Invincible Body? No, Accept Abundance's Blessing

No matter how Kong ultimately dealt with that horribly unlucky Abyss Apostle, Wang Lei stumbled back into the shop once more. This trip to Teyvat had lasted just over six days, less than seven. He hurriedly checked the clock in the shop, and that confirmed it: no matter how long he spent traveling through the system, only ten minutes passed in every world.

Wang Lei relaxed considerably. Ten minutes meant he basically wouldn't miss anything major.

And this time, his haul had been massive. Looking at the 1,107,488 Energy Points in the system, along with a whole pile of favorability notifications, the more important ones were:

Venti of the Teyvat world has a friendly attitude toward the host. Temporary Summon unlocked.

Rosalyne-Kruzchka Lohefalter of the Teyvat world is smitten with the host. Temporary Summon unlocked. Summoning cost reduced by 40%.

Ying of the Teyvat world has a friendly attitude toward the host. Temporary Summon unlocked. Summoning cost reduced by 10%.

Paimon of the Teyvat world trusts the host. Temporary Summon unlocked. Summoning cost reduced by 20%.

The rest were favorability updates from the Good Hunter staff. Most of those notifications were within Wang Lei's expectations. Only Paimon's had caught him off guard. He had never expected one meal to raise her favorability all the way to trust.

But the important thing was the reward points. Wang Lei was grinning so hard his mouth nearly crooked. More than 1.1 million reward points—he could finally buy a skill he had had his eye on for a long time.

That skill was Shuhu's Blessing, the very thing that had turned Blade from a short-lived species into a long-lived one that simply could not be killed.

As a named Abundance Emanator in Star Rail, Shuhu had once sparked the Shuhu Rebellion on the Xianzhou Luofu, nearly destroying half its realms and slaughtering the Cloud Knights until barely one in ten remained.

Shuhu's summon was also among the highest-tier summons in the system, costing several hundred billion. With a little more effort, Wang Lei could practically summon an Aeon's avatar to descend.

All he could say was that there were differences even among Emanators—differences that might well be greater than those between ordinary people and a Fourth Generation God Body.

Wang Lei even suspected that the many so-called Emanator Level characters players had talked about before his rebirth were likely just people qualified to fight Emanators without being instantly killed. Or perhaps weaker Emanators were merely on par with the strongest Path Walkers.

After all, Aha had once randomly distributed his power among a whole bunch of mortals. To those mortals, even receiving less than one hundred-millionth of Aha's power made them Emanators. It was just that mortals had no idea how to use that power, and their Combat Strength... probably couldn't even match an ordinary Path Walker.

In the system's classification, only those favored by an Aeon and permitted to directly draw upon the power of a Path could be called Emanators. And it couldn't be some casual, temporary arrangement.

As for everyone else, even if they really killed an Emanator in a one-on-one fight, they still could not be called Emanator Level. This was obvious from the Energy Points required for summons. For example, Kafka's summoning cost was far lower than Ei's. A little over a billion points was enough to bring Mama Kafka home—no loss, no scam.

And Shuhu, involved in this exchange, was a top-tier Emanator, one verified by the system. Oh, and while checking the Emanator summons, Wang Lei had discovered that Lordly General could be summoned separately. That basically confirmed it: Lordly General was the Emanator-level power bestowed upon the Luofu by the Hunt. Jing Yuan was really just a powerful Lordly General pilot.

From the perspective of its range of effect, Shuhu's blessing was far inferior to the blessing of Abundance itself. That Aeon bestowed blessings on an entire planetary scale. And once blessed, life could basically be said to have evolved into an entirely new life-form.

It was just that most Abundance Followers failed to enjoy that blessing for even a few centuries before resource shortages threw everything into complete chaos. Longevity—prosperity—population expansion—resource scarcity—plunder. Nearly all Abundance Followers were trapped in this vicious cycle, because only by plundering other Abundance Followers could they sustain their own long lives.

Compared to such a terrifying blessing, Shuhu's blessing was much gentler. Though in terms of effect, it seemed even more outrageous than other blessings of Abundance.

Back when Blade was still called Ying Xing, he and Dan Feng had been captured for causing the Imbibitor Lunae Rebellion and imprisoned within the Ten-Lords Commission. Dan Feng was difficult to kill because of his identity as the High Elder, so he was forcibly made to shed his scales. But Ying Xing, who had accidentally received Shuhu's "blessing," had already been deemed a complete and utter abomination of Abundance.

Yet the Ten-Lords Commission had exhausted every possible method and still failed to kill Blade. Given that the Xianzhou possessed the technology to build starships, Wang Lei had every reason to believe that the Ten-Lords Commission had likely tried every method they could find to eliminate Blade. The process was indescribable, but the result was clear from the fact that Blade was still alive and kicking among the Stellaron Hunters. After every attempt failed, Jingliu, suffering from mara, ultimately broke him out herself.

After Blade regained consciousness, he found that he had already left the Xianzhou. Jingliu taught him swordsmanship through methods that Carved Into The Bones. Once he had mastered her art, Blade wandered the universe alone, relying on his fragmented memories and the resonance from the bracer on his arm to begin hunting Dan Heng. That was until the Stellaron Hunters persuaded him and he joined them.

Wang Lei had actually set his sights on Shuhu's blessing back when he had still been living at home, idly browsing the exchange list. This thing did not increase Combat Strength, and if he was killed, he would still fall unconscious; he would still feel pain, and his mentality could still collapse. He might even revive to find every stitch of clothing stripped from his body. And if he was sealed away, then he would truly be unable to live or die. It was hard to say whether it was a curse or a blessing.

That was why it was much cheaper than other powerful abilities that required no training. It only cost one million Energy Points. Compared to the inherent abilities that cost tens or hundreds of millions, it was practically dirt cheap. Kafka's Charm Technique deserved special criticism here—such a common ability cost two hundred million. Why not just rob people outright?

And after exchanging for Shuhu's blessing, Wang Lei figured that he, too, would have an Invincible Body from now on. He could even look forward to the possibility that, like the Sacred Body, he would be able to reassemble and revive on his own even after being blasted into particles.

After confirming that Shuhu's blessing had not risen in price and that he had not misread it, Wang Lei decisively exchanged for the ability. Immediately afterward, he felt his heartbeat speed up.

Alright, the rapid heartbeat was caused by Wang Lei's own excitement. It had nothing to do with the exchange. Just like before, there was no grand flash of light or dramatic spectacle when exchanging abilities. The system merely notified him that the exchange had succeeded, and that was it.

Wang Lei carefully examined his body and repeatedly scanned himself with Aether Encoding. His body was perfectly healthy, with no changes whatsoever.

So Wang Lei could only casually grab a fruit knife and stab it into his arm. Then the knife snapped, while his arm remained completely unscathed.

Alright, Wang Lei had forgotten that the Stellaron was constantly strengthening his body. Ordinary bullets could not even break his defense anymore, let alone a fruit knife.

Wang Lei immediately grew depressed. Did he really have to borrow Angel Yan's Flame Sword and ask them to give him a slash? They would probably send him straight to a psychiatric hospital.