Psychics don't die from gunfire

In the bathroom, Song Shi sat on the floor.

The second ring, [Mastery].

This is the second realm of psychic energy.

To a certain extent, before the first level [Awakening], the second level [Mastery], the third level [Control], and until the fourth level [Sublimation], psykers are still under the shackles of "human beings". The first three realms are just a continuous deepening and enhancement of the ability to control "spiritual energy", rather than an essential sublimation.

The third ring is slightly different.

It is said that when a psyker steps into the third ring, he will enter some kind of indescribable and wonderful realm, witness his "destined death" with his own eyes, and know his end and outcome - but this is also It's just a rumor.

Because after witnessing this moment of "destined death", the psychic will not remember it all.

No one can even tell where the idea of ​​"destined death" comes from. They only know that it has been passed down like this. Most psychics are not convinced about it. It is difficult to say whether they "believe" or "disbelieve".

After all, this kind of thing that only you can see and cannot remember is neither true nor false.

There is even a second rumor derived from this.

——Fourth Ring · [Sublimation] One of the conditions for breaking through to the fifth ring · [True Spirit] is to break one's own "destined death" with one's own hands.

As for this rumor, Song Shi’s opinion is

He doesn't know either.

"But at that time, I did get a glimpse of the scenery from [True Spirit]."

Song Shi closed his eyes, as if falling into memories.

In the last battle between myself and Renata Clemens in the previous life, when the two sides reached the peak of the battle, they couldn't tell whether it was an hallucination or something. In a trance, the entire [Dayuan] path was cheering for me, as if Looking forward to something.

That was indeed the most exciting battle in my life.

The spiritual energy that I thought had reached the peak of the fourth ring loosened and climbed again. Each spiritual skill followed the flow of my mind and was displayed arbitrarily, blooming with more brilliance than before. The color of the entire world was pulled away, leaving only The opponent in front of him, when everything was pushed to a new and higher peak, the door called [True Spirit] began to slowly open to him - Song Shi believed that the same was true for the opponent at that time.

I feel something in my heart.

The winner who survives this battle will enter the realm of the fifth ring, [True Spirit] with an upright attitude.

Although the final result was that both of them died together.

"Interesting, if you think about it."

Song Shi opened his eyes again. The memory just now reminded him of something, and he thought thoughtfully: "Could it be said that this is my 'destined death'? Or, in other words, Renata Clemens's 'destined death' 'Is this the case? Who of us can break this 'destined death', and who can step into the fifth ring?"

In his previous life, he had asked Chakoro about the "Death of Destiny", but the current leader of the Enlightened Ones, the fifth-ring psyker named "Rebel", did not answer this question - he was still Not sure, but now it seems that maybe "death by destiny" does exist?

"But... fate."

Song Shi chewed on these two words and shook his head slightly: "It's meaningless."

He exhaled, put these things down, and turned to deepening the path with his will.

After practicing for nearly two months since [Awakening], the door of the second ring is already in front of me.

Even with his own talent, this speed seems a bit too amazing - it took him two years to advance from [Awakening] to [Mastery] in his previous life.

Although a large part of the reason was that I didn't understand anything at that time.

However, considering that I am "walking through it all over again", my understanding and experience of the way of psychic energy are far from what I was before, so this result is still expected.

Song Shi raised his eyes and saw the door in front of him——

——Within reach.

It's not just "close at hand" in the sense of distance. Song Shi can feel that as long as he is willing, he can now try to push open this door and step into the second ring realm - theoretically there should be obstacles and bottlenecks. , for me, it’s just a question of “want” and “don’t want to” rather than “can” and “can’t”.

Just raise your hand and everything is within reach.

So Song Shi stretched out his right hand.

call--

Red-gold flames surged out silently and emerged from the whole body. At this moment, even the outline of Song Shi became blurred.

If someone appears here at this moment, looking from a distance, he will be shocked to find that it is difficult for him to distinguish what is in front of him - the outline of a person is clearly reflected in his eyes, but the subconscious in his heart tells him that there is clearly something in front of him. The ball is burning ragingly, like a "flame" that will never go out!

As if aware of something, the door standing on the Great Source Road began to solidify, taking on a thick luster, and a sense of oppression almost solidified rose, towards the climber who was trying to open the door and peek at the scenery behind. Press away——

Then, it was like snow meeting the blazing sun.

Before he could touch Song Shi, this oppression was burned away in the raging red flames.

No more shackles.

Song Shi pressed his hand on the door.

The flames climbed up and wrapped around his right hand.

The next moment, these flames engulfed the entire door, which turned into a red-gold fireball and began to shake at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The entire door trembled, collapsed completely, and turned into ashes flying all over the sky.

Amidst the scattered ashes and dust, Song Shi stepped through the door.

The entire path trembled violently, and a "star" suddenly lit up from the starry sky above the sky! Then a beam of azure cold current condensed from the biting coldness shot down at Song Shi below!

This is the second requirement after [Pushing the Door] in the process of promotion to the second ring, [Standing on the Path].

