The time on the battlefield seemed to have stopped at this moment!
The terrifying wolf pack, with bloodshot eyes and bared fangs, facing the roaring warriors whose bodies were stained with blood, and the anxious priests desperate to heal their companions, all turned into frozen sculptures in Chen Luo's eyes.
The giant wolf, no longer able to restrain itself and lunging towards him, was the fastest moving creature on the field. Yet, even so, in Chen Luo's eyes, its movements were as slow as a snail!
Time, under the control of some great power, had slowed down!
The only things whose speed remained unchanged were Chen Luo's consciousness, the system prompt that suddenly sounded in his ears, and the system panel that automatically unfolded before his eyes!
[Skill proficiency reached! Your Meditation Technique has been promoted from A-grade to S-grade!]
[Meditation Technique (S-grade) (0/10000000)]
Active Effect: Enter a meditative state, restoring 500 mana per second. Cooldown: 3 minutes, Maximum duration: Spirit x 200 seconds.
Passive Effects:
1. Spirit Attribute +200
2. Abnormal Mental Resistance +50
...
In the world where time had slowed, Chen Luo's consciousness clearly felt his previously depleted mana being replenished. His Spirit attribute had surged to 270 points at this moment!
Spirit and body were now completely unbalanced! A blood-red system prompt flashed synchronously in front of Chen Luo:
[Detected that the player's Spirit attribute exceeds the Physique attribute by more than ten times. The player has obtained the negative status "Extreme Wisdom Leads to Harm!"]
[Extreme Wisdom Leads to Harm]
[Category]: Special Negative Status
[Effect]:
1. Extreme Wisdom Leads to Harm: Reduces HP by 50 points per second (Spirit minus ten times Physique).
2. Heaven's Jealousy for Beauty (Hidden attribute, triggers when Beauty reaches the standard): Beauty increased (the greater the Spirit exceeds Physique, the greater the per-second damage, the higher the Beauty increase!)
[Description]:
Spirit must not exceed Physique by ten times; this is the limitation of the human race. Once exceeded, excessive Spirit will place an additional burden on the body, even endangering life.
However, this negative status, upon the player's Beauty reaching the standard, will trigger the hidden effect "Heaven's Jealousy for Beauty."
When even the heavens are jealous of you, your body will develop a special, unbalanced beauty!
...
Chen Luo looked at the negative status he had just obtained with a somewhat strange expression. He had received a prompt about "Extreme Wisdom Leads to Harm" before, so he was not surprised.
The normal damage from this status was also within Chen Luo's tolerance at this moment.
It was just a deduction of fifty HP per second, which for Chen Luo's current 220 HP, meant he could confidently say he would die without a ripple in five seconds.
But those five seconds were reality that the system could never achieve!
Because, don't forget, Chen Luo had learned the healer's "Heal" skill! As long as Chen Luo wished, he could heal himself hundreds of times in one second, and each heal amount was much higher than those fake, busty priests.
So, while this negative effect was a life-threatening matter for others, it had no impact on Chen Luo, the cheater.
What truly surprised Chen Luo was that he had triggered the second effect, "Heaven's Jealousy for Beauty."
Chen Luo pondered his subordinates, who practically wanted to pick up his soap, and he had a rough assessment of his own appearance.
Well. He was a great handsome guy.
It was just a pity that there was no mirror now. He wondered what he looked like now with the "Heaven's Jealousy for Beauty" effect active.
Chen Luo's thoughts raced, but the time slowed down by the system's power showed no signs of returning to normal.
Because a brand new prompt popped up!
[You are the first player in the world to reach S-grade skill level! Reward: Skill Ascension once!]
Chen Luo looked at the prompt that appeared before him in surprise. The system hadn't actively given him rewards in a long time.
But what was the effect of "Skill Ascension"? The previous "Talent Ultimate Ascension" had created an SSS-grade talent "Divine Chant" for him.
He wondered what surprise this "Skill Ascension" would bring this time?
As Chen Luo's thoughts flashed, a golden light suddenly shot out from the void, directly piercing into Chen Luo's brow!
In Chen Luo's mind, a complex geometric meditation figure with thousands of faces was quietly rotating. This was the new meditation pattern for Chen Luo's Meditation Technique after reaching S-grade.
But the moment the golden light pierced through, it enveloped the entire geometric figure!
At the same moment, under the system's power, Chen Luo's consciousness directly disintegrated and merged into this golden light!
Chen Luo could no longer perceive anything from the outside world; he couldn't even perceive his own existence.
The time outside was still slow to the point of near stillness, but within Chen Luo's consciousness, all the memories of his life, from childhood to adulthood, began to flash rapidly.
[S-grade Meditation Technique undergoing Ascension!!]
Suddenly, in the chaotic consciousness, a thunderous roar sounded:
"ROAR!!!"
It was the most powerful creature Chen Luo had ever seen. After its appearance, its shadow enveloped the earth.
And just the residual power from it caused this metropolis of tens of millions of people to experience a white, vast snowfall on this hot summer night.
But when this monster first appeared, Chen Luo had met its gaze once!
That gaze nearly cost Chen Luo his life, but it also allowed Chen Luo to truly witness the demeanor of a higher being!
All memories in his consciousness began to twist and disappear, until finally, all that remained were those golden eyes that never seemed to extinguish!
[Detected the causal trajectory of a higher life form! Ascension tendency changed! Meditation Technique upgraded from a normal skill to a rare skill!]
In his mind, the golden light that enveloped Chen Luo's consciousness and geometric pattern suddenly erupted!
Boundless light instantly illuminated Chen Luo's sea of consciousness. At this moment, Chen Luo completely lost perception of his body.
As if an eternity had passed, or perhaps just an instant, Chen Luo regained control of his body.
And now, what hung in his sea of consciousness was no longer the terrifyingly complex geometric meditation pattern, but a golden dragon's eye!
[Skill Ascension complete! Congratulations on obtaining "Golden Eye Meditation Technique"!]
[Golden Eye Meditation Technique (S-grade)] (0/100000000)
[Category]: Skill (Rare)
[Active Effect]: Contemplate the golden eye in the sea of consciousness, enter a meditative state, restoring 1000 mana per second. Cooldown: 1 hour, Duration: Spirit x 500 seconds!
[Passive Effects]:
1. Increases Spirit attribute by 300 points.
2. Immune to mental negative statuses below S-grade.
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The flow of time resumed. All that had happened seemed complex, but in reality, not even a second had passed.
The giant wolf, seeing the mage whose mana fluctuations had completely disappeared, with its beastly eyes full of anticipation and cruelty, was about to succeed.
But the next moment, a tsunami-like mana fluctuation surged wildly from the seemingly weak human mage before its eyes!
Under the almost tangible blue wave, a pair of never-extinguishing golden eyes calmly looked at the charging giant wolf.