Chapter 305: The Unbreakable Mythic Stage (Combined)

From official-level player to legendary-level player.

Each time a player levels up, the requirements are largely the same: the player's extraordinary value must reach a certain threshold.

Although the threshold value differs between ranks, the range is similar.

Only when a player has contracted all available spirit beast slots at their current level and upgrades every spirit beast to the next rank can their extraordinary value possibly meet the requirement.

Whether it can be met depends on the average affinity.

Upon reaching legendary player, the ascension requirement's extraordinary value has already reached 200w, meaning only five legendary rank Lv50 spirit beasts with 100% affinity can enable ascension.

Qin Chuan had always thought that mythic-level player probably just continues on this basis, requiring all six spirit beasts to reach the Mythic Stage to ascend.

Now it seems the ascension requirements for mythic-level player are far more complex.

But from another angle, it seems far simpler.

Because, to ascend to mythic-level player, the requirement is to obtain 100 Mythic Hearts.

While having a contracted spirit beast break through to the Mythic Stage is merely one way to obtain Mythic Hearts, even if all six spirit beasts break through, you can only gain 60 Mythic Hearts.

This means that even if all six contracted spirit beasts break through to the Mythic Stage, it cannot directly allow the player to ascend to mythic-level player.

But it also means that even if the player does not let all spirit beasts break through to the Mythic Stage, or even has no Mythic Stage spirit beast at all, they can still reach 100 Mythic Hearts via other means and ascend to mythic-level player.

Of course, those other methods are not easy either.

First, the guild battle chart's third battle formation clause must reach Lv10; the personal battle chart must grant an increase of 20 Mythic Hearts; the group battle chart must grant an increase of 10 Mythic Hearts.

Just from this aspect alone, one can obtain 30.

But it is very difficult.

The later the battle chart upgrades, the more terrifying the consumption.

Luoyue Guild, as the number one guild, besides Qin Chuan and Lin Yue, many players such as Evelyn, Leonhart, Hong Ye, and Iron Hammer have successively ascended to epic-level player, yet the guild's battle chart is still far from the third battle formation clause.

In terms of personal points, Qin Chuan and Lin Yue, who daily challenge the SS-level Secret Realm, have long left all server players behind, but on their personal battle charts, their progress has only just finished upgrading the second battle formation clause.

Another way to obtain Mythic Hearts is by conquering the SSS-level Secret Realm.

Although the SSS-level Secret Realm has not yet appeared, if all goes well, its conquest target should be the true Mythic Stage.

The difficulty of this method is also not low.

Further on, the ways to obtain Mythic Hearts will no longer be achievable at present.

For example, on the Heavenly Stairway, killing three legendary-rank beings of other races yields one Mythic Heart; also, completing a trial at a place called Exile Corner on the Heavenly Stairway grants five Mythic Hearts…

Yes, these acquisition methods are all related to the Heavenly Stairway.

Therefore, the only ways Qin Chuan and Lin Yue can truly obtain Mythic Hearts are the first four of the dozens of methods listed.

While Qin Chuan was checking his own panel, Lin Yue had already used another five Legendary Stones to complete the breakthrough of all her spirit beasts to the Legendary Rank, and she herself consequently ascended to legendary player.

The next moment, Lin Yue suddenly exclaimed, "The method for spirit beasts to break through to the Mythic Stage is so complicated!"

What?

Qin Chuan came to his senses and glanced at Lin Yue.

Unlike him, Lin Yue, immediately after ascending, upgraded all her spirit beasts from Legendary Rank Lv50 to Lv60, and already saw the method for spirit beasts to break through.

It seems the breakthrough method is also somewhat different from before.

Qin Chuan's heart sank slightly, and he quickly raised the levels of his five little ones.

Soon, Qin Chuan saw Shui Hua's panel appear before his eyes.

【Spirit Beast Species: Mingchuan Spirit Hound】

【Spirit Beast Attribute: Water】

【Spirit Beast Rank: Legendary Stage Lv60】 【Advancement】 【Evolution】 【Ritual】

【Spirit Beast Trait: Ever-flowing】

【Spirit Beast Species Value: 1000000】

【…】

After the expected 【Advancement】 and 【Evolution】, there is one new thing.

As expected, the Mythic Stage is not so easy to break through.

Qin Chuan collected himself, first opened the Advancement tab to check.

On the Advancement formation, there are nine slots in total; the eight outer slots shine with golden light, each displaying a phantom of a resource.

The eight resources are all Mythic-tier; presumably they are obtained from the as-yet-unreleased SSS-level Secret Realm.

The central slot, however, contains a phantom of a seven-colored gem.

That gem is more dazzling than the Legendary Stone.

