prynovel Chapter 36 : Chapter 36
Chapter 36 : Chapter 36
Chapter 36: A Massive Haul! 18 Million Eco Points! Every Trait, Upgraded to Silver!!
"What a terrifying aura. Is this Yunhai's true strength? When he faced us before, he had never once used his full power!"
"His strength seems to be even greater than we imagined!"
"He awakened Silver Telekinesis back in his first year. By his fifth year, he was already strong enough to participate in the Top Hundred Genius Tournament!
"And yet he never took part, because he intended to seize first place in a single stroke. That is why he trained for two more years.”
"This time, Shanhe Province may truly produce a top-three powerhouse in the Hundred-Province Genius Tournament!"
"By the way, I heard Liu Yunhai's Soul Condensation Level has already reached the Seventh Revolution. I wonder whether that is true.”
"If it is, then his combat power will be terrifying!"
For a time, the other upperclassmen prodigies from Nanhai University discussed him animatedly.
It could be said that Liu Yunhai's talent was absolutely the strongest among all the current students of Nanhai University.
There might not have been anyone equal to him within twenty years before or after him.
And now, against a mere high school senior, he was actually preparing to use his full strength.
That, too, counted as a form of respect for a true opponent.
Naturally, this battle also drew the attention of quite a few powerhouses from the Colosseum.
Martial Emperors, Martial Kings, and even patrolling Martial Venerables came silently to hover above the arena platform and watch.
When they sensed the aura around Liu Yunhai, even these experts could not help but marvel.
"If this boy does not die young, he will definitely become a Martial Venerable in the future. He may even reach the Martial Thearch Realm!"
"Indeed. It is only a pity that he did not enter Imperial Capital University as a first-year student. His talent awakened a little too late.”
"He wasted several prime years for nothing.”
"Otherwise, he would already be in the Great Grandmaster Realm by now!"
Most of these experts had graduated from Imperial Capital University and later returned.
Naturally, they understood Liu Yunhai's strength well. Even at Imperial Capital University, he would still have counted as a genius.
He might even have entered the Top Hundred Ranking.
Of course, that would only have been possible if he had entered Imperial Capital University back in his first year. As things stood now, all that remained was to see how far he could develop afterward.
"As expected of Liu Yunhai, the so-called number one genius. That seems to be the aura of the Eighth Revolution of Soul Condensation.
"Your strength is enough to make me go all out as well!"
At this moment, Xiao Xuan could also clearly sense just how powerful the other's soul power was.
The Eighth Revolution of Soul Condensation corresponded to the Eighth Revolution of Innate True Qi. That was right—within the Innate Realm, a Soul Cultivator's soul could also undergo qualitative transformation.
And in theory, that transformation was even harder to achieve.
Yet Liu Yunhai had actually reached the terrifying level of the Eighth Revolution. One could well imagine how formidable his strength was.
As a peak Grandmaster, his base soul strength was already comparable to someone at the Seventh or Eighth Heaven of the Great Grandmaster Realm.
At that thought, Xiao Xuan wasted no more words.
BOOM!
In an instant, endless flame and lightning erupted from his body.
Raging flames engulfed his entire form and turned into a suit of armor.
In the next moment, the Gigantification Trait that had lain dormant in his Recycle Bin was loaded instantly.
BOOM!
At once, under the cover of boundless flames, Xiao Xuan's body began to swell madly—ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters.
At the same time, the power in his body began to surge wildly as well.
In the end, Xiao Xuan's body became a giant fifty meters tall.
His physical strength, speed, and defense all rose directly to seven times their original level.
Although it had not reached the tenfold mark, it still far exceeded everyone's expectations.
"A Gigantification-type talent? Xiao Xuan was actually hiding even more strength!"
"So that was it. No wonder he could unleash combat power ten times greater than an ordinary High Purple. He is actually the holder of a Peak Purple talent!"
"But that is not right. Even a Peak Purple talent should not be ten times stronger than an ordinary High Purple!”
"Besides, I heard that this year's genius is no ordinary High Purple, but a High Purple prodigy who is already on the verge of meeting the minimum standard for High Silver!"
"Could it be that his body's potential is extraordinarily great, allowing the stacking effects of a Peak Purple talent to become even stronger?"
In an instant, even the Martial Venerables in the sky were shaken.
A Peak Purple talent corresponded to combat power on par with High Silver.
And High Silver was not much weaker than a Mid Gold talent.
Yet now, such terrifying strength had actually appeared in Xiao Xuan.
Were it not for the relatively low upper limit of Peak Purple, Xiao Xuan would absolutely have had the qualifications to contend among humanity's top prodigies.
