Throne of Seals: Underworld Priest, Demon Nightmare

Chapter 7 Repulsive Force Furnace! Breakthrough to the Fifth Rank, Internal Organ Explosion Technique?
Chu Zichen slowly opened the box, and a milky white light immediately rose up.

Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the source of the light was a white, three-legged, round, disc-shaped spirit furnace.

"This is... a spirit furnace? And a repulsive spirit furnace at that?"

Chu Zichen quickly recognized him.

The Repulsive Forge is one of the most suitable for the priest's role, much like the Holy Guidance Forge for the Guardian Knight, but even rarer and more precious. (From Throne of Seals II)

The Repulsive Spirit Furnace itself has no offensive or defensive capabilities, nor can it significantly increase the host's internal spiritual power.

Its primary function is to generate a powerful repulsive aura centered on itself, forcibly repelling any targets that approach it.

Therefore, once an enemy gets close, you can use the Repulsive Spirit Furnace to repel them and create distance again.

Like the Holy Guiding Spirit Furnace, the Repulsive Spirit Furnace has the ability to evolve, at least three times. It is also one of the rarest attribute-less spirit furnaces. It consumes very little spiritual power during use, so it will not overburden the host's body, nor will it affect the host's absorption of other spirit furnaces in the future.

To be honest, Chu Zichen was very interested in this Repulsion Spirit Furnace. It could be said that it solved one of his biggest pain points as a priest – how to deal with enemies when they got close.

However, she gave him such an expensive gift on their first meeting, so her intentions were probably not so simple.

"President Moonlit Night, this gift of yours is far too extravagant," Chu Zichen said.

"This spirit furnace isn't anything particularly valuable to me, but I have a few questions I'd like to ask you, consider it an exchange." Moonlight carefully examined his handsome face and said softly.

"Ask away, but I may not be able to tell you the truth." Although Chu Zichen knew Yueye's background, he still had to be wary of her.

"My first question is, how old are you this year?" Yueye asked.

"12 is old."

Two years have passed, and Chu Zichen has grown to 16 meters tall. Although he is not muscular, he is exceptionally tall and slender with well-proportioned features. Moreover, his two lifetimes have given him a calm and composed demeanor. People would probably believe he is 15 or 16 years old.

"A 12-year-old at level four?"

Moonlight was shocked. This talent was truly astonishing. Compared to the demons, humans clearly had no advantage in innate cultivation.

She had a premonition that with Chu Zichen's talent and ability, his future was limitless, and he would inevitably be a great enemy to the demon race!
However, she had no deep feelings for either humans or demons; only interests and power mattered to her.

So even though she saw Chu Zichen's future potential, she didn't have too many thoughts about him; she was just more interested in him and wanted to befriend him.

"My second question is, shouldn't all priests be using light-based skills? The skill you used doesn't look like a light-based skill, so what kind of skill is it? I've never seen it before."

Moonlight continued to ask.

"That's a skill I created myself, but I can't disclose the details."

Chu Zichen replied.

Create your own skills?
The moonlit night was even more shocked. To be able to create skills at such a young age, and not just one skill, but one self-created skill at that, this comprehension was simply heaven-defying!
"I'll leave the last question for now and ask you when we have a chance to meet again."

Yueye quickly regained her senses, smiled mysteriously, and said nothing more.

"Then thank you very much, President Tsukiyo. I'll accept this gift. I hope we'll meet again sometime."

Chu Zichen no longer stood on ceremony and solemnly accepted the Repulsion Spirit Furnace before taking his leave.

Watching Chu Zichen's figure disappear from the carriage, Yueye's lips curved into a beautiful smile:

"I wonder what kind of surprise you'll bring me next time we meet?"

...The most basic requirement for fusing with the spirit furnace is 200 spirit power as a third-tier professional.

This was naturally enough for Chu Zichen long ago.

That very evening, Chu Zichen had the Repulsive Force Spirit Furnace undergo a blood oath ceremony and complete its fusion with him.

Amidst flashes of light, the mark of the Repulsive Spirit Furnace quietly appeared on his chest.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another two years have passed amidst the continuous battles between humans and demons.

Chu Zichen is 14 years old this year.

After two years of cultivation, his combined internal and external spiritual power finally broke through to 2000, making him a fifth-order bishop.

At only 14 years old, this fifth-tier talent is among the best in the entire Holy Temple Alliance.

The defining characteristic of a fifth-tier professional is the liquefaction of spiritual energy, enabling them to condense spiritual energy into soldiers and transmit spiritual messages.

After breaking through to the fifth rank, Chu Zichen mastered a new life magic.

Fifth-tier Life Siphon Technique: Creates a life magnetic field with a radius of 50 meters by liquefying spiritual energy, weakening the defense of enemies within the magnetic field by 50%, and conversely increasing the attack power of friendly forces by 50%, lasting for 3 minutes.

Fifth-Order Life Link Technique: Creates a life magnetic field with a radius of 50 meters by liquefying spiritual energy. Allies within the magnetic field can be linked together through life threads to share the damage they receive, lasting for 3 minutes.

Fifth-tier Life Reshaping Technique: It can heal and reshape the damaged limbs or organs of a single teammate, and cure fatal injuries such as severed limbs, ruptured internal organs, and organ dysfunction.

The fifth-tier life magic has seen significant improvements in both its coverage and duration, and its healing and support effects have also made a qualitative leap.

In particular, the final life-reconstruction technique can not only regenerate severed limbs and repair internal organs, but can even cure organ disorders such as blindness, deafness, and aphonia.

Doesn't this mean that I can cure Cai'er of the aftereffects of undergoing the Trial of the Reincarnation Spirit Furnace?

Furthermore, Chu Zichen's newly comprehended underworld magic has surprisingly expanded from the skeletal realm to the internal organ realm.

Fifth-Order Internal Organ Explosion Technique: Manipulates the mitochondrial energy metabolism of the target's internal organ cells to form a high-pressure energy sac, triggering an explosion in the organ cavity. The explosion can be triggered immediately or delayed, causing devastating internal damage.

Internal organ explosion, this skill is truly the most hellish thing imaginable!
Chu Zichen couldn't wait to find an unlucky demon to test his new skill.

Just then, Chu Zichen learned from his master, Ruoshui, that the Demon Hunter Team selection competition, held every five years, was about to begin.

Before that, participants need to qualify for the competition. The standard for each year is that participants must go to the border and kill at least five demon soldiers.

Of course, there is one exception: priests.

Since most priests do not have combat capabilities, their standards will be appropriately lowered, and the priest temple will assign its participating priests to teams composed of other professionals.

The priests only need to follow the team and ensure that all their teammates return safely without any casualties to qualify for the competition.

"Zichen, your master has assigned your assessment location to the Exorcism Pass. You can now work with Cai'er and the other contestants from the Assassin's Temple."

Ruoshui found Chu Zichen and gave him specific instructions.

Chu Zichen was overjoyed. His master was so thoughtful!
Being able to travel with someone as familiar as Cai'er would be wonderful.

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(End of this chapter)