Chapter 1647: Purity and Quality

When Su Xiao's vision cleared, he was already inside the skill upgrade chamber. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who had been catching up on sleep in the corner, immediately sat up. Those expectant little eyes seemed to be asking, "Master, can this dog go out and roam now?"

"Not for the time being."

Su Xiao still needed to craft Apollos, so Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, this "mobile blue buff," certainly could not leave.

The Breath Release ability could not be further improved in the short term. However, compared to checking the Breath Release ability, Su Xiao was more curious about the state of his Charm attribute. He opened his personal attributes, and the Charm attribute, now reduced to a mere 16 points, came into view.

The Charm attribute had dropped by a full 12 points, but compared to the improvement in his breath, these 12 points of Charm were within an acceptable range.

Su Xiao pushed open the skill upgrade chamber and stepped outside. Just as he was about to close his personal attribute list, the Charm attribute suddenly emitted a red glow, as if stained by blood Qi. Then, under Su Xiao's gaze, the value of the Charm attribute distorted, changing from 16 points to 15 points.

Su Xiao stopped in his tracks. He had only taken two steps, and he had already lost another point of Charm. This made him take a deep breath.

By the time Su Xiao walked out of the skill upgrade hall, the Charm attribute had slipped to 11 points. When he returned to his exclusive room, the Charm attribute dropped from 11 points to 10 points.

Under Su Xiao's gaze, the red glow on the Charm attribute faded, returning to the same color as the other attribute values.

Su Xiao had experienced the decline of his Charm attribute more than once, but this was the first time he had witnessed it with his own eyes. Looking at the remaining 10 points of Charm, he let out a long sigh of relief. At least it hadn't dropped to a single digit; this alone was enough to make him feel relieved.

But there was still a difficult problem: every time he improved Breath Release and absorbed the blood Qi of the ancient battlefield, it could lead to a decline in his Charm attribute. If this continued, would his Charm attribute drop to 0? Or even reach a negative number?

Closing his personal profile, Su Xiao felt that the decline of his Charm attribute was not too big of a problem. First of all, his Charm attribute was of little use anyway; when dealing with plot characters, he basically relied on physical negotiation. He only needed to ensure that his Charm attribute did not drop to 0. At most, he would convert 1 point of real attribute into a normal attribute to strengthen his Charm.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao began to check the Breath Release ability.

【Breath Release Lv. 34 (Active/Passive)】

Skill effect (Active/Passive): Can continuously release breath, range 49 meters, performing a willpower check on all enemy units within this area. If the enemy fails the check, they will fall into a state of panic. The panic state can be removed using mind purification skills.

Hint: If the enemy enters a state of panic, stamina consumption speed +35%, physical defense -27 points. When the enemy releases a skill, there is a 10% chance of failure.

Hint: As this skill improves, it will increase breath intensity and slightly enhance willpower.

Hint: Due to the absorption of a large amount of pure blood Qi, willpower +19 points.

Hint: Due to the absorption of a large amount of pure blood Qi, willpower check tier +1.

Hint: Due to the absorption of a large amount of pure blood Qi, breath can cause willpower x10 soul damage to "foreign object" type enemies.

The weakening effect of Breath Release on enemies was becoming increasingly significant. Not only that, but an additional ability had emerged: causing massive soul damage to "foreign object" type enemies.

So-called foreign object type enemies basically referred to evil spirits, energy-state souls, or ghosts, which were rare within Reincarnation Paradise.

In some derived worlds, ghosts did indeed exist, but their numbers were scarce. Precisely because of this, Qiyuezhe found it very troublesome to deal with such enemies, as they were simply too few to justify specifically crafting abilities to counter them.

The new effect of Breath Release acted as a layer of insurance, giving Su Xiao a means to deal with evil-type enemies. Of course, to this day, he had never actually encountered souls or ghosts, though he had encountered many undead.

Time passed slowly. Su Xiao still had 1.45 million Paradise Coins left. He had originally thought that strengthening the Breath Release ability would consume a lot of Paradise Coins, but that was not the case.

With sufficient Paradise Coins and 10 Soul Crystals (Medium) remaining, Su Xiao felt a bit of a headache. He didn't have many uses for Soul Crystals (Medium) right now, but he couldn't afford to be without them either.

