Chapter 165 - 164: Fusion Mutation, Use of Deposits

After acquiring two Limit Breakthrough skills consecutively, Li Jing inspected the panel.

He still had 20 Skill Points left.

Which is sufficient to acquire 4 skills.

From the Passive Skills section, only Momentary Space remained.

In the Active Skills section, there were Spirit Strike, Sky Sword Technique, Zhenshi Skill, and Sky Eye Technique.

Momentary Space inherently had the ability to grow itself, which made a Limit Breakthrough unnecessary.

With the support of his Fifth Boundary cultivation level, the storage capacity of his Momentary Space was comparable to a large dock warehouse, which could load tons of supplies and never run out.

Storage technique can be temporarily ignored and reconsidered when there are special needs in the future.

Next is the Eye Technique.

Just like Momentary Space, the Sky Eye Technique also had the ability to grow itself and became more meticulous as the boundary level increased to Great Perfection.

Moreover, Eye Techniques belong to a unique category of magic skills.

The Eye Techniques purchasable on the Immortal Learning website were essentially similar to the Sky Eye Technique.

For example, if someone wants to learn the Star Moon Divine Eye Technique, which has the power of perspective, they will need to specialize and study at the Immortal Learning Academy.

For now, we need not consider Eye Techniques.

That leaves only Spirit Strike, Sky Sword Technique, and Zhenshi Skill.

After deliberating for a moment, Li Jing decided to perform a Limit Breakthrough on Spirit Strike and the Zhenshi Skill first.

There’s nothing to say about Spirit Strike, it’s extremely handy.

Even though it’s not very powerful, it definitely scares opponents.

Moreover, after stepping into the Fifth Boundary, the number of Spirit Strikes Li Jing could release in one breath had reached around 5,000.

A series of violent bombardments would indeed be terrifying.

Next is the Zhenshi Skill.

The Linglong Tower had become his Lifebound Magic Instrument, which not only had greater power than ordinary Spirit Weapons, but also had an efficiency rate that was twice that of normal ones.

As a Second Origin, the Linglong Spirit Weapon had also become his Yuan Infant.

It definitely deserves special care.

We’ll hold off on the Sky Sword Technique for now, and consider it when we’ve acquired more Skill Points through leveling up.

Having decided, Li Jing spoke out.

"Little Ai, search for the Second Realm’s Control Objects Skill, especially the Control Objects Skill specifically for tower-type magic instruments. Find an attack-focused Control Objects Skill for me, and then find another one that’s defense-focused."

The numerous Control Objects Skills are all from the Second Realm. There is no Four Realm Control Objects Skill.

In the use of instruments, there are attack, defense, speed, and functional types.

The Zhenshi Skill is functionally powerful, emphasizing suppression, defense, and confinement.

Tower-type instruments are known for their heaviness and robustness, so pursuing speed is not quite suitable.

Therefore, Li Jing decided to focus on attack and defense.

In a while, Little Ai filtered out two Control Objects Skills focusing on attack and defense, respectively.

Thousand Weight Method, valued at 800,000, is a Control Objects Skill exclusively for tower-type magic instruments.

It increases the weight of the tower according to its quality, thereby enhancing its power on a purely physical level.

It is extremely simple and straightforward, but also quite niche.

Those who use tower-type magic instruments rarely walk the path of "stacking" damage.

Increasing weight solely according to the quality of the tower is even more hardcore.

The Thousand Weight Method does not possess any other characteristics and concentrates entirely on enhancing the weight of the tower.

Moreover, according to the magic skill page introduction, once it reaches its initial success, maintaining control of the tower will become extremely difficult. The higher the proficiency, the harder it is to manage, and another Control Objects Skill has to be learned to fly.

Divine Town, valued at 900,000, is a Control Objects Skill exclusively for tower-type magic instruments.

It establishes a range-wide defensive boundary based on the quality of the tower and significantly enhances the tower’s inherent defensive performance.

In contrast to the Thousand Weight Method, Divine Town is a hot item among the tower-type magic instrument Control Objects Skills.

The higher the quality of the tower, the better its defense capability.

If the tower is not broken, the boundary will not break.

In supporting the Divine Town, a Spirit weapon-level tower can exhibit ten times the defensive power of a Four Realm defense magic spell.

