Chapter 2703

The scroll Gulu took out was named "Technique Sublimation," and it did not directly increase physical attributes.

【Technique Sublimation】

Type: Technique-type scroll · Blade Technique branch · Passive.

Prerequisite: Blade Technique Master lv. 48 or above (Achieved), and have mastered 3 or more self-developed blade technique moves (Achieved).

The Hunter has self-developed blade technique moves as follows:

1. Blade Dao · Slaughter: Condenses blood energy on the blade, performing a wide-range diagonal fan-shaped blood energy slash forward.

Slash Power: Low-Medium.

2. Blade Dao · Blood Blade: Ultra-high-speed lunge slash, breaking through one's own limit speed, blood energy characteristic.

Slash Power: Low-Medium.

3. Blade Dao · Absolute Nether: Suppresses enemy perception + triple high-speed slash.

Slash Power: Medium.

4. Blade Dao · Ring Break: Ultra-wide-range circular slash, charging can increase the range.

Slash Power: Medium.

5. Blade Dao · Green Ghost: Advanced form of high-speed blade light.

Slash Power: Medium-High.

6. Blade Dao · Extreme: High-power close-range slash.

Slash Power: High.

7. Blade Dao · Time: Small-scale time suppression + suppression of spatial characteristics.

Combat Effect: Extremely High.

8. Blade Dao · Flow: Ultra-high-power mid-range slash, wind characteristic.

Slash Power: Extremely High.

Hint: All self-developed blade techniques have growth characteristics. The user's own strength improvement will be directly fed back into these types of blade technique moves.

Effect after mastering Technique Sublimation lv. 1: Increases the power of self-developed blade technique moves by 5%.

Effect after mastering Technique Sublimation lv. 1: Permanently increases one's own blade technique potential, blade technique potential tier +1.

Hint: After the blade technique potential is improved, it can provide direct bonuses to blade technique combat, move development, blade technique improvement, meditation, etc.

Gulu's gaze was very complicated because she felt that if Su Xiao obtained 【Technique Sublimation】 and improved it, even if she put on the Dark Night Walker set, she would be hung up and whipped by the other party.

In Gulu's view, Su Xiao had definitely mastered a bunch of passive abilities and then invested a large amount of resources in the "Land of All Living Things" to develop blade techniques on his own, using these self-developed blade techniques as his main ability in combat.

Gulu had also tried doing this. She had two self-developed abilities, and it was simply too satisfying. She could use them however she wanted during combat; as long as she had enough stamina, there was no concept of a cooldown time at all.

What was even more unsolvable was that disgusting abilities like magic prohibition and ability suppression were completely ineffective against self-developed abilities.

Not only that, self-developed abilities had a natural advantage. As the creator of the ability, after this ability could be used in actual combat, if one were to digitize this ability, they would find that it was basically an ability that could be used frequently and could even break through this upper limit.

Moreover, this type of ability was not rigid. As long as the user's own strength improved, the power of this type of ability would also increase accordingly, and it would almost never be phased out.

Self-developed abilities had many advantages. As for why Qiyuezhe didn't all develop moves on their own and instead insisted on buying "Active Skill Scrolls," the reason was simple.

Developing moves on one's own is an advantage derived from "Technique-type Basic Abilities." Qiyuezhe who haven't mastered "Technique-type Basic Abilities" cannot learn them. For example, mastering Blade Technique Proficiency, Blade Technique Master, Sword Technique Grandmaster, etc., are all "Technique-type Basic Abilities."

For a Qiyuezhe who hasn't mastered Technique-type Basic Abilities to go and develop moves on their own is like a child who has just learned to crawl insisting on researching "Life Characteristic · Third-Order Qualitative Change." This is no longer a gap between a child and a doctor, but rather researching advanced knowledge of alchemy with a child's mind, which is very absurd.

The cost of improving Blade Technique from Proficiency → Specialization → Master, all the way to Grandmaster, is obviously terrifying. The gains, of course, are not small, and developing abilities on one's own is one of the advantages.

Conversely, many active scrolls can be mastered immediately as long as the physical attributes are sufficient, and the threshold is low.

"If it's still not enough, I can only give up."

Gulu thought of the "loan" she had with the Leader and felt particularly conflicted.

"Okay."

"You agreed? Really?"

"Hmm."

Su Xiao took out the four pieces of the Dark Night Walker set. The 【Technique Sublimation】 scroll was what he needed. Increasing the power of self-developed blade techniques was very important to him, as it directly increased his combat power. Moreover, this type of technique-type passive ability could be improved.

