Chapter 424

"Get out quickly; I need to seal the cave and go into seclusion to level up," she waved her hand at Su Ming and Ji Yao.

Su Ming and Ji Yao immediately teleported away from there.

"Farewell, Black Witch," Su Ming said.

Upon leaving, Su Ming took a deep look at Ye Zi.

This Black Witch... her methods were too formidable.

Perhaps the next time they met, she would be a true seventh-turn Saint.

Su Ming always felt that there was a hint of faint urgency in her desolate eyes.

Ignoring the huge risks, she insisted on refining the leveling magic potion to increase her level, as if there was something she had to complete in the future that was driving her.

But all of this had nothing to do with Su Ming.

After Ji Yao and Su Ming left, Ye Zi’s eyes became somewhat lonely.

"Sigh..."

"When negotiating, he called me sister and senior so sweetly."

"After the deal was done, he called me Black Witch."

"One day, sister will make you submit," she shook her head to herself and smiled mysteriously.

Subsequently, she decisively drank the Ancient Snake Antidote Gall juice.

Then, she drank the entire bottle of Ascension Potion!

Suddenly, her level skyrocketed!!

Su Ming and Ji Yao arrived at the Fat Goose Inn and met up with Ni Shuang, Yan Ze, and Jiang Yunqing.

"How did it go? What was the price Lady Ye Zi wanted?"

Ni Shuang asked.

"My three drops of blood," Ji Yao replied.

"She helped us fight three honored ones; I think this price is very worth it."

"Indeed," Yan Ze nodded.

"Su Ming, when are we going to Shushan?" Jiang Yunqing looked at Su Ming and asked.

Everyone was full of anticipation.

"The Profound Mirror Guild happens to have the exploration rights for the B-rank dungeon Shushan, and we inherited them, so the ticket price is not an issue," Yan Ze said with a smile.

Su Ming’s gaze was grave as he said.

"We go tomorrow."

"Give me some private space first," he said.

Immediately, Su Ming opened his panel, purchased a private box in the Fat Goose Inn, entered it, and disappeared on the spot.

"The master’s way of doing things is so mysterious..." Wan Wu’s eyes flickered as he said.

"Let’s wait for him," Yan Ze said.

In the private box at the inn, Su Ming sat cross-legged alone.

As a friend of the boss, he no longer had to pay at the Fat Goose Inn.

He spread out his palm.

A drop of red and blue magic potion was suspended there.

"Although it is an Epic high-grade potion, there is only one drop."

"I hope that after sublimation, it can increase in quantity, or... become stronger in effect," Su Ming prayed in his heart.

He had gone to great lengths to get this drop of magic potion from Ye Zi just for sublimation.

After Epic high-grade sublimation, it would definitely be Ancient-grade.

He could not help but be tempted by such a temptation.

"Sublimation!" he said coldly.

[Sublimation successful!]

The next instant, the potion turned into a golden droplet, suspended in Su Ming’s hand.

This drop of medicine looked as crystal clear as resin, flowing in mid-air, looking extremely divine.

"Hmm..."

"The quantity hasn't changed; it’s still one drop," Su Ming frowned.

"It didn't sublimate into a whole bottle."

"Then I can only hope for the effect."

He directly activated his Eye of Insight to check the effect.

[Ascension Droplet Potion (Ancient Low-Grade)]

[A rare treasure of heaven and earth; one drop is enough to shed one’s mortal coil. Unfortunately... there is only one drop.]

[If you have already reached the fifth turn, then after consumption, your realm will immediately be elevated to half-step sixth turn!]

[And the difficulty of your job-change quest to ascend to a sixth-turn honored one will be reduced.]

Su Ming’s eyes were shocked.

Without the slightest hesitation, he drank it all.

In an instant, he gained a large amount of experience and directly reached level 60!

[Promoted to level 60!]

[Obtained a total of 100 free attribute points.]

"It’s a pity that there is only one drop of this potion."

"If there were a bottle... I dare not even imagine the effect after sublimation," Su Ming muttered.

But being able to reach the half-step honored one realm, Su Ming was already satisfied.

Su Ming immediately added these attribute points to Strength.

Now his Strength attribute had reached 370 points.

"My Agility is over 1500, which is already far beyond ordinary honored ones."

"The Spirit attribute seems sufficient for now."

Su Ming’s biggest shortcoming now was that his Strength attribute was not high enough.

So he had to make up for this.

Agility would greatly increase the critical hit rate, but critical hit damage would only receive a slight increase.

But the Strength attribute would not increase the critical hit rate, but purely increase critical hit damage.

As long as these two attributes were high, he could slay dragons with every strike.

And don't forget, Su Ming’s Luck attribute was also very high, and this attribute could also amplify the critical hit rate.

Therefore, his point allocation was almost entirely centered around critical hits.

Su Ming stood up, his gaze grave.

He felt the combat power filling his whole body, as well as the power flowing through his half-step sixth-turn movements.

"So strong..."

"Level 60 and level 59 are only one step apart, but I feel several times stronger."

"So this is the half-step realm!"

Su Ming muttered.

At this time, the job-change quest also appeared.

[Sixth-turn Sword God quest generating...]

[Generation successful!]

Subsequently, a virtual panel appeared in Su Ming’s mind.

[Sword God Quest: Slay an elite monster of half-step sixth turn or higher.]

[Reward: Promotion to sixth-turn Sword God, one wheel draw opportunity.]

Su Ming’s expression tightened slightly.

The quest was... not as difficult as he had imagined!

