Chapter 3727: Power of Overlord

After all seven basic passive abilities were upgraded to X, the "Ultimate · Basic Passive" finally awakened. One had to choose one from the four "Ultimate · Basic Passives."

Su Xiao first excluded "Power of Divinity." He had very few self-healing abilities, with only one team skill fitting this category.

While "Power of World Destruction" seemed good, Su Xiao was a developer who piled up passives, so he really didn't have many active skills, so he also excluded this option...

As for "Power of Omnipotence," this "Ultimate · Basic Passive" increased all attributes the most, but unfortunately, other characteristics were not suitable for Su Xiao.

Su Xiao's gaze focused on the Power of Overlord. He had looked favorably upon this "Ultimate · Basic Passive" before, and right now, this ability perfectly matched his combat system, so naturally, there was no need for further words.

Just as Su Xiao made his choice, the skill upgrade warehouse he was in began to operate. A type of gold-red energy spread out from the surroundings and surged toward him. These energies were quickly absorbed by his body as soon as they touched his skin, but the next second, all the cells in his body seemed to be roaring. This experience was on par with mastering "Perfect Physique" before.

A beautiful day came to an abrupt end with the mastering of "Power of Overlord." When he woke up, it was already the next morning. He stood up with one hand supporting the warehouse wall of the skill upgrade warehouse and moved his slightly numb body.

When all discomfort faded, he only felt hungry in his abdomen. With his current physique, to be overdrawn to this extent showed how dangerous the process of mastering "Power of Overlord" was.

【Ultimate · Basic Passive · Power of Overlord, Lv. 1.】

Skill Effect: Increase health by 5000 points, all attributes +1 point, exempt 0.5% physical damage, exempt 0.5% energy damage.

The initial "Power of Overlord" didn't look strong, and it didn't improve "all physical potential" or "technique ability level limit," but don't forget, the level limit of this ability was Lv. 30. Upgrading it to full level would be another level of strength.

Upgrading it to full level required 29 Golden Skill Points. Regarding this, Su Xiao was not worried. As long as he took some risks, he would be able to obtain a large number of Golden Skill Points afterward.

This method was naturally relying on the Chapter of Greed. Right now, he had already defeated four "Soul Images" with the "Nightmare Blood Shadow."

Taking out the Chapter of Greed, this thing had been 'improved' and 'enhanced' by past holders to an astonishing degree of difficulty in use. To be precise, no matter what abilities one had, if the holder's own spiritual body entered the Chapter of Greed, one would absolutely not be able to beat even the first "Soul Image."

At the very beginning, Su Xiao even thought it was his own lack of training and that he needed to continue adapting to fighting inside with a spiritual body. Therefore, he and the first witch in history, Dark Crow, had had multiple clashes inside.

Afterward, he discovered that it wasn't just that he couldn't beat them, but that there was simply no possibility of winning. To make a simple analogy, after Su Xiao entered the interior of the Chapter of Greed with a spiritual body, he was a Lv. 1 novice player, bringing his own novice long sword that looked quite cool but had no bonuses.

Then the Chapter of Greed thoughtfully introduced him: this is "Start Challenge," this is "Continue Challenge." Alright, you have already understood all the ways to use the Chapter of Greed. Go challenge that Lv. 50 boss unit, Dark Crow, over there.

Su Xiao's final response method was to create a Lv. 70 substitute—that is, the Nightmare Blood Shadow that appeared with his blood aura avatar as the prototype. The problem right now was that even the Lv. 70 Nightmare Blood Shadow was not the opponent of "Soul Image · Fifth Position: Prayer Place · Nun."

Regarding how to enhance the Nightmare Blood Shadow in the Chapter of Greed, that was simple: use 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core (Special Equipment)】 to collect and store blood aura in the ancient battlefield, and use this blood aura to enhance the Nightmare Blood Shadow.

The only problem was that Su Xiao had a premonition that if he enhanced the Nightmare Blood Shadow too strongly, it would indeed be able to clear the Chapter of Greed at the fastest speed, but what if the Nightmare Blood Shadow escaped from the Chapter of Greed? He didn't think this thing would hold even a tiny bit of kindness toward him as its creator.

Therefore, using the Nightmare Blood Shadow to clear the Chapter of Greed belonged to "driving a tiger to swallow a wolf." The ideal result was for the Nightmare Blood Shadow and the last one—that is, the tenth Soul Image—to perish together.

Su Xiao took out a skill scroll named 【Blood Aura Cohesion】. It was a type of aura-type skill. Among the several aura-type skill scrolls he had purchased last time, only this one was left.