【You have obtained "Technique Sublimation (Technique-type scroll · Blade Technique branch · Passive lv. 1)".】

【You have obtained Soul Crystal Core x5.】

As soon as the trade was completed, Gulu's hair stood on end. She seemed to have instantly regained her integrity and even wanted to let herself go, but after thinking about the price of letting herself go in front of Su Xiao last time, she suppressed the thought in her heart.

"Hey, there are two more poor ghosts in this world. Let's go, Daddy... ah, no, ptooey ptooey ptooey, let's go, Bai Ye."

Gulu was somewhat used to calling him that. After giving herself a slap, she hummed a song and walked out of the Attribute Enhancement Hall.

Su Xiao crushed the scroll in his hand. Soon, he understood what Gulu meant by "there are two more poor ghosts in this world."

【You have mastered Technique Sublimation.】

【Technique Sublimation: lv. 1 (Technique-type · Passive)】

Skill Effect 1: Increases the power of self-developed blade technique moves by 5%.

Skill Effect 2: Blade technique potential tier +1.

Su Xiao tried to improve the "Technique Sublimation" ability. Although this ability could only be improved in the Skill Upgrade Hall, he could now know the cost of improving it.

【Hint: To improve Technique Sublimation lv. 1, it costs 500 Soul Coins per level.】

The improvement cost was very expensive, but this kind of investment was worth it and could be clearly felt in combat.

The improvement of Technique Sublimation, the replacement of equipment, plus the improvement of his own abilities—all of these required Soul Coins.

On the way to the Adventure Group Guild, Su Xiao put several items into the team storage space and asked Benny to sell these items as soon as possible, including 【Crystal Skull (Undead Bloodline-type item)】, 【Destruction · World-Shaking King】, 【Blood-Sucking Demon】, and 【Hunter's Manuscript (Legendary-grade)】.

Su Xiao soon arrived at the Adventure Group Guild. After entering the inner side, Su Xiao collected 3 team supply boxes at the temporary storage for supplies. This was the 20% team supplies from the Adventure Group Guild.

Just after leaving the Adventure Group Guild, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang ran up to meet him. Taking Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang with him, Su Xiao headed to the Skill Upgrade Hall.

After choosing a skill upgrade chamber, Su Xiao locked the chamber door and took out the 3 team supply boxes, preparing to open them first while waiting for Benny to sell the items.

【You have opened the team supply box.】

【You have obtained Mishinai Ore x219 (Ore · Quality to be identified).】

【You have obtained thh57-type Ore x127 (Ore · Quality to be identified).】

【You have obtained Essence of Earth Vein x162 (Ore · Quality to be identified).】

【You have obtained Blue Ore x102 (Ore · Quality to be identified).】

【You have obtained Withered Moonlight Vine x4 (Holy Spirit-grade · Material).】

Various types of ores and underground outputs filled more than half of the team supply box. Su Xiao somewhat understood why the Qiyuezhe of Apocalypse were so willing to mine, and why they were so wealthy.

Su Xiao and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang looked at each other. They had made a fortune this time, and they had only opened one team supply box.

Taking out the second supply box and opening it, Su Xiao found that he had somewhat underestimated the financial resources of the Apocalypse Paradise Qiyuezhe.

【You have obtained Chaos Night Blade (Holy Spirit-grade · Long Blade · Rating 935 points).】

【You have obtained Soul Crystal (Large) x42.】

【You have obtained Red Ridge Ore x3 (Holy Spirit-grade).】

【You have obtained Melting Spring Water · 2 units (Holy Spirit-grade · Item needed for forging).】

【You have obtained Holy Heart of Rock x1 (Holy Spirit-grade · Item needed for forging · Rare).】

Su Xiao felt that opening this thing was even more satisfying than opening treasure chests. He decisively opened the third team supply box.

【You have obtained 2,450 Soul Coins.】

Seeing the final amount of Soul Coins obtained, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was dumbfounded. Opening Soul Coins meant that he had drawn the team fund storage of the Holy Temple Adventure Group. Calculated at 20%, it meant that the Holy Temple Adventure Group had stored 12,250 Soul Coins.

Even if this was an adventure group with many people, storing so many Soul Coins was very exaggerated. One must know that they were in a mission world, not having just returned to Apocalypse Paradise and sold the supplies they had obtained.

These 12,250 Soul Coins were most likely stored by the Holy Temple Adventure Group to be used to reward members, or perhaps it was even team resource overflow that was temporarily stored.

"Woof?"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang barked, which meant: "Master, mining is too profitable."

Su Xiao was not surprised by this. After all, this was the strength of Apocalypse. When it came to competing for resource acquisition, Apocalypse was the strongest, but if it was a world contention battle, they were often beaten until they were whimpering.