Chapter 1166

Rumble.

The forging furnace began to operate, and high heat spread within the alchemy laboratory, causing some test tubes nearby to explode.

【Equipment upgrading, requires 3 hours and 28 minutes.】

Su Xiao paid another 30,000 Paradise Coins to ensure the B-grade forging furnace wouldn't be suddenly taken back. During this period, Su Xiao just needed to wait. Although the forging furnace operated automatically, it was better not to leave during this period.

Coming to the open space nearby, Su Xiao took out Checking Zhan Long Shan and began his daily practice of Sword Art.

Su Xiao's sword practice wasn't mechanical chopping, picking, or stabbing, but random slashing, looking for inspiration in the slashes to develop new moves.

A long time ago, Su Xiao discovered that moves developed by himself were different from skills learned using scrolls. Skills learned through scrolls all had cooldown times. Forcing the use of a skill before the cooldown ended would cause severe backlash, and losing one's life on the spot wasn't impossible.

Moves developed by himself were different. Most moves developed by himself, as long as they were perfected, were Max-level, meaning full-level abilities, and moves developed by himself didn't have cooldown times.

For example, Su Xiao's Ring Break—as long as his arm could withstand it, using it several times in a row was no problem, though doing so didn't have much practical significance.

After long-term development, Su Xiao had already developed several sword arts. He often used these moves in battle. When using these moves, he wouldn't habitually roar; he would just slash out directly.

Among these moves, Ring Break and Sky Break were the most prominent. Other moves were basically seemingly ordinary slashes, just with different force-exerting methods and angles.

Zing, zing, zing...

Su Xiao's sword-swinging speed suddenly accelerated, and silver slash marks appeared in the air. This was a move he had developed a long time ago, a move that hadn't been named at all. This move could be briefly called Rapid Slash. The principle was to overdraw stamina in a short time and cause no small burden on his right arm. The effect was to increase slash speed. Abandoning movement, Su Xiao could slash out dozens or even hundreds of times in a short time.

Su Xiao didn't use this move much unless he needed to break through the enemy's defense in a short time. In situations where he could slash the enemy directly, he never used this move.

Although the extremely fast attack speed combined with the real damage of the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy was very beautiful, it only looked beautiful.

When Su Xiao slashed and injured an enemy, the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy would immediately invade the enemy's body and devour the energy within the enemy's body. The destruction caused during the devouring process was the source of the real damage.

Therefore, the real damage brought by Green Qing Qing Gang Ying didn't explode immediately when Su Xiao slashed; one real damage per slash was simply impossible. Real damage required a process of devouring energy.

If he performed ultra-high-speed slashes, even if he could let a large amount of Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy invade the enemy's body, devouring energy was a process, not how many times he slashed in a second, how many times it devoured.

Therefore, pursuing high-frequency attacks in melee combat was meaningless. Conversely, while Su Xiao was performing high-frequency slashes, his entire body's movements would become stiff, thereby letting the enemy seize the opportunity to counterattack.

Slashing ten times on the enemy's chest to cause ten slashes of damage was not as effective as opening the enemy's chest with one full-power slash.

No matter how intense the battle was, as long as the gap in strength between the two sides wasn't large, killing the enemy actually only required a few key slashes. A flurry of random slashing was just flashy attacks with very low practical use.

Su Xiao took a deep breath and slashed forward out of thin air. As the blade cut through the air, he had already disappeared from where he was, leaving behind a slash that continued to move forward.

Su Xiao used Dragon Shadow Flash to penetrate space. When he appeared, he was facing the previous slash.

As soon as Su Xiao appeared, he slashed out again.

Zing.

The two slashes, front and back, were relative and finally 'collided' together. Su Xiao retreated several steps.

This kind of front-and-back pincer slash was 'hard to deal with' and very beautiful.

"Another trash move, but it has value for perfection. Perhaps it can be used in actual combat after perfection."