After mastering it, Su Xiao chose to upgrade this ability, paying 50 Soul Coins. The skill upgrade warehouse he was in didn't start but activated the teleportation authority.

When the space teleportation ended, everywhere he looked, the earth exuded a dark red stained by blood, and all around were the corpses of strong people or broken weapons. This place was exactly the ancient battlefield.

The Chapter of Greed could not directly absorb blood aura, which was why it needed to be absorbed by 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core (Special Equipment)】 first, and then, relying on the characteristics of this equipment, poured into the Chapter of Greed.

In the skill upgrade warehouse where Su Xiao was just now, after he left, this skill upgrade warehouse was still in an occupied state. Time passed minute by minute. Half an hour later, Su Xiao appeared out of thin air.

Boom!

Su Xiao crashed into the warehouse wall. He used blood-red crystal claws to pull a metal broken spear from his shoulder and threw it aside. At this moment, his pupils were blood-red, but his persistent meditation had kept his gaze very calm.

【Prompt: To remove the blood aura erosion of the ancient battlefield, you need to consume 5,390 Soul Coins.】

【To remove the blood aura residue within the aura, you need to pay 5,520 Soul Coins.】

【To restore physical damage, you need to pay 822 Soul Coins.】

Su Xiao chose to pay everything. With the removal of the blood aura erosion, the blood-colored crystals on his arm shattered, the blood-red in his pupils gradually faded, and the injury on his shoulder also recovered quickly. Just now, he had encountered an attacking Sleeper. He estimated that before reaching a Peerless Expert, it was impossible to clash with it.

Fortunately, every time he went to the ancient battlefield, he had Reincarnation Paradise's protection authority + teleportation authority, otherwise, with the combat power he had when he first encountered the Sleeper, he would have definitely died that time.

Sitting and meditating for a moment, Su Xiao used the Blood Gun Master ability to fuse the Blood Aura Cohesion that had been upgraded to X. Not long after, the absorption was completed. It was a pity that after the Blood Gun Master reached Lv. 80, absorbing a full-level aura ability was no longer enough to upgrade the Blood Gun Master by one level.

Su Xiao checked the 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core (Special Equipment)】 in his hand. Last time he went to the ancient battlefield, he only filled it halfway. This time, he filled it completely. A shocking amount of ancient battlefield blood aura was stored inside.

When walking on the way back to the exclusive room after leaving the skill upgrade warehouse, Su Xiao found that while he was mastering "Power of Overlord," three emails were sent. Among them, two were from God Emperor—one was a repayment, and the other expressed gratitude in his words, as well as implicitly indicating that the God Emperor Adventure Team had regained its financial strength after this period of development.

There was also an email from Solomon, also repaying a debt, totaling 390,000 Soul Coins. Solomon didn't express gratitude, nor did he say any polite words, or rather, with Solomon's style, he couldn't be polite.

Solomon's message was very simple: if Su Xiao had any needs, he could find him once, and he would help unconditionally, even if there was a life-threatening danger.

It seemed that this Undead-type Mage, who had been poor until the late stage, had undergone another qualitative change in combat power after obtaining the 【Death Gem】.

The Undead-type was naturally a super late-stage inheritance system. This ability was very weak in the early stage, just like Undead Girl. When she was at the first tier, she could only summon one skeleton, and this skeleton couldn't even beat a strong man.

Come to think of it, Undead Girl was still summoning skeletons now, it was just that there were a hundred million more skeletons summoned, and the types were diverse, such as thousand-meter-high giant skeletons, ten-thousand-meter-level alien beast skeletons, etc.

Su Xiao weighed it and chose to contact Solomon. The content of the conversation was as follows:

Bai Ye: "There?"

Solomon: "."

Bai Ye: "I might go to the Eternal Light World for trials in the next few world progress periods. I have no confidence in this. Attached 【Detailed information on the Eternal Light World, and the degree of danger】."

Solomon: "I know Eternal Light."

Bai Ye: "Just hearing about it is not enough to fully glimpse the danger of the Eternal Light World."

Solomon: "I've been there."

Bai Ye: "."

Solomon: "When I went, there was a shelter area there, the size of a small to medium-sized city. As for the outside, it might be more dangerous than you said. I didn't go out in the shelter area."

Bai Ye: "I will go to Eternal Light later."

Solomon: "【Iron Refining Invitation】, I have been hesitating whether to accept the highest-risk trial. It seems you also have this trouble."

Bai Ye: "Team up?"

Solomon: "Good."

