Chapter 97 - 25 Divine Ability Compendium 1
“I’ve seen plenty of bosses over-promise, but this is the first time I’ve seen a system do it.”
Looking at the two hidden achievements prompts before him, Shen Yuan felt speechless.
Because he had arrived ten thousand years late in this journey, those high- difficulty hidden tasks might have become extremely simple due to a variety of reasons during this ten-thousand-year period.
He could become the Sect Master simply by signing a document, get an unparalleled Immortal Sword merely by beating old and infirm folks, and suppress the entire Dragon Palace in the water region by fishing side by side with someone in a dream.
The three hidden achievements Shen Yuan had encountered previously had been significantly weakened, but this did not mean that all hidden achievements would be like this.
In the progression of time, there are always some powerful forces that remain standing at the peak of the Primal Chaos Realm.
Among these, the Four Waterways Dragon Palace is undoubtedly included.
The Four Waterways – the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Huai River, and River Ji – have been ancestral waters since ancient times and have never been absent from human civilization history.
The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, in particular, appeared at the very birth of the human clan. Humans prospered along these rivers, and many powerful local deities who shook the realms were also born here, their significance far overshadowing a single Dragon Palace or water region.
At the peak of the Great Lake water region, its area was on par with the Four Waterways. The Yunmeng Dragon Monarch controlled the inherited Heavenly General Great Divine Power. Under his command were the First Deputy Turtle Minister, the Twelve Water Gods, and the Thirty-six Angry Waves Generals, all of them powerful Water Gods in their own right.
Yet even so, they could only barely be considered on par with the weakest among the Four Waterways, River Ji.
Subsequently, the River Ji Dragon Palace covertly instigated the Water Gods’ rebellion, partly due to their hopes of using the blessed land of the River Ji Dragon Palace to survive the period of Spirit Energy Depletion.
But from the lack of whistleblowers to the Yunmeng Dragon Monarch, it was obvious how influential being one of the Four Waterways was.
Shen Yuan had merely killed Prince Ji Du, who was down to his last remnants of spirit soul, conveniently activating the River Ji Dragon Seal gifted by the Yunmeng Dragon Monarch in the process. The Artificial Intelligence System had then preposterously rolled out the task of wiping out the River Ji Dragon Palace and stealing the Four Waterways Dragon Seal.
This made Shen Yuan feel as if he had found a five-hundred-dollar Maserati voucher on the roadside, and the system was egging him on to buy a Maserati outright.
Looking at the sparkling golden text on the system interface, Shen Yuan couldn’t help but comment:
“As expected, you really can’t expect much from this Artificial Intelligence System.”
Ignoring these two completely unrealistic system prompts, Shen Yuan dragged the system’s message hints all the way to the beginning, starting to read from the system prompts he hadn’t had time to scrutinize before.
System: Congratulations on successfully seizing an unowned Natural Spirit Pool, it has now become the Sect Spirit Pool of Falling Clouds Sect. Please handle it appropriately and make it benefit all Sect members.
System: Congratulations, while you are in the Sect Spirit Pool area, you have completed the Essence Refining to Qi Transformation, thus completing the newbie tutorial task.
Reward: Falling Clouds Sect’s Grotto Residence Token (Disciples above the Qi Transformation Stage can use this token to open a grotto residence).
The first of these was naturally the notification that Shen Yuan had forcefully seized control of a Natural Spirit Pool while he was at Fubo Dragon Monarch’s banquet.
At that time, Shen Yuan had successfully controlled the Natural Spirit Pool using this method and shoved the blame on Liu Yao, successfully diverting Fubo Dragon Monarch’s attention. He even used Pot’s Heaven Divine Power to make Liu Yao lose his head.
Such a misdirection allowed him to avoid becoming the target right from the start, also making his subsequent ambush and advancement much smoother.
With the completion of the final part of the newbie tutorial task, Shen Yuan was finally free from being limited by tasks. This was undoubtedly a very joyful occasion for him.
As for the reward of Falling Clouds Sect’s grotto residence token from the mission, it wasn’t something that Shen Yuan needed to worry too much about.
The System Prompt continued to scroll down, killing the Fubo Dragon Monarch did not bring any system prompt for Shen Yuan, which left him rather disappointed.
But after some thought, he was appeased. The Fubo Dragon Monarch was nothing but a puppet hybrid Jiao Dragon used by Prince Ji Du and couldn’t catch the system’s interest. It was normal to not trigger any system achievements.
However, thinking that the Fubo Dragon Monarch had contributed three treasures and a corpse of a hybrid Jiao Dragon to him, Shen Yuan didn’t mind whether there was any gain on the system level.
Beyond these few messages, Shen Yuan saw no further prompts and was ready to close the system interface offhandedly.
Just then, Shen Yuan caught sight of something new on the system interface out of the corner of his eye.
It was an option named Divine Skill. Shen Yuan was very sure that he did not see this option before he killed Prince Ji Du.
“Could it be that this dumb Artificial Intelligence System can auto-update?”
With a hint of curiosity, Shen Yuan clicked on the Divine Skill option, and two large scrolls suddenly appeared before him.
A golden scroll hung high in the sky with thirty-six black shadows on it. Most of them were dim, and only the fifth one emitted a partially broken light.
Shen Yuan’s gaze sharpened and the detailed information about Rain Calling Divine Ability was displayed for the first time.
Wind Summoning and Rain Invocation (Incomplete)[Fifth Heavenly General Divine Power]: The holder of Wind Summoning and Rain Invocation can summon the winds of the heavens and bring forth the Waters of the Heavenly River, purifying all impurities in the world. It can cause deities to bow and immortals to lose their soul!
(Wind Summoning method lost, only Rain Invocation is left.)
Shen Yuan immediately realized what was going on. This Divine Skill option was for recording the divine skills he owned, and the golden scroll hanging in the sky naturally represented the Thirty-Six Heavenly General Divine Skills.
“The silver scroll below must be the Earth Destroyer Skills list.”
Shen Yuan cast his gaze, only to find surprisingly that there were three icons lit up on the Earthly Destroyer scroll.
Among the three Earthly Destroyer Divine Skills that were lit up, the foremost one was not Shen Yuan’s Pot’s Heaven Divine skill, but the Rain Conjuring Divine Skill of Ji Du, the prince he’d killed.
Rain Conjuring (Earthly Destroyer Divine Ability eighth in rank): It can pray to Heaven and Earth for rain, unrestricted by Heavenly Court Decrees. In an instant, it can nurture all beings, also unleash disastrous floods, and forge the Path of the Ancient Water Deity.
(The Rain Conjuring Divine Ability owner has already fallen. You can collect the Earthly Destroyer power and reunite the Divine Capacity Seed.)
This discovery left Shen Yuan astounded.
“Killing the owner of the Divine Skill enables unlocking this Divine Ability Compendium? To reunite the seed of the Divine Skill through something called the Earthly Destroyer Power?”
The Rain Conjuring Divine Skill was a powerful Divine Skill ranked within the top ten of the Earthly Destroyer Divine Skills and was a precious treasure for the aquatic local deity.
Although Shen Yuan had Rain Calling Divine Ability as a higher counterpart, having an extra Earthly Destroyer Divine Skill was undoubtedly a good thing.
Moreover, the Divine Capacity Seed gathered is physical, so even if Shen Yuan himself doesn’t use it then, he can trade it with the aquatic local deity. It would be enough to drive all the aquatic local deities in the world crazy.
The only thing Shen Yuan wasn’t sure about was that he had never heard of this Earthly Destroyer Power. Restoring the Divine Capacity Seed wouldn’t be an easy task.