Chapter 23 – Changing into mythic

After logging off, Ye Zhou’s ache vanished. Shaken, he instantly dialed his ache sensitivity to 0%. Even when he may now not really feel something, he didn’t wish to expertise that type of ache once more.

He remembered how pale Dugu Zhuo’s face had regarded and puzzled whether or not he had set his ache sensitivity reasonably excessive.

When he obtained on later, he wanted to ask Dugu Zhuo what it was set at, and counsel he decrease it a bit.

After having lunch, the caretaker pushed him right into a glass-roofed room so he may get some solar, then returned him to his room to nap.

Ye Zhou had a bunch of chaotic desires. In them, he noticed fragmented photos of a excessive mountain peak that pierced the clouds collapsing, its environment changing into a sea of flames. He appeared to listen to somebody’s voice name out, stuffed with grief and despair. In his dream, Ye Zhou needed to consolation them, however discovered himself unable to talk.

After waking, Ye Zhou’s ideas had been in a tangle. He recalled that the physician had informed him VR video games may trigger psychological fatigue, and if he ever had extreme desires and felt confused, he wanted to cease enjoying. His physique was frail, so he needed to to get correct sleep. If he misplaced sleep for greater than per week, he was liable to fall in poor health.

Ye Zhou held the VR helmet, hesitating. He hadn’t gotten sufficient sleep, however he felt energetic and even appeared to have extra stamina than earlier than.

He had solely been gaming for 2 days, so he’d wait till he slept poorly for a complete week earlier than doing one thing.

Placing on the helmet, he logged in. The second he entered the sport, he fell to the ground from ache, his entire physique twitching.

What was happening? He had clearly set the ache sensitivity to 0%, so he shouldn’t be capable to really feel something in any respect. Had he misclicked?

Ye Zhou needed to open a panel to test, however he was in a lot ache he couldn’t even elevate a finger. Holding the situation of his dantian, he curled up on the bottom, however somebody picked him up.

It was Dugu Zhuo.

Ye Zhou had went offline in Widow Yang’s courtyard. After shortly consuming one thing for lunch, Dugu Zhuo had returned to the courtyard to attend for Ye Zhou. He sat meditating there for some time, mentally maintaining monitor of the time.

It was solely 2:30 when Ye Zhou obtained on. Dugu Zhuo instantly stopped circulating non secular essence and stood, taking the best-looking stance.

He had placed on the extent 10-20 outfit that the sport had given him, which was a darkish blue lengthy gown, made from a mushy cloth with broad sleeves. When the wind blew, it clung to his determine, making his waist look extra slim.

He imitated the earlier life’s Ye Zhou in his posture and poise. Although he lacked Ye Zhou’s unearthly aura, he nonetheless regarded acceptable.

Dugu Zhuo had been cautious to face able the place Ye Zhou would be capable to see his greatest angle instantly upon arriving. Nonetheless, the second Ye Zhou appeared, he collapsed in ache, so Dugu Zhuo may spare no extra consideration for his look. He picked up Ye Zhou, resting him in his lap.

“What occurred?” Dugu Zhuo requested, anxious and helpless.

Ye Zhou couldn’t converse by way of the ache. He felt Dugu Zhuo’s sturdy arms holding him, and even his heat breaths blowing previous his ears.

How was this 0% ache and contact sensitivity? It was clearly 100%!

However the sport’s ache sensitivity solely went as much as 70%. Even when a masochistic participant needed to set it to the max, the sport wouldn’t permit it, since any increased would exceed a human being’s psychological fortitude.

Within the throes of agony, Ye Zhou felt a present of heat enter his physique by way of his again, which made a circuit by way of his decrease stomach, after which the ache was instantly lessened considerably.

“Ugh, that basically damage,” Ye Zhou stated. “I’m logging off to regulate the ache sensitivity. I’ll be proper again.” The contact and ache sensitivity may solely be set by logging off and again on, to permit the sport to reload the information. They couldn’t be adjusted in-game.

With issue, Ye Zhou opened the management panel and chosen the system settings, however discovered that his ache sensitivity actually was at 0%!

