Chapter 154: The Qualitative Change from Obtaining All the Fairies in This World

“The final item was in his hands.”

Chen Xiyi looked at the jade piece carved with hundreds of flowers in his hand. There were only nine historical items with complete spirituality in this world.

The number wasn’t very large.

Previously, he had already obtained six: the Eye-Observing Fairy: Tongmu, the Ear-reporting Fairy: Zhangliu, the Blood-Named Fairy: Moyan, the Pi Xiu, the Mighty Elephant, and Dewdrop. Plus, not long ago, he obtained the Moon-Devouring Fairy: Golden Toad and the Formless Fairy: Thousand Faces.

Now with this jade piece, he had collected all the historical items with complete spirituality in this world.

It took him three months. He was basically traveling every day, and he almost went crazy.

Mainly, he wasn’t familiar with the routes; otherwise, how could it have taken three months?

After returning to his Homestead, he quickly used his skill to transform the jade piece into a fairy.

[You used the skill Enlightenment and Spirit Communication on the Nameless Green Jade]

[Nameless Green Jade’s spirituality is awakening 1%…]

[You obtained the Clear-Hearted Fairy: Wenxiang]

[Clear-Hearted Fairy: Wenxiang]

[Satiety Level: 100/100]

[Ability 1: Scent Recognition]

[Ability 2: Continuous Breath]

[Ability 3: Heart Like Still Water]

[You received a boost from the Clear-Hearted Fairy: Wenxiang, gaining the status: Clear Qi]

[The Bonds of All Things list has been updated]

[Five Sense Organs: Eyes (Qi-Observing Fairy: Tongmu), Tongue (Blood-Named Fairy: Moyan), Mouth (Moon-Devouring Fairy: Golden Toad), Nose (Clear-Hearted Fairy: Wenxiang), Ears (Ear-reporting Fairy: Zhangliu)]

[Five Senses: Sight (Qi-Observing Fairy: Tongmu), Hearing (Ear-reporting Fairy: Zhangliu), Taste (Blood-Named Fairy: Moyan), Touch (Moon-Devouring Fairy: Golden Toad), Wisdom (Formless Fairy: Thousand Faces)]

[…]

[You activated the bond: Five Sense Organs, and gained the ability: Three Souls]

[You activated the bond: Five Senses, and gained the ability: Seven Spirits]

“…”

Chen Xiyi looked at the activated bond and felt really strange. So it turned out he had no soul before.

Then where did his Primordial Spirit come from? Oh, it was given by the Zhou Tian Qi Circulation Module.

After gaining the bond, Chen Xiyi felt his Primordial Spirit undergo a transformation. It was originally formless and intangible but was now taking shape into his likeness.

As the Primordial Spirit and soul merged, he sensed a different realm. Especially with the skill Qi Sensitivity and the boost from the fairies, it felt like he was seeing the true nature of the world.

Just as he was simply consolidating this, the Game Log had another update.

[Your skill: Qi Sensitivity evolved into the skill: Qi Manipulation and Spirit Wandering]

[Your Primordial Spirit’s attributes have changed]

The change from Qi Sensitivity to Qi Manipulation and Spirit Wandering was unexpected. For the Primordial Spirit, it changed, but the name remained the same.

As for Wenxiang’s abilities, the first one, Scent Recognition, allowed Chen Xiyi to distinguish various subtle scents in the air. Continuous Breath was interesting; each breath recovered 1% of his Health Points. Theoretically, if he breathed fast enough, his Health Points could skyrocket.

The last one, Heart Like Still Water, was quite special. It could quickly calm his emotions, preventing him from being affected by negative feelings.

“Now that the Five Sense Organs and Five Senses are complete, Thousand Faces’ abilities can be fully utilized.”

[Formless Fairy: Thousand Faces]

[Satiety Level: 100/100]

[Ability 1: Formless Face]

[Ability 2: A Thousand Faces of Life]

[Ability 3: Dual Aspects of Good and Evil]

These abilities were very useful, but their limitations were significant. First, they required fairies of the Five Sense Organs and limbs types to function. Then, they had to attach to him, and all of Thousand Faces’ abilities were boosts.

