｢Beginning construction of the second exclusive law｣
｢To extract from existing laws, please select from your known abilities｣
｢The selected abilities are as follows: Praise of Dawn and Resistance. Confirm?｣
｢Please determine the ratio of each ability inputted…｣
｢Constructing exclusive law…｣
A series of notices popped up while Gu Nan was operating the game panel in the Evil God Temple. He was currently building an exclusive law and had already entered the waiting stage.
The construction of laws was a very interesting mechanic in the Evil God game.
What kind of laws a player could construct depended entirely on the materials invested and the ratio of the inputted abilities. And the source of the materials was the equipment and skills that players held.
Thus, constructing one's desired law became a science.
Fortunately, Tier 4 was just the beginning of the game, so players were brave enough to experiment—even if they had to scrap the save files entirely, it still wasn't a big loss.
After the blood and tears of countless predecessors, players finally summed up the following three rules:
1. Never invest more than three abilities at a time, or else it'd be no different from buying lottery tickets.
2. The constructed law is related to the types of abilities inputted, but they're not absolutely related.
3. The ratio of inputted abilities is very important! Very important! Very important!
If you throw in too many abilities at once, the final product will be a law that basically has no connection whatsoever to any of the ingredient abilities, and it might even deviate to form a type of ability you'd never imagined.
The final law doesn't depend entirely on the type of abilities thrown in. Just because two high-damage abilities were thrown into the mix doesn't mean the end product will definitely be an attack-type law; it could also be a healing law.
On the other hand, the ratio of inputted abilities was sometimes more important than the invested abilities themselves. The ratio was what truly determined the direction of the end product.
Of course, having said so much, all this was actually meaningless for Gu Nan.
He didn't need to experiment at all. The formula he adopted had naturally been tested countless times in his previous life, and the result was completely certain.
｢Construction of the second exclusive law 'resurrection' has been completed｣
Gu Nan's eyes lit up as he immediately opened his own panel to check. Sure enough, he saw the law of resurrection lying there quietly.
The law of resurrection wasn't actually the law that Gu Nan originally planned for himself, but one that he decided to build at the very last minute after he got Immortal Demon World.
The law of resurrection was derived from the two abilities of "Praise of Dawn" and "Resistance." The name sounded like it had a recovery effect, but in fact, it had nothing to do with recovery.
This law wasn't supposed to be used on Gu Nan himself, but for others!
The correct way to use resurrection was: people Gu Nan killed with the power of shadows or people who had the law of shadows successfully infused into them shortly after their deaths could be resurrected using Shadow Form.
This kind of narrative seemed a little complicated, but it was actually very simple—this was a necromancy law.
As long as Gu Nan personally killed them or discovered their corpses shortly after they died, he could resurrect them as his own shadow clones and command them.
Based on the game, the revived shadow clones would retain their core abilities after resurrection, but besides some special circumstances, most of them wouldn't retain any memories of their former lives.
If a monster had a relatively higher level, it would possess a certain degree of intelligence after resurrection, but this intelligence would come from the law of resurrection and wouldn't have much to do with their actual intelligence while alive.
Gu Nan's will returned to reality. He felt the aura of this new law and revealed a satisfied smile.
"Thanks to this, I won't have to worry about finding enough people to manage the Divine Kingdom."
Of course Gu Nan's decision to build a law of resurrection at the last minute wasn't for fun. His ultimate goal was to run his own Divine Kingdom—reincarnators were ultimately unreliable, and natives were disobedient, so he could only create his own servants.
Actually, the law of resurrection was a little unsuited for players like himself who walked the route of strengthening themselves. Usually, only players who picked summoner playstyles would choose this law.
Because the resurrected servants wouldn't be of much help in combat. They were only used for management.
So Gu Nan actually lost out on a law.
However, if other players had such an opportunity, they would absolutely be willing to do it—this was an opportunity to start running a Divine Kingdom at Tier 4!
It was a pity that he didn't have this law when he killed Lu Zhanyu, Gu Nian, and Stephen before. Otherwise, bringing them back to life would be equivalent to having many subordinates.
...
In a small manor in Wu Gui City, Gu Nan sat leisurely in a rocking chair with a book covering his face.
It was currently noon. Sunlight shone down, making people feel lazy.
More than two months had already passed since that great battle. The world's origin was stabilizing once again, and the turmoil in heaven and earth was gradually recovering.
The chaotic battle, known as the "Great Annihilation," was said to have been an all-out fight between several top-level cultivators. Their battle tore the sky apart, split the earth, and dimmed the sun and moon. Even the sun disappeared for several days.
To the public, Azure Dragon Hall's Hall Master was the final winner of that battle—after all, she was the only one who returned alive.
"Teacher…" Yan Xiaoxiao stood beside Gu Nan and lifted the book covering the latter's face as she said helplessly, "The Yan Dynasty and Celestial Fortune Sect have both announced their surrender. Should we accept them?"
"Of course!" Gu Nan spoke decisively but yawned again. "Try to resolve it peacefully. Don't kill too many people."
Yan Xiaoxiao looked like she'd seen a ghost and gave him an odd look, as if she didn't recognize him.
Gu Nan noticed her gaze and explained, "Even a civilian is worth one basic unit of divine power. What a pity it would be to kill them… You can just understand it as me being merciful and compassionate."
The power of the living creatures inside the Divine Kingdom directly corresponds to the maximum power players can receive from the Divine Kingdom.
And in a good place like Immortal Demon World, Gu Nan could directly extract power from the natives, which meant that he could always get the maximum possible power!
While players didn't have to take NPCs' lives seriously, they were absolutely stingy when it came to their own possessions and would turn on whoever touched their belongings without a second thought.
Of course Yan Xiaoxiao didn't understand his words, but she understood his general meaning. 'Basically, the lives of the populace are useful to Teacher…'
"Are there many cultivators left?" Gu Nan asked.
"There are, but there aren't a lot of powerful ones left, especially Prodigious cultivators…" Yan Xiaoxiao gave him a strange look as she answered.
She knew better than anyone else just whose hand those powerful cultivators died in.
"I see." Gu Nan frowned a little. "Then we can only find a way to raise them again."
Yan Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up. "Those reincarnators from earlier left behind a lot of cultivation methods. If we establish a unified country and carry out a plan to raise cultivators with our national power, the strength of cultivators will certainly improve quickly!"
As the ruler of Azure Dragon Hall for over 20 years, Yan Xiaoxiao had certainly considered this problem before.
She'd even thought about what kind of system she would set up if she ever got to own a unified empire, so as to achieve the best effect of promoting talents and getting the largest number of core forces.
"No, we don't need a unified empire." But Gu Nan clearly didn't intend to use her suggestion.
Gu Nan looked at her and asked, "Do you know which place produces the largest number of powerful experts?"
Yan Xiaoxiao stared blankly. Her years of experience meant she wasn't ignorant. Subconsciously, she answered, "The battlefield…"
"That's right. It's battlefields, not schools."