Chapter 3660: Potential

The strength of the Nightmare Blood Shadow clearly exceeded expectations by a lot. Su Xiao tried to activate the battle for the next Soul Image and found that this time it was a battle against a Sun Warrior. Back on the road to becoming a king in the Holy Land of Kiliad, there were hundreds of armored Sun Warriors, and among them, there was a tall leader wearing golden armor, who was precisely the boss-level unit among the Sun Warriors: the Sun Warrior.

Su Xiao used a spiritual command to let the Nightmare Blood Shadow enter the combat scene, then took out a timer and started timing. When the time reached 2 minutes and 35 seconds, the prompt appeared again.

【Hint: You have defeated Soul Image 3rd Position: Sun Warrior.】

【You have obtained Golden Skill Point ×3.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao's brows furrowed slightly. This time there was no reward corresponding to the characteristics of the Soul Image. Perhaps it was the drawback of continuously using a "substitute"?

However, this was still better than not being able to win. The Golden Skill Points obtained by defeating Soul Images were in an incremental mode, which was 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10 = 55 Golden Skill Points.

Su Xiao tried to activate the Soul Image. After sensing for a moment, he found that this Soul Image was the Immortal: Xiwu. It was still the original process, letting the Nightmare Blood Shadow enter the combat scene.

Timing started. When the time reached just over 5 minutes, the prompt appeared again.

【Hint: You have defeated Soul Image 4th Position: Immortal Xiwu.】

【You have obtained Golden Skill Point ×4.】

【You have obtained Immortal Blood (Pseudo).】

He won again, and this time there was a reward corresponding to the enemy's characteristics. This made Su Xiao think about whether having this reward was probabilistic, just like whether defeating an enemy dropped a treasure chest. Thinking of this, he frowned. Once things involved luck, he felt they were exceptionally unreliable.

Su Xiao was in no hurry to use a Soul Crystal to activate the next "Soul Image." He was weighing whether to use the ancient battlefield blood energy within the 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core】 to strengthen the Nightmare Blood Shadow.

Considering the danger and multiple unknown characteristics of the Nightmare Blood Shadow, Su Xiao decided to be cautious. He always had a feeling that if the Nightmare Blood Shadow developed to the end, it would either be a powerful ability of his own or something that could take his life.

This thing was really too much like a blood-energy version of the Blade Spirit. Compared to the Blade Spirit, which was bound by Zhan Long Shan, the Nightmare Blood Shadow was bound by the Greed Chapter.

Su Xiao had experienced how unreliable the Greed Chapter equipment was too many times, so he had to grope his way and gradually improve the combat power of the Nightmare Blood Shadow.

Su Xiao had a hypothesis, which was that when the Nightmare Blood Shadow defeated the last Soul Image in the Greed Chapter, he would let his Blade Spirit enter the Greed Chapter and then absorb and fuse the Nightmare Blood Shadow. In this way, his Blade Spirit would have some blood-energy characteristics, and its combat power would soar.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao took out a Soul Crystal and activated the fifth Soul Image, finding that this Soul Image was named: Prayer Place · Nun.

Back in the Royal City of the Holy Land of Kiliad, Su Xiao had passed by the Prayer Place but hadn't entered it. The big boss there was the Royal City · Nun.

Su Xiao had missed quite a few powerful enemies when exploring the Holy Land of Kiliad, but there was no help for it. The Sun Warriors in the Royal City were simply outrageous. A squad of more than 25 Sun Warriors was harder to deal with than the world's ultimate boss, Rogsh.

From Tier 1 to Tier 9, three types of elite enemies, commonly known as elite mobs, left the deepest impression on Su Xiao: the Tianba tribe, the Sun Warriors, and the Dead People. Especially the latter, they were simply all Blade Saints, Sword Saints, and Axe Saints of Dead Silence City. If you hadn't been hunted by the Dead People, you couldn't be considered to have been to Dead Silence City.

Su Xiao activated the Greed Chapter and let the Nightmare Blood Shadow enter the combat scene. Time passed minute by minute. Even after a full ten minutes, there was no winner. Just as he was about to investigate the situation inside the Greed Chapter, the battle inside ended.

