Chapter 3793: Origin Stone

In the exclusive room, the space fluctuations subsided. Su Xiao had just returned when he received the notification that Blood Feather had completed its upgrade.

The current Blood Feather looked like a crystal blood-colored feather over 30 centimeters long, and also like a dagger with a peculiar shape. The blood-colored brilliance scattered from it was like tiny blood-colored feathers, but don't be deceived by this aesthetic feeling; this equipment was particularly fierce.

【Blood Feather】

Origin: Overlord Creature · Holy Spirit Bird

Quality: Overlord-level

Category: Secondary weapon/Special equipment.

Durability: 15/15 points.

Equipment requirement: Charm attribute below 5 points.

Good usage effect: Charm attribute -5 points.

Best usage effect: Charm attribute -20 points.

Equipment effect 1: Malicious Damage (Active), Blood Feather temporarily shatters, attaches to a designated healing-type person, and blesses this healing-type ability user with Scarlet Power, significantly increasing the strength of their healing-type ability, making their healing amount increase by 5–10 times (depending on the amount of Scarlet Power stored in Blood Feather). Subsequently, the healing-type ability cast by this healing-type person will cause the target's maximum health to decrease by 10% (this state can stack up to 5 layers).

Note: Using this ability will consume 1 point of Blood Feather's durability.

Note: The healing-type person attached by Blood Feather can only heal their own friendly targets and cannot heal enemy targets by any means.

Note: The "Destined Limit" ability of the healing-type person attached by Blood Feather will be temporarily sealed, thereby causing unlimited, unprotected excessive healing to friendly targets.

Destined Limit effect: A basic ability that all healing-type persons must master. When the target being treated recovers to 100% health, the healing-type person's "Destined Limit" ability will activate on its own, causing the treated target to experience a short-term rejection of healing-type energy, thereby avoiding the malignant proliferation of origin life force caused by excessive healing.

Equipment effect 2: Scarlet Surge (Passive), when a healing-type person is attached by Blood Feather, they will temporarily gain "Scarlet Value." "Scarlet Value" will grow on its own, with a maximum value of 100 points. When the Scarlet Value reaches 100 points, the healing-type person will die due to a Scarlet explosion after 10 seconds.

Note: Releasing healing-type abilities with Scarlet Power can consume the rapidly accumulating Scarlet Value.

Note: When the healing-type person's Scarlet Value accumulates over 50 points, the healing-type person's next healing ability will be guaranteed to trigger at full intensity, which is 15 times the healing effect.

Note: When the healing-type person's Scarlet Value accumulates over 100 points, if the healing-type person wants to release the Scarlet Power in their body, they can only release it through a large-scale healing-type ability, but this healing-type ability will transform into a killing effect, dealing 4.5 times the current healing amount in true Scarlet damage to all friendly targets in the vicinity.

Equipment effect 3: Child of Scarlet (Passive), while being attached by Blood Feather and appearing with "Scarlet Value," they will also be blessed by Scarlet Power, increasing all attributes by 20 points, increasing current health by 85%, increasing body defense by 130 points, and being able to continuously restore their own health through special energy mixed with their own healing-type energy + Scarlet Power.

Note: The attachment of Blood Feather will last for 60 minutes, or the healing-type person will kill all friendly units in a large area around them. After completing the kill, Blood Feather will detach.

Note: The durability of this equipment can only be repaired within the Samsara Paradise.

Note: This equipment can only be used on healing-type persons.

Score: 6000 points.

Introduction: It's time to bestow power.

Price: Cannot be sold.

Blood Feather's attributes changed significantly. The original healing choice of choosing between friend or foe was gone. Now, after a healing-type person is attached by Blood Feather, they can only heal friendly targets.

The so-called "Destined Limit" ability is something all poison-healers must master how to turn off. Once this ability is turned off, excessive healing can be achieved.

Blood Feather's effect is to forcibly turn off the "Destined Limit" ability of normal healing-type persons and significantly increase the healing amount of this healing-type person. This is no longer a problem of filling up health in one go, but rather, after one healing ability is used, life force directly overflows, leading to the proliferation of origin life force.

