Chapter 961

"First question: what's inside this special trait space ring?"

After Su Qingli left, Xu Jingming opened his mind net to sense his surroundings and asked.

"It's called the Star Dome Ring."

Lady Qiao Lin muttered softly, then spoke with a touch of gloom:

"Those two Wu Yin seals—one is an SSR-tier enhancement combat technique, the other an SSR-tier body-strengthening art, each with two and three uses remaining respectively."

"Those three rare flowers and herbs are all SSS-tier, reserved by me as raw materials for crafting SSS-tier pills later."

"As for those bottles of pills, they're all Grade Nine: the 'Tian Chun Pill' for healing, and the 'Ran Xue Pill' for desperate battles."

"And that last one is the Chi Yun Fruit—you know what that is."

With one breath, Lady Qiao Lin felt her heart was bleeding!

These were all her accumulated treasures over the years, especially those SSS-tier rare flowers and herbs.

The pills she planned to make would help her break from Eighth Stage peak to Ninth Stage!

But now, all this accumulation was gone.

"Oh?"

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up with a smile: "Good. Now they're all mine."

No wonder he was a Grade SS prodigy of the Xinhuo Divine Temple—his space ring held valuables surpassing most Ninth Stage Lower-tier experts.

What intrigued him more was that Lady Qiao Lin had an SSR-tier body-strengthening art Wu Yin!

That SSR-tier body-strengthening art might prove crucial for his absorption of the Meltfire Beast's blood essence.

But now wasn't the time to use the Wu Yin.

Suppressing his anticipation, Xu Jingming asked again:

"Second question: why are you still on the eighth level?"

Lying in wait near the entrance to rob incoming psychics was indeed a smart idea.

But this is a trial opened by an unknown civilization—whomever reaches the highest floor of the Po Xu Tower first may gain the Noah Civilization's blessings!

Under these circumstances, lingering here to steal others' space rings instead of advancing quickly to the next level is like picking up sesame seeds while losing a watermelon.

"Here, take a look yourself."

Lady Qiao Lin, as if resigned, waved her hand—her smart wristband instantly projected a screen showing a progress bar and several lines of text:

Void Stone consumed: /

"What's this?" Xu Jingming frowned in confusion.

"It's a virtual progress bar that appeared beside the teleportation channel to the next level."

Lady Qiao Lin explained, "You must consume ten million Void Stones before the teleportation channel activates."

She waved again—the holographic display shifted from the progress bar to a list.

'Fire Essence: transforms elemental fire-based psychic ability into SS-tier, price: Void Stones.'

'Water Essence: transforms elemental water-based psychic ability into SS-tier, price: Void Stones.'

'Supreme Divine Blood (Dragon): transforms enhancement-type psychic ability into SS-tier dragon-form psychic ability, random variant, price: Void Stones.'

'Supreme Divine Blood (Bear): transforms enhancement-type psychic ability into SS-tier bear-form psychic ability, random variant, price: Void Stones.'

'Fruit of Life God (SSR): heals wounds, restores indestructible matter, removes all negative effects including poisoning, bottlenecks, weakness, etc., price: Void Stones.'

'Holy Yuan Pill (SSR): enables psychic to break from Eighth Stage Upper-tier to Ninth Stage, zero side effects, price: Void Stones.'

'......'

"This is the exchange list that appears alongside the progress bar. Originally, the text was inscribed in Noah script via psychic imprint, but it's been translated into our language."

"You can exchange Void Stones for items on this list—the consumed Void Stones are added to the progress bar above."

Lady Qiao Lin added.

"This is the depth of the Noah Civilization? Truly terrifying!"

Xu Jingming's eyes gleamed.

The list contained many items—besides the resources costing hundreds of thousands of Void Stones to upgrade psychic abilities to SS-tier, there were many other valuable goods.

The cheapest item required only ten thousand Void Stones to exchange.

"You need to accumulate ten million Void Stones to enter the next level."

"I've been on the seventh level this long and only gathered three million Void Stones—it'll take considerable time before the next level opens."

"But given the lightning dragon that appeared here, this level has beasts too, so I don't need to worry too much."

"Also, I must hurry to gather more Void Stones."

Xu Jingming thought silently.

Resources to upgrade psychic abilities to SS-tier are extremely rare.

He himself doesn't need them, but he can give them to his teacher and Qiu Yun and the others.

And some of the SSR-tier divine fruits and pills on the list, he can use too.

"Continue—next question: where in this area are the fiercest beasts most numerous..."

While Xu Jingming interrogated Lady Qiao Lin and others to gather intelligence, Su Qingli also arrived at the underground space.

"Iva, how do I use the Chi Yun Fruit?"

Su Qingli asked softly.

The Chi Yun Fruit's ability to remove her side effects was Iva's proposed solution.

For convenience, Iva's main body had entered her space ring earlier and came down with her to the underground.

"Peel off the skin and eat the flesh."

Under little girl Iva's guidance, Su Qingli peeled back the crimson outer skin of the Chi Yun Fruit, revealing its inner flesh, glowing like molten lava.

She immediately opened her small mouth and chewed the fruit flesh down in a few bites.

After swallowing all the fruit flesh, her body reacted at once.

Heat! Her entire body felt as though it were plunged into a lava pool of scorching heat!

No, even hotter than that by far!

The SSR-grade heavenly treasure she had used was called "Heavenly Origin Earth Milk," which could let her break through to the ninth rank within a few years.

But it would likewise leave irreversible damage to the meridians that absorbed origin energy.

Over the years, she had also tried using other heavenly treasures to recover, but none had worked.

At this moment, beneath that burning bodily sensation, the damaged meridians actually began to repair themselves!

"It's working!"

Su Qingli's face flushed red with excitement.

A minute later, the scorching burning sensation gradually receded, and the once-broken meridians had already recovered as before.

"The medicinal effect of the Crimson Cloud Fruit has passed. Let's first try and see if I can absorb origin energy."

With an uneasy heart, Su Qingli began to circulate her ability training method.

Whoosh—

The origin energy in the air was drawn into her body.

If it had been before, this origin energy could not have been absorbed and converted into her own power at all.

But now it was different. The origin energy entered her body through her pores and spread along her meridians throughout her whole body.

Continuously strengthening her physique and spiritual power.

"Absorption succeeded! My side effects have been broken!"

Su Qingli, usually cold and aloof by nature, no longer had her former composure.

Her fair, delicate face was filled with excitement, and along with it her well-developed chest rose and fell violently.

Four years!

She had lingered at the lower position of the ninth rank for a full four years!

During those four years, there was not a single moment she did not dream of being able to absorb origin energy and break through once more!

And now, that dream had finally become reality!

After quite a while, her excited mood gradually calmed down.

"All of this is thanks to Jingming.

Without him, I wouldn't have had the intel on the Crimson Cloud Fruit, let alone gotten it from Lady Qiao Lin.

So the question is, how should I repay him..."

Su Qingli fell into distress.

Lei Ting Martial Hall had already been promised away.

With Xu Jingming's current strength, there was nothing she could help him with either.

But by her own code of conduct, such a great kindness absolutely had to be repaid.

"Right, isn't Eva still here? Just ask her."

Su Qingli thought of Eva, who was an artificial intelligence, and hurriedly began to inquire.

"Teacher Su, you want to repay an S-rank, huh..."

The little loli Eva's lips curved into a lovely arc. "Easy, just give yourself to him."