However, [Iron Will] does not operate out of thin air. Anything that is not strong enough is easily kept out; the intensity of this current situation is somewhat too high, requiring Gu Hang, the host, to provide more abundant Spiritual Energy as the source for the [Iron Will] ability to exert a greater effect.
But the problem is… Gu Hang doesn’t have any left.
He just finished a battle and is in a state of spiritual energy depletion.
If that were not the case, he would not have been so easily vulnerable in the first place.
Nevertheless, after [Iron Will] took effect, Gu Hang felt the soul pain alleviate significantly.
Although it was still painful, at least he could think now.
And the first thing he thought of was: If this continued for about another two minutes, he would die.
The next thing he needed to consider was how to save himself.
Normally speaking, there would be no way to do so. With his spiritual energy drained, what could he possibly do?
But Gu Hang casually opened the system panel.
Here, he noticed two changes.
First, in the [Hero] interface, his personal interface, which after the rise to level six showed the words ‘Experience Insufficient’, had now changed to ‘Can Level Up’.
As expected.
Over the past period, although Gu Hang’s level had been stuck at five without increasing, the many things that happened during that time had accumulated in the experience pool and did not just disappear. Perhaps, when leveling up from five to six, not all the experience was depleted.
Now, he had eliminated an Evil God, which also provided a substantial boost in experience points, making him fully sufficient to level straight up to seven.
The inevitable increase in spiritual attributes with leveling up should be enough to solve Gu Hang’s current problem.
However, when he tried to click to level up, Gu Hang was a bit taken aback.
Last time, to go from level five to six, he needed two thousand salvation points; this time, to go from six to seven, it was going to cost him a whopping ten thousand!
That’s just too exaggerated!
Gu Hang was indeed startled by this number at first.
But after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make sense.
Going from level four to five only required five hundred salvation points, and then it increased to two thousand for level six. Considering this progression, it was only logical for it to reach ten thousand to level up to seven.
Gu Hang currently did not have enough salvation points on hand.
However, he had not forgotten that in the system interface, he also saw another change in the display.
He exited the [Hero] interface and entered the event interface.
[Storm Approaching: Event Completed]
[The cult following the Primal Fury Owl, in their final moment of impending doom, erupted in a burst of madness, summoning the Evil God they worshiped to step into the human world. Yet you and your brave warriors, on the other hand, stepped into Hell’s Abyss, facing the Evil God directly.]
[Not only did you repel the invading Evil God, preventing it from descending to the human world, but you even killed it!]
[Regardless of the choices you will make afterward, right now you and your warriors have truly achieved a great feat!]
[Event Reward:]
[Salvation Points +15000]
[Your trait ‘Enemy of the Storm’, has been upgraded to ‘Master of the Storm’]
[You are the Master of the Storm, wielding the power of wind and thunder at will. You have mastered a series of Storm God Skills, and now you can effortlessly control the power of the storm. Any attempt to summon storm powers in your presence will be met with absolute suppression. Your spiritual attribute +2.]
Excellent!
A timely assistance!
By clicking confirm, he received the settlement rewards of the event.
The [Storm Dominator] trait itself was strong and useful, giving Gu Hang a new spiritual energy system in addition to the regular telekinesis control system. Moreover, purely in terms of destructive power, the force of the storm energy was obviously stronger.
Of course, this trait was of no use at the moment.
However, the two spiritual attribute points that came with the trait were indeed tangible.
It directly doubled Gu Hang’s spiritual energy!
In an instant, Gu Hang felt a sudden sense of coolness arise within him. The once-depleted spiritual power began to surge out of nowhere significantly.
It didn’t fully recharge, and he felt his current spiritual energy was about sixty percent of his full capacity.
Yet, even this sixty percent was almost equivalent to his peak state before acquiring the [Storm Dominator] trait.
After obtaining this ‘fresh force’, the protective efficiency of [Iron Will] soared instantly!
The malicious screams that sought to tear apart his soul were all blocked out. He could still hear a trace of them, but it was already harmless.
He could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Glancing over, he saw Georgette and her sister nuns were still blocked outside. But these valiant women were clearly very concerned about his condition, constantly staring in his direction over the crowd.
It was a moderate bother.
But for now, Gu Hang didn’t bother with them.
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He had a very important task at hand.
He raised his gaze toward the distant body of the Primal Fury Owl.
The body of the slain Evil God lay there, with its massive form gradually dissipating. It was being broken down into its most basic energy, returning to the True Realm.
The rate of dissipation was not slow, but the godly body was so huge that it was still not completely dissipated.