After sensing the effect of his eighth Spirit Skill, Su Ming was also surprised, but he immediately revealed a satisfied expression.
Enmity of the Whole World – very close to its name. It meant making enemies of others. The more enemies, the stronger the Spirit Skill's effect for Su Ming.
This was a balancing type of Spirit Skill.
The more enemies, the stronger oneself.
To describe it accurately: the more enemies Su Ming had, the more powerful assistance he could obtain.
This so-called assistance was also provided by the universe.
"The Douluo 3 version of me has Body Transforms into Universe and can mobilize universal power, but the amount I can mobilize is limited because my main body is too weak."
Just like back when the six-ring Su Ming already possessed the strength to contend with the Abyssal Sage King, the improvement from six rings to seven rings had still increased his strength by nearly a full rank.
If the main body's strength was weak, the amount of power that could be borrowed from the outside would also be small.
Therefore, even though he could borrow universal power, Su Ming wasn't actually that exceeded. His main body was still weak.
Both universal power and planar power were external forces.
Now, this eighth Spirit Skill, Enmity of the Whole World, was different. The power it provided was similar to an explosion of the main body – an enhancement of his main body's strength.
Although it was also temporary, it was undoubtedly an increase in his foundational strength.
Therefore, the two abilities not only didn't conflict but actually complemented each other, able to mutually enhance one another.
"The second Spirit Skill hasn't been conceived yet."
Su Ming wasn't puzzled. He directly entered the River of Time, scooped up some of its water, and fused it into his own eighth Spirit Ring.
As the river water fused, the second Spirit Skill of the eighth Spirit Ring finally revealed itself.
"Eighth Spirit Skill, Turning Illusion into Reality!"
The skill's effect was to turn the false into the real.
"The simplest application is, of course, to materialize what I imagine in the present, but that's only for ordinary people."
"The scope of what I can turn from illusion into reality far exceeds ordinary people. I can turn false history into real history. However, this would inevitably suffer backlash from the River of Time, so I must be very cautious when performing this operation."
In reality, this was very difficult to truly achieve.
Su Ming also wasn't very inclined to turn false history into real history.
As he cultivated, Su Ming's acceptance of the circumstances of his two main bodies, Douluo 1 and Douluo 3, grew increasingly high.
What did it matter if the Past Self lived in a false history?
What did it matter if the Future Self wandered outside the River?
Su Ming wasn't three separate beings.
He was three main bodies!
Every Su Ming was a main body. Their thoughts were interconnected, with no disconnection.
He was one person.
The so-called Past and Future Selves needed to gain a firm foothold in the already-settled past and the future full of variables, respectively, under these two circumstances.
If a sufficiently stable false history was created in the already-settled past, then whether it replaced the real history was just a matter of semantics.
Similarly, if a sufficiently stable predetermined future was created in the future full of variables, then whether it returned to the River of Time also made no difference.
For Su Ming, the Spirit Skill of Turning Illusion into Reality was not meant to turn false history into real history.
"For me, the greatest use of this Spirit Skill is to link with the eighth Spirit Skills of my other two main bodies."
Su Ming's face bore a smile.
The Douluo 1 Su Ming's eighth Spirit Skill was Illusory World. The Douluo 3 Su Ming's eighth Spirit Skill was Real World.
Of these two great Spirit Skills, Illusory World is instead stripped out a real space to trap the enemy. Real World is instead imagining a future scene, causing reality to evolve towards the fictional scene.
False and real, truth and falsehood.
The Douluo 2 Su Ming, caught between the two, had awakened the Spirit Skill of Turning Illusion into Reality.
Simply put, although Illusory World was relatively more real, the false was ultimately false.
Both Illusory World and Real World were illusory.
If the Spirit Skills disappeared, the spaces opened up by both Spirit Skills would dissipate.
Previously, Su Ming's understanding of these two Spirit Skills hadn't reached this level.
With the emergence of his current eighth Spirit Skill, Turning Illusion into Reality, he naturally gained these insights. He could sense that his Turning Illusion into Reality could transform Illusory World and Real World from their illusory essence into real existence.
It was also temporary.
The so-called real existence was relative.
The reason they could be called 'real' wasn't because they were materialized, but because these two spaces would exist in a state of being on the dimensional level of the River of Time.
"The specific manifestation is summoning the Past and Future Selves through Illusory World and Real World."
Su Ming took a deep breath, his heart surging with excitement.
Similar to when he had wanted to summon the Necromancer Demiplane before, using the peculiarity of that demiplane to find the Holy Demon Continent during the Doulou 1 era, thereby pioneering the breadth of the false history.
Now, he was converting the dimensional level of space to the dimensional level of time. Using a space that existed on the dimensional level of the River of Time as a vessel to ferry the Past and Future Selves to the present!
"It's no longer simply borrowing power. Now, I can truly temporarily summon my other two main bodies."
Su Ming's gaze flickered wildly, and he immediately wanted to verify it.
However, he wouldn't verify it now.
Verification would be done between Douluo 1 and Douluo 3.
On the Douluo 2 side, Su Ming still needed to conceal his methods.
[Douluo 1]
Su Ming released his Spirit Rings.
Eight extraordinary Spirit Rings arranged in sequence. The eighth Spirit Ring, as fathomless as a starry sky, flashed.
"Eighth Spirit Skill, Illusory World."
The surrounding world began to undergo an inexplicable change, as if becoming more substantial.
The spatial power of the surrounding world was inexplicitly abstracted, consumed somewhere unknown.
And on a dimension overlapping with this world, a illusory space was opened up. The spatial power abstracted from the external world stabilized this illusory space.
Su Ming's figure entered the Illusory World.
At this moment, even the God of Destruction and the others in the God Realm completely lost their perception of Su Ming.
The difference between the unreal and the real was not something they could casually peek into.
After entering this Illusory World, Su Ming activated another Spirit Skill.
This time, he was not activating this main body's eighth Spirit Skill, but the Douluo 2 Su Ming's eighth Spirit Skill.
Borrowing power.
"Turning Illusion into Reality!"
The Illusory World underwent an essential qualitative change.
Entering the River of Time perspective, Su Ming could see that the space he was in had also materialized above the River of Time, appearing there together with him.
With a thought, he controlled the Illusory World to move along this river.
He had a feeling: if he controlled the Illusory World to fall into the river, he would enter the corresponding node.
This feeling made his heart beat violently.
Even Su Ming, possessing the Trinity talent, couldn't restrain his inner excitement and joy when faced with such an ability.
The Trinity merely meant having three main bodies located at different time points on the River.
Now, he could actually control his main body to shift positions along the River of Time!
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