Godslayer: A random filename extension?

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Hope City in Cangnan has finally entered a period of calm after three months.

The emotions of the more than 90 children who suddenly became orphans were gradually calmed down, and they tried to integrate into the unfamiliar home.

However, this gloomy rain will ultimately accompany them for the rest of their lives.

In the now-vanished city of Cangnan, in what was once its most central and bustling urban area, a cemetery was built, possibly the largest in the Xia Kingdom.

The rows of tombstones represent one family after another that has passed away.

Regardless of good or evil, noble or lowly, everyone is equal, and all the stone tablets are neatly arranged in an orderly fashion.

The only difference is that some tombstones have flowers in front of them, while others are completely ignored.

"They treated you like that all those years ago, and you still gave them flowers, senior?"

An Qingyu looked at Fifth Xingling, who was standing silently in front of the tombstone, and asked in confusion.

If it were him, now that all those who hurt him have been wiped out, it would be considered good if he didn't even set off fireworks to celebrate.

"Sigh... Even if I hate them, they were still family. As the only surviving child, I should see them off on their final journey."

Fifth Star Bell looked at the tombstones in front of her. No matter how meticulous the care had been, or how the scolding and beatings had come to an end, at this moment, it had finally come to a complete end.

"Dad, Mom..."

"And grandpa, grandma, maternal grandpa, and maternal grandma."

"The bell has come to accompany you on your final journey."

Perhaps this is fate. If she hadn't been abandoned, her childhood would have been much better. But in that case, there would just be one more tombstone here.

Now, she has completely bid farewell to the past and is living for herself without any ties or burdens.

Before leaving, she carved her name in the corner of her parents' tombstone...

After stepping down, Fifth Star Bell went to the fasting place to continue her emotional offensive towards Lin Linhou.

Moreover, this girl seemed bolder than before, pursuing him without any scruples and using any means necessary, which made it difficult for Lin Linhou to resist.

Lin Linhou always lamented, "Where did that clever but timid apprentice from a year and a half ago go?"

┐(′-｀)┌ I still prefer my old, cheap apprentice.

An Qingyu, along with a bunch of "chilled meat," disappeared again.

I reckon they're probably enjoying a delicious and meticulous dissection at some secret base.

……

Two months passed in the blink of an eye, and Lin Linhou had once again digested all the experience he had absorbed.

Then, as the New Year's bells rang, the prisoners in the fasting facility once again enjoyed a different kind of New Year's Eve experience.

This time, however, only 185 million experience points were obtained. Although the target was higher than two months ago, the experience points were even less.

It seems that even a super-large experience pool like the Fasting Hall is slowly becoming unable to meet Lin Linhou's quality requirements for leveling up.

"Forget it, at least for the time being, there's no need to worry about this. Judging from this trend, we can still reap millions of experience points in the next few waves, and that's enough."

While absorbing the experience, Lin Linhou also tried his best to fulfill his responsibilities as a "mentor".

She carefully taught Fifth Star Bell various skills, this time not just cooking, but various training courses.

Standardized Night's Watch courses and combat skills, or some of the programs from the Night's Watch recruit training, modified and adapted for use.

Fifth Star Bell's ability is also very powerful in a certain sense. With the ability to infinitely replicate herself, she is almost an army all by herself.

If she doesn't copy herself, then in a way she can be called the true number one King of the Void.

Because no matter what the target is, the Fifth Star Bell can create an almost identical mirror image of it as its subordinate based on its understanding of the target.

Even if this mirror image is temporarily weaker by one level, the truly terrifying thing is that the imitated existence actually has the potential to grow!

In other words, as long as the Fifth Star Bell's abilities are sufficient to support her in creating a low-tier version of the enemy's subordinates, this low-tier version might even be more powerful than the original version someday in the future.

Lin Linhou needs to make contact with the target to copy their skills, and since his power comes from the unreasonable system, it's normal for him to be able to do this.

But the fifth Star Bell is truly outrageous; it is a real manifestation of "the power of my thoughts."

What surprised and amazed Lin Linhou even more was that he was temporarily unable to copy the Fifth Star Bell's ability.

The system window will prompt him that the copying failed because his stamina value was insufficient.

This is outrageous, considering that Lin Linhou is now a true Boundless Realm cultivator with incredibly high stamina.

Logically speaking, copying is merely the Void Restriction skill of a fifth-level Star Bell in the Pool Realm, which should be easily accomplished.

But the fact is, he didn't succeed.

"Mengqing, what do you think?"

[I also feel like something's not right, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Logically, this shouldn't be happening.]

Lin Linhou had failed to replicate the technique before due to insufficient physical strength, and had even failed many times.

But that's usually because they're already in a bad state, and it's normal to have not enough stamina left to copy the target.

However, copying at full capacity failed for the third time.

The first time was when he first entered the recruit training camp. At that time, Lin Linhou was still in the Pool Realm. He used the Copy technique on Yuan Gang, whose apparent strength was at the peak of the Sea Realm. The panel reminded him that the copy failed because he was too weak.

The reason why the Masked Squad was able to copy them was because the Masked Squad had sealed their strength to the Zhan Realm at that time, and Lin Linhou copied copies of the Masked Squad members at the Zhan Realm stage.

The second time was when Lin Qiye summoned Nyx into reality, and Lin Linhou used his skill to copy him. However, due to a similar reason, the attempt failed because of insufficient stamina.

The third time is this time.

But the current situation is completely the opposite of the former two.

Lin Linhou is about to advance to the Klein realm.

When at full strength, he tried to copy the Fifth Star Bell, whose realm had just recovered to the Pool Realm, but he still failed due to insufficient strength.

"Meng Qing, wasn't Xing Ling's ability guided and bestowed upon you? How could you not know what's going on?"

[I provided guidance, but I didn't bestow it upon her. I simply discovered that this girl seemed to have some hidden power, and used certain methods to maximize the extraction of her inner potential.]

[I essentially helped her awaken a forbidden void, and tried my best to help her awaken the strongest forbidden void she could.]

Si Mengqing stated that she did not do much else.

[Huh? Lin Hou, do you think Xing Ling might be a hidden master, which is why your copying technique failed?]

Lin Linhou: emmm...

He glanced at Xingling's clones in the room: one was sweeping the floor, one was cooking in the kitchen, one was arranging bookshelves, one was making the bed in the bedroom, and the fifth Xingling herself was fast asleep with her head on his lap, drooling onto the sofa.

(′- へ -、)

Hidden master?

I think it's unlikely.