Chapter 1646

【Warning: The Hunter has been corroded by the blood aura of the ancient battlefield, has multiple bone fractures, severe internal bleeding, and trace amounts of blood aura residue mixed into his aura. Yes/No to pay Paradise Coins to recover.】

"Pa, y."

Su Xiao's fists clenched. He felt the boiling killing intent in his chest; this feeling was driving him to slash everything he saw into pieces.

【Prompt: Clearing the blood aura corrosion requires 21,500 Paradise Coins.】

【Prompt: Multiple bone fractures and severe internal bleeding require 1,700 Paradise Coins.】

【Prompt: Removing the blood aura residue from the aura requires 57,200 Paradise Coins.】

【Paradise Coins payment complete, starting repair.】

A few minutes later, Su Xiao sat on the ground, panting heavily. Improving Breath Release only cost 50,000 Paradise Coins, but the subsequent body recovery consumed 80,400 Paradise Coins.

But no matter what, he hadn't encountered any accidents while absorbing the blood aura, which made him secretly ponder the hidden reasons. However, before that, he needed to know how much Breath Release had improved.

【Breath Release lv. 25 (Active/Passive)】

Skill Effect (Active/Passive): Can continuously release aura, range 38 meters, perform willpower judgment on all enemy units within this area. If the enemy fails the judgment, they will fall into a state of panic. The panic state can be removed using mind purification-type skills.

Prompt: If an enemy enters a state of panic, stamina consumption +30%, physical defense -18. When the enemy releases a skill, there is a 9% chance of failure.

Prompt: While improving this skill, it will increase aura strength and slightly enhance willpower.

Prompt: Due to absorbing a large amount of pure blood aura, willpower +15 points.

Prompt: Due to absorbing a large amount of pure blood aura, willpower judgment tier +1.

The Breath Release ability had undergone significant changes, and its comprehensive attributes had improved, but its damage effect had disappeared and turned into a judgment against the enemy.

The original Breath Release only worked if the enemy's willpower was lower than Su Xiao's. Now it was different; after receiving the bonus of 'willpower judgment tier +1', even if Su Xiao's willpower was lower than the enemy's, this ability could still take effect.

Although it no longer had lethality, Breath Release had undergone a qualitative leap. If it was previously dedicated to dealing with small fry, then now it was also effective against boss-level targets.

A 30% increase in enemy stamina consumption and an 18-point reduction in physical defense—any enemy could not ignore this level of weakening.

What was even more satisfying was that Breath Release was actually an attribute growth-type skill. While improving this ability, it would increase Su Xiao's willpower attribute. One had to know that willpower was an attribute that couldn't be strengthened through attribute points.

Su Xiao didn't immediately continue to improve the Breath Release ability, but waited for his mana to recover. The blood-colored giant hand of the ancient battlefield was nowhere to be found, so he prepared to do something ruthless. Just now he only used 1,000 mana points to generate a simplified devour core; this time he prepared to consume 7,000 mana points to form a more solid and durable simplified devour core.

After waiting for a long time, Su Xiao's mana was fully recovered, and he reactivated the skill upgrade pod.

【Selection complete. To improve 'Breath Release lv. 25', you need to pay 80,000 Paradise Coins + Soul Crystal (Medium) x3. Yes/No to pay.】

Su Xiao paid decisively, and he appeared in that ancient battlefield again.

Blood-red land, sky full of dark clouds, endless corpses as far as the eye could see, blood aura vortex surging. In this environment that wouldn't even appear in horror movies, Su Xiao was sitting cross-legged under the blood-colored vortex, with a fist-sized simplified devour core floating above his head. This devour core was particularly conspicuous in the ancient battlefield.

Three energy lines were connected to Su Xiao's arm. He had already stayed in the ancient battlefield for nearly an hour. What he didn't expect was that no accidents occurred. There were only corpses here, and apart from corpses, there were no corpses. Not to mention that white-haired monster, there wasn't even a ghost around.

Su Xiao looked up at the simplified devour core above him; this thing could last for at most another half hour.

Undoubtedly, the ancient battlefield was an excellent place to improve Breath Release, but it was not without limitations. If Su Xiao's blood aura increased too exaggeratedly, it might exceed his control limit, at which point he wouldn't even be able to use the Breath Release ability.

At least one world interval was needed to improve the Breath Release ability once, otherwise, there might be a situation where the aura was uncontrollable. No matter how strong the ability was, once it was uncontrollable, in Su Xiao's view, it was a trash ability. This was also the reason why he never bought explosive-type abilities.

Just as Su Xiao was preparing to deactivate this simplified devour core that was about to shatter, a short figure came running from afar, jumping and bouncing. Looking at the appearance... very happy?

"Bala jia jia ah~ (Void language, suspected of humming a song)."

A figure about 1.2 meters tall, wearing a silver protective suit, walked toward Su Xiao. Judging from the body shape, this should be a humanoid race, and the slight protrusion on the chest could determine it was a female.

This lively Void girl held an alloy shovel and carried a metal box. Judging from her attire, she should be from a high-tech civilization. As for her purpose in coming to the ancient battlefield, it was nothing more than treasure hunting. There were many such wandering treasure hunters in the Void.

The expression under the Void girl's protective mask was very relaxed because she knew that this ancient battlefield was actually not too dangerous. As long as she took good protection and didn't touch those corpses, the guardians wouldn't come to trouble her. Perhaps in the eyes of the other party, she was just a little ant foraging for food.

The Void girl was in a very good mood because a few minutes ago, she saw a blood aura vortex. Once this situation appeared, it meant that something near the blood aura vortex was absorbing the blood aura of the ancient battlefield. This was clearly some kind of ancient battlefield plant bearing fruit. Although she couldn't dig up the plant, she could pick the fruit. The guardians wouldn't interfere with this level of harvest.

"La la la."

The Void girl hopped to the vicinity of the blood-colored vortex, but soon, she discovered something wrong because a 'corpse' was sitting under the blood aura vortex, and in the next moment, the corpse stood up!

With a 'gulu' sound, the Void girl swallowed her saliva. Her slender little legs began to tremble, and her scalp felt numb, as if she were being electrocuted.

"Wu~"

The Void girl made an indistinct trembling sound in her mouth, and her voice even carried a crying tone because that corpse was staring at her, just staring at her like that.

Su Xiao was currently sizing up this unknown race that appeared in the ancient battlefield. Surrounded by blood aura, he couldn't release his perception at all. However, judging from the trembling body of the other party, was that creature afraid? Or was it about to use some kind of ability?

Boom!

A blood-colored shockwave appeared, and the monstrous blood aura spread with Su Xiao as the center point. The air seemed to begin to distort. His aura was already strong to the point of being visible to the naked eye, no longer as ethereal and drifting as before, but faintly visible.

Looking at Su Xiao, who was releasing a dense blood aura, the Void girl exclaimed, threw the alloy shovel with all her might, and turned to flee. While fleeing, she was still muttering something, and a crying tone could be faintly heard.

In fact, this was understandable. In an ancient battlefield full of corpses of powerhouses, a 'living corpse' appeared with a blue crystal ball floating above it, and a blood aura vortex above that. It was reasonable for the Void girl to be scared to this extent. That she dared to throw the alloy shovel to counterattack and turn to flee was already commendable courage.

Su Xiao was soon enveloped by spatial power and teleported back to Reincarnation Paradise.