【Hint: This challenge failed.】

The Nightmare Blood Shadow actually lost. One had to know that the Nightmare Blood Shadow's Soul of Agility had reached S+++++. From this, one could imagine how strong the 5th Soul Image · Nun was.

Su Xiao held the Greed Chapter with one hand. After closing his eyes, his spirit entered it. As the thin mist gradually dissipated, a large hall covered with some frost appeared before his eyes.

On the innermost wall of this hall, vivid relief sculptures of suffering were carved. One by one, the sufferers bound together by iron thorns reached out toward the top. Blood flowed from their bodies, spreading to the ground in front of the wall. A nun dressed in gorgeous black clerical attire and wearing a silver crown stood gracefully on the bloodstains on the ground.

Clang~

A 1.2-meter-long ancient long blade was pulled out from the wall behind by the nun. Bloodstains and faint flames clung to the long blade. The nun slashed casually, leaving a sharp hiss of impact in the air, as well as some blood flames.

The next instant, the nun slashed off her own head with one blade. Almost at the same time, Su Xiao felt a chill on his neck, and his vision turned pitch black. He knew why the Nightmare Blood Shadow had lost, or rather, it was already amazing that the Nightmare Blood Shadow could fight the nun for ten minutes.

Su Xiao opened his eyes. He tried to reshape the Nightmare Blood Shadow and found that the Nightmare Blood Shadow had entered a dormant stage. It would take at least 5 to 10 natural days before it could be reshaped. In contrast, he faintly felt that he seemed to be able to control the Nightmare Blood Shadow slightly again. It seemed that letting the Nightmare Blood Shadow be scattered a few times had great benefits.

Being able to fight to this extent, Su Xiao was already very satisfied. After putting away the 【Greed Chapter】 and the 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core】, he checked his existing Golden Skill Points, which had already reached 25 points.

His status had recovered quite well. Su Xiao decided to use these Golden Skill Points to upgrade all his "Basic Passives" to Lv. EX. At this stage, using Golden Skill Points this way would bring the greatest improvement to his combat power, plus significantly improve his physique, thereby mastering "Law-Breaker Passive · Time · Dominator."

As Su Xiao allocated them, the Golden Skill Points were consumed rapidly. He felt a golden energy, not large in quantity but terrifyingly high in quality, merge into his body and begin to improve him. A moment later, prompts appeared one after another.

【Basic Passive · Recovery has been upgraded to Lv. EX.】

Su Xiao checked the upgraded "Basic Passive · Recovery" and found that after reaching Lv. EX, the greatest improvement of this ability was "Skill Effect 4: Mental damage reduction 25% (increased by 7%)."

Other aspects also had improvements, but they were only improvements in spiritual power strength and spiritual power resilience. Clearly, upgrading a basic passive from Lv. MAX to Lv. EX, looking at the improvement of one ability alone, didn't seem very worthwhile. But Su Xiao's purpose in doing this wasn't purely for the bonus brought by one basic passive.

Su Xiao had mastered five types of "Law-Breaker Passives" in succession this time, and his three grandmaster abilities had also improved significantly. He urgently needed to improve his physique with "Basic Passives" to stabilize the improved combat power. Basic passives were just like this; don't look at how some basic passives didn't bring much improvement, but they were like the foundation of a building. If the foundation was solid, even if he mastered several types of "Law-Breaker Passives" in succession, it would be equally stable.

There were still quite a few Golden Skill Points left, so Su Xiao continued to upgrade his basic passive abilities.

【Basic Passive · Su Xing has been upgraded to Lv. EX.】

Checking the corresponding improvement, the biggest point of this upgrade was: "Skill Effect 2: Physical perception potential upper limit +12."

【Basic Passive · Swift Shadow has been upgraded to Lv. EX.】

【Basic Passive · Soul Resilience has been upgraded to Lv. EX.】

【Basic Passive · Blood Su Xing has been upgraded to Lv. EX.】

Now all the basic passives he had mastered had reached Lv. EX, which gave Su Xiao, sitting cross-legged on the ground, a sense of stability. This time his strength had improved too violently, just like the feeling of stepping on clouds to reach a high place step by step. He was standing higher, but he didn't have the stability of stepping on a foundation as before.

