Global Evolution: I Transplanted the Supreme Divine Heart-Chapter 343 - 340: Volcano’s Face

"The guidance given to me by Xisha Divine Envoy was sparse, but there was one phrase I found very useful."

Bai Pu said, "The comprehension level of Mystical Arts is divided into three tiers: Beginner, Advanced, and Master. The sign of reaching the Advanced tier is when Mystical Arts can be integrated with Skills to comprehend even more powerful Mystical Art Skills!"

"Therefore, I speculate that to achieve the Advanced tier in Mystical Arts, one might need to try incorporating Mystical Arts while casting Skills to comprehend Mystical Art Skills earlier."

Bai Pu’s words were not baseless, as he recalled when he comprehended the "Gang Wind Mystical Arts," it was due to the breakthrough of the Mutant Skill "Wind-Stepping Slash" that he realized his most suitable Wind Mystical Arts.

Then he combined the Wind Mystical Arts and Wind-Stepping Slash to comprehend the Mystical Art Skill "Gang Wind Falling Blade."

So Bai Pu’s Gang Wind Mystical Arts were at the Advanced tier from the beginning.

Under the effect of the "Spiritual Edict," Blood Spider’s comprehension ability also improved significantly.

She pondered carefully for a while and said, "My Space Cutting Mystical Arts are more suited for the Skill ’High-Frequency Spin Stab’... if I can combine them, removing the target’s external Armor while executing High-Frequency Spin Stab should result in a significant burst output."

"Of course, the strength of Mystical Art Skills also lies in multiplying the damage amplification of the Skill itself by the amplification of the Mystical Arts!"

Bai Pu shook his head regretfully: "Unfortunately, my ’Gang Wind Falling Blade,’ being a multi-phase Displacement and Control Skill, is not a damage Skill, and its base damage is low, so even with the 90% damage boost from advancing Gang Wind Mystical Arts, it’s still not impressive."

After turning off the Spiritual Edict of the Holy Thorns (imitated), Bai Pu pondered and said, "Another Mystical Arts of mine — Shattering Mountain — also needs to be advanced. At present, there are two suitable Skills for advancing the Shattering Mountain Mystical Arts, one is ’Unstable Shield,’ and the other is ’Three Kingdoms’..."

Suddenly, Bai Pu’s eyes brightened: "The most suitable one should still be ’Unstable Shield’... generating a primary defensive Shield like a mountain, indestructible, while the subsequent Shield explosion intriguingly aligns with the implication of a mountain collapsing!"

Blood-colored Shield energy surfaced on Bai Pu’s body, with the vague phantom of a mountain forming behind him as he attempted to combine the two.

The mountain phantom collapsed, and the blood-colored Shield energy disintegrated.

This attempt failed.

Bai Pu opened his eyes, picked up the Holy Thorns (imitated), struck himself again, then closed his eyes to continue thinking.

Time and again, failure led to persistent attempts.

Gradually, the shape and aura of the blood-colored Shield energy became increasingly akin to the mountain phantom until they merged into one.

"I’ve succeeded, I comprehend it. While teaching you how to advance Mystical Arts, I also understood it better myself, this is so-called ’teaching and learning enhance each other,’ isn’t it?"

Bai Pu opened his eyes and smiled at Blood Spider.

Blood Spider was dumbfounded; she still couldn’t figure out how to attach the "feeling" of Space Cutting to a Skill.

Because the casting of Skills itself has a fixed energy operation path, like a complete program. The Awakened input energy, the program runs, and the output is the Skill effect.

Mystical Arts are equivalent to the Awakened’s understanding of the program’s operating principles.

The Awakened has to use this shallow understanding to modify the code, optimize the program... the difficulty is conceivable!

They can only rely on intuition to modify, constantly trying and erring.

This requires long-term attempts.

The higher the comprehension ability of the Awakened, the more accurate the "intuition" is, and the number of repetitive trial-and-error attempts is far below the normal value.

Obviously, Bai Pu is the type of person with extremely high Comprehension Ability...

Blood Spider felt a bit of melancholy in her heart; she thought that she might be the type with rather poor Comprehension Ability, if combined with Bai Pu’s level and divided by two, it would be about normal...

"Effort, effort." Blood Spider felt that her spiritual Life Value had almost recovered, gestured for Bai Pu to hit her again, and then began to comprehend.

Bai Pu checked the Spirit Realm Will’s prompts.

[Your Shattering Mountain Mystical Arts mastery progress: Advanced. Damage amplification increased to 120%; can cause partial Armor collapse effect upon hitting Armor; can cause Shield energy collapse effect upon hitting Shields.]

[Your Combat Skill: Unstable Shield has been promoted to Mystical Art Skill: Volcano’s Face. Current Skill Level 7 (Limit Breaker+1).]

[Volcano’s Face: Three-star Secret Skill. Creates a mountain Shield to protect oneself, the Shield can absorb (594) points of damage per second. When Shield Energy Value is depleted, continuous energy infusion is required to maintain it. Your other Shield Energies will be assimilated by the Volcano’s Face Shield, temporarily increasing the Shield Value’s upper limit. After the Shield is generated for (3) seconds, you can detonate the Shield, causing shock damage equal to the Shield Value to all nearby enemies.]

[Volcano’s Face Level 4 Effect: Cannon Bombardment (omitted).]

[Based on your Hidden Title: Limit Breaker, your Mystical Art Skill: Volcano’s Face can preemptively extract the Level 7 Skill Special Effect. Please choose.]

Below were a series of Skill Special Effects.

Bai Pu upheld the principle of "Mystical Arts alignment priority," and selected the effect that matched the Shattering Mountain Mystical Arts.

[E: Mountain Collapse and Earth Split: When detonating the mountain Shield, causes Armor-Piercing Damage to enemies within the central area, ignoring Shields.]

What is the "explosion central area"?

If Bai Pu didn’t have the Level 4 Effect "Cannon Bombardment," according to the initial Skill description, the central area is a spherical area with Bai Pu at the center and a radius of two meters.

Bai Pu’s "Cannon Bombardment" calculates the central area according to different forms of attack.

For example, if attaching Volcano’s Face energy to a sword, the central area is the blade’s fan surface when Bai Pu swings it, and the shock damage type of the central area will change to Sharp Damage.

If using a fist to unleash Fist Gang, the central area is Bai Pu’s frontal conical range.

No matter how the form of Cannon Bombardment changes, the overall "volume" of the central area is constant.

Bai Pu calculated that his Volcano’s Face, when finally detonated, produces damage as high as 1300+! If considering the central area, based on the Mountain Collapse and Earth Split effect, ignoring Shields, ignoring Armor...

Even Bai Pu himself, if hit by this move without Adaptive Evolution and struck at a vital spot, would be grievously harmed if not killed.

The key is that Bai Pu can continuously inject energy to keep the Shield at full value (594 points), so the explosion after three seconds is at maximum power, unaffected by enemy attacks that might deplete Shield energy, resulting in reduced detonation power.

"So this is what the primary combat Mystical Art Skill is like... compared to the original Skill, it’s nearly a transformative improvement! It’s no wonder the Border Town Wanderer, after mastering Mystical Arts, was so arrogant at the start, they indeed had the capital to be so."