101: Chapter 101 A Bond of Fate!

Ghost Blade's roar was caught in his throat.

Ye Qingluan looked up.

Through tear-blurred eyes, she saw that wisp of golden light expanding.

"That is..."

Deep within the ruins, Su Ming's consciousness drifted in the darkness.

Does it hurt?

It doesn't hurt anymore; I can't feel anything.

The hole in my chest, my severed left arm, my body shredded by spiderwebs...

The pain has vanished.

My sense of touch is gone too.

Am I dead?

No, that's not right.

My heart seems to still be beating.

Extremely weakly.

One beat, then another...

Every pulsation was slipping on the edge of a cliff, ready to fall into an endless abyss at any moment.

Just as his consciousness was about to dissipate...

A cold notification sound exploded in his mind.

[Fatal damage detected!]

[Spirit · Undying Vitality — Cicada Molting, triggered!]

[Forcibly locking the last trace of Qi and blood, and removing all injuries!]

Boom!!

That dying 'heart' contracted violently.

Golden life energy gushed out from the core of the 'heart'!

It poured out all the accumulated life energy in an instant!

The golden light rushed into his limbs and bones.

Broken bones were reorganizing; shattered ribs rapidly extended from both ends of the fracture, snapping together with a click.

His chest cavity closed, and the tear in the outer wall of his heart healed within the golden light.

At the stump of his left arm, white bone buds pierced out like sprouting branches, extending, and taking shape...

Muscle fibers climbed and wound around, blood vessels pierced out from the cross-section to reconnect, and skin finally covered it over.

Tender and pink.

Smooth and clean.

Even the scars had disappeared.

The body that had been shredded by spiderwebs was being rebuilt inch by inch.

Golden light shone out from Su Ming's body, piercing through layers of rubble and illuminating half of the ruins.

Inside the city gate, everyone looked up.

That patch of ruins was glowing.

Getting brighter and brighter.

"Boom!"

Rubble exploded outward!

A figure rose from the center of the ruins!

Golden afterglow wrapped around his body, bloodstains were steamed away, his clothes were tattered, but that figure...

His back was straight as a rod.

The ink dragon spear had returned to his palm at some point, its butt resting on the ground, its tip pointing toward the sky.

Su Ming stood atop the ruins.

The wind filled his eardrums, blowing his bangs, and the golden light slowly receded, revealing the intact skin underneath.

No wounds.

No bloodstains.

The person who had been shredded into pieces by spiderwebs a second ago.

Was standing there perfectly fine.

Inside the city gate, three thousand people collectively lost their voices.

The deathly silence lasted for a full three seconds.

"Alive... he's alive?"

"He didn't die?!"

"The city wall collapsed, I saw with my own eyes that he was shredded into pieces!"

"How is that possible... how the hell is that possible!"

"What... what the hell..."

The binoculars in an old soldier's hand slipped and shattered when they hit the ground.

Ghost Blade's legs went weak.

His knees slammed onto the ground.

"Brother... Brother Ming?"

His voice was hoarse.

His tone was full of disbelief.

Just a moment ago, he thought Su Ming had died.

Truly died.

The suffocation and despair surging in his chest almost made him break down on the spot.

And yet this guy...

Resurrected on the spot?

Ye Qingluan stood frozen in place, her lips trembling, but she couldn't squeeze out a single word.

Tears flowed down her cheeks.

She didn't even notice.

Qin Tian slowly loosened his grip on his blade, the blood returning to his white-knuckled fingertips bit by bit.

His Adam's apple bobbed twice.

He muttered.

"A miracle."

Chen Zhan put down his binoculars.

His hands were shaking.

After a long while.

"...Good lad."

City Lord Lin Yue tilted his head, hands in his pockets.

"A life-saving measure triggered by a fatal injury?"

The gravity in his tone dissipated for the most part, replaced by a hint of mockery.

"This kid is hard to kill."

On the ruins.

Su Ming looked down at himself.

His left arm, intact; his chest, intact; all over his body, not a single wound.

— Undying Vitality · Cicada Molting!

A full health resurrection once a day.

Worth it, absolutely fucking worth it!

Without this thing, he would have fallen here today.

The Heart-Linking Demon Spider's spiderweb strangulation right before it died was far more powerful than ever before.

It had been lurking beneath the city wall before.

Was it...

Setting a trap?

It actually had such a trick up its sleeve.

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Su Ming's back.

Fortunately!

By a stroke of luck, he had made everyone evacuate.

Fortunately, he hadn't given it time to unleash its power, otherwise, two lives might not have been enough.