Unfortunately, his realm was too low. The difference between the peak of the Innate Realm and the peak of the Grandmaster Realm was, in essence, already tenfold.
Moreover, after one broke from the Innate Realm into the Grandmaster Realm, Innate True Qi would transform into Astral Qi.
Its power would double immediately.
In other words, the fundamental gap between the two was twentyfold.
Even the enormous gap between a Peak Purple talent and a Mid Silver talent could not erase that twentyfold disparity.
"Gigantification? So that is your trump card.”
"But tell me—can your speed keep up?"
Shrouded in a telekinetic mech more than twenty meters tall, Liu Yunhai spoke calmly, and then a massive telekinetic saber appeared directly in his hand.
At the same time, the gigantic armor slowly bent at the waist.
BOOM!
In the next instant, with a violent stomp, the earth shattered wildly beneath him.
A terrifying shock wave kicked up clouds of dust and debris, while his figure shot toward Xiao Xuan at astonishing speed. In only a moment, he had already reached the space above Xiao Xuan.
Then, with a single strike, he slashed down at Xiao Xuan's flame-covered shoulder.
At that moment, the telekinetic saber transformed into a monstrous blade a hundred meters long.
BOOM!
In the next moment, amid a world-shaking explosion, that terrifying telekinetic giant blade crashed hard onto Xiao Xuan's shoulder.
And yet, something occurred that left everyone utterly aghast.
Liu Yunhai's strike had actually caused no damage whatsoever to Xiao Xuan's shoulder.
In an instant, whether it was Liu Yunhai or everyone present, all of them stared with eyes wide in disbelief.
"You were hiding your strength!?"
Liu Yunhai himself widened his eyes in disbelief.
The gap in their fundamentals was more than twentyfold. He had watched Xiao Xuan's battle from earlier in the day. Xiao Xuan's Explosive-Power Multiplier really had been astonishing—almost comparable to his own.
But with a twentyfold gap between them, even though that strike had not been Liu Yunhai's full strength, it should still have been enough to sever one of Xiao Xuan's arms.
Could it be that Xiao Xuan had not used Gigantification at all during the day?
But even if he had not, Gigantification should only have raised all his attributes threefold or fourfold at most.
Liu Yunhai should still have been at least three times stronger than Xiao Xuan. How could a strike delivered with thirty percent of his power fail even to break Xiao Xuan's defense?
What he did not know was that Xiao Xuan's strength had been rising all along.
Earlier in the day, Xiao Xuan's True Qi had only been at the Second Revolution.
Now it had reached the Sixth Revolution, directly tripling his combat power.
On top of that, Xiao Xuan had not used Gigantification at all during the day.
That difference made exactly twenty-one times.
Moreover, Xiao Xuan had taken the path of all-around enhancement, and now he had even used a soul-defense technique to reinforce his defense. His defense had soared again. Even if he attacked himself, he would need to use his full strength to break through it.
How could Liu Yunhai possibly shatter Xiao Xuan's defense with only thirty percent of his strength?
"Senior, your strength is lacking. In that case, it is my turn now."
Xiao Xuan's vast voice rolled out slowly.
The moment Liu Yunhai heard it, he finally snapped out of his shock. But in the next instant, a terrifying greatsword of lightning and flame had already come crashing down.
Liu Yunhai's pupils contracted violently.
"Wave Slash!"
Without the slightest hesitation, he drew back his blade and exploded with his full power.
A terrifying wave-like blade aura surged upward and collided instantly with Xiao Xuan's thunderflame greatsword.
BOOM!
The moment they collided, a thunderous explosion rang out, and a violent shock wave swept in all directions.
The other people on the arena platform saw this and turned pale, hastily spinning around to flee.
But how could their speed possibly compare to such a fearsome shock wave?
Moreover, there were still countless spectators outside. For safety's sake, one of the Martial Venerables in the sky directly acted and sealed off the entire arena with overwhelming force.
The moment those contestants stepped onto the platform, they had already signed a life-and-death waiver. If they died, there was no problem.
But if spectators were caught in the aftermath and killed, the Colosseum's reputation would suffer a grievous blow, and it would also have to pay an enormous sum in compensation.
And so, in the next moment, the terrifying shock wave struck all the other challengers on the platform.
PUFF! PUFF! PUFF! PUFF!
In an instant, the weaker martial artists were blasted directly into bloody mist by that horrifying impact.
Traits exploded across the ground.
As for the several geniuses from Nanhai University, although they managed to endure it, they still coughed up blood and were blasted backward into the arena barrier.
And yet, what truly drove them to despair had only just begun.
