I Can See Your Combat Power-Chapter 1935 - 364: Covert Change Trigger

Since they needed to make clothes, they had to skin it. Only once the four of them actually got to work did they realize how incredibly tough the snow monster’s physique was.

The sharp swords from Xiling City’s craftsmen required every ounce of their strength just to pierce the snow monster’s body. Calling it cutting the skin and flesh was more like using a sword to saw open a rock face.

Just handling the corpse alone expended significant effort. It was imaginable how fierce the snow monster must have been when it was alive.

For Tang Nianfan and Tang Tianyu, however, this was not a surprise. After all, back on Yuanzhou’s snowy mountains, they had witnessed Tang Xing’s exaggerated combat capabilities.

But Yang Fan and Pei Mu didn’t know, so the more they understood the snow monster’s strength, the more they admired it. Yet Tang Xing didn’t seem to have any intention to get close to the four of them.

Apart from traveling, he was either contemplating or practicing, with a look of dilemma occasionally passing across his brow.

Being appointed as the leader of this expedition was both a joy and a shock for him.

The joy lay in realizing his elder brother hadn’t been punished with confinement but had laid a foundational legacy for the Tang Clan as dean.

The shock was that although he was already selected to join the God-Creating Plan, he was informed by his elder brother of the plan’s substantial flaws.

Using the Illusion Eye to mimic invincible memories for Soul Casting was indeed extremely effective, but the greatest cost of this benefit came at the final step of achieving body and soul unity upon reaching the other side.

Since the godly soul wasn’t cast from one’s own essence, the difficulty was even greater than taming the beast souls created by the Mimicry Technique.

To put it simply, the beast souls mimicked by the Mimicry Technique were led by one’s own essence, so even the soul beasts created had similar traits.

Whether brave, gloomy, cunning, or dull...

These traits formed the foundation for subsequent integration and unification, but the God-Creating Plan didn’t operate this way.

In essence, the unstoppable personality generated was an illusion—a false body with experiences but no individuality.

After being overcome by reality, it leaves behind only a godly soul on the verge of dissipating, to be nurtured within the God’s Residence by the awakening martial artist.

Aside from that, the godly soul produced by the God-Creating Plan shares no common traits with the soul host. To put it bluntly, based on current research results, once choosing the God-Creating Plan, any path to the other side is severed.

Now or the future?

This was the difficult choice Tang Xing faced at the time. For the vast majority of practitioners, it posed no real challenge.

Becoming an invincibly powerful Grandmaster, who needs anything else?

But Tang Xing was truly perplexed by this. Usually, when one finds oneself at a crossroads of life’s confusion, the best approach is to consult a senior for guidance.

For instance, his elder brother who had already reached the King Realm, but when Tang Luo mischievously said to do as he pleased, Tang Xing’s long tranquil heart began to churn.

Through years of rigorous training, he matured somewhat; otherwise, he would be as troubled as in childhood.

Soul Casting is a matter concerning one’s entire martial path, how could his elder brother treat it so lightly?

Seeing Tang Xing about to blow up, Tang Luo also adopted a serious expression, reminding him: "What constitutes the supremely masterful godly soul essence? One must make it sufficient, hence the phrase ’Exhausting the reason leads to heaven, entering the divine, and achieving vastness.’ Use this to establish godliness, which makes it easy to reach the other side, but which path is your desired choice—it must be asked of your own heart."

Ask the heart again. Staring at Gogong Divine Mountain, Tang Xing felt really troubled.

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Several days later, after the clothes and pants sewn from the snow monster’s fur were completed, once Yang Fan and Pei Mu donned them, they only felt their bodies radiating heat. Apart from an unpleasant fishy smell, the effect was nearly perfect.

Tang Tianyu and Tang Nianfan looked at the two with envy but only tightened the cloaks wrapped around them.

The climbing team once again set off, with the unlucky ones this time being Tang Nianfan and Tang Tianyu, instead of Yang Fan and Pei Mu.

Unlike the previous considerate leader, this time the leader, Tang Xing, moved at extemely fast pace without looking back. As they climbed higher, fierce winds and thunderstorms emerged on the mountain.

Those gusts of fierce winds hidden among ordinary cold winds felt like hitting a wall only when blown directly against the body. Some were so savage they could toss a person right up and out. By the time one reacted, they were lost within the snowstorm.

Most of the climbing practitioners got lost due to these invisible, directionless fierce winds multiple times, and eventually froze to death on mountains.

Fortunately, Pei Mu brought iron chains up the mountain, tying the five of them together, which barely resisted the fierce winds between the mountains.

But this was just the appetizer; what was truly frightening were the thunder clouds enveloping the mountains.

Who knew what sort of treacherous land Gogong Mountains truly was, with Spiritual Energy sparse yet wild, especially thunder clouds formed from the Yin-Yang energy lingering so low that they seemed to press down on the head, not knowing when they might produce electric serpents.

As they passed a perilous hollow rock wall, the thunder clouds suddenly roared on top, and electric serpents rained down, flowing along the snow after striking the ground.

If not for the leader Tang Xing’s solid and formidable Vajra Dharma Aspect, the team would likely have suffered significant damage.

Finally struggling across the mountain peak through the thunder cloud territory, they entered the snow monster’s domain, expending untold efforts to barely escape alive.

Having faced so many hardships, no one would claim they weren’t disheartened upon seeing countless more mountain ranges ahead.

But having crossed one range already, there was resolutely no going back, just finding joy amidst suffering.

Covering his right arm, Pei Mu stood on a protruding rocky peak, looked at the three suddenly dejected companions beside him, and said: "You think ancient Human Race viewed Gogong Mountains just like we saw the Endless Void back then, feeling it’s an eternity impossible to cross?"

What sort of feeling it was remains unknown, but upon Pei Mu’s words, the distant ruggedness in their eyes suddenly transformed into the void perceived under boundless spiritual vision.

After a long change of perspective, looking again at the distant thundercloud-laden mountain ranges, they suddenly felt not so afraid.

"The path beneath is one that ancient people carved out, since Gogong couldn’t trap them, it can’t trap us either!"

Just mentioning the void, Tang Nianfan became quite excited, pointing at the distant mountains and shouting: "Today we will tread over it!"

The uplifting morale seemed to wash all weariness away, the leader gave Tang Nianfan a sideways glance like looking at a fool, tugged at his waist-chain, causing the young dreamer standing atop the rock to stagger.

"Down the mountain, set camp."

Above the nine heavens, observing Tang Luo smiled slightly as he watched the group stumbling down the mountain, his golden eyes subtly rotating, the thunderbolts encountered by the group on the mountain peak seemed to have their shackles removed, growing even fiercer.

Initially, he intended the group to rely solely on their own strength to climb the mountain, but recently the thunderstorms atop Gogong Mountain had become unusually savage, washing over the rocks and sharp peaks.

At the back of the team, Yang Fan turned his head, felt the violent rumbling on the mountain summit, and exclaimed at their luck.

If delayed any longer, they might not have been able to pass through the summit’s thunderstorm zone intact.

Little did they know, this fortune wasn’t bestowed by the heavens, but the accompanying King Realm subtly adjusted the difficulty to expedite their climbing process.

Of course, this adjustment wasn’t about cheating or protection, but rather Tang Luo had prepared a trial for them to meet the multitude, with a minor mishap. If the team’s pace didn’t accelerate, they might miss this chance.