheng Yichen pondered how to proceed with the next actions. It wasn’t that he hadn’t planned ahead, but the direction that the compass was pointing to was rather troublesome—the compass had many symbols resembling hexagrams, which Zheng Yichen did not understand, but the Diviners beside him could interpret.

There was good reason for Zheng Yichen to hold on to the compass.

Though it might not seem like much... in the eyes of the Diviners, it had significant meaning.

Zheng Yichen was tough, so holding this thing as a user would make the device tougher, like how a good weapon reveals its full potential in the hands of a more formidable person.

According to the Diviners’ explanation, the device first pointed towards the Gate of Hell, located in the Land of Calamities—that is to say, one shouldn’t even dream of finding the Supreme Demon within the Mortal Realm. As for which Supreme Demon was being pointed to, that couldn’t be determined; not many were pinpointed.

Currently, only two had been located, which amounted to randomly selecting two unfortunate Supreme Demons. To locate all their positions in one go?

Forget it. Being able to pinpoint two was already fortunate; they initially only hoped to locate one. The second one came as a bonus.

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