Chapter 416 - - 411 Duge’s Adventure Idea_1

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When the news of the ascetics spread, White Stone City was thrown into chaos.

Those with Martial Spirits and those without all began to enthusiastically use painful methods to temper themselves, especially the warriors below three-star Martial Spirits, who seemed to have found a shortcut to becoming stronger.

Moreover,

to become an ascetic meant becoming Holley’s disciple, an opportunity to ascend to heaven that also motivated many.

Screams were heard everywhere throughout White Stone City.

The busiest people were the healers and Water Series mages, because too many had injured themselves grievously due to overeagerness.

The next day,

Duge, still without the ability to split, sensed the situation in White Stone City and issued a public announcement in the name of King Holley, stating, “Due to individual differences in constitution, do not rush through ascetic practices, and always prioritize health.”

Then,

Duge gathered all those injured by their ascetic practices, healed their wounds with a large-scale Water Series healing spell, and encouraged and warned them.

He also announced the establishment of a medical group led by Water Series mages, which specifically aided all those injured from ascetic practices at a low cost.

This act of kindness won Duge another wave of reputation points.

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At noon, after settling all his affairs, Duge left White Stone City with Prince Nelson, accompanied by personnel including Duke Linqi, Old Gao, Lass, and Li En.

As for Morris and the original two Nine-star strong men guarding the Duke’s mansion, he left them behind in White Stone City to maintain order.

Simon, who possessed neither a Martial Spirit nor a talent for magic, was also taken by Duge, who personally taught him and sought a path of cultivation for him.

Taking Simon to travel the world was a promise Duge gave him, and a righteous person never breaks their word.

A thousand-mile dike can be destroyed by an ant hole; as an Alien Warrior, no detail can be overlooked.

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Being with Duge was a very horrifying scene.

Splitting could increase attributes, and Duge was anxious to develop a new skill.

So, he was constantly tormenting his own body, severing his hands, arms, breaking his ribs…

Relying on his strong recovery ability, he nearly broke every breakable part of his body at least once.

When the strongest person keeps striving and his recovery ability becomes stronger and stronger, to the point where he doesn’t even need healing magic.

This gave everyone the motivation.

Li En, Lass, and the others were also relentlessly sparring with their own bodies on the road, snapping their finger bones, breaking their arms…

They didn’t dare to be as excessive as Duge, who dared to chop off his own arms, but they still dared to break them.

Moreover, seeing how Duge remained expressionless when tormenting his body, they also learned to bear the severe pain without making a sound.

But for those who had not experienced the tempering of the Alien Battlefield, enduring the pain was quite difficult, so Duge’s team was filled with strange sounds such as “uhn,” “ah,” and “eh.”

It was good that they traveled the skies with a flight spell.

Otherwise, if they had walked the Official Way, who knows what kind of rumors those who heard them might spread!

Still, a group of strong men who self-mutilated crazily flying through the sky was also a very horrifying sight from the perspective of those below.

The spread of ascetic practices wasn’t fast. Aside from White Stone City, outsiders didn’t yet know this was a form of cultivation; to them, the sky looked as if a bunch of Witch Monsters had passed by.

It was also fortunate that most people didn’t know Holley’s appearance, otherwise, with his actions, his reputation as an upright man would have plummeted.

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Prince Nelson and Duke Linqi were also practicing self-torment like madmen.

Ascetic practices had proven to be genuinely effective, and no one wanted to fall behind on this divine path of cultivation…

However,

Duke Linqi, who had been duped by Duge once again, looked upset throughout the entire time.

He had expected Holley might make him take the fall, and he had been prepared to do so, but he didn’t expect that within a day, Holley would place the blame squarely on his head!

Who does such a thing?

That’s just despicable!

And yet, everyone still thinks he’s a good person, a man of honesty and nobility, as if there’s no justice left in this world…

Under Holley’s outrageous maneuvers, his, a Duke’s, reputation in White Stone City had turned utterly foul.

Duke Linqi seriously doubted that one day Duke Holley might drag him out for a public sacrifice, using this “great villain” to brush up his own fame.

The thought of that made Duke Linqi’s determination to temper himself even more fierce; he had to survive!

The prerequisite for survival was strength.

If he could possess a recovery power almost as strong as Holley’s near-immortal body, plus his increasingly strong mastery of magic, perhaps one day he could really arm-wrestle with Holley!

But the scene that followed nearly made Duke Linqi’s eyes pop out of his head.

