Human Clan Defender-Chapter 451 -s 200-201 Turbulence of Heavenly Mechanism (Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 451: Chapters 200-201 Turbulence of Heavenly Mechanism (Vote for Monthly Tickets)

With a wave of his hand, the blood paper turned to dust. Shen Changqing glanced at the corpse on the ground, feeling a slight regret. His only regret was that he had not truly witnessed this Cultivation Technique. As for the Qingyuan Ancestor dying at someone else’s hands, that was of little concern to him. The other party was dead, so be it. The Divine Ability Value was his all the same. In this, it shared some commonalities with the Slaughter Value: as long as a Mountain Spirit perished within a certain range of him, he would automatically obtain Divine Ability Value.

Calming his mind, Shen Changqing saw the values on his panel.

Name: Shen Changqing

Affiliation: Great Qin’s Demon Suppression Division

Identity: South Nether Prefecture Defender Envoy

Realm: Great Grandmaster

Divine Soul: Divine Soul (Second Order)

Flesh: Divine Heaven Golden Body (Sixth Order)

Martial Arts: Star Finger (Divine Skills First Grade, Upgradeable), Ascension Step (Second Layer, Upgradeable)

Slaughter Value: 726

Divine Ability Value: 580

Divine Ability Value has reached five hundred and eighty points! Shen Changqing took a deep breath, his heart unavoidably stirring. Five hundred and eighty Divine Ability Value points—it was simply a bountiful harvest!

But on reflection, after slaying hundreds of Mountain Spirits, he had only obtained a little over five hundred Divine Ability Value points in the end. Evidently, the Divine Ability Value from Mountain Spirits was still granted at a one-to-one ratio, unlike with Demon Evil, where the Slaughter Value increased significantly with their strength.

However, he couldn’t be entirely sure how many Divine Ability Value points each of the four Shapechanging Mountain Spirits had provided—whether it was one point or more. But, without a doubt, the amount of Divine Ability Value from the four Shapechanging Mountain Spirits definitely wouldn’t be very high.

Seeing the values on the panel, Shen Changqing mused to himself, With five hundred and eighty Divine Ability Value points, I wonder to what level Star Finger can be elevated!

With this thought, he directly chose to upgrade. Instantly, two hundred of his Divine Ability Value points were consumed. Before Shen Changqing could react, he felt his mind pulled by some force into a void-like space.

In that void space, a galaxy flowed, seeming to traverse all of space itself. Above the galaxy, countless brilliant stars shone, the vast cosmos laid out like a chessboard, irresistibly drawing one’s mind towards them.

Suddenly, the stars trembled. A star hanging high above plummeted towards the galaxy below like a meteor. At that moment, the void collapsed, as if the heavens were sundering and the earth splitting apart. Before such power, Shen Changqing felt he was not a Great Grandmaster, but a tiny, weak ant. Should the star fall, it could easily erase him.

I cannot die! As immense terror welled up in his heart, his expression became contorted. He desperately wanted to flee, but there was no escape. In the end, he could only watch helplessly as the star fell and completely engulfed him. Just before his consciousness plunged into complete darkness, Shen Changqing thought he saw something different.

「——」

In the temple, the motionless body suddenly trembled. As his eyes opened, an aura of destruction swept out in all directions.

BOOM!!

The vast temple instantly collapsed. But none of the dust could come within thirty feet of Shen Changqing’s body. He paid no mind to the temple’s collapse; all his attention was focused on recalling the scene of the falling star.

This is a Divine Skill! After a long moment, Shen Changqing let out a deep breath. He understood he had made further progress with his Divine Skills.

When he looked at his panel again, sure enough, Star Finger had advanced from Divine Skills First Grade to Divine Skills Second Grade. But when he saw the remaining Divine Ability Value, Shen Changqing’s face darkened.

Two hundred Divine Ability Value points gone! Although he had been prepared for the cost of the upgrade, he was still shocked to see two hundred Divine Ability Value points vanish. The cost was truly immense. He shouldn’t be misled by how easily he’d obtained over five hundred Divine Ability Value points this time; that was only because he’d happened to catch most of the Mountain Spirits from four mountain ranges in one fell swoop. To gain such a large amount of Divine Ability Value again would be very difficult. Take Fengqiu Mountain, for example; despite his hard work, he had only managed to obtain a single Divine Ability Value point.

Instantly, Shen Changqing suppressed the urge to upgrade Star Finger further.

I can’t upgrade Divine Skills any further for now. I should wait until I can fuse an even stronger Divine Skill before attempting further enhancements.

Unlike Outer Techniques, he had discovered a distinct advantage in the progression of Martial Arts: a baseline proficiency. It seemed that as long as one of the Martial Arts being fused had reached basic proficiency, the resulting fused Martial Art would start at least at this entry stage, commonly known as the first layer. Conversely, if neither of the base Martial Arts had reached this entry stage, the fused Martial Art would also start at an uninitiated stage.

Regardless of whether Star Finger is at Divine Skills First Grade or Second Grade, if I fuse it into a higher-tier Martial Art later, that new Art will still start at Divine Skills First Grade. If that’s the case, upgrading Star Finger now is truly a waste. It would be better to fuse my Divine Skills to the highest possible level achievable at the current stage, and *then* use Divine Ability Value to enhance them. That would be the most economical approach.

Having figured this out, Shen Changqing felt a pang of regret. Two hundred Divine Ability Value points wasted just like that; it would be a lie to say it didn’t hurt. But what was done, was done. He knew the consumed Divine Ability Value points weren’t coming back.

He then looked at Ascension Step and attempted to upgrade it. In the end, two Divine Ability Value points were consumed, and Ascension Step was upgraded directly from the Second Layer to the Fourth Layer.