prynovel Chapter 43 : Chapter 43
Chapter 43 : Chapter 43
Chapter 43 Evolution Through Devouring! Buying Traits with Money, Tens of Millions of Eco Points!
In an instant, violent purple flames erupted from the Nanotech Battle Armor.
Its original silver-black exterior was transformed into a purple-black hue beneath those terrifying flames.
【Flame Absorption! Purple】 (Can absorb fire-element energy to increase its own grade and power! It can also rapidly replenish the battle armor's energy, allowing it to repair itself quickly!
Growth Limit: Peak Seventh-Tier)
Sure enough, the effect of Purple Flame Absorption on a weapon or battle armor was completely different from its effect on Xiao Xuan himself.
"So a Purple Trait can already reach Peak Seventh-Tier? That ceiling is no joke!"
At that, Xiao Xuan's brows rose slightly.
He looked over the specific upgrade path.
At White, the upper limit was Peak First-Tier.
After upgrading to Green, it could reach Peak Third-Tier.
After upgrading to Blue, it could reach Peak Fifth-Tier.
And once it reached Purple, it could attain Peak Seventh-Tier.
By that logic, if it could be upgraded to Silver, then its upper limit would be Peak Ninth-Tier.
Peak Ninth-Tier—that was already the level of a terrifying existence at the peak of the Martial Thearch Realm.
As for the even more powerful Gold, it would probably correspond to the Eleventh Tier, a level already far beyond anything he could imagine.
Without another word, Xiao Xuan directly placed the fire-element Energy Crystal in his hand onto the battle armor.
HUM!!!
In an instant, the battle armor transformed into purple-black liquid and directly wrapped around the crystal, then began frantically devouring and absorbing it.
"Energy Matter detected. Devouring and upgrading in progress. Devouring progress: 0.1%... 0.2%..."
Before long, the Silverwing AI Core's voice rang out.
Hearing this, Xiao Xuan's brows lifted slightly.
The upgrade speed was not slow at all. It was nearly increasing by 0.1 percent every few seconds. At that rate, it would only take a few hours to rise to Low Seventh-Tier.
If it reached Silver, that speed would definitely become terrifying.
It seemed his choice had been the right one.
Conveniently enough, the cost of upgrading from Silver to Gold was simply too high. The amount required to upgrade a single Gold Trait was enough to upgrade ten thousand Silver Traits.
In that case, it was far more practical to get more Silver Traits and quickly raise his combat power within the same tier.
Still, that was a matter for the future. As things stood, he could not even come up with a million Eco Points.
Even so, Xiao Xuan was not too anxious. After all, he was about to encounter a large number of prodigies carrying Silver Traits.
Afterward, he bought a large quantity of low-grade elemental orbs.
All of these elemental orbs carried White Traits. Of course, it was not as if he had never considered buying weapons that contained high-grade Traits, then shattering the weapons to recover those high-grade Traits.
The reality, however, was that the Trait grades carried by weapons were extremely low.
Even Seventh-Tier weapons carried, at most, Blue Traits.
And their prices were at least several times higher than those of ordinary Seventh-Tier weapons.
Every one of them was worth more than 10 billion.
Even so, this gave Xiao Xuan an excellent way to make money.
That was to upgrade the Traits on weapons, then sell them.
But if he did that, the problem would be discovered very easily.
One moment, Xiao Xuan would buy a weapon set with Green Traits, or even just White Traits. The next moment, he would sell an identical set whose Trait grades had reached Purple.
Although its value would rise by at least a hundredfold, perhaps even a thousandfold, the moment anyone investigated even slightly, they would immediately realize that something was wrong.
Once or twice was still manageable, but if it happened too many times, even a fool would guess that Xiao Xuan possessed some ability that could raise the Trait grades on weapons.
And once that happened, the matter would become enormous.
Upgrading the Traits on weapons was something the human race had failed to achieve despite researching it for thousands of years.
If Xiao Xuan could do it, then in the future, he would either lose his freedom and be turned into a production machine, or be assassinated outright by anti-human forces lurking in the shadows.
Either way, the result would not be good.
That said, it was not as though there were no solution.
The best solution was for Xiao Xuan to forge weapons himself.
That was right—forge them himself.
