"Dark Soul Mist": Exceeding the Standard!
Yang Shan opened the detailed description of the features of "Dark Soul Mist".
Dark Soul Mist (Earth Chapter)
Offensive and defensive strength: It can consume Soul Strength and Dou Qi to convert into "Dark Soul Mist Energy". The energy points are converted into "damage" and "resistance" in a 1:1 ratio.
Dark Soul Mist Energy Point Conversion —
1 Soul (Spirit Realm Middle Stage) = 10 Energy.
1 Dou Qi = (1% Dou Qi Intensity) Energy.
Corrosion: Dark Soul Mist has an extremely strong corrosive effect on Dou Qi, increasing the damage to Dou Qi Armor and Protective Gang Qi by an additional 50%, and can penetrate defensive Dou Technique, slightly affecting the opponent's soul.
Condensation: You can condense the Dark Soul Mist into the shape you desire according to your thoughts, but the shape cannot be refined. This function does not incur any additional costs.
Concealment: Dark Soul Mist can help you conceal your aura, scent, and even soul fluctuations.
Note: The effects of Condensation and Concealment are related to your current level and Soul Strength.
Feature - Hide Mist Within: Dark Soul Mist can be condensed at any time and stored around the body. Mobilizing the stored Dark Soul Mist does not require consuming any Dou Qi or Soul Strength. The total amount stored is based on your level, Soul Strength, and Dou Technique proficiency.
Your current maximum Dark Soul Mist Energy Point storage is 300,000. (The maximum increases by 30,000 points when you reach the level of Four Star Dou Huang or Seven Star Dou Huang, and by 300,000 points when your Soul Strength reaches the Spirit Realm Late Stage.) Yang Shan excelled in Chinese literature when he was in school.
Reading comprehension was too easy for him.
The effect of this Dark Soul Mist can be summarized in one sentence.
Dark Soul Mist passive effect: Condensation, Concealment
The active effects are entirely tied to "energy value".
One point of energy can cause one point of damage, or resist one point of damage from the opponent! The strength of Dark Soul Mist is completely linked to its "energy value"!
Of course, if that were all, Yang Shan would consider "Dark Soul Mist" to be just average.
But there's one last rule— to Hide Mist Within.
Then this Dou Technique is a divine technique!
Amazing skill!
What does it mean to Hide Mist Within? If Yang Shan cultivates the Dark Soul Mist to perfection, he can store 300,000 points of Dark Soul Mist Energy in his body.
This energy can be used for both offense and defense, and it will not consume any of Yang Shan's energy during the battle! Let's put the concept slightly differently.
With the "Dark Soul Mist," Yang Shan currently has 300,000 more "damage points" than other players! This allows him to both mitigate his own damage and inflict damage on others.
It should be noted that Yang Shan's current strongest burst of Dou Skill Overload only manages to deal 300,000 damage!
Although in actual combat, one must consider that the Might of Heaven and Earth takes priority over the soul, or when encountering a stronger opponent whose Soul Strength and Dou Qi Intensity are far greater than one's own, thus reducing the effect of Dark Soul Mist, that is the opponent's problem, not the Dark Soul Mist itself.
It can provide Yang Shan with a full 300,000 points of "power" at this stage, without any combat consumption, and can be freely used! Moreover, this thing has an additional 50% damage to "Vitality Shield"! Using it to deplete the opponent's Dou Qi Armor, the theoretical damage soars to 450,000 points!
Yang Shan's current full-strength Dou Qi Armor only has 110,000 Vitality Shield! After careful consideration, Yang Shan decided to label the Earth Chapter's "Dark Soul Mist" as: Exceeding the Standard!
Absolutely Exceeding the Standard! Other extremely powerful Dou Technique would inevitably consume enormous amounts of energy.
That's great, it's practically like getting something for free!
No wonder the Soul Hall's Dou Zong protectors and Dou Emperor Soul Envoy would choose to exchange for the "Dark Soul Mist" Mysterious Chapter after accumulating enough Contribution Points.
