Above all spirits

Chapter 22 Compensation and Confession

Gu Yun remained silent for a moment, as if considering how to explain.

The man chuckled softly, waved his hand toward the door, and a gray barrier appeared out of thin air, enveloping the craftsman's shop.

He slowly sat back down at his workbench.

"It's alright, no third person here will know. Just tell me. I know everyone has their own secrets. Consider this piece of Creation Divine Iron as compensation. I think that should be enough. It has already acknowledged you. You just need to touch it and silently recite 'Forge all things, transform freely,' and it will change into any form according to your will, or merge into yourself and hide."

Werner: Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! Let go of Gu Yun, let me handle this. Give me the Creation Divine Iron, and I'll confess everything. Any hesitation in your answer is disrespectful to the Creation Divine Iron!

Gu Yun: →_→

"This is what its previous owner told me. After you take over, you can even change the trigger command, so don't worry that I will go back on my word."

"Unfortunately, its quantity is not large; at most, it can only be transformed into a short knife or a short sword."

Gu Yun nodded and followed the man's instructions.

Sure enough, a connection was established with the Creation Divine Iron.

However, he didn't try too many things; he simply integrated it into himself and stored it away. A silver pattern appeared on the back of his hand, and he spoke.

He intends to explain from Werner's perspective that revealing everything is definitely impossible.

Otherwise, I could have been taken away for autopsy today.

"As you said, senior, I belong to the Shadow Demon clan. My name is Gu Yun, and my exclusive power is assimilation."

"assimilation?"

The man murmured, as if he knew a lot about Shadow Fiend.

"Does the Shadow Demon race have such exclusive powers? That shouldn't be the case; it's not something I'm familiar with. Would you mind demonstrating and explaining it to me?"

This is like catching a Squirtle and suddenly one day it uses a skill that isn't from its TM.

The man before him seemed very confident in his understanding of the Shadow Demon race's talents and even their powers.

However, Gu Yun did not object and nodded.

The power of assimilation will inevitably take center stage sooner or later; it's just a grassroots showcase coming first.

He reached out and touched the wooden support pillar.

A flash of red light appeared in his eyes.

"Power: Assimilation".

"Clap."

Before Gu Yun could explain, the man suddenly stood up, causing the chair to overturn to the ground.

His eyes were fixed on Gu Yun's arm, which had come into contact with the wooden pillar and had become indistinguishable from the pillar itself.

My lips began to tremble involuntarily.

The bridge of her nose also moved up and down slightly, seemingly unwillingly.

It was as if some kind of emotion was about to burst forth.

Gu Yun stared in surprise at the man whose emotions were fluctuating wildly and whose eyes seemed to be filled with shock.

Did he know the special nature of the power of assimilation?

After all, the man was only surprised and curious to see that he had been recognized by the Creation Divine Iron.

Why did it explode so suddenly when we got there?

"senior?"

Gu Yun gently gestured to him whether he could continue.

The man took a deep breath, suppressed his emotions, waved his hand, and chuckled helplessly.

"Please continue. I'm sorry you had to laugh at me. It's just that it's a little hard to believe, and I accidentally lost control."

"Let me see what other surprises you can bring me. But just this one alone is enough to make the Creation Divine Iron worthwhile for you. At least for me, it is worth it."

Werner: So my powers are worth this much?

Seeing the fleeting sadness in the man's eyes, Gu Yun continued.

"As you can see, my power is exactly what it sounds like: it allows me to temporarily assimilate with the matter I come into contact with."

Gu Yun didn't explain further. The man in front of her seemed to recognize this power, and no one knew whether explaining too much would be good or bad.

"I originally planned to use my clone to go to the Alpha Dimension to expand the soul trade, but due to a mistake, I lowered the life level of my main body and unintentionally entered the Omega Dimension."

“When I thought I was about to die, I was lucky enough to discover the soul of a human who had recently died in the Alpha Dimension and was being accepted by the Omega Dimension. However, it seemed to be resisting, so I used my assimilation power to transform myself into a soul exactly like itss and briefly pushed it back into the Alpha Dimension.”

"Perhaps because I had just died and my physical body was still attached, the Omega dimension did not forcefully retain my soul and this person's soul. I returned to the Alpha dimension with it. After the negative effects of feeling my life level decrease disappeared, I de-assimilated and returned to the Gamma dimension. However, because I did not have the pull of my original body, the place I descended to was random."

"Because of the existence of the lighthouse, I rushed here after confirming that it was on the western side of the Polar Starfield. At the same time, because I stayed in the Omega Dimension for too long, my foundation was damaged, and it was only after being tempered by the Creation Divine Iron that it gradually recovered."

"So the recognition of me by the Creation Divine Iron may just be a coincidence."

The man rested his chin on his hand, pondering Gu Yun's words, and finally nodded.

"It's amazing, unbelievable, yet within the bounds of theory, but the truth is often so unexpected."

"I can only say that this was a thrilling journey to survival. As for the reason why you were recognized by the Creation Divine Iron, it was roughly the same as I guessed. As soon as you entered, I could tell that your foundation was too frivolous."

Gu Yun was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but her heart was instantly gripped by the man's next words.

"Although I estimate that you have concealed two or three tenths of your story, it doesn't matter. You have indeed told me a lot. If it weren't for today, this memory would probably be buried deep in your heart forever. However, being recognized by the Creation Divine Iron is not just about exploiting the loophole in the foundation restoration, is it?"

Werner: Two or three percent? Eighty percent!

Even if the man before him was a god-king-level powerhouse like the Supreme Buddha, Gu Yun firmly believed that he still couldn't observe Earth, couldn't understand the golden soul, and couldn't believe in the symbiotic fusion of humans and demons.

With far too much crucial information missing, being able to believe it to be about 80% is within the reasonable range of Gu Yun's prediction.

But the man in front of him might have seen the whole process of him striking the ground 81 times, so he probably still wouldn't be able to get away with it.

Gu Yun himself was aware of this.

Gu Yun said frankly.

"Senior, you are wise. It is true that my foundation was restored during the tempering process, but I cannot explain what happened afterward, so I did not mention it."

"At that time, I was almost completely exhausted, but I knew I could not give up. I had to become stronger. What an incredible opportunity it would be to restore my foundation with such power! So I made a bold decision: since we can integrate consciousness into soul matter to forge weapons, create powers, and control clones, then what if I used soul matter..."

"Nonsense!"

The man naturally understood Gu Yun's attempt and rebuked her sternly.

But Gu Yun seemed to hear more of the concern that elders have for younger generations.

How could the man not know?

He knows it all too well.

Because she also used this method to survive the eighty-one trials at the very last moment.

But it was precisely this cleverness that cost her dearly.

Do you know where the soul's essence is hidden?

Gu Yun thought for a moment and then said.

"Throughout the body's meridians?"

He had asked Werner about this before, and he quickly understood it. It was similar to how red blood cells carry oxygen, except that with the rise in life level, there was an additional storage function. People in the Gamma Dimension usually store their soul matter in this way, and the higher the life level, the stronger the storage function.

However, he neither needs nor can store it, because his soul will automatically absorb the soul matter within his body.

Although he could stop it voluntarily, he would have to maintain the state of releasing soul essence indefinitely.

So he basically never used this feature.