Chapter 149 - 148: Boundary Breakthrough, Overview of Thunder Skill

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Li Jing slowly typed out a question mark.

An unheard-of system prompt, which took him by surprise and confusion.

Apparently, acquiring the Five Thunder Righteous Method triggered a function that he hadn’t triggered before.

Staring at the panel, Li Jing frowned.

The word ’fusion’ was simple and easy to understand.

The so-called ’trinity’ should refer to learning and leveling up three skills of the same category.

As for the limit break...

Does it mean to break through the upper limit?

Li Jing contemplated for a moment, then quickly gave up thinking.

Whatever!

Let’s give it a try!

A function that he had never triggered before had been triggered, so why wouldn’t he give it a shot?

With a thought, Li Jing silently uttered ’Fusion.’

"Confirm fusion, Palm Thunder, Nine Heavens God Thunder, Five Thunder Righteous Method will be fused."

"Fusion successful, gained Limit Breakthrough skill, Thunder Skill Synopsis."

Accompanied by the sound of the system prompt, Palm Thunder, Nine Heavens God Thunder, and the just-learned Five Thunder Righteous Method that had barely been maxed out were erased from the skill column. Right after, on the panel, a Limit Breakthrough column appeared.

The five words of ’Thunder Skill Synopsis’ quietly surfaced in the Limit Breakthrough column.

Contrary to the regular script font displayed in other system items, the four words ’Thunder Skill Synopsis’ appeared to be wild cursive, dancing flamboyantly like dragons and phoenixes.

Not only that.

Every stroke of the font was a brilliant gold, with arc-like dynamic effects at the turn of the strokes.

Witnessing this kind of situation, Li Jing’s face looked extraordinarily strange.

He hadn’t thought that the panel font could have special effects added to it.

Looking at the Limit Breakthrough column, Li Jing saw that he couldn’t add points to Thunder Skill Synopsis, and there were no level numbers indicating proficiency behind it.

So far, the only skill he had learned that inherently had self-growth and couldn’t be upgraded was Momentary Space, and there was no such thing as proficiency.

He made a connection quite effortlessly.

It seemed that Limit Breakthrough skills possessed self-growth.

Closing his eyes and sensing it slightly, Li Jing had a sudden enlightenment and held out one hand.

One arc of electricity after another popped up in his palm.

Golden, black, white, red, dark red.

Five colors, representing the different kinds of Thunder.

Yang Thunder, Yin Thunder, Water Thunder, Fire Thunder, Fighting Thunder.

The Yang Thunder, the utmost positivity.

The Yin Thunder, the utmost negativity.

The Water Thunder, supremely cold.

The Fire Thunder, fiercely domineering.

The Fighting Thunder, featureless but exceedingly tenacious.

The five types of Thunder gave Li Jing different feelings.

At the same time, he had a clear feeling.

The Thunder Skill Synopsis gave him the ability to handle Five Thunder, but this skill cannot be used as a standalone Thunder Skill. Its nature is like a self-growing passive skill.

The higher the level, the greater the power of the Five Thunder in his hand.

Thunder Skill Synopsis, is extremely powerful.

It is so powerful that the three Spell Formulas of Thunder Skill he is currently aware of cannot unleash its real power.

He needs a higher level of Thunder Magic.

Four Realm, is not enough!

This is somewhat embarrassing.

Above the Four Realm, that would be a Forbidden Skill.

Such a thing is not easily obtainable.

However, Li Jing is not aiming too high.

Everything must come step by step.

To attempt to obtain Forbidden Skills, he at least needs to step into the Fifth Boundary.

Discussing this now is premature.

Regaining his composure, Li Jing took out the screenshot of the Consonance Skill with a bit of annoyance.

The Trinity Limit Breakthrough is triggered by learning three skills of the same category and leveling them up fully. He does not know if it would have any effect on purely passive skills.

"Discoverable passive skill Consonance Skill, do you want to log in?"

