Being resourceful was a weird sentence in the context of a story.
You could have a regular person who perfectly utilized everything they had just before the battle and somehow dragged the entire battle to the climax, where the character pulled out their secret plan.
As for the reason, naturally, it was the last resort which required a heavy price for the character.
It's not just for the convenience of the story, but also to logically approach limiting the character's strength and sudden explosive power.
But what would happen if the character didn't have the limitation of resources in the first place?
Would it be interesting to watch how the character chose to be oblivious to their heaven-defying cheat ability?
It might be a good exercise for the brain to get irritated for the whole ten chapters before finally the story gave feedback of a face slap on the eleventh chapter.
Niu Chang didn't have anything to hide since he just had that many methods up his sleeve. Every once in a while, a group of new skills would be pumped out from his second brain.
Each and every golden core present showed a different reaction. Most of them attacked with their ranged abilities, while some just charged forward all together to gang up on Niu Chang.
The flow of time slowed for Niu Chang; it was his newest creation after being one-sidedly attacked by Heavenly Demon's avatar.
The human body was miraculous, but as much as it was miraculous, it still had limitations for being a living being.
The speed of thinking and the awareness of the mind, in a biological approach, were limited by the brain itself.
No matter how strong the mind was, if the brain said it could only do ten calculations at one time, then it was ten only.
This was the beauty of martial arts, it was to hone the mind and body to improve beyond the innate limit of living beings.
It started from building a good foundation for the body, to adjust it to the optimal state before starting to chart the realm of extraordinariness.
White Afterglow, the first move of Heavenly Sword Technique, was a simple yet complicated move. It used the white heaven as a reference for its name, but that was all there was to it.
The qi contained within Ten Sun Reactors immediately consumed a large amount at an instantaneous rate.
The Sword of Heaven in Niu Chang's hand didn't make a fancy move; it only slashed down normally, but due to his enhanced state, only a handful of people could see what he was doing.
The sword slashed down, but that was all from it; the real attack came from the heaven above everyone's head.
Bright light fell down like a torrent of stream as if the heavenly river poured down pure white light to Shenyi City.
Many were flabbergasted as they saw white filling their vision.
The golden cores immediately took the defensive stance and protected themselves as they were no longer able to sense the outside world with their remaining four senses.
Two seconds later.
The white light dissipated.
The once-filled sky with various immortals and heroes was gone as headless bodies started to fall down.
Some mortals were surprised because they didn't comprehend what just happened. But when they saw someone near their vicinity drop dead with their head and body separated, they immediately freaked out.
"What happened? Why were they beheaded?"
Plop.
As the sound of something hit the ground, they saw the headless body with high-end clothes lying on the ground, and they immediately looked up.
'Gone,' that was what they thought.
"The immortals are gone!" someone shouted in disbelief.
Naturally, some survived, but not for long.
Shen Yi and Shen Yi Gu were still standing in the sky. For the first one, it was because Niu Chang planned something different for him, so it was a shocking development seeing there was actually one person surviving his nuke-like skill.
'Sigh,' he sighed inwardly. 'If it was not due to the restriction of the system, I would just create the most devastating skill instead of this kind of precise area of effect skill. But if I create an explosion type of skill, countless innocent people would only trigger the bad side of the system for me.'
That was just one of the reasons why someone of golden core could survive his White Afterglow.
The other reason was since the target encompassed the whole Shen City, it naturally has less power than when used as a single-target attack.
'But even so, with my second brain that does the overall calculation and energy manipulation together with Massacre on controlling the whole attack, the overall power should be no less than 95% of the original… this young man who looks in his teenage years seems like a genius among people.'
Niu Chang made his judgment as he held the Sword of Heaven to his side.
Shen Yi was stunned for a moment before his gaze scanned his side and found his wife, Shen Yi Yue, was beheaded and her body fell to the ground.
Shen Yi Yue has that surname naturally because of the politics in this world. Without having any background, being a golden core was considered a major sin.
Seeing her body intact, Shen Yi was half relieved, but when he was unable to find her head, he was at a loss.
As a big clan, one of the six major clans, the Shen clan naturally nurtured their own great physician for their use, so any powerful figure in the family could take care of their loved ones with no problem.
But even so, there was a limit to the great physician's healing ability; they could only restore the body but not the soul.
Just like how martial artists seek to become more powerful, those who took the path of a doctor naturally also put their lifelong goal to become the best in their path. That grand goal was to restore the soul of the deceased, a perfect resurrection.
Since it was a great feat, everyone called those who were able to do it as divine physicians to honor their ability to bring back the 'death'.
But, that was only a rumor circulated. Even Mo Qi, as a left-hand person for the Heavenly Demon, never met or actually clarified the existence of a divine physician.
"The work of the soul is the secret of heaven." The Heavenly Demon preached to her and Guo Lanying. "If anyone wants to become a divine physician, then they need to perfect their own soul first before trying to meddle in others' souls. The soul suppression level alone only superficially cultivates the soul and is unable to completely grasp its mysteries. Only when breakthrough to the next level of cultivation the first requirement of becoming a divine physician could be achieved, but for the other requirement, it was another mystery to solve."
Shen Yi's eyes were red with hatred as he turned his gaze back at Niu Chang. Then the next second, the turmoil in his heart started to calm down.
On the other hand, Shen Yi Gu, the teenage boy, was breathing heavily as he tried to heal his body to prevent any more damage to his body.
As someone who is at least normal and has a perfectly functioning brain, naturally, Niu Chang wouldn't create a skill that simply has one-hit skill; there should be a follow-up in case his enemies survived his skill.
'It was the correct thing to do… but this made any battle to be pointless. At least if my enemies are only at the golden core.' Niu Chang lamented at this bland battle.
There was a line circling around Shen Yi Gu's neck that looked like a thin thread made of pure light. They kept increasing their intensity, but Shen Yi Gu's persistent healing prevented it from causing the second attack from White Afterglow.
"If you do not have any explanation then…" Shen Yi said with a heavy voice before changing his tone once again after closing his mouth for a moment. "My Shen clan would destroy your whole heritage, leaving nothing."
But even so, he didn't make any move. Even the sword on his waist no longer showed its intimidation.
"Mortals…" Niu Chang said with slight empathy. "This is the mandate of heaven."
"It is understandable for you to reject it, but it will not change anything. Your anger, frustration, and hatred are just meaningless as your struggle to resist."
"Hahahaha." Shen Yi laughed when he heard how Niu Chang kept saying heaven this and mandate that. His eyes were bloodshot, "you said you are the envoy of heaven carrying its mandate. Then show me the mandate!"
"Your mind is no longer tranquil." Niu Chang shook his head in pity. "Even if I show you the mandate… you wouldn't be able to understand it since you, humans, are mortal beings."
Shen Yi reached his limit and brandished the sword on his waist and lunged forward with no error in his movement.
But he only saw a flicker of golden light before his vision lagged behind and showed his body in front of his eyes, still advancing towards Niu Chang.
In contempt, his eyes are still burning with hatred.
"It's your turn next." Niu Chang said to Shen Yi Gu after he enveloped Shen Yi's head in golden light and made it disappear.