Chapter 209

What's more...

Little Fengluan is not entirely without combat capability either.

What surprised Chen Yang was that her "Casual Fire Breath" and "Serious Fire Breath" skills actually came with the burn damage of "Nirvana Fire," and it dealt magic damage based on a percentage of the target's HP—10% per second!

Although it wasn't true damage, this magic damage was indeed unaffected by the "Magic Defense" attribute.

In other words.

No matter how high the opponent's magic defense was, they could not resist the continuous damage of "Nirvana Fire."

Only the "Fire Resistance" attribute could effectively reduce the continuous damage from Little Fengluan.

Thus.

Even though this little Phoenix Maiden was only level 1 when she first entered the secret realm.

A single "Casual Fire Breath" could burn the mobs in the secret realm to death within ten seconds or so!

Of course, that was only because this was a Diamond-grade secret realm where the monster quality wasn't too high, and basically, the mobs had no fire resistance.

If it were BOSS-level monsters, or monsters of a higher grade, once their fire resistance went up, the continuous damage of her Nirvana Fire wouldn't be so terrifying.

But one must know...

This was just the Phoenix Maiden's initial skill!

Based on this skill alone, even at level 1, she could easily clear dungeons or secret realms of over level 100!

In a short seven minutes.

Isabella crushed everything in her path, waving her dark staff at will, with dark power erupting everywhere throughout the secret realm.

Black Hole Vortex!

Shadow Erosion!

Dark Surge!

Dark Star Fall!

Various innate or ordinary skills were used in alternation, and basically, every strike was an instant kill.

Occasionally, when encountering a BOSS or something similar, the little girl would join in the fun and breathe a couple of puffs of fire, appearing quite active.

As group after group of monsters were wiped out.

Fengluan's level rose at a terrifying speed!

By the time the final BOSS of the secret realm was taken down...

Fengluan had finally reached level 20!

——

【Phoenix Maiden: Fengluan】

【Current Level: 20】

【Strength: 201】

【Constitution: 212】

【Agility: 207】

【Spirit: 426】

【Currently able to undergo Nirvana to grow up, increasing all attributes by double; requires "Fire Element Essence * 25"!】

——

Chen Yang wasn't in a hurry to activate his corpse-looting aura.

Instead, he first took a look at the little girl's attribute panel.

"To undergo Nirvana and grow up, it requires 25 Fire Element Essences?"

Chen Yang was a bit surprised.

Element Essences are obtained by dismantling equipment; adding the corresponding element essence when forging equipment can create gear with that attribute.

For example.

If you add "Fire Element Essence" while forging, the resulting equipment will have a higher probability of having attributes like "Fire Resistance," "Fire Damage Percentage," or "Additional Fire Damage."

These kinds of things are basically useless in the early stages.

But in the mid-to-late stages, various types of element essences are very important.

Because many monsters in dungeons or secret realms have relatively singular attributes.

If you want to clear them, bringing a full set of elemental resistance gear makes the difficulty of clearing much lower.

Moreover, there are also mutually restraining attributes between elements.

For example, fire-element monsters are countered by water-type damage, which deals higher damage.

When tackling dungeons or secret realms dominated by fire-element monsters, bringing a set of gear with fire resistance and additional water-element damage definitely makes the work twice as effective.

Therefore.

Often, scrolls for single-element dungeons or secret realms sell for a very high price on the market.

Because the difficulty of clearing them is comparatively much lower.

As for places like the "Bone Burial Ground" or "Ancient Human Caves," they don't have fixed elemental damage, and the difficulty of clearing them is much higher than single-element secret realms.

If it were just ordinary Fire Element Essence.

Chen Yang could dismantle hundreds or thousands of them from the equipment currently in his bracelet.

But...

What left Chen Yang speechless was that this little girl's growth actually required 25 Shi Shi-grade Fire Element Essences!

This thing.

Can only be obtained by dismantling Shi Shi-grade equipment!

"I do have quite a few Legendary-grade items on me."

"But damn, I really don't have any Shi Shi-grade equipment!"

Chen Yang felt a bit of a headache.

Should he go to the market and buy some?

That difficulty was just too high...

One must know that Shi Shi-grade equipment is not exactly cabbage.

On the market, the difficulty of buying even one piece of Shi Shi-grade equipment is extremely high, let alone 25 pieces!

For other people.

Shi Shi-grade equipment is only produced in Shi Shi-grade dungeons and secret realms...

A dungeon/secret realm drops a few pieces of gear, and it's not even enough for one's own people to split, so how could they possibly put it up for sale?

Even if they did, the price would be astronomical—starting at 30 billion for a single piece, and that's for the trashiest attributes.

One must know.

Chen Yang's previous Emperor-grade equipment with good attributes sold for over 10 billion each.

Not to mention Shi Shi-grade equipment...

Calculating it out.

25 pieces of Shi Shi-grade equipment would cost at least 750 billion magic crystals; even Chen Yang couldn't afford that right now!

Of course.

The simplest way is to buy an Emperor-grade dungeon or secret realm scroll, have Chen Yang go in and sweep through it, and the 25 Shi Shi-grade Fire Element Essences would be taken care of.

But...

Chen Yang is only level 46 right now.

And Emperor-grade dungeon and secret realm scrolls are at least level 65 and up. One must know that currently, if a dungeon/secret realm scroll is over level 49, Chen Yang won't get any equipment drops if he solos it!

Unless he calls someone of the corresponding level to assist on the side?

"That won't work either."

"With only one job-changer of the corresponding level, killing monsters is too slow."

"And if I take action myself, I'll be on the national headlines tomorrow..."

Chen Yang felt a bit of a headache.

But suddenly.

He recalled one thing...

"Right!"