Chapter 341

Even when scaled up to the entire Ancient Kingdom, or even the entire Magic Card civilization, the number of Magic Card Spirits possessing the "Slay" skill is, in fact, extremely limited.

When it comes down to it, the priority of the Slay skill is extremely high—it even takes precedence over Invincibility skills!

As long as the Slay effect is triggered, even Invincibility will be wiped away for you.

However, this does not mean that skills with Slay effects are the strongest; if Slay encounters a life-extension type skill, its effectiveness is mostly discounted.

After all, no matter how strong the Slay effect is, it can only slay one life, while life-extension skills guarantee at least two lives to start with.

Even if one life is slain, there is still a second one.

Therefore, no matter how awesome a skill's effect is, it still depends on compatibility; if the compatibility is right, one will occupy more initiative and advantage in battle.

But it cannot be denied that compared to other types of skills, Slay-type skills indeed have a much greater advantage.

"Besides the Fierce Spirit King, there are quite a few Fierce Spirits here. If you don't speed things up, I'm afraid we'll waste a lot of time before we can set off for the core of the Bone-Burial Ground to receive the inheritance."

"I know that too," Yan Yuexin said, her small face unable to help but turn bitter again upon hearing Lu Li's reminder. "But the problem is that my current mana recovery speed can't keep up with the consumption rate."

Mana recovery speed failing to keep up with consumption is actually a very normal phenomenon for Magic Card Masters, especially during battle.

But the problem is that Yan Yuexin isn't currently engaged in any battle; she is just mechanically repeating the action of purifying Fierce Spirits, constantly trapped in a cycle of purification-consumption-recovery, which gives her the feeling that she is working on an assembly line.

Even so, her mana has never been full for a single moment, remaining almost entirely below half throughout.

The root cause is that the speed at which Lu Li's Magic Card Spirits defeat the Fierce Spirits is too fast; if it were any other team, Yan Yuexin feels it would be absolutely impossible to reach Lu Li's level.

Never mind the teams of other Saint Son and Saint Lady candidates, even if an Emperor Realm expert came, I'm afraid it would just be like this—after all, Lu Li is also an Emperor.

A newly entered Emperor is still an Emperor!

……

"How come I feel like Yuexin seems a bit miserable?" Inside the secluded valley, seeing the Dark Magician Girl blast the Fierce Spirit King into a crippled state with just a few Dark Magic Attacks, Yan Tianlu's brow couldn't help but twitch uncontrollably.

To be honest, he now believes what Lu Li said earlier.

A Super-grade sequence ten-star Fierce Spirit King, crippled just like that, and it seems Lu Li is still handling it with ease. This isn't something just any Magic Card Spirit can do, especially when the target is only a High-grade sequence nine-star Magic Card Spirit.

A nine-star counterattacking a ten-star, a High-grade sequence crushing a Super-grade sequence—even if special skills were used, the Dark Magician Girl's destructive power is still no small matter.

If those few Dark Magic Attacks just now hadn't landed on the Fierce Spirit King, but on other ordinary Fierce Spirits, it's very likely they would have been finished off rather than just crippled.

At the very least, Yan Tianlu doesn't think the Magic Card Spirits he held in the past could have achieved this level of destructive power.

But then, seeing his own daughter's miserable expression, his gaze couldn't help but become very subtle.

I'm afraid that before coming to the Holy See, Yan Yuexin never imagined that she would become an assembly line worker during the trial inheritance.

Of course, if other Saint Son and Saint Lady candidates saw this scene, they would definitely be very envious and would certainly be willing to take Yan Yuexin's place.

It might be a bit tiring, but this is literally lying down to win! Passing the Bone-Burial Ground trial and obtaining the inheritance while lying down the whole time.

It is even highly likely to be the top-tier inheritance!

One-third of the Fierce Spirits in the Bone-Burial Ground, plus one Fierce Spirit King—as long as all these Fierce Spirits are purified, one is guaranteed to obtain the top-tier inheritance.

And the only price to pay is the consumption of mana.

Of course, it must be very uncomfortable during this period; after all, being in a state of long-term mana deficit manifests in the Magic Card Master as nausea, dizziness, physical pain, and various other abnormalities.

