I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1405 - 999: The Advantage Lies in Limitless Potential
"Flowers are too fragile, unable to resist the distortion brought by willpower interference and must pay the full price. If it’s a stronger entity, it might be able to resist..."
Zheng Yichen wasn’t very sure about this either, after all, when some formidable existences die and are ’resurrected’ by willpower interference, the life force required would be immense.
As such, the cost due to distortion becomes greater.
Unless Zheng Yichen provides sufficient life force, in that case, the distortion still exists, but the cost won’t be as large, because the resurrected life force is not obtained from the environment.
Even if willpower interference forcibly alters the state of an individual, it’s merely illegal modification of ’residency’, not akin to street robbery or bank heist; the severity is different.
Just like the second flower tested, once replanted, it’s just a little wilted instead of turning to ash on the spot.
The reason is that the life force for the flower’s revival was provided by Zheng Yichen, and after being planted, the environment doesn’t have the ’right’ to strip away that portion of life force as a restitution cost.
Looking wilted, it’s simply because this flower underwent a thorough examination due to the distortion from willpower interference.
Though it doesn’t affect its life, it certainly impacts its mental state.
"This is clearly very powerful when used in combat, Fosterer, why are you thinking of using it on life?" Tanshia Firlo touched the wilted flower.
Under her influence, this flower quickly restored its ’vigor’.
"Interfering with objects and the environment is the simplest; life’s different, let’s go find a corpse." Zheng Yichen rubbed his hands, a single flower has limited expressive power.
He needed larger entities to test.
Not long after, Zheng Yichen had accumulated a large number of animals, some were mere skeletons yet forcibly jerked upright.
Some were normal, while others had issues. Those normal ones were generally freshly dead, whereas the problematic ones were long dead, and they had no soul.
Resurrected forcibly by willpower interference, they became ’zombies’ alive, carrying serious distortions within their existence. Fragile plants like flowers could dissipate such distortions.
For slightly stronger beings, it’s challenging to eliminate these distortions.
These distortions make these resurrected beings seem out of place.
Not to the extent of choking while drinking water, but akin to being forsaken by the heavens.
The brighter side is, having no soul, they won’t mutate randomly.
Unlike beings created by Zheng Yichen’s Ark of Life, lacking souls to stabilize their form, they would soon mutate.
Willpower interference is like bringing dead creatures back to life in a BUG-like way; whether or not they have a soul is irrelevant.
But simultaneously, the distortion from the BUG makes these creatures appear quite ’unlucky’.
Otherwise, there’s no issue in other aspects; they can eat and drink but cannot reproduce.
"Very impressive," Zheng Yichen sincerely said. At this stage of testing, regarding the impact on biology, Zheng Yichen was more or less certain.
However, this sort of willpower interference is mostly external-in, with significant effects on non-self-conscious entities. When facing self-conscious existences, the impact depends on the nature.
If it’s restraining the actions of an individual, it’s still considered external interference, functioning normally. For affecting the individual’s actions, there’s a need for willpower confrontation.
This power isn’t about mental domination, although it can cross boundaries; truly doing so results in direct willpower conflict, making efforts less fruitful.
Zheng Yichen didn’t prefer such operations; after completing the tests, he anticipated utilizing this method in combat most of the time in the future.
For instance, using willpower interference to directly affect space.
He already possessed spatial distortion strength, making interference more straightforward, and time... Zheng Yichen felt some sensation during manipulation, but such effects are all ’fake time power’.
As long as the entire world doesn’t fall into stagnation, it operates within this realm of power.
Regarding the power to jump timelines, as of now, Zheng Yichen hadn’t encountered it; if he did and the entity was hostile, he’d have to find a way to kill them.
In the most gentle manner, he’d drain their blood.
For influencing fate, Zheng Yichen had no significant ideas; he didn’t plan to use willpower interference in a subjective manner concerning this power.
When willpower interferes with reality, it’s essentially touching this power already.
Those animals he resurrected through interference, their fates were halted upon death, yet Zheng Yichen revived them through the interference of the Heart of Willpower.
This touched upon the animals’ fate, allowing their severed destiny to continue, yet this was also a cause for the generated distortion.
Time is too abstract; so-called interference merely slows surrounding activities down, nearly to a standstill.
It’s akin to the accelerated consciousness experience Zheng Yichen felt within the Virtual World.
Crack——
The space in front of Zheng Yichen shattered due to intense distortion, but the pitch-black crack did not continue to expand. Instead, it gradually stabilized.
Looking at this crack, Zheng Yichen reached out to its edge and grabbed, and a ’Black Sword’ appeared in his hand.
This weapon, when viewed from the front, is an irregular sword-shaped fragment, but from the side, it is just an imperceptible thin line.