Sometimes, severe overflow of life force is just as terrifying as clearing out life force. Both represent death.

Just like this, Blood Feather's strength still doesn't reach the full score of Overlord-level. Each healing will reduce the target's maximum health by 10%, which is the essence of Blood Feather's equipment effect 1.

If the target's origin life force is in a container, then the initial capacity of this container is 100 points. If it exceeds 100 points, there is danger. If you force 200 points of life force into it, the container explodes.

If the target's container limit drops from 100 points to 90 points, it's even easier to explode, not to mention that each healing reduces it by 10 points, up to a maximum reduction to 50 points of capacity.

Under these circumstances, who can withstand the healing of a healing-type person? The gentle, beautiful nurse who looks gentle in normal times turns into a poison-healer at this moment, turning black.

Blood Feather's equipment effect 2 forces the healing-type person to heal friendly targets. Once the Scarlet Value accumulates to the full, they will die on the spot, and the accumulation speed of the Scarlet Value is very fast.

If it were just like this, Blood Feather's changes wouldn't actually be big; it would just be a different way to make the healing-type person wear a mask of pain. But Blood Feather's equipment effect 3 destined it not to be an upgraded version of the old Blood Feather, but an advanced piece of equipment with a unique style.

After an enemy healer is attached by Blood Feather, they instantly transform into a female war god, but it's a female war god who is particularly good at beating teammates, with a single excessive healing ability that is simply impossible to guard against.

You can resist injuries by drinking potions or relying on self-healing abilities, but what should you do when you are excessively healed? Stab yourself a few times? That doesn't work either. The healing amount of the friendly healing-type person is too fierce, and hitting yourself doesn't cause much health loss, and the life force in your body is expanding crazily. No matter how fierce the tank-type person is, they must be terrified in their hearts.

Su Xiao put away Blood Feather. He went to the planting area and began to soak in a hot spring made of Eternal Spring Water. The feeling of fatigue gradually being soaked out by the hot spring made him exceptionally comfortable. In front, Benny floating by looked very interesting.

I don't know how Benny mastered this skill, being able to float like this all the time, and looking particularly comfortable. Not far away, Amu was feeding a particularly ugly, silly-headed bird. Don't underestimate this silly-headed bird; this is a ruthless character who had the guts to challenge Su Xiao to a duel.

Xiang Bubu Wang meticulously took care of the Black Maple Tree. Xiang Bubu Wang contributed significantly to this Black Maple Tree being able to grow to over eight meters tall.

After soaking in the hot spring for a while, Su Xiao took a hot shower, changed his clothes, took Xiang Bubu Wang out of the exclusive room, and headed straight for the equipment reinforcement hall.

Although he only had one 【Origin Stone · Slow Motion】 in his hand, Su Xiao had a way to reinforce the Eternal-level Checking Zhan Long Shan. He didn't intend to consume this Origin Stone; he could try later to see if this thing could bring bonuses to the "Ultimate Blood Gun."

When Su Xiao arrived at the equipment reinforcement hall, he found that many equipment reinforcement machines here were empty. The contractors here were all gathered in front of an equipment reinforcement machine on the inner side. He happened to meet Ku Hu from the God Emperor Adventure Group and learned from the other party that a professional was reinforcing a +29 growth-type equipment.

Mainstream equipment of Immortal-level and Origin-level quality couldn't possibly be reinforced to this extent, but growth-type equipment could. Only the mysterious upper limit of growth-type equipment could have such an outrageous reinforcement level.

However, reinforcing growth-type equipment to +16 already belongs to a very lucky situation. After +20, the success probability drops to below 0.001%. And after +25, subsequent reinforcement levels not only require heaven-defying luck but also sufficiently strong buff items so that the equipment doesn't shatter directly due to the reinforcement level.

Looking at the posture, that professional was preparing to go for a reinforcement +30. Even if it were the easiest growth-type equipment to reinforce, if it successfully reinforced to +30, it wouldn't be long before high-level contractors from the six paradise factions would know about this.

And the violators, they would be like sharks smelling blood, not to mention that this growth-type equipment was a ring with strong versatility.