From the records of the Dayuan Path, one of the psychics of all generations who have walked on the Path is selected, and their power in the second ring period is manifested, and this power is cast on the promoted person, either as an offensive or other, as a "test" to see if the other party is qualified to [Stand on the Second Ring Path].

It is said that as a customary gift given to new promoted people, the preciousness of a psychic skill from [the Path] will also be affected by the intensity of the "test".

"The power of the Great Source, a psychic like 'Ice'?"

Looking at the cold current that was cast from the sky and approaching almost in an instant, Song Shi nodded slightly: "This level of power can be called elite."

But doubts arose in Song Shi's heart.

The power displayed by this unknown psychic from the past can indeed be called "elite", but it is limited to this.

-It is not even as good as the test in his previous life.

This "test" of the Tao will be specially arranged for each promoted person. It will be stronger when encountering strong people and weaker when encountering weak people-and with the memories and experience accumulated in the previous life, I am definitely stronger than myself at this stage in the previous life, but why did the test become weaker?

Even if these are not considered, just from the panel of the first ring, [Forging Flame] is much stronger than my [Fire Blade] in the previous life!

But there is no time to think about it.

So, facing this cold current, Song Shi opened his hand.

The "Forging Flame" surged in an instant, like boiling lava solidifying into a concrete entity. From the gaps between the five fingers, a weapon that was difficult to tell whether it was a sword or a knife took shape.

Then, slashed towards the cold current.

——Huh!

Without any dodge or retreat, the flame and the cold current collided directly, and in just a blink of an eye, the latter quickly melted away. Just when the last touch of azure was about to be swallowed by red gold, Song Shi suddenly raised his head.

"Hmm?"

Above the sky, two "stars" lit up at the same time!

The violent lightning and the howling wind intertwined into a ring, and a beam of light wrapped in thunder and storm roared and fell on Song Shi's head!

Each of the thunder and storm in it was not inferior to the cold current, and even exceeded it - and the combination of the two formed this heavy offensive, even a psychic who had just entered the third ring would choose to avoid its edge.

If it were in reality, even Song Shi would not be able to stop it with only the peak of the first ring.

——Fortunately, this is not [reality], but my own [path]!

In this world that is more like a spiritual realm, the power I can exert is more surging and abundant than in reality, and I can do whatever I want.

And in the process of promotion, in the gap between the first ring and the second ring, from the heart to the outside, from the outside to the heart, this body of spiritual energy has been boiling, and can't wait to burst out.

In a moment, the flame of forging spreads and reshapes again!

Drops of burning "raindrops" condense, quietly hang in the air, and then gather into one place, turning into a surging golden flame rain, going upstream against the wind and thunder light column that penetrates!

The "raindrops" all over the sky collide with the wind and thunder, annihilate and melt each other, and bloom one after another dazzling light in the air.

——But it still cannot be completely melted.

Finally, the lightning arrow wrapped in the whistling airflow broke through the rain of flames and fell towards Song Shi, who stepped forward a moment ago, using the fire blade in his hand as a guide to draw the flames around him to gather - then, he slashed at the approaching light column lightning arrow.

The red-gold flame flow dragged.

It was as if a huge flame dragon raised its head and roared, suddenly rising, swallowing all the remaining lightning arrows!

Watching the slowly dissipating wind and thunder, Song Shi turned the fire blade in his hand and raised his head.

In the magnificent starry sky, three more "stars" lit up at the same time!

"——It's enough."

And at this moment, staring at the sky, Song Shi raised his voice, as if talking to something: "There is no need to use psychics of this level anymore."

"This level of power, apart from "consumption", there is no "test" at all - there is no need to send down such things again!"

Daotu is not an existence with the so-called "personality", but Song Shi believes that [Dayuan] Daotu has understood what he means.

The world seemed to stop for a moment.

The three "stars" that had begun to twinkle slowly disappeared.

No, not only "disappeared", these three stars seemed to be... "afraid"?

The starry sky that was originally full of the sky suddenly had a short gap, just like a sea beast suddenly squeezed into the sea. Even if it did nothing, the surrounding schools of fish formed by countless small fish would spontaneously avoid it.

From this short gap, a gray-yellow star slowly appeared, and an unprecedented brilliance lit up. The other nearby stars seemed extremely dim at this moment.

Then, the "star" descended from the sky!

When the light column in front slowly dissipated and the outline of the other party was seen clearly, Song Shi's expression changed slightly.

His shoulders began to shrug involuntarily.

Then it seemed that he could no longer hold it back.

Song Shi laughed out loud again in the next moment!

"One of the border guards of the former Vampsta Empire, the fifth ring [Dayuan] psychic 470 years ago, 'Mountain Barrier' Sainsbury"

Staring at the brown-haired man in front of him who gave people a sense of "immovability" just by standing there, his expression was indifferent, and his burly physique stood like a mountain.

But his body had an illusory sense of transparency. And the "spiritual energy" fluctuations emanating from his body were only at the peak level of the first ring.

"——Should I call you 'senior' or something else?"

But a projection from the past from [Tao Path] obviously would not answer the question.

Song Shi did not expect the other party to answer.

He just laughed, and the burning blade reappeared from the surging red-gold flame.

"That's it, that's how it should be..."

"——Come on!"