Chapter 257: Chapter 221: Cognitive Solidification_2

Although the lion’s slap posed no threat to Su Xin, the system recognized it as an attack filled with deadly intent.

“Ding! [Enemy of All Beings] Progress +1.”

After the slap, the Information Misplacement ability failed, and both lions recognized that Su Xin was human. Although they didn’t understand why this human had such terrifying defense, their undeveloped intellect couldn’t ponder such matters. They only remembered that humans were on their menu and immediately continued the attack.

But Su Xin merely lifted both hands and grabbed the front paws and ears of the two lions, casually tossing them twenty to thirty meters away.

Even if the lions were dense, they now understood that Su Xin was far superior. After crawling up, they whimpered and fled.

Su Xin laughed heartily.

A little task progress was secondary; the key was that he discovered Information Misplacement could simplify the task, making it effortlessly easy to complete.

There’s a food chain in nature. To make a target have deadly hostility toward you, you just need to turn into a creature from their menu, and they will naturally develop the intent to hunt you.

If you want them to have no hostility initially, it’s simple. Just activate Information Filtering, allowing them to ignore your existence or transform into one of their kind, and naturally, they will have no hostility when they see you.

A task that was initially complicated became exponentially easier due to the existence of the Information Misplacement ability.

The only trouble is, Information Misplacement can only exchange information with creatures of a similar size, limiting him to those large carnivorous animals as targets.

His transformation targets could only be animals like sheep, which are not too small in size.

Fortunately, there are many animal species on the plains, and there are many ferocious carnivores that prey on large animals. Soon, wolves, tigers, and leopards all became his targets.

It only took less than an hour to achieve ten task progress points and complete the task smoothly.

Su Xin claimed the task reward on the spot.

“Ding! Awakened ability [Mad Taunt]”

[Mad Taunt LV1: When you raise your middle finger, all creatures within a ten-meter radius that see this scene will have deadly hostility towards you.]

“Huh?”

Su Xin was full of questions.

“What’s the use of this ability?”

“I’m not a tank character in a game, attracting monster attacks to create opportunities for my teammates?”

Su Xin was still standing on the plains, and not far away were the two wolves he had just thrown.

He suddenly moved his feet, catching up with the wolves that had been scared away by his terrifying strength and raised his middle finger to them.

The next moment, the two wolves, who were previously full of fear, their eyes turned bloodshot and charged at Su Xin, completely disregarding the overwhelming power he had just displayed.

Su Xin kept his left hand in the middle finger pose and grabbed one of the wolves with his right hand, casually throwing it ten meters away.

Then he grabbed the other wolf, slamming it heavily on the ground, causing a slight tremor on the ground.

The wolf ten meters away seemed to have regained its senses, whimpered at Su Xin from afar, and quickly turned to escape.

The wolf that was severely injured by Su Xin was still struggling, trying to attack him.

Su Xin casually pressed down on the wolf’s head, contemplating:

“Beyond ten meters, it becomes ineffective…”

“And for creatures within ten meters, once they see it the first time, as long as I don’t put my middle finger down midway, they will remain in a hostile state even if they don’t see it anymore.”

“This ability…”

“If I have to say it’s useful, it seems to have some use. Next time I encounter a Divine Envoy or so-called god, I can use this ability to make them choose to fight me to the end instead of running away.”

“But keeping this ability just for that seems not very worthwhile.”

Su Xin thought for a moment and decided to keep the ability for now. After all, there’s a three-day wait before the next task triggers, so let’s see if these three days are enough to gather enough causality points to upgrade Exercise Maniac.

If successfully upgraded to LV11, the ability bar will temporarily suffice, and there’s no rush to clear a new ability slot.

If he can’t upgrade in these three days, there’s still time to forget it later.

Since this ability is only temporarily staying, its value is evidently not as high as Information Misplacement. With the 360,000 causality points he currently owns, he is sure that he can upgrade Information Misplacement.

Su Xin upgraded two levels in a row without hesitation.

There were eight refreshes in between, and the selected traits indeed satisfied him greatly.

[Cognition Solidification: Information Misplacement effect is permanently solidified. Even if recognized, the effect only becomes temporarily ineffective for one day for that person.]

[Information Pollution: Causes the target with cognition misalignment to have random disturbances in perceiving the outside world.]

Even without starting to try it, from the description alone, Su Xin could roughly grasp the functions of the two major traits.

The latter, [Information Pollution], should have an effect much like the Illusion Superpower of the five Divine Attendants, causing the target to randomly hallucinate.

However, the target is limited to those experiencing cognition misalignment due to Information Misplacement, and once the effect is broken, Information Pollution also becomes ineffective.

It doesn’t seem very strong.

But if paired with the previous [Cognition Solidification] trait, its value becomes much greater.

Cognition Solidification can permanently solidify the Information Misplacement effect, so even if recognized, the effect remains on others, and the recognized person will have cognition misalignment again the next day.

For example, if Su Xin swapped identity information with the Celestial Sovereign, he could appear in front of cameras every day as him. Everyone in the world seeing the news, whether through the internet, TV, live broadcast, or newspapers, would see the Celestial Sovereign instead of Su Xin.

Even if he slips up and gets recognized, the whole world knows he’s a fake sovereign, yet the next day, they will treat him as the real sovereign.

This is the power of cognition solidification.

Once swapped, in the eyes of others, he is eternally the Celestial Sovereign.

Of course, the Information Misplacement ability itself still has some shortcomings, such as the recognition mechanism.

If, after the information exchange, he displays abilities not belonging to the Celestial Sovereign, shows obvious gaps, or is touched and found strange, his identity can be immediately recognized.

Also, if he truly exposes his identity and it’s recorded in the news, even if everyone treats you as the Celestial Sovereign the next day, they can recognize it again when seeing the media report.

This easily recognizable mechanism results in this seemingly magical ability being far less valuable than it appears.

Long-term replacement of another’s identity is theoretically feasible, but very difficult to achieve in reality.

Only less conspicuous things, not easily recorded, may allow him to engage in long-term information swapping.

Su Xin’s abilities are mostly a mix of strengths and weaknesses, but he doesn’t particularly mind, and actually feels this ability is not bad.

After the upgrade, Su Xin checked his personal panel. There were still 260,000 causality points left.

Upgrade to LV11 for Exercise Maniac requires 600,000 causality points, leaving 340,000 short.

Given the previous days’ efficiency, gathering this amount in three days should be barely enough.

Su Xin stretched his body, smiling.

“Alright, let’s get to work!”

…

When Su Xin instant-teleported to the War-torn Realm of several countries on the Silver Moon Continent to begin the resurrection operations, the Dawn Association dispatched an elite force, secretly boarding a plane to support Tao Long.

With the five resurrection tokens just possessed by Su Xin, plus his solemn promise to provide them with unlimited resurrection tokens, the Dawn Association elites were now fervent and ready for battle.

They had experienced combat, but many hadn’t experienced the kind of death-defying fight where they could lay down their lives without hesitation.

Since ancient times, few have longed for death because they lacked the chance for resurrection.

If given unlimited resurrection tokens, they might also feel, somewhat oddly, curious to experience what death is like just like they do now.

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