Su Xiao was in a good mood. Teammate +1 for going to the Eternal Light World. Suddenly, he missed his "teammate" Priest from the last world. If the other party also went to the Eternal Light World, that would be good. However, with Priest's style of being as steady as an old dog, it was unlikely he would go to the Eternal Light World.

However, Su Xiao did not yet know that with the help of Priest's teammate Beverly, the quota for going to the Eternal Light World had already been added to Priest.

Su Xiao looked at the remaining Soul Coins. There were still 467,886 left. It seemed like a lot, but the things he was about to do required a massive amount of Soul Coins.

Back in the exclusive room, Su Xiao found an empty room. After closing the door, he sat on the floor. He took out 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core (Special Equipment)】. With his current means, this was the only way to pour a sufficient amount of primitive blood aura into the Chapter of Greed to enhance the strength of the Nightmare Blood Shadow. But the problem was that when the ancient flying dragons gave up this treasure, it was because the output frequency of this thing was unstable.

When releasing blood aura, it belonged to an irregular release frequency of -1, -1, -1, -9999999, -1, -10. Su Xiao didn't care too much about this. This time he was going to pour all the blood aura inside into the Chapter of Greed, otherwise, the strength of the Nightmare Blood Shadow would not be enough.

As soon as the pouring began, the 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core】 was empty, without a bit of blood aura. If someone didn't know, they would think the 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core】 was broken.

Su Xiao looked at the Chapter of Greed diffusing blood aura in his hand. This time, the poured blood aura was a bit much. He attempted to check the data of the Nightmare Blood Shadow in the Chapter of Greed. The data was not much, as follows:

Soul of Strength: S+

Soul of Agility: S

Soul of Stamina: S+

Soul of Intelligence: S+

Soul of Luck: E-

Seeing this situation, Su Xiao's gaze became a bit solemn. There was no need to see how many plus signs there were; looking directly at the length of the plus signs was actually more intuitive.

Su Xiao manipulated the Nightmare Blood Shadow to enter the scene where Soul Image · Fifth Position · Prayer Place · Nun was located, and then waited for the life-and-death battle to end. Last time, the Nightmare Blood Shadow was defeated by the Prayer Place · Nun, but this time, only a few dozen seconds passed, and the life-and-death battle had a result.

【Prompt: You have defeated Soul Image · Fifth Position · Prayer Place · Nun.】

【You have obtained Golden Skill Point × 5.】

【You have obtained Cold Prayer Rune (one-time item, after use, forms a fixed recovery area of 5×5 meters, lasting for one world progress).】

Taking out a Soul Crystal Core and activating the next "Soul Image," Su Xiao used a spiritual command to let the Nightmare Blood Shadow enter the combat scene, and then began to time it. 1 minute and 50 seconds later, a prompt appeared.

【Prompt: You have defeated Soul Image · Sixth Position · King of Light.】

【You have obtained Golden Skill Point × 6.】

Su Xiao naturally remembered the King of Light of the Dark Spirit World. He took out another Soul Crystal Core, activated the next "Soul Image," and let the Nightmare Blood Shadow begin a new round of challenges. This time, a full 10-plus minutes passed before the prompt appeared.

【Prompt: You have defeated Soul Image · Seventh Position · Old Elf King.】

【You have obtained Golden Skill Point × 7.】

This time the opponent was the Old Elf King of the Tree-Born World. Challenging to this point, even with the strength of the Nightmare Blood Shadow, it could not continue to be unstoppable. Regarding this, Su Xiao was not disappointed. This meant that the Nightmare Blood Shadow still had controllability, at least it would not rush out of the Chapter of Greed due to this enhancement.

After activating the next "Soul Image" again, Su Xiao manipulated the Nightmare Blood Shadow to enter a new scene. This time, a full half-hour passed before he received a prompt.

【Prompt: You have defeated Soul Image · Eighth Position · Trace King · Lu Shuman.】

【You have obtained Golden Skill Point × 8.】

【You have obtained World Ink Trace × 1 (World-level item).】

When he encountered Trace King · Lu Shuman in the Painting World, Su Xiao knew this person was not simple. Right now, the other party being Soul Image · Eighth Position was not surprising.

Checking the existing Golden Skill Points, there were already 28. If he defeated one more "Soul Image," the existing Golden Skill Points would be enough to max out "Power of Overlord." He took out a Soul Crystal Core and activated the ninth "Soul Image." This time, only a few seconds passed before the prompt appeared.

【Challenge failed. Nightmare Blood Shadow has been dispersed. It needs 20 natural days for the Nightmare Blood Shadow to re-gather.】

Last time the Nightmare Blood Shadow was dispersed, it required Su Xiao to pay 8 Soul Crystals (Complete) to reshape it. This time it could automatically re-gather. Although the speed was slower, this represented a momentum: the stronger the Nightmare Blood Shadow, the more momentum it had to break free from Su Xiao's control.

