Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 274 - 28 Holy Light

Next, the situation reversed. White light emanated from every corner of Wang Qi's body, sweeping away disorder like rotting wood before the storm, establishing a new order.

Without any strange phenomenon or screams, the Evil Demon was silently eradicated. As naturally as ashes dying away or rain ceasing, it simply was.

"What in the world is this..." Wang Qi shook his head, baffled, "Let's check my memories. The end of the stars is in Chuantuo; the ultimate answer to the universe, life, and everything is 42; Luke Skywalker's father is the Dark Knight Darth Vader; Dr. Sheldon Cooper's IQ is 187... Good, seems like common sense is all in order."

He was still quite cautious about such Evil Demons, planning to use the Entropy Reduction Power and the Heavenly Calculation Atlas to cleanse himself once more from the inside out, when a notion struck him, and he summoned a beam of white light from his hand.

"This thing..." Wang Qi recognized the essence of this light at a glance. This was the light of Negative Entropy, the light of life, a Divine Skill capable of reversing chaos and Entropy Increase in an instant.

Oh my, only then did he realize that his body was miraculously healthy, filled with vigor, spirit, and energy, without any trace of the hard struggle against the Evil Demon, and even the burns from the battle with Chi Lianxue were nearly healed.

"Could this be the work of this Divine Skill?" Wang Qi tried infusing the light into a patch of withered grass on the ground. In just a few minutes, the grass sprouted leaves and stems and then bloomed with a few tufts of dandelions.

"It has the ability to heal living beings, expel Evil Demons, and its offensive power is unknown..." Wang Qi's expression suddenly grew complicated, "You're kidding me, this force of Order that forcibly annihilates the existence of Chaos... where have I heard about it before..."

Damn, this is just Holy Light!

At this thought, Wang Qi immediately became distressed: "Fuck, was that thing really a Balrog Flame Demon? Where did it come from? Greyhawk? Ferren? Klein? Is an endless abyss from some world about to breach the Crystal Wall System to this Immortal Hero Plane? Are the enemies of the Immortal Alliance invaders from an Alien Plane? Wait, where does Holy Light come in the canonical D&D worldview... Is it Azeroth? Is the Immortal Alliance fighting the Burning Legion just now?"

At that moment, a thousand words in Wang Qi's mind converged into a single sentence: "This isn't scientific!"

After a bout of wild thoughts, he shook his head vigorously: "Calm down... calm down... The Heterodox Demon Statues are all relics left by the civilization of the Ancient Demon Clan... The Demon Clan Civilization had already perished, leaving not even their writings intact; that is to say, these types of Evil Demons have existed for at least ninety thousand years..."

A war of invasion lasting a hundred thousand years is hardly conceivable! And the old man was an elite of his time, too; he never had to face these evil demons, which means that during the thirty thousand years of the rise of Luofu Xuanqing Palace, these evil demons didn't appear at all... And according to the astrology of Xuanxing Temple, this world, like the previous one, is a universe of stars and seas, not the Crystal Wall System...

Wang Qi let his thoughts wander for a moment, then drew his longsword, imbuing it with white light before slashing out. The longsword plunged into a tree by the road but didn't chop it down. Wang Qi withdrew the sword and looked up at the canopy. Shortly after, the tree made a "rustling" sound—as its growth rate was so rapid that it could be heard by the human ear! Wang Qi then slashed towards the ground. After gauging the feel, he made a judgment, "It has no attack power... Its healing ability is top-notch, even stronger than the average healing spells, and only slightly weaker than those advanced spells of Senior Sister Ai."

After confirming a few more properties of the light, Wang Qi looked at this divine skill with interest. "Even though it can't unleash the standard-issue Shoe-Breaking Slash of the leftover knights, it is quite similar to a skill in some game! Since that's the case, let's call it 'Holy Light.'"

The randomness of the divine skills awakened by the Heavenly Calculation Atlas is too strong, and Tianling Ridge could only roughly categorize them into a few types. The effects would fall into one category if they were roughly within a certain range. However, after re-examining his memory, Wang Qi realized that this divine skill did not fit into any of the three existing "Divine Light, Treasure Light" categories of skills known in the Heavenly Calculation Atlas.

In such cases, Wang Qi could name it himself.

"Alright, let's tally up the gains," Wang Qi sheathed his sword. "Destroying a Cult hideout should reward me with at least seven or eight Merit points, and the Heterodox Demon Statue is a relic, which is worth about ten Merit points... I can also get another book from the Ximen Master's reading list."

"Next is the secret manual for the first three moves of the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm, which typically can't be exchanged for less than seven or eight thousand Merit points each. It's just a pity that the Immortal Alliance strictly enforces intellectual property rights, meaning I can't easily use it in combat. Nevertheless, it's still of great value for reference, helping me to understand the deeper aspects of the Heavenly Entropy Technique and further Law Gates, of significant value."

For the scientific community, intellectual property is very important because it protects the interests of those who share their knowledge. Therefore, the fines for stealing Absolute Skills are heavy.

"Then there's the new divine skill 'Holy Light.' Although it's a support skill, if used well, it can greatly enhance the ability to save one's life."

"Finally, there is the reorganization and induction of logic when I regained consciousness, which deepened my understanding of logic and mathematics... This is truly the most valuable gain."

Wang Qi wanted to take advantage of his fresh memory to recall the process of reconstructing his logic. But before he could reflect for long, he furrowed his brow. "Supreme Puhua... Yingtian... Qi King?"

This was a name, a divine name of sixteen characters—although Wang Qi could only recall eight of them, he was certain that the name originally comprised sixteen characters.

"This memory... hm..." Wang Qi initially wanted to ponder the memories related to this "Qi King." But as he delved deeper, he felt darkness descend before his eyes.

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As usual, an explanation of jargon:

Chuantuo: A location referred to in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation Series" and "Empire Series," nicknamed "the end of the stars."

42: The most famous joke from Douglas Adams' science fiction novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," the answer to life, the universe, and everything = 42.

Luke Skywalker: I'm your father!

Sheldon: The Big Bang Theory

[Wang Qi, being a science and engineering guy who also studied in Europe and America, naturally likes Western science fiction!]

Greyhawk, Ferren, Klein: Greyhawk, the Forgotten Realms, and Dragonlance are the names of the three most renowned D&D universes.

Darkness before the eyes: Lacking recommendation tickets [Mhm, this is the key joke.]