He did have quite a few Soul Crystals (Large), but the purity of the two was different, not just the volume. Therefore, Soul Crystals (Large) could not be broken down into Soul Crystals (Medium). Soul Crystals (Small) and Soul Crystals (Medium) had the same quality but different volumes, which was why Soul Crystals (Medium) could be broken down into Soul Crystals (Small).

Soul Crystals (Large) were of a different purity; even if you smashed a Soul Crystal (Large), it would just be Soul Crystal (Large Fragment), which could not be converted into Soul Crystals (Medium).

As a hard currency in places like Reincarnation Paradise, the Void, and native worlds, Soul Crystals (Large) were the foundation. Or rather, Soul Crystals (Small) and (Medium) were specialties of Reincarnation Paradise, diluted in concentration for use by low-tier Qiyuezhe. Soul Crystals (Small/Medium) and (Large/Complete) did not belong to the same purchasing system.

Precisely because of this, there was no exchange relationship between Soul Crystals (Large) and (Medium). Soul Crystals (Large) were more precious; compared to the former two, the production of Soul Crystals (Large) was far lower, and the conditions for their formation were more stringent. Assuming the energy within a Soul Crystal (Medium) was 1 point, then a Soul Crystal (Large) was at least 120 or more.

But do not think that the value of a Soul Crystal (Large) was 120 times that of a Soul Crystal (Medium). Since the two could not be exchanged or decomposed, and there were more low-tier Qiyuezhe in Reincarnation Paradise than high-tier ones, demand determined the market and price. In the eyes of Tier 1–3 Qiyuezhe, Soul Crystals (Large) were indeed rare materials to be looked up to, yet they had no use for them. No demand meant lower value. Selling them for Paradise Coins was fine, but as for wanting to exchange them for Soul Crystals (Medium) or (Small), that depended on luck. No one dared to set up such a trading channel; it would lead to bankruptcy.

Qiyuezhe who truly needed Soul Crystals (Large) were at least Tier 4 or above. This created a situation where the reference price for a Soul Crystal (Small) was 10,000 Paradise Coins, while the value of a Soul Crystal (Large) was not 12 million Paradise Coins. The target audiences for the two were completely different, and they could not be converted into each other, so their values were naturally different. No chamber of commerce dared to set up a platform specifically for trading Soul Crystals.

Of course, nothing in the world was absolute. Those idiots from the Red Maple merchant group had once set up a similar conversion channel. After losing over 5 million Paradise Coins in 2 hours, the platform collapsed.

The reference price for a Soul Crystal (Large) was around 300,000 to 400,000 Paradise Coins. After all, it could not circulate among Tier 1–3 Qiyuezhe, but its actual transaction price fluctuated greatly. If a high-tier Qiyuezhe urgently needed a Soul Crystal (Large) to improve an ability, even if it were sold for 1.3 million Paradise Coins, the other party would have to grit their teeth and accept it.

If you used four Soul Crystals (Medium) to find a high-tier Qiyuezhe to exchange for one Soul Crystal (Large), the answer you would get would be unanimous: "Get lost." Sometimes, equivalence did not mean they could be exchanged; the real-time price fluctuation of Soul Crystals was simply too huge.

These were consumable resources and hard currency, but they were not as constant as the base currency. In contrast, the purchasing power of Paradise Coins was very stable—so stable that it was unshakable.

Soul Crystals (Small) and Soul Crystals (Medium) had the same quality but different weight.

Soul Crystals (Medium) and Soul Crystals (Large) had the same weight but different quality.

Soul Crystals (Large) and Soul Crystals (Complete) had the same quality but different weight.

Soul Crystal (Small): Contains 1.2–1.3 soul energy.

Soul Crystal (Medium): Contains 11–12 soul energy.

Soul Crystal (Large): Contains about 1200–1300 soul energy (internal soul energy purity is extremely high; requires relatively strong physical fitness and soul strength to withstand).

Soul Crystal (Complete): Contains about 12500–13000 soul energy (internal soul energy purity is extremely high; requires relatively strong physical fitness and soul strength to withstand).

Soul Crystal (Small): Reference price 10,000 Paradise Coins.

Soul Crystal (Medium): Reference price 100,000 Paradise Coins.

Soul Crystal (Large): Reference price 300,000–400,000 Paradise Coins (price fluctuates greatly).

Soul Crystal (Complete): Reference price 4,000,000–6,000,000 Paradise Coins.

When Su Xiao's mana recovered to about 1000 points, he began to craft his first Apollo. ===== CHAPTER 1648 =====