I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords-Chapter 56 - 0.Essence Extraction_1

Chapter 56: 056.Essence Extraction_1

Chapter 56: 056.Essence Extraction_1

[Congratulations on completing your career development task]

[Now beginning settlement]

[Mission Exploration Degree: 83%]

[Task Completion Status: Stunning]

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[By revisiting the old to realize the new, you have successfully earned public recognition with your own creation theories. The door to the new world is opening up for you!]

[You’ve earned Silence Points: 5200 points]

[Settlement completed]

[As you move towards the new world, you have transcended the mundane. It’s time to let those ignorant mortals feel the real world. Continue exploring the unknown!]

[Please complete the task to obtain your reward]

The mapo tofu, pepper chicken, double pepper fish head, and spicy pork intestine on the menu twisted into the system’s indifferent and ice-cold text.

“Mapo tofu, extra spicy, extra numbing, thank you.”

Lu Ban handed the menu to the waiter waiting by the side, acting very normally.

“I’m telling you, this restaurant’s boiled pork slices taste very authentic. Last time I…”

Qin Tiantian was chattering away beside him, while Lu Ban listened attentively and kept an eye on the patterns of the tablecloth intertwined with the system’s text.

5200 Silence Points, breaking the upper limit of points Lu Ban once received.

But after careful consideration, Lu Ban still came to many conclusions.

Even a mediocre completion of a [Corrosion] difficulty task would yield more than 4500 Silence Points.

And with the career development task’s completion status being stunning, the gains were only a few hundred higher than those from the [Corrosion] difficulty task.

Therefore, Lu Ban could assume that the return on a career development task was close to being between the Contamination difficulty and Corrosion difficulty. If it was for casual Chosen by Gods, the career development task could be considered extremely cost-effective.

After all, Lu Ban was not some kind of maniac who would always choose the highest difficulty, so the average gains from career development tasks were definitely higher than from doing other tasks.

Thus, Lu Ban felt that his future development focus would definitely be on career development tasks.

After all, he loved movies so much.

While waiting for the dishes to be served, Lu Ban casually flipped through his phone and opened his “Testament”.

“Testament”

Inherent

[Refineable]

He set his eyes on the “Refineable” text.

He pressed his finger on it.

Essence Extraction

“Sublimation Qualitative Change”

[Exchange resources for miracles]

[Recommended to try]

[Silence Points needed: 10000 points]

Sublimation and Radical Transformation were obviously an upgrade.

It couldn’t be that after spending 10,000 Silence Points, all that changed was just a skin, right?

Lu Ban chose to refine.

In an instant, the phantom left revolver appeared in Lu Ban’s hand.

He saw inscriptions of some incomprehensible text emerge and etch themselves onto the gun barrel, transforming the entire revolver into something dense and real. Then, some kind of cognitive change that transcended human understanding burst forth from Lu Ban’s cerebral cortex.

As if it had always been there, a part of Lu Ban’s brain structure changed, and “knowledge” was infused into it, solidifying into cognition.

Lu Ban looked at the “Testament” in his hand, clearly understanding its transformation.

He glanced at the six-chamber cylinder and then at Qin Tiantian beside him.

Lu Ban selected one of the chambers that contained the Speech Bullet with the recording of “Good Fortune Comes”.

Seizing a moment when Qin Tiantian was not paying attention, Lu Ban raised the muzzle and pulled the trigger decisively.

Bang—

The gunshot, unheard by others, burst forth from Lu Ban’s hand; the silver Speech Bullet pierced through the cup and directly hit Qin Tiantian’s chest, which could withstand a 30mm armor-piercing bullet.

The bullet penetrated her body, but the oblivious Qin Tiantian continued to talk nonchalantly.

“I used to study at the university over there, eating fatty intestine noodles, spicy and sour pork offal noodles, grilled pig brain every day. There aren’t many authentic places like that in Jiangcheng… Ugh, how can this restaurant have such poor taste as to play ‘Good Fortune Comes’? ”

The short-haired girl said this while glancing in the direction of the cashier’s desk.

“‘Good Fortune Comes’? What ‘Good Fortune Comes’?”

Lu Ban feigned ignorance.

“Ah? Isn’t it the song that’s playing? So tacky.”

Qin Tiantian frowned slightly.

Indeed, she heard the song “Good Fortune Comes” in her ears, its chorus repeating incessantly, as if it had always existed in the air, unchanged since ancient times. Upon hearing Lu Ban’s words, she attempted to locate the source of the song, but realized it was not coming from the cashier’s desk.

Upon closer listening, Qin Tiantian discovered that the sound originated from everything around her.

Whether it was the high-spirited debates of college students at the next table, the merry conversations of middle-aged men in the distance, the busy waiters, the irate chefs, or the local dialect of the TV station’s journalist—every sound that reached her ears morphed into the melody of “Good Fortune Comes.”

“What’s wrong?”

Lu Ban asked a question, and even this greeting turned into the originally cheerful, but now increasingly eerie song.

Just as seeing the same word too many times can lead to form collapse and a sudden inability to recognize it, hearing the same melody repeatedly in a short time can make it seem bizarre and unnatural.

Now, in Qin Tiantian’s ears, the melody of “Good Fortune Comes” echoed.

“Good fortunes… come wish… you good… fortune comes, good… fortunes bring… joy and… love… good fortunes… come to… us… good… fortunes come…”

It was like a radio running out of batteries, playing a twisted and deformed tune.

“What the hell…”

Qin Tiantian felt scared. If she could fool herself into thinking those horror videos were just special effects and that there was Lu Ban beside her when she encountered something trying to strangle her, then now, under the bustling lights of the restaurant, with people coming and going, the situation she faced completely overturned her understanding of reality.

It was as if all safe places had ceased to exist, her perception of reality and everyday life fraying at the seams.

“Don’t come any closer…”

Qin Tiantian covered her ears, trying to escape from the song “Good Fortune Comes.”

But even with her ears covered, that sound did not stop.

Qin Tiantian even felt that the menu’s text in front of her had turned into the lyrics of “Good Fortune Comes.”

Mapo… good fortunes come wish you… tofu… good fortunes come… double pepper… good fortunes… fish head… brings… boiled… joy and love…

It wasn’t until then that Qin Tiantian realized.

The song, it originated from her own head.

“Don’t… don’t…”

She tried to curl into a ball, drawing the attention of the people at the next table.

Lu Ban gently patted Qin Tiantian’s shoulder.

“Are you okay?”

Strangely enough, touched by Lu Ban’s hand, the song that had been reverberating in Qin Tiantian’s head suddenly ceased, as if everything before had been her own delusion.

She listened carefully, no longer able to hear the voice of the strident female singer.

Feeling somewhat scared, Qin Tiantian looked at Lu Ban.

“Just now, I thought I heard a song…”

As she spoke, a middle-aged man’s cellphone at the neighboring table rang.

“Good Fortune Comes to wish you good fortunes, good fortunes bring joy and love…”

Qin Tiantian suddenly felt a chill rush up her spine, trembling uncontrollably until the middle-aged man answered the phone with a tipsy voice, and then she began to relax slightly.

Witnessing this scene, Lu Ban had completely understood the capabilities that followed the extraction of “Testament Essence.”

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