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Red Dust Dream: Is it okay?
Dark Avenger: Although a system spirit ring lets you create your own Spirit Abilities, didn't Su Yan tell us to pick based on the Spirit's natural strengths?
Zhu Zhuqing: Putting strengths aside for a second, Dugu Yan's Martial Spirit is the Jade Phosphor Serpent. Picking a healing Spirit Ability doesn't seem very useful for her, does it?
Liu Erlong: If it doesn't work, why don't you just get a Perfect Clone ability like old Sister Dong did?
Group Member No. 9: This is actually simple. Can't we just make a healing Spirit Ability that works well in a battle?
Bo Saixi: Come on then, tell us all. What kind of healing Spirit Ability can actually be useful in a fight?
Wang Dong: Naturally, it would be like Number Nine's tricky Spirit Ability, something that controls the whole battlefield instantly!
Ning Rongrong: That doesn't sound possible to me. Dugu Yan's Martial Spirit is the Jade Phosphor Serpent, so she probably can't make a Spirit Ability like that...
Group Member No. 9: Hold on a second, let me think about this carefully...
Meanwhile, inside Suotuo City at the Rose Hotel.
Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others looked at Ye Lingling with complete confusion on their faces.
"Are you actually serious about this?" Dugu Yan asked, her voice filled with doubt.
Ling Yuan laughed softly, feeling a little helpless. "Why do you insist on choosing a healing Spirit Ability?"
Group Member No. 9: Why do I like healing Spirit Abilities so much? Because they are peaceful and benevolent! A healing Spirit Ability that can help you win a fight is the absolute best kind of Spirit Ability. It's a healing ability, so it will never go out of style!
Group Member No. 9: Here is my idea. Fourth Spirit Ability: Jade Phosphor Serpent Healing. It uses the pure power of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Spirit to deliver massive healing over a large area. But because the healing comes from the Jade Phosphor Serpent, the target suffers a backlash from the Martial Spirit. They will take on the physical traits of a Jade Phosphor Serpent for a short time. Think of it as a tiny little side effect of getting healed!
Everyone: ???
Yanzi is not a Swallow: What use is a side effect like that?
Wang Dong: ???
Call Me Her Majesty the Empress: Wait, so you get healed and then turn into a snake?
Xiao Xiao is the Cutest: Huh? What do you mean?
Ma Xiaotao: If you look at it that way, this Spirit Ability sounds pretty terrifying. You cast a heal, and the entire enemy team turns into snakes. Isn't that an instant win?
Bo Saixi: Wait a minute. Do you really think Dugu Yan's Martial Spirit is as strong as Su Yan's? Can her Martial Spirit even handle an insane Spirit Ability like that?
Bibi Dong: They probably won't turn into real snakes, but Lingling's idea is still fine. It doesn't matter if they turn into snakes completely. As long as the enemy gains the traits of a snake, that is more than enough for us to win!
Xiao Wu: What do you mean by that?
Zhu Zhuyun: I think I get it now. Snakes can only crawl on the ground. If this healing skill forces enemies who were running around to start crawling, that's already extremely powerful in battle!
Zhu Zhuqing: Snakes don't have any hands or arms either.
Ning Rongrong: But still... this Spirit Ability sounds way too strong. Can the Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Spirit really support something like this?
Group Member No. 9: We are Healing Spirit Masters, so the goal of this Spirit Ability is to give the strongest healing possible. Don't use your own spirit power or Martial Spirit as the cost. Instead, force the side effect to pay the price of the healing!
Group Member No. 9: We need to change how we think about this. This is skill creation in reverse!
Everyone: ???
Everyone in the chat group was stunned when they read those words.
Wait... could this actually work?
What she said seemed to make a lot of sense!
If I give you a super powerful heal that saves your life, what's so bad about making you crawl around on the ground like a snake for a little bit?
Yanzi is not a Swallow: Wow, that actually sounds possible. Even if I made a normal poison control Spirit Ability, it might not be as useful as the one Lingling is talking about, right?