Su Xiao murmured and continued to swing his sword. The move just now had a fatal weakness: the power of the first slash would continue to weaken, and in the end, it would be even weaker than a blade aura. The angle of the second slash was rigid. After Su Xiao suddenly disappeared, the enemy would subconsciously defend behind them.

Su Xiao gradually immersed himself in the study of sword art. This was what he loved, so he didn't feel that swinging his sword continuously was boring.

Boom... boom... boom.

The momentum of the forging furnace weakened. Su Xiao's sword-swinging action paused, and his eyes looked at the forging furnace.

【Upgrade in progress, remaining time 23 seconds.】

Su Xiao sheathed Checking Zhan Long Shan and walked quickly toward the forging furnace. Success or failure would be revealed in 23 seconds.

After Su Xiao gathered the Hunter Demon Set, he had of course inquired about upgrading the Hunter Demon Set. The information obtained wasn't much, but one piece of information was very valuable: the form of the Hunter Demon Set after promotion to a gold-grade set was very special, different from the form of any other gold-grade set.

Soon, the forging furnace stopped operating completely.

【Upgrade complete.】

Seeing these four big characters, Su Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. This meant the upgrade was successful.

With a puchi sound, a metal tray popped out. Su Xiao looked over, and after seeing the scene on the tray, he was clearly stunned.

"Where are the Hunter Demon Gun and the nameplate?"

Su Xiao reached out and picked up a ring from the tray.

【You have obtained Hunter Demon King.】

【Hunter Demon King (3/3)】

Origin: Cannot be directly produced from derived worlds.

Quality: Gold (Set)

Category: Ring/Necklace/Firearm

Durability: 76/76 (Ring), 70/70 (Pendant), 78/78 (Firearm).

Attack Power: 133～153 (Firearm · Not activated)

Equipment Requirement: Real Strength 80 points, Real Agility 80 points, Complete one hunting trial (Achieved).

Equipment Effect 1, Resistance (Passive): When Hunter Demon King is in ring form, reduces the duration of all abnormal states by 40%.

Equipment Effect 2, Unyielding (Passive): When Hunter Demon King is in pendant form, after HP drops below 10%, it will delay entering the dying state for 20 seconds.

Equipment Effect 3, Death Penalty Conferment (Passive): When Hunter Demon King is in firearm form, after the blood bullet hits the enemy, it will explode. The enemy's physical defense -8%, healing effect -6%, movement speed -3%. Effect lasts for 4 minutes.

Hint: Death Penalty Conferment (Passive) effect can be stacked, stacking up to five times. The maximum reduction effect is physical defense -40%, healing effect -30%, movement speed -15%. Effect lasts for 20 minutes.

Hint: The maximum capacity of the gun form is 5 rounds. After killing an enemy, it will generate a different number of bullets according to the enemy's strength, with a maximum generation quantity of 5.

Inlay Effect:

Heart of the Sea (Light Gold Gem), Mana +400, Mana recovery speed +36 points (per hour).

Rating: 400+

Introduction: The upgraded Hunter Demon Set, it is a symbol of the Hunter Demon's honor.

Set Effect (Activated)

Set Effect 1, Real Power (Passive): Real Strength +5, Real Agility +4, Real Stamina +3.

Set Effect 2, Witch's Nightmare (Passive): Increases all melee damage by 60%, Maximum HP +35%, all abnormal state resistance +28.

Set Effect 3, Hunter Demon Moment (Passive/Active)

Passive Effect: When not in battle, after the holder's internal energy recovers to the upper limit, it will perform overflow recovery. The overflow recovered energy will be stored in the Hunter Demon King.

Current stored energy (Mana): 0 points.

Active Effect: When the energy stored in the Hunter Demon King reaches 6,000 points, 'Hunter Demon Moment' can be activated. After entering this state, all abilities mastered by oneself will enter a no-cooldown, no-consumption state.

Hint: After the active effect is activated, it will last for 100 seconds.

Hint: The cooldown time for the active effect is 10 natural days.