Chapter 4016: Initial

Using "Original Skill Points" to improve abilities will only improve the strength of the skill, not the skill level. And, even abilities improved to Lv. EX with Golden Skill Points can be improved with these "Original Skill Points," which can be described as quite powerful.

The number of "Original Cores" is limited, which is inevitable. This is a resource with a constant quantity. After a strong person uses "Original Core" to improve themselves, when they die, as their power drifts away, the individual energy converted by those "Original Cores" will backtrack, and under the catalysis of world power, will re-convert into energy with "Original Core" characteristics.

Afterward, this energy will drift back to the top of the Star Realm, an area that does not belong to the material level and does not even have a spatial concept, and begin to re-constitute the "Initial Power" at the top of the Star Realm. But because the "Initial Power" has long been incomplete, the energy of the "Original Core" gathered will, after a certain degree of crystallization, shatter again and randomly fall into various worlds.

This is the wonderful cycle of "Original Cores" in the Star Realm. Its upper limit quantity is fixed, but it can cycle. As for killing all powerful people, letting all "Original Core" energy drift back to the top of the Star Realm to constitute a complete "Initial Power."

This actually has no meaning. The shattering and scattering of "Initial Power" is a natural process, just like the life and death of all things in the world, the withering and revival of plants. The re-gathering and shattering of "Initial Power" is the same principle.

And "Initial Skill Points" are highly concentrated, even reaching qualitative change "Original Skill Points." Other supreme beings obviously will not have such outrageous gains as "Initial Skill Points." Of course, the promotion specifications of other supreme beings are not so outrageous.

Regarding the function of "Initial Skill Points," the effect is similar to "Original Skill Points." It can improve abilities on the premise of not improving their level, and even Lv. EX abilities can be improved. The difference is that "Initial Skill Points" will more deeply nourish the improved ability, allowing it to appear characteristics that fit the current ability master.

And let the ability become unique and powerful among similar abilities.

Su Xiao is thinking about one thing. He has always tried his best to have no shortcomings, so his ability development is quite comprehensive. But now that he is a supreme being, should he continue to do addition like this?

Su Xiao feels that it is time to start doing subtraction. Only by having no flaws can one reach the "Supreme Peak." But what this represents, perhaps, is not omnipotence, but the degree to which a single ability can compensate for defects.

In this way, Su Xiao has a bold idea. He is prepared to put all these 120 "Initial Skill Points" into Swordsmanship Master.

Spreading oneself thin might be comprehensively powerful, but extreme focus is bound to be extremely outrageous.

However, using "Initial Skill Points" to improve "Supreme Being" abilities is still very tempting.

"Supreme Being (Passive): After absorbing one 'Power Source Quality' of a supreme-tier standard unit, current strength, agility, stamina, and intelligence permanently increase by 10%."

Su Xiao estimates that the probability of dying on the spot after improving this ability is too high, so he rationally gives up.

The only thing blocking Su Xiao from making such a choice now is that he is considering whether doing so will cause him to die on the spot. However, having mastered Law-Extinguishing abilities in the past without dying, he has the confidence that he certainly won't die this time.

【Yes/No to use 120 "Initial Skill Points" to improve Swordsmanship Master Lv. 95.】

【Warning: This improvement has certain risks, you need to consider it carefully.】

Su Xiao chooses to improve. The next second, energy belonging to "Initial Skill Points" merges into his body, causing a roar in his ears.

In an instant, Su Xiao feels that the surroundings have become quiet. He is still sitting cross-legged, but under him is no longer a black animal skin carpet, but a calm water surface.

If the line of sight gradually climbs, one will see Su Xiao sitting alone on the calm lake surface. But if one continues to pull up to a certain degree, when Su Xiao's figure is too small to be seen, one will find that this is a huge metal round cup, filled with water, and water is constantly overflowing from the edge. Continuing to pull up the perspective, the falling water disappears into the darkness. A large hand with dozens of fingers strikes from above. This hand is translucent and completely made of soul crystal material. Just when it is only ten meters away from Su Xiao.