As the system prompt sounded, Li Jing chose to log in.

"Successful login, have learned passive skill Consonance Skill."

Upon learning Consonance Skill, he spent five Skill Points without hesitation and maxed it out.

Subsequently, the system prompt sounded.

"More than three skills of the same category have been learned and leveled up fully, meeting the criteria for the Trinity Limit Breakthrough Fusion, do you want to fuse?"

Upon hearing this, Li Jing raised an eyebrow.

Purely passive skills can also undergo the Trinity Limit Breakthrough.

This is pretty saucy.

Including Five Thunder Righteous Method which he just learned and hadn’t had time to use, the three kinds of Thunder Skills he had learned all disappeared from the panel, but the Spell Formulas were deeply imprinted in his mind.

As long as he wanted to use them, he could bring up the Spell Formulas anytime.

With this, he confirmed that Limit Breakthrough would not impact the magic skills he had already learned.

Limit Breakthrough, is essentially giving him a powerful self-growing passive skill for free.

That it also works on purely passive skills, honestly, it’s quite a bug.

With this development, Li Jing was a bit embarrassed.

So the question arises.

What would the fusion of Spirit Control Skill which can refine the control of power, Returning to Origin Skill which solidify the Primordial Spirit and enhance the speed of spiritual power flow, and Consonance Skill which can cause crit produce?

Li Jing is rather excited.

Fuse!

"Confirm fusion, fusing Spirit Control Skill, Returning to Origin Skill, Consonance Skill."

"Fusion successful, gained Limit Breakthrough skill, Divine Origin Unification."

Upon receiving the prompt, Li Jing looked at the panel.

The font of Divine Origin Unification was not like the Thunder Skill Synopsis which had added the "special effect" of the lightning glow, however, it was also styled in cursive.

By feeling it, he didn’t sense anything remarkable.

Just that his own already extremely refined control of spiritual power subtly improved, and the speed of spiritual power flow in his body was slightly faster.

Having closed his eyes and felt it, it seems the enhancement of magic effects is still the same, just that because Consonance Skill was incorporated in Divine Origin Unification, there was a slight increase by 10%.

Compared to Thunder Skill Synopsis, Divine Origin Unification’s performance basically fuses Spirit Control Skill, Returning to Origin Skill and Consonance Skill together.

This made Li Jing somewhat disappointed.

However, Divine Origin Unification also didn’t display proficiency, which excited him.

Self-growing passive skill!

It will grow as his realms grow!

This Divine Origin Unification, is genuinely promising.

It has a bolster effect on magic spells many times more than Thunder Skill Synopsis, it also has the benefits to the Primordial Spirit, and inside it there is a crit probability.

The potential of Divine Origin Unification, is no less than Thunder Skill Synopsis!

Having consecutively gained two Limit Breakthrough skills, Li Jing studied the Four Realm Defense Law Heavenly Saint Xuan Yi, which was the last one left in his pre-purchases.

As expected, the Heavenly Saint Xuan Yi was an active skill.

To cast it, he needed to actively construct the Spell Formula.

Estimating with his current power control, forming seals to construct the Spell Formula would take about two minutes.

This efficiency was admittedly a bit slow.

But the problem wasn’t very significant.

Having the self-growing Divine Origin Unification, his Spell Formula construction speed could sooner or later improve as his realm advanced.

Finally, after scanning the panel, Li Jing let out a breath.

Only 3 Skill Points left.

He needs to work harder to gain experience and level up a few more times!

The triggering of the Trinity Limit Breakthrough function made him have a higher demand for Skill Points.

Originally, he didn’t have much demand for skills; as long as they were enough and useful, it was fine.

Now, he needs to learn at least three skills of the same type.

Defense Law, Sky Control, Control Objects Skill, Pupil Technique, don’t they all need to be arranged a round?

The requirements are not high, at least one boundary breakthrough from each system.

The gap in skill points is a bit large.

