Chapter 143: Reverse Yuan Practitioner Job Appointment, System Takes Shape, Perpetual Motion Machine?
The Indestructible Armor already had a texture almost identical to metal, representing a significant increase in its defensive level.
“If reinforced and then combined into a triple defense, it will definitely be able to withstand Wu Yang.”
Using Wu Yang as a reference, Su Chen could now make a confident judgment, though it was hard to estimate the upper limit.
Su Chen rubbed his temples. “This ability is powerful, but draining all mental power is equivalent to a last-resort desperate move that can only be used at the end. If it doesn’t succeed, I’ll be down too.”
“However, if combined with Reverse Yuan Practitioner and Glutton, it won’t be a desperate move for me. In one battle, I can use it at least twice or even three times or more, and still have energy left…”
“This is the power of professional combination!”
Su Chen couldn’t help but feel emotional. He even felt his brain fatigue lighten a bit. He opened the panel again and checked the 【Reverse Yuan Practitioner】 requirements, which had reached 99%.
“Perfect, just one more time. My mental power is already drained, so let’s consume the stamina a bit more.”
Su Chen stopped operating the meditation method and focused on the Body Tempering Method, consuming his stamina completely and finally meeting the requirements.
“Ugh… Glutton can recover stamina, but mental power still needs time to recover slowly. Wait, job appointment at full strength.” Su Chen panted, with hidden anticipation but not anxious.
After gulping down a few potions, just three or four hours later, his body gradually recovered to peak condition.
“Phew…” Calming his mind, Su Chen straightened his body.
Reverse Yuan Practitioner, job appointment!
Su Chen was fully mentally prepared, but the Reverse Yuan Practitioner job appointment process was very strange.
A Fragment of the Void Star floated in front of him, gradually melting into purple ripples that gently washed over Su Chen’s entire body, like spring snowmelt seeping into the earth.
Every cell in his body expanded like long-parched seeds meeting sweet rain in the warm flow, with fine purple veins emerging on his skin surface.
His spirit body rippled accordingly. He could “see” his mental power flowing through his limbs like a swarm of fireflies, a sensation so comfortable it almost made him moan.
But suddenly, the warmth solidified into billions of ice needles, stabbing viciously into every cell.
“Ah——”
The abrupt change made Su Chen grunt involuntarily, the purple veins on his skin emitting dazzling light like overloaded circuits.
Intense burning spread from his limbs to his heart. He felt his consciousness torn in half and forcibly stuffed into every cell.
The purple veins quickly covered his entire body, then surged with dark golden light. His originally collapsing body structure and spirit body stabilized in the golden light and gradually dissipated.
With the panel, as long as all requirements are met, failure doesn’t exist; it’s just a matter of whether the process is painful.
【Reverse Yuan Practitioner job appointment successful, gained professional ability—Reverse Yuan Conversion: You can drain your own mental power or stamina to convert them into each other.】
“Phew…” Su Chen let out a long breath, still shaken. That transformation wasn’t ordinary pain; accompanied by the tearing of his consciousness, it reminded him of the Whispering Trial.
Even so, he smiled. “Finally, success.”
He couldn’t wait to try the new ability. With just a thought, he felt his body inexplicably weaken, as if after intense training—stamina drained partly, while mental power surged out of nowhere.
Conversely, he converted mental power to stamina, and his slightly empty body quickly recovered.
“Hmm… the loss isn’t high…” Su Chen noticed his stamina hadn’t fully returned to peak. “Not as huge as Old Qin said, three or four tenths; just around twenty percent. This depends on perfectly meeting the job appointment requirements.”
Next, Su Chen kept experimenting: Glutton recovering stamina, then stamina converting to mental power. He played with it happily.
“This combination is like opening a circuit, serving as a foundation compatible with current and future abilities—an extremely important base.”
Su Chen clenched his fist, unable to hold back his imagination.
He even tried using 【Holy Hand】 to reinforce 【Reverse Yuan Conversion】. It worked; the converted mental power or stamina increased substantially out of thin air.
But 【Holy Hand】 consumed even more.
For continuous abilities like Glutton, it also had a reinforcing effect, allowing him to drink three more tubes of Compressed Nutrient Solution.
But as time passed, just a few hours, the stored nutrient substances would overflow, forcing him to consume them.
At the same time, this period confirmed that the extra nutrient substances stored in the Abyssal Stomach could last about twenty days without consumption—twice what Ming Lin said.
After fully adapting to converting various abilities, Su Chen took out the prepared Talent Detection Device from his Storage Space.
Ready to see what forcibly averaging talents was like.
Placing his hands on the two device spheres, unexpectedly, two somewhat dim ink-green light pillars shone out.
“Hey…” Su Chen grinned. “They’re both Ink Jade now.”
Though surprising, it made sense. He roughly knew why.
By his guess, the Ink Jade Talent threshold was at least an extra 250% profession development boost on top of colorless talent.
Averaged together, mental talent barely dropped to the Ink Jade threshold, while physical talent was pulled up to it, making physical talent appear Ink Jade level externally.
“If Old Qin and Old Sang knew, they’d be shocked.” Su Chen smiled and put away the Talent Detection Device.
He then checked the panel again–
【Azure Thunder Master: 42%】
【Mystic Arts Master: 50%】
【D-level Profound Ice Purifying Soul Meditation Method—Proficient: 40%】
【D-level Thunder Gang Body Tempering Method—Proficient: 70%】
“Azure Thunder Master is almost at 50%. Next, I should prepare for Fourth Order profession promotion.” Su Chen pondered.
Special professions continue functioning after job appointment and even grow stronger with main profession promotion, but main profession promotion remains highest priority.