Formless Face required fusion-type Five Sense Organ fairies. He had them now, so these five fairies could merge into Thousand Faces to form a face. Then, all abilities of these five fairies would be enhanced and strengthened, and he would gain their affiliated abilities.

A Thousand Faces of Life required the remaining hands, feet, body, and head.

The effect was similar to the Five Sense Organs, being enhancement-type. Unfortunately, Thousand Faces was just a face skin, not a head.

As for the last one, Dual Aspects of Good and Evil, it was about attachment and splitting.

Attaching to Chen Xiyi allowed him to synchronize and enjoy the abilities of the fairies contained within Thousand Faces. The splitting ability had greater limitations; currently, it could only split out a face with the Five Sense Organs. To split out a complete person, he needed to include the remaining head, hands, feet, and body-type fairies.

This split entity could fully utilize the fairies’ abilities and could even grow, making it a first-class helper.

Unfortunately, for now, it was just a face.

After containing Tongmu, Zhangliu, Moyan, Golden Toad, and Wenxiang, attaching them to Chen Xiyi caused another face of his to appear on the back of his head. However, it seemed to inherit the invisibility and undetectability of Tongmu’s Eye of Qi Observation ability. So he could feel it, but others couldn’t see it.

All Five Senses could be used. He no longer had to worry about someone hitting the back of his head. It was just unclear why he could see clearly even through his hair; it seemed a bit unscientific.

“Three Five Senses, that’s a bit fierce.”

This was the attachment, considered the Good Aspect. The Evil Aspect flew in the air and, because it contained six fairies, had autonomy.

The Eye of Qi Observation was an ability that could split out an eyeball, while Dual Aspects of Good and Evil could only split out a face now.

“All abilities were tripled.”

Naturally, the functions of the Dual Aspects of Good and Evil were synchronously duplicated. With two faces plus the Formless Face ability, it was equivalent to all the Five Sense Organ fairies being synchronously enhanced three times.

“This way, my journey to the Holy Purple Iris Empire will be much safer, and I can also escape without worry when the time comes.”

The Cycle Function only had a 3% cooldown bar left. Over two years would be enough for the Cycle Function to cool down completely.

After leaving his Homestead, it was already night. Feeling the faint moonlight merge into his body, his Primordial Spirit began to grow gradually. This was thanks to the Moon-Devouring Fairy: Golden Toad.

[Moon-Devouring Fairy: Golden Toad]

[Satiety Level: 100/100]

[Ability 1: Moon Nourishment]

[Ability 2: Playful Fishing and Prosperity]

[Ability 3: Mouth Full of Wealth]

All three abilities were practical passive skills. Moon Nourishment allowed Chen Xiyi to gain temporary all-around enhancements at night and nourish his Primordial Spirit.

In other words, it was an all-attribute enhancement Buff plus slowly increasing experience points.

The second ability, Playful Fishing and Prosperity, allowed Chen Xiyi to get better results when fishing and gathering, equivalent to increasing drop rates.

The third ability was interesting. It allowed Chen Xiyi to gain a nourishing effect on his Primordial Spirit when eating while his Satiety Level was insufficient. So, eating gave him experience. Unfortunately, it had limitations; it only worked when his Satiety Level was low, and the effect depended on the Satiety Level.

This meant the lower his Satiety Level, the greater the nourishing effect when eating.

“If I find one more Wealth-Beckoning Cat, the bond of Wealth Deities will be complete.”

Chen Xiyi now had the Pi Xiu and the Golden Toad. With one more Wealth-Beckoning Cat, he could gain another bond, and this bond was likely related to various drop rates in the Home Game.

Just thinking about it made him a little excited.

“A threefold enhancement efficiency – am I too weak, or is Thousand Faces too strong?”