Li Jing casually pulled out the sack that Zhuge Yue had previously given him, counted, and found that there were a total of 109 Soul Devouring Crystals inside.

In other words, he had killed a total of 109 Parasite Insects before.

It was a pity that he only got promoted to the Four Realm in the middle of the chaotic battle. If he had the Four Realm cultivation level from the beginning, he could have killed at least three times as many Parasite Insects.

Regretting inwardly, Li Jing marveled genuinely.

Earning money in the Management Bureau is really a lucrative business.

He had just come here not long ago, and he had already filled a sack with Soul Devouring Crystals.

Of the Xiang City Management Bureau personnel who had gone underground to kill before, wasn’t there anyone who killed more than him?

Each of those "hungry wolves" had killed hundreds of parasites at least.

Zhuge Yue and other Four Realm masters had definitely killed more, not less.

This pile of Soul Devouring Crystals is money!

Thinking so, Li Jing couldn’t help but feel regretful.

The price of Soul Devouring Crystal is around five million, which is the normal market value.

Nowadays, the price is estimated to be halved.

After this Secret Realm exploration is over, it’s a question how much selling these would even fetch.

The people in the Management Bureau don’t care, their gains are handed over to the national treasury in exchange for merit, but he has to sell these himself.

Assuming a significant market devaluation, merchants might not even be willing to buy them.

The embarrassing thing is that Soul Devouring Crystals are materials for refining sound attack Precious Items, which are used by few people to begin with, so there’s a limited demand for them.

This bag of Soul Devouring Crystals is destined to get stuck in his hands.

With a sigh, Li Jing got up and looked in the direction of the collapsing tower.

Under Su Qiong’s coordination, all the personnel of the Xiang City Management Bureau had been mobilized.

Through the occasionally shaking ground, it could be judged that experts in earth magic had started to fill in the holes underground and block both ends of the cavern.

The people above ground had split into groups to patrol the ruins, while others were busy setting up camp and arranging various defense facilities in the open space.

Seeing everything going smoothly and apparently without his involvement, Li Jing leaped down from the roof of the ruins’ palace, and casually strolled around the ruins.

Although he had had the opportunity to enter the Secret Realm twice before, he had only wandered around the entrance base.

These ruins, it was his first visit.

He was somewhat curious about the kind of Wisdom Civilization that had left behind the ruins.

...

As Li Jing wandered around the ruins, he saw a lot of murals that had been deliberately destroyed.

This phenomenon made him a little concerned.

Murals are the most straightforward inheritance of civilization.

But all the murals in the ruins, regardless of size, had been deliberately destroyed.

Clearly, these were done by a confirmed surviving Wisdom Civilization lurking in the dark.

They clearly wanted to hide something.

Just as he was wandering alone in the ruins, Su Qiong’s voice rang out in his communication earpiece.

"Li Jing, where are you going alone?"

Upon receiving the communication, Li Jing raised his hand and pressed the earpiece.

"I’m just strolling in the ruins, do you need me for something?"

"Yeah, come over here."

After responding, Su Qiong said.

"The temporary camp has pretty much been set up, I’m in the central command tent."

"Alright."

Li Jing responded and rose into the air.

...

Soon, Li Jing saw Su Qiong in the central tent of the camp.

Not only was Su Qiong inside the tent at this time, but also a few team leaders including Zhuge Yue.

Seeing Li Jing come in, Zhuge Yue and others nodded friendly and then left the tent one after another.

Seeing this, Li Jing’s brow frowned slightly, turning to look at Su Qiong.

"You suddenly called me here because...?"

"No big deal, just wanted you to help with something."

Su Qiong waved her hand and said,

"Word just came from our base that they will be sending a large contingent tomorrow morning to escort the Research Institute staff over here for settlement. We, this batch of people, will have to spend the night at the ruins. I’ve arranged the night watch, but just to be safe, I hope you can help keep guard tonight."

