Sand City was handed over to Slymod to take care of its operations, and Lu Yao would occasionally take a look at it.
This only city in Cloud Temple gradually came to life under the greenery and construction of the Uzi, Ghosts, Pixies and Squirrel Crawlers.
Although there were still not many residents here, both the trees and roses planted and the settled population continued to increase.
Some of the transcendents who participated in the Martial Arts Conference chose to stay and settle down.
In the vast and massive Vortex World, a small city could not make any waves and could only be considered a seed.
Lu Yao’s main focus was still on tinkering with the world backstage.
In the rule test area he had delineated, there were often strange phenomena: sometimes the sand poured into the air, leaving bottomless holes in the ground; sometimes the lightning flashed and thunder roared, but the rainfall was shivering.
Most of the time, the place was a mist to avoid outside prying eyes.
Lu Yao had gained a great deal of experience in failures, eliminating some operations and means that he thought were feasible but were actually very wrong.
A predecessor had said that adaptation was not messing around.
Among the various rule adaptation attempts, the only item Lu Yao had made progress on was the Cloud Transforming Monk.
His original plan was to strip the Cloud Transforming Monks, who were bound and fused by the power of the rules, from the abstract rule of clouds by modifying the numerous words and descriptions in the rules, so that this group could regain their freedom and autonomy.
Lu Yao selected the first Cloud Transforming Monk and directly deleted the [Rule Projection] from its ability.
Then this Cloud Transforming Monk directly turned into a cloud, and even the shadow of his past completely disappeared.
Failure.
Lu Yao made another fine-tuning, replacing the [Cloud] in the Cloud Transforming Monk’s ability with [Mist Elemental].
This change caused the second Cloud Transforming Monk’s body to rapidly thin and spread out, turning into a pale fog giant that swung from side to side in the wind, like an inflatable doll in front of a shop.
Failure.
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After a series of trial and errors, Lu Yao finally tried it out, and the best part to start with was [Undead].
After deleting this ability, the Cloud Transforming Monk resumed speaking.
It was just that the influence of the power of the rules was already deep, and the words they spoke were often upside down and inconsistent. The Chemical Cloud Monks were unable to hear the words and feedback of others, as if they were locked in a confined world of their own.
The few cloud-forming monks in the experimental area each spoke their own words.
“Cloud, go towards the cloud …… Above the cloud, the eggs are delicious.”
“I called, I called, I called …… I forgot.”
“Hit hit hit! Fight fight fight! I just want to fight yada yada yada ah!”
“Where’s my stick, where did my stick go? That was a good stick. A very good, very good stick, very straight. I’ve searched for years to find such a stick.”
“Soaring, soaring, all of them. People want to fly, chickens want to fly, dogs want to fly, rats don’t want to fly, rats all deserve to die ……”
Lu Yao wanted to help them completely return to normal, but he could not succeed in any way.
No matter how the words were changed, descriptions were added, or even a multi level word re-association was performed in the background, they all quickly failed.
Under the influence of the successive rules, the Cloud Transforming Monks became different in character.
Some still do not offend me, some are full of aggression, and others only know how to run when attacked …… In short, it was restored in terms of individual diversity.
After losing the [Undead] trait, the Cloud Transforming Monks would often display incomprehensible behaviour.
Lu Yao had seen that one Huan Yun Monk suddenly started bullying and beating another Huan Yun Monk.
After fighting for a while, the two sides switched places again, and the aggressor became the battered again, both sides faithfully playing their roles, the one who was beaten would never fight back, and when it was time to strike, they would definitely strike hard.
In addition to this, there was an even more serious phenomenon.
The Cloud Transforming Monk would collapse on itself without warning, turning into a large mass of clouds, like a pillow that had been torn open, with all the white cotton inside emerging.
Lu Yao tinkered back and forth, getting a little burnt out.
He gritted his teeth and finally got the hang of it.
Deleting a phrase itself will cause a chain reaction, and the subsequent butterfly effect is difficult to judge and predict.
The best way was not to roughly delete it, but to replace it with another related phrase, completing a smooth closure on the rules.
Lu Yao searched for a long time in the [Undead] associated words tree diagram and found a suitable one.
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【Fair Duel】: will only initiate a duel against an evenly matched enemy, everything the loser has will be taken by the winner, the duel acquisition effect is related to the level of this ability.
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While this is an attack trait, it’s considered the most conservative and safe on the shortlist.
The rest were the likes of [Self Explosion], [Illusion in the Clouds], and [Symbiosis], and the lethality and destructiveness that each ability could cause was much stronger.
Lu Yao had another consideration.
Since the Cloud Transforming Monks couldn’t go back to the past, let them walk into the future in another way.
