Chapter 1684: Chapter Thirty-Five: A Physique Even Harder Than Steel

The reward for choosing one out of four: options a and b are clearly unsuitable for Su Xiao, as for d, it is a very good reward, but since Su Xiao can enhance his swordsmanship mastery through soul crystals, he naturally chooses reward c.

Nearly 60 points of physical defense plus 1200 points of health—this kind of enhancement is not something one encounters often; as a lone wanderer, Su Xiao naturally needs to appropriately improve his survivability.

As soon as Su Xiao made his choice, a golden light particle sank into his chest and spread out, and a coconut fruit taste appeared in his mouth, his heart rate suddenly increasing.

After more than ten minutes, Su Xiao let out a long breath, feeling a vibrant sensation within his body, his five viscera and six bowels all strengthened, and his breathing felt smooth and refreshing.

【True Agility Attribute Bare Equipment has reached 99 points; the Hunter may choose one of the following rewards.】

a. Divine Spirit Physique: Greatly enhances the nervous system's tolerance upper limit (enhancement magnitude 300%).

b. Death Shadow (rare reward): When in shadow, gradually merges into the shadow, becoming undetectable by perception or probing.

c. Soul Penetration (rare reward): When using a weapon to pierce an enemy, there is a 3% chance to pierce the enemy's soul, causing this attack to deal 2–6 times damage.

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The two rare rewards, if ranked by tier, would certainly be reward c; however, compared to reward a's Divine Spirit Physique, rewards b and c can only be considered trash—yes, outright trash.

In most battles, Su Xiao uses his intuition to judge enemies' actions and positions, during which he coordinates with visual observation, and all of this relies on his nervous system; Su Xiao is a human, a very powerful human, capable of killing those weaker-than-god humans.

Are humans a weak race? Don't joke—those overlords in the void, the human race nearly occupies one-sixth, due to humans' low lower limit and high upper limit; spellcasters and anti-spellcasters are basically all humans, and they have created an era that is both dark and splendid.

Su Xiao unhesitatingly chooses reward a; a few seconds later, he directly passes out—what a clean knockout.

After an unknown time, Su Xiao leans against the enhancement chamber wall and stands up, closing his eyes and taking deep breaths for a long while before adapting to his current body; his current feeling is strange, or rather, his senses have been severely amplified—smell, taste, hearing, even desire.

Just now, he even considered inviting Xia or Sha for a round, of course, the other party's agreement is unlikely; Su Xiao has always believed he has little romantic luck, and indeed, that is true—his blood and qi are almost equivalent to a cute girl's deterrent aura.

Half an hour later, the discomfort faded, Su Xiao's body gradually adapted to the current senses, and the world returned to its previous state.

【True Strength Attribute Bare Equipment has reached 99 points; the Hunter may choose one of the following rewards.】

a. Strong Body: True Strength Attribute +4 points.

b. Eternal Blood: Health +2000 points.

c. Pluto (rare reward): Can generate an exoskeleton on the body surface, with default exoskeleton defense of 100 points.

d. Tempered Through a Hundred Trials (rare reward): Each time suffering an attack, there is a 90% chance to permanently increase health by 1–3 points (this ability has a cooldown of 3 hours, growth cap of 7000 health points, and this cooldown cannot be reduced by any means).

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When Su Xiao saw reward d, he was interested in this growth-type ability, but after his preliminary calculation, he found this ability to be quite a pit.

Don't even mention the 90% chance—assume that every time Su Xiao suffers an attack, he gains 3 health points (taking the maximum), every 3 hours cooldown, i. e., 8 times per day.

At most, Su Xiao could gain 24 health points per day under perfect chance assumption, 720 points per month, 8640 points per year.

Please note, that is over one year, and moreover, one must endure being beaten eight times a day; more importantly, this ability's growth cap is 7000 health points.

Su Xiao decisively chooses Eternal Blood—this ability is simple and brutal, instantly increasing health by 2000 points, far better than a year's growth cycle; in the world progression of the Reincarnation Paradise, if Su Xiao can survive one year without dying, let alone slaughtering through the void, he wouldn't even care about those few thousand health points.

Emerald green light shines down, a feeling of bodily comfort arrives, the vibrant sensation within his body intensifies, and he feels very hungry.

【True Intelligence Attribute Bare Equipment has reached 99 points; the Hunter may choose one of the following rewards.】

a. Elemental Extraction: Can extract fire, wind, earth, and other 16 basic elements, forming crystalline high-concentration elements (this is a rare material).

b. Berserk (rare ability): Consumes 10% mana, applies berserk state to summoned beasts/familiar/servants; after berserking, summoned beasts/familiar/servants have 50% reduced intelligence, overall attributes increased by 12%, effect lasts 300 seconds.

c. Magic Torrent (rare ability): In a short time, ignites one's own mana, spell casting speed increased by 100%.

d. Awakening: When in a state of inner calm, mana recovery speed increased by 600%.

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Seeing these four options, Su Xiao hesitates for a moment; option a belongs to financial-type ability—although he cannot use or master spell-type skills, his perception of elements exceeds that of 99% of spellcasters, slightly inferior to the old magic masters.

And the extracted element crystals, to the magic masters, are good things—can really give those magic masters a hard time.

However, the Spell-Slaying Shadow also has another name, namely Elemental Guardian; if Su Xiao extracts elements, it is obviously guarding against theft, and a certain fierce old spell-slayer's remnant soul might come to clean up the gate… no, it will definitely come to clean up the gate.

Unable to overcome this bloody fact laid bare before him, Su Xiao can only reluctantly give up reward a; reward b's Berserk is also not bad—of course, this ability is useless for Bubu; even if Berserked, it remains that foolish, a close-combat trash, mainly intended for Am; now Su Xiao has already broken through the 99-point attribute barrier, meaning Am's attributes can likewise break through 99 points.

With a full 12% attribute boost, after Berserk, Am's strength attribute can reach 108 points, head like giant iron, durability chasing Saint Zaka.

However, reward d is equally good—600% mana recovery speed; as for inner calm, with meditation ability present, Su Xiao finds achieving inner calm truly not difficult.

It can be said that possessing this passive ability turns meditation into a 'mana refill' skill, and the recovery speed is not slow either.

After repeated consideration, Su Xiao gives up the Berserk ability—Am is originally not smart; making it Berserk, who knows if it will reach stupidity level, turning into a pig teammate in an instant—certainly not funny at all.

【You have chosen reward d (Awakening): When in a state of inner calm, mana recovery speed increased by 600%.】

The 99-point attribute reward collection is complete; Su Xiao activates the attribute enhancement chamber; he previously still had 6 attribute points unenhanced—Strength +1, Agility +1, Stamina +2, Intelligence +2.

The enhancement chamber runs at high speed; Su Xiao then sits cross-legged on the ground; at this moment, when enhancing attributes, he feels no discomfort whatsoever; soon, enhancement ends, bare equipment attributes are as follows.

Strength: 100 points

Agility: 100 points

Stamina: 101 points

Intelligence: 101 points

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In the attribute enhancement hall, there are many contractors, voices bustling and noisy; Su Xiao walks slowly through the crowd; although all four attributes have surpassed 100 points, he does not feel he has become a 'superman'—this is a good phenomenon, indicating he has already been able to well control his recently enhanced body. m.