All My Professions Have Divine-Level Talents

Chapter 493: Chapter 258: True Level 5

As Lu Cang set up the ritual, he asked calmly, "Why did you interrupt my advancement?"

"I wouldn’t say I interrupted it. I just happened to intercept the souls you were sacrificing."

"As a result, your advancement never happened."

Lu Cang: "So, what about my souls?"

"They were for my use, of course."

"It’s just a shame that before I had the chance to use them, they fell into your hands."

Although An Su couldn’t move freely, Lu Cang still allowed it the right to speak.

"You said you’re not at your peak. If you had gotten my souls, how much of your power would you have recovered?"

An Su replied indifferently, "Less than ten percent. It probably would have temporarily restored about five percent of my peak power."

Its emotions were fluctuating.

But right now, its emotions seemed very strange to Lu Cang. It was as if it had adopted a playful mindset.

Compared to the souls of other creatures, which were so frail they seemed like tiny wisps one could hold in their palm, An Su’s soul was extremely condensed, almost like a real physical body.

It was solid and cohesive, with every minute detail visible.

If not for the vast difference in its aura, one wouldn’t even be able to tell if it was a soul or a living person.

The advancement ritual for the Death Priest began again.

Lu Cang breathed a sigh of relief.

’Good, the previous ritual didn’t count as complete. Otherwise, I would’ve advanced after doing nothing, just by having my souls hijacked.’

’That would have been an empty advancement, not a perfect one.’

Now that all his professions had been perfectly advanced, Lu Cang felt a bit obsessive about it...

’Besides, perfect advancement seems to be a prerequisite for reaching Level 9.’

’If I failed to achieve perfect advancement in any previous stage, I could forget about pursuing Level 9 in this life.’

And as for the Death Priest profession...

’It’s the profession I think has the second-highest chance of reaching Level 9.’

’It’s hard to say for my other professions—Decryption Scholar, Warrior, Prophet—but for Death Priest, my Talent is just too compatible.’

’The profession I think has the best chance of reaching Level 9 is Mage.’

’A Mage’s advancement isn’t affected by any other profession. Plus, I can complete the Root Source and the Laws myself. The difficulty of reaching Level 9 should be much less than the predicament Mages currently face.’

BZZZT!

The original Source of Death formed once again in the sky.

Lu Cang silently made a wish in his heart, not speaking it aloud for An Su to hear.

Lu Cang glanced behind him to make sure the entity wouldn’t try to interfere, then raised his hand and slowly began to sacrifice the souls to the sky.

This time, Lu Cang didn’t release them all at once.

Instead, he released them slowly, in batches of tens of thousands. If An Su suddenly made a move behind him, he could immediately stop and counter. This way, even if the entity wanted to intercept his souls, it wouldn’t be able to grab many.

"Heh, you’re quite cautious."

Lu Cang’s voice was boyish, but it sounded extremely serious. "Yes. I generally prefer to take things slow."

"Are you really a child?"

"Or perhaps... someone who inherited my legacy of Reincarnation?"

Lu Cang continued to sacrifice the souls at a steady pace.

Hearing An Su’s words, he said calmly, "Reincarnation?"

"What’s that?"

An Su: "It is the path I pioneered..."

"And it is the ultimate proof of my ascension to a Level 9 Death Controller."

"Are you interested?"

"Yes, a little. Tell me about it." Lu Cang’s tone remained calm. By maintaining this state, he could at least prevent the entity from analyzing his true thoughts.

Any other deliberate emotional fluctuation, on the other hand, might give it plenty of useful information to analyze.

"You should be able to sense that life and death are intimately related."

"There is only death because there is life."

"But if there is death, must there be life?"

"What truly constitutes the existence of life? And what lies at the end of death?"

An Su’s tone was placid, yet it carried a methodical, captivating temptation.

Lu Cang adjusted his breathing, refusing to be drawn in by its words.

’It seems I need to be wary of its words. It must have studied some form of linguistics that allows it to imbue its speech with a certain allure.’

’However, this allure is limited.’

’It poses no threat to me.’

"Between life and death exists the Undead. They have lost nearly all memories of their past lives, left with only the instincts of the Undead..."

"It is a state of being dead."

"Death, it seems, is the loss of everything."

"And yet, death ultimately leaves something behind."

...

Lu Cang continued the Soul Sacrifice while listening to An Su’s lecture.

’This is the first time I’ve ever heard a sermon on the topic of Death. Previous discussions were mostly about the Root Source of Magic...’

’Aside from that, I haven’t had much exchange regarding my other three professions: Prophet, Warrior, and Decryption Scholar.’

’Chi Cheng may be a Warrior,’

’but his teaching skills are truly worrying.’

’It’s all grunts and groans, ’brute force works wonders,’ ’connect your muscles to your brain,’ and ’intuition over thought.’’

’The first step to learning a Combat Skill from him is to empty your mind.’

’Sigh... That school of thought is completely unsuitable for me.’

Now, he was finally hearing an explanation of a field other than Magic.

Death... the embers of the living, the fading glow of a life, the end of all things, a privilege enjoyed only by those who have lived.

Some of the ideas were quite novel.

Especially the point An Su raised.

It actually believed that death itself was a grand ritual.

This ritual begins the very moment one is born. Everything done in this life is preparation for the final death, and that final death is the answer sheet one turns in for this life.

An easy death is as light as a feather.

A heavy and magnificent death is a testament to the self.

An Su expounded on death, analyzing different kinds of deaths, and... the meaning of death.

