Chapter 981: Third-tier Situation

Sweat seeped from Su Xiao's forehead, his masseter muscles protruded, and red light flickered in his pupils.

"Slaughter Stan."

Su Xiao muttered in his mouth, then froze. Even if he wanted to kill someone, he wouldn't mutter it in his mouth.

Looking at the smoke skull from the corner of his eye, the skull was already the size of a basin, as if grinning at Su Xiao.

Su Xiao immediately closed the Devouring Core, although he really wanted to continue devouring those pure life energies.

The Devouring Core indeed had no limit, but Su Xiao had a limit. No matter how strong an ability was, it couldn't be upgraded without limit in a short time. This was especially true for violent abilities like Qing Gang Ying. Among the enemies he had fought so far, only a very few people's energy had not been devoured by Qing Gang Ying energy.

Stopping devouring, Su Xiao checked the Essence of the Reborn Dragon. The essence was still full of vitality. Although the energy within the essence was huge, it couldn't withstand Su Xiao's devouring like this.

Roughly estimated, Su Xiao devoured about one-third of the energy in the essence, which made him feel a bit surprised. He originally thought he had devoured nearly half.

During the devouring of energy, the Reincarnation Paradise gave a large number of prompts. Su Xiao opened these prompts.

【Qing Gang Ying has been upgraded to lv. 34.】

【Due to a large amount of pure life energy invading the body, your HP +50 permanently.】

【Qing Gang Ying has been upgraded to lv. 35.】

【Qing Gang Ying has been upgraded to lv. 36.】

【Due to a large amount of pure life energy invading the body, your HP recovery speed per minute +5 permanently.】

【Qing Gang Ying has been upgraded to lv. 37.】

【Qing Gang Ying has been upgraded to lv. 38.】

【Qing Gang Ying has been upgraded to lv. 39.】

【Due to a large amount of pure life energy invading the body, your physical defense +4 permanently, abnormal state resistance +3% permanently.】

Qing Gang Ying rose 9 levels in a row, from lv. 30 to lv. 39. You know, after Qing Gang Ying reached lv. 30, for each level upgraded, the required high-level biological energy began to increase. Assuming it took 2 points of energy to upgrade from lv. 30 to lv. 31, then to upgrade to lv. 32, at least about 4 points of energy would be consumed.

Su Xiao seriously doubted whether he could upgrade Qing Gang Ying energy by 1 level even if he devoured a Tailed Beast now.

The smoke skull dissipated. This thing would shrink over time. When the smoke skull returned to the size of a fist, Su Xiao could devour the energy in the essence again.

As for letting Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang devour this kind of energy, it had been tried before. After Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang devoured pure life energy, it was obviously much more energetic, jumping up and down like it had taken drugs, and even bit Amu a few times, then... there was no then. What Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang needed was the flesh and blood of high-level creatures, not energy.

Skill 4: High-level Creature (Active max): Xiang Bubu Teni can evolve by devouring the flesh and blood of high-level creatures.

The ability introduction was clearly marked. The attempt failed, but because Su Xiao manufactured Amu, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's combat power was significantly improved.

Su Xiao opened the introduction of the Qing Gang Ying skill. He wanted to see how much the Qing Gang Ying ability had improved.

【Qing Gang Ying: lv. 39 (Active Skill)】

Usage condition: After opening (Qing Gang Ying), the hunter consumes 118 points of Mana per minute. It automatically closes after Mana is lower than 1%.

Skill effect: After opening (Qing Gang Ying), each melee attack will burn 205 points of the enemy's Mana and deal true damage 1.5 times the burned Mana (328 points of true damage). The enemy will suffer intense pain after Mana burning.

Proud Song: This is a defensive form, which can generate energy shields of any shape to defend against enemy attacks. The strength of the energy shield is proportional to the Mana consumed. The single Mana consumption limit is 600 points (increased by 100 points).

Soul Induction: When Qing Gang Ying energy burns the enemy's Mana, there is a 16% chance to trigger one of three abnormal states: paralysis, immobilization, and dizziness (trigger probability increased by 4%). The abnormal state duration is 0.2–3 seconds (the abnormal state duration is determined according to the hunter's Intelligence attribute).