There was a small pink coronary heart subsequent to the quantity. Ye Zhou tapped it with a trembling finger and a dialogue field opened earlier than him, studying: [Pain and tactile sensitivity currently being shared via the Heart Linking Technique. Sensitivity is set to 100%.]

Ye Zhou: “…”

So now that the Coronary heart Linking Method was energetic, even when he logged off and set his ache sensitivity to the negatives, so long as Dugu Zhuo didn’t modify his, he would nonetheless be struggling.

“That may’t be. The utmost is 70%, so how come you may have it at 100%…” Ye Zhou stated weakly.

Dugu Zhuo was already checking Ye Zhou’s pulse. He discovered sword qi lashing out chaotically by way of Ye Zhou’s physique, the identical scenario that he had beforehand been in.

One way or the other, Ye Zhou had taken on his struggling.

Dugu Zhuo made his resolution instantly. He grabbed the again of Ye Zhou’s neck, stopping him from escaping, and pressed their foreheads collectively.

“What are you doing? Go log out and modify—” Earlier than he may end talking, Ye Zhou felt an enormous torrent of vitality move into him from Dugu Zhuo’s brow, sinking into his consciousness.

Dugu Zhuo held the younger Ye Zhou tightly in his lap, gripping his neck with one hand whereas the opposite arm was wrapped round him, leaving Ye Zhou unable to hit the button to log out.

In a scenario like this, the sword qi inside Ye Zhou’s physique may solely be calmed by the Su Sword’s divine energy.

This was energy that Ye Zhou had as soon as given to him, so it was about time for him to return it to whom it belonged.

After that huge energy entered Ye Zhou’s physique, it not solely subdued the rampaging sword qi, however utterly reconstructed Ye Zhou’s meridians.

Ye Zhou simply felt that, at one second, his entire physique felt weak, whereas the following second it was stuffed with energy. After this repeated for forty or fifty occasions, his ache was utterly gone.

Dugu Zhuo, nevertheless, backed away holding his head, trying fairly unwell.

“Hey, what did you simply do to me? Was it one thing else you discovered?” Ye Zhou checked his physique, however didn’t discover any distinction.

He opened his sport panel once more, receiving the reward for finishing the “Discover Xiao Bao” process, which additionally gave him 25 thousand expertise, a full set of stage 10-20 gear, and 50 spirit stones.

None of his stats had been completely different. Solely the entry for his race had modified, from human to mythic.

“This… what did you give me?” Ye Zhou poked Dugu Zhuo, who was propping his brow on one hand. “I’m a mythic now. Will I be capable to strengthen weapons with my blood such as you?”

“No,” Dugu Zhuo stated, his brows deeply furrowed as he tapped his fingers on his brow. “I’m not sure how the change in your race will manifest sooner or later.”

Ye Zhou didn’t doubt Dugu Zhuo’s phrases. The sport was new now, so there have been all types of facets that gamers wanted to discover themselves. It made sense for Dugu Zhuo to not know.

“Is your ache set to 100% due to your mythic race too? Even should you can, you shouldn’t truly set it to 100%! This can be a sport filled with swords and weapons, and it’ll critically damage should you get hit even as soon as,” Ye Zhou stated.

He felt his abdomen, nonetheless a bit shaken. The feeling earlier of his physique being shredded from the within by blades had been too intense, and no regular particular person may probably endure it.

Dugu Zhuo didn’t converse. He had utterly misplaced the facility of the Su Sword, and was lacking considered one of his Earthly Souls. He didn’t know what he could be like with out the divine energy restraining him.

He probed his physique along with his non secular essence, then checked his consciousness. Except for his soul’s construction being weaker, he didn’t discover something unsuitable.

He lastly stated, “I’ll watch out sooner or later. However what was the method you used? Did you tackle my harm for me?”

“You had been injured and about to lose your account, and the system informed me that I may use the ‘Coronary heart Linking Method’ to save lots of you, so I didn’t actually give it some thought and simply accepted,” Ye Zhou stated.

He spoke casually, as if he didn’t contemplate this one thing worthy of thanks. He merely hadn’t needed his good friend to lose all his ranges and his character, and it wasn’t an enormous deal that he needed to really feel some ache. It was only a sport, in spite of everything.

