Chapter 297 Dark Synchrony, Communicating with the Evil Deep in the Heart!
Beside Yu Cang, a half-dragon headhunter suddenly turned into a torrent of information and crashed into the anchor ring. Immediately afterwards, Aqiu's "scholarly self" appeared here.
Aqiu is now just a companion soul. Since Duan Feng is not at Ancient Capital University, Aqiu can only stay in the Xingtian Vision and cannot interfere with the real world. It is precisely because of this that he needs Yu Cang's help to conduct experiments.
The painting "Scholarly Self" that Ren Zheng made some time ago could just be a good opportunity for Aqiu to come to the real world and get some fresh air.
"Yu Cang, you're here." Aqiu said, "I did some more calculations yesterday. Don't worry, I won't waste too much of your time."
"Yeah." Yu Cang nodded. "It's okay, Aqiu, we still have a lot of time... Tell me your ideas first."
"Okay." Aqiu thought for a moment, then said, "Your Star Level Theory mentioned that Star Level is the distance between the Soul Card and the Soul Energy Well. I completely agree with this point of view.
“In the Soul Card system, the more powerful the Soul Card, the farther away from the Soul Energy Well it should be placed, so that it can exist stably.
"So, Synchronization is to compress and summarize high-level Soul Cards into low-level 'Adjustments' first, then inject energy using the Star Injection method, allowing the adjustments to leap further away from the Soul Energy Well. In this process, the Soul Cards in the Extra Deck are used to guide the corresponding changes.
"And this subtractive synchronization... the principle is different. It might seem like subtractive synchronization is just the first step in synchronization, summarizing the Soul Card's star reduction into an adjustment, but that's not entirely true. Adjustment is a card-making process, but synchronization is a summoning process. During this process, the summoned beast's star rank is reduced, releasing a large amount of energy.
"According to common calculations, all this energy would be absorbed and carried away by the 'Non-Adjustment' card. My question now is, after this Soul Card puts this energy into death cooling, will any changes occur... Is it possible to use this energy to do something?"
Yu Cang nodded.
This is indeed something that cannot be understood by calculation alone.
"Then I'll do a subtraction test first."
Yu Cang took out two soul cards and summoned a fifth-level half-dragon headhunter and a third-level gray-white dragonborn in turn.
He raised his hand and began to operate according to the pre-calculated steps.
Adjusted by the Half-Dragon Headhunter, subtracting three levels from the fifth level, theoretically a second-level summoned beast can be summoned.
"Hmm?" Yu Cang suddenly frowned.
"What's wrong?" Aqiu asked quickly.
“…Failed.”
Ah Qiu was stunned: "How could it be?"
Yu Cang shook his head: "Half-dragon headhunting doesn't seem to be an adjustment."
This is strange.
He had been studying Synchro Summoning for quite some time. Before coming here, he had made some fine-tuning to this Half-Dragon Headhunter to ensure that it could be Synchro Summoned.
Logically speaking, there is absolutely no possibility of a situation where adjustments cannot be made.
Ah Qiu naturally knew this, so he didn't ask if it was a problem with the Soul Card. He just scratched his head and said, "Could it be that my calculations are wrong...?"
In his opinion, Yu Cang was definitely more reliable than him, and there was absolutely no way there would be any problems with the experimental materials he brought.
However, Yu Cang gave the opposite answer.
"No, your calculations are very accurate. There must be something wrong with my material."
"Ah?" Aqiu was stunned.
Yu Cang pondered and continued, "That's not accurate...Aqiu, have you ever thought about one thing?"
"What?"
"That is..." Yu Cang turned his head, "Have you ever thought that the meaning of Star Rank is the distance between the Soul Card and the Soul Energy Well? Then, when we use Synchro to forcibly shorten this distance, what does this process actually mean?"
"Yes..." Aqiu frowned, "Close the distance? No, since you ask me this, it must not be that simple, then..."
Aqiu suddenly stopped, looked at the two summoned beasts on the field, and blinked: "Could it be... But if that's the case, my calculation is wrong..."
"It's just a slight deviation in direction, not a mistake." Yu Cang smiled lightly, "Then, if this subtraction synchronization is like this..."
Yu Cang took out several soul cards from the card box, and after a series of operations, he summoned a Source Eye Chaos Dragon.
Aqiu raised his eyebrows slightly: "This is..."
"That's right. Thanks to the Chaos Dragon Egg Rhythm you provided me that day, I was able to create this Soul Card." Yu Cang said, "Of course, I made some improvements."
"...I hope Duan Feng won't scold me in the future."
Yu Cang: "Alright, now... use the Source Eye Chaos Dragon as an adjustment and have it perform a subtraction synchronization with the Half-Dragon Headhunter!"
Level six minus five levels!
