The Blazing Light Bird and the Shadow-Splitting Giant Python were both killed by Qin Siyang.
He dropped from the air and landed firmly on the ground.
"The duration and movement range of [Origin Banquet Domain] increased several times over. It really is way more useful than the old [Banquet Domain]. If it were still [Banquet Domain], forget chasing the Blazing Light Bird, I probably wouldn't even be able to dodge those dozens of light arrows."
"Wait, that's not right either. If the skill were still [Banquet Domain], it probably would've ended and gone into cooldown not long after I finished the Shadow-Splitting Giant Python. Against the Blazing Light Bird, I'd have to tank attacks head-on for at least ten minutes."
Thinking about this, Qin Siyang couldn't help showing a pleased smile.
"[Origin Sequence] is awesome!"
Qin Siyang picked up the Blazing Light Bird's corpse and licked it twice. After confirming that he could now call on the bird's ability at any time, he stored the corpse in his storage box.
Then he walked over to the Shadow-Splitting Giant Python.
The python's ability to split shadow bodies made Qin Siyang extremely tempted.
"If I get this skill, I'll have to think carefully about how to divide the work between the nine shadow bodies. Right, how long do the shadow bodies last? The python's shadow bodies could stay around for over a day. I'm much stronger than it, so mine should last at least ten days, right?"
Filled with endless imagination, Qin Siyang licked the python's scales twice.
"Mm… Hm? That's not right! What's going on with this skill?"
Qin Siyang sensed the skill absorbed by [Divinity Through Taste] from the Shadow-Splitting Giant Python. As he reviewed the newly acquired ability in his mind, he frowned.
[Shadow Body Split: Can split into two shadow bodies. The shadow bodies have the same physical strength as the main body and can also use sequence abilities. Once killed, they disappear. If the main body dies, they also disappear. Shadow bodies last for 12 hours.]
"The Shadow-Splitting Giant Python could clearly split into nine shadow bodies. Why can I only split into two? What kind of joke is this?"
"And the shadow bodies only last twelve hours?"
"Why!"
Qin Siyang felt extremely dissatisfied.
When [Divinity Through Taste] released god skills, their power was clearly determined by his own strength.
So why was it that he was much stronger than the Shadow-Splitting Giant Python, yet the number and duration of [Shadow Body Split] had decreased instead?
Qin Siyang lowered his head and thought for a moment before speaking as if he had realized something.
"Could it be because I'm too strong, and the strength of the [Shadow Bodies] has already exceeded the upper limit that a mid-level god skill can handle, so the number and duration got compressed?"
"In other words, the power of god skills can't keep increasing forever along with my strength… these skills have limits?"
In the past, Qin Siyang had never felt this when using [Divinty Through Eating].
Because the power of the god skills he used was often weaker than those of mid-level gods themselves.
But now he had awakened the Origin Sequence.
The Shadow-Splitting Giant Python and the Blazing Light Bird were both considered fairly powerful among mid-level gods. Even if they weren't as strong as the Lava Crocodile or the Ice Crystal Giant Moth, they were at least stronger than the Thunder Snow Wolf.
Against powerful mid-level gods, Qin Siyang could kill them calmly and with ease.
This showed that his raw strength had already surpassed mid-level gods by a noticeable margin.
When using mid-level god skills now, they naturally had to be somewhat stronger than when the gods themselves used them.
The source of the skills was still only mid-level gods, so they couldn't be strengthened endlessly. Qin Siyang gradually began accepting this idea in his mind.
"The limit of a skill depending on the god's own strength does make some sense."
He even found supporting evidence from his own experiences.
"Your level determines your ceiling. Even if I mastered high school knowledge completely, I still couldn't publish top-level research papers."
Still, he had originally thought he could walk sideways through the safe zone with nine shadow bodies, so he felt somewhat disappointed.
Fortunately, he wasn't the kind of idealistic youth who only saw things in black and white, so he managed to settle his mood quickly.
"Two is two. Twelve hours is twelve hours. Better than not having any at all."
His armor was covered in poison and pale golden corrosive liquid, so he couldn't return to the drill cabin like that. He first went to the cave entrance and took off the armor.
"Feels like the armor got corroded pretty badly. The places touched by the poison look discolored. Is it going to be scrapped again? When I get back, I need to ask Professor Lu for two more Tier 4 armors."
Qin Siyang put away the armor and returned to the drill cabin.
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Chu Baxiang, Gu Yunpeng, and Zhao Sifang all looked confused.
"Brother Qin, why are you back so fast?"
"Fast?"
"Yeah. It's only been two or three minutes."
Qin Siyang curled his lips and said nothing.
He thought to himself, 'Two or three minutes is fast? Back when I used [Banquet Domain], if I couldn't finish a fight within one minute, I'd already be in serious trouble.'
He started the drill cabin, "Let's go pick up Hu Chan."
"Huh? Brother Qin, you're not killing the Shadow-Splitting Giant Python and the Blazing Light Bird?"
"Already killed them."
"What?"
Boom!
Qin Siyang gave the three of them no time to ask questions or react. He slammed the accelerator and shot forward with intense force pushing everyone into their seats.
Leaving their shock echoing behind him.
Not long after, the drill cabin reached the place where Hu Chan had left, but he still hadn't returned.
After waiting another two minutes, Hu Chan finally appeared with a satisfied smile on his face.
Qin Siyang sounded a little impatient, "A bunch of small gods. Before, you couldn't freely use your skills because you were helping me kill them, so being slow was understandable. But now you're killing them yourself, so why are you still this slow?"
Hu Chan laughed, "Sorry, Boss Qin. There were a bit too many. Cleaning up the battlefield took some time."
"Abyss Hounds or Blood Moon Tarantulas?"
"Abyss Hounds."
"Then your luck's pretty good. You got something out of it."
"Hehe! It's all thanks to Boss Qin. How did things go on your side?"
"So-so. Killed a Shadow-Splitting Giant Python and a Blazing Light Bird."
"What did you say?", Hu Chan's eyes went wide, "Boss Qin, from start to finish it was only a bit over ten minutes. Including your travel time, you dealt with those two powerful mid-level gods in just two or three minutes?"
"More or less."
"This… Didn't you step onto the [Dawn-Class] path of the believers? Shouldn't your strength be suppressed by the gods? Why does it feel like you're even stronger than before the suppression?"
Hu Chan had voiced the doubts in Chu Baxiang and the others' hearts.
The rest all looked at Qin Siyang as well.
Qin Siyang only smiled slightly as he drove the drill cabin toward the next location to hunt gods.
The others assumed Qin Siyang had some powerful secret method he couldn't reveal, so they stopped asking and started discussing it themselves.
"Hu Chan, is Qin Siyang really only Sequence Level Six?"
"Yes. That day at the guesthouse, we and Dadova… anyway, we saw it with our own eyes."
"But Brother Qin is on the [Dawn-Class] believer path. The gods should be suppressing him like crazy."
"Could it be that President Qin's believer path isn't [Dawn-Class], but [Dark-Class], which is why he can handle gods so easily?"
"[Dark-Class]? Isn't that way too extreme?"
After discussing it, the group came to only one conclusion about Qin Siyang, a miracle!
Qin Siyang kept driving the drill cabin with a calm expression, while inside he was practically begging them not to keep questioning him.
Because he didn't know how to explain it either.
So he could only stay silent and act mysterious.