Casting a glance at the segment of fish body and tail that had originally belonged to Xiao Yu beside him, then looking at the whole fish floating in front of him, Chu Chengzhou was instantly confused.
Good grief. At this rate, did he have an endless supply of fish to eat?
He shook his head and threw out these messy thoughts. His gaze fell back on Xiao Guang and he asked, "Is that all?"
"Mm."
"Alright."
Chu Chengzhou could not help feeling a bit disappointed.
The poor Xiao Yu was still a dead fish. Only its body had been restored. Life and death had not been fully reversed.
After many experiments, Chu Chengzhou finally figured out what exactly the divine power Time Reversion of the Time Dragon summoned spirit Xiao Guang was.
Time Reversion can be applied to oneself or to another target, rolling one's own or the target's physical state back to a past point in time.
But when the target is Xiao Guang itself, when the target is someone else, and when the target is different individuals, the actual effect and the soul power cost of Time Reversion vary.
When the target of reversion is Xiao Guang itself, it cannot revert consumed soul power.
Because energy is conserved and cannot be created from nothing. At least for now, while only at a million years, Xiao Guang cannot achieve that.
For example, if Xiao Guang were heavily injured and the soul power in its body was only half of its full state, and the reversion point were set to a period of peak condition, then excluding the soul power consumed by activating Time Reversion itself, after reversion Xiao Guang's injuries would heal, but the soul power in its body would still be only half of full.
Moreover, the soul power cost to activate Time Reversion is not fixed. The farther the reversion point is from the present, and the stronger the target, the greater the cost. The closer and the weaker, the lower the cost. There is, however, a minimum cost.
In addition, Time Reversion has a very obvious "side effect."
When the target of Time Reversion is someone else who is severely injured, if the reversion point is set to that person's peak period, then after reversion the target's state returns to peak, and the limitation of not restoring consumed soul power does not apply.
But if the target is currently at peak, and the reversion point is set to a time when the target was severely injured, then after reversion the target will inexplicably enter a severely injured state. Their strength may even regress to that point in time.
For example, suppose a rank 90 quasi Titled Douluo attached a 100,000-year ninth spirit ring a day ago, advanced to nine-ring Titled Douluo, and refined the dropped 100,000-year spirit bone. If Xiao Guang now performs Time Reversion on him with the reversion point set to one day ago, then this Titled Douluo who possesses a 100,000-year ninth spirit ring and a 100,000-year spirit bone will regress to rank 90 quasi Titled Douluo, and the already attached and refined 100,000-year spirit ring and spirit bone will no longer exist.
It can be said that with this divine power Time Reversion, Xiao Guang firmly takes the throne of "the most terrifying soul beast in the world."
A 100,000-year spirit ring obtained after untold hardship just vanishes. One might be so furious they die on the spot.
If you go even harsher and roll time back to when the martial soul had just awakened, then not only would that Titled Douluo's 100,000-year spirit ring and spirit bone be gone, even the soul power cultivated over decades would vanish.
Compared to when they were young and had just awakened their martial soul, that Titled Douluo would only have decades of cultivation experience left.
Of course, when the body returns to childhood, one's lifespan will be correspondingly replenished. There will be no situation of reaching the end of life while still young.
A Titled Douluo reverted to age six: I am just starting to lose my baby teeth, while my wife is old, and I have many children and grandchildren.
Aside from this "side effect," Time Reversion also has a shortcoming. It cannot reverse life and death.
Take Xiao Yu in front of him, who had been dismembered. Time Reversion can take effect, but when time is rolled back to the moment of death, Time Reversion will automatically terminate.
"What a pity."
Chu Chengzhou stroked the dragon horn on Xiao Guang's head and sighed inwardly.
Although Time Reversion is excellent and powerful in combat and definitely counts as an overpowered functional divine skill, it is not the resurrection divine skill he most wanted.
Still, although it is not a resurrection divine skill, Time Reversion seems to allow a soul master to achieve a form of immortality.
When a soul master is approaching their limit, give them a blast of Time Reversion. Repeat without end. As long as they do not die by accident, would that not be immortality?
Truly, a method for immortality.
He looked up at the sky and saw it was still early. Chu Chengzhou did not hurry back. He summoned the Tree of Life summoned spirit Xiao Qing, took himself as the main body with the summoned spirit as auxiliary, entered the human-form Spiritization state once again, then rode the Time Dragon Xiao Guang, continued to divide his focus, searched for a suitable target for Ning Rongrong's eighth spirit ring, and along the way leveled up Xiao Qing.
Why the Tree of Life summoned spirit Xiao Qing rather than the Space Holy Dragon summoned spirit Xiao Yin or other, stronger summoned spirits?
For no other reason than this: since after Xiao Guang advanced to a million years it obtained the heaven-defying divine power Time Reversion, then barring accidents, other summoned spirits will likely also obtain a divine power after advancing to a million years.
Perhaps the divine powers newly obtained by other summoned spirits after reaching a million years will be very strong, but for Chu Chengzhou at present, their importance is not that high.
Against opponents he can already defeat, adding a few more million-year summoned spirits is just the icing on the cake. Against opponents he cannot defeat, adding a few more million-year summoned spirits still will not help.
But the Tree of Life summoned spirit Xiao Qing is different. Xiao Qing bears the life attribute and will walk the path of the law of life in the future. If it achieves a million years, there is a chance a resurrection-type divine power could appear.
Douluo Continent is not as peaceful as his previous life. There are too many regrets.
His parents in this life; the elder mother-in-law, Xiao Wu's mother; the second mother-in-law, Ning Rongrong's mother; the four fathers-in-law and four mothers-in-law, Hu Liena's parents.
Aside from Zhu Zhuqing's parents both being alive, Big Sister Tang Yuehua's parents not dying young, and the Rabbit Mother's case being special, the blood relatives of him and the girls who passed away could all be considered early deaths.
If life and death could be reversed, that would be a tremendous joy.
As for father-in-law Qian Xunji, forget it. The moment Qian Xunji was resurrected, Bibi Dong would probably grind his bones and scatter his ashes again.
The fact that Bibi Dong could personally kill her first love Yu Xiaogang in an illusion and reconcile with Qian Renxue does not mean she would let go of her hatred for Qian Xunji.
If Xiao Qing does not work out later, it is not as if there will be no chance in the future.
In the God Realm, the God of Cookery and the Nine-Colored Goddess can join hands to perform resurrection. When he ascends to the Chaos God seat someday and goes to ask for help, the two probably would not refuse.