Bo Saixi: Hold on a second. I just thought of something else. This Spirit Ability that Lingling made up... I don't know if it's strong on its own, but what happens if you two use your skills together?
Liu Erlong: Holy crap! Are you serious?
Bibi Dong: Now it really sounds like the enemies will turn into snakes, and they'll be snakes without any sharp poison fangs, too.
Ma Xiaotao: ???
Zhu Zhuqing: Lingling and Dugu Yan cast their healing skills at the same time. The enemy's health instantly gets filled to the top, but the side effect changes their Martial Spirit into a healing type and takes away their ability to move!
Wang Dong: Number Nine, can we open up your head and see what's going on inside your brain?
Dark Avenger: At first, making the enemy's Martial Spirit change into a healing type was already mean enough. Now you won't even let them surrender with their hands behind their heads?
Ma Xiaotao: Tell us the truth, Number Nine. Are you secretly an Evil Spirit Master?
Tang Yuehua: The real Holy Maidens of Spirit Hall look like pure innocent kids compared to you!
Xiao Xiao is the Cutest: You can actually invent such a nasty skill! You must be the actual God of Evil Spirit Masters! Honorable Evil Spirit God, please teach me your ways!
Xiao Xiao is the Cutest: I have twin Martial Spirits, the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron which is attack and defense, and the Nine Phoenix Arrival Flute which is control and support. Can the Evil Spirit God take me as a student?
Ning Rongrong: For support, I think you should just pick endless stat stacking. Control can use endless stacking too. It's simple, clean, and effective!
Bibi Dong: That is completely correct.
Zhu Zhuqing: I'm still way more curious to hear Lingling's weird ideas.
Zhu Zhuyun: Count me in, +1!
Group Member No. 9: I've got it!
Group Member No. 9: For the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron, make a Spirit Ability called Iron Pot Stewing Oneself. You crawl inside your own giant cauldron and let enemies hit you all they want. While they beat on you, you absorb their spirit power, and then you hit them back with one super strong charged attack! As for the Nine Phoenix Arrival Flute, Xiao Xiao, have you ever heard the saying about rising to dance at the cock's crow?
Group Member No. 9: Make a flute skill called Rising to Dance at the Flute's Sound! Whenever the enemy hears your flute music, they won't be able to stop themselves from dancing, making them completely lose their ability to move or fight!
Everyone: ???
Gu Yuena 1: Is this really right?
Gu Yuena 2: Is this how you humans create new Spirit Abilities?
Yanzi is not a Swallow: Huh? What is this?
I Am a Little Bird: ???
Wang Dong: Rising to dance at the flute's sound? What kind of skill is that?
Call Me Her Majesty the Empress: Hahaha! That sounds like it would be so much fun to watch!
Dark Avenger: Boss! No, you really are the supreme God of Evil Spirit Masters!
Ma Xiaotao: Can't we try to think of a normal, proper Spirit Ability for once?
Bo Saixi: Putting ethics aside, these two Spirit Abilities could actually work really well in real combat. Casting any Spirit Ability requires clear focus and physical movement. If they are forced into Rising to Dance at the Flute's Sound, most of their Spirit Abilities will fail completely.
Bibi Dong: Yes, and their movement speed would be ruined too. The tricks of an evil path user really are useful!
Xiao Wu: I remember Su Yan saying that rising to dance at the cock's crow means waking up early to practice sword skills when the rooster crows. Lingling, who taught you this weird version?
Zhu Zhuqing: Ye Lingling, you were definitely born to be a natural Evil Spirit Master!
Everyone: +1!
At that moment inside the room, Xiao Xiao was totally dazed.
Could a trick like this really work in real life?
Xiao Xiao thought about it very carefully. If she used Rising to Dance at the Flute's Sound, that crowd control skill would be just as useful as Dugu Yan's Jade Phosphor Serpent heal.
It actually sounded like a great idea!
I'll build the Spirit Ability just like this, and tomorrow I'll ask Wang Dong'er to come with me to challenge Yu Xiaogang's students!