Clang!

A slash mark appears suddenly. The pressing soul crystal hand stops abruptly and then collapses.

Su Xiao opens his eyes suddenly. He is very sure that the place he went to just now is the "Master Hall" notarized by the Tree of Void. It's just that it is not the area for the "Promotion Ceremony," which requires a 【Above Master】 to enter.

However, being able to enter the "Master Hall" briefly shows the critical nature of using "Initial Skill Points" to improve Swordsmanship Master this time. He has a feeling that his strength is already soaring quite a bit. He checks the improved Swordsmanship Master ability:

【Swordsmanship Master: Lv. 95 (Technique Core, Passive)】

Skill Effect: Sword-type weapon damage tier +760 (increased by 600), sword-type weapon slashing force judgment tier +760 (increased by 600), sword-type weapon weapon-breaking judgment tier +760 (new characteristic).

Soul-slashing intensity: 48 points (increased by 30 points).

Blade Heart: 8/8 hearts (increased by 5) (Each Blade Heart can exempt one instant-death or execution judgment. This characteristic has high priority. Each Blade Heart recovers every 24 hours until the Blade Heart is fully recovered).

Lv. 95 Ultimate Ability: Extreme Blade, Bai Ye (Supreme-tier, Passive), melee slashing increased by 500%.

Good news, Swordsmanship Master has been improved to a very outrageous degree. Su Xiao estimates that this "Skill Effect" alone is much more powerful than improving Swordsmanship Master to Lv. EX in a conventional way.

And at the moment, this is not a multiple-choice question, but addition. Reaching this degree, added to the improvement range from Lv. 95 to Lv. EX afterward, the potential upper limit of Swordsmanship Master has already reached a terrifying degree.

The bad news is that because of the huge improvement of Swordsmanship Master, "Extreme Blade, Bai Ye" has directly changed from an active ability to a passive effect, that is, the current amplitude is multiplied by five.

The most perverted thing about "Extreme Blade, Bai Ye" is this point. If you describe it with game data, it is not additive damage, nor multiplicative damage. This thing is "independent multiplicative damage," which is to increase by 500% in total after all sword-related buffs are added.

The newly appeared "sword-type weapon weapon-breaking judgment tier +760," simply understood, is that in melee combat, the destructive power of Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan against enemy weapons. If there was this buff in the battle with the Beast Lord, halfway through the battle, the Beast Lord's "Abyss Weapon, Chisha" would have shattered with a bang, turning into fragments all over the ground.

The problem now is, Su Xiao slashes out, can his own physique bear it?

At the moment, his strength, agility, and stamina attributes have all reached 1056 points, health points 8.11 million. What is truly gratifying is the permanent 60% "damage reduction." He really didn't expect that this characteristic, instead of becoming a protection to avoid being killed by strong enemies when fighting them, became an auxiliary to his attack ability first?

It seems that in this world, Su Xiao's "Soul-Severing Shadow" must be locked to "Soul-Devouring Soul Core." The 30% "damage reduction" is too critical.

Clang~

Su Xiao draws Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan. He raises his right arm, intending to slash out a blade.

Hum~!

Golden brilliance appears on the blade of Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan. Compared to the active mode of "Extreme Blade, Bai Ye" before, the golden light of the technique at this time is more restrained, only clinging to the blade. This is not a weakening, but a deep condensation of power, combined with the blue electric arcs surging on the blade, giving people the feeling that Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan has turned into a gold-blue long blade.

Su Xiao just raises the long blade, with no intention of actually slashing.

Crack!

With him as the center, the space in the area splits, fine cracks spread, and the window shatters with a bang. Afiya, who thought it was an enemy attack, feels her heartbeat almost stop upon seeing Su Xiao, and subconsciously says:

"Friendly, what are you doing."

It is not that Afiya lost her composure, but Su Xiao's casual raising of the blade to slash is already spreading a particularly terrifying technique aura to the surroundings.