Su Xiao, who failed even when trying to reinforce +0 to +1, couldn't watch this; it was easy to make his mood turn from sunny to cloudy. He came to an empty reinforcement machine and activated it.

【Welcome to use Equipment Reinforcement Machine No. 208.】

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

【Equipment check completed, Checking Zhan Long Shan (Eternal-level) needs 1 rare Origin Stone to reinforce to +1.】

Su Xiao had two reinforcement items, which were:

"Birth of a Miracle: After being used on Origin-level equipment in conjunction with an equipment reinforcement machine, it can reinforce it to +15. After being used on Eternal-level equipment, it can reinforce it to +12."

"Star Crystal Core: In conjunction with an equipment reinforcement machine, it can upgrade Eternal-level equipment at +0 reinforcement to +5."

At first glance, this is definitely choosing 【Birth of a Miracle】 to upgrade Checking Zhan Long Shan to +12. You must know that the reinforcement of Eternal-level weapons is the most difficult of all reinforcements. This can be seen from the bonus of the Supreme Blade to Checking Zhan Long Shan. Eternal-level is already the highest-level equipment, at least the highest-level equipment under normal circumstances.

The score of World-level equipment and Overlord-level equipment is capped at 6000 points, while the equipment score of Eternal-level is 3000–6000 points, which also means that Eternal-level is the highest quality in the mainstream equipment system.

Reinforcing this highest-quality equipment, every reinforcement level is a difficult hurdle. At high levels, although the difficulty of obtaining Eternal-level weapons is great, most top-tier Tier 9 or Supreme-level contractors can get an Eternal-level weapon. Regardless of whether the score is 3001 points or 6000 points, at the very least, they have obtained the highest-quality weapon.

High-level contractors have a saying that obtaining a full-score Eternal-level weapon is both a happy and painful thing. The crafting cost is too high, and failing to reinforce +1 to +2 is a common occurrence.

Su Xiao placed 【Birth of a Miracle】 on the tray, and a notification appeared.

【Yes/No to perform this reinforcement? If you perform this reinforcement, you can skip reinforcement levels and reinforce Checking Zhan Long Shan (Eternal-level) to +12.】

【Note: This is a conventional reinforcement notarization. If you choose this reinforcement, Checking Zhan Long Shan will default to abandoning the exclusive reinforcement notarization for Eternal-level equipment.】

【Warning: If you use this item on Eternal-level equipment, the success probability for subsequent +13 reinforcement will be significantly reduced, and extremely precious Origin Stones will be needed to guarantee a lower success rate.】

A choice was placed in front of Su Xiao: spend a smaller cost to jump directly to +12 to quickly obtain the power of an Eternal-level weapon +12, or accumulate reinforcement levels bit by bit, gradually climbing higher.

A simple analogy is: is it better to climb the steps one by one, or jump directly to the height of the 12th step? The benefit brought by the latter is not small, but if you want to continue climbing and try to build the 13th step, it is easy to collapse.

【Birth of a Miracle】 was one of the rewards for conquering the Watcher's Tower, while 【Star Crystal Core】 was the gain from killing the Star Realm Devourer. The difficulty of the two is not comparable. The latter is much higher than the former, but 【Star Crystal Core】 only upgrades to +5, while 【Birth of a Miracle】 upgrades to +12.

More intuitively, these two are actually two different reinforcement systems. 【Birth of a Miracle】 is a conventional reinforcement system, and 【Star Crystal Core】 is an exclusive reinforcement system for Eternal-level.

The conventional reinforcement system is not bad, it's just that the upgrade magnitude is slightly smaller, and after reinforcing to +8, once it fails, the reinforcement level returns to zero. After reinforcing to +10, once the reinforcement fails, the equipment may be damaged.

As the highest-quality equipment, Eternal-level equipment also has a set of exclusive reinforcement systems, which is to reinforce level by level through Origin Stones. This reinforcement system makes people both love and hate it. What is hated is that it is difficult to upgrade, and what is loved is that if the reinforcement fails, it is just a failure. For example, if the reinforcement state is +4 and the impact +5 fails, the reinforcement level just doesn't change. If you have rare Origin Stones in your hand, you can try to impact +5 again. If it fails again, try again.