“Coronary heart Linking…” Dugu Zhuo’s arm shook barely. He held it nonetheless and slowly regarded towards Ye Zhou. His younger face was stuffed with innocence, utterly blind to simply what method he had used.

This was a way of sharing one other particular person’s ache. Even when it didn’t hyperlink their lives and deaths like a soul pact, it was nonetheless able to utterly transferring somebody’s accidents to a different particular person’s physique. Was Ye Zhou truly conscious of what sort of selection he had made?

To share one’s ache, sensation, and deepest feelings with one other particular person, and to know what was of their coronary heart always—that was the Coronary heart Linking Method.

If this hyperlink was created by an exterior supply like a gu parasite, then all one would wish to do was eliminate the parasite. But when it was constructed with a blood bond as basis, then it may solely be undone by considered one of them severing the bond.

Dugu Zhuo checked out Ye Zhou and felt a tether in his thoughts snap.

The elder whom he had revered, admired, cherished, and liked, the one he had sworn, in his thoughts, that he may by no means contact, was proper in entrance of him.

Emotions equivalent to doubt, fear, worry, and restraint had been erased from Dugu Zhuo’s thoughts. This was the Earthly Soul that he lacked. The second he returned the divine energy to Ye Zhou, these restrictions had vanished.

With out respect, admiration, and cherishment, all that was left inside him was love he may now not maintain again.

Dugu Zhuo positioned a hand on Ye Zhou’s face, brushing a fingertip over his lips. Since Ye Zhou was sharing a tactile sensitivity of 100% with Dugu Zhuo, his entire physique immediately felt tingly, and although he needed to push Dugu Zhuo’s hand away, when he met that pair of fathomless eyes, he discovered himself unable to take action.

“I—Should you maintain going, you’ll activate the sport’s censorship system,” Ye Zhou stammered out.

Dugu Zhuo appeared to not hear him as he progressively drew nearer to Ye Zhou.

As Ye Zhou grew an increasing number of flustered, a black shadow handed between the 2. Black Cat landed on the bottom and spoke, licking a paw. “I simply obtained on and checked Aotian and Qingyue’s standing. They appear to be on too, so let’s go to Tanye Temple collectively.”

Dugu Zhuo lastly launched Ye Zhou. He turned to Black Cat, giving him a darkish look.

Sadly, Jet Black appeared to be a bit gradual on the uptake, and stated to Ye Zhou like he nonetheless hadn’t seen something, “Stage up already! Everybody already obtained to stage 17 with the rewarded expertise, however Dugu actually needed to attend for you. Hurry up!”

“Oh,” Ye Zhou stated, returning to actuality.

He rigorously checked out Dugu Zhuo and noticed that he was elevating a hand towards Black Cat with a deeply irregular look in his eyes. He grabbed Dugu Zhuo’s hand and stated, “Let’s stage up collectively.”

Dugu Zhuo stared at Ye Zhou for a very long time, earlier than he slowly nodded. He and Ye Zhou ascended to stage 17 collectively.

Xiao Bao was nonetheless unconscious from the yin vitality inside his physique, so at midday, everybody had settled him into Widow Yang’s main bedroom. After Ye Zhou heard Black Cat summarize the story, he went to the room and picked up little Xiao Bao. “You guys shouldn’t have waited for me. You must’ve gone to Tanye Temple and gotten Xiao Bao handled as quickly as attainable. The washerwoman continues to be ready at dwelling to eat roast rooster with him.”

Xiao Bao and the washerwoman had been simply NPCs, however Ye Zhou nonetheless felt unhealthy about letting them keep hungry. It should be as a result of the sport felt too life like.

Seeing Ye Zhou maintain Xiao Bao in his arms, Dugu Zhuo had a sophisticated expression on his face. His hand lifted barely, like he needed to make Ye Zhou cease, however he hesitated.

“Do you wish to maintain him? Right here.” Ye Zhou held Xiao Bao out to him, blocking Dugu Zhuo’s line of sight.

Dugu Zhuo glanced on the unconscious Xiao Bao and shook his head. “I received’t contact him. You must maintain him.”

He took a step again, placing clear distance between himself and the younger Xiao Bao.