Kei Yamanaka looked at the Golden Skill Listing Conversion Card recently awarded by the system.
After a moment's thought, he immediately applied it to the special skill listing [Bandit of the Three Paths]!
The previous evolution of [Star Devourer] had already proven its worth.
Skill listings awarded by the system were fundamentally different from those normally obtained through draws—their potential was absurdly high!
Surely the [Bandit of the Three Paths] wasn't just pure garbage!
[Conversion completed. Congratulations, Host, for obtaining the golden skill listing 'Great Thousand Death Plunder'.]
[Great Thousand Death Plunder] (Golden): Traverse the River of Death and plunder ancient heroic souls; patrol the three thousand realms, seizing both saints and sinners. Soar over the River of Time, rescuing past heroes with an indestructible vessel; witness death rivers flowing through countless realms, summoning peerless heroes from all heavens to manifest and assist you in this world; immune to Netherworld Force, hellish force, Other Shore Power, and Rinne Power; mastery over the concepts of time and death; significantly enhanced resistance to death and temporal forces.
"Crap..."
Kei Yamanaka's heart pounded as he looked at the upgraded skill listing's effects.
Concept of death?
Great Thousand? River of Time? Three thousand worlds?
Isn't this skill using way too damn dramatic language?!
In Buddhist terminology, "three thousand worlds" refers to a thousand small realms, a thousand middle realms, and a thousand great realms collectively called three thousand worlds!
And the "three thousand worlds" mentioned by the system seems more like an unquantifiable adjective!
The number of visible death rivers...
Was likely far more than three thousand!
His [Soaring Through All Heavens] had barely unlocked a few realms, yet this golden skill listing [Great Thousand Death Plunder] immediately presented countless death rivers?
A thought suddenly struck Kei Yamanaka.
If he followed the source of the death river upstream, would he be able to reach the corresponding world's normal dimension?
Activate! Activate!
Without hesitation,
Kei Yamanaka instantly activated this skill listing that seemed utterly unreasonable.
Buzz—
A torrent of information surged into his mind!
The Dimension Overclocking Computer and Quantum Engine immediately maxed their output, absorbing the massive influx of data.
A strong aura of pure death concept poured out from him.
Guy, Hexi, Liang Bing, and the others' biological instincts screamed warnings, making them instinctively step back several paces!
No matter how powerful a being was, when facing the purest concept of death!
Even their souls would tremble!
Before Kei Yamanaka, the River of Death within the Superman Realm slowly materialized, its vastness seemingly endless, amplified by the concept of time.
Within this river, countless beings—some fierce, some majestic—constantly drifted up and down in the current.
[Kal-El], [Havoc], [Ruoning].
Kei Yamanaka spoke their names aloud, vividly picturing each of them within his mind.
Instantly, all other figures in the River of Death before him vanished.
In the current timeline, the souls of Kal-El, Havoc, and Ruoning had completely vanished from the River of Death without a trace.
Nor could they be found at any point in the past timelines.
Motivated by the desire to test [Great Thousand Death Plunder], Kei Yamanaka activated a single mental command, summoning the souls of those who had died in the Superman Realm.
As soul after soul flickered past his vision,
he reached out and pulled Ailan—Guy's fourth Holy Left Wing Guard—from six thousand years ago in the River of Death!
Ailan's dazed soul swiftly regained its clarity the moment it left the River of Death.
Confused, he surveyed his own ethereal form.
Before he could even ask anything,
Kei Yamanaka condensed his soul into a flickering orb of light and temporarily sealed it within the Primordial Realm.
Stepping out of the Superman Realm's River of Death and lifting his 'vision',
layer upon layer, countless Rivers of Death stretched out beyond the Superman Realm—some close, others distant, some narrow, some vast.
"Just how many realms are there…"
Kei murmured with a sigh, then exited the [Great Thousand Death Plunder] state.
[Detected Colorful Trait 'Soaring Through All Heavens' and 'Primordial Sovereign' synergizing with Golden Trait 'Great Thousand Death Plunder.' Mastery over the concept of death has increased. Time range of the River of Death expanded.]
The system's voice chimed once more.
Kei glanced at [Great Thousand Death Plunder], attached at the end of the golden skill listings.
He could feel the death concept star forming within his Primordial Realm,
and a satisfied smile surfaced on his face.
"Done?"
Guy spoke up cautiously only after sensing that the terrifying power radiating from him had finally faded.
"Mm."
"What was that just now?"
"The conceptual force of death itself—the power that brings absolute death to all things."
"All things?"
"All you can imagine: energy, matter, data, souls…"
Kei chuckled lightly as he explained.
Even without the additional effects of [Great Thousand Death Plunder], a pure death concept like this was already absurdly powerful!
It wasn't limited to lifeforms—everything would perish—buildings, plants, earth, weapons, armor, clothing… even entire planets, dimensions, and worlds!
And when death fused with decay, their power surged exponentially!
Take Dormammu, the Dark Dimension ruler and fellow Dimensional Demon God, for example.
Previously, without system abilities, Kei probably could only dodge and counter using space-time techniques, slowly consuming and absorbing Dormammu's strength through [Galaxy Devourer].
But now, with dual enhancement from death and decay concepts,
he now truly had the power to defeat—and even kill—a foe like that in direct combat!
"…The Time-Space God will probably come looking for you again soon."
Guy frowned slightly.
Once death became a concept wielded by someone, she couldn't even fathom just how powerful and terrifying that could be.
"Nope. I haven't threatened the world's fundamental operations with death."
Kei waved his hand dismissively, then added,
"I just happened to pull a soul out of the River of Death. Interested?"
"A soul? Who's it belong to?"
"The Fourth Holy Left Wing Guard, Ailan."
"She was from six millennia ago..."
Guy let her sentence trail off.
According to the magical traditions of Kamar-Taj, souls would eventually dissolve back into the essence of the world, gradually returning to the Realm.
But Kei Yamanaka's power clearly surpassed the boundaries of magic!
Time, space, death, decay, love...
Various incomprehensible conceptual forces had manifested. Bringing Ailan's soul back from six millennia ago didn't seem so impossible after all?
As she recalled the moments they had shared with Ailan,
a fleeting flicker of nostalgia passed through Guy's eyes.
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