Multiverse Skill System

Having just arrived in the new world, Yi Shuihan sensed the concentration of spiritual energy around him and thought to himself.

Shaking his slightly dizzy head, Yi Shuihan realized that he was once again in a forest, which made him feel somewhat emotional.

"Yes, the transmigration went smoothly. My body is fine and I haven't been restricted in any way. It seems that this world has a relatively high tolerance for strength. It should be a more advanced world than the One Piece world."

Speaking of the Mr. Zombie world that Yi Shuihan experienced before, it did not suppress his strength. Although it was in the Dharma-ending Age, his level was still higher than that of the pirates. After all, there were powerful people who had reached the Void Returning and Dao Integration levels. If it could only accommodate Black Iron like the pirates, then it would be impossible for powerful people above the Void Returning level to appear, or they would ascend directly after breaking through to the Void Returning level.

It's a good thing that his strength wasn't suppressed, but it also means that Yi Shuihan needs to be careful. After all, since he didn't feel any suppression, it means that the level of power that can be unleashed in this world exceeds his, which means that there is a high possibility that there are stronger beings in this world who are stronger than him.

"Ding, you have arrived in the new world. Your 3 lottery chances have been refreshed. Please use these 3 chances before leaving this world. Once you arrive in the next world, your lottery chances will be refreshed again."

The system's voice seemed to arrive late, as if delayed.

There are such restrictions. It seems that this kind of lottery cannot be accumulated and can only be used before the next time travel.

Chapter 257, Formless Rebirth

"It's been quite a while since I've participated in a lottery." The system's notification made Yi Shuihan want to try his luck.

The three free draws given upon entering each new world cannot be kept indefinitely, so it's best to use them now.

"What kind of effect would it have if this lottery, which has a much higher probability of success than version 20, were combined with luck?" Suddenly thinking of the luck he obtained at the end of the One Piece world, Yi Shuihan couldn't stop his thoughts.

Speaking of which, because he left the One Piece world in a hurry, Yi Shuihan left before he had fully obtained the fortune. Although he guessed at the time that he could take the fortune with him even if he was no longer in the One Piece world, the truth could only be known after experiencing it.

In the third year of the ten years spent fighting demons, Yi Shuihan learned one day from a system notification that he had obtained the destiny of the One Piece world.

However, the amount of luck was far less than Yi Shuihan had anticipated, and he didn't know the specifics. In the end, the amount of luck could only support two silver lottery draws.

Perhaps it's because crossing worlds has taken a toll, or perhaps it's because it's part of the One Piece world's destiny that it's so difficult to leave it; only a few can actually do it.

Yi Shuihan considered many different kinds of speculations, but in the end he realized it was all in vain. After all, even if he knew the answer, he couldn't change it. When it came to destiny, his current level was simply too low.

"Well, it's better to use this luck. It would be bad if this luck suddenly disappeared, since the luck we gain is time-limited."

Thinking of this, Yi Shuihan took out a chair and sat down on the spot, opening the lottery interface with slight excitement.

"With three draws, even without luck, the odds are similar to those of a silver-level draw. So let's divide this luck into three parts and add them to each draw, and see how the odds of winning change."

With a thought, subtle changes occurred on the virtual interface in front of him. Bronze was a guaranteed win, needless to say, Silver increased from 50% to 60%, and Gold decreased from 1% to 3%.

"It's not much different from before without the added luck!" Yi Shuihan was slightly disappointed, but she understood, since the difficulty increased as the game progressed and more luck was required.

What if we used all our energy at once?

70% silver, 4% gold!

"Uh!" Yi Shuihan silently looked up at the sky, looking somewhat melancholy.

Suddenly a cold wind blew by, and Yi Shuihan shivered. "Strange, with my current cultivation level, this cold wind shouldn't be a problem at all."

"Fine, let's split it into three parts. There will be three 3% chances to win, and you need to win twice to qualify!"

As the luck was depleted, the first lottery draw began.

The virtual screen in front of me kept changing, as if it were changing colors, constantly shifting between various colors.

What exactly is the pattern behind this?

"It doesn't really mean anything; it's like a phone screensaver."

The voice in his mind startled Yi Shuihan.

The system seems to be a bit smarter than before!

"The host is right. The system currently possesses rudimentary intelligence."

The system notification sounded again, completely shocking Yi Shuihan. However, before he could recover, the lottery had already ended.

"Ding, lottery completed. You have obtained a silver skill. Please check the details yourself."

We won? What a great start!

A smile immediately bloomed on Yi Shuihan's face, and he began to examine the newly acquired skills.