This is Eternal-level equipment. The impact and fluctuation of reinforcement are not enough to shatter this highest-quality weapon. This is the face of peak quality.

Undoubtedly, 【Birth of a Miracle】 is a shortcut. Su Xiao is not prepared to take this shortcut. The cost to make up for it later is too great. And 【Star Crystal Core】, this thing is very solid. Although it can only be reinforced to +5, it is equivalent to using 5 pieces of high-quality rare Origin Stones, with a 100% reinforcement probability each time, step by step, solidly stacking up the reinforcement level.

This is also why only Eternal-level equipment at +0 reinforcement can use 【Star Crystal Core】, and Su Xiao is not prepared to sell 【Birth of a Miracle】; it will be very useful in the future.

Under Su Xiao's adjustment, the tray of the reinforcement machine popped out. He placed 【Star Crystal Core】 on it, and the metal tray retracted.

【Yes/No to perform this reinforcement? This is an exclusive reinforcement method for Eternal-level weapons.】

【Star Crystal Core evaluating...】

【Evaluation completed, the "Star Core Energy" contained in the Star Crystal Core is equivalent to the "Star Core Energy" contained in five high-quality rare Origin Stones.】

【If this reinforcement is performed, it will default to five consecutive reinforcements from +0 to +5.】

Su Xiao chose to reinforce. The equipment reinforcement machine started running. He didn't pay attention to the reinforcement but flipped through the few notifications just now. According to the content on the notifications, after weapons reach the Origin-level, the reason why Origin Stones are needed to reinforce them is because they need the "Star Core Energy" inside, which is the key to achieving weapon reinforcement.

Understanding it this way, if the "Star Core Energy" provided by rare Origin Stones is guaranteed to be sufficient, can adding some "Star Power" later make the reinforcement success rate higher?

【Checking Zhan Long Shan reinforcement +1 successful.】

【Checking Zhan Long Shan reinforcement +2 successful.】

【Checking Zhan Long Shan reinforcement +3 successful.】

【Checking Zhan Long Shan reinforcement +4 successful.】

【Checking Zhan Long Shan reinforcement +5 successful.】

As the reinforcement ended, the tray holding Checking Zhan Long Shan popped out, and steam surged from the edge of the bottom of the reinforcement machine. Su Xiao didn't pick up Checking Zhan Long Shan but chose to continue reinforcing.

With a click, the tray with Checking Zhan Long Shan retracted into the reinforcement machine. Su Xiao pressed 【Origin Stone · Slow Motion】 into the groove on the right hand side of the reinforcement machine, then activated the Abyss Store and exchanged for a copy of 【Star Power】 with 1300 Precipitated Glaze.

【Star Power (Crystallized)】

Category: Reinforcement item.

Effect: In conjunction with an equipment reinforcement machine, it can upgrade equipment by 1 reinforcement level (maximum upgrade to +15).

【Star Power】 can reinforce Origin-level equipment. Su Xiao placed it on the medium-sized prop tray at the bottom of the main tray, but didn't let the tray retract back into the equipment reinforcement machine immediately. Instead, while wearing the 【Immortal Luck】 title, he checked the current success rate.

【Note: Because the reinforcement method for Checking Zhan Long Shan is an exclusive Eternal-level reinforcement notarization, even if this reinforcement fails, the reinforcement level of this equipment will not decrease.】

Su Xiao pressed the metal key next to the prop tray, and the prop tray retracted. The reinforcement success rate changed.

It increased the success rate by at least 14%. These 1300 Precipitated Glaze were spent very worthily. In Su Xiao's view, let alone the gap between 86% and 100%, even the comparison between 99% and 100% was very insecure in his view. The Law-Extinguishing luck gave him a style of striving for the most stable.

Su Xiao put away 【Origin Stone · Slow Motion】 and 【Star Power】, then popped out the tray and took Checking Zhan Long Shan out of it.

【Checking Zhan Long Shan +5】

Durability: 980/980 points (increased by 40 points).

Attack power: 846–983 (increased by 40–50 points).

Basic bonus: True damage caused by Qing Gang Ying energy increased by 30%.