Completing other profession requirements also meant not wasting too much development time.
Otherwise, it would be putting the cart before the horse.
Though Court of Justice professions aren’t exchanged for nothing, with his status, demanding them would surely get them approved.
That’s not the issue; the issue is—
“Too little Strange God’s Power reserve—only two portions of low-tier Heituo Power, nowhere near enough for Fourth Order profession.”
Su Chen frowned. Because of Jiang Shumo, he’d been low-key lately and hadn’t dared secretly hit the remaining Heituo sub-nests.
Though on his agenda, he couldn’t think of a good short-term plan. Unsure if Jiang Shumo was still watching, caution was best.
“If push comes to shove, openly clear them out. Clearing Strange God Followers is absolute political correctness.” Su Chen thought, then left the Gravity Chamber.
With several profession requirements done, he no longer had to feel that draining emptiness and insecurity of depleted stamina and mental power.
In great mood, he had Zero contact the Canteen to send a table of food and started devouring it heartily.
“…Tsk, not as good as Gu Bing’s cooking. Skill is one thing, ingredients another—at least, the meat Gu Bing sends is definitely younger than me.” Su Chen shook his head but wasn’t too picky.
After all, prepared for Core Seed; the taste was already very good.
He sipped the remaining Golden Quicksand from Yuan Qing Festival. Old Bai left in a hurry and didn’t take it the next day; Su Chen occasionally tasted it.
Full and satisfied, Su Chen burped contentedly. “Nutrient Potions can’t bring this psychological satisfaction.”
He had Zero summarize news. The Court of Justice internal network forum was discussing a recent major event.
“Heituo Priest to be publicly executed?”
Surprised, Su Chen had Zero explain in detail. It was an announcement from two days ago, jointly issued with Security Department.
To deter the increasingly rampant Cult of the Strange God, they decided to publicly execute the captured Heituo Priest.
“The one I caught… uh, discovered?” Su Chen checked the announcement closely and yes, it was.
Specifically noted as captured by Court of Justice Core Seed Su Chen’s team.
“Really giving me the credit…” Su Chen muttered inwardly. “Public execution feels so weird.”
“Seems like baiting—straight hook fishing. Can it really catch them?”
He doubted it heavily, but thinking of Strange God Followers’ fanaticism, they might bite.
To them, priests were the gods’ earthly proxies—how could they suffer such shame.
Unrelated to him; whether bait or not, he wasn’t going to watch.
“But first check if Heituo Followers act. If they rush in and use all Strange Artifacts, where do I find more Heituo Strange Artifacts?”
Su Chen realized it did concern him and felt some worry.
Back in the Gravity Chamber, door closed, his body gradually hid in the void, then transformed into “Heituo Priest” state.
During, he thought: post-Reverse Yuan Practitioner success, with Glutton and rising profession development degree.
Without action, he estimated he could now hide in the Spatial Layer over an hour—nearly five or six times improvement.
“If continuing to drink Compressed Nutrient Solution in the Spatial Layer, wouldn’t it be perpetual motion?” Su Chen suddenly thought. Compressed Solution reduced digestion time compared to normal food.
“Though converting to stored nutrients takes time, if body consumption isn’t too high, it could really achieve near-perpetual motion.”
Tsk tsk, half an hour ago, only ten-plus minutes in Spatial Layer; now “perpetual.” Professional combination… he sighed again.
“Let me see where the followers are… Hmm!?”
The instant he fully transformed into Heituo Priest, Su Chen whipped his head in the Spatial Layer, staring shocked in a direction.
“What is that? Right in the Court of Justice, and so close?”
A feeling he’d never experienced—not Strange Artifact or follower, but extremely strong and clear, like right in front.
“Not the Heituo Priest; he’s under Chief Judge You’s seal—I can’t sense him at all, and the feeling’s different.”
Su Chen frowned tightly. Compared to prior vagueness, this strong clear sense even recalled nearing the Divine Statue in Nan Feng.
“How? Wasn’t there before—probably something under Old Chong’s attention…”
Su Chen thought Chong Jingtian and others knew; too strong—Court of Justice detection devices must catch it.
He retracted state, emerged from void, hesitated, then went to potion room, filling stomach with nutrient solution potions.
Prepared, he went out toward the sensed direction.
…Left turn…
…Right turn…
“Your Excellency Su Chen…”
Someone greeted on the way; Su Chen nodded back.
After not wandering for a while, more people knew him; most passersby greeted.
This odd familiarity reminded him of first walking the Court of Justice with Ming Lin.
“Haven’t done much lately…”
Along the way, Su Chen muttered, opened bracelet, fiddled, and figured it out.
Still because of Wei Yinshuo’s appearance. Before, when Wei Yinshuo vanished, two cities’ Blood Sacrifice news was fully sealed, unknown.
But with Wei Yinshuo appearing, people wanted to know what mission left the Chief Judge so gravely injured.
Info surfaced: Wei Yinshuo’s failure one aspect, Xia Hanshi’s foresight another.
Bringing more attention to Su Chen.
“So that’s it…” Summarizing forum news, Su Chen understood.
Encountered Judges thinned, meaning he’d reached a remote Court of Justice area.
“That’s… Xue Fei?” Su Chen paused, seeing a figure enter the white building ahead.
The thing he sensed was roughly here.
“Medical Department? Don’t tell me… Wei Yinshuo.” He looked at the building name, heart pounding with strong premonition.
He hadn’t checked Wei Yinshuo’s status, but a quick search yielded results.
Due to severe injuries, since returning to Court of Justice, he’d stayed in Medical Department.
Su Chen’s mind raced with shock and doubt. “Did this guy fall? Become Heituo’s man? Do Chong Jingtian and others know?”