Right now, after consuming a total of 23 Golden Skill Points to upgrade his basic passives, he was stepping on a stable and solid foundation again. This gave him the feeling that even if he mastered a few more Law-Breaker passives, he would still be very stable.

However, for the sake of his own life's stability, and because he didn't have that many Law-Breaker skill points, Su Xiao clearly wouldn't, and couldn't, do so.

Su Xiao checked the subsequent abilities upgraded to Lv. EX. In terms of "Basic Passive · Soul Resilience," it was definitely "Soul Energy Rank (10)," which was the biggest improvement in this aspect.

He estimated that there shouldn't be any soul equipment he couldn't use, unless that thing not only required soul strength but also had requirements for charm attributes. And forcing the use of this equipment with negative charm, this negative charm characteristic was very good at handling charm-characteristic equipment, but if he encountered equipment with soul as the main characteristic, God knows what would happen after forcing it on.

That little elf who was smoking, wearing earrings and nose rings, and could be evenly matched with Baja in "greetings," and whose opening line was "Are you my owner?", truly left a deep impression.

"Basic Passive · Blood Su Xing" upgraded to Lv. EX, which increased Su Xiao's blood-energy potential rank by +12.

Don't underestimate this "potential" bonus that was usually useless. The upper limit level of technique abilities was determined by this aspect. Some people's Blade Technique Grandmaster reached Lv. 70, which was the end. And Su Xiao didn't know what the upper limit of his Blade Technique Grandmaster was, but there was one point: "Technique Passive · Technique Sublimation" provided him with an amazing potential bonus of "Self Blade Technique Potential Rank +15."

This was the wonder of "Basic Passives." Their greatest improvement was by no means how much spiritual strength was increased, how much health was increased, etc., but the addition of "potential."

Su Xiao could have 720,000 health points now precisely because he had upgraded "Basic Passive · Body Soul" to Lv. EX before, which gave him a permanent bonus of "Physical Potential Upper Limit Rank +15."

It wasn't that he could push his health to 720,000 by just stacking health bonuses. If you compared the human body to a container, if the capacity wasn't large enough, it would be useless no matter how hard you tried to pour water into it. "Potential" was this capacity.

There were 2 Golden Skill Points left. Su Xiao checked the skill list. All "Basic Passives" were in a separate branch. Checking this branch, Su Xiao saw six basic abilities flowing with golden brilliance, arranged side by side. The first skill slot was empty and appeared gray, which meant Su Xiao hadn't mastered the basic ability corresponding to the strength attribute.

After upgrading the six basic passives to Lv. EX, not only did they look exceptionally consistent and pleasing to the eye, but golden lines like tree roots spread out from above the six basic passives, converging to the top to form a golden skill box. Under the mutual resonance of the six basic passives, the "Ultimate · Basic Passive" showed signs of being awakened. As long as he mastered the basic passive corresponding to strength and upgraded it to Lv. EX, this "Ultimate · Basic Passive" at the very top would be completely awakened.

Su Xiao tried to investigate this ability. Unexpectedly, the investigation was successful. The characteristics of this ability were not yet constant. It would only be after all seven of his basic passives reached Lv. EX that he could make the final choice. The choices for this "Ultimate · Basic Passive" were:

Power of Omnipotence:???

Power of Holiness:???

Power of World Destruction:???

Power of Overlord:???

The four "Ultimate · Basic Passives" corresponded to different ability characteristics and bonus directions. Su Xiao estimated that "Power of Omnipotence" should be the most balanced and also the one most people chose, while "Power of Holiness" tended to develop characteristics in healing, self-healing, faith-type, god-type, light-attribute, etc.

"Power of World Destruction" was not easy to judge. It was estimated to be a bonus for large-scale abilities, or to increase the coverage of large-scale abilities by dozens or even a hundred times.

The final "Power of Overlord" was very familiar. Needless to say, this must be the strongest in one-on-one combat among the four "Ultimate · Basic Passives."

