Chapter 1957

The Soul Crystals (Complete) beside Su Xiao shattered one by one, and a large number of soul crystal fragments floated around him, looking very spectacular. For these Soul Crystals, Su Xiao didn't know how many times he had risked danger. Now, it was time for the harvest.

The light in front of Su Xiao gradually faded. When his vision recovered, he was already standing on a snow-capped mountain.

Blizzard flew, the wind roared, and ten meters in front of Su Xiao stood six figures. Their bodies were all composed of Soul Crystals.

I didn't see these transparent figures make any movements, and they appeared around Su Xiao.

"World..."

"Destruction!"

With a *clatter*, the six figures composed of Soul Crystals shattered and rushed toward Su Xiao. Blade lights slashed through the flying snow and slashed through the sky.

A giant ice dragon fell from the sky. When it fell to the ground, meteorites also fell from the sky.

*Boom, boom, boom... *

The earth shattered, and Su Xiao felt a dragging force attacking from behind. When he opened his eyes again, he was already in the exclusive room, still sitting cross-legged on the bed.

"World... Destruction."

Su Xiao muttered in his mouth, his right hand had unknowingly gripped the hilt of Dragon Flash.

"*Woo-woo-woof~*"

Ignoring Bubu Wang's somewhat broken howl came. This guy had fully recovered and was huddled in the corner, with Benny squatting on its head, its body also close to the corner.

Su Xiao let out a long breath, suppressing the urge to slash out a blade. If he slashed out this blade, there would basically be no intact furniture in the exclusive room.

Su Xiao had just seen many things, such as the lifelong realizations of six swordsmanship masters. Among them, one slashed a giant dragon, one had slashed through the world he was in, and the other four also had their own fierce deeds.

Although Su Xiao didn't obtain the swordsmanship of those strong men, the swordsmanship realizations obtained were enough to improve his swordsmanship level.

【Swordsmanship Master has been improved to lv. 32.】

【Swordsmanship Master has awakened a new ultimate ability: Blade Extremity.】

【Swordsmanship Master: lv. 32 (Passive Skill)】

Skill Effect: Increase blade weapon attack power by 517% (increased by 54%), nerve reflex speed +139% (increased by 30%), immune to mental control, immune to soul-system bewitchment, induction, etc.

Initial Additional Ability: All Things Rhythm x (Break through the cap by two tiers).

lv. 10 Ultimate Ability: Absolute Shadow Flash (Self-developed, nature has changed, if development is completed, this ability will be independent, 95% developed).

lv. 20 Ultimate Ability: Soul Blade (Passive), immune to 50% soul damage, exempt from one beheading effect that can threaten life.

lv. 30 Ultimate Ability: Blade Extremity (Passive/Active), when using any blade-type move, you can choose to activate this ability, and the power of the swordsmanship move performed will be greatly improved (power increase is between 16%–35%, different moves have different effects).

Prompt: If you choose to actively activate this ability, the stamina consumption when using swordsmanship moves will greatly increase.

Prompt: During battle, the Blade Extremity ability has a chance to be triggered passively. Passive triggering has no consumption and permanently improves the Hunter's swordsmanship realization.

After checking the improvement of swordsmanship, Su Xiao was very satisfied with this improvement. Just talking about the improvement of basic effects, even if Su Xiao was given a white-quality long blade now, he could use it to produce the power of a dark purple or even light gold long blade.

As for the newly acquired ability Blade Extremity, this is a quite powerful ability. It has two modes.

The first type: when Su Xiao performs a swordsmanship move, he can open this ability. For example, the moment before he uses "Blade Dao Blade: Blood Blade," he can open Blade Extremity to add to the power of "Blade Dao Blade: Blood Blade." The addition effect is "move power increased between 16%–35%."

According to Su Xiao's estimation, after he opens Blade Extremity 5–8 times, he might be exhausted.

As for the second type of effect, this is even stronger. This is the passively triggered "Blade Extremity" effect, no consumption. When Su Xiao uses a swordsmanship move, there will be a feeling of a flash of inspiration. That is Blade Extremity being triggered. In layman's terms, the swordsmanship move used this time will be strengthened.

Just after improving swordsmanship, Su Xiao began to consider which ability the 2 Gold Attribute Points should be used to improve.

After thinking about it, he felt that improving "Shadow of Slaughter" had the highest return, which could not only improve the power of Exile but also improve the strength of the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying defense form.

At first, the defense form of Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying was not too strong because Su Xiao had always used Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy to form a shield wall, and the defense was not concentrated enough.

Until Su Xiao developed the crystal layer form, the crystal layer that could cling to his body surface, the defense was several times stronger than the energy shield wall, and it had helped him block many attacks that were enough to be fatal.

Therefore, Su Xiao decided to improve "Shadow of Slaughter."

【Yes/No consume Gold Attribute Points to improve Shadow of Slaughter.】

After Su Xiao confirmed, a burning sensation emerged in his body. This feeling was exactly the same as the feeling when he first obtained "Shadow of Slaughter."

In just a few seconds, most of Su Xiao's body went numb, and he almost fell off the bed.

Although the improvement process only took more than ten minutes, Su Xiao felt it was very long. When the Shadow of Slaughter ability was improved, he was already covered in cold sweat.

【Shadow of Slaughter, x (Exclusive growth-type ability)】

Skill Effect: Increase Proud Song state strength by 230%, can convert Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy into a solid state for external release, and control it within a distance of 75 meters.

Prompt: The strength, lethality, speed, elemental penetration, and controllability of Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy after solidification will be determined according to the intelligence attribute (current real intelligence attribute is 120 points).

Prompt: The comprehensive strength of this ability can be enhanced with the improvement of Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy.

With Su Xiao's control, the Exile clinging to his cuffs peeled off and circled around him. After actual combat, he concluded that he would no longer use Exile as a conventional weapon, which would greatly reduce the combat value of Exile.

Exile is more suitable for giving the enemy a fatal blow at a critical moment. If Su Xiao fights the enemy until he is exhausted, and Exile suddenly stabs out, it can play a decisive role; otherwise, it can only contain the enemy.

For example, when dealing with Aokiji, Kizaru, Akainu, etc., Su Xiao used Exile as a conventional weapon. The result was obvious. At first, those three were indeed caught off guard by Exile, but they soon found a way to deal with it, reducing the role of Exile by more than half.

After completing attribute improvement, swordsmanship improvement, and Shadow of Slaughter improvement, Su Xiao prepared to improve his close-quarters combat ability.

When all four were completed, his strength would definitely undergo earth-shaking changes. As for where to test, the Paradise Arena was the best choice.

Su Xiao left the exclusive room. Because he had improved his swordsmanship and Shadow of Slaughter, he had roughly adapted to his current physical fitness. At least he wouldn't bump into low-tier contractors.

As long as he completed the improvement of his close-quarters combat ability, he could fully adapt to his current physical fitness.

In less than half an hour, Su Xiao arrived at the trial field and activated the "Close-quarters Combat Master Trial Certificate."

【Prompt: Trial authority activated.】

【Drafting...】

【109 soul mirrors have been constructed.】

【Hunter will conduct a 10–15 hour overload trial. Completing the overload trial can increase the basic close-quarters combat ability to the Master level lv. 12–lv. 20.】

【Checking Hunter's pain tolerance...】

【Check complete. The basic standard for overload trial has been reached.】

【Transmission begins.】

"Pain tolerance..."

Su Xiao just spoke, and the power of space wrapped him inside. An ominous feeling emerged in his heart... m.