The moment the system prompt appeared, Chen Luo's consciousness was suddenly plunged into a realm of absolute darkness.
This darkness imbued Chen Luo's consciousness with an unparalleled sense of tranquility and peace. Within this exceedingly comfortable atmosphere, Chen Luo's consciousness felt as if it were continuously descending, falling deeper.
Until it finally sank into the very depths of this darkness, merging completely with it.
Yet, amidst this descent, Chen Luo seemed to faintly hear something.
Hmm, what was that sound?
His thoughts, swift as lightning, were growing increasingly sluggish. Chen Luo's consciousness was gradually losing its ability to think.
The lightless darkness enveloped everything, as if it were the fated destination for all things.
But that sound seemed to be growing more and more insistent.
His consciousness sinking deeper, Chen Luo couldn't help but ponder again,
What was that sound?
He tilted his ear, he perceived,
The sound was instantly parsed by his consciousness.
This incredibly familiar sound, calling out an incredibly familiar name:
"Chen Luo! Chen Luo! Chen Luo!"
Chen Luo? Right, I am Chen Luo!
From the depths of the lightless darkness, a silver speck of light suddenly flashed.
But compared to this boundless darkness, that fleeting glimmer was like an illusion.
The next moment,
Boom!
A deafening roar shattered the silence of the darkness. In that sinking realm of darkness, a silver spark suddenly bloomed.
Within the spark was the soul of a young man.
The instant the Heart-Soul Fire ignited, the surrounding lightless darkness began to blur.
As the Heart-Soul Fire fully condensed, the darkness also vanished completely.
Yet, in a moment of daze, it seemed as though a faint, almost imperceptible sigh drifted from within the lightless darkness.
In reality, the system prompt in Chen Luo's ear had just concluded.
Within his heart, a silver Heart-Soul Fire suddenly ignited.
In real-world time, not even a second had passed.
In Chen Luo's memory, the moment he comprehended Lin Qing's Heart-Soul Power, the system had immediately displayed a notification for acquiring a new skill.
As for the memory of nearly succumbing to the lightless darkness just now, Chen Luo's mind held no trace of it.
Chen Luo sensed the silver flame igniting in his heart, feeling a sense of déjà vu.
But moments later, Chen Luo's attention was drawn to the system prompt.
【Heart-Soul Power】
【Type】: Skill (Unique skill of this world, can only be awakened within Game World No. 9)
【Level】: B-Class (Current Burn Rate 0.01%)
【Effect】: Burn the heart, forge the soul, to obtain Heart-Soul Power!
【Description】: A special extraordinary power born from a certain unique influence, possessing extreme power while also bearing a destined price.
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【As you already possess two professions, the world-unique profession "Heart-Soul Master" has been converted into a special title】
【Heart-Soul Master】
【Type】: Title
【Effect】:
1. Heart-Soul Burn: Upon awakening Heart-Soul Power, one can obtain greater strength by increasing the burn rate.
2. Rank Advancement: As the burn rate increases, your life rank will be elevated.
【Description】: Only through extreme burning can one attain extreme brilliance!
Looking at the system's descriptions of Heart-Soul Power and Heart-Soul Master, Chen Luo's brow furrowed deeply.
The system's introduction was merely a simple statement. In reality, concurrent with the prompt, a vast amount of complex data regarding Heart-Soul Power and Heart-Soul Masters flowed into Chen Luo's mind.
Heart-Soul Power was a very peculiar kind of strength. In a sense, what Chen Luo had awakened now was the true Heart-Soul Power.
The essence of Heart-Soul Power was to extract strength from the soul.
The method of extracting this strength was through intense will or emotion, that is, the "heart," to stimulate the soul buried deep within the self.
This was the so-called "burning heart, forging the soul."
In a way, it was even a form of idealistic power.
Chen Luo did not know how Jiulong had managed to make the world acknowledge this extraordinary power back then, but since then, in this world, the natural birth of Heart-Soul Masters had been permitted.
As long as one's emotions or will reached a certain limit, and then guided by a certain catalyst, it was possible for the soul to heat up,
thereby releasing a power that Chen Luo could not yet comprehend to influence reality.
Yes, Chen Luo used the word "heat" here.
In fact, Lin Qing had not truly ignited her soul, or rather, she was incapable of igniting it.
Although Chen Luo could not yet grasp souls, he had, after all, seen countless souls in the Soul Vortex.
Recalling it now, and combining it with Heart-Soul Power, he gained a deeper understanding of the soul.
Simply put, Lin Qing, like Chen Luo, possessed B-Class Heart-Soul Power, meaning 0.01% of their souls had been ignited by the Heart-Soul Fire.
However, as an ordinary person, her life rank and soul strength were pathetically weak.
If Chen Luo's soul had been forged to be as clear and beautiful as a diamond, then an ordinary person's soul was an uncarvable rough stone.
And when the Heart-Soul Fire ignited, Chen Luo's soul could instantly erupt with myriad splendors.
Chen Luo even had a premonition that, if he wished, he could directly ignite his entire soul at this moment, reaching 100% burn!
That is, in an instant, raising the burn rate of the Heart-Soul Fire to SSS-Class!
Yes, the peculiarity of Heart-Soul Power meant that its progression was not calculated by proficiency, but by the degree of soul combustion.
However, after burning 0.01%, Lin Qing's soul could only emit a faint light with great difficulty.
This was also the normal effect of an ordinary person's soul burning.
Even Chen Luo himself could not initially distinguish the silver light in Lin Qing's heart as a burning flame, let alone the faintly emerging soul phantom within the flame.
The souls of ordinary people, even when they began to burn, were too dim!
Chen Luo didn't even consider it burning; it was more appropriate to describe it as a slight residual warmth emanating from the soul after being "heated."
Chen Luo's soul was too strong and too pure. Even a 0.01% burn produced a radiance that ordinary souls, even after burning by half, could hardly match.
But the terrifying part was that this residual warmth, which was less than one-ten-thousandth of Chen Luo's, had already enhanced an ordinary person's body, who became a Heart-Soul Master, several times over, even granting them the ability to control battle armor.
And as the Heart-Soul level increased, the degree of soul combustion would continuously rise. Even rough stones would emit a stronger light.
By then, it would likely be the so-called Dragon Rider, Dragon General, and even stronger ranks.
Chen Luo even had a premonition that as the soul combustion rate (Heart-Soul Level) of ordinary people continued to increase, some peculiar qualitative change might occur.
"This power is indeed beyond the norm."
Chen Luo gazed at the faint silver glow flickering in Lin Qing's heart and couldn't help but sigh in his mind:
"But the price is too terrifying!"