Su Xiao was even more looking forward to mastering the "Basic Passive" corresponding to the strength attribute.

Just as Su Xiao took out three 【First Generation Finger Bones】 and was preparing to upgrade his Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying ability, an email appeared. It was sent by Solomon. The content of the email was only a symbol, which Solomon probably chose randomly. The attachment was the key. Opening the attachment, several items appeared.

【You have obtained Reincarnation Contract (Signatory · Solomon).】

【You have obtained Soul Coin Savings Card (100,000 limit).】

【You have obtained Origin Stone · Judgment.】

【Origin Stone · Judgment】 was priced at 40,000 Soul Coins. Ordinary Origin Stones were over 5,000 Soul Coins each, so this rare Origin Stone at 40,000 each was certainly not expensive. In this way, after the next world progress ended, Solomon needed to pay Su Xiao 390,000 Soul Coins.

Su Xiao drafted an email, attached the 【Death Gem】, and sent it back to Solomon.

After doing all this, he took out the Soul Crystals obtained this time, totaling 150. With 100 of them plus 6,300 Soul Coins, he upgraded Close Combat Grandmaster to Lv. 74. In this way, both Blade Technique Grandmaster and Close Combat Grandmaster reached Lv. 74.

Su Xiao controlled the three 【First Generation Finger Bones】 to float in front of him, then they shattered. The three 【First Generation Finger Bones】 turned into a pure light blue energy and merged into his torso. The next second, he was sent into a "dreamland."

When Su Xiao woke up, more than an hour had passed. He got up from the bed. Since obtaining the Su Xing Monument, how much his combat power had improved couldn't be determined because he hadn't fought in actual combat, but this sleep quality was forced to soar.

【Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying ability has been upgraded from Lv. 42 to Lv. 20.】

【Hint: This ability has reached the limited extreme value and cannot increase the potential upper limit with "First Generation Finger Bones" anymore. It needs??? to continue to increase the potential upper limit of this ability (Insufficient authority, need at least Lv. 90 authority level to view corresponding data).】

【Hint: Because your Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy has reached saturation for the improvement of "First Generation Finger Bones," subsequently, if you absorb the special energy contained in "First Generation Finger Bones," although it cannot improve Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, it can permanently increase your own mana upper limit by 3500~5000 points.】

【Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying: Lv. 20 (Active/Passive Skill)】

Usage Condition: After opening the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying ability, consume 340 mana points per minute.

Active Effect: Each melee attack will burn 1560 mana points of the enemy (increased by 60 points) and cause 1.8 times the burned mana points in true damage (Basic 2808 true damage + Zhan Long Shan increase 30% + Blue Shadow King increase 30% + Swift Shadow increase 30% = 5335 true damage). The enemy will suffer intense pain after mana burning.

Defensive Form: Proud Song (Active)...

Combat Form: Shock Blast (Active)...

Other types of ability upgrades were all level increases. Only the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying ability had a lower level the more it was upgraded. Right now, it was exaggerated to be upgraded to Lv. 20. If there were hostile contractors who detected the current Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying ability, they would definitely be shocked to the point of widening their eyes, thinking: "What kind of skill is this? Level 20 can cause 5335 true damage?!"

Su Xiao contacted Xia. A moment later, Xia's somewhat lazy voice came from the communicator: "What's wrong? It's past twelve midnight now. Don't you sleep?"

"..."

Su Xiao glanced at the time. It was indeed past twelve midnight. His sleep quality had been forced to strengthen in the last two days, and he had forgotten about this.

"Hmm~, what do you want to eat? I'll get up and make it. I'm very groggy, so I won't be responsible if it doesn't taste good."

"Make something that Xiang Bubu, Amu, Baja, and Beni love to eat."

"Hmm? Hearing you say that, is something going to happen?"

"..."

"Alright, after it's done, I'll have my friend send it to you."

Hearing this, Su Xiao hung up the communication. Xia didn't keep Su Xiao waiting long. In less than an hour, her friend sent over a dozen meal boxes. It was the bespectacled girl he had met a few times and who was often addicted to games. As a thank you, in addition to paying for this meal, Su Xiao also paid Xia's friend a delivery fee.