The long blade returns to its sheath. Afiya breathes a sigh of relief and asks: "What is this."

"Ability slightly improved."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Afiya is speechless and stifled. However, Su Xiao's next question makes her forget this moment of inner speechlessness.

"Here, is there any place dark and dangerous enough."

"Here, where is it not dark and dangerous?"

"For me."

"Uh~, this, let me think..."

Afiya recalls and says a few places, which are "Wild Growth Sea," "Poison Plateau," "Corrupt Lake," and "Pitch-Dark Forest."

These four places, "Wild Growth Sea" has been visited, not the place Su Xiao wants to find. "Poison Plateau" is also not suitable, that is near Empress City. "Corrupt Lake" is okay, the problem is, past "Corrupt Lake" is the Twin Kings' territory "Corrupt King City." At the moment, the Ducain Family is gathering in "Corrupt King City."

It can only be said that the Ducain Family is both arrogant and rational. They are usually arrogant to the extreme, but when they encounter a Law-Extinguisher and find that this Law-Extinguisher is enough to defeat the Beast Lord, they immediately gather all their strength, making a posture of either retreating or being surrounded and killed by their whole clan.

However, it can also be seen from the side that the Ducain Family was really beaten hard by the previous Law-Extinguishers.

"Pitch-Dark Forest" is also not a good choice. The environment there is bizarre, not having a large number of Abyss creatures.

Su Xiao's strength has just undergone a huge improvement. He will not go to "Corrupt King City" to fight the enemy to the death just after improving his strength, but is prepared to find a place first, thoroughly master the current strength, and then head straight to "Corrupt King City."

As for the plans conceived before, they are no longer needed now. Su Xiao has a more resourceful and fast plan, and this resourcefulness is named in three words: Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan.

This is perhaps the reason why the Priest has always thought Su Xiao is particularly difficult to deal with. When he should be hard-headed, he never drags his feet.

Afiya seems to have thought of something, claps her hands and says:

"There is a place, there are quite a few Abyss creatures, but they are not strong, unless you can lure out those in the depths. I know your Abyss resistance is particularly high, but the depths there are almost connected to the Abyss. It is said that the first Abyss channel in this world is at the deepest part there."

"Where."

"Tsk, I said a bunch, and you only have one word. Let's go, I'll take you."

Afiya walks toward the outside of the room. She won't say the address directly, but will lead the way, because the drink called milk tea made by that big dog on the Lord Train is delicious.

The train travels on the dim wilderness. Inside the carriage, Su Xiao learns about the place Afiya mentioned. It is called "Absolute Dark Zone." Compared to the dimness of the wilderness outside, it is thorough darkness. According to Afiya, if the spread of the Abyss in this world is not curbed, when the only "Cold Zone" in the sky is also eroded, this world will be as dark as the "Absolute Dark Zone."

Knowing this information gives Su Xiao a further plan. He walks into the train captain's room behind, sits in front of the test bench, and begins to formulate a solvent. He glances at Amu, this silly guy is still snoring loudly. It seems that it is digesting those 32 portions of "Abyss Source Quality." In general, the aura is stable. Whether it can survive this disaster, it can only rely on Amu itself next.

As a Lv. 99 Pharmacy Master, added to the "Top-tier Abyss Studies" he mastered, not long after, a black liquid was successfully formulated. Su Xiao pours it into the high-efficiency atomizing device specially made by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, starts it, and pitch-black particles disperse. He immediately turns it off.

Three hours later, the train stops. After getting off, a sky wall comes into view. Su Xiao saw this black rock sky wall once in the Blazing Sun Star. It was built by the Blazing Sun Star in an attempt to isolate the "Abyss Zone."

It seems that this world also resisted when the Abyss began to spread, but the Abyss lineage members just watched. After the two pitch-black sky walls closing the "Absolute Dark Zone" were built, Ducain Family members easily opened dozens of Abyss channels in this world.

