Chapter 372 Spiritual Deification
But since the will of civilization is the aggregation of collective will, it also has two instincts: survival and death.
Therefore, there is a thousand-year war between Western sects.
Only then will one civilization after another fall into the long river of time.
And what stands on the opposite side of the survival instinct is the death instinct!
The death instinct is also an innate, imprinted deep in the creature's self-consciousness, the urge to destroy order and return to the "previous" state of life.
The most intuitive manifestation is some dark and destructive behaviors, such as cruelty, confrontation, attack, and even killing between people.
The death instinct will show aggression or self-destruction. When it turns external, it will lead to attacks, hatred, murder, etc. on others. It may even lead to all destructive behaviors such as aggression, massacre and other destruction or war between nations. It can also turn inside the person and cause self-destructive phenomena, such as self-abuse, self-mutilation, and even suicide in daily life.
Survival and death are like the two sides of a coin, dominating the cycle of growth and decline in the endless planes.
The survival instinct is at its peak and order will dominate the world.
And when the death instinct is at its peak, people pursue chaos and destruction.
There is no distinction between justice and evil between the two. They are just cold and ruthless reincarnations, one ebbing and the other ebbing, flowing endlessly along the long river of time.
But just as many people worship the "survival instinct", the "death instinct" is also worshiped by some unique groups.
The most famous among them is [Guixu Sect]!
They are like a group of madmen twisted by chaos, with the ultimate goal of dismantling all order in the world and returning the universe to nothingness.
In response to their prayers, many long-extinct ferocious beasts were re-materialized as the material form of the [Death Instinct], bringing disaster and chaos to the earth.
"In 1999, the Guixu sect launched a ceremony at the King of Fighters finals, and the Yamata no Orochi returned. With the help of masters from around the world, the three Japanese imperial families used the [Kusanagi Sword], [Hachiku Magatama], and [Yata's Mirror] to defeat Its seal and this battle wiped out hundreds of Japanese sects from history."
"In 2012, the Guixu sect successfully launched the Advent Ceremony, and Hydra returned to the world, setting off a world-destroying flood in the Atlantic Ocean. After being sent down a miracle by Jehovah, Hydera was expelled to an alien plane."
"Then the ritual failed and the mutilated Nine Infants were eaten by me..."
Looking at the records in the information, Li Rui murmured to himself, the light in his eyes flickering.
I always feel like...something's wrong...
Hydra aside, Yamata no Orochi is subtly different from the setting of the previous King of Fighters.
It seems that it is not impossible to insist on using "Earth Will" to refer to "Death Instinct"...
But in this way, it seems... difficult to eliminate all the bodies of these bastards who worship the death instinct!
The worship of death will not end until all living things are exterminated.
There will always be some weirdos who will twist and degenerate and once again implement the "lofty ideal" of destroying the world.
Forget it, don’t think so much, set a small goal first and destroy the Guixu Sect first!
The cold light in his eyes condensed, and Li Rui's slightly confused mind became determined again.
With the support of the system, as long as he keeps going all the way, sooner or later he will be able to kill them all and avenge his coach and his sister!
Thinking of this, Li Rui's eyes moved slightly and looked at the records of the last battle in the system panel.
"At the end of the battle, you killed a mythical creature. Since the third-party divine power dominated the battle, your battle contribution was less than 50%, and the rewards were reduced across the board."
"You have gained 21192 experience points."
"You have obtained 3382 gold coins."
"You killed a mythical unit and gained 92 points of Chaos Essence."
"[Feast] devoured the enemy, and you gained 1,000 points of permanent health growth (the upper limit of black iron level [Feast] devouring), and the Feast level +1."
"[Overgrowth] absorbs the vitality of withering, and you gain 159 points of permanent health growth."
"[Supernatural Evil Power] Harvest a mythical remnant soul and gain 40 points of spell strength."
"You have obtained a raw stone treasure chest."
"You've upgraded!"
"You've upgraded!"
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After 4 upgrade prompts, Li Rui let out a long sigh.
The basic reward is not as good as the last time I killed Nishiyama Kazuya, and the last time he was in the form of a true dragon. Why are the two battle rewards so different?
The basic reward for brilliant victory is multiplied by 2, but this time it is completely reduced. The difference is 100 million!
Li Rui was unwilling to give up and carefully studied the reasons, and finally came up with only one possible guess.
My strength is barely enough to sustain two moves in the hands of the Secret Diamond, so I only need a "small" increase to kill the Secret Diamond. In the battle, "I" is still the main one, and my contribution is relatively high.
Facing the mythical level, he could not even look directly at them. "China" needed to upgrade his virtual status by at least six levels before he could qualify to fight them head-on.
In this way, in essence, the "dragon" is fighting Jiuying through his own body, and "my" combat contribution has dropped below 50%.
Hmm... But I can't beat Jiu Ying anyway, so isn't it a pleasure to hold my thigh and enjoy the experience?
Thinking about it from another angle, Li Rui's depression disappeared.
I picked up more than a hundred points of Chaos Essence for free, what kind of bicycle do I need?
Compared with the experience and gold coins that can be accumulated slowly, Li Rui's most important gain this time is a large amount of chaos essence!
And even more mysterious - divinity!
"Swallow the divine flesh and blood, gain 1 point of Chaos Essence, and increase the degree of spiritual deification!"
"Swallow the divine flesh and blood, gain 1 point of Chaos Essence, and increase the degree of spiritual deification!"
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The flesh and blood torn from the living Jiuying's body carries terrifying power!
If an ordinary extraordinary person swallows the divine flesh and blood alive, he will be instantly twisted into a deformed monster by the divinity in it.
Only by refining these flesh and blood into special magic potions, elixirs and the like can mortals be qualified to take them.
The "mortals" here refer to all existences below the mythical level.
Normally, after spiritual awakening, one will grow from a weak person at the epic level to the peak of the gold level.
As you enter the secret diamond level, your spirituality converges and you begin to return to your original nature.
When reaching the original stone steps, all spirituality was restrained and compressed to the extreme, matter and spirit began to merge, and a touch of divinity was born from the core!
This is the chasm between man and god!
The process of spiritual transformation towards divinity!
The law of devouring contained in [Feast] allowed Li Rui to skip this process and start digesting divinity directly!
Spiritual deification has no benefit when dealing with low-level enemies.
But when Li Rui faced those gods who were born as reincarnations of myths and were still in charge of inherited artifacts, he finally had the qualifications to challenge them head-on!