But seeing its appearance similar to the Legendary Stone, Qin Chuan already anticipated a somewhat unfavorable possibility.

【Mythic Stone: Exists only in the Heavenly Stairway, can serve as the core passage of an SSS-level dungeon conduit, and is the key material for all Legendary Stage spirit beasts to advance】

Indeed.

As an upgraded version of the Legendary Stone, the Mythic Stone also needs to be obtained through dungeon descent.

Unlike the Legendary Stone, the Mythic Stone requires an SSS-level dungeon conduit.

That is a conduit that allows the Mythic Stage to flow unimpeded.

Fortunately, after the breakthrough, Qin Chuan's strength is no longer comparable to before.

After careful planning, there is still hope.

Having collected himself, Qin Chuan opened the Evolution interface.

What came into view was still the familiar equipment crafting and equipment enhancement.

Besides that, there is also a brand-new formation.

This formation has three slots, giving Qin Chuan a very bad premonition.

After he clicked the constantly flashing question‑mark icon in the upper‑right corner and learned the evolution rules, this premonition became reality.

For a spirit beast to evolve from the Legendary Stage to the Mythic Stage, it must complete three tasks.

First, it must forge a piece of corona equipment.

As before, forging corona equipment requires using at least two and at most nine corona equipment materials plus one equipment forging stone; the more materials used, the higher the resulting affix grade, but the success rate drops accordingly.

Although the rules don't say so, under the same conditions forging corona equipment will surely have a much lower success rate than forging lunar halo equipment.

Just as lunar halo equipment has a lower success rate than star ray equipment.

Successfully forging a piece of corona equipment is only the first step of evolution.

Afterwards, the previously forged lunar halo equipment must be strengthened.

The material remains equipment enhancement stones, but the amount is increased tenfold and the requirements are stricter.

Each enhancement requires 10 equipment enhancement stones, and the probability of equipment failure while retaining the original level drops from 67% to 50%; the probability of dropping one level remains unchanged at 33%.

As for the remaining 17% probability…

Drop two levels.

Upgrading the two previous halo equipment to corona equipment counts as completing the second step of breaking through the Mythic Stage.

The final third step is far more difficult than the first two steps.

The Spirit Beast needs to fuse three corona equipment to form a mythic artifact.

The mythic artifact can simultaneously possess the affixes of the three corona equipment, and further enhance those affixes, greatly increasing the strength of the three affixes.

Only when the mythic artifact fuses with the Spirit Beast can the Spirit Beast complete the evolution of the Mythic Stage.

But wanting to obtain such a powerful object naturally cannot come without cost and risk.

Each time the fusion fails, one of the three corona equipment is randomly damaged.

In this way, the player needs to reforge a brand-new corona equipment, together with the original two corona equipment, to attempt fusion again.

And the success rate of fusing corona equipment into a mythic artifact is related to the level of the three corona equipment.

Even if the three corona equipment are level 10, the fusion success rate can only reach 10%; if the corona equipment level is too low, it may not even reach 1%.

Forging, enhancing, fusing.

Only those who can smoothly complete these three steps are qualified to evolve.

But besides advancement and evolution, the Mythic Stage also has a third entirely new requirement.

【Ritual】

Qin Chuan clicked into the ritual interface, which contained only two short lines of text.

【Water King: Command the endless living beings of a hundred thousand li sea area to willingly submit, using the corpse of a water-attributed Mythic Stage as an offering, perform the sacrifice above the sea area】

【The ritual can be activated only after both the 【Advancement】 and 【Evolution】 conditions are satisfied】

Looking at the ritual content, Qin Chuan's heart slowly sank.

What does a hundred thousand li sea area mean?

Even the Pacific Ocean of Blue Star falls far short of this scale, let alone the Dream World.

Although beyond the Dream World's continent lies an endless ocean, people have tried before, and there exists something like an air wall blocking the ocean.

That is a place that cannot be reached.

Just this one environmental restriction directly makes Shui Hua's ritual impossible.

And the Mythic Stage corpse afterward is also impossible to obtain.

Within the Dream World, the only place where a Mythic Stage could possibly exist is an SSS-rank secret realm, but the Mythic Stage within the secret realm exists in a special form, not flesh-and-blood living beings; they vanish instantly upon being killed.

Even killing the invading Mythic Stage alien race on Blue Star and then bringing it into the Dream World is likewise impossible.

The Special Affairs Group had already considered, when the dungeon's Descent occurred, the possibility of killing the alien race and then dissecting the corpse to analyze its power, but the plan was aborted before it even began.

The alien race invading Blue Star, after falling, its corpse rapidly decomposes and dissipates.

In other words, Shui Hua's ritual cannot be completed in the Dream World.

