Chapter 273: Can't hold back so soon? A one-sided aerial battle!

Light flickered, and the treasure chest vanished.

A suit of armor and a skill book appeared before Li Yao.

"Platinum grade?" Li Yao felt his luck was a bit dark.

It was reasonable for a Lord-tier monster to drop Platinum-grade loot.

But he had killed it while twenty levels above his own; getting Platinum again was a bit hard to justify, right?

"Go gather dust in the warehouse!" Li Yao tossed it into his storage ring.

Once he entered the Martial Academy, there would be places specifically for trading equipment, and he could swap for gear suitable for himself then.

"The equipment luck is bad, but the skill luck shouldn't be, right?" Li Yao looked at the skill book, "Giant Slayer."

Li Yao rubbed his eyes, thinking he had seen something unclean.

【Giant Slayer (S-grade passive skill): A brave soul who dares to challenge enemies of higher levels will receive the blessing of the Heavenly Dao, dealing extra damage to enemies of a higher level than themselves. For every level of difference, damage is increased by 1%.】

Li Yao had thought he'd actually pulled a piece of equipment from the chess game of his past life.

Only after reading the description did he realize that this 'giant' was not that 'giant.'

"Not bad! Another passive skill!"

Li Yao nodded in satisfaction and, without almost any hesitation, chose to learn it directly.

It was the same old saying.

No one would ever complain about having too many passive skills!

Moreover, in a certain sense, the S-grade 【Giant Slayer】 was even more formidable than the previous SS-grade 【Goblin Slayer】.

For Li Yao, fighting above his level was a daily occurrence.

He could maximize the utility of this skill book.

If it were placed on an ordinary practitioner, even crossing one or two levels would be as difficult as ascending to heaven, and they might not even be able to unleash one percent of this skill book's effect.

After learning the skill, Li Yao still did not leave this place.

In addition to the treasure chest, the One-Eyed Behemoth had also contributed seventy-two gold coins to him.

Added to what remained from before, it was already fully sufficient to upgrade an SS-grade chess piece to SSS-grade.

Originally, Li Yao had saved these gold coins for his fifth chess piece.

But since the Immortal Thunder Mouse was already SS-grade upon acquisition, and both were SS-grade, Li Yao would naturally prioritize upgrading the primary attacker, the Dark-Winged Black Dragon.

The gold coins turned into flowing light and dissipated.

The attributes of the Dark-Winged Black Dragon changed accordingly.

The jump from SS-grade to SSS-grade was a massive boost, as could be seen from the Void Mantis earlier.

All attributes were significantly enhanced.

Among them, the primary attribute, Spirit, even broke through the two-thousand mark without activating 【The World is Close】.

The skill coefficients were also strengthened quite a bit.

If he had promoted it to SSS-grade before encountering the One-Eyed Behemoth, the Dark-Winged Black Dragon alone would likely have been enough to defeat the opponent!

The only pity was that with this promotion, the Dark-Winged Black Dragon did not gain a new skill.

"It seems I need to obtain new wings before I can comprehend a skill."

Li Yao muttered, walking toward the edge of the flying ship.

Seeing Li Yao preparing to move.

Several candidates nearby who were pretending to chat instantly looked over.

Li Yao saw it in his eyes but didn't take it to heart.

He walked to the parachute jump point on the deck and leaped up.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

A whistling sound of breaking air came to his ears; Li Yao was in freefall, plummeting at high speed.

Immediately after, Li Yao saw the few candidates following behind him.

"Can't hold back and make a move so soon?"

A cold sneer curled the corner of Li Yao's mouth, and at the same time, he opened his parachute to slow his descent.

Three on the east, five on the west, one in the northwest direction.

The next second.

The figure of the Blue Bird appeared out of thin air.

The candidates nearby, seeing that Li Yao actually had a flying summon, nearly had their eyeballs pop out!

They had been preparing to follow Li Yao down to the ground and then attack in a group, completely eradicating the threat at the very beginning.

The Blue Bird flew toward the nearest candidate.

Lightly, it pecked once at the opponent's parachute.

The parachute instantly leaked air; the candidate hadn't even reacted before plummeting rapidly toward the ground below.

This height wouldn't be fatal for a practitioner, but it would definitely result in a severe injury!

"Holy crap!"

"There's a dog!"

All the surrounding candidates saw this scene, and their faces instantly turned pale.

They immediately used ranged methods to attack Li Yao.

Li Yao could dodge, but the parachute couldn't.

Li Yao simply gave up on the parachute, grabbed the Blue Bird's claws, and hovered in mid-air.

"Not cool, brother! You play like this?"

"Brother! Let's talk this out!"

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Successive sounds rang out as Li Yao and the Void Mantis directly blasted the parachutes of all the surrounding candidates.

"Someone is cheating!"

"Despicable! Absolutely too despicable!"

"Ahhh!"