There’s nothing more to say about it.

Other than being tough, it’s still tough.

Similar to the Thousand Weight Method, Divine Town is also an extremely radical Control Objects Skill, possessing only defensive characteristics and no other traits.

With one offering offense and the other defense at two contrasting extremes, they perfectly catered to Li Jing’s requirements.

He purchased and studied these two Control Object Skills without reluctance, and spent ten skill points.

’When more than three skills in the same series are mastered, you are eligible to fuse them into a Three-in-One Boundary Breakthrough. Would you like to proceed with the fusion?’

’Confirm Fusion, with the fusion skills being the Zhenshi Skill, Thousand Weight Method, and Divine Town.’

’Fusion successful. You now possess the Limit Breakthrough Skill, Divine Might.’

?

Li Jing slowly put out a question mark.

Divine Might.

Upon hearing the name of this skill, it’s clear it didn’t share much correlation with the three Control Object Skills.

Was it a mutation?

Examining his panel, clearly, Limit Breakthrough had indeed had a mutation.

Divine Might, like the Thunder Skill General Pronouncement, is a Passive Skill.

In quiet contemplation, Li Jing discovered that the effects of Divine Might were akin to Thunder Skill’s General Pronouncement and had the power to strengthen the pagoda.

Its effect was pure, double power of the pagoda.

This was a pleasant surprise.

Li Jing initially only thought of possessing a specialized Controlling Object Skill that could do attack, defense, and functionality. He hadn’t expected a mutation holding such a skill.

There’s no need to explain the strength of the passive skill.

Compared with Thunder Skill’s General Pronouncement, Divine Might was slightly monotonous.

But in terms of actual usage, Divine Might shone as a strong and excellent skill.

The LingLong tower was Li Jing’s Lifebound Magic Instrument. The Great Perfection Level Controlling Item Skill could activate big moves instantly without needing to form Spell Formulas.

With the double power of Divine Might, was this not a future gift from above?

Looking at the panel with joy, Li Jing noticed Spirit Attack.

Having completed all Controlling Item Skills, it was time for the final Spirit Attack.

For the "composition route" of the Spirit Attack, Li Jing had a clear plan.

Dai Hong once broke through a formation with a single thought of Spirit Attack, which left a deep impression on him.

One of these was the coolness, and the other was the power!

Dai Hong’s application method was not considered by Li Jing.

With the three-in-one Boundary Breakthrough function, he could try walking down that path.

After a brief thought, Li Jing spoke out.

"Xiao Ai, search for the Fourth Boundary Magic, and find two magic that use pure spiritual Qi as the carrier. One should be capable of solidifying a specific shape; the other should have a strong impact."

The Spirit Attack belongs to a specific system of attributeless magic, which essentially condenses attack power with pure spiritual Qi as the medium.

Whether this type of magic is powerful or not mainly depends on the quality of spiritual Qi.

Techniques are another matter altogether.

Li Jing does not seek skill.

He didn’t need to consider the quality of spiritual Qi having the Spiritual Power.

When synthesizing Spirit Attack, the main aim was to break the restrictions of the Second Realm Magic.

Even though the Spirit attack could circumvent the boundary limits in his hands, the spell formula can only support a small point.

No matter how capable he is, if the Spell Formula cannot keep up proportionally, it’s useless.

A spell formula, just a single Fourth Boundary Magic should be able to solve this.

What remained was to focus on shaping a flashy form with a strong impact.

One lesser thing to worry about with an offensive move that has pure spiritual Qi as its carrier is the messy special effects.

Because such impetus doesn’t have any special effects to begin with.

Soon, Xiao Ai sorted out two fourth boundary magic spells according to Li Jing’s request.

The Condensation Soldier Spell, worth 8 million.

Condensation Soldier Spell does not have active aggressiveness.

Its uniqueness lies in the fact that after completing the Spell Formula, various weapons can be condensed in a short period of time with one’s own spiritual Qi that can be used as one-time Precious Items, either holding it in your hand or throwing it out.

The Condensation Soldier Spell of Great Perfection Level, all weapons condensed, each possesses the power of Treasure-level 8 and can be detonated at will.

