SWNOVELXO Chapter 571 Heartthrobbing
The man's pupils shrank!
He actually compressed his lightning into three spiritual power crystals?
What was going on?
The man had just spent 30 million system points to launch a full-force attack on Xiang Beifei, but unexpectedly, the opponent was unharmed! That was absolutely impossible!
Where had things gone wrong?
The man's thoughts raced for a moment until he suddenly realized.
"Could it be—"
The man thought of something and looked at Xiang Beifei with intense eyes, saying, "You awakened the UR system!"
He could forcibly strip humans of their systems, so he naturally understood what grades the Human Race's Dao embryos were divided into after being transformed into systems! After all, his subordinates had sent back all the information about Jiuzhou, and he was clear about the systemic Dao embryos of the Jiuzhou Human Race.
The four systems he had plundered so far were only SR-level, and he had not obtained systems of a higher grade yet. Cultivators from Jiuzhou were not easy to deal with, especially since Jiuzhou's currently recognized "Number One Expert," Luo Yunxian, was stationed there, and both SSR and UR levels were well protected. Therefore, SSR and UR systems were not readily available to him.
In fact, the SR-level systems were quite powerful; he had already communicated with the Heavenly Dao, so making these four SR-level systems communicate with the Heavenly Dao was not difficult.
However, he also understood that there was a system level suppression among humans' Dao embryos.
Above the SR-level systems were the SSR-level and UR-level systems!
If Xiang Beifei had recently been able to wield lightning and control it, it meant that he had most likely awakened a UR-level lightning system!
For a human to cross the vast wilderness and reach here, apart from having awakened a UR-level system, there was no other explanation.
In the same type of lightning system, and when the strength was about equal, it was very normal for a UR-level to control an SR-level. In this way, it made sense that Xiang Beifei could control his SR-level lightning.
"Damn, I was careless!"
Once the man had thought it through, he quickly adjusted his approach and shouted again, "So I forgot you could control lightning! But if you think I only have a lightning system, then you're too naive!"
With the lightning system suppressed, he still had the "Prairie Fire System" and the "Heartbeat System." Though these two systems were only SR-level, the type of system was different, so they could not suppress each other.
He understood the rules of system suppression. Among cultivators of the same realm, if their system abilities were the same, then the systems would inevitably suppress each other. But if the system abilities differed, then among cultivators of the same realm, the suppression effect could be negligible. Otherwise, the SR-level Luo Yunxian would not make those UR Awakeners troubled!
Hum!
The tendrils possessing the "Prairie Fire System" began to flicker with a fiery red glow, which was extremely dazzling, and in just an instance, exploded into flames. The flames radiated terrifying heat, turning into a sky full of fire and once again surrounding Xiang Beifei.
At the same time, the man silently used another system ability:
"You spent 30 million system points to enhance 'Heartthrobbing,' which can increase the opponent's heartbeat to 3000 beats per minute!"
This was a very strange ability. Any living creature with a heart had a heartbeat, so this system normally just needed to hear the heartbeat of a living thing to be able to increase his system points.
And after having this system, he could also simulate the opponent's heartbeat frequency with spiritual power, and then use spiritual power resonance to continuously accelerate the opponent's heartbeat. Once it exceeded what the heart could endure, it would directly blow up the opponent's heart!
Ordinary people's heartbeats generally did not exceed 160 beats per minute, but the range cultivators could endure varied with strength. From what the man knew of human cultivators, those in the Heavenly Connection realm could endure up to about 1000 beats per minute.
To ensure a sure kill, he spent 30 million system points in one go, infinitely enhancing the "Heartthrobbing" ability, planning to silently raise Xiang Beifei's heartbeat to 3000 beats per minute.
No one could endure such an enormous heart rate, not even he himself!
At that moment, Xiang Beifei was wrapped in flames, but the man did not expect the flames to deal with Xiang Beifei; the flames were just a smokescreen. He needed Xiang Beifei to be dealing with the flames while linking his spiritual power to "Heartthrobbing."
Crash!
Indeed, it proved impossible for the man to use flames to deal with Xiang Beifei, because Xiang Beifei, when faced with the overwhelming flames, remained unfazed. He still stretched out his hand, with vortexes appearing in his palm as the flames continuously converged into his hand.
The man saw Xiang Beifei absorbing his flames, knowing the moment had come!
"This is the moment I've been waiting for!"
