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Simultaneously.

A pale blue ice shield quietly enveloped Su Ming's body!

It was a Frostbolt!

Ignoring the bone-chilling cold throughout his body, Su Ming's figure instantly vanished.

In the next instant, he abruptly reappeared on a shoal a hundred meters away. The Murloc Elder, who was mid-cast for a second Frostbolt, shuddered; his head had only turned halfway when he felt a sharp pain in his chest.

The spellcasting was forcibly interrupted.

The backlash arrived as expected, causing a throbbing pain in his brain.

The Murloc Elder's vision went dark. He instinctively lowered his head, and the last thing he saw before the light faded was a sharp bone blade protruding halfway through his body!

[You have obtained: tide magic ring (Blue)]

Holy crap!

Cruel Ascension still hasn't activated!

Su Ming felt numb with frustration as he viciously cast a level 3 Gathering on the Murloc Elder's corpse!

Chapter 17: Cruel Ascension! All-Thing Analysis

[You have obtained: Essence of Water *1, High-Quality Bone (Green) *1]

[You have obtained: Recipe: Delicious Grilled Fish]

Ah, this...

Gathering a recipe for delicious grilled fish from a Murloc—why does that actually sound somewhat reasonable?

However...

Su Ming let out a sigh of relief, his heart still racing; that scene just now had been truly perilous.

If not for the second effect of the favor of the lake spirit...

With the piercing power of that Frostbolt, it would have skewered Su Ming's body instantly! A single hit would have left him severely wounded!

Stepping across the lake surface back to the shore, Su Ming had learned his lesson. He immediately found a large rock to use as cover before daring to check the attributes of the tide magic ring.

[Equipment: tide magic ring (Blue)]

[Category: Ring]

[Attributes: Intelligence +1]

[Effect 1: Your attacks have a 10% chance to deal a minor amount of Frost damage.]

[Effect 2: Your energy recovery efficiency is increased by an additional +1.]

Its excellence needed no further explanation.

The pity was...

Cruel Ascension had also failed to trigger!

Glancing at the related description, Su Ming once doubted if this so-called [High-Quality Slaughter Behavior] was just nonsense!

[Trait: Cruel Ascension]

[Category: Conceptual Blessing]

[Attributes: Mental Resistance +50%, Cognitive Resistance +100%, Soul Resistance +200%]

[Effect 1: Each natural day, you can choose to activate one Bloodline Module from those you have acquired, or switch to another Bloodline Module!]

[Effect 2: While a Bloodline Module is loaded, you will gradually adapt to and successfully master it. At that point, the module will be automatically destroyed. During this process, you will absorb the spiritual essence of the module and gain various degrees of growth (including but not limited to attributes, experience, talents, and skills).]

[Description: Favored by the original slaughter concept, you can directionally unlock Bloodline Modules from high-quality slaughter behaviors (Elite monsters and above)!]

[PS: Being able to eat isn't the real skill; being able to digest completely is! — Gourmet of the Myriad Realms: Great Venerable Taotie! (999+ Likes)]

A trait like this sounded incredibly overpowered, didn't it?

The passive base attributes were permanent and extremely practical.

Crucially, once a Bloodline Module was activated, Su Ming would gain a directional transformation ability. While his combat power increased significantly, he could also slowly digest the module.

Ultimately...

He would consume it entirely, leaving nothing behind.

And from it, he would gain attributes, experience, skills, and even talents!

It was just a shame...

There was a prerequisite!

— High-quality slaughter behavior!

To put it the other way, low-skill killing would definitely never trigger this trait.

Su Ming was quite helpless about this.

When the strength of both combatants was low, there was no way to make the fight 'high-end'.

He put on the tide magic ring.

Then, using his Creation Skill, he hand-crafted a few bottles of Junior Healing Potions for himself.

Once his status was topped off again...

Su Ming turned around and plunged into Crystal Lake once more.

On the clear surface of the water, ripples spread rapidly. Along the way, whether it was Murlocs, Water Elementals, or four-to-five-meter-long giant crocodiles...

They all became Su Ming's hunting targets.

In comparison...

Murlocs had a bit of intelligence; if they couldn't win, they would dive to the bottom to escape, and Su Ming couldn't stop them.