The explosive power is equivalent to the self-destruction of a Treasure-level 8 item.

A self-destructed Treasure-level 8 item, this power is considerable.

Plus, as long as there’s enough spiritual Qi, limitless condensation can take place within the effective time frame of the Condensation Soldier Spell.

Li Jing was quite satisfied with this spell.

He then looked at another Fourth Boundary spell selected by Xiao Ai.

Spirit Power Vent, valued at ten million.

This spell wasn’t as flashy as the Condensation Soldier Spell, but its trait lies in using a large amount of Spirit Qi to cause an impact through a one-time construction of the spell formula.

The Spirit Power Vent had an extremely powerful attacking prowess, not inferior to the typical Fourth Boundary attack methods.

The drawback was clear; it had a substantial consumption.

If one, who just entered the Fourth Boundary, were to blast a Spirit Power Vent of the Minor Completion Level, they would essentially drain themselves.

However, comparatively speaking.

The construction of the spell formula for Spirit Power Vent was not as complex as the typical Fourth Boundary attack methods. It could be completed in just dozens of seconds.

This spell was valued at ten million solely because of the convenience of the spell formula construction.

At some level, it was a reckless spell.

If one were to launch a completely unreserved Spirit Power Vent, it could easily gain the upper hand, striking the opponent by surprise, or even penetrate their soul in one shot.

Within the same boundary, a single blast was sure to hit the target, either killing or seriously injuring the victim.

However, after an unreserved launch, the caster would be exhausted, unable to continue the fight.

Li Jing was also quite satisfied with Spirit Power Vent.

He wasn’t foolish enough to blast out all his Spiritual Qi in one go.

Spirit Strike had the ability to detonate; however, it lacked a relatively powerful impact ability.

Spirit Power Vent could make up for this shortcoming, and that was sufficient.

Without giving much thought, Li Jing purchased and learned the two spells, pulling them to maximum level.

"You have completed learning more than three identical skills and have reached the maximum level, meeting the conditions for the trinity Limit Breakthrough. Do you wish to proceed with the fusion?"

"Confirm fusion, fuse Spirit Strike, Condensation Soldier Spell, Spirit Power Vent."

"Fusion successful, obtained Limit Breakthrough skill - Spirit Soldier Break."

As the notification sounded next to his ear, Li Jing immediately felt something.

Spirit Soldier Break wasn’t exceptional; it followed the standard laws of the Limit Breakthrough.

The three spells fused into one, maximizing strengths and compensating for weaknesses.

It could be cast instantaneously, condense soldiers, or be discharged unreservedly.

What’s notable was.

The function of Spirit Strike’s automatic launch was preserved, and after the detonation, it now had the ability to create a second impact.

Gently lifting his hand, a flying sword made of pure Spiritual Qi emerged in Li Jing’s hand.

Standing up and waving the Spiritual Qi flying sword a couple of times, Li Jing confirmed that the instantaneous Spiritual Qi flying sword had roughly the power of a Treasure-level 4 weapon.

This was not surprising.

The upper limit of the Condensation Soldier Spell was Treasure-level 8; it was only natural for the Spirit Soldier to be weaker when instantaneously launched using the Spirit Strike’s feature.

Dismissing the Spiritual Qi flying sword with a wave of his hand, Li Jing had a thought, and more than a dozen different types of weapons comprised of Spirital Qi emerged behind him, such as swords, spears, halberds, and axes.

Looking back, Li Jing was fully satisfied.

He had a slight obsession with Spirit Strike.

Now, he had finally achieved something through the Limit Breakthrough, although it was a bit of a cheat, his goal was at least achieved.

Looking at more than a dozen different types of weapons behind him, Li Jing couldn’t help but recall the joyful king of the mobile game he played before he crossed over.

As Li Jing was enjoying himself, the virtual figure of Little Ai, projected through holography, stood beside him, looking well-behaved.

Because Li Jing kept her in the storage space when he was exploring the Secret Realm, she was unaware of what had happened and even less aware that he had stepped into the Fifth Boundary.

All she knew was.

Li Jing was super quick at learning spells; he could learn them at a glance.

When Li Jing suddenly bought seven spells with different purposes, Little Ai thought he might have been stimulated.

But it didn’t seem to be the case now.