His spiritual power quickly surged through the flames to Xiang Beifei's palm, connecting to Xiang Beifei, and then the power of "Heartthrobbing" unfolded, his spiritual power starting to emit a series of special frequencies!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The man's spiritual power was now attached to Xiang Beifei's hands, and he faintly perceived a heartbeat, very distinct.
"This is it—the feeling of heartthrobbing!"
The man sneered, then began to intensify the rhythm of his spiritual power!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
100 beats per minute!
200 beats per minute!
...
One thousand heartbeats per minute!
This heart rate was already the maximum that a master of Heavenly Connection realm could endure!
If he accelerated Xiang Beifei's heartbeat further, the opponent would definitely die from heart explosion!
Without any hesitation, the man increased the frequency of spiritual power vibration, preparing to boost Xiang Beifei's heartbeat through resonance!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
However, he gradually realized something was wrong; the heartbeat frequency he was controlling was supposedly Xiang Beifei's, so why did it seem like it was his own heart beating?
A tremor went through his heart as he realized that, unnoticed, his own heartbeat had also reached one thousand beats per minute!
This was already pushing his heart's endurance to its limit!
What was most startling was that he discovered he could no longer control his own heartbeat; it was as if it was controlled by some mysterious force... No! This force was not mysterious at all; it was from his own spiritual power vibration!
He was actually using his own spiritual power to increase his heartbeat frequency!
"How is this possible? Wasn't the heartthrobbing feeling coming from Xiang Beifei? Why is it myself?"
The man shuddered all over!
Because his heartbeat was too fast, his entire body had become stiff by now, his blood seemed to be boiling, rushing very quickly, and even his spiritual power was chaotically surging throughout his body, becoming uncontrollable.
"Stop! Stop... This is terrible! This heartthrobbing feeling!"
The man's face grew increasingly horrified!
Heartthrobbing, by its name, makes the heart "bang bang" pound until it explodes!
But he soon discovered that no matter what he tried, he couldn't stop, as his heartbeat had unconsciously slipped out of his control, and he found himself unable to stop it!
[Detected host's current heartbeat rate: 2000 times per minute, heartbeat too fast, please decelerate!]
...
[Detected host's current heartbeat rate: 3000 times per minute, heartbeat too fast, please decelerate!]
But the man was already unable to decelerate, his whole body trembling, all the tendrils like being electrocuted, rapidly trembling.
"How could this be... How is this possible! I have four systems..."
The man couldn't accept the situation before him; he was thoroughly familiar with the systems he had wrested from the Human Race of Jiuzhou. He had completed every requirement and every system task for these four systems, perfectly controlling them!
Yet in this moment, he was horrified to find that his systems no longer obeyed him. He wanted to sever these four tendrils but couldn't do it, because these tendrils had completely connected him with the Heavenly Dao, unless he killed himself to rid of these four systems!
Crack!
The man's head was split by the terrifying vibrations, eerily splitting his half-cleaved head completely, red tendrils rolling out of his body but also trembling ceaselessly.
"No——"
His last voice was a scream of horror, echoing miserably!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Every single one of his tendrils began to burst, and the man's parasitized body exploded instantly, blood splashing, fragments flying, his entire body blasting into pieces in mid-air!
In the instant his Orifice Soul exploded, Xiang Beifei's voice frivolously appeared beside his ear; this was the last sound the man heard: "Remember, I am the ancestor of the system; in front of me, you are just a maggot."
This voice made him feel even more resentful and aggrieved before his death, but he could do nothing, his consciousness swiftly extinguishing from this world.
The most terrifying part was that the [SR-level Heartbeat System] was bound to him, and the system had also communicated with the Heavenly Dao, meaning that the system's capabilities were fully linked with his soul orifice.
That is to say, while his heart was beating, the Orifice Soul was also pulsating, and this heartthrobbing feeling directly caused his Orifice Soul to explode!
In the Heavenly Connection realm, a master's shattered body could only sustain severe injuries and not truly die, and could still survive with the Orifice Soul. But once the Orifice Soul exploded, it meant complete death!
The man had probably never thought that he would be blown apart by the Dao embryo of his own bound system!
"Stop!"
The High Priest, who had been observing the battle all along, changed his expression, his figure flashed, turning into a phantom as he rushed towards the battlefield, trying to rescue the man.
But everything happened too suddenly, and by the time he arrived, it was already too late!
The coughing High Priest searched for the man's Orifice Soul everywhere. As long as he grabbed the Orifice Soul, he could bring him back. However, everything had been blasted away, and only the terrifying aftereffects of the explosion reverberated in the air, along with Xiang Beifei, who stood in the center of the aftermath, calmly watching him.