367, Humans also have holes in their bodies, don't you know? [First Update]_1

Miss Ning looked down at her fingers, a hint of red light emanated from her palm, and she turned a small patch of air in front of her into an extremely spicy flavor.

Then she fanned this spicy air toward Chen Xin's nose, which instantly made Chen Xin sneeze repeatedly.

"Hahaha!"

"Sect Master, stop it!"

Lin Yi watched this scene coldly, "Are you guys still going to attack?"

"Attack, we'll attack!"

Miss Ning immediately stood up straight, as if she wasn't the one who had just been up to mischief.

"Seven treasures reveal the lustrous glaze, Si commands!"

"Seven Kills True Body!"

The voices of the two women rang out one after the other, Miss Ning and Chen Xin quickly distanced themselves, their bodies surrounded by a ring of yellow amplification halos.

Elsewhere, the sharp Seven Kills Sword reappeared in the sky, its fierce wind tearing through the platform like a barrage of knives.

Miss Ning then raised her hand, "Seven treasures are famed, first comes strength, third comes soul!"

Two different-colored amplification halos landed on the almost ethereal sword, and Chen Xin's deep voice echoed from the sky.

"Second Soul Skill, Spiritual Sword Guard."

Above the ethereal sword, the figure of Sword Spirit Gan Jiang appeared, lending sharpness to the blade, and two crossing streams of blue light flickered momentarily, making the Seven Kills Sword appear even more solid.

The tip of the sword quickly changed direction, as though Chen Xin was holding the hilt, but in reality, she had merged completely with the sharp Seven Kills Sword through the use of the Martial Soul True Body.

Therefore, Martial Soul True Body is akin to another term for Man and Sword as One.

The snow-white blade began to tremble, energy seeping out strand by strand. Suddenly, it let out a screech, darting toward Lin Yi at a swift pace, striking him with an angle different from that of the first soul skill.

"Clang!"

The same result as before, the sword was repelled, with Chen Xin's figure closely following it.

Miss Ning saw the rebounding damage approaching and wondered if her spicy technique could shatter it. But then she thought better of it, realizing that this pure energy-formed Damage Rebound certainly couldn't have a taste... So she had to give up and let Chen Xin handle it.

A single strike split into two!

Lin Yi glanced at the panel.

[Health loss: 513674]

[Remaining health: 899886686934]

[Damage Level: Gold (Junior)]

[Random reward: Pore Seal Technique]

[Host reward: Pore Filling + Seal Technique]

What bizarre rewards these are... Lin Yi curled the corners of his mouth. Pore Seal Technique? A reward so obscure, he couldn't even begin to guess its actual capability.

Lin Yi decisively examined the annotation.

After reading, he was greatly shaken. The angle of this reward was getting more and more tricky. Could a person have come up with this? Ah, indeed not, it was devised by the System, and the System isn't human.

Lin Yi didn't know what to say, except that the rewards were increasingly resembling the bizarre and weird abilities from those Cthulhu novels he had read before.

He cleared his throat quietly and said to Miss Ning, "Damage 513674, Golden Junior level, your reward is an ability called Pore Seal Technique."

Looking at the two big question marks in his counterpart's eyes, Lin Yi continued his explanation, "The meaning of sealing is that you can instantaneously seal any pore, preventing it from exposing any gaps."

"Like this, for example."

After finishing his statement, Lin Yi made an OK gesture with his fingers. He pointed at the "O" within the gesture and said, "This is a pore, and your ability is to seal this pore with a material of the same type. For me, it means that the hole formed by my fingers would be sealed by a layer of my own flesh, leaving no gaps exposed. Do you understand?"

Miss Ning slightly frowned, "I kind of understand, but it's still a bit abstract..."

Lin Yi knew he needed to provide another example.

Actually, this reward would be very suitable for use on Blue Planet and it seems that it would only show its Gold Rank value there.

He first merged the ability to himself, his "Pore Filling + Seal Technique."

Then he said to Bi Bidong, "Take out your Bullet, hold it up, and aim the muzzle at everyone."

The latter complied immediately as instructed.

The people below the stage saw the dark muzzle of the Bullet and instinctively shuddered at the thought of the damage inflicted by attacks launched from this black orifice.

At this moment, Lin Yi snapped his fingers.

Suddenly, everyone below the stage stared with a startled, odd expression at the Bullet.

Bi Bidong noticed the crowd's reaction, turned the Bullet around, and to her astonishment, discovered that the muzzle of the Bullet had become solid! There were no more holes!

Lin Yi explained, "This is the Pore Seal Technique."

Miss Ning immediately nodded, signifying that she understood… but she couldn't help but criticize that Lin Yi's previous description with his fingers was truly quite abstract.

Actually, this was for the sake of precision. If he were not precise, Lin Yi could have simply said that this ability is to block all pores.

But 'blocking' could be ambiguous. Sealing is just encapsulating the pore with a superficial layer.

Whereas blocking could mean filling something into it, not just sealing the surface, but packing the whole cavity tightly.

This brings us to Lin Yi's host's critical hit reward: Pore Filling + Seal Technique.

He could not only seal the surface of a pore but could also fill and block the entire cavity.

The reason why Lin Yi believed Miss Ning's reward was more suited for Blue Planet is that many of the hot weapons on Blue Planet attack through "pores."

All kinds of gun muzzles, cannon openings… and so on.

Lin Yi then said to Miss Ning, "However, there is a limit to how many pores you can seal at the same time. The total surface area of the pores you can seal should not exceed ten square meters."

"You can freely choose which pores to seal to avoid unnecessary area wastage."

Lin Yi explained in great detail, but Miss Ning was still at a loss.

After all, this was her first Gold Rank reward, but it sounded rather useless to her.

What use was this ability? From the demonstration, it seemed only applicable to weapons like the Bullet or some of the hidden weapons previously mentioned, rendering them unable to attack.

What she wanted was offensive power, or at the very least, it would be good as a crowd control skill, but Miss Ning did not understand how this ability could be used as a crowd control skill.

She quickly voiced her confusion to Lin Yi.

In response, Lin Yi could only offer a slight smile.

He wondered whether Sect Master Ning had truly become innocent after turning into a loli, or if the people of Soul Land were all so naive.

Lin Yi hinted, "Haven't you thought of the pores that naturally exist on a person's body? Vital pores, not like the negligible ones formed by bending my fingers."

"As long as it's a pore, no matter how small, you can seal it. In other words, you can seal anything with a surface area less than ten square meters."