Zhang Xiaoman looked at the scene in front of him, unable to hold back a cry of astonishment.
"The Spirit Detection Technique, I finally managed to use it!"
As he spoke, he remembered the last note written on the formula. This skill seemed to have stronger effects when used in conjunction with the visual organs?
"Should I transfer it to my eyes then?"
Zhang Xiaoman stretched out his finger to look at it, then slowly moved closer to his head, ready to try out the instructions written in the note.
However, just as his finger was about to touch his forehead, he faintly felt that something was amiss.
"Why do I always feel that something is wrong?"
Zhang Xiaoman suddenly stopped his hand movements, his gaze fixed on the pulsing purple light at his fingertips, feeling the restlessness and unease emanating from it, which involuntarily made his hair stand on end.
"Is this really the Spirit Detection Technique?"
Out of nowhere, Zhang Xiaoman shuddered, then without thinking, he opened the car door and scrambled out.
"I can’t maintain this state much longer! Never mind, I should try it somewhere else first!"
He muttered to himself, his eyes however were fixed on a large tree not far away. He then stretched out his finger, pointing gently forward, and the Dark Energy he had gathered at his fingertip instantly activated.
Then, only to see the purple light transformed into a beam, instantly spanning tens of meters, piercing through several trees thick as water barrels and shooting obliquely into the sky.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoman’s expression stiffened, and he fell into a daze.
"This... surely isn’t the Spirit Detection Technique, is it?"
A bead of sweat slid down his forehead and his back was already soaked.
"This definitely isn’t the Spirit Detection Technique!"
Zhang Xiaoman snapped back to reality, his eyes fixed on the small hole in the distant tree that had been pierced, a sense of dread washing over him.
"Although I’m not sure what the Spirit Detection Technique should look like, but just from the name, it surely can’t have effects !"
Thinking this, he breathed a long sigh of relief, saying, "Fortunately, I wasn’t foolish enough to transfer it to my eyes, otherwise I might have become the most tragically dead Transcendent ever..."
Zhang Xiaoman said this, and his mind flashed back to the previous scene, feeling a residual fear, he couldn’t help but wonder, "But where did it go wrong? Why did a perfectly good skill turn out ? Could it be that the System recorded the wrong formula?"
He furrowed his brow, starting to recall his previous actions intently, trying to find the cause of the problem.
Moments later, just as he was fruitlessly searching, his gaze inadvertently fell on the remaining Dark Energy value in his attribute panel.
His eyes widened in disbelief, saying, "Huh? The skill I just used consumed 40 points of Dark Energy!?"
Due to the constant energy shortage before, Zhang Xiaoman had developed the habit of being very frugal, remembering each point of energy consumed with particular clarity.
Logically, the energy consumption for the Spirit Detection Technique should have been 36 points of Dark Energy. But this time he had used 40 points. Where did the extra four points come from?
Zhang Xiaoman thought about it, and he had already vaguely understood the reason. He took out a small piece of paper with the formula of Spirit Detection Technique written on it from his pocket, carefully read the formula, suddenly slapped his head, and said, "So that’s how it is! The construction of this skill model requires the insertion of Sequence 207, but I just used Sequence 206 instead! No wonder there was an extra 4 points of consumption!"
His expression suddenly cleared, as if he had solved a puzzle that had troubled him for many years.
"Who would have thought that just one sequence off could result in such a drastically different outcome..."
"But this might still be a good thing... Not only did I gain a powerful skill this time, but I also won’t have to rely solely on the System to provide everything anymore. I can completely develop new skills myself. Before, I just considered this idea a guess, but now I can finally confirm it! It seems this is the greatest surprise Sect Establishment Order left for me!"
Many thoughts about the future rushed into Zhang Xiaoman’s mind in that instant, each one emerging clearly.
Fighting back the impulse to try it again, he quickly took out his phone and noted down his new formula.
"Since it’s not Spirit Detection, how should I name it? With such destructive power... Maybe ’Destructive Death Light’ would be apt?"
After Zhang Xiaoman finished recording, he immediately started the process of naming the skill: "No, no, that name sounds too cliché. Let’s change it to perhaps..."
"’Purple Extreme Beam’?"
"’Zhang Xiaoman’s Light’?"
He suggested several names in succession, but shook his head and rejected all of them, being either too bizarre or too cheesy.
Suddenly, Zhang Xiaoman recalled the process he went through to create the skill. He thought to himself, "Since I accidentally changed a sequence to have this skill, maybe I should just change one word in the name too. Let’s call it... ’Burst Spirit Skill’!"
Zhang Xiaoman nodded in satisfaction, the name quite fitting his idea, not cheesy, and very straightforward. It can’t be helped, being such a low-key person as he is.
Having named his newly acquired skill, Zhang Xiaoman looked up at the primeval forest scenery around him, hesitating whether to enjoy the natural view, when he suddenly heard a slight noise behind him.
He immediately turned around only to see bushes there shaking and rustling.
Seeing this, he immediately recalled the news he had seen before about tourists being attacked by wild animals after getting off their vehicles on their own. And it was rumored that there were tigers in Anling.
Therefore, Zhang Xiaoman did not want to attract more trouble at this moment, turned around, got back into his car, activated the invisibility feature, and flew away straight away.
After he left, the previously quiet bushes suddenly became noisy again, and faint voices of people talking could be heard. Then, seven or eight young men and women ran out from the bushes, looking flustered and excited.
"Has he gone? Is it safe for us to come out ?"
"Holy shit! What was that just now? An alien spaceship? And that guy could launch such a terrifying energy attack from his hand, that’s so cool!!!"
"Who would have thought that there really are Transcendents in this world! Brothers, our expedition this time really paid off!"
"Dammit, Alarm Clock, why were you messing around just now! He must have noticed us. Thankfully he just left without making a fuss; otherwise, in these wild mountains, we could have been wiped out without anyone knowing! You almost got us killed!"
"I didn’t mean to! A leaf pricked my butt just now, and I was already being very restrained by not yelling!"