"Formless Rebirth (Silver Tier 1): If the opponent's overall level is no more than 4 stars, their attacks will be ineffective during the skill's activation, and our attacks will always hit."

Although it's only Silver Tier 1, Silver skills are indeed Silver skills. With this skill, you can easily fight opponents of higher levels. It even made it so that attacks from 4-star opponents were useless. You could only attack others, but others couldn't attack you. It's practically a cheat skill.

At this moment, Yi Shuihan thought of the Peerless and the Overlord Body. These are definitely the protagonist's power-up skills, you deserve to have them!

"The name of this skill sounds familiar. Let me think where it comes from!" Yi Shuihan began to search his memories from the depths of his mind.

"I've got it! No wonder it looked so familiar. Isn't this the ultimate technique from Fist of the North Star? Once you activate Musou Tensei, only someone who has also activated Musou can hit you."

In the world of Fist of the North Star, the strongest is probably only Black Iron, and there are probably no Black Iron 7-star generals. I didn't expect such a skill to be from Silver. It really shows that skills don't care about their origin!

When I watched the anime, the protagonist activated the Musou (無相) skill, struck a pose, and then crossed paths with the enemy. You couldn't see anything, but after the crossing, there was an air explosion, and then the enemy was defeated. I was really confused when I watched it, but I felt that the protagonist was very powerful.

As expected of the ultimate technique, it is immune to power attacks exceeding 4 stars.

However, although this skill is powerful, it must have required a high level of skill to use. Even the protagonist in the anime could only use it at crucial moments in the battle, because he probably couldn't keep it up all the time.

Powerful skills require either a strong body as a foundation or a strong spirit and mindset as a support, and this formless rebirth is no exception.

"Well, instead of thinking so much, why not give it a try? As a great man once said, practice is the sole criterion for testing truth."

Standing up, Yi Shuihan walked to a slightly open space and activated the Formless Rebirth Technique.

After successfully activating the skill, Yi Shuihan felt himself enter an extremely special state, as if all his thoughts had disappeared, his consciousness had jumped out of his body and arrived in another space, and the time around him seemed to have slowed down a hundred times.

Yi Shuihan felt that as long as he had a thought, his body could make the corresponding movement. In fact, even before he had finished thinking about the idea, his body should have already taken action, and by the time he wanted to play, he should have already completed the action.

Chapter 258, Temporarily Open Functions

Having withdrawn from the formless rebirth, Yi Shuihan still felt that his consciousness had not fully returned to his body, and it took him a while to return to his original state.

"Wow, this skill is really... how should I put it! It's high-end!" Although he was only experiencing it alone, Yi Shuihan was completely certain that even a Bronze 7-star cultivator, equivalent to the mid-stage of the Dao Integration realm, would be unable to attack him.

Because the skill came from the system, Yi Shuihan could use it skillfully, but after using it, he always felt a sense of emptiness.

Is it because this skill is inherently like this, or is it because it wasn't something I figured out from scratch?

After a moment, he put those thoughts aside, sat back down in his chair, and began the second lottery draw.

Just as he was about to confirm the two lottery draws, he suddenly remembered something and asked in his mind with a strange expression, "System, you just said you have basic intelligence, right? What exactly does basic intelligence mean?"

"Primitive intelligence, possessing a certain level of judgment, capable of answering some simple questions from the host."

"..."

That's all?

"Okay, maybe my expectations were a bit too high."

After the system's explanation, Yi Shuihan lost interest in the basic intelligence and turned his attention back to the lottery.

The scene returned to its vibrant colors, and under Yi Shuihan's somewhat tense gaze, it finally came to a slow halt. A sighing face appeared before Yi Shuihan, with a line of small text below: "Please try harder next time."

"Just in time, okay, as long as I get lucky next time." She murmured to herself, trying to encourage herself, but inevitably becoming even more nervous.

"This lottery is really something that makes it hard to stay calm. Whether it's the excitement of winning or the disappointment of not winning, it makes people's emotions fluctuate greatly."

He took a deep breath, his eyes lingered briefly on the gold lottery option, but he ultimately chose to start the silver lottery.

"The statement that he didn't continue to work hard is correct."

"Ding, lottery completed. You have obtained a silver skill. Please check the details yourself."

Two out of three shots were successful. Well, it was two out of three attempts. Yi Shuihan was quite satisfied with this result, although it was a bit of a pity that it wasn't a perfect score.

"So what kind of skill is it exactly?"

Yi Shuihan was overjoyed and began to check the skills, but the next moment he was dumbfounded.

