Chapter 199: Roughly the Same Idea

Chapter 199: Roughly the Same Idea

“Huh… what’s with this uncomfortable feeling again?” Zheng Yichen looked at the place where a strange aura had passed through, lightly scratching his bald head. That aura felt somewhat familiar, yet it was mixed with a faint trace of an Evil God’s scent…

What was an Evil God’s scent? Ah, it was hard to describe. Anyway, it wasn’t something good or easy to describe. But once you had encountered that kind of power , you could easily recognize it again when you came across it. It was like… trees. Whether it was a poplar, a willow, or even a tree you couldn’t name, once you saw it… even if you didn’t know what tree it was, one thing was certain—it was a tree!

So when Zheng Yichen sensed the aura of an Evil God, it was roughly the same idea.

Was this thing different from the Evil God’s power aura that had appeared earlier? Could it be that a new Evil God had just been born nearby? Zheng Yichen rubbed his chin, feeling a bit tempted. Maybe he should take advantage of it being newly born and find a way to rush over and take it down?

Evil Gods could be strong or weak. Their initial strength was related to the circumstances of their birth. If an entire city’s population was used for some evil sacrificial ritual, then the Evil God born from that, regardless of its attributes, would definitely be an SSR…

But if it was just a sacrifice of one or two people… cough, never mind whether they could mess around and actually create an Evil God, even if they got incredibly lucky and managed it, it would basically be a weakling. Probably any passing Professional could take it out. That kind of Evil God, Zheng Yichen guessed, could only affect ordinary people’s Dreams at most.

Wanting to kill an ordinary person would probably take several days of effort.

So Evil Gods, their power was mostly troublesome, equivalent to heavy pollutants. But actually, there was no need to be so afraid of them. Weak Evil Gods were quite easy to deal with. The reason so many people feared Evil Gods was purely because they were scared by those bloody, cruel sacrifices or rituals, combined with rumors exaggerating things, making Evil Gods even more demonized.

Evil Gods, human fear and other negative emotions were like nutrients for their growth. The more people feared them, the stronger they became. On the contrary… if you weren’t afraid of them, they were just normal opponents. What? Not being afraid makes them weaker? What a joke… unless a person’s will could influence reality, how could something weaken just because people weren’t afraid of it?

Just as Zheng Yichen was considering whether to go back and check, that strange yet familiar, yet completely unfamiliar Evil God aura suddenly vanished.

Pouting in disappointment, Zheng Yichen didn’t linger any longer and immediately left the area. Along the way, Lily kept looking up at Zheng Yichen. After a long while, she finally spoke: “That kind of power… can people achieve it?”

“Ah? Of course they can. Why couldn’t they?” Zheng Yichen retorted. He felt some of the previous battles were a bit wasteful, like the Light Tide. If, as he had imagined, he could compress its length by ten times, its width and thickness by dozens of times, making it like that squinty-eyed fox’s Zanpakutō… Zheng Yichen thought a four-hundred-meter-long staring Light Sword wouldn’t need three consecutive hits to take things down!

Most of the Light Tide’s power was wasted, even though it was the result of improvements, focusing and concentrating its force. Then there was Frostmourne… nothing much to say about that. Freezing was just like that. Zheng Yichen couldn’t make the frosty cold accurately skip every empty spot and precisely land on each person. As for Judgment, its range was somewhat excessive. The situation at the time could have been reduced by over a dozen meters and still been more than enough.

But if he reduced it, Zheng Yichen couldn’t guarantee its power.

All in all, he still preferred using the smallest amount of effort to achieve the greatest results.

Perhaps attacks that seemed to shatter heaven and earth with every move were flashy, but how much of the power behind those attacks was actually used on the target?

Even in many cases, such attacks consumed very little of the caster’s own power, mostly stirring up ambient forces to create that scale. But if that scaled-up power were condensed, wouldn’t it be even more powerful… Well, actually, Zheng Yichen was just thinking out loud.

To put it simply, it sounded easy! It even gave the feeling and impulse that “I could do better.”

But when actually trying, you’d find it was completely different from what you imagined. Even so, Zheng Yichen, with his own plans, still wanted to give it a try.

“Can I do it too?” Lily’s eyes lit up.

“Uh, that… might be a bit difficult,” Zheng Yichen said hesitantly. Lily had no Mental Energy. Even though her body had fully fused with a mutated gray mist, inside, it was completely empty, without a trace of Mana. She also had no talent for generating Mana. Without Mana, relying purely on physical strength to achieve the scale of destruction from the previous battles?

Damn! This was fantasy Magic, not wuxia or Xianxia, where you could shatter the Void with your bare body… If anyone could do that, Zheng Yichen swore he would go and become their disciple. After mastering it, he’d soar ninety thousand miles up, first tearing apart that hard-to-pass Forbidden Zone in the sky!

Even if Lily cultivated Battle Qi, the awkward thing about Battle Qi was that its attack range was worse than that of a Mana Warrior’s. But when it came to conventional close-range destructive power, Battle Qi was NO.1!

In short, an exceptionally powerful Mana Warrior could slice off a mountain peak with one sword strike, but a Battle Qi Warrior of the same level could never achieve that. They could smash a huge rock dozens of meters tall with no problem, but a mountain peak? No way. However, while they couldn’t compare in large-scale destruction, they excelled in other areas!

A Magic Warrior who could slice off a mountain peak with one sword might find themselves helpless against something with incredibly strong defense. But if you switched to a Battle Qi Warrior of the same level as that Magic Warrior, they could chop through that thing with one or two slashes.

In summary… Battle Qi Warriors were lacking in range, but in close combat, they could deliver all sorts of devastating blows, hitting for 9999… and so on.

Zheng Yichen always felt that calling a Battle Qi Warrior the duel king wouldn’t be an exaggeration. Anyway, when a Battle Qi Warrior faced a Spellcaster of the same level, to break their Shield, it would either take one slash or a few more slashes—never dragging on. The prerequisite was being able to get close enough to reach them, since Magic had plenty of short-range, quick teleportation spells.

Therefore, for Lily to possess the same range-based destructive power Zheng Yichen had displayed using the Magic Arms earlier… probably had no hope in this lifetime. What about directly using the Magic Arms? Well, she had no Mental Energy, which meant she couldn’t form a Contract. She had no special powers, which meant she couldn’t wield Summoned Magic Weapons.

Without meeting those two conditions, even if Zheng Yichen went easy on her, she still couldn’t directly use the Magic Arms!