Supreme Blade effect 1: Sharpness +1612 points (increased by 50 points).

Supreme Blade effect 2: Magic Blade (Core · Active)...

Inlay effect: 0/3 slots.

Score: 7150 points (this weapon's score is 3000–10500 points).

Introduction: Slay gods and evil, sever souls and slaughter demons, seal demons in the blade, slash all that is immortal and indestructible!

Su Xiao sheathed Checking Zhan Long Shan and looked at the remaining stay time before heading toward the exclusive room. On the way, he happened to meet Sha. After not seeing her for a while, Sha's aura had changed. That aura like a beast was already exceptionally dark and had strong aggressiveness.

On the steps by the alley, Su Xiao was eating snacks. Sha on the side threw the empty food box into the trash can, patted the seasoning residue on her legs, got up from the steps, and said: "Leaving."

"Are you sure you want to continue forward?"

Su Xiao was chewing roasted beans and said something confusing, but after hearing this, Sha paused.

"I have always pursued power, you know that."

Sha spoke with her back to Su Xiao, obviously understanding what Su Xiao was saying.

"You might lose control."

"I won't."

Sha had her back to Su Xiao, her short hair hanging down freely. She was wearing a black vest with black patterns on her back and arms. She tilted her head and looked at Su Xiao from the corner of her eye. If you made eye contact with her, you would find that the bottom of Sha's eyes and her pupils were pitch black.

"Don't worry, I have a hard life. Besides, what's a pity about dying on the road of pursuing power?"

After Sha left this sentence, she made a move to lift her feet and leave. A bottle of pitch-black potion flew over. Sha raised her hand to catch it. Just by touching it, she knew that this was a potion that could temporarily curb the erosion of Abyss Power, and the effect was very strong. She didn't thank him but waved her hand while walking forward as she used to, with her back to Su Xiao, and finally disappeared at the street corner.

Su Xiao sat on the steps. Regarding Sha absorbing Abyss energy, he didn't intend to interfere; at most, he would remind her. Everyone has their own choices, especially since Sha has always been pursuing strength. But after reaching the peak of Tier 8, she reached her limit. This was the price of her disregarding her body's injuries and constantly forcibly breaking through her limits in the past. If it weren't for Su Xiao's multiple treatments, Sha might even have been in danger of her life.

For a strong person whose goal is to pursue power, this is very painful. Therefore, it is not surprising at all that Sha would choose the Abyss system. She broke through her own limits with this and was able to continue pursuing strength.

However, looking at Sha's appearance, it was definitely not a reckless direct absorption of Abyss energy. Obviously, she had obtained some kind of Abyss-type power inheritance system. But even so, the risk was still extremely high.

When Su Xiao returned to the exclusive room, just after entering the door, he saw Xiang Bubu Wang hugging the chandelier, while Benny was staring at it tigerishly from below, clearly saying: 'Silly dog, wait until you come down, this cat will let you know what Hunting Shadow is.'

After Su Xiao saw the exquisite ice cream box with dog footprints on the ground, he already knew what was going on. Benny was happily eating ice cream and watching a video program, and then Xiang Bubu Wang, who had just woken up, walked over, stepped on Benny's tail in a daze, and then stepped into the ice cream box, reshaping Benny's custom ice cream.

"Woo-ooh-woof."

"..."

Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang's 'cry for help', Su Xiao sat down on the sofa. He had just put on the Mystery Scholar title and was about to upgrade Sealing Studies when a notification appeared.

【Notification: Origin Stone · World has completed fusion.】

【You have obtained Origin Stone · World (Strongest Origin Stone).】

【You need to make the following choice.】

【Yes/No to decide to be the owner of Origin Stone · World? If you choose to own it, your??? mission will change, and the mission difficulty will be upgraded to the highest.】

【Warning: This choice is extremely dangerous, you need to consider it carefully.】

【If you choose No, this piece of Origin Stone · World will only be used for wearing or inlaying.】

Seeing this notification, Su Xiao immediately took out 【Origin Stone · World】 from the storage space. In the notarization, it was marked as the strongest Origin Stone. One could imagine how strong 【Origin Stone · World】 was.