When a table of delicious food was laid out on the table, Su Xiao contacted Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baja, and Beni, who were out playing, through the team channel to come back for dinner.

After doing all this, he walked into the alchemy laboratory, took out the huge alloy tank used for soaking wolf blood last time, poured five portions of the 【High-Intensity · Abyss Blood】 obtained this time into it, then added various auxiliary materials in proportion, and finally injected boiling diluted solution. Everything was prepared properly, just waiting for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and the others to return.

Amu, who was the most active in eating, returned first, followed by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, then Baja, and Beni returned last. When Beni saw a table of delicious food, it was "happy" with tears in its eyes, its gaze occasionally glancing toward the direction of the alchemy laboratory.

After eating and drinking his fill, Su Xiao stood up and said: "You four, help me adjust the spell formation."

"Meow~"

Beni shrank back. Ten seconds later, Su Xiao carried Beni by the back of its neck with one hand and brought Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja into the alchemy laboratory. When Amu saw the huge alloy tank filled with dark red viscous liquid, its pace became slower and slower. Assuming the terrible experience of the big repair was 5, then soaking in Abyss Blood was over 60.

Amu was kicked in, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was carried by the leg and thrown in, and Baja grabbed the door frame tightly, trying to use the excuse of having a stomachache today to strive for a one-day postponement, wanting to have some psychological preparation before soaking, but was grabbed by the neck and thrown in.

Beni, with tears in its eyes, looked at Su Xiao pitifully, but the next second, it was thrown by Su Xiao into the dark red liquid of the huge alloy tank.

After doing all this, Su Xiao stood on the steps beside the huge alloy tank. After taking a few deep breaths, he walked into it. He took a deep breath, first pressed Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's dog head, which was sticking out of the dark red liquid, down with one hand, and then sank his whole body into the dark red liquid. This sour and refreshing feeling was unforgettable for a lifetime.

The dark red liquid in the huge alloy tank began to evaporate. Until these liquids were almost transparent, Su Xiao stood up. He carried Beni by the back of its neck with one hand and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang with the other. Without exception, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Beni had both passed out.

【Hint: Your Abyss resistance has increased by 15 points.】

Su Xiao obtained the highest bonus that 【High-Intensity · Abyss Blood】 could bring. This was a matter of course. As a potion master, if he couldn't even fully exert the effect of 【High-Intensity · Abyss Blood】, then he had mastered the knowledge in this aspect in vain. Knowledge was wealth, and also power.

After taking a shower in the planting area, Su Xiao felt refreshed. Except for "Law-Breaker Passive · Time · Dominator" not yet mastered, his improvement to himself was basically completed. As for what level his combat power was at, it was not easy to estimate, but one thing was certain: he hadn't reached the level of "Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe." He estimated that to reach the level of "Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe," he needed to satisfy the following points:

1. The four main attributes break through 300 points and obtain corresponding attribute rewards.

2. The seven "Basic Passives" all reach Lv. EX, thereby activating the "Ultimate · Basic Passive."

3. The three technique grandmasters all reach Lv. 80.

If these conditions were all met, then he would steadily break through to the "Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe" level, and he would be the kind of "Supreme Foreign Qiangzhe" that was very difficult to deal with.

Su Xiao checked the remaining Soul Coins. There were still more than 90,000, which couldn't be used. They had to be used to acquire Origin-level upper-body armor to upgrade 【Hunter's Night】 to Origin-level.

First, let Beni try its luck at the big gathering place. Buying it at a low price was certainly good. If it really couldn't be bought, then find the Black Sail Chamber of Commerce, and if that didn't work, the Goblin Chamber of Commerce.

Although Soul Coins couldn't be used, Origin Stones could be used. Su Xiao obtained a total of 21 ordinary Origin Stones this time. This must be used to strengthen Zhan Long Shan. With a total of 21 opportunities, there should be no problem strengthening Zhan Long Shan to +10.

