With his eyes closed, the God of Wine sensed Xu Yan’s surging "Extraordinary Power" through spiritual fluctuations.
He furrowed his brows.
The darkness was gradually illuminated by intense light. A tremendous heat gathered at the center of Xu Yan’s brow, where his originally pale skin slowly cracked, seemingly about to vaguely form the outline of a third "Flame Vertical Pupil"!
Xu Yan’s "Fire Stealer" was replicating Gu Shen’s "Chi Huo"!
Flame Vertical Pupil, merely cracked a slit.
Xu Yan’s expression was already as pale as paper.
The "Fire Stealer" had replicated many abilities, but none had been as difficult as "Chi Huo".
As the flame split, a vast amount of Extraordinary Essence began to coalesce at the center of Xu Yan’s brow.
He had almost exerted all the strength he had cultivated up to this point.
Trying to gather a strand.
A minute later, Xu Yan’s face bore a look of terror.
The inward collapse of the Extraordinary Essence hadn’t slowed in the slightest, and it was accelerating.
Merely a tiny strand... was it so difficult?
The flame extinguished.
The cracked vertical pupil slowly closed.
Xu Yan’s face shone like gold leaf, he suddenly lowered his head, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood... and when he raised his head again, disbelief was written all over his face.
This was the first time!
The "Fire Stealer" had failed to replicate!
And ironically... although Xu Yan had stolen many abilities, this time it was Gu Shen’s ability, which was actually fire.
Could the Fire Stealer not truly steal fire?
Excruciating pain erupted inside his skull.
After the failure to steal fire, he was paying the price for his "presumptuous act"... Xu Yan raised a hand, touching the center of his brow, which was still scalding, he lowered his head and in the pool of blood, he saw his own reflection.
Above his brow, there appeared a scalding, branded scar.
"This... what is this?"
Xu Yan’s voice trembled.
He looked at the Divine Throne anxiously.
The expression of the Lord Divine seemed unchanged.
Just from the scene of Xu Yan’s gathering, the God of Wine had not "seen" anything unusual.
The occurrence of this kind of backlash indicated one thing.
Gu Shen’s "Chi Huo" was a much higher grade than Xu Yan’s "Fire Stealer," and by quite a margin.
The young Divine slowly extended a palm, his fingers like a gentle breeze, touching Xu Yan’s brow, this was a great benefaction, and Xu Yan’s anxious expression gradually became calm.
He once again felt the gentle touch of Divine Power.
Like a hot spring, reaching his limbs and finally gathering at the center of his brow.
The power of the God of Wine.
Was healing the scar... but then something terrifying happened.
The original injury, which only needed a few dozen breaths to greatly recover.
The small "scar" on Xu Yan’s brow was recovering extremely slowly.
It seemed to be a wound that was difficult to heal.
God is after all God.
Under the power of the Wine God’s Spark, the scar on Xu Yan’s brow scabbed and fell off.
The young man withdrew his hand, thoughtful.
From the recent "touch", he seemed to have sensed a tiny aspect of the nature of Chi Huo, perhaps not fully... but it was sufficiently intriguing.
Xu Yan didn’t know what Lord Divine had perceived.
But he heard Lord Divine’s evaluation.
"A... strange ability."
"Spiritual Link... has been established."
"Spiritual Link... has been removed."
Security Committee Building.
Looking at the main control screen, Du Wei felt anxious.
Although he was Luo Yu’s friend and supported Gu Shen spiritually, if Brother Gu’s report really had issues, he couldn’t in good conscience cover up anomalies, but the test results came out quickly... it was almost the most flawless report Du Wei had ever seen.
"Gu Shen’s spirit is very stable."
A team member pulled out images captured by "Wind Eye", in the safety assessment test of Transcendents’ spiritual power, the real footage of the battle scene was also considered an important part of the evaluation.
From the footage and pictures, many details could be captured.
In the battle between Gu Shen and Xu Yan, the buildings on Mu Street were almost unscathed.
It was only because of "breaking through walls" that the battle of the two shattered a few courtyard walls, beyond that, there was no other damage... and the footage that went viral in Snow Prohibition City Deep Water Area, where a street fire raged high, was actually just a show of strength.
Gu Shen had intentionally created a grand scene...
In an instant, Du Wei understood the reason for the "sea of fire".
Then he felt an inner admiration, this indeed was an amazing control of power.
"’Deep Sea’ rated Gu Shen’s mental stability at 99 points." The team member marveled, "Just one point shy of a perfect score... this is the highest score I’ve seen, Bai Xiu only scored 95."
Deep Sea assesses Transcendents’ mental evaluations, giving a total score.
The lower the score, the greater the risk of losing control.
And often what determines whether a Transcendent is to be detained further in the Security Committee Building...is whether they can score a passing grade in this test, and that is not so difficult.
Only... Shen Li, an old acquaintance of the Security Committee, before knowing Gu Shen, often hovered around 60 points, failing several times.
Extraordinary abilities carry the risk of losing control.
This is a concept understood universally.
Anyone, any ability, any age, could potentially lose control... presently, the federation doesn’t have a systematic explanation yet, of course, some Extraordinary Forces have their unique understanding of losing control.