Because of this, there is no "Vanguard Fortress" like the Blazing Sun Star at the entrance of the "Absolute Dark Zone" sky wall. After Su Xiao gets off the train, he hesitates, but still takes off "Wild Hunt Night." If a certain blacksmith were present, he might grit his teeth and thank Su Xiao's ancestors.

Glancing at the metal combat boots under his feet, this temporary substitute obviously looks like it won't be able to hold on. He also takes them off and throws them aside. Baja behind picks them up and takes them back to the train.

Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan in its sheath is inserted into the knife belt at his waist. Su Xiao, with his bare upper body, walks alone toward the entrance of the "Absolute Dark Zone." A breeze blows across his face, and a fresh smell after rain drifts into his nasal cavity. The spread of the Abyss is never the smell of stench or rot; it is born from different eroded creatures.

Stepping on the slightly cool but soft mud, his bare upper body can feel the hot dark wind blowing from the dark wind vent as he walks closer to the pitch-black sky wall entrance, and his vision gradually becomes dark.

Su Xiao walks into the "Absolute Dark Zone" quietly like this. What he sees before him is no longer pitch-black, but darkness to the degree of nothingness. But in contrast, the equipment effect of 【Devourer】 is stimulated to the extreme.

"Hunting Heart, Perception Excitation (Core, Passive): When you fight in the only 'specific environment' corresponding to this equipment, the equipment effect will be 'super-massively' improved, and there is a probability of immediately improving the current perception ability by 5 levels, until the perception-series ability reaches Lv. EX, this buff will no longer be triggered."

This place is where "Hunting Heart" can be exerted to the extreme, or rather, when he was in the "Ancient Dragon Kingdom, Pitch-Dark Forest, Wild Hunt Workshop," that craftsman built this equipment named "Hunting Heart" in order to go deep into the "Absolute Dark Zone."

Su Xiao walks barefoot, his pace calm. Normally, he should have been besieged by Abyss creatures, but the surroundings are very quiet. Although Abyss creatures are violent and cruel, they are not stupid.

Regarding this, Su Xiao has long had a response. After he goes deep into the central area of the "Absolute Dark Zone," he takes out the high-efficiency atomizing device specially made by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, fixes this metal device the size of a millstone on the ground, and starts it.

Dong~!

A dark impact spreads, and the aura belonging to "Abyss Source Quality" spreads outward. Of course, this is not "Abyss Source Quality," but only the core part of the solution has a few drops of "Abyss Source Quality," but the aura released is as if the container of the atomizing device is full of "Abyss Source Quality."

"Roar!"

The roar comes from the darkness in the depths. Su Xiao grips the handle of Zhan Checking Zhan Long Shan, and the long blade leaves its sheath.

Pairs of blood-red eyes surround and attack from the darkness around. Their postures are different. Some are beast-like, some are fluid, some are composed of silk-like darkness, and some are in a black mist state.

Among these Abyss-nourished creatures, the dark beast-like ones are mostly "Alien-born species," a few are "Distorted species," and those like black silk are "Host-born species." This type of Abyss-nourished creature is the most bizarre. As for the immortal Abyss-nourished creatures, they also appeared, but they didn't surround him in the first time.

Surging power gradually awakens in Su Xiao's body.

【Blue Shadow King: Lv. EX (Ultimate-tier Skill)】

Skill Effect (Passive): When you are surrounded, and the number of enemies within a 1000-meter range around you exceeds 10 (combat power needs to be higher than a certain degree), your Blue Shadow King ability will be activated, allowing you to obtain the following buffs one after another.

Blue Shadow King, Phase 1: When the enemies around you exceed 10, all your main attributes increase by 45%.

Blue Shadow King, Phase 2: When the enemies around you exceed 100, your total health points increase by 99%, total mana points increase by 99%, and physical defense increases by 96%.