Usually, at this time, Magic Card Masters would stop the output of mana. But in the Bone-Burial Ground, there is no way to do that.

As long as one is bound to the Holy Artifact, mana will be consumed regardless of anything, not to mention purifying Fierce Spirits.

And Yan Yuexin, you could say she has forcibly adapted to the situation of mana deficit with her own adaptability, but it definitely won't feel good.

Otherwise, Yan Yuexin wouldn't be acting so miserable.

"How can you say that?" Hearing Yan Tianlu's remark, Yan Qinyun couldn't help but roll her eyes at him. "If you could have done this back then, then when I was receiving the inheritance, it would have been much easier."

The more Pure Power obtained, besides having a better chance of receiving a higher-level inheritance, the relatively easier it becomes when undergoing the inheritance.

Rolling her eyes at Yan Tianlu, Yan Qinyun's gaze fell back onto the light screen, the depths of her eyes also filled with shock.

As someone who has also participated in the inheritance trial, Yan Qinyun is very clear about how astonishing Lu Li's current performance is.

Even if placed among all previous sessions, Lu Li's performance can definitely be counted as one of the best!

At the very least, in the history of the Holy See that Yan Qinyun has come into contact with, she has never heard of anyone who could solve a Fierce Spirit King so easily.

In fact, any session of the trial inheritance where a Fierce Spirit King appeared basically ended up being cut short.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Yan Yuexin can purify the Fierce Spirit King and all the Fierce Spirits present, then the inheritance she receives next will be enough to rank at the forefront of the Holy See's historical trial inheritances!

And this simultaneously means that Yan Yuexin's talent will be liberated to a deeper and greater extent!

At this moment, even though the other party is her own daughter, Yan Qinyun still couldn't help but feel envious.

641. The Holy See's surprise, eyeing Lu Li?

Damn it!

Being chided by Yan Qinyun, a bitter smile couldn't help but rise on Yan Tianlu's face. How did he get caught in the crossfire while just lying here?

However, Yan Qinyun was also right; if he could have done what Lu Li is doing back then, the inheritance Yan Qinyun finally received would have been stronger, and he would have gained greater rewards.

In the Holy See's trial inheritance, the ones who gain the most are naturally the various Saint Son and Saint Lady candidates; only after receiving the inheritance are they truly considered Saint Sons or Saint Ladies.

Besides that, as Guardian Knights protecting the Saint Son and Saint Lady candidates, they can also gain rewards, and the rewards obtained by the Guardian Knights are related to the strength of the inheritance received by the Saint Son and Saint Lady candidates.

But this is no longer a question of whether he wants to or not, but whether he can do it; even if he tried harder, he couldn't reach Lu Li's level.

He is just an ordinary genius; no matter what, there is a limit. Comparing him to a freak—isn't that obviously making things difficult for him?

"Although I later learned that Lu Li still hid quite a few trump cards during the Four Great Academies Exchange Tournament, this kid is hiding too ridiculously, right?" Beside Yan Tianlu and Yan Qinyun, Lan Xiatong couldn't help but rub her head, feeling that she hadn't recovered from the shock just now.

"I didn't expect Lu Li to really succeed." Although he is a Magic Card Master belonging to their side, watching the battle in the Bone-Burial Ground from start to finish, Lan Xiatong's mood is still very complicated.

But the bottom line is that Lu Li is not a Magic Card Master from the Southern Region, nor is he a student of the Traveling Palace—this is what makes this Traveling Palace Master most sorrowful.

"However, it's actually quite satisfying." Shaking her head, Lan Xiatong's gaze swept across the secluded valley without a trace, and a hint of pleasure gradually appeared at the corners of her mouth.

Sorrow is just an internal matter of the Ancient Kingdom, but being able to see the incredulous and shocked expressions of the Holy See's crowd is naturally pleasing.

Especially since it's on the Holy See's turf, and with the Holy See having the home-field advantage, giving the other party a harsh lesson—this kind of sour satisfaction is simply amazing!

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"The Fierce Spirit King was actually solved? Am I seeing things?"

"Hiss! This Magic Card Spirit is incredible; relying on nine-star strength, it directly crushed a ten-star Fierce Spirit King."

"A High-grade sequence defeating a Super-grade sequence—if I hadn't seen the entire battle process with my own eyes, I would absolutely not believe such a counterattack."