As she spoke, she continued,

"I heard from Zhuge Yue that your Sky Eye Technique has reached a level of Great Perfection and you can see and understand everything in the world. If you help keep an eye out, I will feel more at ease."

"Just say if it’s just for the night watch."

Li Jing said with a smile.

He was careless with his words, but deep down, he thought highly of Zhuge Yue.

Could this woman really see that his Sky Eye Technique was at the level of Great Perfection?

She’s got something!

Three eyes were all the same. Others couldn’t see the difference. How could she?

Even those who had studied the Sky Eye Technique couldn’t necessarily tell the difference.

Seeing that Li Jing agreed to keep watch without hesitation, Su Qiong nodded slightly and said,

"When the large group arrives tomorrow, the exploration of the underground caverns should commence immediately. The unknown wisdom civilization has openly confronted us, and it’s not polite to come and go without saying hello. We should formally start to trouble them."

As she spoke, she sighed lightly,

"It’s a pity that we didn’t react in time to the oddities we sensed on our way here. Otherwise, we might have already lifted its veil of mystery. Now we don’t even know what they look like."

"We’ll see them sooner or later, no rush."

Li Jing responded casually, with a slight anticipation in his heart.

He didn’t care what the unknown wisdom civilization looked like.

That was for the big shots to worry about.

As a small fry, he didn’t need to worry about these things.

Compared to the unknown wisdom civilization, he cared more about how much experience he could gain from this trip.

The sooner the exploration began, the more he could gain.

Otherwise, just waiting in the camp was a waste of time.

Su Qiong did not know Li Jing’s thoughts but guessed that he was looking forward to further exploration. She explained,

"Tomorrow, I will try to be among the first batch of exploration teams to set off. The underground caverns are infinitely vast. To carry out detailed exploration there will inevitably be personnel dispersion. We can form a team then. If you’re by my side, I can also lend a hand when necessary."

Hearing this, Li Jing frowned,

"I don’t mind teaming up with you, but it sounds a little unrealistic for just us two to act alone? Although the underground caverns are large, they are, after all, just ..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Su Qiong shook her head,

"What you saw in the ruins underground is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many independent large caves further away, not just passages. Any one of them is several times the size of Jianghai city. The caves are interconnected by cavern passages. It’s not an exaggeration to say that each cave is a mini underground world."

As she spoke, she continued in a calm manner,

"The personnel mobilized from management bureaus all over the country to enter the Secret Realm will be around thirty thousand in total. The personnel participating in the exploration will go underground in stages, and in the end, about ten thousand people will participate. To work in groups based on this number of people, we wouldn’t be able to explore many caves within seven days. The plan has been set for a long time. Teams of two to three people will disperse and explore."

"Will it be too risky to have teams of two to three people?"

Li Jing furrowed his brows.

Scattering can avoid monster grabs, which he’s happy to see.

But the danger is indescribable.

Forget about unknown intelligence civilizations, two to three people encountering a large number of high-level Parasite Insects will end up dead if they can’t avoid timely.

"It does seem a bit risky."

Su Qiong confirmed without deniability, and then said,

"But we have no choice. If we don’t find the unknown wisdom civilization, we’re always on the defensive. And assuming that the Secret Realm was opened by them, we need to figure out their purpose as soon as possible."

As she spoke, she continued,

"Tomorrow, the Management Bureau will bring new communication devices still in the experimental stage. It might not be possible to keep in touch between teams, but we can make sure to communicate with the surface."

"Hmm."

Li Jing nodded.

The Research Institute’s advanced technology is quite reliable.

Being able to communicate with the surface is better than nothing.

Since he’s come all this way, no matter how they decide to act, he’s determined to go underground.

A little danger is nothing to him.

Having briefed Li Jing, Su Qiong then took out her tablet and said,

"I have no other business here. It’s going to be dark in a while, you ..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Li Jing looked up.

"About the unknown wisdom civilization, I have some ideas, would you like to know?"