If before, without Nourishment Resources, his normal idle experience gain was 1, now with the boost from Thousand Faces, the Five Sense Organ fairies gave him an idle experience gain of 100.

It was like increasing the quantity. If he added the experience multiplier from Nourishment Resources, Chen Xiyi felt his strength would probably inflate even faster.

“Indeed, to play a game, you have to abuse powerful cheats. If I really had to rely on taking one step at a time, when would I ever reach max level?”

The only pity was that he could only enjoy this speed at night. During the day, the efficiency was probably only 70%. But even so, it was still seventy times faster.

Chen Xiyi then realized that the enhancement wasn’t just threefold. After Thousand Faces used Formless Face to enhance all the fairies’ abilities, it then used Dual Aspects of Good and Evil to enhance him three times.

That’s why it was so exaggerated. He had completely misunderstood before.

This also made him realize one thing: groups of fairies that combine with each other are truly terrifying.

The previous Five Sense Organs and Five Senses had made him fully feel this point. But after gaining a face, a qualitative change completely occurred.

If he added the head, body, hands, and feet, wouldn’t that make his strength skyrocket?

Unfortunately, there were no more historical items with complete spirituality in this world.

But the real benefit should be the Three Souls and Seven Spirits. With a soul, Chen Xiyi found that many things seemed clearer now.

It was probably an increase in comprehension.

With a casual gesture, all living beings and Qi mechanisms within a ten-mile radius around him were frozen.

“Qi Manipulation and Spirit Wandering?”

This move was something he achieved by leveraging his Primordial Spirit and soul to produce the greatest effect with the smallest cost.

If it were him before, without a soul and the fairy enhancements, he couldn’t have done this at all.

But now, it was effortlessly easy.

He looked up at the sky. Ji Shan’s Void Heaven Primordial Spirit was as deep as an abyss and as vast as the sea. With just one glance, Chen Xiyi felt a tremendous pressure.

He hadn’t felt it before because his level wasn’t sufficient to perceive this terrifying existence.

It was like ordinary people; they had no idea that what was above wasn’t the sky, but Ji Shan.

Now, after completing Qi Manipulation and Spirit Wandering, an essential ability for a Qi Refiner, Chen Xiyi finally faced Ji Shan’s true Primordial Spirit.

Chen Xiyi’s expression wasn’t good. Even though he felt very powerful, he still realized he was just an ant.

Before, he didn’t feel the pressure because they weren’t on the same level. But now, in terms of Primordial Spirit, Chen Xiyi had gone from a newbie to a true Qi Refiner. Only then did he discover they still weren’t on the same level.

Back then, he couldn’t see it, so there was no pressure. Now, he could clearly feel this terrifying pressure and understood one thing: the gap between him and the Qi Refiners wasn’t just time and years, but also his own self.

‘This is completely beyond the scope of a human. No wonder they invited me back then.’ Chen Xiyi remained silent.

As for plotting against him?

Plotting and inviting didn’t conflict.

Chen Xiyi wondered, if he also abandoned his body in the future, would he become as strange as the Qi Refiners?

Human form no longer constrained him; the Primordial Spirit was the foundation of everything.

‘Wait, before that, it seems I need to have a body, right?’

Chen Xiyi thought of one thing: he didn’t even have a soul before. So was his body really just a body, and not something like a Player or a character?

Thinking of this, he felt a bit shocked.

If this wasn’t his original body, all the unscientific things could be explained.

‘But if I don’t have a body or a soul, then what am I?’

This was the most serious question. He was a traveler, but without a body or soul, what remained? Memories?

‘That’s not right either. Probably the modules fixed the unfinished parts from the game for me, like repairing bugs.’

The Home Game was a sandbox farming game. From the items made and the lifestyle, it definitely didn’t involve things like body or soul. So it was very likely that the three modules complemented each other to make repairs.

This filled in what he was missing by Homesteading it, giving him what he lacked, rather than returning his soul to him. It was like completing attributes and statuses that should have been there but weren’t made before.

“Trash game, ruining my youth.”