Forging weapons was not an especially difficult matter. All he had to do was find a few artificers and beat them up.
Sooner or later, at least one weapon-forging Trait would drop.
Once he raised its level, he would be able to forge high-grade weapons with ease. Then he could raise the Trait grades on those weapons before selling them.
Others would only think that Xiao Xuan's refining standards were exceptionally high. They would never suspect that he possessed a heaven-defying ability to upgrade Traits.
Moreover, having money was not entirely useless either.
If he bought enough low-grade weapons, such as these elemental orbs, each one only cost a few tens of thousands.
In fact, some weapons with attribute-less White Traits cost as little as a few thousand.
And right now, he had 100 billion.
That meant he could easily buy well over ten million of them.
After smashing them all apart, the White Traits he obtained would each yield at least four or five Eco Points.
That meant forty to fifty million Eco Points.
Although spending 100 billion in exchange for forty to fifty million Eco Points looked like a disastrous loss, to Xiao Xuan, money was nothing more than a number.
At that thought, his eyes lit up.
Forty to fifty million Eco Points would be enough to let his strength rise rapidly.
Unfortunately, there was no time for that at the moment. He would have to wait until he reached the Imperial Capital.
After all, once he got to the Imperial Capital, the number of weapons available would be far greater.
With that thought in mind, Xiao Xuan stopped dwelling on it.
He searched through the armory once more and found three sets of fire- and lightning-element orbs. After shattering them all, he loaded Purple Lightning Absorption and Flame Absorption onto his weapon, his battle armor, and even himself.
Then Xiao Xuan glanced at his current status panel.
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Name: Xiao Xuan
Race: Human
Level: First Heaven of the Great Grandmaster Realm
Vitality: 10000 (Ten Revolutions of True Qi)
Soul: 10000 (Ten Revolutions of Soul Condensation)
Cultivation Arts: Bloodthirsty Demonic Art (Peak Eighth-Tier! Combat power ×1700%) Thunderflame Body-Tempering Art (Peak Seventh-Tier! Mastery, 0/100,000! 600%) Nine Revolutions Soul-Annihilating Art (Peak Seventh-Tier! Fifth Revolution! 600%, 0/300,000)
Martial Techniques: 【Thunderflame Annihilation Slash】 (Peak Seventh-Tier! Mastery, 0/100,000! 600%) 【Flame-Dancing Lightning Flash】 (Peak Seventh-Tier! Mastery, 0/100,000! 325%) 【Thunderflame Adamantine Body】 (Peak Seventh-Tier! Mastery, 0/100,000! 700%) 【Hundred-Leaf Soul Blades】 (Peak Fourth-Tier! 350%)
Traits: 【Scavenger! Unique】
【Telekinetic Force! Silver】 (Telekinesis enhanced by 4300%! 32.54 million/10 billion)
【Soul Destroyer! Silver】 (Soul enhanced by 3000%! 0/10 billion)
【Soul Blade Mastery! Silver】 (Soul blades enhanced by 3000%)
【Decent Talent! Silver】 (0/10 billion! Talent ×100,000)
【Lightning Control! Silver】 (Lightning-element attack ×3000%! 0/10 billion)
【Flame Control! Silver】 (Flame-element attack ×3000%! 0/10 billion)
【Strength Enhancement! Silver】 (Strength enhanced by 3000%, 0/10 billion)
【Speed Enhancement! Silver】 (Speed enhanced by 1500%, 0/10 billion)
【Defense Enhancement! Silver】 (Defense enhanced by 3000%, 0/10 billion)
【Super Gigantification! Silver】 (Gigantifies to 150 meters. Physical combat power ×3000%)
【Blade Mastery! Silver】 (Blade technique power ×3000%)
【True Eye! Silver】 (Can see through enemies within 100 times his own strength)
【Combat Mastery! Silver】 (Possesses powerful combat talent and can unleash his strength with extraordinary effectiveness in battle!)
【Limb Regeneration! Silver】 (Rapidly repairs damaged parts of the body.)
【Flame Absorption! Purple】 (Fire-element energy absorption speed ×30)
【Lightning Absorption! Purple】 (Lightning-element energy absorption speed ×30)
Eco Points: 70,000
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