Even if they can't afford the Mysterious Chapter, many Soul Hall members are willing to spend Contribution Points to get a Yellow-grade, high-quality, ultimate weakened version of "Dark Soul Mist".
That thing doesn't even need to be passed down through a stone tablet; you can just exchange the manual directly.
To be able to create Dou Technique that grants an "innate advantage" to anyone who learns it, Yang Shan could only sincerely say, "The Soul Hall is awesome!"
Unfortunately, only the Soul Hall can develop this Dou Technique on a large scale.
The cultivation requirements are too unorthodox and demanding. It's not just about comprehension; the most crucial element is Soul Strength.
Even the Mysterious Chapter requires the Soul Strength of the Late Mortal Realm.
Don't underestimate this Late Mortal Realm.
It's important to know that players' Soul Strength starts at the early stage of the Mortal Realm, so as long as their spiritual roots meet the requirements, they can become Alchemist.
However, when placed among NPCs, ordinary people, or even ordinary cultivators, their initial Soul Strength level is called "ordinary"! After ordinary comes excellent, and after excellent comes the early stage of the Mortal Realm! To reach the Late Mortal Realm, if one relies solely on their own cultivation to slowly improve, one would need to reach the Dou Zong level! Even in the Soul Hall, to raise one's soul to the Late Mortal Realm, one would need to be at the Soul Envoy level, secretly pocketing some kickbacks from time to time.
Even a powerful Nine Star Dou Zong like Sha Feng Protector only reached the Spirit Realm Middle Stage after nearly a hundred years of saving and scrimping.
After all, in the Soul Hall, "souls" are a much stronger form of currency than Spirit Stone. To exchange for resources, you have to rely on them! No wonder Sha Feng was so scared when he found out that Yang Shan actually wanted to exchange for the Earth Chapter of "Dark Soul Mist".
One Star Dou Huang, Spirit Realm Middle Stage.
These two words shouldn't even be together! This shows that Yang Shan's current development of Soul Strength is truly outrageous! Xiao Aotian still thinks that he and Yang Shan are only slightly inferior.
In fact, even if Xiao Aotian pedaled his "soul bicycle" chain until sparks flew, he still couldn't catch up with Yang Shan!
Ten minutes later, Yang Shan received a system notification: [Ding! Player, please note that you have fully accepted the inheritance of the Earth Chapter and Mysterious Chapter of "Dark Soul Mist". Due to your exceptional talent (73 points of comprehension) and extremely strong Soul Strength (Spirit Realm Middle Stage), the Mysterious Chapter has automatically reached the Perfect level of comprehension, and the Earth Chapter has also been mastered, with proficiency automatically reaching "Minor Success".]
Upon receiving the news, Yang Shan finally couldn't help but let out a wicked laugh:
"Hehehe!"
Sha Feng, who was protecting Yang Shan, heard Yang Shan's laughter and thought to himself, "Mister E is indeed worthy of being a Soul General, such standard pronunciation!"
Yang Shan also took a look at the methods to improve proficiency in "Dark Soul Mist".
Each time a bit of Dark Soul Mist Energy is condensed, the proficiency level increases by one point.
This method truly highlights the "topic".
Yang Shan wanted to learn quickly, but had no way to do so! Fortunately, this method allowed him to "AFK" (away from keyboard).
With the Dou Qi recovery provided by the Sea Heart Flame and the Qi Return Pill, and by training constantly while AFK, it shouldn't take too long.
However, to reach perfection, we'll need at least the next version.
After all, this version is almost due.
Currently, the Dark Soul Mist at the minor completion level only achieves 60% of its full potential in all aspects, and even its Dark Soul Mist storage is limited to 180,000 points.
But Yang Shan, who was itching to try it out, really wanted to find a place to test its power first.
The remaining Contribution Points can be saved for now.
He knew that there was a rule in the Soul Hall.
If you need help from others, you can use Contribution Points as payment.
Even the Old Mu Bone gave Han Feng one million Contribution Points so that Han Feng could recruit soldiers and horses.
Yang Shan pondered that if he saved up enough Contribution Points, he could directly pull out a team from the Soul Hall to help him with his tasks.
