prynovel Chapter 95 : Chapter 95
Chapter 95 : Chapter 95
Chapter 95: The Heaven-Reaching Tower Is Ruined? Fusing the Trait 【Element Absorption! Gold】
“You should know that in the thousand-year history of humanity’s age of calamity, the number of geniuses who died before reaching maturity exceeds the number who survived by more than ten times!”
“And by that time, I would already have enough strength to personally kill Scott myself!”
With that thought, Ye Xiao looked calmly at Xiao Xuan.
“I am not talking about the future. I mean within ten days! Give me ten days, and I will deliver Scott’s head into your hands!”
“During that time, Steve and Liu Ruyan will be kept in your care.”
“As for how I will kill him, that is none of your concern. You only need to know that he will die!”
But after hearing Ye Xiao’s words, Xiao Xuan offered no further explanation.
He tossed out Steve’s charred corpse.
Ye Xiao immediately clenched his hand in the air, and flames instantly wrapped around Steve’s body!
However, those flames did not damage the corpse.
Seeing how confident Xiao Xuan was, Ye Xiao fell silent.
“If you can kill Scott, then from this day forward, I, Ye Xiao, will be your subordinate!”
In the end, Ye Xiao looked at Xiao Xuan and spoke solemnly.
“Remember what you just said. Then I’ll see you again in a few days.”
After hearing that, Xiao Xuan smiled slightly.
Then he vanished from the spot with Mu Xiying!
“So it was Teleportation. No wonder. He actually has a trait like that. In the future, he will absolutely stand at the peak of the human race.”
“But even with Teleportation, killing Scott won’t be easy, will it?”
“How exactly is he planning to do it?”
Ye Xiao was full of doubt, but he also knew this was not a place to linger.
After all, this was the border between the human race and Huaxia. Who knew whether Steve had left an ambush behind?
He directly took out another Teleportation Crystal and crushed it.
Buzz!!
In an instant, his figure disappeared from the spot.
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In front of the Heaven-Reaching Tower!
Xiao Xuan and Mu Xiying returned there once more.
However, both of them were still in an invisible state.
“What do you mean it’s under maintenance? And it’s going to take half a year?”
“Yeah! We’re about to graduate, and we still haven’t cashed out our last batch of startup resources. And now the Heaven-Reaching Tower is under maintenance? What, can’t the school afford to pay out the points?”
“Exactly, exactly! This is disgusting. I’m filing a complaint. I’m reporting this!”
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The moment the two of them arrived, they heard students all around them shouting in protest and cursing loudly.
“My bad, Sister Ying. I’m afraid the Heaven-Reaching Tower won’t be challengeable for quite a while. All of its Ferocious Beasts above the seventh tier are gone.”
Only then did Xiao Xuan remember that he had wiped out all the seventh- and eighth-tier Ferocious Beasts inside the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
“So that’s why you were able to earn so many points. You killed all the Ferocious Beasts in there!”
At that, Mu Xiying finally understood.
That made sense. Only by doing something like that could someone obtain such a terrifying reward in points. Why had she never thought of that before?
Then again, even if she had thought of it, she probably would not have done it.
Because if she had, the danger she faced would have skyrocketed.
The stronger her talent became, the more terrifying the assassination attempts against her would become.
In the era she came from, she had suffered countless assassination attempts.
Several times, she had nearly died. If she had reached the heights Xiao Xuan had now, then by the time she returned to the future, her past self in this era probably would have already been killed.
After all, she did not possess a Teleportation trait like Xiao Xuan’s.
“I did the math. If you used my method, then because your realm is higher than mine, the points you’d earn would probably only be a tenth of what I got.”
“So it’s better that I clear everything out in one go and maximize the profit. Wouldn’t you agree?”
Xiao Xuan explained with a smile.
As for whether he had stolen Mu Xiying’s spotlight, that was not even worth mentioning. If Mu Xiying cared about hollow fame like that, then the current number one on the Heaven Ranking would have already been beaten into submission by her.
“That’s true. This way, when I return to the future, the me of this timeline will be safer. You thought it through very carefully.”
Mu Xiying nodded.
“In that case, the next thing you and I need to do is refine the Godfall Poison. Originally, I was planning to first strengthen my Life-Bound Poison.”
“But now there isn’t enough time.”
At that moment, Xiao Xuan spoke with some helplessness.
The main issue was that he had spent a full three days clearing the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
The time they originally had truly was no longer enough. Now they could only wait.
