Chapter 377 - - 374 The Power of Faith_1

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After obtaining the cheating device Huang Liang, no one was really a match for Duge anymore, especially since he had even stronger cheating devices like “Linyang Daily Newspaper” and astrology fortunes.

The astrology fortunes added a luck buff, and the “Linyang Daily Newspaper” granted fame and boosted attributes for everyone.

The greatest killer was Gao Ming; after attributing all the credit for killing the enemy to him, his terrifying swordsmanship took deep root in people’s hearts. “Heavenly Spirit Swordsmanship” grew more powerful by the day, and no one who had encountered Sword Eighteen and become Gao Ming’s enemy had lived to see the following morning.

As more people witnessed the power of Sword Eighteen and Sword Nineteen, Gao Ming’s reputation soon surpassed that of the Qinglan Sword Saint. He firmly became known as the first in swordsmanship and was called Sword Immortal Yunyao by the world.

More swordsmanship grandmasters began to study the “Heavenly Spirit Swordsmanship,” all of them looking forward to the day they could witness Fairy Yunyao herself perform the Sword Domain, which swordsmanship experts believed to be the ultimate realm of swordsmanship.

As more people started to realize the benefits of astrology fortunes, astrology truly became a culture, with those studying astronomy and observing celestial phenomena beginning to search the heavens for the embodiments of the Twelve Zodiac Signs…

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With various buffs enhancing oneself, the remaining time became garbage time.

Even with six Alien Warriors under his command, including Fei Zhu who was among the top ten, Marshal Guan Qiong of Chu Country was easily defeated by Duge.

Fei Zhu’s keyword was imitation, having awakened the ability ‘Confuse the real with the fake’, which enabled him to instantly replicate all the opponent’s skills.

But when Leng Shi and his team came to kill him, he didn’t even know how he died…

Having taken out the Alien Warrior, Guan Qiong’s Chu army lost its threat and was naturally incorporated as one of their own. With so many precedents, Guan Qiong didn’t even put up a symbolic resistance before surrendering neatly.

Having subdued Guan Qiong, the next targets were King Chu and the Queen Wu Tong.

Wu Tong kept more than twenty Alien Warriors by her side, these twenty warriors encompassing keywords like calculation, abstraction, loneliness, balance, and others, both good and bad.

With defense, offense, and support, coupled with her charm, nearly thirty skills among over twenty people, Wu Tong thought she could at least exchange a few blows with Duge. Yet, she was instantly defeated at first encounter.

She didn’t even understand how her meticulously crafted integrated defense was breached…

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No one could withstand being hit by Duge twice.

The rehearsal was too buggy.

In the space of a month.

Pei Maer, Wei Jiuchu, Fei Zhu, Wu Tong…

One by one, the warriors in the top ten were uprooted by Duge.

Aside from Ma Shichun of the North Sea Country, all the top-ten individuals were now under Duge’s control.

Meng Chu, the once top-ten general of the North Sea Country, was quickly ousted by the simulation star Little Huang Liang and never rose again.

During this period.

More people from Qiyuan Star gathered around Duge.

Wang San this time had the keyword misery, awakening the skill ‘Who is more miserable than me’, which forcibly dragged the opponent into a pity contest with him.

In a one-on-one fight, this was a useless skill; after all, injuring the enemy a thousand meant self-harm of eight hundred, only useful against someone weaker than himself.

But in a team, it became a potent single-target control ability. Any enemy caught by him could do nothing but wallow in misery, easily suppressed by his teammates.

Therefore.

Wang San was dubbed the Star of Catastrophe and ascended to the throne of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs.

The first to be ruthlessly defeated by Duge in the simulation, Feng Jiu Xu Sheng, also rejoined the team.

This unlucky kid’s keyword this time was inferiority, a thoroughly useless keyword, awakening the skill self-abandonment; when he felt like a pile of mud, others would avoid him.

This was a life-saving skill but of no help in team battles, so Duge labeled him the Star of the Earthly Wasteland.

There were others with a variety of strange keywords like stealing, wandering, vulnerability, clarity, and many more.

Eventually, more than thirty people from Qiyuan Star gathered around Duge, some having awakened abilities, others not, with most keywords showing no prospects for development.

The kind who could be killed by the locals just walking down the road; no wonder they dared not come to find Duge from afar.

But this group at least belonged to the same Qiyuan Star colleagues. Since they had come, he couldn’t simply ignore them.

So, this group was sent by Duge to the army for training, whether they could awaken abilities was left to their fate.

Now, by Duge’s side were Gao Ming’s boasting, Wang San’s misery, Huang Liang’s tests, Ge Zong’s absurdity, along with himself.

The five of them combined could sweep the world. Whether the rest awakened abilities or not didn’t matter much to him anymore.

