My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 472: System Authority

Lu Bai’s tone seemed too matter-of-fact, causing Blood River Ancestor to almost fail to react.

“I won’t deny that guy is indeed my friend.”

Lu Bai finally walked out from the boundless black paint, smilingly adding: “You were at least from the demonic path before, don’t you understand that when you’re out mixing, the most important thing is to betray brothers?”

Blood River Ancestor wore an expression of shock that bordered on stupefaction, seemingly not knowing what to say.

Rather, this performance made Lu Bai silently raise his vigilance.

As he said, Blood River Ancestor had risen in the cultivation world from a demonic sect, ruthless and merciless was standard, cowering to survive was routine; how could he collapse so easily.

Lu Bai evaluated: “Acting a bit too forcefully.”

Blood River Ancestor seemed like a completely different person: “Mm, I’ve been a sect old ancestor for too long, indeed a bit rusty, but seeing you is enough.”

Before his words finished, the outer space where they were gradually showed distortion.

Blood River Ancestor stepped back half a step, casually patted his knees, then knelt toward Lu Bai, performing a standard kowtow action.

In an instant, Lu Bai on the spot revealed a dazed expression.

Blood River Ancestor stood up, advanced half a step again, and kowtowed once more.

The space screen became extremely distorted, vaguely forming three chaotic illusions that did not fully take shape.

Or perhaps, the three illusions were chaotic enough themselves to not condense into substance.

At this moment, Lu Bai had not lost control of his body, but for some reason, he had no thought of resistance at all.

He inexplicably felt that continuing like this seemed not bad.

Right, why resist?

In a daze, it was like a newborn baby lying in his mother’s embrace, or like curling up in a warm quilt on a stormy night.

Even though Lu Bai still retained basic thinking ability, he could not generate the slightest desire to counterattack.

Blood River Ancestor stood up again, this time his rising motion seemed much more difficult, nearly stumbling and falling.

He slowly lifted his leg to step forward, bent his knee to prepare for kowtow.

The entire process was extremely slow, as if an invisible force in the vacuum was stopping him from burying his head; careful observation would even reveal blood droplets seeping from his forehead.

The three illusions behind Lu Bai became increasingly distorted and chaotic; merely looking at them seemed to let one hear noisy whispers at the ear.

[Steel Body]?

Not activated, this was not an attack targeting the physical body.

[Divine Might]?

This likewise was not a means that could be ignored by evading on the physical level.

[Life-Saving Hairs]?

Earlier, to chase Blood River Ancestor, Lu Bai had replaced it with [Act Under Cover of Darkness]; right, now to stay in outer space, he had also replaced [Act Under Cover of Darkness] with another ability.

This led to the temporary slot bar of [Restore] being unable to provide Lu Bai any help with its three abilities at this time.

Looking at Lu Bai suspended in space, completely lost in thought with even his pupils losing focus, Blood River Ancestor still firmly completed the third kowtow.

Instantly, his head split open with blood flowing, countless fine blood droplets suspended upward.

The three chaotic illusions surprisingly pierced through the vacuum, emitting a shrill screech deep in the soul.

The already distorted three illusions now were like plastic stress-relief toys played with by children, torn and twisted to a comically absurd degree.

Blood River Ancestor raised his head, one could see his forehead like it had been violently ground by a steel wire ball, turned into a patch of scarlet rotten flesh; his still intact face was a sickly pale.

Clearly, he had paid a considerable degree of price.

Undoubtedly, among abilities of the same level, the greater the price paid, the more troublesome to perform, the stronger the effect.

But in Blood River Ancestor’s view, as long as he could resolve Lu Bai, it was all worth it.

But the problem was…

Lu Bai, who had already closed his eyes as if fallen into infant-like sleep, unexpectedly opened them again.

His mouth moved, separated by vacuum, Blood River Ancestor could not hear what he said.

But from his lip movements, one could judge what he said.

However, at this moment, Blood River Ancestor would rather he could not read lips.

“Almost got done in by you, good thing my skills are a cut above.”

The [Restore] ability would provide a temporary slot bar equipped with three abilities.

While [Load Game] itself would retain one ability.

As mentioned before, Lu Bai had paired a life-preservation ability set.

Defense maxed out, evasion maxed out, and a second life.

Having tanked to this extent, he naturally would not leave himself a loophole.

For the ability retained by [Load Game], he chose one that could resist soul and mental-type attacks.

[Materialist (Color): The user will not be affected by any non-entity substances, unaffected by things defined by the concept of escape; no matter what influence received, the user will maintain absolute rationality.]

In fact, there were many abilities defending against soul and mental types; when Lu Bai chose this ability, he did not hesitate much.

Though the [Materialist] ability itself had no attack effects, most gold level abilities could pin down and beat this color level ability.

But this ability, at the right time, would become quite domineering in effect.

Just like now, Blood River Ancestor visibly paid a quite heavy price, yet due to the existence of [Materialist], it did not harm Lu Bai at all.

Seeing this scene, Blood River Ancestor’s mindset really could not hold up.

He did not expect the killing move he had brewed for so long to still fail, three heads kowtowed in vain.

“Actually, from the beginning, your chances of winning were not high.”

Lu Bai seemed like he had just woken up, refreshed: “Even if you have many abilities, solving the problem is never as easy as setting it.”

Silent mockery.

Unfortunately, Blood River Ancestor could read lips.

Lu Bai made no further moves, still using words to strike at the opponent’s mindset.

Of course, he hoped the situation would remain this stable, best if Blood River Ancestor directly gave up struggling.

That way, he could safely read the remaining abilities on Blood River Ancestor.

Don’t say it, after all this fuss, the abilities he had read were not even one-tenth of the total.

“Heavenly Venerate Lu, are you so confident?”

Blood River Ancestor seemed to suddenly see some information, his dejected mood receding somewhat: “You actually stole the Heavenly Dao’s authority, right?”

Had to admit, having many abilities was good.

Blood River Ancestor’s voice could directly reach Lu Bai’s ears.

“The Heavenly Dao’s authority?”

“Your Heavenly Dao’s original words were system authority.”

System authority?

Hearing these four words, Lu Bai’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Blood River Ancestor: “If I say, I can also use such authority?”