Prompt: This abnormal state takes effect without judgment.

Prompt: This ability is triggered passively, with no cooldown.

Prompt: Abnormal states cannot be stacked.

The Mana consumption increased. Even though Su Xiao now had 3526 points of Mana, if he continuously opened the Qing Gang Ying ability, his Mana would be exhausted in about 30 minutes. This consumption was very worthwhile. The true damage of up to 328 points could only be described as terrifying.

Continuously opening the Qing Gang Ying ability was Su Xiao's practice in the newcomer period. Now he only opened Qing Gang Ying before slashing the enemy. The Mana consumption was significantly reduced. The time to open Qing Gang Ying for each slash was about 0.7 seconds to 1.4 seconds, and at most no more than 2 seconds.

Although Su Xiao didn't get attribute points or Paradise Coin rewards from the Demon Castle world, his strength had undergone earth-shaking changes. The rewards of four 80-point attributes, the manufacturing of Amu, and the significant improvement of the Qing Gang Ying ability, combined with several factors, it was hard not to improve combat power.

Su Xiao's remaining time in the Reincarnation Paradise was not much. Before long, he would return to the real world. After relaxing his mind in the real world, he would welcome the next derived world.

Thinking of the next derived world, Su Xiao was a bit curious. Although he had just been promoted to the third tier, his strength had already exceeded many third-tier contractors. In this way, what kind of derived world would the Reincarnation Paradise send him to?

As for how Su Xiao knew that his strength exceeded most third-tier contractors, this was information obtained from Pi Pang.

Su Xiao had entered a misunderstanding before, which was that all third-tier contractors had broken through the 80-point barrier. In fact, this was not the case. In the third tier, only a small number of people had broken through the 80-point barrier.

Su Xiao and the National Football team and others belonged to those who grew very fast, while Detective Xiao Luoli, Gold-rimmed Glasses Man, etc., were all those who had been promoted to the third tier for a long time. As for Pi Pang, he had also been promoted to the third tier for a long time, but he was pursuing multiple attributes to break through 80 points at the same time, which was why he joined the Demon Castle game later.

According to Pi Pang, as long as Su Xiao didn't provoke third-tier adventure groups or the strongest echelon, most third-tier contractors were not Su Xiao's opponents.

Breaking through the 80-point attribute barrier was something to be experienced from the late third tier to the fourth tier, and Su Xiao broke through the 80-point barrier just after being promoted to the third tier. Moreover, he had four attributes breaking through the 80-point barrier and possessed four main attributes.

Su Xiao was very curious about how strong he was now. It was not difficult to verify this. The third-tier arena had been refreshed, and because he didn't make it into the top ten in the second tier, the third-tier arena ranking was refreshed, which meant the ranking was last, and the opponents matched were all third-tier newcomers.

For some reason, Su Xiao suddenly thought, was he going to bully newcomers? Because in his opinion, the Gold-rimmed Glasses Man and Detective Xiao Luoli, who had been mixing in the third tier for a long time, were just so-so in strength, especially Detective Xiao Luoli. If she fought Su Xiao, she would be pressed to the ground and rubbed in various postures.

From Detective Xiao Luoli's few words, it could be heard that Detective Xiao Luoli's strength was in the middle of the third tier.

Su Xiao felt puzzled about this. That little girl? Middle of the third tier?

Although Detective Xiao Luoli's strength was not good, those in the highest echelon of the third tier could not be underestimated, such as Huang Fen. If he fought Huang Fen now, Su Xiao would die nine times out of ten. Huang Fen was not incapable of breaking through to the fourth tier, but had been deliberately suppressing it. Stan was fourth tier. Usually, when entering derived worlds, subordinates of the same fourth tier were managed by Stan. As for third-tier subordinates, they had to be managed by Huang Fen.

There was a rumor that if Stan and Huang Fen fought to the death, Stan couldn't win steadily. Huang Fen was completely a monster in the third tier, a contractor who wore a third-tier skin but possessed fourth-tier strength.

Such a powerful Huang Fen was not without opponents in the third tier. His opponent was someone under God Emperor, a support-type contractor named Mad Fox, a support type whose combat power was shocking. He was a healing type among support types. ===== CHAPTER 982 =====