Chapter 500

The difficulty of unlocking new skills was getting higher, but the new skills were also getting stronger, as could be seen from the Spirit Shadow Physique.

"Unlock."

A short teleportation sensation came. After Su Xiao saw the scene in front of him clearly, he wasn't surprised.

"Came here again."

Su Xiao stood in a majestic hall, where there were six piles of rubble; those had originally been six stone statues.

One of the piles of rubble trembled, and a blue phantom floated out. It was Su Xiao's spirit-awakening person, Mavin Waltz.

"Hmm? Came so fast."

Mavin Waltz was a bit surprised by the speed at which Su Xiao had become stronger.

"Compared to before, you've become much stronger. It seems you've come to inherit that ability."

"What ability?"

Mavin Waltz smiled mysteriously.

"You'll know in a moment."

Mavin Waltz floated toward the depths of the hall. For some reason, Su Xiao had an 'ominous' premonition; he still remembered the agonizing feeling of obtaining the 'Spirit Shadow Physique'.

"Have a question I want to ask you."

Su Xiao followed behind Mavin Waltz.

"What question?"

"Have you heard of the Daughter of Yang?"

Mavin Waltz stopped in his tracks.

"You've seen that vine on Devour Island, and she didn't hunt you down?"

"Seen it, counted as cooperating once."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Mavin Waltz was clearly a bit surprised.

"The Black Forest rioted?"

"Yes."

Mavin Waltz seemed to know Devour Island very well.

"Daughter of Yang, huh? That was a long time ago, seems like several hundred years ago. I encountered a vine when I went to the red soil area of Devour Island to look for a material. She called herself a god and wanted me to worship her. Afterward, I 'discussed' the matter of gods with her."

Needless to say, Mavin Waltz was the Shadow of the Law Destroyer who had uprooted the Daughter of Yang and swung her around in his hand a few times.

"You actually didn't kill her?"

Although he hadn't been in contact with Mavin Waltz for long, the other party's temperament couldn't be faked.

"That guy knelt on the ground and begged me not to kill her. I happened to be in a hurry, so I let her go."

Su Xiao looked at Mavin Waltz in surprise.

"But I took some things from inside her body."

"What things?"

"Over ninety percent of the energy in her body. I originally intended to go back and take it after she recovered, but didn't expect to be besieged by mages afterward."

Su Xiao thought to himself that it was indeed so. With Mavin Waltz's temperament, how could he have let the Daughter of Yang go? It turned out he had treated the Daughter of Yang as a kind of resource.

No wonder the Daughter of Yang didn't dare to attack Su Xiao; it seemed she had trauma from the Shadow of the Law Destroyer.

"After you become strong enough, you can also go to her to take energy. Plant energy is a good kind of nutrient that can nourish Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy."

Su Xiao was a bit confused. Could Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying devour other energy? He had never discovered this.

"Don't be surprised; you'll be able to obtain this ability soon, provided you're still alive."

Su Xiao was even more confused, and Mavin Waltz didn't continue to explain.

The two walked toward the depths of the hall. Not long after, a pale blue pool appeared in front of them.

The 'pool' wasn't water, but a kind of pale blue liquid, with electric arcs flickering on the surface.

"This is..."

Su Xiao squatted in front of the pool, feeling that the energy within the pool was very familiar.

"This is the purest Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, which can help you quickly recover Mana."

Mavin Waltz sat cross-legged in front of the pool and looked at Su Xiao.

"The ability you are about to master is the core ability of the Shadow of the Law Destroyer. It is precisely because of this ability that the Shadow of the Law Destroyer can become strong quickly."

Organizing his thoughts, Mavin Waltz continued:

"In the words of the place you are in, one of the characteristic abilities of the Shadow of the Law Destroyer should be called Intelligence attribute. You should be very strange, right? Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying is clearly melee, so why does it need Intelligence attribute?"

