Totem Killer Moves

When Gu Immortals die here, Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven digests the immortal aperture before it can settle. Totem killer moves are created by dao marks, so those marks stay fixed in the flesh and hold the most value in the body. ^{ch. 2113}

During the Myriad Tribes Ceremony, only totems can be used in battle, which keeps the death toll lower than ordinary fights. Totems are mostly trump cards. A cultivator who has reached greater success on one totem can keep eating to fuse other dao marks into a totem unique to that person, or can construct a second or third totem. Many totems give a wider range of methods, but split effort lowers quality. The same resources put into one totem make it stronger. Hei Lou Lan recalls historical records that Reckless Savage Demon Venerable had countless totems, each extremely strong, at least rank eight battle strength, some at pseudo venerable battle strength, and she reads that as the many-totem path. ^{ch. 2115}

Fang Yuan treats the essence of killer moves as dao marks, and in that respect totem killer moves as the closest to the original form. They were developed in Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven and did not exist elsewhere. They can complement ordinary killer moves and battlefield killer moves at the same level. Besides using single Gu worms, ordinary killer moves, battlefield killer moves, ancient battle formations, current generation Gu formations, and mortal and Immortal Gu Houses, totem killer moves are a new type. Activation is easy and quick and needs very few thoughts, relying on primeval essence or immortal essence instead of activating every Gu worm. They are easy to assemble and cheap to keep. Ordinary killer moves need constant feeding and time spent finding the right Gu. Totems need corresponding food ingredients, and Gu materials are easier to find than Gu worms. Once created, a totem exists on the body and needs no further food unless it is damaged, in which case the cultivator eats the matching ingredients to repair it. They are easy to publicize, and many people can use them at the same time. They are suited for all paths. Creating a totem is not cheap. Because it contains dao marks, it greatly affects the cultivator’s future cultivation. Totems are powerful but have fixed methods, so they are easy to counter, similar to Gu Houses. Fang Yuan also finds some similarity to beast strength phantoms. Cultivators here can cook with refinement path methods at low food path attainment because of the food path dao marks. In the outside world, without that environment, such food is not created so easily. The essence is food path cultivation: absorb dao marks from Gu materials into the body and form totem killer moves gradually. During that process the body chooses what it can absorb, so the totem suits its own cultivator. ^{ch. 2118} Ordinary killer moves are covered on killer moves. Beast phantoms are covered on beast phantom.

Fang Yuan holds that Reckless Savage Demon Venerable used the food path environment to create the totem killer move archetype. Cultivating totem killer moves by deduction alone would need continuous deductions. In Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven, cultivators devour food ingredients and let the food path environment select suitable nutrition, so dao marks develop into totems on their own. This uses food path to make up for a deficiency in wisdom path, and countless totem killer moves are born that way. The Gu materials come from the grotto-heaven itself. Its transformation path dao marks produce mutated beasts and plants not found elsewhere, and devouring those materials lets totems keep changing and rising. Zhan Bu Du heard of over nine thousand basic totems while lurking there. Dark capital strength tiger, rain eagle totem, thunder fish totem, and golden bell totem are part of that set. Aside from basic totems, there are unique totems that belong to certain individuals. Fang Yuan obtains recipes to create totem killer moves from that place. ^{ch. 2119}

Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven is the sacred land for cultivating totem killer moves. It is very difficult to cultivate totems outside, because there is no such food path environment and almost all the food recipes lose their effect in the outside world. ^{ch. 2133}

The totem killer moves Zhan Bu Du brought from Myriad Beast Fusion Color Heaven are divided by grade into basic totems, unique totems, and super totems. There are thousands of basic totems, including dark capital strength tiger, golden bell totem, and rain eagle totem. After refining a basic totem, cultivators keep developing it into a totem unique to them. Unique totems differ by Gu Immortal and cannot be copied, because they are tied to the distribution and scale of that person’s dao marks. Super totems are extremely few, rare enough to be rumors and legends. Zhan Bu Du had only heard of them. Many cultivators in the grotto-heaven doubt that grade. Legends say a super totem can leave the cultivator, exist by itself, cultivate, and act on its own. ^{ch. 2140}