"It's indeed hard to imagine, and more importantly, I've discovered that until now, I have no impression at all of the Magic Card Spirit summoned by this Ancient Kingdom Guardian Knight."

"Now that you mention it, I've discovered that too."

Not only were Yan Qinyun, Lan Xiatong, and others shocked in their hearts, but the ones most shocked by this scene in the secluded valley were undoubtedly the various Popes of the Holy See.

The moment they saw the Fierce Spirit King being broken, they were equally stunned, and the surprise in their hearts far exceeded that of the Magic Card Masters from the Ancient Kingdom like Lan Xiatong and Yan Tianlu.

After all, compared to the Ancient Kingdom crowd who already had some understanding of Lu Li, these Popes of the Holy See were seeing such a ruthless Magic Card Master and such a fierce Magic Card Spirit for the first time!

This can't be blamed on them; the Holy See indeed doesn't have a Magic Card Master as fierce as Lu Li, nor a Magic Card Spirit like the Dark Magician Girl, who possesses various complex abilities and even has the Super-Quantized Illusion that can directly lower the target's level.

In fact, what the Holy See crowd doesn't know is that Lan Xiatong and the others were also learning of the Dark Magician Girl's existence for the first time today.

Although when the Fierce Spirit King was downgraded by the Dark Magician Girl, the Popes present had more or less guessed this result—after all, the Dark Magician Girl's performance at the nine-star level is indeed remarkable.

But seeing the Fierce Spirit King truly broken, and broken so easily, the moods of these Popes still inevitably became complicated.

The Popes present all have strength reaching at least the Immortal Realm; even though the Dark Magician Girl's counterattack and crushing of the Fierce Spirit King gave them a start, they quickly accepted this fact.

They couldn't not accept it; could they make time turn back?

Even if it turned back, as long as the Dark Magician Girl possesses the Super-Quantized Illusion skill, and as long as the Fierce Spirit King has no way to crack the effect of the Super-Quantized Illusion, the ending would not change at all.

And after accepting this result, the thoughts of these Popes quickly shifted, and the focus of their discussion almost entirely fell on the Dark Magician Girl...

No matter what, a ten-star Fierce Spirit King belongs to the Super-grade sequence.

And a High-grade sequence Magic Card Spirit capable of solo-killing a Super-grade sequence existence—even if this Magic Card Spirit has various flaws—its strength and record are right there.

What's more, in the light screen, after breaking the Fierce Spirit King, the Dark Magician Girl threw herself back into the action of mopping up the remaining Fierce Spirits, showing no signs of weakness at all.

It's as if breaking the Fierce Spirit King was the same as breaking ordinary Fierce Spirits for the Dark Magician Girl, not worth her resting at all before continuing into battle.

Such a performance by the Dark Magician Girl is enough for all the Popes to focus their attention on her.

If such a Magic Card could be produced on a large scale, it would be enough to subvert the combat power of the King Realm and the Emperor Realm.

Magic Card Masters with top-tier talent can produce nine-star Magic Card Spirits when in the King Realm; for example, the Saint Son and Saint Lady candidates of the six major religions in the Bone-Burial Ground, as well as their Guardian Knights, Bei Xingyu and Qu Zhixuan, are representatives of this level.

Of course, Yan Yuexin is also at this level.

And Magic Card Masters at a lower level, for example, the Saint Son and Saint Lady candidates and Guardian Knights of religions other than the six major religions in the Bone-Burial Ground.

Although they have more talent than ordinary Magic Card Masters, the strongest Magic Card Spirits in their hands are only eight-star.

Leng Congyun and Yu Xunqin, who were eliminated by Lu Li at the start for courting death, although they also belong to the Saint Son and Saint Lady candidates, still have a clear gap in talent compared to the six major religions' Bei Xingyu and Qu Zhixuan.

But it cannot be denied that Leng Congyun and Yu Xunqin and others have the opportunity to set foot in the Emperor Realm.

And the next level of talent is the ordinary, conventional Magic Card Master. Most of these Magic Card Masters stop at the King Realm, but that doesn't mean no one can break through to the Emperor Realm; the base of Magic Card Masters at this level is not small, and even if only a small portion can break through to the Emperor Realm, the number cannot be ignored.