Chapter 2302: The Power of Destiny Tempering!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Only 8%…
w.a.n.g Chong’s heart trembled, and he still refused to relax.
“What do you mean by ‘core portion’?” w.a.n.g Chong cautiously asked.
After a moment of silence, the Stone of Destiny spoke.
“Nightmare Beasts have a completely different mode of living from humans. The core is a part of the body unique to mental creatures like the Nightmare Beast. So long as this part remains, even if the soul shatters, there is still a very high chance of reviving this kind of mental creature. But the damage to target is excessively severe, lowering the revival chance to only 8%!”
w.a.n.g Chong was left flabbergasted by this answer.
The Nightmare Beast had a completely different mode of living from humans?
w.a.n.g Chong had long ago known about this, but he had not expected this to be the key to saving the Nightmare Beast.
“Stone of Destiny, use this method! You have to save the Nightmare Beast!” w.a.n.g Chong ordered.
“User’s order received. Using the additional privilege, Destiny Tempering. As Archon of Destiny, user has at most two chances to use Destiny Tempering. Notice: after this, user will have one more chance to use Destiny Tempering.
“User should use it cautiously.”
“Use the power of Destiny Tempering!” w.a.n.g Chong immediately said.
Buzz!
As w.a.n.g Chong spoke, an enormous energy surged out from the void and into Little Nightmare’s soul remnant.
Flames blazed to life, and the azure Soul Fire immediately turned violet-red. Moreover, the flames rapidly began to swell, and it wasn’t long before they took the form of a furnace.
Bang!
With an intense shudder, violet-red flames splashed out as if some invisible giant with a hammer was pounding away at Little Nightmare’s soul.
This was the power of Destiny Tempering!
Bang!
As that invisible hammer came down, w.a.n.g Chong could see numbers floating into the air. Each hammer swing cost w.a.n.g Chong five hundred thousand points of Destiny Energy.
He suddenly realized why Destiny Tempering was called an ‘additional privilege’. Each hammer strike cost five hundred thousand points of Destiny Energy, so even with the most abundant reserve of Destiny Energy, he would quickly use it all. Crucially, saving Little Nightmare’s soul would take more than just one swing.
Boomboomboom!
This sound was booming and majestic, constantly resounding through s.p.a.ce. The hammer swung down eight times, using up four million points of w.a.n.g Chong’s Destiny Energy, but Little Nightmare’s soul still did not revive.
However, w.a.n.g Chong could clearly sense that Little Nightmare’s shattered soul was much more condensed, many ‘impurities’ hammered out.
The revival chances for Little Nightmare’s soul had also risen from 8% to 9%, and with each swing, the chance continued to rise. 9%, 10%, 11%, 12%…
w.a.n.g Chong’s Destiny Energy was being consumed at a rapid rate, but w.a.n.g Chong was not at all shaken. Compared to Little Nightmare’s life, the amount of Destiny Energy he was using was unimportant.
When the revival chance reached 28%, w.a.n.g Chong noticed that the speed at which Destiny Tempering increased the chance had slowed, as if it had run into some sort of hindrance.
“Stone of Destiny, is there any other method of increasing Little Nightmare’s revival chances?” w.a.n.g Chong said.
After a few moments of silence, the Stone of Destiny said, “There is one other method, but it will do considerable damage to user’s body…”
w.a.n.g Chong cut it off before it could finish.
“No matter the cost, use it at once!” w.a.n.g Chong immediately said.
Boom! There was a flash of violet light. The Stone of Destiny did not hesitate upon receiving w.a.n.g Chong’s order, and an invisible energy linked the stone with w.a.n.g Chong.
Bzzz! Before w.a.n.g Chong could react, a powerful pull erupted from the Stone of Destiny, and w.a.n.g Chong felt his Psychic Energy and large quant.i.ties of his life energy being drawn into the Stone of Destiny, turned into some sort of nutrient that was poured into the Destiny Tempering ability.
Boom!
The Stone of Destiny activated the Destiny Tempering again, but this time, w.a.n.g Chong could actually see the giant hammer appearing in s.p.a.ce, descending with thunderous speed and slamming into the violet-red soul light of Little Nightmare.
The flames splas.h.i.+ng out were far greater than before!
Little Nightmare’s core soul was directly condensed into a ball, and the revival chance rose all the way from 28% to 58% and beyond.
Boom!
After some time, just when w.a.n.g Chong had reached almost maximum exhaustion of his mental and physical energy, fatigue sweeping over him, everything finally stopped with one thunderous boom.
The violet-red light floated in the air, completely free of impurities and leaving behind only the most core materials.
