Chapter 1096 - 450: Replacing Heaven with Earth_2

Chapter 1096: Chapter 450: Replacing Heaven with Earth_2

To deal with such an anomaly, the subsequent Earth Sacrifice Ceremony and Ziwei Exorcism Grand Array were created.

Now only two problems remain, and Wu Chang can connect everything, thoroughly understanding what happened.

First, what exactly was the anomaly in the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony, and how did the Seven Stars perceive it?

Judging from Yuheng’s behavior, they did not anticipate the appearance of the Demon Race from the beginning. Clearly, the anomaly they detected in the Celestial Gate was not the Demon Race.

Second, what is the essence of the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony and the Earth Sacrifice Ceremony?

The term Celestial Gate is often associated with ascension and becoming immortal. In the records of the Dungeon World, the Celestial Gate is also considered the gateway to the Immortal Realm.

The Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony and the Celestial Gate combined imply that through sacrificing to the heavens, one can open the Celestial Gate and become immortal.

But if this is the case, why can the Earth Sacrifice Ceremony constructed by the Seven Stars replace the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony?

He needs more clues or to enter more Immortal Mansions to understand everything.

He tightened the Book of Literary Fortune in his hand, and a line of prompts appeared before his eyes.

"Do you wish to activate Celestial Fate?"

"Activate."

"You have obtained Celestial Fate from the Megrez Immortal Mansion. Your understanding of Arrays and Rituals has increased, and your skills related to Arrays and Rituals will no longer be restricted by level and can continuously improve."

"You have obtained a special status – Literary Fortune."

"Status Name: Literary Fortune"

"Status Effect: When using Arrays and constructed rituals, the benefit effects on marked friendly targets increase by 20%, and negative effects on Demon Fiend type targets increase by 30%.

Defeating or controlling a Demon can provide surrounding cultivators with a group Literary Fortune effect, allowing friendly targets to enter conjoined status. When a target within the array receives damage and the single damage is less than 20% of the target’s maximum Life Value, this damage will be shared among all cultivators within the conjoined range. Each target can only trigger once every five seconds.

If friendly targets within the array attack the same enemy target, there is a chance to trigger a combined attack effect, increasing the total damage of the combined attack, with a maximum increase of 15%."

Compared to the focus on individual martial prowess of Martial Fortune, the effects of Literary Fortune resemble more of a strategist, skilled in the application of Arrays and Rituals.

With the Literary Fortune bonus, Wu Chang feels changes in the mastery of Mysticism within him.

Through research in the Midnight Graveyard Plane, his mastery of Mysticism reached Lord Level. Although the process was not difficult, wanting to progress further is utterly clueless, as if trapped by an invisible bottleneck.

Now with Literary Fortune’s addition, he vaguely sees a new path forward amid a chaotic road.

The effect of Literary Fortune is not just effective on bottlenecks. The Space Domain and Mystical Domain he deploys, although not strictly Arrays and Rituals, indeed comply with Literary Fortune’s amplifications.

Under the blessing of Literary Fortune, the Domains he uses are more stable, with higher priority. Against weaker Domains, he can even forcibly exclude rules within the opponent’s Domain.

Besides amplifying his skills, Literary Fortune’s group effects are very impressive.

Just like the final ordeal of the Megrez Immortal Mansion, the chess player uses heaven and earth as the board, and all beings as pieces. In Wenquxing’s eyes, teammates are also his pieces, an integral part of the Array.

As long as he, the chess player, defeats any Demon, he can make surrounding cultivators enter conjoined status.

Conjoined status can allow the pieces, no, allow the friendly side to launch combined attacks, increasing inflicted damage, while retreating can share the damage received.

No need for many, just need to form a team of twenty people. As long as it does not suffer wide-ranging group damage, the injuries that would originally cause serious harm to individuals may just end up being minor scratches after sharing.

Additionally, the sharing mechanism is very humane. If the damage to the attacked friendly side is too severe, it won’t trigger.

Though it seems like a limitation, restricting friendly targets within the array from sharing fatal injury, it actually protects everyone.

If not for this insurance measure, should a frail individual mix into the conjoined status and mindlessly take a boss’s ultimate move, with unrestricted distribution of damage, the team might be annihilated instantly.

Regarding group effects, Literary Fortune is more practical than Martial Fortune.

"You acquire a Celestial Fate mission: Complete the full version of Ziwei Exorcism Grand Array and break through the Demon Birth Pool."

"Completing the Celestial Fate mission can further unlock Celestial Fate."

Wu Chang looked at the Celestial Fate mission and couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

Perhaps as the planner of everything, responsible for the plan of replacing heaven with earth, inheriting the Celestial Fate of the Megrez Immortal Mansion requires a much harder Celestial Fate mission than that of the Kaiyang Immortal Mansion.

He had previously thought that if the Celestial Fate missions were the same, he could complete one task and receive double Celestial Fate. Now it seems the Celestial Immortal Mansion Master was careful, not letting him gain any advantage.

After reading the Celestial Fate mission, Wu Chang refocused his attention on the Megrez Immortal Mansion.

The Book of Literary Fortune and Martial Luck Sword are the same, both keys to control Immortal Mansions. He channels his consciousness into the Book of Literary Fortune, seeing the full view of the Megrez Immortal Mansion.

The Megrez Immortal Mansion is divided into six layers, where each layer has a Megrez Lake.

During the completion of trials, he thought that the five continuous tests were connected, but in reality, each time he crossed the seasonal boundary, he had entered into the next layer of the Immortal Mansion.

The first four layers of the Immortal Mansion respectively are the four appearances of Megrez Lake in spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The four layers of the Immortal Mansion stack, reflecting externally through the Megrez Lake, forming the four seasons’ reflections that are relished by the Great Xuan Scholars.

The area where he gained Celestial Fate is the fifth layer of the Immortal Mansion.