Surging Vitality

*Unending verve.*

## Summary

Surging Vitality is mid-quality E-Grade skill, one of the fourteen available on the second floor of the Towers of Myriad Dao, and one of the six related to one of the base attributes. It is a Vitality based self-healing skill. It is very inefficient and designed to run on kill energy.

Zac completely rebuilt overhauled this skill when evolving it to D-Grade, shortly after returning from the Perennial Vastness, essentially making it a new skill, Surging Rebirth.

## Acquisition

* ... the skill unsurprisingly related to the Vitality attribute. **Book 6, Page 497**

## Skill Location

**Above Navel**

* Another skill that he considered replacing was **[True Strike]**. The one that occupied the same slot was **[Surging Vitality]**, ... **Book 6, Page 497**

## Skill Window

* [E] Surging Vitality - Proficiency: Late. Unending verve. Upgradeable **Discord**

## Early Proficiency

* “I was forced to use a berserking item yesterday.” Zac sighed after he had devoured another few kilos of meat. “It turns out that it left my body starving for nutrients ... His new skill, **[Surging Vitality]**, unfortunately didn’t work at all against something like this either. The nourishing storm that swept through his body helped with the countless small wounds left from his battle with the golem blacksmith, but they weren’t the real problem right now. **Book 6, Page 615**
* It turned out that **[Surging Vitality]** could actually utilize the energy he gathered from kills, and one stream after another entered the skill fractal by his Specialty Core. **Book 6, Page 671**
* What was a bit surprising was how much energy it cost. Using the skill for just fifteen minutes had cost him almost as much Cosmic Energy as the pitched battle before, and it had cost him over half of the accumulated kill energy. **Book 6, Page 671**
* On the bright side, it was very effective. Newly grown flesh had replaced the broken mess, and a process that would take even someone like Zac days had been shortened to fifteen minutes. **Book 6, Page 671**
* He activated **[Surging Vitality]** to heal his rapidly accumulating wounds, but he soon realized that he wasn’t able to fight and move around while using the healing skill. **Book 7, Page 117**

## Middle Proficiency

* ... and one skill after another took a step forward over the following hours. ... and **[Surging Vitality]** stepping into Middle grade. **Book 7, Page 427**

## Late Proficiency

He hadn’t had much use for his E-grade healing skill over the past years, but it had still moved to Late mastery thanks to his increased understanding of skills in general. The upgrade mostly improved the skill’s ability to heal tougher wounds, such as injuries caused by Dao-empowered attacks. Of course, the healing capabilities of such a skill were still pretty limited and cost a huge amount of energy, but it was impressive for a skill that someone like Brazla had managed to get his hands on. **Book 7, Page 684**

## Peak Proficiency

* By this point, almost all of his skills were already pushed to E-grade Peak Mastery, **Chapter 978**
* [*He can now move and use the skill.*] His body groaned in protest, but he scrambled to his feet and started running. He moved while scanning the surroundings, continuously using the trapped Kill Energy to run **[Surging Vitality]**. **Chapter 1,009**

## Upgrade

* It was difficult to say whether he upgraded the skill or created a new one—he'd essentially scrapped the whole thing, with the new Skill Fractal only keeping a few core aspects. The new skill was called **[Surging Rebirth]** and was far stronger than its predecessor. **Chapter 1,105**

## Commentary

* “For example, both **[Second Wind Pill]** and **[Surging Vitality Pill]** are E-grade healing pills of the same quality, so they are both listed as such. **Book 6, Page 264**
* A top-tier E-grade healing skill simply trumped the utility that the misdirection skill provided. **Book 6, Page 598**
* For a few seconds, there was no effect, but the maimed muscles on his legs started to wiggle and writhe a moment later, almost looking like a pack of snakes as they twisted about. **Book 6, Page 671**
* The energy entered his mangled leg, and it boosted the natural healing ability of his body rather than traditional life-attuned healing. That was why his muscles were wriggling so much; they were being forcibly regrown. Such a process was excruciating, though, a far cry from the warm and soothing streams of healing pills or the curing skills of people like Sui. **Book 6, Page 671**
* Six of the fourteen skills were heavily related to the six base attributes, without possessing a connection to a specific Dao. They also seemed to follow the concept of greatness from simplicity, which not only made them powerful but also easy to fuse with other skills down the line. **Book 6, Page 891**
* Burned skin fell off all around him as the skill started to patch him up, looking like pieces of coal on the ground. Beneath was just more burned skin, but it wasn’t completely destroyed. Zac kept the skill going, and the second layer of skin rapidly started mending as well. It felt like he was being bitten by fire ants all over his body, but Zac could only hold on and stop himself from rolling around on the ground. **Book 7, Page 121**
* If he didn’t dispel the ripples now, he would get some serious internal wounds, the kind that you simply couldn’t fix with **[Surging Vitality]**. **Book 7, Page 373**
* It was the damage transferred over when **[Nature’s Punishment]** had been incinerated by the small Spiritual Flame. Zac grimaced when he looked down at the blisters, and he could feel that this wasn’t something that would be fixed with **[Surging Vitality]**. There was a pervasive Dao lodged in his arm, and he could only gradually expel it from his body. **Book 7, Page 423**
* ... but this single node [*forced open*] was even worse. Healing pills hadn’t worked, and neither had **[Surging Vitality]**. **Book 7, Page 528**
* With the void beast organ mostly depleted, Zac crushed a Supreme Nexus Crystal as he started using [Surging Vitality]. Progress was slow, as the skill worked best when powering it with kill energy. **Book 8, Page 454**
* That was more than enough time for Zac who swallowed a healing pill before activating **[Surging Vitality]** with his Void Energy. **Chapter 801**
* ... while Zac sat down to properly heal his wounds with **[Surging Vitality]**. His body released creaking sounds as his bones were set and mended ... **Chapter 884**
* He saw similar results when Healers of the Atwood Army used Life-Attuned blessings or healing skills on him. They simply worked better on his constitution. **Chapter 973**
* **[Surging Vitality]** had served him well since unlocking the second floor of the Dao Repository years ago, and it had already patched up the wound on his back. However, it ultimately wasn't a very strong skill. It was a Middle Quality skill without any attunement. The only reason it had worked so well on Zac's body was because of his high Vitality and his body's inherent ability to recover. Any skill would have worked great on him. But **[Surging Vitality]** had too many limitations. For one, it was incredibly inefficient, requiring way more energy compared to most skills. That was probably why it had been designed to run on Kill Energy rather than normal energy reserves from the start. Secondly, infusing the skill with his Branch of Kalpataru only slightly improved the effect. Finally, it only had a 70% match with his pathways, lowering the efficiency even further. **Chapter 999**