Chapter 1159 - 116: Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift

"It seems, my lord may have acquired an extraordinary skill..."

Lin Sai watched Wen Yu withdraw, yet he had no intention of pursuing; he merely squinted, reassessing Wen Yu’s strength.

Immortality, this is a tricky thing. It seems useless at first glance, but when you actually fight, you’ll realize how tough such a person can be—just like Akad. Even if a professionist with physical qualities a hundred times better than his tries to forcibly slaughter Akad, it would still require killing him millions of times, a difficulty that would make anyone scratch their head.

And with photosynthetic spirit motifs at its core, combined with the Blood and Flesh Badge’s injury-immortality ability and Ancient Dragon’s Wrath’s immunity to death, Wen Yu has become an unkillable cockroach. Adding Wen Yu’s own strength, it’s no exaggeration to say that now Wen Yu could stand there and let Tang Haofei hammer away without much problem.

Yet, this is merely the path of undefeated immortality, not a true trump card. Once Wen Yu’s immortality is exposed, Lin Sai would only find it troublesome—catching Wen Yu would require killing him dozens or hundreds of times, but it’s not unsolvable, just taking a bit more time. It’s merely defense; never have I heard of a confrontation between two powerhouses where the one who only defends wins in the end.

So, although surprised, Lin Sai remained unimpressed. Until Wen Yu opened his mouth and spoke.

"Dream Come True... Permanent Strengthen..."

Halfway through the sentence, Wen Yu suddenly choked, leaving Lin Sai with a head full of questions.

"Dream Come True? What the hell?"

But Wen Yu merely closed his mouth, sighing inwardly.

Using Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift for the first time resulted in a blunder... Wen Yu initially wanted to use this Dream Come True ability to permanently strengthen his physical qualities, to elevate himself high above, crushing Lin Sai in one move. However, when the words ’permanently strengthen physical qualities tenfold’ were only halfway out, Wen Yu found that this dream had already exceeded the highest limit that Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift could achieve.

Skills, to a certain extent, still follow the principle of equivalent exchange. Perhaps in skill evaluation, his life alone might not be sufficient to fulfill this wish.

After a while, Wen Yu spoke anew.

"Dream Come True, temporarily strengthen physical quality limit... tenfold, lasting thirty minutes!"

To permanently enhance his physical qualities would cost a life, tenfold is Wen Yu’s baseline. With the current physical quality boosted tenfold, Wen Yu’s physical quality would immediately break through the three hundred million threshold—exchanging a life for this level of strength is still worth it, but anything less than tenfold, in Wen Yu’s eyes, is already a losing deal, so he decided to change dreams.

Temporary enhancement of the physical quality limit would be sufficient...

As soon as the words fell, an indescribable mysterious power immediately enveloped Wen Yu’s body. As this power continuously poured into Wen Yu, his physical quality limit visibly increased, even his muscles bulged block by block.

Lin Sai’s eyes widened as he looked at Wen Yu, his shock almost bursting!

Yet, in the next second, Wen Yu’s body exploded like a bomb, leaving only a head intact. Immediately, the Blood and Flesh Badge activated, rapidly restoring Wen Yu, and then Ultra Mortal Combat continued its effect!

In the blink of an eye, Wen Yu’s physical strength had already reached the limit of the first stage of Ultra Mortal Combat. More terrifyingly, the physical quality provided by Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift wasn’t an additional boost like the skills but acted directly on the inherent physical quality! This means that the skill effects of Ultra Mortal Combat also received the boost brought by Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift!

"So that’s how it’s done..."

Wen Yu mused inwardly—if it were similar to a skill’s direct amplification of physical quality, it would be as if Wen Yu temporarily acquired a "tenfold increase in physical quality limit" skill. For an average professionist, it would be considered a very powerful ability, but for Wen Yu, such a skill would only end up being washed away—Ultra Mortal Combat’s first stage has already given Wen Yu a thousandfold increase. Adding another tenfold is merely icing on the cake, increasing by 0.01-fold, such a wish doesn’t even necessitate shattering Wen Yu’s entire body and risking death! But being directly applied to the inherent physical quality, becoming a part of it, is as if the thousandfold boost of Ultra Mortal Combat was multiplied by tenfold again!

One method is the additive accumulation of skill amplification, whereas the other is foundational enhancement, and what Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift brought to Wen Yu was undoubtedly the latter!

Using Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift for the first time was a small experiment. Wen Yu looked at the expressionless Lin Sai ahead, and then his body suddenly manifested densely packed gray runes!

After the Pitch-dark Divine Light fully awakened, photosynthetic spirit motifs no longer needed to absorb starlight to convert into spirit runes. The dark power and even the power of Divine Light became nutrients for generating spirit runes. In the short confrontation just now, Wen Yu exploded Divine Light several times, accumulating dozens of photosynthetic spirit motifs! Such speed would undoubtedly drive all of Wen Yu’s enemies to the brink of collapse!

With the instant recovery ability of photosynthetic spirit motifs, another dreamy skill combination that Wen Yu envisioned also found the possibility for implementation.

With one of the gray runes collapsing, the vast chaotic power rapidly surged throughout Wen Yu’s body, healing all the injuries Wen Yu sustained in a short time, then Wen Yu spoke a second time.

"Dream Come True, temporarily strengthen physical quality limit... eightfold, lasting thirty minutes..."

The temporary increase in physical quality limit allowed Wen Yu to afford much more. However, the cost of using Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift in this way is still much higher. Just the previous tenfold was enough to claim Wen Yu’s life, but eightfold was just right.

With the initiation of Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift, in the blink of an eye, Wen Yu’s physical quality limit doubled again, reaching as much as eightyfold the original! With the resulting cost, the body shattered once more, the Blood and Flesh Badge activated again, and Ultra Mortal Combat reached the first stage’s limit once more...

This time, it was not just a thousandfold boost like before, but the multiplier of the amplification from Truth and Illusion. Reality Shift and Ultra Mortal Combat... a value as much as eight thousand times!

The next second, the gray runes appeared once more...

Isn’t it just enhancing the foundation? Sorry, I have plenty of skills, I really have many ways!