Chapter 322: 322
After Lin Shen was injected with the Enduring Humiliation Stealing Life Serum, he appeared to be dead.
Evolution Theory also stopped functioning because of this; naturally, a dead man could not continue to evolve, yet his various innate skills did not cease to function.
Super Base Change, Super Base Pattern, and Super Base Recast continued to operate slowly, and his shattered carapace and flesh were slowly being repaired and recast.
The Immortality Scripture replaced Evolution Theory, putting Lin Shen's body into a peculiar state.
Though he showed no signs of life, his organs were not rigid, as if time had lost its effect on Lin Shen.
The carapace, shattered during Super Base Change, should have rapidly completed the hardening process, but remained in a melting phase, neither regressing nor entering the final cooling stage.
The Super Base Pattern continued to absorb the World's Force, and within the Resting Forest of the Deceased, the World's Force it could draw far exceeded the usual.
Super Reconstitution continued to function non-stop, repairing and recasting Lin Shen's injured body and carapace, but this process also became unusually slow.
The Enduring Humiliation Stealing Life Serum kept Lin Shen in this delicate process, endlessly repeating the cycle of absorption, repair, and recasting.
After repeated repairs and recasting, Lin Shen's body and carapace seemed to undergo some strange changes.
Normally, after Super Base Change was completed, the recast carapace would return to normal, but because the Super Base Change had not finished, the carapace remained in that recast state, with the World's Force drawn by the Super Base Pattern being repeatedly cast into the flesh and carapace.
As time passed day by day, Lin Shen's flesh and carapace, after being forged and refined over and over, became incredibly tough.
Although Lin Shen should have awakened long ago, he remained in a coma due to the effects of the Enduring Humiliation Stealing Life Serum, and had not yet come to.
The Enduring Humiliation Stealing Life Serum, intended for use when a Nirvana Being is promoted, only played an assisting role, but its effects were still too domineering for a Mutator, and this state would continue until the full effects of the serum were released.
Fortunately, he was in the Resting Forest of the Deceased, where the Mist of Repose lingered. Unless someone approached him, it would be impossible to discover him.
Days turned into many, and finally, Xiaoye and Xiaona realized something was amiss.
Lin Shen's body was fully repaired, and his carapace, after being repeatedly recast, was brilliantly lustrous, as pure as crystal without a hint of impurity.
The mysterious glyphs within the carapace shone as bright as stars.
But Lin Shen just would not wake up; there was not a single sign of life, as if he were a dead person.
"Sis, why hasn't he woken up yet? Could something be wrong?" Xiaona, looking at Xiaoye, who was examining Lin Shen's body, asked with some worry.
"His body is perfectly normal; the injuries and the carapace have been repaired and are even healthier than before. The reason he has not awakened yet could be because the effects of the Enduring Humiliation are too strong and he is too weak. Let's wait a bit longer," Xiaoye said with seeming calmness.
She couldn't figure out what was going on with Lin Shen, so she could only comfort Xiaona like this.
The two waited day after day, but Lin Shen still did not manage to awake.
Fei Zai remained by Lin Shen's side, as days passed by.
Then one day, Lin Shen's brilliantly resplendent carapace suddenly cooled rapidly, turning so luminous that it was difficult to look directly at it. In an instant, black vapor rose from it, as if it was taking away all impurities from his body.
Both the carapace and Lin Shen's body became as clear and flawless as crystal. Due to the purity, they appeared as if the space around them was twisted. Even the gaze passing through the crystalline form warped, making it impossible to penetrate, leaving only a form that flickered like Silver Crystal.
Whoosh!
Lin Shen suddenly took a deep breath. His body, which had been lying rigidly, suddenly sat up, and his eyes opened too.
As Lin Shen awoke and inhaled, the Immortality Scripture ceased to operate, and the innate skills no longer functioned. The Mist of Repose enveloped Lin Shen's body once more, but he didn't feel any discomfort.
"It seems that Ye Ya didn't manage to find me," Lin Shen surveyed his surroundings, only able to see the pervasive fog.
"What's going on?" Lin Shen discovered his carapace shimmered like Silver Crystal, seemingly still in a Super-Base form. He tried to stop the Super Base Change, but found that it was not activated.
This situation left Lin Shen somewhat baffled. Once Super Base Change stopped, his carapace should have returned to its normal state, but now the appearance of his carapace was clearly post-Super Base Change, yet with some differences.
Lin Shen hurriedly checked his watch, and after seeing the personal information displayed, he couldn't help but feel ecstatic inside.
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User: Super-Base Crystal-based Creature (evolvable)
Strength: 67 (+41).
Speed: 41 (+41).
Hardness: 41 (+41)
Toughness: 41 (+41).
Base Mutation Rate: One hundred percent.
Theoretical Vitality Limit: 400 (+400).
Base Change Talents: Super Base Change, Super Base Pattern, Super-Base Recast, Super Base Form.
Lin Shen found that he had gained a new Base Change Talent called Super Base Form, which astonishingly remained in an active state.
Super Base Form: All attributes increase by their current level's limit, all Base Change Talents are enhanced under Super Base Form, the theoretical vitality limit is doubled, and Super Base Form loses the original lifeform's characteristics.
Apart from not understanding what losing the original lifeform's characteristics meant, the other attributes and features of these skills left him feeling unbelievably insane.
This was the unlimited Celestial Descent, which could compete with Wei's Phoenix Mystique without being constrained like the Phoenix Mystique, making it incredibly powerful.
Lin Shen immediately tested it out, activating Super Base Change, Super Base Pattern, and Super-Base Recast while in Super Base Form; the innate skills were significantly more powerful than before, and not just by a little.
However, despite the increase in Super Base Change's effects, the energy consumption also became much greater. Fortunately, the Super Base Pattern's ability to draw from the World's Force also became stronger, barely keeping up with the consumption; the duration, though, did not extend.
Nevertheless, this still made Lin Shen so excited he nearly jumped for joy.
Using Base Change Talents while in Super Base Form, Lin Shen felt he could suppress Cosimo, who was not using Celestial Descent, even without relying on the Sacrificial Halo.
Even if Cosimo deployed Celestial Descent, he wasn't entirely without a fighting chance.
Of course, that would require the aid of skill and equipment.
After a few more trials, Lin Shen roughly understood the meaning of losing the original lifeform's characteristics.
Under Super Base Form, Lin Shen's flesh and blood also turned into the same state as his carapace, resembling a pure Base Variant Creature, losing the flesh and blood body typical of a human.
This seemed to be a good thing for Lin Shen.
Typically, a creature's carapace is stronger than its flesh, like how Wei was able to use his strength to attack through the carapace directly into the flesh, which is very effective against some advanced Humanoid Lifeforms.
But in Super Base Form, Lin Shen was uniform inside and out, rendering the power that could penetrate through bodies ineffective against him.