After strengthening to +10, although it couldn't be strengthened with ordinary Origin Stones, Su Xiao had 【Origin Stone · Judgment】, 【Origin Stone · Chaos Fire】, and 【Origin Stone · Endless】. These rare Origin Stones could all strengthen Origin-level weapons above +10.

Su Xiao took out the 【Holy Snake Protection】, and in the other hand was a stopwatch. When the Holy Snake almost turned into a small ball because it swallowed too much bad luck, he pressed the stopwatch. It took a total of more than 60 seconds for the Holy Snake to be supported into this appearance by bad luck, which showed that his luck was quite good now.

After leaving the exclusive room, Su Xiao headed toward the Equipment Strengthening Hall, with Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baja following closely behind.

When Su Xiao arrived at the Equipment Strengthening Hall, he found that it was as lively as ever. He found an unused equipment strengthening machine and equipped 【Honor Badge】 + 【Immortal Luck】.

"【Honor Badge】 (Special Equipment): Increases equipment strengthening success rate by 5%."

"【Immortal Luck】 (Special Title): Increases equipment strengthening success rate by 10%."

【Welcome to use No. 190 equipment strengthening machine.】

The tray of the equipment strengthening machine extended, and Su Xiao placed Zhan Long Shan on it.

【Equipment check completed, Zhan Long Shan +0 (Origin-level). If you need to strengthen to +1, you need to pay 1 Origin Stone.】

Seeing this, Su Xiao took out an Origin Stone, pressed it into the slot on the right-hand side of the equipment strengthening machine, and started the equipment strengthening machine.

Hum~

The equipment strengthening machine began to operate. Amidst the roaring sound, there was also the sizzling sound of electric current inside. More than 10 minutes later.

Pfft!

A burst of steam sprayed out from the four corners of the bottom of the equipment strengthening machine, and the prompt appeared.

【Zhan Long Shan strengthening +1 failed.】

What kind of wind and waves hadn't Su Xiao experienced? It was just a failure to strengthen to +1. Su Xiao calmly took out another Origin Stone, pressed it into the card slot, and started it again. More than 10 minutes later, steam sprayed out, and the prompt appeared again.

【Zhan Long Shan strengthening +1 failed.】

Su Xiao's expression remained calm, and he chose to continue. A moment later.

【Zhan Long Shan strengthening +1 succeeded.】

It was just a matter of probability. Continuous failure at the beginning was sometimes a good thing, so as to avoid failure at critical moments later. After Su Xiao took out the Origin Stone, he started the equipment strengthening machine again.

【Zhan Long Shan strengthening +2 failed, has slipped to +0.】

Amidst the spraying steam, Su Xiao's gaze became more and more solemn. Almost at the same time, the two brothers on his left and right who were strengthening equipment with equipment strengthening machines suddenly felt a bit cold. These two looked at Su Xiao at the same time.

"Uh~, I'm suddenly hungry."

"Me too."

The two left in a hurry. Although they couldn't attack each other in the Reincarnation Paradise, the killing intent made them shudder, so they just slipped away.

Su Xiao took out another Origin Stone and started the equipment strengthening machine, but more than ten minutes later.

【Zhan Long Shan strengthening +1 failed.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao's eyes narrowed slightly. He took out the communicator. After connecting, a voice came from inside: "My dear friend, what's the matter?"

"For some reason, my main weapon has encountered some obstacles in strengthening."

"This~, my dear friend, we have already cooperated once in the Equipment Strengthening Hall last time. Now I can't even enter the front door there, and this time your main weapon is Origin-level strengthening, right? This difficulty is even greater..."

"50 ounces of Space-Time Power."

Su Xiao made an offer, but Caesar on the other side said unusually: "This is not a matter of Space-Time Power."

"100 ounces."

"It's really not a matter of Space-Time Power..."

"200 ounces."

"My dear friend, I'll be there soon!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Caesar on the other side hung up the communication. Su Xiao looked at the equipment strengthening machine in front for a few seconds, then put away the communicator and subconsciously glanced at the front door of the strengthening hall, actually seeing Caesar standing outside the front door, wearing his unique treacherous smile. ===== CHAPTER 3661 =====