Dullards like Water Elementals and beasts like crocodiles weren't so lucky.

They were like sitting ducks; Su Ming killed every one he saw! It was also worth mentioning that Water Elementals preferred solitude over living in groups.

Crocodiles did often travel in groups, but their eyesight was poor, and they considerately maintained social distance from each other...

Gradually.

Su Ming stopped bothering with the Murlocs.

He turned his focus to hunting Water Elementals and crocodile packs.

Until a certain moment, when Su Ming suddenly felt a faint sense of being rejected, he finally stopped.

Returning to the shore, he casually took out several rocks and piled them up to create a temporary shelter.

With his safety guaranteed, Su Ming settled his mind, closed his eyes, and began to perceive.

After a short while, Su Ming slowly stood up, a flash of realization in his eyes.

Azeroth was a supernatural world; it had an active world soul, and the planet beneath his feet even hid a gestating Titan.

Under the influence of various factors...

The world of Azeroth had actually gradually condensed a Will of Nature!

This meant...

Excessive destruction of the food chain would inevitably lead to the resentment of the Will of Nature!

Fortunately, Su Ming's 15 points in Inspiration were reliable.

It gave him a warning just before the critical point was reached, forcing Su Ming to stop... There was no other choice, unless he wanted to face the endless pursuit of the Druids.

After cleaning up the battlefield, ten minutes later, Su Ming vanished within a shroud of white light.

...

The sun set in the west.

The cold wind whistled and howled.

Light snow fluttered down. Nature was like a heartless, stern father, driving away the last remaining warmth between heaven and earth.

It was declaring!

Only those lives that could withstand the devastation of wind and snow were worthy of thriving on this northern permafrost.

Having just returned home, even Su Ming couldn't help but shiver.

It was ridiculous.

Winter hadn't even truly arrived yet.

But the temperature outside was already hovering between minus ten and twenty degrees.

He couldn't imagine how low the temperature would drop when the true winter descended.

Su Ming didn't want to just sit and wait for death, so he braved the wind and snow and walked out of the stone house.

The profound charm of All-Thing Analysis shimmered in Su Ming's eyes, dyeing those clear pupils into a deep blue void where Dao and logic intertwined!

In the next instant...

A massive amount of information combined and deduced itself within Su Ming's framework of subjective will.

What was a framework of subjective will?

Namely: What do I want to do!

What Su Ming wanted to do, of course, was to use his Creation Skill to build himself a more comfortable home!

...

Planet Feireze, extra-terrestrial orbit.

Su Ming, who had been missing for three days, suddenly returned, allowing Zhixin, who had been monitoring the area constantly, to breathe a sigh of relief.

This guy finally came back.

Scared me to death; I thought this brat had died out there!

Gently flapping her wings, Zhixin prepared to descend to the North to formally represent the Angel Civilization and speak with Su Ming.

However...

From billions of light-years away.

Angel Yan, who had been following the matter and synchronizing the relevant data at all times, abruptly called a halt.

“Wait, Zhixin! Don't be in a hurry, it looks like that child Su Ming has something to do!”

“He really does...”

Zhixin was slightly dazed, unable to figure out what Su Ming was doing suddenly standing in the wind and snow.

Angel Yan, however, saw a hint of something fishy:

“Zhixin, look at the blue light in his eyes... By the Justice Order above, could this child be analyzing something?”

“It looks very much like it on the surface...”

Zhixin's eyes were full of shock:

“But Sister Yan, I haven't detected any abnormal fluctuations in the Dark Plane on my end!”

Chapter 18: Supernatural Building: Winterhold Castle

The deep blue flowing light in Su Ming's eyes and the enthusiastic yet thoughtful expression on his face indicated that he was definitely observing and analyzing something.

But he didn't have a Super Gene!

Secondly, he didn't have the assistance of a celestial supercomputer. How could he achieve observation and analysis akin to that of a technological god?

Or could it be that outside of Dark Eye Technology, there existed some undiscovered high-end observation technique that could be mastered and wielded by an individual?

Separated by billions of light-years, the two angels looked at each other.

They were utterly baffled by the scene unfolding before them.