Blue Shadow King, Phase 3: When the enemies around you exceed 1000, you can activate the Devouring Core through the unique energy of the Blue Shadow King. For every enemy killed, by ingesting the enemy's "Original Life Force," through the conversion and filtering of the "Blue Shadow King Devouring Core," you recover 20% of your maximum health points, 20% of your maximum mana points, and 20% of your maximum stamina points.

Blue Shadow King, Phase 4: When the enemies around you exceed 3000, your Magic Blade ability will always be in the awakened stage. All your sword attacks will carry an execution effect (executing enemies with health points lower than one-third), and after each enemy is executed, you will stack a layer of "Magic Spirit Battle Armor."

Magic Spirit Battle Armor: The damage you receive within 1 second will not exceed 25% of your maximum health points at most. The excess part will consume 1 layer of "Magic Spirit Battle Armor" to resolve (if the intensity of the attack required to be resolved is too high, more layers of "Magic Spirit Battle Armor" will be consumed to resolve).

Prompt: All the above buffs can be stacked.

Su Xiao's strength, agility, stamina, and intelligence attributes all reached 1531 points in a short time, health points soared to 16.13 million, mana points reached 1.04 million. This is also why he came here to adapt to the improved Swordsmanship Master. With such a physical state, even if "Extreme Blade, Bai Ye" is in a passive state, it is stable enough.

The Abyss-nourished creatures around did not retreat because of Su Xiao's stronger aura. On the contrary, they gradually surrounded him.

Boom!

A Abyss-nourished creature with a body length of 100 meters, covered in hair-like bone spurs, and a body shape like a hippopotamus, pounced and killed him.

Su Xiao slashed upward diagonally with one blade.

Boom!

It was not a slashing sound, but a deafening explosion. The hippopotamus-like Abyss-nourished creature's front one-third of its body shattered with a bang, turning into sugar-cube-sized slashing blocks, scattering on the ground like rain.

The splashing dark blood stimulated all the Abyss-nourished creatures around. Su Xiao was submerged in the next second.

Ten hours later, three figures walked into the third entrance of the "Absolute Dark Zone."

Among them, the Abyss Daughter is the most eye-catching because her mood is the best. What is surprising is that the silver-haired, black-dressed Delona and the black-haired, white-dressed, pitch-black-eyed Ayesha are actually separated into two people. Looking closely, Ayesha's body is somewhat translucent.

The Abyss Daughter and Delona belong to the clever and lively personality, so they are in front, while Ayesha follows quietly not far behind.

"Sister, do you really remember me?"

The Abyss Daughter smiles happily.

"Hmm."

Delona grabs the Abyss Daughter's hand hard, and she smiles until her little tiger teeth are exposed.

"Great, as long as we pass the Abyss channel in front, we can go home and find mother. Mother will certainly be pleased that we can be together..."

The Abyss Daughter's words stop just as she says this, because she suddenly senses a strong dark bloodiness drifting from the front, which makes her immediately open the Abyss vision that should not have been opened in this place, so as not to offend the owner of this place.

The mirror image in front emerges. Looking at it, it is countless broken limbs and claws. Some half-dead Alien-born species are still struggling painfully. Continuing to look forward, a mountain of corpses composed of Abyss-nourished creatures appears in front. Although there are no Abyss existences inside, they are all Abyss-nourished creatures, but those dozen immortal Abyss-nourished creatures are already dead at this time.

That thousand-meter-high mountain of corpses is really too astonishing, which leads to the surrounding area becoming a shallow beach of dark blood that doesn't pass the ankles. And on the peak of that towering mountain of corpses, with its back to the Abyss Daughter's direction, stands a figure with a bare upper body. The long blade in the other party's hand hangs naturally, and dark blood drops from the tip of the blade.

Looking at this shocking scene in front, the Abyss Daughter only has one feeling: powerful, pure, and unparalleled power. ===== CHAPTER 4017 =====

Looking at this shocking scene before him, the Abyss Daughter had only one feeling: power—pure and incomparable power.