In the end, it brought all these interpretations together, like a hundred rivers flowing into one.

Guiding them all toward—Reincarnation.

Life is the beginning of death, death is the beginning of Reincarnation, and Reincarnation is the beginning of new life.

Everything has a beginning and an end!

Within this cycle, there exists a bridge that connects everything. Find it, and the cycle of life, death, and Reincarnation will become endless. Reincarnation becomes eternal life!

...

Lu Cang felt a sudden, thunderous enlightenment!

He felt his understanding of Death and Reincarnation deepen by a great deal.

When An Su finished, it seemed very satisfied with its own lecture, revealing a faint, proud smile. "Well? Do you find Reincarnation interesting?"

"If you want me to teach you the way of life, death, and Reincarnation, it’s not out of the question."

"From then on, like me... you too can live forever, transcending everything in this world."

"Rest assured, I won’t hold it against you for trapping me."

"A small ripple like this is but a tiny splash in the long river of my existence."

Lu Cang looked at the sky.

He had been continuously outputting souls for the sacrifice, and by the time An Su had finished its spiel, he was nearly done, having reached a total of 48 billion.

The process had already lasted an hour and a half.

There wasn’t much time left before the event ended.

’I have to complete my advancement in the time that’s left...’

"No thanks. I’m not interested in Reincarnation."

"I only believe in being invincible in this life. Whether Reincarnation exists or not, as long as I am invincible in this lifetime, that is enough."

’I’m lying...’

’It’s just that I already have Reincarnation.’

Lu Cang had directly quoted a line from *Heaven’s Cover*.

Hearing Lu Cang’s calm reply, An Su was momentarily stunned, but soon smiled. "Interesting."

"You have ambition."

"I’ve seen plenty of prodigies like you, and many geniuses who scorned my method of Reincarnation."

"It’s just a shame that many of them came begging me at the end of their lives."

"A mortal life is fleeting, a single lifetime too short."

"If you don’t strive for eternal life, how much can you truly accomplish?"

"How can a mere few hundred or thousand years of arduous cultivation compare to... millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years of accumulation?"

Lu Cang said nothing, merely gazing at the sky.

’Obviously, I know that.’

’I’d never be arrogant enough to think I’m stronger than everyone else. I just believe I’m a little bit invincible, that’s all.’

"I have followed the principles of Death."

BZZZT!

This time, the feedback from his Spirituality arrived!

Lu Cang rose into the air, bathing in the baptism.

Lu Cang felt his Spirituality surging back wildly, returning to his body.

His level of control and understanding of all his Talents increased.

At the same time, he found that his control over An Su had become even more secure.

Seeing Lu Cang receiving the baptism of Spirituality and the feedback from the Source of Death like an Ascender, An Su’s eyes couldn’t help but narrow slightly.

"Oh... your Spirituality."

"I see now. It seems I misjudged you."

"Your origin is far from simple."

Lu Cang looked up at the sky.

After advancing to a Level 5 Death Priest, he felt as if the entire world had been deconstructed. This place, it turned out, was not a normal space.

’It’s like... I can faintly see the flow of Time.’

’This feeling is truly bizarre to the extreme. Is this really a perspective a three-dimensional being can possess?’

In that instant, Lu Cang understood why, when he moved at high speeds, it would feel like a full second had passed for him, while in reality, only half a second had gone by.

Now, he could see with his own eyes how the scale of Time was being stretched along with his own movement.

’Being able to see it firsthand is so intuitive.’

’Could this be the Otherworld’s theory of relativity?’

’This discovery could probably be published as a few research papers for the White Tower.’

"You say my origin isn’t simple. Why don’t you tell me, what is my origin?"

An Su wasn’t fazed by Lu Cang’s question. Instead, it chuckled and said, "It seems you don’t even know your own origin."

"Since you don’t know, this will be my bargaining chip in our negotiations."

’This old fox.’

’It’s really become a sly old devil.’

Lu Cang: "That’s hardly a bargaining chip. Of course I know my own origin."

"But if you want to treat it like a treasure, I don’t mind."

Lu Cang used Hidden Origin on himself again.

The result was still: born from his mother.

’My origin?’

’My origin is that I’m an Earthling, transported here either by transmigration or random teleportation... My home might be in the Star Realm, or perhaps some small world.’

’The name of the place is in my Talent, but I don’t know where it points to.’

This was all Lu Cang currently knew about his own origin.

The advancement for Death Priest was complete. He was now a Level 5 Death Priest.

Lu Cang slowly descended from his Ascender-like state, as if a god returning to the mortal plane. His eyes were like torches as he met An Su’s gaze.

"An Su."

When Lu Cang called its name, An Su suddenly felt a sense of unease and a tremor run through its entire soul.

Until now, An Su had never felt much of a threat from Lu Cang.

’Death is just death.’

’For an ordinary person, death is indeed the end of their life.’

’But for a Level 9 Death Controller like itself, death was not its final end...’

’If Lu Cang were to kill it,’

’it would, in a way, be a form of fulfillment. The performance of this lifetime would receive its curtain call at Lu Cang’s hands.’

’An answer sheet marked by being killed by another, a mocking and absurd ending to serve as the interpretation of this life. Nothing more.’

’But a threat?’

’Heh, hardly.’

And yet, at this very moment, though he had merely completed an advancement from Level 4 to Level 5, the aura coming from Lu Cang as he met its gaze again was completely different.

Experience born from countless ages told An Su:

it now had to deal with him with the utmost caution.

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