I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 685 - 510: This is a Setup_1

Chapter 685: Chapter 510: This is a Setup_1

Intensely fervent emotions could grant those under the Eye of Life’s attention an additional, temporary Life Force. This Life Force would fade away along with the fervour that spawned it. However, if the fervour was strong enough, that part of the temporary Life Force would also grow stronger, turning the individual experiencing the fervent outburst into a true cockroach of immortality.

However, with Zheng Yichen’s current understanding of power, he knew that this immortality was relative. The temporary Life Force brought about by fervent emotions could act like true Life Force on the individual, but could not be applied to others or distributed further.

Additionally, this temporary Life Force was not truly Life Force. It could heal injuries, and no extra cost would be incurred after the fervour dissipated, but because it wasn’t true Life Force, it might not always be exempt from death attacks.

For instance, some Death type attacks used by Demigods and True Gods come with instant death effects, erasing existences with low Life Force strength. Those with sufficiently resilient Life Force could ignore the instant death, only suffering the direct damage from the Death type attacks, disregarding the instant death effect.

But if the Life Force strength was insufficient, one would be instantly killed before even suffering the direct damage. The temporary Life Force provided by Fervent Blood Life couldn’t enable an individual with an insufficient Life Force strength to ignore such instant death effects.

At least for now, Zheng Yichen felt it was not possible. If in the future the Eye of Life became stronger, possessing greater Divinity and becoming an existence akin to a Demigod, then perhaps he could allow his allies to ignore instant death from Death type attacks of peer enemies.

As for those of True Gods, well, that’s another story.

As long as they don’t encounter beings with instant death abilities, having a bunch of fervent warriors near the Eye of Life would make it the strongest support. As long as the allies are fervent enough, each one is an undying cockroach, and there’s no need to worry about the decline in state after reaching the peak of fervour.

Once reaching such a peak, Zheng Yichen would simply have the ice crystal Heroic Spirit perform a stable freeze, encapsulating those warriors’ fervent emotions at their zenith. While this would fix their Fervent Blood Life Force, it also cemented their state as undying cockroaches. As long as the enemy’s damage did not exceed the healing brought by that part of the Fervent Blood Life Force, then the state’s effect was maxed out.

"The problem is, I’m a lone wolf," Zheng Yichen sighed. How many beings did he have that possessed normal Life Force?

Spiritual Bodies could not benefit from the influence of Fervent Blood Life, and even if he summoned a Hellfire Legion using soul control, they wouldn’t gain any strength from the Eye of Life. Zheng Yichen was alive, yet his offensive skills were more closely linked with negativity.

Fervent Blood Life was positive, and naturally conflicted with him. Just as he could not use ice crystals to freeze his mental state after stimulating sufficient demonic thoughts with Black Light, maintaining a stable level of ’Demonization,’ he would instead coordinate with the ice crystal’s ability for a starting move of ice boxing that might trap his allies.

The Flames of Rage from the ashes silhouette, however, greatly enhanced his combat effectiveness.

So, possessing a myriad of somewhat abnormal powers, even when he created some powerful positive Heroic Spirits, he could hardly enjoy direct conveniences.

This wasn’t like some competitive games that allowed players to choose heroes from the opposing side for gameplay balance, even to the point of disregarding racial differences. Imagine, a demonic tribe’s ally hero under attack could still, ridiculously, receive Holy Light healing from their own side.

In reality, that would translate to allies consciously refusing to associate with demons. After seeing a demonic ally in distress, they’d lift a hand with a Holy Light heal to "save" their own demonic ally, preemptively killing their teammate to prevent the tragedy of an enemy taking them down.

At this moment, Zheng Yichen actually missed the gamey nature of those games.

Sizzle—

A grating sound echoed by Zheng Yichen’s ear. He looked up at the sky and swung the fishing rod in his hand, dispersing a cluster of energy thrown at him.

"Hand it over!"

The warrior who attacked, eyes reddened, brandished a spear crackling with thunderous electricity, his mind in a severely abnormal state.

This extreme abnormal mental state was so strong that Zheng Yichen could sense it from afar. The warrior was under a mental influence that drove him insane and also put him under additional control, his frenzied spirit further boosting his combat prowess.

"No way!"

"Roar—" Unable to suppress his madness, the warrior bellowed, his body erupting in blinding lightning and transforming into a bolt of thunder heading straight for Zheng Yichen. Facing the formidable attack, Zheng Yichen simply flicked the fishing rod.

The space in front of him distorted massively, the shadow of the lightning crashing solidly against the spatial distortion. Vast amounts of electricity forced their way into the distortion at such speed that they shattered. Spatial distortion was like that—not as lethal as spatial rifts or cuts.

But that didn’t mean it was any less effective. Its warping forces were strong, much like a non-Newtonian fluid. Under normal, gentle contact, it was squishy. But strike it hard, and it would give one a taste of being hard as a rock.