Sensing the Chapter of Greed and finding that its internal situation was still stable, he checked the attributes of the Chapter of Greed at this time.

【Chapter of Greed】

Origin: Abyss / Dead City.

Quality: World-level

Type: Special Item / Medal-type Equipment.

Usage Effect: Each consumption of a Soul Crystal Core can activate one "Soul Image."

Prompt: Before defeating the activated "Soul Image," one cannot activate and challenge the next "Soul Image."

Defeated Soul Images: 8.

Total Soul Images: 10.

Soul Image · First Position: First Witch in History · Dark Crow (Challenge Successful).

Soul Image · Second Position: King of Day (Challenge Successful).

Soul Image · Third Position: Solar Warrior (Challenge Successful).

Soul Image · Fourth Position: Immortal · Xi Wu (Challenge Successful).

Soul Image · Fifth Position: Prayer Place · Nun (Challenge Successful).

Soul Image · Sixth Position: King of Light (Challenge Successful).

Soul Image · Seventh Position: Old Elf King (Challenge Successful).

Soul Image · Eighth Position: Trace King · Lu Shuman (Challenge Successful).

Soul Image · Ninth Position: God King · Os · Tobia (Challenge Failed).

Soul Image · Tenth Position:???

Selling Price: After activation, before completing all challenges, it cannot be sold.

Seeing who the Soul Image · Ninth Position was, Su Xiao knew why the Nightmare Blood Shadow had lost. When fighting the eighth-position Trace King · Lu Shuman, the Nightmare Blood Shadow was actually evenly matched. Encountering God King · Os · Tobia, there was no chance at all.

Su Xiao estimated that at the very least, by filling the 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core】 with blood aura five to seven times and using it all to enhance the Nightmare Blood Shadow, the other party might be able to fight God King · Os · Tobia, and the outcome was still uncertain.

According to Su Xiao's test, going to the ancient battlefield to fill the 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core】 with primitive blood aura required over an hour. Filling it seven times would require at least seven to eight hours.

For so long, the time he had spent in the ancient battlefield added up didn't seem to be that long. Every time he went, he was hurriedly transmitted back due to the Sleeper. Therefore, going to the ancient battlefield multiple times in a short period to absorb blood aura was unrealistic.

Every time he used the 【Ancient Dragon Heart Core】 to absorb for about half an hour, it would arouse the Sleeper's vigilance. Every time it aroused the Sleeper's vigilance, it would take at least 10–15 days for the other party to settle down again. Otherwise, as soon as he arrived at the ancient battlefield, there was a high probability of immediately attracting the Sleeper's attention. Su Xiao had personally tested this and remembered it deeply.

Therefore, wanting to save up enough blood aura for the Nightmare Blood Shadow would take at least 14 world progress periods to achieve. This was not as good as promoting to a Peerless Expert as soon as possible, and then improving his strength, so as to defeat the Sleeper. In this way, he could absorb blood aura in the ancient battlefield at will.

And the benefits of defeating the Sleeper didn't stop there. Located in the deepest part of the ancient battlefield, something seemed to be hidden. At that time, he could explore the deepest part of the ancient battlefield.

With 28 Golden Skill Points, after weighing it, Su Xiao decided to use them to upgrade "Power of Overlord" instead of "Qing Ying Wang." The reason was that before mastering the "Qing Ying Wang · Awakening" ability on the Awakening Monument, the form of this ultimate Law-Breaker move was not complete, so its strength never reached expectations.

To be precise, Su Xiao had now mastered a large part of the Qing Ying Wang ability, and the subsequent more important awakening process had not been completed. And to carry out this awakening, at the very least, he had to complete the breakthrough of 300 points of attributes, as well as high physical attributes as support.

It just so happened that "Power of Overlord" could increase high all attributes, so it was more reliable to upgrade "Power of Overlord" first.

A large number of Golden Skill Points were allocated to "Power of Overlord." The unforgettable experience of mastering "Power of Overlord" just now had a momentum of striking again, but fortunately, it was not as fierce as when he first mastered it.

Three hours later, Su Xiao calmed his aura. The Golden Skill Points had been exhausted, and "Power of Overlord" had reached Lv. 29, only 1 level away from full level. This was harmless; after the next world progress ended, it would naturally be upgraded to full level.

【Ultimate · Basic Passive · Power of Overlord, Lv. 29.】

Skill Effect: Increase health by 145,000 points, all attributes +29 points, exempt 14.5% physical damage, exempt 14.5% energy damage, all potential limit tiers +4, all technique ability level limits +4.