This time, there was finally a response.
Countless red rings emerged from the void, constantly reorganizing and combining in mid-air, and finally gathered into one.
Buzz!
The red ring collapsed into a star-level object and transformed into a small summoned beast.
"Success." Yu Cang smiled.
This new summoned beast before him was only at the first level. Logically, it should be very weak. It was hard to say whether it could even defeat an ordinary person. But… for some reason, whenever Aqiu faced it, he could always feel a strange pressure permeating his heart. Inexplicably, he felt a strong sense of threat.
"It..." Aqiu opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
"Hold on."
Yu Cang took out a blank soul card and a formation writing pen. After writing for a while, a white soul card appeared in his hand.
The Soul Card depicted a small, young dragon-like summoned beast, curled up in a ball, its eyes tightly closed. Atop its forehead, a crystal structure appeared to be embedded, radiating a cross-shaped glow.
Soul Card Name: Emperor Heart Dragon
Category: Summon Card
Star level: Level 1
Quality: Synchronic
Attributes: None
ability:
[Heart Source]: When used by Yu Cang, this Soul Card can replace any Fusion Material within the Will Range. Soul Cards fused with this Soul Card possess [Dragon Might] and [Dragon Breath], and can also increase Light and Dark attributes.
[Fusion of Will]: When the user is Yu Cang, it is activated after sacrificing itself, and merges with any target within the range of will.
…
Looking at the soul card in his hand, Yu Cang was silent for a moment.
This Soul Card's ability is quite fake. Not only can it replace any material, but it's also a "Fusion." Furthermore, judging by its description, the scope of this "Fusion of Will" is extremely broad, encompassing Soul Cards in the deck, on the field, on cooldown, even disconnected and in the Extra Deck.
This kind of outrageous ability shouldn't appear in a first-level soul card.
But Yu Cang had no time to be surprised by the ability of this soul card. His mind was now completely immersed in the feeling of that moment.
Beside him, Aqiu opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but seeing that Yu Cang seemed to have entered a state of enlightenment, he tactfully did not disturb him and quietly stepped aside.
At this time, Yu Cang had already closed his eyes.
"What on earth just happened..."
At the moment when he was performing subtractive synchronization, he seemed to sense countless malicious intentions. Although the malicious intentions were fleeting, he could feel that the malicious intentions were endless, as if there was no end.
When he was performing subtractive synchronization, his perception of malice was not clear, but when he followed his perception to create this "Emperor's Heart Dragon", he once again sensed malice, and this time, the malice seemed to turn into an ocean, as real as substance before his eyes.
"...Where does this malice come from?" Yu Cang frowned.
The strange thing is that despite the endless malice, I feel no aversion or hostility towards this malice in my heart. This is a terrifying thing to think about.
Could it be...
Yu Cang looked at the "Emperor's Heart Dragon" in his hand.
He was silent for a moment, and many speculations flashed through his mind, and he seemed to realize something.
"I see."
"Hmm?" Aqiu asked quickly, "What? Did you find anything?"
"Aqiu, my guess is correct." Yu Cang raised his head. "Subtractive Synchronization is the process of forcibly pulling the star rank of a soul card into the soul energy well. During this process, the soul card will release a large amount of energy due to the reduction in star rank, but this energy will not enter any soul card, but will be injected into the soul energy well!"
"Injected into the soul energy well?" Aqiu was stunned. "What happens after that? What effect does this energy have?"
Yu Cang said firmly: "It's excavation."
"Dig?"
"That's right," Yu Cang continued. "In subtractive synchronization, the 'Adjustment' Soul Card is like drilling a well. The other Soul Cards use their Star Ranks to pump energy into the Soul Energy Well, thereby stimulating the original power contained deep within the soul. This power spontaneously joins the summoning process, allowing the final summoned beast to generate various magical powers."
He showed the Emperor's Heart Dragon to Aqiu.
"Just like this Soul Card... it represents the power deep within my soul, related to 'Fusion Will'. Or to put it another way, this Soul Card materializes abstract things like 'skills' and 'talents' within me.
"For this reason, the lower the star rank of this soul card, the closer it is to my soul energy well, and the stronger its ability will be."
"I see!" Ah Qiu suddenly realized, "This is beyond my expectations... So, this summoning method also has a lot of room for maneuver?"
"That's true... but, as you probably expected, this summoning method also has significant limitations."
Yu Cang paused, then continued, "First of all, this summoning method is essentially the manifestation of one's own power, so... ordinary Soul Card Masters definitely can't use it. Even some students with lower grades in the Soul Card Master Academy may not be able to use it."
There is no doubt about this.
It has been a while since Yu Cang comprehended the fusion will. During this period, he has tried to guide others to learn this thing, but unfortunately, there has been basically no gain.