Su Xiao nodded. Besides enhancing Mana and perception, Intelligence attribute didn't have much use, but this attribute was the main attribute of the Shadow of the Law Destroyer.

"Intelligence attribute is to support the ability you are about to master. This ability is used to strengthen Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy. As the core ability of the Shadow of the Law Destroyer, Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying certainly has a method to become strong quickly."

Mavin Waltz pointed to the 'pool' in front of them, where the density of Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy could only be described as terrifying.

"Jump in. If you crawl out alive, you will be a true Shadow of the Law Destroyer, a Law Destroyer who makes enemies terrified."

Su Xiao frowned, feeling that jumping in might kill him.

"What is the death rate?"

"Around 85%. Otherwise, why do you think the number of Shadows of the Law Destroyer is so scarce?"

This terrifying death rate left Su Xiao speechless, but he had already developed the Shadow of the Law Destroyer to this extent, so giving up was clearly impossible.

"I was strange before, why inheriting the Shadow of the Law Destroyer was so simple."

Mavin Waltz laughed loudly.

"Do you really think the value of that broken ring is equal to the Shadow of the Law Destroyer? It's the Shadow of the Law Destroyer that chose you. Inheritors of the Shadow of the Law Destroyer are hard to find; the hardest part isn't talent, but courage—the courage not to fear making enemies. After becoming a Shadow of the Law Destroyer, all mages are enemies, and most inheritors will voluntarily give up."

Mavin Waltz pointed to the pool in front of them, meaning to jump quickly.

Things had reached this point, and he could only choose to jump, unless Su Xiao gave up the Shadow of the Law Destroyer and chose another profession. If he did that, he wouldn't be far from death; he was a Hunter and needed to fight against Rule-Breakers.

"Shadows of the Law Destroyer were all tricked into this; accept your fate."

Looking at Su Xiao's conflicted expression, Mavin Waltz remembered his former self. Before jumping in, he had 'kindly' greeted all the Shadows of the Law Destroyer nearby.

But now, he didn't regret jumping in back then, even if it meant death.

"I..."

Su Xiao leaped up. Not jumping meant chronic death; jumping meant there was still some chance of survival.

"Forgot to tell you, this pool is very deep and can drown people."

"Damn it!"

With a splash, Su Xiao fell into the liquid Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy.

Gurgle, gurgle.

Bubbles emerged, and the pool returned to calm, as if no one had ever jumped in.

"So it really does bubble."

Mavin Waltz smiled.

"Disciple, don't die. The 85% death rate is for ordinary soul strength. With your soul strength, the survival rate is over 50%. Huh... seems I forgot to say something important."

Mavin Waltz sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, waiting for Su Xiao to swim out or float up.

Inside the pool, Su Xiao slowly sank, his black hair floating in the pale blue liquid.

His eyes were tightly closed, his body motionless, slowly sinking, while earth-shaking changes were occurring within his body.

The exhausted Mana was restored to full in an instant, and the restored Mana was rapidly converted into Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy.

Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy gradually formed a sphere near Su Xiao's heart. This sphere wasn't used to store Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, but had other functions.

Mana was rapidly consumed and restored, and the newly converted Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy continued to construct that energy sphere.

Mana was restored, converted into Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, and Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy constructed the energy sphere. This process was repeated constantly, and the energy sphere became increasingly precise, and the energy it contained became increasingly terrifying.

Gurgle.

Su Xiao spat out a bubble. He was trying his best to control the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy within his body so it wouldn't go berserk; if the energy went berserk, he would be dead for sure.

Su Xiao sank to the bottom of the pool. He still had 10 minutes. If he couldn't construct that energy sphere during this time, he would float up instead of swimming up.

Floating up meant Su Xiao was already dead, which showed how dangerous this process was.

And when constructing the energy sphere, the way the Blue Qing Qing Gang Ying energy operated within his body was very special; it actually needed to pass through the brain, which was a situation that had never appeared before.