This core soul was not even one percent the size of the original and was extremely weak, but there was no doubt that it was Little Nightmare’s soul.
“Little Nightmare!”
w.a.n.g Chong was elated as he sensed that familiar energy.
Success!
After so much effort, Little Nightmare had really been brought back to life!
w.a.n.g Chong could barely contain himself and quickly took Little Nightmare’s soul into his hand.
Although Little Nightmare’s soul was extremely weak and far away from its peak, it was already a great blessing that it could survive after self-detonation.
After what seemed like an eternity, a weak voice appeared in w.a.n.g Chong’s mind.
“M-master?!”
In front of w.a.n.g Chong, Little Nightmare’s soul pulsed, its voice filled with disbelief.
It was obvious that it had not believed it could survive that fierce explosion.
w.a.n.g Chong was overjoyed. This was undoubtedly the best news he had heard in a while. Not even speaking, w.a.n.g Chong swiftly used his Psychic Energy to scan Little Nightmare’s soul.
No problems!
Little Nightmare had lost its destructive power and was like a newborn. It would have to start from the beginning.
But w.a.n.g Chong could find no blemish on its soul. With its absurdly powerful abilities, the Stone of Destiny had fixed all of its flaws.
It did not matter that it had no strength. What was most important was that Little Nightmare was still alive.
“What in the world happened? Do you still remember? Why were you there?” w.a.n.g Chong asked.
Little Nightmare had not gone with him to Sindhu, but had remained in the capital. At present, it was probably the only one that knew the truth.
But w.a.n.g Chong was still somewhat worried. He found it impossible to estimate how much damage the self-detonation had done to Little Nightmare’s soul and memories.
In the worst-case scenario, there would be no hope of Little Nightmare being able to answer his questions.
Thankfully, that wasn’t the case.
“Master, we were fooled. Heaven and the Celestial G.o.d Organization have taken complete control of the capital.” Little Nightmare’s voice came from the soul. Its voice was weak, but it was very stable. It was clearly out of danger.
“Master, you have to stop them no matter what!”
A moment later, Nightmare Beast displayed its memories to w.a.n.g Chong.
After the war in the northeast had ended, Little Nightmare had patrolled between the King of Foreign Lands Residence and w.a.n.g Family Residence. This was both to keep these places safe and to quietly cultivate so that it could properly integrate with Genesis Supreme’s body.
The Nightmare Beast couldn’t even remember the last time it had possessed a human body. For Little Nightmare, moving from traveling on four feet to traveling on two feet was actually rather difficult.
Normally, Nightmare Beasts would not take human bodies, but Genesis Supreme’s physical body had been just too strong. Even for a Nightmare Beast, a Grotto Heaven realm body was simply too tempting.
Power was what drew them.
The Nightmare Beast spent most of its time deep underground to cultivate and rarely intervened in what was happening on the surface. The first to summon it from its cultivation was actually w.a.n.g Chong’s Divine Embryo 3.
Divine Embryo 3 was the first to sense something wrong with the capital’s Xiangliu Formation, as if something was obstructing its energy flow.
But Divine Embryo 3 couldn’t find the reason, not even with Divine Embryo 2, so in the end, they had chosen to get in touch with the Nightmare Beast.
As a mental creature, the Nightmare Beast had even stronger Psychic Energy than w.a.n.g Chong’s original body, let alone his two clones. The Nightmare Beast was far more capable of sensing minor details.
The Nightmare Beast was extremely loyal to w.a.n.g Chong, so it quickly went out to see what was going on, but what it found was completely surprising.
Firstly, Little Nightmare had found that the Xiangliu Formation had been invaded by some powerful outside force that had caused it to stop, and immediately after that, w.a.n.g Chong’s two Divine Embryos were attacked within the capital.
The attackers were none other than Essence Supreme and several other Supremes.
While w.a.n.g Chong’s clones were powerful, they were much weaker than old Grotto Heaven realm monsters like Essence Supreme.
But the capital was still w.a.n.g Chong’s home court, presided over by many experts, together with the Demonic Emperor Old Man and Wushang Village Chief. Thus an intense battle broke out, circling around the King of Foreign Lands Residence and w.a.n.g Family Residence which were being protected by Divine Embryos 2 and 3.
Even Su Zhengchen had partic.i.p.ated in this battle of unimaginable ferocity.
By the time the Nightmare Beast had arrived, the area had been covered with corpses and berserk floods of energy. But the Nightmare Beast was still able to use its immense Psychic Energy to restrain Essence Supreme’s group.
The advantage in terrain and numbers should have been enough to compete with Essence Supreme’s group, but even before the battle could enter a stalemate, a figure emerged that completely upset the tempo of the battle.