[Soul talent: Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms +5. Your soul possesses a unique flavor, embracing all forms, rejecting none. Possessing any Shell becomes effortless. Talent Effect: Greatly increases compatibility with Shells (+65%), Shell Slots +16.]

“Embracing all forms, rejecting none…”

Lin Xun looked at the description of his soul talent, deep in thought.

His soul talent had accompanied him since the beginning of the game, and it was the most crucial factor that had allowed him to rapidly increase his strength.

This talent was undoubtedly extremely overpowered. After killing a strong enemy, he could increase Compatibility and Possess the monster, and when Compatibility broke through a critical threshold, it could even raise the Shell Quality by half a grade.

Although compared with some other soul talents that could directly increase combat power, such as Lu Caiyi’s Endless Strength or Vishnu’s Overdraft Evolution, the combat-related boost from Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms was relatively small, its support capability, or rather its ability to rapidly increase strength, could probably leave all other Apostles far behind.

But only now, upon reaching the level of immortal gods, had the effects of Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms begun to show some weakness.

The most obvious sign was that after Compatibility broke through the critical value, it could no longer raise Shell Quality.

Whether it was Flanda, the Direct Vision Great Sage, or the newly acquired Executor, Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms could not use Compatibility breaking past one hundred percent to raise their Shell Quality to immortal grade.

Even when Lin Xun Possessed the Executor, while the effect of Beginning of the Holy Spirit had not yet faded, meaning his own Flesh Authority was still maintained at the divine realm, the panel displayed the Executor’s Shell Quality as immortal grade. It did not advance to immortal+ grade because of the boost from Compatibility.

“Is Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms the kind of soul talent that stays strong in the early stage, but turns weak and limp in the later stage?”

Although the talent description was only two short lines of text, from those words and the authority they represented behind them, he vaguely felt that the authority he possessed was far from simple.

Either it was exactly as he had just guessed, and Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms was an early-stage talent that became useless and weak later on, or the authority hidden behind this talent was probably so powerful that it would exceed imagination…

“Right now Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms seems weak and limp probably because my progress in upgrading the talent is too slow, causing it to still remain at only +5.”

According to the information already known, soul talent would be truly developed at +7, revealing a tremendous improvement.

To raise soul talent to +7 required mythic grade Divine items. According to the unwritten rule that Divine drops were reduced by one grade, mythic grade Divinity corresponded to immortal gods who had mastered authority.

Most likely, only when soul talent reached +7 could one’s soul talent evolve in the direction of authority.

[…]

[Seeing that you have already gained some understanding, the Librarian removes his monocle, takes out a bookmark from his chest, and hands both to you together…]

[You obtained Librarian’s Monocle (item)]

[You obtained Anchor Bookmark (item)]

[The Librarian says to you that under normal circumstances no physical reward can be obtained during a trial. This special trial was somewhat different. Since you had already acquired authority beforehand, the trial reward was changed to the physical drops and Shell from defeating the Executor, so the bookmark reward is not particularly generous…]

Lin Xun thought to himself that if he had not activated Beginning of the Holy Spirit in time and used Flesh Authority to piece the corpse back together, then this god Shell would have had nothing to do with him.

But on second thought, the Executor being dismembered was due to his own poor handling. Although in that kind of fierce battle it had been impossible to make the Demon Overlord legion hold back…

After removing the Compatibility boost, the Executor’s Shell itself still had a Compatibility of 82%. Even without Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms, it could still be Possessed. Clearly, this was a reward Shell deliberately given by the hellish game.

The value of an immortal god Shell with Compatibility meeting the requirement was indeed immeasurable. It could not be said that the trial reward was small, rather it should be said that it had given far too much.

As for the Anchor Bookmark… through New World’s internal channels, he had already successfully obtained one Anchor Bookmark. Once he completed this chapter, he would be able to anchor entry into the Evil God world chapter.

The rewarded Anchor Bookmark felt somewhat redundant, but from another angle, this thing had no small amount of utility. One would definitely prefer having too many rather than too few.

[The Librarian continues, Apostle, the trial has ended perfectly, the rewards have been distributed, and his task is also complete. It is time to say goodbye.]

[When you truly achieve Immortality, remember to go to the library and find his main body, and then you will be able to learn more truths about the apocalypse.]

[As he speaks, the Librarian murmurs a spell. His figure fades and vanishes, and together with him, the bookshelf and wicker recliner outside the archive room door also disappear…]

[You had just been speaking with the administrator, leaving the Demon Shaman to the side for quite a while. Yet it showed no dissatisfaction, instead quietly waiting for your reply to its proposal to bathe the Polar Star Society in blood…]

[After all, as the Abyss Child, you returned to the surface and came to the human world precisely to demand repayment of the blood debt for the demon race.]

[However, the surface world is too dangerous. If the knowledge schools discover the existence of a large number of Demon Overlords and the Abyss Child, what awaits you will be total destruction.]

[Once the Polar Star Society has fully repaid the blood debt, you will have no reason to remain in the human world, and will obediently follow them back to the Abyss…]

[Do you wish to agree to the Demon Shaman’s proposal?]

After careful thought, Lin Xun chose to refuse.

Now he had the Executor’s Shell. Although it had not reached the immortal level, by borrowing that identity he could completely control the Polar Star Society and make this villainous organization serve him.

[Although you refuse the Demon Shaman’s proposal, you do not put it too absolutely, nor do you make the Demon Overlords return to the Abyss immediately. Instead, you tell it and the Demon Overlord legion to first enter the Starlight Cage painting and wait until you investigate the situation before deciding further.]

[The Demon Shaman obeys your instructions and takes all the remaining Demon Overlords into the teleportation painting. In the blink of an eye, the archive room becomes completely empty, leaving only you and Rona.]

Now that things had finally quieted down, Lin Xun opened the Inventory to inspect the rewards dropped by the Executor.

Aside from Spirit Essence, Enhancement Stones, Materials, and the like, there were only three actual items that the Executor had dropped.

This was probably the result of rewards being reduced because he had borrowed the external force of the Demon Overlord legion.

[Ancient Scroll Recording Star Magic (immortal grade item): The scroll records a powerful star magic called Celestial Astrology!]

[Celestial Astrology (immortal grade skill): By observing the relative positions and relative movements of celestial bodies and stars, you may interpret or predict the fate and actions of things. This is the favor bestowed upon you by the stars.]

[When using this skill, you may designate any living target currently within your field of vision to perform Celestial Astrology upon, in order to obtain a segment of astrological prophecy.]

[The accuracy and clarity of the prophecy are inversely proportional to the strength gap between you and the target. The smaller the strength gap, the clearer and more accurate the prophecy will be.]

[Using this skill requires 1 point of soul strength, not maximum soul strength, so please use it with caution.]

“Damn! Why is it that Omniscience, the Abyss, and even the stars all know Prophecy Arts?”

Lin Xun seriously suspected that the prophecy abilities of the Abyss and the stars were knockoff versions, perhaps originating from the Abyss assimilating the Servant of Knowledge…

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