Spatial distortion was likewise.

The excessively frantic lightning was directly shattered by the distorted space, revealing the warrior’s divine eagle; the gauntlets on the opponent’s hands had been crushed by the spatial distortion, and the spear in their hands was severely deformed, indicating the weapon’s quality was quite decent.

At the other end of the spatial distortion, Zheng Yichen’s fishing rod released a beam of light that pierced through, disregarding the effect of the spatial distortion— the Black Light reversal inherent high penetrability made the opponent’s armor and battle Qi protection as thin as paper.

The extending White Light pierced the warrior’s body, and amidst the opponent’s roar, Zheng Yichen’s hand slightly twisted, causing the light shaft to burst forth from inside the warrior’s body with a terrifying scene; yet not a single drop of blood spilled, and the warrior was not dead because of it.

The opponent, getting close to Zheng Yichen, was essentially nearing the center of the Life Domain established by the Holy Relic of Life; severe injuries could be quickly recovered from as long as they promptly escaped Zheng Yichen’s attacks.

Even if such an attack had taken his life, as long as his soul was intact, he could revive after a while.

In this world, death began as a wisp of the Power of Death emerging from within the body. To some mighty beings, this power would be weak, but once it manifested, it was tantamount to being branded with the mark of ’death,’ from which not even the mighty could exempt themselves.

However, for sufficiently powerful entities, even if they experienced physical death, they might not necessarily generate that kind of inner Power of Death.

"Aaahhh—" Screaming, the warrior punched, breaking the materialized White Light, and after reigniting thunder throughout his body, expelled all the Light spikes within. The wounds on his body rapidly healed, and he gasped violently in midair.

Afterward, he continued his frantic charge toward Zheng Yichen. He was already under the sway of a Demigod’s power and in a frenzied mental state, not stopping due to injuries; it didn’t matter that he had lost his weapon—as long as he lived, the battle would not cease.

Zheng Yichen probed the warrior’s chest with Black Light reversal emanating directly from the fishing rod. The frenzied warrior showed a trace of astonishment, then quickly retreated from Zheng Yichen as if electrocuted, gasping uneasily.

The Black Light blade embedded in his chest had dispelled his mental aberration, allowing his mental state to return. In his frenzy just now, he had not been completely irrational; he knew what he had done and understood that if not for the influence of the Life Domain, he would have been instantly killed by Zheng Yichen.

He touched the Black Light blade on his chest without pulling it out, feeling that the force that dominated and disturbed his mind had not dissipated.

The power that drove his mind into chaos was still at work; it was just that the abnormalities in his mind were now encapsulated within the Black Light blade. The moment it was removed, he would revert to the previous dominated state, and that feeling of involuntarily fighting for the enemy was intolerable.

The temporarily sane warrior chose without hesitation to Escape the battle. He no longer wished to continue the subsequent struggle. As an entity with Divinity, he would just be a slightly tougher cannon fodder in the later contest—the real stage was reserved for the Demigods.

He had to flee quickly, return to the City of Dawn Light, find a safe place to gradually erode the force affecting his mind, then remove the Black Light blade.

The divinely empowered warrior made a clean break, but Zheng Yichen was fully exposed to the half-dead’s view because of the recent battle.

Regarding this, Zheng Yichen tossed the Holy Relic of Life in his hand, "Do you all so desire to snatch what belongs to me?"

"Your things? Compared to us, you’ve just arrived a step earlier," a Demigod spoke up, eyeing the Holy Relic of Life in Zheng Yichen’s hand and then glancing at the Eye of Life beside him, which was a ’Heroic Spirit’ emitting a life aura seemingly related to the Holy Relic of Life in Zheng Yichen’s hand.

It appeared that belonged to Zheng Yichen; he had conducted a successful summoning ritual there, summoning a Divinity-carrying Heroic Spirit, but the commotion was somewhat large, leading to a significant leakage of Life Power.

Incidentally, such large-scale influencing practices were forbidden within the City of Dawn Light. In the city, you could set up some alchemical workshops for research, and even if there were control losses and explosions, compensation afterward would suffice.

Yet, if it involved research or operations related to Divine Power within the City of Dawn Light, it was a violation of divine laws. If you want to do that, do it outside the city!

In the view of the talking Demigod, Zheng Yichen did this near the City of Dawn Light presumably to enter as soon as he was done, at which point others could only watch.

However, the disturbance here was too great. Zheng Yichen didn’t manage to reach the City of Dawn Light in time, and having come to seal off the area, they left no chance for escape.

Most of the time, Demigods cared about their dignity and wouldn’t be so ’shameless,’ but the Holy Relic of Life in Zheng Yichen’s hand was too powerful, enough to provoke the Demigods’ greed, not to mention that it was even more beneficial to Life-type Demigods—it was like the ultimate treasure for them...

Zheng Yichen smiled, put away the red orb in his hand, and the target was now ensnared; next, it was time to fight.