"Power of Overlord" was worthy of being an Ultimate · Basic Passive. The 150,000 health increase after full level, as well as the 30-point all-attribute gain, was quite exaggerated. Although these two gains had no improvement for Su Xiao now, as long as he promoted to a Peerless Expert, his strength would definitely climb by a notch immediately.

This 30-point increase in all attributes was not just 30 points for Strength, Agility, Intelligence, and Stamina; things like Soul Strength, Real Willpower, and even Abyss Resistance were all increased by 30 points. One could see how powerful the gold content of Power of Overlord was. But for some reason, this thing uniquely did not increase the Luck attribute.

As for why, it was actually very simple: everyone's "Power of Overlord" was different. For example, there were many people who, even if they mastered "Power of Overlord," this ability would not be outrageous enough to increase Abyss Resistance by 30 points, let alone that Abyss Resistance belonged to stage-based enhancement.

The so-called stage-based enhancement was not complicated. For example, Su Xiao now had 20 points of Abyss Resistance. He obtained a potion that could increase Abyss Resistance by 10 points but didn't drink it for the time being. But after his Abyss Resistance reached 50 points, he took out this potion again and would find that even though the potion effect was the same, the gain had changed from increasing 10 points of Abyss Resistance to increasing 1 point of Abyss Resistance.

This characteristic of Abyss Resistance had a stage-based ladder every 10 points. Therefore, the higher the Abyss Resistance, the more precious those treasures that could still increase Abyss Resistance were.

The powerful aspect of Power of Overlord was that it was marked as increasing by 30 points, so it was a full 30-point increase. This was an increase under the notarization of Reincarnation Paradise. Therefore, Su Xiao's Abyss Resistance had soared from 20 points to 50 points.

Su Xiao took out 【Secret Potion Formula · Dark Walker】. The attributes of this thing before were that the prepared potion could increase Abyss Resistance by 2 points. Now checking its attributes, it had become capable of increasing Abyss Resistance by 0 points.

Unfortunately, there were no materials required for 【Secret Potion Formula · Dark Walker】. The Dark Essence required in the formula was a material that could not be exchanged with Hunter authority. But another good news was that the 【Extremely Pure · Abyss Blood】 obtained from the Old Beast King this time had changed in attributes under Su Xiao's inspection.

Before, this thing was a dangerous Abyss item in a sealed state, clearly marked as untouchable. But after Su Xiao's Abyss Resistance soared to 50 points, he checked the attributes of this thing again, and it had become: after dilution and soaking, it could permanently increase Abyss Resistance by 3 points.

The increase range seemed small, but after Abyss Resistance exceeded 50 points, one had to accumulate it bit by bit like this. Wanting to increase it by more than 10 points at once again was simply too difficult. This time, increasing it by 30 points at once with Power of Overlord felt quite like an Overlord being able to face the Abyss directly.

Stabilizing his aura for a moment, Su Xiao took out a large number of Soul Crystal Cores and three Primal Fragments and began to upgrade Sword Technique Master.

【If you need to upgrade Sword Technique Master to Lv. 80, you need to consume Primal Fragment × 3 + Soul Crystal Core × 600 + 43,500 Soul Coins.】

【Among the three technique abilities you have mastered, you need to select one as the core ability of the technique system. After selecting the core ability, after the level of the core ability is upgraded to Lv. 80, the strength of this ability will have a more significant improvement.】

Su Xiao chose Sword Technique as the core technique ability. As he made the choice, the Primal Fragments and Soul Crystal Cores around him all shattered, turning into energy and sweeping toward him.

Drip—

Water droplets fell on the flat water surface. Everything around him disappeared, replaced by hazy white light. Su Xiao was sitting on this water surface.

Different from when upgrading Melee Master and Blood Gun Master, he didn't see magnificent scenes and fierce blood beasts. Sitting on this water surface right now, he seemed to have realized everything, and yet it seemed that he was exceptionally far from that supreme realm.

No, it wasn't far; it was that he didn't have the qualification to see that supreme realm at all before, so he didn't even have the qualification to feel that the supreme realm was far away. Right now, he at least could see it, even if it was still very far away, he had a sense of direction.

I don't know when, but sharp blades were inserted into the water surface around him. Just sitting here, Su Xiao's realization and improvement of Sword Technique Master soared to the peak. It was a pity that this wonderful experience was fleeting. A strong pulling sensation struck. The next instant, he had returned to his exclusive room, still sitting cross-legged on the carpet. Not far away, Xiang Bubu Wang was still sleeping soundly, occasionally whimpering and moving its dog paws. It seemed to be dreaming of watching a horror movie.