The [Fair Duel] allowed the Cloud Transforming Monks to have an active offensive nature, but they only initiated duels against Transcendents with similar strengths, and most of them were at LV20 or below, which didn’t have much of an impact.
Representing the old era, they would validate the new era of Transcendents.
For safety’s sake, Lu Yao had fine-tuned the range of activities of the Cloud Transforming Monks so that they wouldn’t hang out near Sand City and become qualified Old Age Wild Monster Elites.
Slymod also informed the Transcendents in the city of the changes in the Chemical Cloud Monks, telling them not to face off with them without certainty.
After repeated piloting proved feasible, Lu Yao then completely deleted the [Chemical Cloud Monk] main phrase of the entire Vortex World, and tens of thousands of Chemical Cloud Monks regained their initiative.
The ability levelling modification consumed 50,000 Flames of Faith, an acceptable cost.
Lu Yao overlooked the outside of Sand City.
Soon enough, the first LV21 Transcendent was initiated into a duel by a LV20 Cloud Transforming Monk, and both sides were surrounded by a ring of clouds that shielded them from external influences.
Both were divided into high and low, as well as deciding life and death.
In the end, the Yao Transcendent was defeated and killed.
His corpse slowly turned into a large, large cloud that merged into the body of the Cloud Transformation Monk.
“I am …… I am …… Hunting Tail?”
“Hunting Tail is him, it’s me ……”
“Someone at home is waiting for me, someone is waiting for me to return …… It’s a woman, who is she?”
Monk Huan Yun muttered, walking aimlessly forward.
The same situation continued to play out outside of Sand City.
There were duels that were won by the Chemical Cloud Monk, and there were those that were won by the Yao Clan.
After being killed by a duel, the Chemical Cloud Monk would similarly turn into white smoke and merge into the winner’s body. It contained part of the power of the Chemical Cloud Monk, as well as their vague and confusing memories.
Regardless of who wins or loses, they will carry both parties’ pasts and identities with them as they move on.
Aside from dueling with the Yao Clan, the Chemical Cloud Monks would also trigger [Fair Duel] amongst themselves, as they similarly competed to see who was the better warrior and who was more qualified to represent the old days.
What Lu Yao hadn’t expected was that the change in the Huan Yun Monks had in turn caused the challenge fervour of the Transcendents in Sand City. Those Martial Cultivators who stayed behind after the Martial Arts Congress, each and every one of them practiced diligently and hard just to be able to fight against the outside world’s Cloud Transforming Monks.
The atmosphere of cultivation and cutting in Sand City became thick.
The result of this manual revamp made Lu Yao very satisfied.
The side of individual Limit Stream Transcendents had to go the way of the winners and the losers, they were the group that sprinted to the upper limit of Yao’s Transcendents, and the only way to bring motivation and creativity was to be between true life and death.
Lu Yao unwrapped a bag of lime flavoured crisps and ate it while watching the life and death duel outside Sand City.
After not watching for a while, a line of words surfaced on the screen.
[Yao Clan has discovered a Black Demon Fossil.]]
[Yao Clan has discovered an unknown fossil.]]
Black Demon Fossil?
Lu Yao flipped open the backstage to check. Sure enough, it was the fossils of the Black Devil’s body under the desert after his death.
This place, Cloud Temple, even the Black Devils couldn’t survive.
Lu Yao clicked on the second entry.
The one who found the unknown fossil was a Wu Ji man. Deep underground in the desert, he dug out a dried up giant claw covered in blue crystals, which was similar in size to a small Earthbound Boat.
Lu Yao used the [Spell of True Sight] to aim at this claw fossil.
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[Blue Dragon’s Right Foreclaw]: the right forelimb of the Blue Dragon Tirith, although it has dried up, it still contains the unique power of the Dragon Race.
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Lu Yao was puzzled.
Why would a dragon leave its claws in the Cloud Temple?
He clicked to try and found that he couldn’t get it into the props bar yet.
Lu Yao asked the local Living Fossil Knowing Monk.
“Little Monk doesn’t know either, this should have happened before the Cloud Transforming Monk and the Sand Walker.”
The Knowing Monk didn’t lie.
However, Lu Yao suspected that it might have overlooked some details.
Lu Yao gave it a slight description of the dragon.
“Dragon? Little Monk has never left the Cloud Temple and doesn’t know about things like dragons ……”
“But there are similar claws and tails under the desert, the number is not small, Little Monk has seen them occasionally, but I didn’t care, they are all dead things.”
There are more?
Lu Yao was a bit confused.
There were actually dead specimens of dragons hidden under the Divine Kingdom.
What exactly did this Cloud Cui Guest do?