"This Ascension Droplet, even if incomplete, is an Ancient low-grade potion; the effect is truly extraordinary."

"It even made the job-change quest to ascend to an honored one much simpler!" Su Ming couldn't help but laugh.

As a ninth-turn profession, the quest for each job change for a Sword God was far more difficult than other professions by several times.

But this time, he only needed to slay an elite monster of the same realm!

If it were someone else, they might still feel it was somewhat difficult and need to form a team to challenge it.

But Su Ming had the Origin Sword Body; soloing it was absolutely no problem!

He was overjoyed and began to check the job-change quest for the Sinful Sword Fanatic.

[Sinful Sword Fanatic sixth-turn quest generated!]

[Quest: Obtain 10,000 Sin points.]

[Optional job changes: Sinful Sword Venerable, Pure Sword Forging Venerable, Soul-Melting Forging Venerable...]

The sixth-turn options for the Sinful Sword Fanatic were also very numerous.

Su Ming checked his Sin points and found that there were not many left.

"After the guild war, I consumed all my Sin points and used the Sin-Forging Sword Art to condense flying swords to fight the sixth turn."

"It’s a pity, otherwise I should have been able to complete the quest by now."

Su Ming was not annoyed, however.

The stronger the creature killed, the more Sin points obtained.

In the Shushan dungeon, just killing a few elite monsters should yield 10,000 Sin points.

"By the way, Ji Yao gave me a skill upgrade scroll."

"Might as well sublimate it."

Su Ming took it out to check.

[Skill Advancement Scroll (Diamond Mid-Grade)]

[After use, perform a quality upgrade on one of your selected skills; the highest grade cannot exceed Diamond mid-grade.]

A skill upgrade without specific requirements, only limited by the highest quality.

This thing... was absolutely priceless!

The drop rate was too low; no matter how hard the billions of job-changers on Blue Star tried, they couldn't farm many and had to rely on luck.

Moreover, even a sixth-turn scroll engraver could not replicate this thing because the structure was too complex and constrained by rules.

If it could be mass-produced, the wealthy job-changers would have long since used this to upgrade their skills infinitely.

"Ji Yao actually gave me such a precious gift..." warmth welled up in Su Ming’s heart.

He directly performed sublimation.

[Sublimation successful!]

The next instant, the color of the skill scroll changed, becoming a purple stone scroll that looked crystal clear.

Su Ming checked it.

[Fusion Heavenly Technique Scroll (Ancient Low-Grade)]

[Two styles merged without a seam, watertight as if naturally formed.]

[After use, fuse two of your selected skills; they will definitely undergo mutation and evolution.]

[The highest quality after evolution cannot exceed Ancient low-grade.]

Su Ming’s gaze was slightly dazed.

"W-what!?"

"Ancient low-grade!"

This sublimation was truly a stroke of luck.

Su Ming’s excited heart and trembling hands almost made him drop it.

"Ji Yao, oh Ji Yao, you really gave me a divine object..."

He couldn't help but exclaim.

Mutation and evolution were more precious than ordinary skill advancement.

Because after mutation, skills often underwent huge changes.

Many affix effects would also disappear or change.

But after mutation, no matter how many changes occurred or how many affixes were lost, they would only become stronger, never weaker!

Su Ming did not hesitate at all and immediately began to select skills.

After thinking for a long time.

Su Ming felt that [Ancient Yin-Returning Yang Sword] and [Lingwei Yin-Yang Step] were extremely compatible.

Because both were related to "Yin-Yang" and had connections to the Taoist Taiji Bagua.

Although one was a movement technique and the other was a footwork technique.

But Yin and Yang were connected, and Su Ming believed that the result of the fusion would not disappoint him.

If he fused two completely unrelated skills, Su Ming felt the effect would be very poor.

He was not an indecisive person; once he made up his mind, he proceeded with the fusion.

Suddenly, the Ancient low-grade skill scroll was crushed by him.

[Mutation and fusion evolution successful!]

[Obtained skill: Taiji Derivative Heart Technique]

Suddenly, tips on combining hardness and softness flooded into his mind.

Su Ming mastered it instantly.

He checked the new skill.

[Taiji Derivative Heart Technique (Ancient Low-Grade)]

[Proficiency: 30 million / 100 million]

[The true method is hard to remember, spending a lifetime to derive this technique.]

[The four-nine technique becomes a heart art, capable of reversing all things in heaven and earth.]

[Heart power exhausted to pour into this, alas, the Taiji is too profound.]

[If heaven finds it hard to break my law, I hope you do not blame this derivative summary.]

"This skill description has such a long poem?" Su Ming was shocked.

"And it looks like the creator’s annotations for this skill."

He continued to read.

[In the ancient era, a great flood surged, about to drown the people of a village. At this time, a mortal Confucian scholar saw with his own eyes a Taoist master intervene, overturning the tide like a god descending to save the common people.]

[The Confucian scholar engraved this scene in his heart, pondered it carefully, and exhausted his entire hundred-year lifespan and heart’s blood to write this Taiji Derivative Heart Technique; as a mortal, he had done his best.]

[Although this move does not have the invincible power of the true Taiji secret method, it has five or six tenths of it.]

These skill secrets could only be seen by the Eye of Insight.

If it were anyone else, they would only see the skill description.

"A mortal Confucian scholar, just by watching once, could deduce a part of the Taiji secret method?"

"This is simply... a human genius..."

"Unfortunately, he was just a mortal," Su Ming slowly shook his head and sighed, feeling some regret.