This technique is extremely difficult to comprehend, and the difficulty has nothing to do with strength. Even a level 6 or 7 soul card master would be confused when faced with this technique.
The main thing is, there is no way - it is not like other skills that can be learned step by step from zero to one hundred. It requires you to take one step from zero to one hundred, and when most people reach "zero", they can't even see which direction one hundred is, let alone take a step.
The difficulty and intensity are equal. Once you understand the fusion will, you will indeed have many advantages in actual combat.
The reason why Emperor Heart Dragon can be so powerful is precisely because of this powerful technique.
If it were any other technique... the strength wouldn't be this high. If the strength was average, then using two or more summoned beasts would be a huge loss.
As for soul card masters with average talent, they may not even have mastered a few combat techniques, so it is difficult for them to perform well.
Furthermore, even if you have enough power to support subtraction synchronization, it's not that simple. If you don't master this technique well enough, the summoned beast will still be weak.
In addition to the strength of your own skills, the strength of this summoned beast is also related to factors such as your own willpower, sense of belief, etc. This is mysterious. In short, even if different people use the same skills to summon, the final strength of the summoned beast will be very different.
The power of the Subtractive Synchro Summoned Beast comes from itself. This feature alone means that this summoning method is destined to become a toy for the strong.
It is precisely because of this that the two abilities of Emperor Xinlong can only be used by Yu Cang himself.
"Another point..." Yu Cang continued, "Not all Soul Cards can be used as 'adjustments' for this kind of Synchro. Subtractive Synchro is a process of digging deep into the Soul Energy Well. 'Adjustments', as a drilling rig, must have a high degree of compatibility with you. Otherwise, failure is certain."
In order to draw the soul card of the Source Eye Chaos Dragon, Yu Cang spent a lot of thought and used all his knowledge, skills and even the entry recorder before he succeeded. It can be said that, to some extent, it is the embodiment of his own fusion will.
In comparison, the half-dragon headhunting did not involve as much effort as Yu Cang, nor could it represent any of Yu Cang's power, so it could not be used as an adjustment.
This kind of adjustment... is quite difficult to find. If you don't look for it yourself as a card maker, but just expect others to make cards for you, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
This makes subtractive synchronization even more difficult to use.
"I see..." Aqiu nodded, "This is completely different from what I expected."
When he first discovered this summoning method, he thought it was just a small fry among small fry. Exchanging multiple high-level soul cards for a low-level small fry, how could there be such a stupid summoning method.
But after Yu Cang conducted experiments, this summoning method suddenly changed and became exclusive to the strong... No matter what, the increased strength is indeed a good thing.
"Then, Yu Cang," Aqiu continued, "is this what you were thinking about just now?"
"That's not the case," Yu Cang explained. "The moment the subtraction synchronization was successful, I sensed an enormous amount of malicious intent... Normally, when people sense such malicious intent, they would instinctively feel fear or disgust, but I didn't have such a thought."
"Malice?" Aqiu blinked. "If we follow the principle of subtractive synchronization... perhaps this malice comes from deep within the human heart? Is it only aroused when tapping into the power of the Star Level?... But that's not right. If that's the case, the amount of malice shouldn't be as much as you describe."
Since Yu Cang used the word "huge number", it meant that it was definitely a lot. If it were anyone else, it would be fine, but in Aqiu's mind, Yu Cang was a saintly pioneer of humanity. In his eyes, even if Yu Cang had some malicious intentions, he would never use this adjective.
"...No, Aqiu, that malice comes from within me." Yu Cang frowned and pondered, "Otherwise, if this malice came from anywhere else, I wouldn't be so completely disgusted... In fact, it's precisely because I'm aware of the source of this malice that I'm convinced of the principle of subtractive coherence."
Aqiu scratched his head: "Is that so..."
"Well... maybe this isn't such a bad thing, though."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Yu Cang thought for a moment before saying:
"It's simple—if we delve deeper into subtractive synchronization, perhaps this malicious intent will become part of this power."
Ah Qiu was stunned: "You mean..."
"That's right." Yu Cang said, "Right now, the star rank of this Emperor Heart Dragon is level one, which is theoretically the closest level to the Soul Energy Well. But... what if I go a step further and use a higher-level non-adjusted Soul Card to adjust it?
"Will there be soul cards of 'zero-level' or even negative star levels? Beings that are zero distance from the soul energy well, or even existing within it... This isn't just borrowing, it's directly unleashing the power hidden deep within.
"The strength of this power is actually hard to determine. But if this level of malice still lurks deep within people, then perhaps its power is indeed worth anticipating."
Ah Qiu had obviously figured this out too. His eyes lit up. "Really? Then let's get started, shall we?"
But Yu Cang shook his head: "Not yet."
"Hmm? Why?"
