Chapter 561: Scarlet End Day Five, War God Skill Upgraded to Level 20
June 25, Scarlet End Day Five.
[Base Nightmare Coins 1600, conversion rate 8001%, total output in eight hours 127,760 Nightmare Coins]
[Total Nightmare Coins: 701,864]
[Mystic Sovereign Meditation Art harvest summary: Constitution +40, Spirit +40, Mirror of Reflexes +1, Rampage +2, Master-Level Tracking +1]
[Ghostly Deity Power harvest summary: Ghostly Deity Power +30]
[Attributes: Constitution 860, Spirit 860, Ghostly Deity Power 480, Mystic Origin True Qi 430, Seven Killings Blood Qi 344]
“Damn, why boost Master-Level Tracking for no reason, keep upgrading Mind-Shattering Demon Eyes!”
Xu Lang gnawed his teeth and grimaced.
The skill ranks granted by Mystic Sovereign Meditation Art were annoyingly random.
Mind-Shattering Demon Eyes was one level away from reaching level ten, and reaching ten would cause a qualitative change.
Eye Technique skills mattered a great deal to Xu Lang.
First, he already possessed the Nightmare Eye trait, and second, the Eye of Providence could cause eye technique skills to undergo another qualitative leap.
Watching Mind-Shattering Demon Eyes stuck at level nine, Xu Lang could only stand there and watch.
Last time in the Netherworld he had been a hair’s breadth short of enough Nightmare Coins to upgrade the Nightmare Bed, which sickened him; he never wanted that to happen again.
So using Nightmare Coins to upgrade Mind-Shattering Demon Eyes right now was genuinely unnecessary.
He had no external orders; the temptation to advance Mind-Shattering Demon Eyes was far weaker than the temptation to advance cultivation methods.
Moreover, this experience made Xu Lang aware of another issue.
His skill pool needed to be restructured.
Skill-reset items were extremely rare, and he did not need them.
He only needed to keep fusing skills; in the future, the skills in his pool would all be core skills!
And right now, there was no rush…
Nightmare Essence had effectively become his second-most-important resource.
Last night, Xu Lang did not run another simulation; he saved the Nightmare Essence.
Simulating every single next day had been a little too extravagant.
High-end facilities on the Trading Network had been swept clean, none left.
That led to market panic; many players refused to list things for sale, fearing the Demon King Castle was intentionally hoarding goods to spite them.
All the girls got up one by one, while only Xu Lang stayed in bed, unwilling to rise.
“Ugh, not simulating feels so uncomfortable!”
Xu Lang felt restless, as if going through withdrawal; everything felt off.
In the end, it was just that Mad King Building had been too disappointing: after killing so many monsters, they dropped only a small amount of facilities.
They’d barely been smelting for a few days and everything was already gone.
“Dorm Owner, do you want to eat~” Chi Qingman poked out her little head and asked adorably.
Xu Lang shook his head, sadness on his face: “Qingman, I had a dream!”
“What dream?” Chi Qingman looked shocked.
The Demon King Apostle dared to offend the Dorm Owner? She couldn’t imagine making Xu Lang have a nightmare!
“A nightmare!”
That confirmed it!
Chi Qingman felt the sky collapse; she had barely enjoyed a few lazy days as a freeloader, was she about to be dragged into another internal turmoil?
“In the dream I was an omnipotent superman who could do whatever I wanted, and now that I’m awake, I’ve lost my divine power!” Xu Lang complained like someone who realized their game cheat key F12 had stopped working and they could no longer one-shot enemies.
“Hey, it’s fine!” Chi Qingman patted her chest, then realized her tone was wrong and quickly comforted him, “It’s okay, get up and have some food, then go back to sleep afterward.”
“All right!”
...
The girls didn’t expect Chi Qingman would actually drag Xu Lang out of bed.
After the Blood Calamity, Xu Lang had been lying around so much he was nearly flattened by idleness, only occasionally stiffening for certain periods.
Today he was unusually industrious; after eating he hid in the Demon Box World to train.
The training room’s level was too low to let him vent his fury properly.
Not being able to foresee the future had especially infuriated Xu Lang.
In a corner of the Demon Box World, the ground shook violently; within a ten-thousand-meter radius the earth had been tortured into ruin.
He swung his blade, over and over, relentlessly!
Although War God was an all-round combat skill tailored to arms, its primary development direction remained blade technique.
[Blade Technique insight gained, War God upgraded to level 20, exclusive skill “Blood Qi: Mountain-Crushing, Earth-Rending Slash” unlocked]
Blood Qi: Mountain-Crushing, Earth-Rending Slash was the ultimate application of Blood Qi, an ultra-wide-range lethal blade technique.
Xu Lang, clad in the Purgatory Armor Set, sliced into the ground and within ten thousand meters the terrain reacted like a massive earthquake, the sky seemed to fall and the land collapse.
The lethality of normal monsters—forget double attributes breaking a thousand, even breaking five thousand—did not necessarily reach this kind of destructive power.
Only players who had refined every path to perfection could use roughly one thousand total attribute points to this level of effect!
“This consumes so much!”
Xu Lang panted lightly; only after a minute did his stamina refill.
For a move like that, he could use it at most three times in a row.
In combat, few people did this because once exhausted, one’s state left openings, making it easy to be punished by an enemy’s decisive counter.
All of this had been taught to Xu Lang by that Asura Naraku.
Human-shaped powerhouses, aside from mages, mostly fought in close quarters quickly; they didn’t open with a killing move.
“Break.”
Xu Lang waved his hand and his equipment became invisible.
The two Blood Rakshasa training partners vanished along with it.
...
Although there had been no intelligence blast today, Xu Lang still logged into the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society.
After some boasting and idle chatter, he logged off.
But he did get one useful piece of information: high-level frog monsters had already begun appearing in other dormitory buildings.
Damn!
A wave of high-quality frog monsters would be a doomsday for Zero-Tier Dormitory Buildings; he couldn’t imagine how many airdrops those buildings might send to local players.
“Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit!”
Within Mad King Building, huge toads leapt about wildly; before reaching the tenth floor they were wiped out by Mad Vanguards.
After a while, high-level red-skinned giant toads appeared inside the safe zone, and a few wandering toads entered dormitory buildings.
Soon after, toads began surging up to the tenth floor.
Players on the higher floors with decent strength started actively reinforcing downwards.
Most frog monsters were exterminated by Mad Vanguards, and some players couldn’t wait to rush out and scavenge.
The safe zone’s water level had already reached waist-high for some.
Some players watched from afar, not daring to go down.
No one mocked those players for being timid, and no one mocked those descending players for being greedy.
Both sides understood each other’s difficulties.
Whoosh!
A harpoon on a rope stabbed through a toad’s belly, sending it flying into the air.
Players in the blood-tinged water turned to look and saw Floating Life Play sitting on the seventh-floor guardrail, surrounded by a group of oddly dressed Seventeenth Floor Players.