The effect of the essence-based reward/punishment is: permanently depletes 1% of one's own essence, and increases or decreases the essence of other creatures by 1%!
There are two limitations to its use: firstly, you can only get one use opportunity per year, and it cannot be accumulated, just like the weekly "Return to Simplicity" opportunity.
However, this "once-a-year" opportunity can be restored through that return to the origin, turning it into a supernatural power you can use once a week!
[Another limitation is that it can only be used when it touches a target—spiritual power, physical body, elemental power, basically anything that belongs to you will work when it touches that creature!]
[Or perhaps the essence or spirit of that creature could touch you.]
At first, you thought that the greatest use of this supernatural power was to help others rather than yourself, that it could increase the essence of a target by more than 50% within a year, or even reach your level in eighty years.
Or like just now.
[Your method is to charge into the True King Battlefield above and unleash a True Essence basic attack on the Black Dragon Demon King from 180,000 miles away.]
[Then, at the instant of impact, it eroded 1% of its essence.]
[The Black Dragon Demon King's power and cultivation speed... have permanently decreased by 1%!]
Its maximum value has been permanently reduced to 0.99 times!
[You were wondering, if the Black Dragon Demon King only had 1% of its essence left, would it be so weak that it couldn't even defeat a Supreme Being?]
Or perhaps its lifespan is too short, and it dies of old age?
Until you realize the price you've paid.
[4309% of your previous essence.]
[Using "Essential Rewards and Punishments" did not reduce the rate to 4308%.]
[Instead, it's 4266%.]
You were stunned, then overjoyed!
The joy isn't just in the Yun Shi in the emulator, but also in the Yun Shou outside the emulator!
He had suspected it before, he had suspected it before!!!
At that time, besides acquiring the power of "essence," he had an even more terrifying idea! (Chapter 209)
The idea is that his current 40 times essence does not mean that his essence is 40 times stronger than others; his essence has always been "ten times that of an ordinary person"!
He simply had a "40x" amplifier installed on him, that's all!
The "Essential Amplification Device" is just an external amplification device!
Like the simulator, it's an "external" cheat, not the power of time like the Holy Body he truly possesses!
Therefore, Yun Shou speculated: When he himself stole the power of this "essence amplification pendant", would the extra essence he gained be calculated separately?
In other words, the 1% increase he gained after stealing the power was not simply adding 1% to 4000%, but rather multiplying 4000% by 101%!
Let your true essence grow, creating a double multiplier zone!
And now, the conjecture has been confirmed!
Yun Shou muttered to himself, "It's about to take off, it's really about to take off..."
Although this supreme-level divine power can only be applied to others, what if he were to advance to the level of a true king?
Supernatural powers... can evolve too, right?
The overall situation for the human race was completely reversed after you brought back the results of those sixty seconds of future battle!
Whether it's a supreme-level battlefield or a true king-level battlefield.
[You even feel a pang of sorrow for the demons: In truth, you've already won once; you might even wipe out the entire human race in the next sixty seconds.]
[Although they deliberately sacrificed themselves.]
However, the demon alliance, which had already won a victory, had its memories erased and, wounded, faced another wave of fully resurrected humans...
"Oh no... Pfft."
On the battlefield at the True King level, Jiang Yi and Xu Shuanghua are limited by their luck, but the Feathered Demon King is even worse off. It has twenty times the physical strength but lacks the power, making it a sitting duck!
[Not to mention the Black Dragon, it has almost fallen to the fourth realm. Although it is still stronger than when it was at the peak of the fourth realm, it has weakened by more than half compared to when it was a demon king!]
[From "the strongest True King with 20 times the combat power" to "the second weakest True King with 2 times the combat power"!]
"...So the Thorn Demon King is really this weak?" Yun Shou said, resting his chin on his hand.
However, as the original being, there are many details he cannot learn from the simulation.
Thorn Demon King's abilities are actually quite practical, even though they don't provide any combat power boost.
Its greatest way of realizing its self-worth and serving its race is to assassinate the geniuses of various races. When the True King does not appear, the highest cultivation level of the human and demon races is only the Earthly Sovereign, making it difficult to detect its existence.
If we do that, its effect is even greater than that of the strongest Black Dragon Demon King, because an assassination within certain limits would at most arouse the suspicion of the Supreme Being.
Other true kings can't do that... The extraordinary systems among different races all enhance power, at most they can control the power more and prevent it from leaking out, but they can't be as versatile as magic, concealing one's form, passing through walls and soil.
Invisibility and transformation are abilities that even a true king cannot perform; they belong only to special abilities such as divine bodies and bloodlines.
The biggest problem is that Thorn Demon King is determined to escape his fate and devotes himself to the research of the Demon King's Egg. He doesn't do that!
Or rather, they haven't done it many times.
Although its actions could allow the demons to gradually gain the upper hand, this advantage has its limits. At most, it can only slightly suppress the human and demon races. If the assassination goes too far and forces their true king to come out, it will not be good!
Since there's an upper limit... why not go back to research and create a true demon that can escape the fate of the demon race?
The black dragon, now twice as strong, coupled with its injuries, is weaker than the Feathered Demon King: it can't take a beating!
[A demon and a monster are being thoroughly beaten by two great human kings!]
They were already considering retreating. They had been evenly matched before, and the Black Dragon Demon King had even expended less of his luck. By stalling for time, they could wear down two of the Kings until they fell from their cultivation levels, at which point everything would be fine.
"How could this be? How could this be!" It took the black dragon a full minute to realize and accept the fact that it had been inexplicably severely injured and fallen to a lower realm. It then turned and ran.
It is only seven thousand years old now, and should still have four or five thousand years left, but it feels its lifespan is nearing its limit. It must return to the demon race to replenish its fortune and return to the realm of a true king. It does not want to die!
Seeing that his former ally had not only fallen but also escaped faster than him, the Feather Demon King also chose to return to the Demon Realm!
[It was the same before. During the Holy War between humans and demons, it fought against the Human King, was suppressed, and then began to recover, and the matter was dropped!]
[Feather Demon King thought. 】
"Because these two top players are a constraint. For example, after they take us out, how do we deal with the other remaining opponents?"
"For example, there are other demons... wait, now that the Demon King is gone, only that useless old codger is left!"
"So there are still demons... Damn, now even the Black Dragon is gone!"
[Feather Demon King: We're doomed.]
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