157: Fields and New Skills

However, somewhat to Xu Yan's surprise, Wuxiang did not dwell too much on the emotions and feelings bestowed upon it by the Heaven and Earth Baptism. In just five or six minutes, Wuxiang made its choice, and its mechanical voice returned to its original emotionless state.

Nevertheless, although its voice had returned to its original coldness and indifference, Xu Yan could feel a vitality and vigor on Wuxiang's body, which had been eroded by the Power of Heaven and Earth, that seemed somewhat out of place for a Mechanical Spirit Beast.

After some more time, the Power of Heaven and Earth raging on Wuxiang's body also began to calm down, and its corroded and disintegrated body recovered. This indicated that Wuxiang had successfully passed this Heaven and Earth Baptism.

Through the soul contract between them, Wuxiang's post-breakthrough information once again appeared in Xu Yan's mind.

Species: Wuxiang

Level: Monarch Rank 1

Attributes: Mechanical System, Summoning

Bloodline Level: Quasi-Overlord

Innate Talent: Mechanical Evolution

Skills: Mechanical Affinity (Passive), Mechanical Summoning (Mastered)... Mechanical Modification (Beginner), Power of Heaven and Earth - Adaptive (Proficient), Domain - Mechanical Swarm (Beginner)

Loaded Modules: Energy Suppression Device, Elemental Conversion Device... Tianhe X Quantum Computing Center (Computing Power), Sky-based Satellite - Wuxiang One

Compared to Zhu Yan, who underwent massive changes after her breakthrough, Wuxiang's breakthrough did not bring too many changes. Modules, permissions, and so on had already been loaded before its breakthrough, and its bloodline level remained at the Quasi-Overlord Rank, which it had achieved by using various resources before breaking through to the Monarch Rank.

The real changes were merely its strength increasing to the Monarch Rank, the addition of a new skill called Mechanical Modification, and the domain, which is almost standard after passing the Heaven and Earth Baptism.

However, despite the seemingly minor changes on Wuxiang's feedback panel, this breakthrough geometrically increased Wuxiang's combat power.

Its own computing power and energy underwent a qualitative change, and it could mobilize the Power of Heaven and Earth to replenish itself and assist in skill usage, further reducing consumption.

High-level modules and permissions, which previously required it to enter an overloaded state and could only be used individually, could now be used routinely and simultaneously with multiple modules. Furthermore, due to the increased level and quality of the energy input, their power also underwent a qualitative change.

Moreover, unlike Zhu Yan, who still needed time to consolidate her post-breakthrough strength, Wuxiang had already mastered its modules and permissions before breaking through to the Monarch Rank. It did not need to spend extra time familiarizing itself with its existing abilities; the breakthrough meant immediate combat readiness at the corresponding level.

Given Wuxiang's situation, Xu Yan did not force it to undergo meaningless seclusion to consolidate itself. Instead, he took Wuxiang back to the training ground to test the two new skills it gained after its breakthrough.

Initially, Xu Yan's main attention was on Wuxiang's domain.

Although a domain is essentially standard for Monarch Rank Spirit Beasts that have undergone the Heaven and Earth Baptism, not every Spirit Beast, even among Monarch Rank Spirit Beasts, is qualified to trigger and pass the Heaven and Earth Baptism.

Furthermore, there are differences between domains. This difference can even be greater than the difference between having a domain and not having one, or between the Monarch Rank and ranks below it.

And the domain Wuxiang mastered did not disappoint Xu Yan's attention and expectations.

Domain - Mechanical Swarm is a dual-attribute domain of Mechanical System + Summoning. Compared to the exclusivity of conventional elemental domains, Wuxiang's domain does not reject any attribute. However, the power within the domain will continuously convert the energy absorbed and used by all Spirit Beasts into specialized energy that can only be absorbed by Wuxiang and its creations.

In other words, as time passes, other entities within the domain will find it increasingly difficult to absorb the surrounding Power of Heaven and Earth until they can no longer absorb energy from the surrounding heaven and earth to replenish themselves. Meanwhile, Wuxiang and its creations can continuously absorb specialized energy that is 100% compatible with them from the surrounding heaven and earth.

In addition, within the domain, the power of Wuxiang's Mechanical System skills and mechanical creations will be greatly enhanced. Mechanical creations below the Monarch Rank can be summoned almost without cost, and there is no upper limit to the number of summons.

Even for Monarch Rank mechanical creations, Wuxiang, within its domain, can summon twelve entities with incomplete domains that can integrate their domains into Wuxiang's to enhance its power, and can mobilize and use the Power of Heaven and Earth, all at an extremely low cost.

Furthermore, as long as resources or energy are willing to be invested, it can almost limitlessly create mechanical creations that possess Monarch Rank physical strength and attack power but cannot use domains or the Power of Heaven and Earth.

It can be said that the current Wuxiang truly possesses theprototype of a single Spirit Beast capable of unleashing a mechanical catastrophe, unlike before, when it needed to collect and convert resources from the surrounding environment and had a limit on the number of summons.

After attempting to have Wuxiang activate its domain, instantly filling the entire training ground, and witnessing a combined attack from multiple mechanical creations almost pierce through the entire training ground, Xu Yan had a preliminary understanding of Wuxiang's combat power.

Afterward, he began to examine Wuxiang's other new skill.

Initially, because of the skill's name, Xu Yan thought it belonged to the same series as Mechanical Summoning, Mechanical Recall, and Mechanical Detonation, meant to modify Wuxiang's summoned mechanical creations to enhance their combat power or make them more suitable for certain environments.

And the effect of Wuxiang's skill indeed included the ability Xu Yan had guessed.

However, to Xu Yan's surprise, the objects that Wuxiang's skill could be used on were not limited to its summoned mechanical creations.

When Xu Yan first heard Wuxiang say that this skill was not only applicable to Mechanical System Spirit Beasts or mechanical creations, eight big characters instantly flashed through his mind.

"Flesh is weak, mechanical ascension!!!"

The moment these eight characters flashed through his mind, Xu Yan even had the urge to personally experience this skill, give himself a prosthetic modification, and turn his mechanical arm directly into a weapon or something; it seemed quite interesting.

However, this idea was ultimately not implemented.

It wasn't that Xu Yan gave up after deliberation, but rather when Xu Yan proposed this idea, Wuxiang directly stated that human modification had legal and ethical issues, and outright rejected Xu Yan's request.