Duge, who was in mid-flight, suddenly manifested his Sea God Martial Spirit, and then, he split his Martial Spirit.

Duke Linqi watched wide-eyed as the towering Sea God split into two halves, then quickly merged back together…

What was happening?

Holley actually split his own Martial Spirit?

How did he do that?

Since ancient times, everyone knew that the Martial Spirit was used to assist in combat; it could grow stronger, give birth to Soul Skills, and of course, while there were occurrences of a Martial Spirit being torn apart by an enemy in battle, the self-splitting of a Martial Spirit was unheard of.

Moreover, when a Martial Spirit was torn apart in battle, it often resulted in serious damage to its master, requiring a long time to recover to their peak combat strength.

In the battle with the warden, Lass’s four-winged Angel was torn apart by the warden’s King Kong Bear, and to date, Lass remains in a state of weakness, with the four-winged Angel having shrunken in size.

Water Series healing could treat physical injuries, but there was no way to restore the damage done to a Martial Spirit; only time could heal a Martial Spirit…

But just now, what had he seen?

Holley tore apart his own Martial Spirit, and it rapidly returned to its original state.

Not only was the Martial Spirit unharmed but even his own body suffered no damage…

How powerful exactly had he become?

The firm belief of Duke Linqi wavered for a moment.

At this instant.

He even thought, why not simply submit to Holley.

This man was invincible…

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“King, are you alright?” Old Gao also witnessed the scene of Duge splitting his Martial Spirit and asked with concern.

“I’m fine.”

Duge came to a halt, casually casting healing Magic on the people in the team and then began pondering the technique of splitting the Martial Spirit. He was accustomed to multitasking and thought dividing his spiritual power would be simple, but he soon realized that splitting spiritual power and multitasking were completely different.

Although he appeared to be unaffected, his head felt like it was about to explode.

The moment the Sea God Martial Spirit split, it was as if his soul was being forcibly torn into two halves.

An unprecedented pain.

Whether in the simulation field or on the Alien Battlefield, although injuries would recover quickly, the pain was not blocked.

Duge had suffered many injuries: cuts, stabs, poison, suffocation, qi deviation, and so on; he had experienced almost all of them.

This was the reason he managed to crush his own bones without changing his expression, not because he didn’t feel pain but because he was accustomed to it.

But this time, splitting the Martial Spirit truly made Duge experience an unprecedented level of pain. If it weren’t for the need to maintain his invincible image, he would have almost cried out.

Despite the pain, Duge had no intention of giving up. The moment the Martial Spirit split, he truly saw the hope to free himself or even rebel against Pan-Universe Entertainment.

If he could split off a part of his spiritual power, or soul, and still retain a part of his divine consciousness, he would essentially leave a portion of himself on the Alien Battlefield.

That way, he could accurately find out how his body, enhanced to the extreme by the keyword attributes, was being handled by Pan-Universe Entertainment, and what would happen to a battlefield that had been tampered with by an Alien Warrior.

If it turned out that Pan-Universe Entertainment abandoned the Alien Battlefield once the Alien Warrior was recalled, then it would mean a part of his soul had achieved freedom.

If this free fragment of his soul had the chance to grow, it might break into Pan-Universe Entertainment from the outside.

Duge knew that his idea was somewhat fanciful.

But successful or not, it was worth a try. To place his hopes on Luo Shuang and the State Preceptor was too uncertain.

Most importantly, his hidden keyword for this round was ‘Split.’

If he couldn’t split his soul and spiritual power with this keyword, what other keyword could help him?

Fortune favors the brave!

There were two souls in his body, and even losing one would suffice…

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At this moment.

Duge and his companions were in a wilderness. He glanced down and saw a vertical waterfall, beneath which was a deep, green pool.

For Duge, who possessed the Sea God’s Power, water was the best healing elixir. Previously, when he could freely choose a body to possess, his soul was nourished by the flow of water.

Duge turned and flew towards the deep pool, saying as he flew, “I just had some insights regarding the Martial Spirit and I need to verify some things here. Guard the area for me.”

“Yes,” Old Gao and the others answered in unison.

Everyone stopped their self-destructive actions.

Those with a Martial Spirit brought out their own Martial Spirits, the sight of Duge tearing apart the Sea Spirit was too shocking.

They all knew that once Duge found the way to split the Martial Spirit, the entire world’s method of cultivating Martial Spirits would be overturned.

This might really be a path to divinity…

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