【You have chosen to be the holder of Origin Stone · World.】

【Origin Stone · World】

Origin: Samsara Paradise (determined based on the location during synthesis).

Type: Special equipment.

Durability: 15000/15000 points.

Equipment effect 1: Meditator (Passive), if the hunter carries the Origin Stone with them, each meditation will increase the progress of the current meditation ability by 2.5% (can be triggered once every natural day).

Equipment effect 2: Power (Passive), you will gain a permanent buff, the level limit of all skills in your skill list will be increased by Lv. 10 (can only be triggered when the true stamina attribute reaches 500 points).

Equipment effect 3: Seal Arrival (Passive), can be activated upon reaching the Supreme level.

Equipment effect 4: Peak (Passive), can be activated upon reaching above the Supreme level.

Equipment effect 5: World · Heaven-Chosen (Passive), you obtain "Qualification (inactive state)."

Introduction: You have the "Qualification," but you are not the only one.

Selling price: Cannot be sold, cannot be traded, cannot be transferred, will definitely drop upon death. If the person who kills you is not worthy of owning Origin Stone · World, this Origin Stone will shatter into five pieces.

What is the concept of increasing the upper limit of all abilities by Lv. 10? Once this upgrade is obtained, all the abilities Su Xiao currently has that have reached X can be upgraded again with Golden Skill Points, and the upgrade magnitude is not low. After completing this upgrade, Su Xiao will be hard to find an opponent among the Supreme level.

However, this upgrade cannot be achieved yet, not only because the true stamina attribute hasn't reached 500 points, but also because the magnitude of Su Xiao's strength upgrade after returning to the Samsara Paradise this time is already huge. He needs a period of time and a few battles to thoroughly digest this upgrade.

Su Xiao held 【Origin Stone · World】 and entered a meditation state. In just an instant, he felt everything around him disappear. He immersed himself in the meditation state. When he opened his eyes, more than two hours had passed. He checked the Heart Meditation ability.

"Heart Meditation, Lv. 96 (Passive): 1300015/52000000 proficiency points."

The proficiency of the meditation ability soared by a large margin. In the past, meditating once only increased proficiency by a dozen points, but now meditating once, this efficiency is no longer in the same tier as before.

Su Xiao held 【Origin Stone · World】 between his index and middle fingers. The origin of this thing is huge. Even though he is now at the Supreme level, he still cannot activate all the effects of this Origin Stone. Later, he not only needs to ascend to the Supreme level but even reach above the Supreme level to thoroughly activate this Origin Stone.

Su Xiao put away the Origin Stone and began to invest in mastering Sealing Studies. This concerns his life and safety. The "High-Level Sealing Studies" with a total value of 3800 Library Silver Coins is very profound, but with the assistance of the Mystery Scholar title and the "urging" of the five original sin objects, Su Xiao's Sealing Studies improvement speed is very fast.

When the timer rang, Su Xiao put down the ancient book in his hand, and a sense of mental fatigue came, but his body was not tired. He went to the eighth floor of the Land of All Living Things. There were many abilities to develop this time, such as the "Heavenly Wrath · Mark" of the Blood Beast talent, the awakened King of Shadow Blades, etc. The hard cultivation began.

【Notification: Your stay time in the Samsara Paradise is only 30 minutes left. You have the following choices.】

1. Return to the real world.

2. Go to the Eternal Light World.

Su Xiao didn't make a choice immediately. He returned to the exclusive room, stored the large wine barrel for brewing elemental brew into the storage space, and chose to go to the Eternal Light World.

Going to the Eternal Light World this time, there is a very important matter. Su Xiao had previously contacted the Demon Blacksmith located at the Meteorite Star at the cost of consuming Lv. 1 brand permission and agreed to meet the other party in the Eternal Light World.

This meeting is naturally to inlay the 【Soul Gem】 onto Checking Zhan Long Shan. In terms of gem inlaying, the Demon Blacksmith is the strongest among the three legendary blacksmiths.

After inlaying the 【Soul Gem】 onto Checking Zhan Long Shan, Su Xiao wanted to see what kind of ability the so-called Soul Master had. ===== CHAPTER 3794 =====