GA: Chapter 121: The Shackles of a Godslayer's Divine Rank — Voban's Confidence
Dongfang Bai's expression was thoroughly complicated. What a shame that such a powerful manual could only be cultivated by someone without internal energy.
Was she really going to abandon the Sunflower Manual she'd spent so many years perfecting, and switch to this enhanced Star-Absorbing Technique instead?
She couldn't quite bring herself to do it...
But leaving it uncultivated felt equally unbearable.
After all, the enhanced Star-Absorbing Technique was overwhelmingly more powerful — the Sunflower Manual couldn't begin to compare.
She let out a quiet sigh, and seeing that the other group members were burning with curiosity about the enhancement's effects, she went ahead and shared the chat group's description.
A moment of silence followed — and then the collective sharp intake of breath could practically be felt through the screen.
Ordinary Group Leader: "Wait — are you sure this is the Star-Absorbing Technique and not the Absorption Art from The Legendary Swordsman?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Stripping away decades of someone's martial cultivation is one thing, but it also drains their essence, energy, and spirit to nourish yourself?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "And absolutely no negative side effects?!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Are we calling this a martial art? Because this sounds more like immortal cultivation."
Setting everything else aside, just the ability to plunder another person's martial cultivation alone was enough to turn an ordinary person who couldn't swat a fly into a force capable of dominating the entire martial world overnight.
And then there was the draining of essence, energy, and spirit.
In martial arts worlds, those three corresponded to physical constitution, internal energy, and mental power.
From a scientific perspective, physical constitution encompassed far more than just strength and bodily durability — it included the body's internal composition, immune function, and more.
A superior constitution also extended lifespan by a meaningful margin.
If Dongfang Bai used the enhanced Star-Absorbing Technique to continuously plunder enemies' three souls and bolster her own — immortality wasn't out of the question.
Of course, for chat group members at their level, so-called immortality wasn't exactly an impossible goal.
Whether through spending points to purchase lifespan directly, or the Dog Authority, or Divine Body technology—
Dongfang Bai was already one of the absolute top-tier figures in the world of The Smiling Proud Wanderer. Aside from her master, Dongfang Bubai herself, there was no one who could defeat her now.
If her heart were hard enough — spreading her reach across the martial world, turning every warrior under heaven into cultivation material — her future heights would be impossible to imagine.
Lighthouse Richest: "The original Star-Absorbing Technique had so many drawbacks, and one enhancement turned it into something this terrifying. The multiplier on that upgrade is genuinely frightening."
Lighthouse Richest: "It's basically turning a lump of rock into solid gold."
Lighthouse Richest: "If that could be applied to my Iron Man armor... hiss..."
It wasn't just a matter of the armor's durability — it would mean the advanced scientific principles encoded within it.
If the enhancement succeeded, and he could fully internalize the science behind that upgraded suit, the implications for both himself and the current state of technology would be enormous.
Dongfang Bubai: "If only it had been the Sunflower Manual I enhanced back then..."
Dongfang Bubai: "...Forget it."
Dongfang Bai sighed. Regretting it now served no purpose.
Better to look forward than dwell on what was behind her.
Dongfang Bubai: "Though it's a bit of a shame, the enhanced Star-Absorbing Technique is undeniably more powerful."
Dongfang Bubai: "And with the Glint-Glint Fruit, losing access to internal energy doesn't make me significantly weaker."
Electromaster: "Ugh, seeing results like this makes even me tempted."
Electromaster: "But one thousand points — I can't afford to gamble on those odds!"
Misaka Mikoto felt like crying. She hadn't come up empty on mystical items lately, but everything she'd found was low-value — barely any points to show for it.
And whatever points she did manage to collect went straight into buying Sleep Talismans.
Just thinking about it made her blood boil. That Accelerator — nothing she said ever got through to him.
Annoy her enough and she'd slap a Sleep Talisman on him.
Let him sleep for a solid day first.
If he didn't want to be the first ability user in Academy City to starve to death, he could just give up that plan already!
Martial Arts King: "Is one thousand points really that much?"
Luo Hao had never felt particularly pressed for points. The items from other worlds in the group shop were interesting to look at, but their pull on her wasn't especially strong.
The divine rank of a Godslayer was, by its very nature, a ceiling — gifting them with tremendous power while making it nearly impossible to go further and shatter the shackles that rank imposed.
Godslayers had a hard limit.
No matter how many Disobedient Gods were slain, no matter how many Authorities were seized, that limit would never break.
From the moment you killed your first Disobedient God and became a Godslayer, your level was essentially already maxed.
Slaying further gods only added more combat tools and supplementary options — it could raise your fighting capacity in specific situations, but it would never make your fundamental self more powerful.
With that shackle in place, power from other worlds remained, for her, nothing more than another set of combat tools.
As for switching to a different world's cultivation system entirely?
The high-martial world system that Su Yunqing inhabited was something she aspired toward — but her world simply didn't have spiritual energy as a form of power.
Technological systems had never been a consideration from the start.
She'd initially thought she would need to wait a while longer — but learning what the enhancement function could do had shown her a genuine possibility: breaking through the Godslayer's divine rank and pushing further beyond.
As for the points needed to do it?
As Huaxia's only Godslayer. As the overlord of the Central Plains' martial world. As the Holy Matriarch of the Five Sacred Mountains Sacred Cult. As the Martial Arts King of Jiangnan. As the sovereign standing at the absolute apex of martial arts — she had no concerns about being short on points.
Nor did she have any particular desire to purchase items. Her one and only ambition was to shatter the limitation her Godslayer rank placed upon her.
Once that shackle broke, she was confident she could reach a new ceiling in the shortest time imaginable.
Lighthouse Richest: "A thousand points isn't a lot by itself — but the success rate is just too low."
Lighthouse Richest: "So far, Dongfang Bai is the only one who's pulled it off."
Lighthouse Richest: "If your luck isn't good, I'd advise against it."
Even as he wrote it, Tony knew he couldn't fully suppress his own urge to try again. Because there would always be that voice in the back of his head — what if this time I actually get it?
It was only a thousand points. Not cheap, but not ruinous either.
And then it would come up empty, just like before.
The Oldest Godslayer: "I know what you're thinking, Luo Hao."
The Oldest Godslayer: "You want to break through the shackles that the Godslayer's divine rank places on us and step into a stronger realm."
The Oldest Godslayer: "I will absolutely get there before you do."
This was Marquis Voban's confidence — and it was grounded in his thorough understanding of Luo Hao.
The Campione world had no shortage of mystical forces: Taoist arts, magic, knights, shrine maidens... But in the chat group, what commanded the highest value above all else was still Authorities.
And Marquis Voban possessed more Authorities than any other Godslayer alive.
These abilities were too familiar to him to bother recycling — but the Disobedient Gods from the original story? Those he would claim without hesitation, as was only right.
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