Chapter 1248

Nothing can be achieved overnight.

Now she could rely on herself to wound Yan Ping, which was already quite strong.

Zhao Chi was still very satisfied.

Zhao Chi: 【It's fine. At least you managed to make him bleed with your own strength — that's huge progress.】

Qi Yue: 【What do you mean, my own strength? It's the strength you brought into my body, my lord. Without you, I couldn't have hurt him like this.】

Zhao Chi: 【Mainly because you're impressive. Let's go craft it again in a bit. You can hit him a few more times, and I'll let others experience this ability too.】

Qi Yue: 【Sure. Tang Ruan is inside, but Sister Gu Qing and Sister Zhuang Ya aren't here — they're outside.】

Zhao Chi: 【Got it. The skill's about to time out, so I'll head over to Tang Ruan's side.】

Qi Yue: 【Mm, okay.】

A strange light flared.

It passed from Qi Yue onto Tang Ruan, who was inside.

Tang Ruan was in the middle of a fierce fight, completely unaware that Zhao Chi had arrived.

Soon, Tang Ruan woke up.

She thought for a moment about the battle she'd just fought, then felt something was different about her body.

She turned her head and found Qi Yue smiling at her.

"What's wrong, Qi Yue? What are you laughing at? Did you draw something on my face again?"

Qi Yue denied it: "No way. That's something you'd do, right?"

"Then why are you sneaking glances at me and laughing?"

"I think you're cute. Just looking at you makes me happy. Is that not allowed?"

"That's true. Qi Yue, you may be a bit spacey, but your taste isn't bad."

"You're the spacey one. Haven't you noticed something different about your body?"

"Huh? How did you know? It really was you playing a trick! What happened to me?"

Qi Yue covered her mouth: "Take a look at your body status."

"My body status?"

Tang Ruan opened it in confusion to check.

One look, and she froze on the spot.

【Name】 Tang Ruan

【Physique】 8+10

【Enhancement】 Life +430%, Defense +774% (344%+430%)

These overwhelming stats left Tang Ruan stunned.

"Oh my god, what's going on? Qi Yue, how did you do this? How did I get this strong?"

She stared at Qi Yue in astonishment. Qi Yue just laughed softly and shook her head: "I don't have that kind of ability. It wasn't me."

"Not you?" Tang Ruan was very puzzled.

But she keenly caught a small clue.

"Physique 10? And Life +430%? These are my lord's stats. Did my lord come inside my body?"

Qi Yue only smiled, without answering her.

Tang Ruan: 【My lord, are you inside?】

Zhao Chi: 【Haha, you caught me. How does it feel?】

Tang Ruan: 【I feel strength all over my body. No matter how hard you are on me, my lord, I can take it!】

Zhao Chi: 【Why is your head full of these thoughts? You look pure and innocent, but you're always thinking about this stuff.】

Tang Ruan: 【No way. It's just that you were inside me for almost an hour, and I'm still caught up in the feeling.】

Zhao Chi: 【Fine, my fault.】

Tang Ruan: 【I'm not blaming you.】

Zhao Chi: 【I know. Now you can set your status to this during virtual combat. You should be able to last longer against Yan Ping.】

Tang Ruan: 【How did you know I was fighting Yan Ping?】

Zhao Chi: 【Of course. Everyone spars with him.】

Tang Ruan: 【Mm, I tried many times, but the longest I could last against him was 5 minutes. And that's just surviving — beating him is completely impossible.】

Zhao Chi: 【It's fine. After all, your roles are different. Being able to last 5 minutes is already amazing.】

Tang Ruan: 【Right? Haha, I think so too.】

Zhao Chi: 【But I want to help you change your stat allocation. I wonder if you have any thoughts?】

Tang Ruan: 【Stat allocation?】

Zhao Chi: 【Right. I plan to reset your enhancement points and put all of them into your Life. What do you think?】

Tang Ruan: 【Reset? With Forgetfulness River Water?】

Zhao Chi: 【Right. We got 2 bottles before and haven't used them yet.】

Tang Ruan: 【Of course I have no problem. You decide, my lord. I'll listen to you about everything.】

Zhao Chi: 【I want you to give me some advice based on your combat experience.】

Tang Ruan: 【I see. Alright, let me think.】

Zhao Chi: 【Good.】

Zhao Chi had actually had this idea for a while.

For Tang Ruan, stacking Life and Defense were both quite good.

Enhancing life is essentially strengthening the body, and doesn't add much to equipment.

Enhancing defense, on the other hand, mostly strengthens equipment, allowing it to block more damage.

Previously Tang Ruan was too weak, so making the equipment stronger was the better choice.

But she has now grown increasingly powerful.

And she also has a brand-new jade-skin armor.

With that, enhancing her life has become the better option.

But theoretically speaking.

Splitting it half and half — half enhancing life, half enhancing defense — actually yields the greatest returns.

It's equivalent to having both stronger equipment and higher life.

But for Tang Ruan, focusing solely on enhancing life is still better.

Because the purpose of raising defense is also just to let the equipment take more damage.

To let the equipment's durability take damage in place of the body.

But Tang Ruan's jade armor's durability was already tied to Tang Ruan's life to begin with.

Hitting Tang Ruan's jade armor and hitting her body are actually no different.

So she can just directly raise her life.

The more life she has, the more durability her jade armor has as well.

But the most important thing is his special gene: Hyper-Regeneration.

Tang Ruan's Hyper-Regeneration recovers based on a percentage of her life.

The higher Tang Ruan's life, the higher the amount recovered per second.

So increasing life is even more worthwhile.

Now Tang Ruan is no longer as weak as before, and can switch up her stat allocation direction.

After thinking it through carefully, Tang Ruan shared her thoughts.

Basically the same as what Zhao Chi had guessed.

After changing her stat allocation direction, the armor on her body won't have such a high defense bonus anymore, and might be pierced straight through by enemies — but she still has a layer of jade armor underneath, which can still block damage.

Then it's decided.

"This is the Water of Forgetfulness — drink it."

Zhao Chi took it out from the system space and traded it to Tang Ruan.

Tang Ruan received this small bottle and drank it all in one gulp.

In an instant, a glow spread out from her stomach.

Very quickly, it completely enveloped her.