Chapter 43: Saint Descend
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When Lin Xiao returned to the Divine Artifact tform from the Divine Realm, a day had already passed.
By then, most of the students had already made their choices; many, like him, had returned to their own Divine Realms to prepare. Only a little over a hundred students remained on the Divine Artifact tform, chatting in small groups to pass the time.
Lin Xiao’s appearance caught the attention of a few nearby students, who nodded at him in greeting.
As the third-tost student to return, he had already made a certain impression on the other students.
He smiled and nodded back, conjured a chair at the edge of the Divine Artifact tform, sat down, and pulled up a light screen with a sweep of his hands, tapping lightly on it with his fingers.
He opened a frequented novel site and immediately noticed a prompt on his bookshelf. It was clear that one of his favorited books had updated. He clicked and saw that a novel titled “In the Beginning, a Universe in the Palm” at the top of his shelf had been updated by the author ‘One Night to Dao’, with almost nine hundred thousand words.
“Hmm, this one’s got enough flesh on it to butcher!”
He opened the novel and reclined in afortable position to read.
As he read on, he became utterly engrossed, feeling extremely envious of the protagonist’s Golden Finger.
Comparing his own Golden Finger to the protagonist’s universe in the palm, it was clear they weren’t on the same level. If only his own Creation Magic Cube could turn into a universe in the palm, that would be awesome.
With a casual wave, he could unleash the Light of Annihtion that could destroy a star system, or a two-dimensional foliation reduction strike at the beckon of his hand, or even summon a star battleship powered by a star itself. Tsk tsk, with such a toy, Powerful Divine Power would be nothing special…
As he fantasized, he couldn’t help but drool.
Just as he was about to wipe away his saliva, he suddenly felt something, looked up, and saw Yuan Hong sitting nearby, sipping tea. He probably just happened to look up in time to see Lin Xiao drooling, and his face clearly showed undisguised disdain.
“Dammit, could the timing be any worse!”
Lin Xiao turned his face away expressionlessly, feeling as though he had lost all face.
Fortunately, the novel was captivating enough that he quickly immersed himself in the story, forgetting the recent embarrassment.
He didn’t know how much time had passed when he felt the tform tremble slightly, and a prompt popped up on the light screen in front of him: “Respected student, the tform has reached the Ound and is docking with the task dimension. Please wait…”
He closed the light screen and stood up. The other students around him had also received the prompt and were getting to their feet. Following a booming ‘rumble’, streaks of gold descended once again, materializing into ten homeroom teachers and the vice principal. Xu Yundong, with a stern face, announced loudly,
“We have arrived at the designated dimension. You have one hour to prepare for your projection to the task location. During this time, you can reselect your missions. In one hour, if you haven’t departed, you will be randomly ced near the location of the mission you have chosen. If you haven’t made any choice by then, you will be randomly assigned and sent to one of three random tasks.”
After finishing his announcement in one breath, the vice principal left again, but the ten homeroom teachers hadn’t left yet. They pped their hands to gather their students.
Lin Xiao and his ssmates walked towards their homeroom teacher, Wu Hai. Although they wouldn’t be ssmates after the final exam, they still were for now.
Wu Hai scanned all the students and said,
“I’ve already said what needs to be said a long time ago, so I won’t repeat myself. Just a reminder—be cautious. It’s okay to withdraw if you feel overmatched. Don’t try to be a hero. If you suffer too much loss, you’ll regret it in next term’s sses.”
After speaking, his gaze lingered on Lin Xiao, Yuan Hong, and Wan Chuan for a moment, then shifted to Meng Hui and continued,
“The four of you stay back. The rest can go prepare.”
The students looked enviously at the four and walked away.
“The few of you have the chance to be selected for the elite ss. Based on the current rankings, as long as youplete a task scoring between 75 and 80 points, you’ll basically be selected for the elite ss. You all know the benefits of joining the elite ss, so give it your all!”
After finishing, Wu Hal’s figure slowly faded into transparency and disappeared, leaving the four looking at each other.
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Yuan Hong was the first to turn around and leave.
Wan Chuan chuckled and left as well.
Lin Xiao exchanged a look with Meng Hui, cupped his hands together in respect, and also took his leave.
Even though they were ssmates, their rtionship was more like that of disciples from different sects in novelspeting for resources and even harboring enmity against one another.
Lin Xiao had nothing in particr to prepare. He nced at the four tasks and chose to start with the destruction of the Fish people tribe.
The overall difficulty of the four tasks was simr, but for him, the Fishmen were the easiest to kill. He could use ughter to umte experience by killing arge number of Fishmen and first level up the six hundred Naga in the Divine Realm.
The level cap for his n was Level 4, but at present, they were mostly at the initial First Level, with a little over a hundred at Level 2. They had barely begun to tap into their potential.
The strength of a Level 4 creature is far superior to those of Level 1 and 2. He would first kill Fishmen to level up; with a higher level, the other two tasks would be easier.
Having made his decision, hemunicated with the Divine Artifact and tapped a location on the map. A prompt from the Divine Artifact appeared:
“Please confirm the number of n members to transport.”
“All of them!”
“Please confirm the method of your Descend.”
“What modes of Descend are avable?”
The Divine Artifact tform immediately responded:
“True-Body Descend, Incarnation Descend, Projection Descending, Saint Descend!”
After pondering for a moment, Lin Xiao said:
“Saint Descend mode!”
“Saint Descend mode confirmed. The Descend willmence in fifteen seconds. Please wait.”
The so-called Saint Descend mode is when one’s consciousness descends into one of their own devout followers and uses this follower as an Incarnation to Descend, just like Lin Xiao previously did with the Fishman Leader—that was the Saint Descend mode.
The downside is theck ofbat power since nothing is brought along except for consciousness. The only additional advantage is that the Avatar receives a boost to all attributes ording to the Divinity owned by the individual.
For example, Lin Xiao only had a bit of Divinity, so after the Descend, the vessel that housed him would receive an enhancement of +1 to all attributes.
And that’s it.
If it were a True-Body Descend, even a Divine Being with a slight amount of Divinity like him would be a little superman with a +10 to all attributes upon descending into the Ound, far stronger than the lower-level species.
However, the advantage of the Saint Descend mode is that there would be no loss upon death.
While True-Body Descend is powerful, a death in that state would mean total eradication, aplete downfall.
Fifteen seconds passed in an instant. Apanied by an invisible force, Lin Xiao felt the Void he was in copse and his descent hastened.
In the S-451574 ne, streaks of Meteors invisible to mortal eyes fell from the sky onto various locations throughout the ne.
Lin Xiao felt like a Meteor plummeting towards the Earth, surrounded by distorted air, with the grounding closer and closer. After a few dozen seconds, the vast Earth turned into an endless t seaside, and arge group of Nagas and Fishmen shrouded in a transparent white light appeared in front of him.
With a thought, he aimed straight for a particrly strong Naga leader and, in a sh, merged into the body of this Apostle he had previously designated..