Little Ai was just an Artificial Intelligence and didn’t understand cultivation.

However, through online search, she could easily confirm that the Spirit Soldier Break that Li Jing was casting was not a known spell.

She couldn’t judge whether Li Jing developed it himself or it was a fusion of other spells, as she didn’t understand cultivation.

All she knew was, their owner was becoming more and more unpredictable.

Li Jing played around with Spirit Soldier Break, dismissed all the Spiritual Qi weapons, and turned his head to ask a question.

"How much money is left in my account now?"

"Master, you just spent 51.70 million, there are still 466.85 million in your account."

"Hmm."

Li Jing nodded, resting his cheeks on his hands in contemplation.

Four hundred and sixty million, enough for him to spend for a long time.

His original plan was to cover everything in one go, so he wouldn’t have to worry about finding ways to get money in the future.

But having so much idle money in the account, simply earning interest wasn’t the way to go.

Investing in businesses?

Buying funds?

Or throwing it into the stock market?

All of them seemed inappropriate.

He didn’t have time to research these things.

At this point, money had become relatively less significant to him.

It was enough as long as he had enough to spend, there was no need to deliberately pursue earning more.

After pondering for a moment, Li Jing looked up.

"On the dark web black market, is it possible to increase membership level by reselling the items for sale?"

"Reselling?"

Xia Ai hesitated, the virtual image of her bright eyes flickering.

"If you register as a merchant, you can resell the materials on the dark web. The dark web itself has a similar system, allowing merchants to purchase from individual sellers and control the prices. There are a lot of people in the low-ranking members section engaging in reselling for huge profits. As the volume of transactions increases, the membership level will also get boosted."

As Xia Ai finished speaking, she seemed quite excited.

"Master, if you want to boost your dark web membership level by reselling materials, I can monitor the dark web prices around the clock and push up the membership level. If the goal is not to make a profit, I can assure Master that you would reach the highest membership level of the dark web within a month."

Xia Ai was enthusiastic and so was Li Jing after hearing her proposal.

Boosting the dark web membership level was a sudden idea.

The dark web itself supports the merchants to control the prices, providing a large space for operations.

What’s more critical was that Xia Ai showed great interest in it and volunteered to monitor the dark web 24/7, claiming that she could boost to the highest membership level within a month.

Wouldn’t it be a waste not to give it a shot, keeping in mind the idle money in his hand?

"What requirements are there to register as a dark web merchant?"

"The bar is a bit high."

Xia Ai responded, saying.

"Registration as a dark web merchant is not easy, there are primarily two ways. One is to sell items worth over a billion in your name, the other is to get endorsed by someone relevant in the dark web."

Hearing Xia Ai’s words, Li Jing raised his eyebrows.

Selling items worth over one billion was out of question.

As for getting endorsed by someone relevant in the dark web, he could approach Wu Shu.

However, he wasn’t sure if Wu Shu had the qualification to endorse.

After pondering for a while, Li Jing said.

"Xia Ai, create a new dark web account first and transfer four hundred and fifty million to an untraceable bank account. Tomorrow, I will buy a new phone and get a secondary card. In the meantime, I will contact Wu Shu to see if he can help. If I can successfully register as a dark web merchant, you stay at home for the coming period operating on the dark web and work on boosting the membership level."

"Sure thing!"

Responding cheerfully, Xia Ai added, excitedly.

"Master, rest assured, with my ability of cross-referencing data. If I’m willing, I can easily stir up the low-end market of the dark web."

"It’s good as long as you’re happy."

Li Jing let out a laugh as he left the guest room.

The dark web black market is characterized by its lack of rules.

No one would say anything if Xia Ai causes chaos, at most attracting unwanted attention.

If attracting attention is the outcome, so be it, as due to the characteristics of the dark web, no one can track down who is at the other end of the line.

Unless it’s the high-level staff from the dark web.

The possibility of that was slim.

The dark web allows merchants to control the prices, clearly indicating it hopes to stir up chaos in the black market.

In essence, the dark web is just a platform, earning profits from the commission on successful transactions.

The more chaotic the market and the larger the transaction volume, the more they gain.

As long as one doesn’t mess with the profits of the high-level staff, they wouldn’t take drastic actions.