"Plasma Light Speed ​​Fist? I already have that skill, don't I? I actually drew it again... this luck..."

Bug, this is absolutely a bug! I already had this skill, and now I've drawn it again? What kind of nonsense is this?!

"System, shouldn't you say something?"

"Host is so lucky!"

"That's not what I meant. Look at this situation, I won but it's like I didn't. Shouldn't you compensate me? Enough said, just let me draw the prize again."

"..."

Seemingly considering Yi Shuihan's suggestion, the system remained silent for a while.

There's hope! Since they didn't reject it immediately, there's still a chance.

"Unable to grant the host one more draw! Based on the host's reaction, a feature only available in the official version—skill recycling—will be temporarily activated for 3 years."

"Skill recycling? What the heck is that! It's a feature only available in the official version." Yi Shuihan asked with some confusion.

"Skill recycling: If the host is not satisfied with the skills obtained from the system, he can recycle them at the skill recycling point and resell them to the system at one-tenth of the price in the skill shop."

"I see. So, the Plasma Light Speed ​​Fist I just drew can be exchanged for one-tenth of my cultivation points?"

"Not bad!"

What a swindler! What a swindler! He only offers one-tenth of the selling price for the buyback. Does this skill even have a distinction between new and old? And he's offering such a cheap buyback price.

It is indeed a good feature! After all, the skills are obtained through a lottery. If you draw a skill you don't need, you can exchange it for training points and then exchange it for other skills that you need more in the skill shop. This gives you a lot more autonomy, especially in the current situation. You really can't do without this feature.

"Plasma Light Speed ​​Fist is a Silver skill, even one-tenth of it is still a lot of training points! System, how many training points can I get by recycling this skill?"

"The host can obtain 1 cultivation points."

"1?" Yi Shuihan shouted excitedly, startling a flock of birds that flew away from the surrounding trees.

"Should we recycle it?"

"Recycle, quickly recycle."

Looking at the cultivation points that had surged by 10,000, Yi Shuihan felt as if he were in a dream. He didn't know how many times he had looked at the cultivation points, but he still felt that it was unreal.

1 points, while still far from enough to buy a Silver skill, can easily buy a decent Bronze skill.

Of course, Yi Shuihan did not intend to use these 1 points to buy bronze skills. After all, for him now, bronze skills would not significantly improve his strength, and there was no need for them. He could decide to use them when he really needed them.

Furthermore, there are quite a few powerful one-time silver skills that can be purchased for 1 points, which greatly increases Yi Shuihan's life-saving trump cards.

"We don't know what the system needs to upgrade again, nor when it will be able to upgrade to the official version. This skill recycling function is good, but it only has a temporary usage period of 3 years, which is too short. It seems we need to make good use of these 3 years."

The statement that "only skills acquired from the system can be recycled" reveals something upon deeper reflection.

Does this mean that if necessary, the system can take away all the skills the host has obtained from it?

Although Yi Shuihan trusted the system, he still felt that it would be better to cultivate his skills more on his own in the future.

Upon careful consideration, Yi Shuihan realized that even with the system's cultivation points used to enhance his skills, the skills he cultivated himself, even when they were at their perfected state, were far more profoundly understood than those directly obtained from the system. He felt that even if he were to change bodies and start over, he could still cultivate them back to their original state, whereas it would be impossible for those obtained from the system.

"In the last world, there was only the accumulation of merit points, but no luck. I wonder if these merit points have any other uses?"

Upon seeing the merit points below the cultivation point, Yi Shuihan had an idea.

Chapter 259, Strange Monster

Suddenly realizing that the system hadn't gained basic intelligence because of the upgrade, Yi Shuihan could ask the system if merit points had other uses. Without hesitation, he began to inquire.

"Merit points are currently unavailable!"

Is it currently unusable? Yi Shuihan grasped the key point.

"When will merit points start to be useful?"

"The official version will include the feature to use merit points."

"It's the official version again. I wonder how many more upgrades it will take to make it the official version."

"The current system version is beta 30; the next upgrade will be to the official version 10."

The system's response ignited a burning desire in Yi Shuihan's eyes. Just one more upgrade was enough to motivate him. Perhaps he could upgrade the system to the official version soon.

"System, what do we need for another upgrade?"

"do not know!"

"What? You didn't know?"

Yi Shuihan found the system's answer utterly unbelievable.

"The system will only be aware of the appearance of that thing and will notify the host at that time. Please be careful then."

That's what the system says, so that's the only way!

"Then we need to find a place to rest first! I didn't expect it to be night when I traveled through time, and it's night here too. Does that mean the time is synchronized between the two places?"