Forget about becoming Dou Zun; you might as well spend those Contribution Points on yourself.
However, finding three to five experts at the Dou Zong level should not be a problem.
Yang Shan stood up and casually asked, "Sha Feng Protector, does our branch have any quests that can earn Soul Points? The kind that don't require you to go to different places to oversee things."
Yang Shan has no intention of going anywhere to take charge.
They still had to hide and dare not easily show their faces in public.
Unlike now, we can go wherever we want without being bound by missions.
The souls that "Cheng E" can't collect, "Yang Shan" will collect! The main idea is to take everything and leave nothing behind!
Sha Feng thought for a moment and said, "Recently, yes, the magical beasts in the Ghost Wither Mountain Range are too ferocious and reproduce extremely quickly, so every once in a while we have to send people to clear them out to prevent a beast tide."
Yang Shan wondered:
Why did we choose to build our branch temple here?
Sha Feng: "Because it's secretive! Mister E, you must know that our Soul Hall personnel have to operate in the shadows, otherwise, it's easy to attract the attention of other forces in the Central Plains!"
"This Ghost Wither Deep Domain is an extremely dangerous forbidden area for humans. The nearest Heavenly Heart Empire tried to explore it three hundred years ago, but they provoked that eighth-order ferocious beast and were completely wiped out, giving us millions of Soul Points for nothing! Here, the risk of the Ghost Wither Branch Hall being exposed is minimized."
Yang Shan nodded. "I see!"
Sha Feng then led Yang Shan to the "Affairs Hall," where, with Sha Feng's help, Yang Shan successfully obtained a very cost-effective task:
[Sweep the Deep Domain - Free.]
The mission requirements are simple: just kill monsters within the designated area.
Contribution Points are calculated based on the strength of the monsters killed.
For example, killing twenty elite level 5 magical beasts will earn you 1 contribution point.
The Dou Emperor Soul Envoy issued the mission handed Yang Shan a specially made Soul Gathering Pearl with a fawning smile.
This Soul Gathering Pearl can record the specific details of the collected monster souls.
In addition, the souls of the Warcraft can be freely used by the quest takers, or exchanged for Contribution Points.
However, the Soul Strength of most magical beasts is far inferior to that of human cultivators of the same level. Using this to extract souls is much less efficient than killing players! For the members of the Soul Hall, this is one of the few places where they can openly make extra money.
However, most of the time, it takes the initiative of the office staff to assign tasks.
This task is not cost-effective; it's a case of getting half the results with twice the effort.
But for Yang Shan, the price-performance ratio is still quite good.
Because players gain experience points when they kill monsters!
Yang Shan has now fully nurtured all the Heaven and Earth Oddities, and it's time for him to level up! Yang Shan asked Sha Feng to arrange a cultivation room for him, and then began to AFK Cultivation.
Dark Soul Mist needs to be stored in advance, which consumes a large amount of Soul Strength and Dou Qi.
Both Soul Strength and Dou Qi require time to recover.
This process is not short.
AFK farming is undoubtedly the most cost-effective method.
Yang Shan is just waiting to recover his strength so he can go online and dominate the battlefield!
The Dark Soul Mist is the symbol of Cheng E's future "hehehe," so it deserves some attention.
Then, I would also like to take this opportunity to tell Battle Emperor Lord: the effect of Dark Soul Mist. Sky thought about it for a long time and finally used this design, which is very intuitive in improving combat power but also quite ingenious.
It is entirely worthy of its Golden Word Seal Earth Rank Middle-Level.
So please rest assured, all you Battle Emperor Lord, the heavens will not deliberately suppress combat power.
Yang Shan's development will follow the normal, positive development logic as much as possible.
Of course, all you Battle Emperor Lord don't need to worry about the power levels collapsing.
After all, it's a virtual online game, and there are limits to the values at each stage.
Therefore, Yang Shan's combat power is unmatched among players, and he can easily challenge opponents of higher levels. However, it's impossible for him to do something as absurd as Dou Emperor instantly defeating Dou Zong, because the numerical values don't allow it. The conclusion is:
It's perfectly reasonable to feel good about it!