"Reducing it to level one is already the limit of the Source Eye Chaos Dragon. After all, this soul card only represents a portion of my power, not all of it. If I want to reach level zero or even deeper, I need a 'drill' that can better represent myself."
"I see..."
"Why that expression?" Yu Cang said with a smile, "This summoning method is very powerful. You discovered him, so give him a name."
"Uh... forget it." Aqiu waved his hand. "Yu Cang, you said my calculations were correct... but they are clearly completely different. If you weren't here today, this summoning method would definitely not be perfected. Besides, this is just a variation of Synchro Summoning. You should come up with the name."
"Okay then." Yu Cang didn't refuse any further. "Then let's call it 'Dark Synchrony'."
"Okay!" Aqiu said, "When you have a paper, don't forget to give me a second author."
"What are you talking about? One work, two works at the same time!"
…
Later
Yu Cang came to the Ice City.
"You're here, Yu Cang." The princess was adjusting something.
The Cognitive Insect Breeding Program is very successful. Stardust will use a specific rhythm combined with some scraps from the production of lepton to make industrial lepton. Feeding Cognitive Insects with this industrial lepton can speed up their growth to a certain extent.
The insects attracted last time have been cultivated for a while and have now almost reached a stable period.
The Ice City is now able to produce spirit particles stably and is a qualified breeding farm.
In fact, the princess was relieved about this.
To be honest, although she has learned a lot of knowledge, but breeding and identifying insects... As a princess, she definitely has no chance of doing such things as breeding!
Therefore, Ms. Wang was still a little unsure whether the breeding could be successful.
If the breeding fails and a large number of insects die, it will be difficult to find the third wave of insects.
Fortunately, it seems to be very successful now. Even if there are some problems, she has figured them out and solved them.
"What's the situation now?" Yu Cang asked.
"Not bad." The princess nodded. "The Wisdom Insect Identifier can now go out on its own to look for talent. I've tried releasing some of them over the past few days, and they're very stable. There shouldn't be any problems."
"That's good." Yu Cang paused and said, "Xingchen, there is something I want to ask you."
The princess immediately stopped what she was doing and looked up at Yu Cang.
"you say."
"Well, I just discovered a kind of subtractive synchronization..."
Yu Cang told the princess everything about the experiment he had just done.
She thought seriously for a moment before saying:
"Yu Cang, I don't have a deep understanding of your Soul Card Master system, so I can't help you with the knowledge of Synchro Summoning. But I know that when you tell me this, you actually want to ask about Huang, right?"
Yu Cang nodded: "Yes."
"Regarding the principle of how the wilderness infects people, the Empire actually doesn't have a completely accurate explanation." Stardust shook his head. "However, there is a mainstream theory I can share with you—
"Under the starry sky, every tribe, every life, has a concept of 'good and evil.' Wisdom is like a knife, separating good from evil. The good rises to the surface, nurturing order. The evil sinks to the surface, giving rise to desire.
"No matter what kind of life there is, good and evil should be balanced, all limited by wisdom. However, desolation will disrupt this balance. It will expand evil without limit and continue to suppress good, until a certain moment, allowing your inner desires to completely take over your entire being. Because the evil thoughts originate from yourself, theoretically no being can resist this infection.
"Until the balance between good and evil is lost among all life in a world, the 'Way of Heaven' of that world will also become unbalanced, leading to its extinction. In this theory, the so-called 'Desolate Crystal' within the Desolate Beast is actually the 'good' part, along with some spiritual power, infinitely suppressed."
The princess thought for a moment and continued, "Of course, this theory is just one person's opinion and isn't necessarily true. After all, even intelligent AI, which theoretically has no emotions, can be infected... But the explanation of good and evil in it is very interesting and very suitable to describe the situation you are facing.
"Yu Cang, from observing you these past few days, I have a feeling." The princess looked directly into Yu Cang's eyes, "Perhaps your tribe's 'Soul Energy Well' acts as a 'lock'. It can completely lock away some uncontrollable things. This way, even if you are infected by the wilderness, you will not be completely controlled by desire."
Yu Cang seemed to understand something.
"So... what I felt during the Dark Synchrony was the 'evil' deep within me? If I could find a way to reduce my star rank to a negative number, wouldn't that allow me to summon my 'Huang' self?"
"...My intuition tells me that it shouldn't be." The princess shook her head. "Anyway, this is just one of the theories. How you judge it is up to you, Yu Cang."
"……I see."
The princess was about to say something when suddenly her expression changed.
She looked to the side and exclaimed softly, "This... Yu Cang, the insect I released earlier seems to have found someone with enough talent to learn spirit particles!"
Yu Cangyi raised his eyebrows: "Really? Who?"
"His name is... Wenren Ge?"
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(End of this chapter)
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