Another two months passed.

Duge completed the unification of Chongming Country and Qingwu Country, and Luo Shuang became a legitimate queen, avenging her father and brothers by killing Duke Dingguo and his family.

While the generals were on campaigns to the east and west reclaiming lost lands, Duge led Huang Liang and others on a lightning raid thousands of miles to North Sea Country, killing Ma Shichun and the General of Central Lang Meng Chu, along with a bunch of people from Pulo Star gathered around them.

To be precise, Ma Shichun wasn’t killed; he enjoyed the same treatment once given to Wu Chang by Duge, who chained him up and confined him at the bottom of a well.

Ma Shichun’s key characteristics should have something to do with the welfare of the people or reputation, and moreover, he created a derivative item—the Umbrella of All People.

It could gather the willpower of the common people within himself, unyielding and immortal.

Regrettably, immortality with neither offensive nor defensive abilities was useless in war. After cleaning up his supporters, he was at Duge’s mercy.

It only took slowly eroding Ma Shichun’s influence over North Sea Country for his immortal body to lose its effect.

After subduing Ma Shichun, the North Sea King decisively chose to submit to Luo Shuang.

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In just over four months, Luo Shuang unified the nations and became the most powerful empress in history, shaking the world…

At this time.

There were fewer than two hundred Alien Warriors left.

But these people were like water blended into the sea, impossible for Duge to find no matter what method he used.

Clearly, realizing that Duge was unbeatable, most chose to save their own lives, surviving as long as they could.

This time, even though all the survivors from Qiyuan Star were gathered around Duge, not a single person had skills related to detection.

Searching for a few dozen individuals determined to hide among billions of people was as hard as touching the sky.

Since they were bent on hiding, Duge simply stopped looking and instead, using the fortune of the zodiac signs and gathering Alien Warriors around him, carried out a vigorous renovation of people’s livelihoods in Qingwu Country and further advanced the research in science and martial arts techniques.

He still had one skill from the trend that hadn’t emerged; why rush back to Qiyuan Star in such a hurry? Wasn’t it just as pleasurable to enjoy his life here?

When fighting Wei Jiuchu, Wei Jiuchu revealed a talent as a fire Magician, but his art technique was far inferior to Duge’s Sea God’s Power, effective against ordinary people but not so much.

Against alien warriors with strong regenerative abilities, it was almost like scratching an itch.

Using art techniques against Grandmasters was impossible to hit, which explains why in this world, techniques are considered inferior to martial arts…

But with the boosts from Zodiac Sign fortunes, Magicians made daily breakthroughs in their research of techniques, and the martial arts Grandmasters too had daily insights, stepping into the Great Grandmaster realm one after another.

The first to enter the Great Grandmaster realm was the State Preceptor Chen Su, who pursued the Way of Nature, blending into the natural world without much offensive strength, but after becoming a Great Grandmaster, he could easily call forth wind and rain, summon lightning and thunder, aiming towards transforming into a Land Immortal.

As for Qinglan Sword Saint, after secretly observing Fairy Yunyao’s “Heavenly Spirit Swordsmanship” several times, he managed to deduce Sword Twenty Three…

And Luo Shuang’s first female general, Huangfu Yue, fueled by her mad infatuation with Duge, awakened within two months the path of a Grandmaster, her spear thrusting forward with a flourish of blossoms, making it impossible for anyone to guard their rear against her.

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Two more months passed.

Duge, who was tirelessly writing zodiac predictions every day, finally awakened the second ability of the trend:

The Power of Faith: People who follow the trend you created will provide you with The Power of Faith.

As soon as the ability emerged, Duge felt a revolutionary change in his spiritual power.

It was as if the spirits of many people were converging on him from all directions.

In an instant, his spiritual power jumped from over forty thousand to over a million.

And the reach of his divine consciousness rapidly expanded to cover one city, then two, and continued to spread at every moment.

Within the area covered by his divine consciousness, he could hear birds singing, flowers blooming, and people’s whispers clearly.

He could even accurately pinpoint the direction of the sounds without having to try hard.

Deification through faith!

At that moment, Duge was shocked by this ability; if he continued to promote the zodiac fortunes, those Alien Warriors hidden in the shadows would have to remain silent forever, never revealing any behavior out of the ordinary.

Otherwise, he would eventually catch them…

But Pan-Universe Entertainment didn’t give Duge the chance to display his divine power.

After Duge’s consciousness covered half of the planet, they decisively ended the Alien Battlefield and sent everyone back.

The top ten placements were already fixed.

The odds for Wu Chang and Huang Liang had dropped to the lowest, and no bettors were willing to place bets anymore. Continuing this Alien Battlefield was pointless.

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