Su Xiao pushed Xiang Bubu Wang. Xiang Bubu shuddered and got up. A few seconds later, it sighed and leaned against Su Xiao's leg, meaning: "Fortunately, Master, you woke me up. I was dreaming of watching a horror movie just now, and I was so scared I had nowhere to escape."

Not long after, the dazed Xiang Bubu Wang fell asleep again. Looking at the appearance of whimpering from time to time and occasionally moving its dog paws from fear, it should be that the dream of watching the horror movie had continued.

Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang, Su Xiao checked his own improvement and checked the prompt that appeared.

【Sword Technique Master has been selected as the core technique ability. This upgrade has separated the characteristics that Sword Technique Master has improved to the extreme. You will permanently obtain the following passive characteristics.】

【Heart of Master (Passive): Blade-type weapon attack power increased by 1200% (this is the extreme gain that Sword Technique Master can achieve in terms of attack power amplification).】

【Extreme Reflection (Passive): Basic · Nerve Reflex Speed +320 points (this is the extreme gain that Sword Technique Master can achieve in terms of basic · nerve reflex speed).】

【Your Sword Technique Master ability has completed the upgrade.】

【Sword Technique Master: Lv. 80 (Technique Core · Passive)】

Skill Effect: Blade-type weapon damage tier +20 (original base 15, new increase 5), blade-type weapon slashing force judgment tier +15 (original base 10, new increase 5).

Basic Effect: Immune to mental-system, soul-system control (this characteristic has extremely high priority).

Lv. 10 Ultimate Ability: Blade Extreme (Ultimate-level · Passive), except for Sword Technique Master ability, all sword technique skill limits and strength increased by Lv. 2.

Lv. 20 Ultimate Ability: Blade Sharpness (Ultimate-level · Passive), except for Sword Technique Master ability, all sword technique skill limits and strength increased by Lv. 3.

Lv. 30 Ultimate Ability: Blade Stunt (Ultimate-level · Passive), except for Sword Technique Master ability, all sword technique skill limits and strength increased by Lv. 5.

Lv. 40 Ultimate Ability: Blade Peak (Ultimate-level · Passive), except for Sword Technique Master ability, all sword technique skill limits and strength increased by Lv. 10.

Lv. 50 Ultimate Ability: Soul Blade (Ultimate-level · Passive), can exempt one instant-death, beheading judgment (after improvement, this characteristic gains high priority).

Prompt: Every time beheading is exempted, this characteristic will enter a 120-hour cooldown.

Lv. 60 Ultimate Ability: Soul-Slashing Blade (Ultimate-level · Passive), when using blade-type weapons to attack, it will carry "Soul-Slashing" characteristic (attached with soul damage of self soul strength × 3.8).

Lv. 70 Ultimate Ability: Blade Domain (Ultimate-level · Passive), you gain 10% total damage reduction, blade-type weapon damage tier +5.

Lv. 80 Ultimate Ability: Extreme Blade · World (Ultimate-level · Passive), instantly expand "Extreme Blade Domain," instantly causing 15%–20% indiscriminate real slashing damage of maximum health to all targets within 30 meters around you as the center.

Blade Domain exclusive effect · Domain Breaking: The moment this ability expands, if you are in other domains, you will instantly destroy this domain.

Prompt: This domain breaking characteristic has high priority.

Prompt: This ability is an active effect, but it is a passive characteristic, so there is no cooldown, but every time it is used, it will consume a large amount of your stamina, and continuous use in a short period will cause your real stamina attribute to permanently slip and enter continuous severe exhaustion. You need to carefully control the usage interval. After releasing this ability once, wait at least 20 minutes before using this ability again.

Prompt: The attack strength tier of this "Extreme Blade Domain" is 30 (blade-type weapon damage tier 20 + extra attack tier 10). If the enemy's "physique judgment tier" is lower than this attack tier, they will be immediately beheaded.

Prompt: This skill has no usage delay and is activated instantly.

Prompt: This ability will not be interrupted or stalled for any reason.

Prompt: The area after using "Extreme Blade Domain," space will be severely damaged, and it is impossible to move in space in this area by any means.

Warning: Please do not use "Extreme Blade Domain" three times in a row in one area. This behavior will likely cause space to be slashed through, further destroying the "Natural Element Layer." If the Natural Element Layer is destroyed, more external Abyss energy will pour in for a period of time, or even cause this damaged place to become an "Abyss Hole" or "Abyss Channel."

Prompt: This is your unique ability.