However, it had died in the end.

He had been the better one.

Su Ming glanced at the minced meat at his feet.

Half a pale human face was exposed from the remains, its dark purple vertical pupils unfocused, and that mocking curve at the corner of its mouth frozen in place.

In his mind, the System notifications exploded one after another:

[Killed Heart-Linking Demon Spider, refinement points + 104]

[Detected Spirit: Fate Bond · Rare]

[Consume 2000 refinement points to refine the opponent's Spirit and add it to yourself]

Su Ming's breath hitched.

Rare Spirit.

The entire battle, all the life-and-death struggles, being impaled, being shredded...

It was all for this.

"Refine."

[refinement points: 5851 ↓ 3851]

Hum—

A vast wave of energy surged into his body.

It felt like it seeped directly into the depths of his Soul.

His consciousness was expanding.

At the core of his Soul, invisible chains extended outward.

Dense and numerous, spreading in all directions.

One hundred.

Five hundred.

One thousand.

Two thousand.

Three thousand!

Three thousand chains were neatly arranged in the depths of his Soul, each one shimmering with a pale golden light, waiting to be connected.

Su Ming couldn't wait to pull up the Spirit details.

[Spirit: Fate Bond]

[Grade: Rare]

[Spirit Description: Destinies intertwined, Souls connected by locks. You can use Mental Energy to condense invisible bond chains, closely connecting your teammates' lives and powers with your own. You are no longer independent individuals, but a war behemoth that shares senses, power, and Spirit; one person is a legion, and a legion is one person.]

[Chains: You can link up to 3000 teammates. In the linked state, all linked individuals share each other's highest base attribute. If your Physique is the highest, your teammates will receive a Physique bonus equal to yours.]

[Burden: When any person in the link receives damage, the damage is evenly distributed among all linked individuals, and the total damage after distribution is reduced by 30%.]

Su Ming stared at the panel.

Three thousand people sharing attributes.

Damage sharing.

He went over these three pieces of information in his mind twice.

Three thousand people sharing his Physique...

Three thousand monsters with maxed-out Physique.

Damage shared and then reduced by thirty percent, one slash divided by three thousand...

Unless a single strike's damage reaches the total life force of three thousand people, it's impossible to kill anyone.

Crown of All Spirits projects Spirit, Fate Bond shares attributes.

Two Spirits stacked together...

Three thousand people, each with 70% Spirit effect, sharing the highest base attribute, and three thousand people bearing injuries together.

This isn't a legion.

This is one person copied three thousand times.

Su Ming gripped the ink dragon spear tightly.

His hand was shaking.

It was excitement!

Extreme excitement!

He muttered to himself in his heart.

"Open panel."

[Host: Su Ming]

[Strength: 23291]

[Physique: 26230]

[Agility: 19366]

[Mental: 17822]

[Realm: Fourth Realm Early Stage (Cloud Spirit Realm)]

[Martial Arts: Cloud Spirit Blood Demon Classic (Perfection), Thirteen Moon Slashes (Perfection)]

[Spirit: Fate Bond · Rare; Earth Resonance · High Grade; Chidori Raikiri · High Grade; Long Blade Bone Phase · High Grade; Thousand-Illusion Nuo Master · High Grade; Soul of the Mountain · High Grade; Undying Vitality · High Grade; Wild Tyrant Body · High Grade; Sky-Breaking Wings · High Grade; Crown of All Spirits · High Grade]

[refinement points: 3851]

Ten Spirits!

All High Grade, plus one Rare.

3851 refinement points!

These days are unprecedentedly wealthy.

Beast tides are great!

Exotic beasts are all good things...

They all deserve to die.

After one beast tide, both Strength and Physique attributes broke through the 20,000 mark!

Agility and Mental are also moving toward the 20,000 mark.

A Sixth Realm Martial Artist is nothing more than this.

Fourth Realm can be destroyed with a wave of a hand.

Fifth Realm is like a dog on the roadside.

7th Realm...

Hmm, peace is precious; fighting and killing isn't good.

He slung his spear over his shoulder.

He walked toward the city gate.

The System notification popped up again:

[Detected Rare Spirit...]

[Now opening Spirit upgrade channel, consume 1500 refinement points to upgrade a High Grade Spirit to a Rare Spirit.]

[Detected Spirit Breakthrough limit...]

[Now opening Spirit upgrade channel, consume corresponding refinement points to fuse two or more Spirits with each other to obtain a higher-level Spirit; the Spirit level limit is restricted by the host's existing Spirit limit.]