Unless…

Qin Chuan's mind conjured the map of the Heavenly Stairway.

The Heavenly Stairway is a complete world larger than the Dream World; a hundred thousand li sea area exists there, and there are many of them.

If the corpse of a slain Mythic Stage does not instantly dissipate in the Heavenly Stairway, then Shui Hua's needed ritual could be completed.

So… does Shui Hua need to enter the Heavenly Stairway to break through the Mythic Stage?

That really isn't good news.

Qin Chuan couldn't help but look at the other four little ones.

Surely not all Spirit Beasts' ritual requirements for breaking through the Mythic Stage are this harsh…

"The rituals for my five Spirit Beasts all need to be completed on the Heavenly Stairway." Lin Yue's solemn voice sounded, shattering Qin Chuan's hope.

He quickly checked the rituals for Ice Cream, Silver Horn, Little Black, and Boulder, then let out a heavy sigh.

All need to be completed in the Heavenly Stairway.

As far as known, the way to connect to the Heavenly Stairway is not the Dream World.

It is a passage created by the dungeon's Descent, located in the real world.

But that passage only allows the living beings of the Heavenly Stairway to enter and exit.

Blue Star's transcendent beings cannot pass through the passage to go to the world beyond it.

This is the barrier between the living beings of the material world and the Heavenly Stairway.

Wanting to enter the Heavenly Stairway leaves only one last possibility.

That is the next world update.

According to everyone's speculation, after the next world update, there will inevitably be a way to enter the Heavenly Stairway.

So now, he wants to take back his previous statement.

The way he and Lin Yue can truly obtain the Mythic Heart is not just four out of the dozens of listed methods, but only three.

Only by gathering enough Mythic Hearts through other means to advance to Mythic-level player will the next world update appear, giving him and Lin Yue a chance to go to the Heavenly Stairway.

Then, after completing a series of rituals in the Heavenly Stairway, the Spirit Beast can break through the Mythic Stage.

"If we can't break through the Mythic Stage, can we still advance to Mythic-level player?" Lin Yue frowned slightly, her face full of worry.

She hasn't had a chance to check the requirements for advancing to Mythic-level player.

"You can advance." Qin Chuan tugged Lin Yue's hand, "Take a look at your panel."

"Huh?" Lin Yue, reminded by Qin Chuan, quickly saw the content of the Mythic Heart, and her expression immediately became wonderful.

Qin Chuan then opened the global channel.

As expected, the global channel already showed his breakthrough announcement.

【Congratulations to player 【Luo】 for advancing to Legendary-level player!】

【Due to the appearance of many powerful Legendary-stage Spirit Beasts, the Dream World's capacity further declines; more numerous and higher-level spacetime rifts break free of suppression and are about to descend!】

【A new SSS-level Secret Realm will appear after the next Dream World Entrance opens!】

Watching the frantic discussion in the channel, Qin Chuan took a deep breath.

The next Dream World day…

After calming down, he no longer felt the panic he had just learned about when discovering that Spirit Beasts cannot break through in the Dream World.

At worst, we can defeat a hundred SSS-level Secret Realms to advance to Mythic-level player.

As long as, before advancing to Mythic-level, we contract the sixth pet and complete all breakthrough preparations for the six pets aside from the ritual, entering the Heavenly Stairway won't faze him.

"It seems our upcoming breakthrough will be different from before." Lin Yue, having finished looking at all ways to obtain the Mythic Heart, shook her head helplessly.

One can imagine that, once they advance to Mythic-level player first and clear the path to the Heavenly Stairway, latercomers wanting to advance to Mythic-level will find the difficulty greatly reduced.

Those who plant trees give shade to those who come after; they are now those predecessors.

"If we can't have a Mythic-stage Spirit Beast before entering the Heavenly Stairway, our situation will be even more dangerous than we anticipated." Lin Yue glanced at Qin Chuan, worry in her eyes.

Over the past month, almost all dungeons have been tackled by the two of them together.

She clearly knows how many Mythic-stage projections the youth before her has slain while clearing dungeons.

Those Mythic-stage beings that have not truly fallen surely hate Qin Chuan to the core, merely waiting for him to enter the Heavenly Stairway to launch a frenzied revenge.

"Aren't you still by my side?" Qin Chuan pinched Lin Yue's hand and gave a light laugh.

As for those revenge-seekers, he isn't that worried.

After all…

In the Heavenly Stairway, he can use Time Stop.

He is quite certain about that.

As long as he has Time Stop, he won't panic.

He has already accumulated over six minutes of Time Stop, and when he advances to Mythic-level player, he will surely be able to accumulate even more.

So…

"Let them come."

(End of chapter)