Journey to Bat Island

Xiao Gao's creation of Startling Dream was another story altogether.

As a sword, Li Lin's interference finally began after leaving the world he had manifested.

The Wand Appearance Component, a function Basil had seemingly abandoned, had actually long since been fully materialized with gems.

The newly added talents and their corresponding blue bars had all been integrated into the system Basil had created.

The talents corresponding to each wand, the deviation and influence upon the self caused by overly powerful blue bars, had long since ceased to affect him.

With the recovery of the Update Component,

the newly added wand appearances—Gear Adventure, Beyond the Void Realm, Frozen Abyss, Playing Chess Black and White, Candlelight Shining Light, All Imprisoned, and others—were likewise fully materialized by Basil using gems.

"This one."

A black wand flickering with ghostly blue magical light appeared before Power.

Seven Inches, Pain, Shadow of the Heart—a forbidden combination.

Sacrifice Self into Shadow

Use Body as Prison

Imprisoned in Eternal Suffering

Constant Pain

Immortal Shadow Body

Like its length, the description on its information panel was also exceedingly brief.

Nor did it possess modifiers like the other wand appearances, such as Power +10%.

Its function was simple.

It granted its holder an undying, indestructible body, along with emptiness and pain that clung like a shadow and could never be cast off.

Since one's own body was the prison, it would not be affected by any restrictive measures. A shadow-form body could escape any predicament.

There was no cooldown on shadow transformation either. Constant pain brought an immortal body that could exist as a shadow forever.

It was powerful.

Worthy of being a forbidden creation.

Yet its side effects could only be offset by Shadow of Obsidian, a wand deemed a miraculous creation whose core was the Source of Negative