The upgrade of Sword Technique Master was completed. Su Xiao sat cross-legged and meditated for a while before stabilizing his aura. The reason was that after the Sword Technique Master, as the core technique ability, broke through Lv. 80, his protective energy suddenly increased by a large margin, more than the protective energy increased when Melee Master and Blood Gun Master both broke through Lv. 80 combined.

There were many skill introductions for Sword Technique Master, but in Su Xiao's view, it was actually two parts. First was the improved "blade-type weapon damage tier." Before, he even thought this thing was similar to his brand tier, only having one to nine tiers, but after not improving for long, he found it was wrong.

Right now, it seemed that "blade-type weapon damage tier" was the comprehensive advancement of "sword technique attack power." This was also why, when fighting the Old Beast King with strong super-armor before, Su Xiao could still severely injure the other party.

And "blade-type weapon slashing force judgment tier"—in this regard, he had experienced it from the Old Beast King. This characteristic directly related to the momentum and sense of power of the slash.

Simply put, "slashing force judgment tier" was to break the enemy's parry, while "blade-type weapon damage tier" had to take effect after the slash hit the enemy. One was mainly for breaking defense, and the other was mainly for killing.

"Blade-type weapon damage tier" and "slashing force judgment tier" were the core attributes of Sword Technique Master after reaching Lv. 80. Upgrading Sword Technique Master level could continuously improve both.

Compared with these two simple and crude ones, other characteristics of sword technique, although still simple and crude, were obviously more diverse. The "Soul-Slashing characteristic," "total damage reduction," and "beheading and instant-death blocking" that were originally present didn't need to be mentioned. The key was the two newly added characteristics.

One of them was the improvement of the level and limit of sword technique-type abilities. Although this ability uniquely couldn't improve Sword Technique Master, it was still powerful. Simply put, it was to improve the strength of already full-level sword technique-type abilities by another 20 levels. Su Xiao checked the "Technique Sublimation" ability, and sure enough, the strength of this ability soared by a large margin.

【Technique Sublimation: X (Technique-type · Passive)】

Skill Effect 1: Increase sword technique move power by 490% (increased by 120%).

Skill Effect 2: Self sword technique potential tier +18 (increased by 3 tiers).

Skill Effect 3: Basic · Nerve Reflex Speed +230 points (increased by 35 points), Basic · Dynamic Vision +230 points (increased by 35 points).

Skill Effect 4: Blade-type weapon damage tier +1.

It seemed that this characteristic only improved one sword technique-type ability, "Technique Sublimation," but it was not so. More of Su Xiao's sword technique abilities were not visible in the skill list, such as his "Blade Dao · Extreme," "Blade Dao · Flow," etc. These sword technique moves he developed himself also belonged to sword technique-type abilities and received the same Lv. 20 improvement.

Besides these improvements, sword technique also had a big move, which was "Extreme Blade · World." Just sensing his own improvement was hard to measure this ability. Su Xiao stood up and came to the trial room. After closing the door, he generated metal piles here with brand authority.

Metal piles with 900 intensity stood around. These were sword piles that he could hardly shake even with the strongest slash before. Right now, he stabilized his aura and pressed one hand on the hilt.

Clang!!

A sharp and metallic slashing sound appeared. With Su Xiao as the center, the spherical "Extreme Blade Domain" appeared. It only appeared for an instant. It looked like the color of the surrounding air had become deeper, and every ten-plus centimeters, there was a slashing flash point the size of a grain of rice.

But it was this "Extreme Blade Domain" that appeared for an instant that caused all the surrounding metal sword piles to be shattered and scattered. The metal sword piles that couldn't be shaken even with full-force slashes before were now like chopping melons and vegetables.

Not only that, because the space intensity in the trial room was adjusted to the level of the ninth-tier world, at this moment, traces of black marks were static around, which were the traces of space being slashed open, causing the surrounding space to be cut into 1-cubic-centimeter-sized blocks, forming a block state individually.

This spectacular scene only lasted for a few seconds before the area that endured the "Extreme Blade Domain" began to collapse in space, forming a pitch-black space vortex and releasing huge suction.

When the pitch-black space vortex was generated, Su Xiao had already activated the brand authority to reset the environment in the trial room. After using "Extreme Blade Domain" once, he had a new realization of this move. This was not a move slashed out with a sword. He didn't even draw his sword throughout the process, just pressed one hand on the hilt.

To be precise, as long as he touched his own sword, even if it was just his finger pressing on the end of the hilt, he could use this move normally. This also meant that he could completely slash at the enemy with one sword, and after clashing with the enemy's weapon, suddenly expand the "Extreme Blade Domain."

