Chapter 464: Mid-tier Diamond · Shadow-Slaying Sword

After parting, Su Ming hurried on his way.

Finally, he arrived at that dense forest.

The trees here were lush, all over twenty meters tall, almost blocking out the sky.

Moonlight fell all around, dropping through the tree shade, adding a bit of tranquility here.

The terrain here was open; besides the trees, there were no other obstacles, and there were almost no nether ghosts.

It was an excellent location for a decisive battle.

Su Ming used the Eye of Insight to check the information of one of the trees.

【Moon-Banyan Giant Tree】

【Introduction: The native plant of this world; it does not need sunlight to perform photosynthesis, only moonlight to survive. Dead undead will turn into nutrients and be absorbed by it from the soil, thus growing extremely tall.】

【Hardness: Equivalent to tungsten steel】

"These trees, the hardness is actually equivalent to tungsten steel?"

"Doesn't that mean they are harder than many low-quality weapons."

"Good... with these trees blocking, they will definitely be able to hinder Meng Qingtian's storm moves to some extent."

"This place is perfect."

"By the way, I'll take this opportunity to complete the Curse Forger class-change mission." Su Ming said with a serious gaze.

He wanted to raise his strength to the peak before the decisive battle!

【Curse Forger Fourth-Turn Mission: Use forging power to forge and strengthen an item to diamond quality】

【Optional Class-Change: Heart-Demon Forger, Blood Forger, Curse-Sword Forger, etc...】

Su Ming's expression was solemn, and he took out his Shadow-Flow Longsword.

This weapon was once his beloved sword.

But now, at mid-tier platinum, it was somewhat lagging behind.

"If I were to forge a top-tier diamond weapon, it would definitely consume a lot of my spirit power, which would be unfavorable for the battle later."

"But strengthening it to lower-tier diamond shouldn't consume much stamina."

Moreover, that mage assassin from the Xuanjing Guild had also dropped a bottle of spirit-power-recovering potion; even if he consumed spirit power, Su Ming could replenish it.

Mage is a profession that consumes spirit power; it is normal to carry spirit power recovery supplements.

Now he needed to pay any price to enhance his combat power.

This battle was different from all previous ones.

The Fifth Turn is a watershed.

Although Su Ming had challenged those of higher levels countless times, he always held the greatest caution regarding the Fifth Turn.

He took out that mage's staff and directly used the All-Things Sublimation talent, sublimating it to mid-tier diamond.

Subsequently, he used forging power to directly decompose it.

【Decomposition successful】

【Obtained material: Light-Refracting Gem (Lower-tier Diamond) X1】

【Soft-Black Wood-Iron (Top-tier Platinum) X1】

【Dumb-Insect Spine (Lower-tier Platinum) X1】

【...】

Su Ming decomposed many high-tier materials from this staff.

But his luck wasn't very good; some materials failed to decompose and were destroyed.

However, he was already satisfied to have these materials.

Subsequently, he sublimated the mage's robe, footwear, and other equipment, and then decomposed them.

Suddenly, more than twenty types of forging materials were stored in his personal space.

Su Ming carefully selected and chose several materials that best fit the Shadow-Flow Longsword, preparing to start forging.

【Light-Refracting Gem】, 【Purple-Spine Iron-Steel】, 【Gray-Illusion Wood】, 【Light-Absorbing Stone】, and other materials.

There were a full ten types.

"Only forging it to lower-tier diamond is a bit wasteful."

"Why not take off the entire set of Shadow-Flow equipment, decompose them, and fuse them into one sword?"

The platinum-grade set was indeed a bit outdated for Su Ming; to keep the set effect, he couldn't use many other pieces of equipment he encountered, so he decided to decompose and fuse them directly.

If his craftsmanship was up to par, then perhaps one Shadow-Flow Longsword could inherit all the effects of the Shadow-Sword set!

He did it as soon as he thought of it; he took off the full set of Shadow-Flow equipment and then decomposed it.

【Obtained material: Gray-Quality Shadow Cluster (Lower-tier Platinum) X4】

【Non-Woven Fabric (Lower-tier Bronze) X4】

【Soft-Steel Lining...】

Subsequently, Su Ming used forging power to mobilize these materials along with the previous materials and fuse them with the Shadow-Flow Longsword.

Click click click.

Suddenly, the illusory blade of the Shadow-Flow Longsword underwent dissociation, collapsing and shattering.

This was a necessary process; one must break before one can stand.

Subsequently, Su Ming forcibly gathered those materials, kneading and fusing them together.

After all, Su Ming had forged the top-tier diamond Frost-Flame Death-Scar Broken Sword; for him now, forging a mid-tier diamond weapon was naturally not difficult.

With experience, everything was easy to handle.

After spending more than ten minutes, Su Ming finally succeeded in forging.

【Forging successful】

【Obtained weapon: Shadow-Slaying Sword (Mid-tier Diamond)】

The appearance of the Shadow Sword had changed; the originally dark-purple hilt had become gray-black, like a sword in a world without color.

The blade was also sharper, becoming a turbid shadow blade; one couldn't see how sharp the edge was, but it gave a dangerous and mysterious feeling.

Su Ming checked its information.

【Shadow-Slaying Sword (Mid-tier Diamond)】

【A sword without a blade, or rather, the shadow is its blade】

【Shadow-Hiding: This sword can lurk in any shadow】

【Dark Sword Formless: This sword's blade does not cause any physical damage, but instead causes 150% dark-attribute damage; this damage will be blocked by bright-light magic, but can also penetrate physical defense】

【Spirit Absorption: Shadow is the reflection of spirit; this sword can cut a person's shadow, causing their spirit power to be lost and absorbed by the holder, maximum range 27 meters (determined by the holder's spirit power)】

【Shadow-Slaying: When wielding this sword, there is an 80% probability of spawning a shadow, causing an additional slash; the power of this slash cannot exceed 50% of the original skill's power】

【Curse · Shadow-King Blade】

【Negative effect: When holding this sword, your shadow will be treated as an entity that can be attacked; when your shadow is attacked, you receive 30% of the actual damage value】

【Buff effect: This sword can absorb surrounding shadows to lengthen its blade, maximum length cannot exceed 27 meters (limit distance = your spirit power multiplied by 0.1 meters)】

After this sword was forged and upgraded, it indeed inherited most of the effects of the Shadow-Sword set.

But some unimportant effects were discarded.

It can only be said that there is gain only with loss; overall, Su Ming was very satisfied.

The most important point was one of the affixes, 【Spirit Absorption】.

An affix that can absorb the enemy's spirit power!

This was exactly the effect Su Ming needed most right now; as long as he had this effect, he would have no fear of a war of attrition.

"The curse affix of this sword is actually quite interesting." Su Ming touched his chin and said.

"Can be lengthened to a maximum of 27 meters?"

"Then if I slash horizontally, it's a super-large-range attack, worthy of being an artifact for slaughtering groups of monsters."