Chapter 501: Can't Stop! (9/10, Autumn Subscription)

This is too terrifying.

Dual attributes directly boosted this much — as expected, realm is the most intuitive standard for raising one's strength!

Even if it's not someone like himself who piled up attribute points before breaking through.

Even if you scrounged through junk the whole way, stumbling along and grinding out 200, 300 dual-attribute points, as long as you can reach the Xiantian Realm, the instant the realm breakthrough completes, you can transform on the spot into an Xiantian Realm powerhouse with 800 or 900 dual attributes!

And Qi and Blood, directly raised by 1000 points — that's more than a doubling!

The Xiantian Realm's Qi and Blood are truly long-lasting — it really didn't lie to me!

No wonder back then it felt like Liao Guanjia and I were about equal in strength. Looks like our base values really were similar — I just had more violent methods, using 【Time Reversal】 together with 【Blazing Fire Explosion】 could pummel him to death outright!

And now, me at the Xiantian Realm, me with 1500 dual attributes — enough to crush everything!

All of this made Fang Yue feel two words — POWER!!

【POWER!!!】

Fang Yue:???

You're awake again??

【Power always wakes me up! Suck suck suck! You've gotten stronger, and I've gotten prettier too！】

……Are those even two things of the same concept???

What's the use of you getting prettier!

【Hmph! Just woke up and already getting annoyed — hmph hmph hmph hmph hmph!!】

Fang Yue rolled his eyes and ignored her.

Still, the parchment being awake is good news.

With the 【Parchment】 around, even against the Horse Seat or the Ox Seat, he'd have the confidence to fight…… No! It should be said, he's craving a fight!

Lin Ling's grudge, Hua Qiuqiu's grudge, Lord Han's whereabouts…… all of it — someone has to take the blame! Otherwise my fists won't even know where to swing!

"B-big boss……"

Just then, a timid voice carefully spoke up.

Fang Yue glanced toward the source of the voice.

"What is it?"

"C-can I kill one weird?" Qingchen asked nervously.

Although Fang Yue had just said the two of them would go on a rampage through the weird in the 【Living Weird Room】, once they got inside and saw Fang Yue's frenzied efficiency at killing weird, he didn't dare make a single move.

That wild, weird-slaying appearance — Qingchen was genuinely afraid Fang Yue might accidentally treat him as a weird and cut him down too.

Clutching the thought that his little life came first, he'd been shivering in a corner for quite a while.

Now, seeing Fang Yue seemed to have stopped, he timidly asked to get a sip of the soup.

"One weird?" Fang Yue turned and properly looked at him.

"Eh?! T-then, then I, I don't have to kill any, not killing is fine too, not killing is……"

"What kind of ghost talk is that! I'm telling you to kill every weird in this row clean."

Fang Yue pointed at the first of the three remaining rows of weird.

"O-one row?!"

Qingchen instantly got worked up, his whole body starting to tremble.

Damn, is today my lucky day or what?!

Takeoff, I'm taking off!!

As a research scientist, he never had the chance to kill weird in the game.

Even when he had to go out, he was protected so tightly there was no way around it. Kill weird to raise cultivation and boost strength? Honestly study 【Ghost Theory】, read more books and move around less — that was the Phoenix Organization's internal requirement for him.

So up until now, Qingchen was still at his initial attribute points, living a pitiful life where a casual bump from anyone could kill him.

But now it's different — the good days…… are coming!

Clattering over to where the dead guard lay, he snatched the long blade. Then he hurried back.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva and taking a deep breath, Qingchen carefully asked: "T-then, big boss, I'm starting to chop weird now?"

"Chop!"

"Alright, chop! Chop the hell out of them! I'm getting stronger today too!"

Saying so, he aimed at the nearest weird that looked relatively weak, and Qingchen let out a great shout as he slashed down with one blade.

Bang!!

The bottle shattered, the weird was cut dead in one strike, and Black Ember dropped to the ground.

Force Value, Unloading Force Value, Lifespan…… all three attributes rose in unison.

Qingchen was stunned — for the first time in the game, he truly felt his own power surging up! Surging up!!

The second one, where's the second one! I want to kill weird! Killing weird feels amazing! Too addictive, absolutely thrilling!!

Qingchen immediately came to understand the kind of thrill Fang Yue got from killing weird.

Once you've killed even one weird — that wild growth of attributes, that wild growth of lifespan, that feeling of enjoying your own strength rising — you simply can't stop!

No wonder Fang Yue had fallen into that frenzied state earlier, killing with such gusto.

Put me in his place and I could kill just as happily, just as crazily!

So, Qingchen started killing.

Chopping and killing all the way, but very soon he suddenly froze, his expression turning a little panicked.

"B-big boss! What do I do if my attribute points are maxed out? What does realm breakthrough progress mean?"

Good question.

This question — probably many players would have a hard time running into it.

In other words, it was only by doing morning luck training and drinking a sip of soup with him that he could run into such a high-end problem.

What's more... as long as he had enough patience in the morning, he could completely pull off the operation of starting from zero and maxing out every Comprehension point.

Of course, it would be going too far to say he was purely here to freeload.

After all, Fang Yue didn't know of the existence of the Living Weird Room, nor did he know where the labyrinthine Underground Stronghold with its roads stretching in every direction ultimately led.

If he were really let loose to wander around looking for people, he could probably get lost for over ten days and still not necessarily find the place.

The maze-like roads of a stronghold like this Underground Stronghold are themselves a natural barrier! Without the help of someone on the inside, just the detouring alone would be enough to dizzy a person.

After briefly explaining to Qingchen what the effect would be once the attribute values were maxed, how the Realm Breakthrough Progress should be operated, and laying out the pros and cons, the latter fell silent.

"Ye Ge, I feel like I'm still suited for an ordinary leveling route..."

"Then go ahead and level up."

"The problem is I don't have an Internal Energy Heart Method..."

"??? Don't look at me, I don't have one either, I can't pass one on to you."

"Fine then... then I'll take the 【Realm Breakthrough Progress】 route!"

That said, Qingchen still felt a suffocating heartache.

These weirdos are all attribute points!

But now, because he had no Heart Method and couldn't break through his realm, they could only be converted into 【Realm Breakthrough Progress】 — such a waste! Such a waste!

Heartache on one hand, slaughter on the other, Qingchen suffered and enjoyed it at the same time.

And Fang Yue didn't bother with him, letting him do whatever he wanted. In any case, that row of weird shelves was his now — the reward he deserved for bringing himself here.

As for the remaining two rows of weird cabinets...

Fang Yue came over to Lin Ling's side, supported the unconscious him, and walked up to the nearest weird bottle.

He reached out, gripped Lin Ling's hand, and had Lin Ling's hand grasp the Seven Seals Short Sword. After stabbing one weirdo to death with a single thrust, Fang Yue frowned at the system prompt — his attributes hadn't increased at all. Killing this kind of Black Grade weirdo was almost useless for a Xiantian Realm powerhouse.

But Fang Yue wasn't doing it for himself; he was doing it for Lin Ling.

(End of this chapter)