After Gigantification, Xiao Xuan, and Liu Yunhai with his telekinetic armor fully unfolded, both moved their weapons again.
One of them was using a formidable Peak Fifth-Tier Martial Technique, while the other was using an even more terrifying Peak Seventh-Tier Martial Technique.
The moment the two collided again, the shock wave they unleashed was on the verge of wiping those geniuses out completely.
Fortunately, the Martial Venerable in the sky acted at once and isolated them all at the outer edge.
These were the greatest geniuses of Shanhe Province. The death of even one of them would have been a tremendous loss.
None of those experts wanted to be forced to answer to the powerhouses of Nanhai University.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As Xiao Xuan and Liu Yunhai clashed madly, their terrifying collisions shook the heavens and the earth.
In less than a second, hundreds of impacts slammed into the arena barrier.
If those geniuses had still been there, that terrifying force would have crushed every one of them into pulp.
Amid the frenzy of battle, both of them realized that their strength was almost exactly the same.
But Liu Yunhai's basic power should have been at least twenty times greater than Xiao Xuan's.
And yet, under such circumstances, they were still evenly matched.
It was simply inconceivable.
"Although my Traits are Purple as well, they have only just reached the Purple threshold. As expected, merely reaching Purple is still somewhat too weak."
Xiao Xuan, however, was not very satisfied with this outcome.
Liu Yunhai was certainly powerful, but even if he went to Imperial Capital University, he would still find it difficult to enter the Top Hundred Ranking.
And yet Xiao Xuan actually could not defeat someone like that while fighting an entire major realm above his own?
That was rather disappointing.
Of course, he still had another trump card—the Silver Soul Destroyer.
But for one thing, Xiao Xuan intended to keep Soul Destroyer as a hidden card.
For another, Liu Yunhai was a Telekinetic Adept. Although he could not perform soul attacks, he could still defend against them.
Xiao Xuan's attack might not be enough to kill him in one blow.
Since that was the case, it was best not to expose it if he could avoid it.
Then Xiao Xuan glanced at the Traits scattered across the ground, and the corners of his lips rose slightly.
"Then I may as well raise my strength first. I wonder how many Traits I will get this time."
With that thought, even as he continued fighting, Xiao Xuan began moving rapidly across every corner of the arena floor.
In an instant, large numbers of Blue Traits and even Purple Traits were picked up by him.
The total amount of his Eco Points began to soar wildly.
Although the arena covered a ten-kilometer radius, it took Xiao Xuan only a few minutes to clear it all out.
【You recycled 6541 Green Traits. Eco Points gained: 150,000】
【You recycled 6144 Blue Traits. Eco Points gained: 4.27 million】
【You recycled 154 Purple Traits. Eco Points gained: 7.54 million】
【You recycled 2 Silver Traits. Eco Points gained: 6.58 million】
【Congratulations. Your total Eco Points have reached: 18.54 million!】
Very soon, those consecutive notification chimes rang through Xiao Xuan's mind.
And the moment he heard the last one, his eyes lit up.
He had actually picked up two Silver Traits as well?
A quick glance showed that they were both low-tier Silver Traits, one Strength Enhancement and one Speed Enhancement. They had been dropped by those few geniuses from earlier.
Though there were only two of them, their value was astonishingly high.
They were worth more than six million Eco Points.
"What a pity. They are only low-tier Silver Traits. If they were top-tier Silver Traits, then even a single one would probably be worth several hundred million."
Xiao Xuan found it a little regretful.
At the Silver tier, Traits began to be divided into grades.
After all, the gap between Silver and Gold was enormous. The weakest Silver Traits only granted thirtyfold combat-power amplification, while the strongest could reach seventyfold.
Thus, Silver was divided into low-tier, mid-tier, high-tier, and top-tier.
Their corresponding strength amplification ranged from thirty to forty times, forty to fifty times, fifty to sixty times, and sixty to seventy times respectively.
Xiao Xuan estimated that the Eco Points required for upgrading should correspond to those tiers as well.
The gap between each tier was likely tenfold in Eco Point cost.
After all, the jump from Silver to Gold required exactly ten thousand times the Eco Points.
Seen that way, it was quite reasonable.
At that thought, Xiao Xuan turned his gaze toward Liu Yunhai.
His Trait was mid-tier. That single one alone could be recycled for thirty million.
That would be enough to raise Xiao Xuan's realm all the way to the Martial King level.
Then he looked at his total Eco Points again.
More than eighteen million.
He hesitated no longer.
"System—no, Supreme Will! Upgrade every one of my current Traits to Silver!”
"And raise my True Qi to Ten Revolutions as well!"