Chapter 98: Letting You See the Gap With Your Own Eyes

Over a hundred refinement stones surrounded the Great Sumeru Ring, and the Great Sumeru Ring was as busy as Tom the cat blowing a trumpet.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Every time the sound of a refinement stone shattering due to a failed refinement rang out, Ye Lin felt a pang of heartache.

No way, right?

They couldn't all fail, could they?

Ye Lin felt that his current mood was just like when playing Golden Spatula and missing one piece for a three-star five-cost unit; every refinement made his heart jump.

Ten, fifty, one hundred... seeing that they were truly about to all fail, Ye Lin's face turned green.

One thousand refinement stones and only one star refined—even an old "African chief" would look at him with pity and hand him a cigarette.

Just when Ye Lin thought it was all over, the final two refinement stones seemed to sense the despair in his heart.

Their radiance was more dazzling and eye-catching than any of the previous refinement stones, shooting straight toward the Great Sumeru Ring.

As they landed, the vibration of the Great Sumeru Ring grew more intense, as if a powerful force was awakening within it.

As the light flowed across the Great Sumeru Ring, mysterious runes seemed to be dancing.

Suddenly, a dazzling light burst forth from the Great Sumeru Ring, and it burst forth twice in succession!

"Huh? Ah... ah!"

Ye Lin was completely dumbfounded. He picked up the Great Sumeru Ring to look, only to discover that the Great Sumeru Ring had successfully been refined to three stars! The mental power bonus had also reached a staggering 160%!

Ye Lin was overjoyed; he hadn't expected that he would actually succeed in "smuggling" it through at the very last moment!

Sure enough, going all-in really is a form of wisdom!

At level 25, his base mental power was 750 points, and with the Great Sumeru Ring, his staff, and a series of other equipment, his mental power reached 3225 points.

If he were to activate Burning Reincarnation again...

This terrifying value made even Ye Lin himself gasp in cold air.

A fiery look flashed in the depths of his eyes; if he were to go all out now, he feared that no class-changer under level 50 would be his match!

If he relied on his Undying Body to force a war of attrition against an opponent, just like he did against Kensen back then, he would have a chance to kill a level 60 class-changer as well.

However, he also had to worry about encountering class-changers skilled in containment and sealing skills. If the opponent didn't want to kill him but only wanted to seal him, then his Undying Body would be rendered useless.

"However, there should be a forbidden spell for self-detonation."

Ye Lin took out all the skill scrolls he had obtained from the Qingcheng Class-Changer Guild and carefully selected all the skills that had the potential to evolve into a self-detonation forbidden spell.

Afterward, he began to study them one by one.

If he could find a self-detonation forbidden spell, he wouldn't have to fear being sealed, imprisoned, or frozen; at worst, he could just detonate himself.

After Ye Lin tried them one by one, he finally found a suitable skill.

[Star Shield: The mage draws the radiance of the stars into their body using their own mental power, forming a starlight shield outside the body.]

[Professional talent "Ultimate Sublimation" activated; Star Shield has been strengthened into Heavenly Star Explosion.]

[Forbidden Spell - Heavenly Star Explosion: The Forbidden Spell Master burns their soul and draws the power of the heavens' stars into their body. Once the star power reaches the maximum capacity the Forbidden Spell Master's body can hold, it detonates completely.]

Faint starlight began to appear around Ye Lin, and these starlights gradually converged to form chains of stars, connecting to Ye Lin's body.

Ye Lin could clearly feel the terrifying and violent star power continuously pouring into his body.

A few seconds later, Ye Lin himself seemed to have turned into a brilliant star, and his whole body swelled up like a balloon; under the illumination of the starlight, one could even see the trajectory of blood flowing beneath his nearly transparent skin.

Ye Lin hurriedly stopped the casting of Star Shield; if he continued, he would really explode on the spot.

"From starting to cast to exploding, it takes about five seconds." With this forbidden spell, Ye Lin felt a sense of relief in his heart.

In this way, if he encountered an enemy at the Gate of Apocalypse who wanted to seal him, or if Zhuge Qianxing wanted to seal him, he could detonate himself on the spot.

The Yaoguang Necklace, the Great Sumeru Ring strengthened to three stars, and the tens of thousands of bundles of skill scrolls in his storage space—these things were his confidence for going to play at the Gate of Apocalypse!

Ye Lin let out a long breath. Next, he should go out and wander around as Ye Lin to build up some presence, so that if he obtained any good items as Ling Ye at the Gate of Apocalypse, no one would suspect him.

Ye Lin took off his Phantom Mask, changed his clothes, and prepared to head to the Ji family.

In all of Qingcheng, besides Zhuge Qianxing, the only people he was somewhat familiar with were Father Ji and Ji Lingyu.

Ye Lin was slightly stunned; he hadn't expected to see Zhuge Ni with her back to him as soon as he opened the door.

Today's Zhuge Ni was completely different from usual; she wore a white, slim-fitting long dress, the hem of which fluttered gently in the breeze, like a swaying flower on a high ridge.

Her black hair hung down her back like a waterfall, and her fair, delicate skin was faintly visible under the moonlight, reflecting and shining.

Hearing movement behind her, Zhuge Ni turned around very happily, her beautiful eyes filled with joy and excitement.

She had clearly spent a long time dressing up, and even the makeup on her face was just right, making her already extremely exquisite face look even more heart-stirring.

Zhuge Ni firmly believed that the reason Ling Ye was so cold to her must be because she had been too disheveled the first two times they met; she wanted to use practical action to make Ling Ye change his opinion of her!

"Good evening, Ling Ye. What a coincidence, are you also out for some fresh air?"

Zhuge Ni turned around somewhat shyly, but when she saw clearly who was behind her, her expression immediately froze on her face.

"Why is it you?!"

Zhuge Ni did not hide the disgust and loathing on her face at all; she looked at Ye Lin as if she were looking at some hopeless trash.

"What are you, a fame-seeking fraud, still doing in my house? Didn't my dad tell you? I have already found Ling Ye! He is ten thousand times more excellent than you! My dad is already going to take him as a disciple; why are you still shamelessly staying here?"

"I'm back to pack my things, and I'm leaving now."

Ye Lin couldn't be bothered to argue with Zhuge Ni and headed straight to leave.

"Wait!"

But while Ye Lin wanted to leave, Zhuge Ni was not happy about it and reached out to stop him.

She had always loathed Ye Lin, and having spent two hours dressing up only for Ling Ye not to see her, but for Ye Lin to see her first, Zhuge Ni was currently filled with anger. She said aggressively:

"I said back then that I would definitely find the real Ling Ye and expose your hypocritical mask! The two of you—one is the bright moon in the sky, and the other is the mud on the ground; there is simply no comparison!"

"You actually still have the face to impersonate him. Now that Ling Ye has been found, I will let you see with your own eyes just how big the gap is between you and Ling Ye!"