Just the expansion speed of this domain—even if a top-tier space-type was within 30 meters of him, they couldn't dodge this move. It was released too fast. The release feeling of this move was simply not needing to mobilize physical energy or anything else. It felt so smooth that it was almost the same as hooking his finger slightly.

Of course, this move also had a disadvantage, which was that the stamina consumption was too large, and it was consumed according to the percentage of stamina. However, come to think of it, this was not entirely a disadvantage.

The more stamina Su Xiao had, the stronger the effect of this ability that consumed stamina according to the percentage. In other words, as long as Su Xiao himself continued to become stronger, this ability would definitely not be eliminated but could be used as a god-level skill until the end.

Leaving the trial room, after Su Xiao sat down, he attempted to upgrade the Sword Technique Master that had reached Lv. 80. After that, the degree of poverty for a period of time depended on the upgrade cost of technique abilities to the late stage.

【If you need to upgrade Sword Technique Master Lv. 80, you need to consume Soul Crystal Soul × 10 + 95,000 Soul Coins.】

Su Xiao's gaze gradually became solemn. After Sword Technique Master reached Lv. 80, further upgrading this ability was something that should be done in the middle, or even late, stage of a Peerless Expert. Therefore, the consumption of 95,000 Soul Coins per level was acceptable, but the consumption of Soul Crystal Soul × 10 made him feel ominous.

1 Soul Crystal Soul = 119 Soul Crystal Cores, which meant upgrading Sword Technique Master by one level required 1,190 Soul Crystal Cores...

Su Xiao pondered for a moment and finally used the remaining 21 Soul Crystal Souls to upgrade Sword Technique Master by two levels. An hour later, the upgrade was completed.

【Sword Technique Master: Lv. 80 (Technique Core · Passive)】

Skill Effect: Blade-type weapon damage tier +24 (increased by 4), blade-type weapon slashing force judgment tier +19 (increased by 4).

Basic Effect: Immune to mental-system, soul-system control (this characteristic has extremely high priority).

Lv. 10 Ultimate Ability: Blade Extreme (Ultimate-level · Passive)...

Lv. 80 Ultimate Ability: Extreme Blade · World (Ultimate-level · Passive)...

Su Xiao pulled out the Dragon Flash from its sheath. As the long sword left the sheath, a sense of oppression that could suffocate more than 90% of living beings diffused. Plus the newly mastered "Power of Overlord," if he were in a life-and-death battle with the ultimate boss of a world, and someone else saw it, they would definitely exclaim for the first time: "Holy crap! Look, two ultimate bosses are fighting for some reason. Let's hide and wait for them to both be injured!"

That's right, with Su Xiao's current sword technique + Power of Overlord aura, he didn't look like he was challenging a big boss at all, but rather like two big bosses fighting.

Or rather, there was one thing Su Xiao didn't know yet: if he arrived in the world of Apocalypse Paradise now and was detected by the Apocalypse contractors there, he would be a bona fide Overlord boss template. Whether it was the total health, various physical attributes, or a large number of X passives, they were all the best proof.

Su Xiao looked at the time. Upgrading and mastering several abilities, a day was almost over. If there was time tomorrow, he could go to the Great Gathering Place to stroll around. He could either identify the attributes of 【Gravity Law Ring (Eternal-level equipment)】 and sell it, or try to see if he could exchange it for an Eternal-level equipment suitable for himself.

And today, a beautiful day could temporarily end. He was prepared to master two Law-Breaker abilities with the Awakening Monument, which were:

"Adaptation Power (Passive): According to enemy characteristics, increase corresponding non-reducible real resistance (real resistance has absolute priority, enemies cannot reduce this type of resistance by any means)."

"Soul Induction (Passive): Significantly strengthen the control characteristics of Qing Gang Ying energy. When Qing Gang Ying energy burns the enemy's physical energy, there is a 15% chance to trigger a paralysis state (this is an absolute control effect, cannot be exempted by any means), and the abnormal state duration is 0.2–3 seconds.

Prompt: This effect can be continuously stacked. Every time Qing Gang Ying energy burns the enemy's physical energy, if the "absolute control" effect is not triggered, the trigger probability of this characteristic will be increased by 20% until this probability reaches 100% trigger. The next slash attached with Qing Gang Ying energy, after hitting the enemy, will definitely cause the enemy to fall into an "absolute paralysis" state."

Su Xiao came to the room where the Awakening Monument was placed. After pressing his hand on it, he found that the upgrade of the Awakening Monument was completed, and there were several more advanced · Law-Breaker abilities on it.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 3728 =====