"Spatial blade, I guess I’m someone who knows spatial magic now." Zheng Yichen swung the dangerous weapon in his hand, the spatial distortion couldn’t achieve this level.
However, by interfering through willpower, Zheng Yichen could grab and stabilize a space fragment, using this thing as a weapon.
As for spatial teleportation, it’s not impossible; that kind of movement can’t be done by simply lowering the conditions through spatial distortion.
It requires an extremely strong personal will to directly interfere with the space and then break through the spatial limitations to teleport.
In terms of cost-effectiveness... hmm, it’s not as good as someone with spatial ability.
Unfortunately, such targets are too rare. He even cleared out two worlds of the Devourers and defeated a large number of Devourers, but still couldn’t find anyone with this special ability.
At most, they mastered some space-related strength, but those belong to skills, not abilities. Even after Zheng Yichen defeated them, they were so stingy as not to give him a space fragment of information solidification crystal!
"Overall, the Heart of Willpower can almost achieve omnipotent cross-domain capabilities, but the efficiency in different domains varies.
No matter how you operate it, it’s not as energy-saving as specialized skills, but it has the advantage of being versatile and having a high upper limit."
After numerous tests, Zheng Yichen gained a clearer understanding of the performance of the Heart of Willpower.
In terms of cost-effectiveness, it can’t compare to specialized skills, but it can do things that specialized skills can’t.
If you can’t perform sword flight, you can forcibly do it with the Heart of Willpower, but compared to a Sword Immortal, the cost-effectiveness is very low.
The low efficiency doesn’t matter. After all, with great power, if you can withstand it, you can fly faster than the professional Sword Immortal, and the Flying Sword’s lethality is stronger.
Meanwhile, the Sword Immortal can’t hand-forge nuclear fusion, but someone with the Heart of Willpower can forcibly perform sword flight while simultaneously hand-forging nuclear fusion Fireballs.
This kind of power doesn’t consume mana, but it overdraws the spirit. During battle, it can be paired with the power one already possesses, giving a strong boost.
Using the Heart of Willpower as the main attack is one way to use it, and assistance is another way, which is very suitable for someone like Zheng Yichen who possesses many skills.
"I almost feel like I’m truly omnipotent."
"Then why don’t you become a Faith God, Fosterer," Tanshia Firlo shook Zheng Yichen’s arm. "You see, in my world, it would be very suitable for you. How about going over to my side, finding a suitable place, and becoming a Main God?"
"No way!" Zheng Yichen said very straightforwardly, feeling it was troublesome.
"...Looking at Zheng Yichen’s reluctant expression, Tanshia Firlo quickly said: "A Main God doesn’t need to handle so many things. As long as you can fight, there will be many followers to help deal with affairs."
Zheng Yichen pressed down on the small white dragon’s head, squeezing it: "The more people, the more trouble. Hurry up and transform, we’re going to the next place."
"I can help you manage, though—" she muttered, and a pair of dragon wings unfolded from Tanshia Firlo’s back. She transformed into the shape of a giant dragon as quickly as she could.
It’s rare that Zheng Yichen didn’t plan to ride a motorcycle; she was very enthusiastic: "Where are we going next?"
"To... hmm, where there’s a war." Zheng Yichen thought for a moment and said, the environment of this world is at the Level 4 degree, it’s pretty good.
It allows him to try using the Faith hammer.
War zones aren’t hard to find. This world is of the sword and magic type, wars are frequent. After filtering through the use of Extraordinary mental perception, he found a suitable target.
He naturally integrated into the city of this country. This country is engaged in a protective war, protecting the homeland against invaders.
And although the soldiers here are filled with hatred towards the invaders, their mental state leans more towards the positive.
This is the reason Zheng Yichen came here. He plans to create a ’Sword of Protection’.
He has accumulated too much faith power, and the statues spread out —to put it bluntly— are like locusts, their numbers increasing more and more.
If other Faith Gods obtained this faith power, they could directly reach the max level, even causing their vessel to burst.
But for Zheng Yichen, it doesn’t have much use. The transactional faith is only used to trigger the Oath Power; faith power is actually a byproduct.
He intends to use a part of the faith power, along with the faith elements separated from the God Sealing Stone, to specifically forge a weapon, testing the effect of the Faith hammer.
If it works well, then during battle, he can use a large quantity of faith power to directly hammer out a bunch of high-strength one-time weapons on the spot.
After all, they’re one-time, treated directly as missiles!
Making a cold weapon with the cost of missile production, that naturally would be a divine weapon. But no matter how good the divine weapon, even in the hands of a martial arts master, the instant lethality is still outdone by a missile.
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