Mu Xiying simply nodded.
After that, the two of them arrived at Imperial Capital University’s marketplace.
The goods there far surpassed anything at Nanhai University by an unknown margin, and even tenth-tier items were listed for sale.
And those tenth-tier goods were precisely what they were after: the materials needed to refine Godfall Poison.
“Sister Ying, I don’t understand herbs or medicinal ingredients at all. Here, take these 60 million points. You can choose what we need. If there’s anything left over, buy whatever you want with it.”
After a moment of thought, Xiao Xuan directly transferred 60 million points to Mu Xiying.
Of course, he knew perfectly well how to refine Godfall Poison.
In fact, refining it himself would have been easy.
But he had other matters to handle, so he left the job of refining the poison to Mu Xiying.
“All right!”
Mu Xiying did not hesitate and immediately began searching through the materials.
In the end, after spending 6 million points, she finally gathered enough materials for three batches of Godfall Poison.
That was right—three batches.
In other words, one batch cost 2 million points, which was equivalent to 20 billion in value.
Of course, that was Imperial Capital University’s internal price. If those materials were sold outside, they would fetch at least several hundred billion.
And that was only because, although the ingredients were tenth-tier, they were not considered especially rare among tenth-tier materials. They were common enough that the price could still be brought down.
Naturally, the reason they were so cheap was because another special requirement existed when purchasing them: a Clearance Permission!
Clearing the Heaven-Reaching Tower granted these permissions.
The exact number depended on the challenge difficulty, with a minimum of one and no upper limit.
Each batch of materials consumed one such permission.
Since Xiao Xuan’s challenge difficulty had been unprecedentedly terrifying, he had been given ten Clearance Permissions.
Thus, exchanging for those three sets of ingredients directly cost him three of them.
“So 100 million points really is a lot. You can buy quite a few things with it.”
Xiao Xuan could not help marveling.
“Unrefined materials are naturally cheap. But once they’ve been made into finished pills, even if the price rises tenfold or dozens of times, that’s completely normal.”
“All right, I’m taking these back to refine the poison. You keep shopping.”
After saying that to Xiao Xuan, Mu Xiying left directly.
What Mu Xiying did not say was that Xiao Xuan needed to return as soon as possible. Otherwise, by the time she finished refining Godfall Poison, he would only have time to see Mu Xiying’s corpse.
Of course, Xiao Xuan naturally understood that as well.
“AI Core, connect to the main marketplace AI Core of Imperial Capital University, then list all items here that can absorb elemental power. One for each element, and find the cheapest ones!”
“Also, search for items that can trap people inside them like a formation.”
“Preferably something with its own separate dimension, like a storage ring, but it must be capable of storing living beings!”
Xiao Xuan then stated the main purpose of coming here.
“Yes, Master. Your request has already been matched successfully!”
“In addition, I have selected the most suitable and least expensive item that has its own separate dimension and can store living beings!”
“Please take a look.”
Silverwing AI Core had already been upgraded by Xiao Xuan to high silver rank, so its intelligence was beyond question.
In fact, it was already comparable to the strongest AI Core of the human race. The only reason it had not surpassed it was because its rank was still lower. If Silverwing AI Core were brought to the same tenth-tier level, it would absolutely crush humanity’s most powerful AI Core.
In the next instant, information on an item appeared before Xiao Xuan.
But the moment he saw the red-and-white spherical icon in front of him, Xiao Xuan was completely dumbstruck!
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Equipment: Poké Ball
Rank: Peak Sixth Tier
Base Stats: Tenth Heaven of the Martial King Realm
Traits:
【Inner World! Blue】 (Can contain living beings up to the Tenth Heaven of the Martial King Realm, with talent not exceeding blue rank! Capacity: 10 lifeforms)
【Beast Pet Growth! Blue】 (Lifeforms stored within this space grow 30 times faster)
Description: The painstaking masterpiece of an artifact master who was an avid Pokémon fan. Unfortunately, materials with spatial properties capable of storing living beings are far too rare.
In the end, that artifact master could only forge a Peak Sixth-Tier Poké Ball—and only one at that. A unique treasure in the world.
Exchange Value: 1 million points!
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“Good lord, even a Poké Ball showed up. And why is the price this ridiculous?”
“If this amount were spent directly on weapons or battle armor, it would buy at least eighth-tier or even ninth-tier gear.”
“If it were spent on raw materials, it could buy ingredients for tenth-tier pills!”
Xiao Xuan was utterly speechless.
1 million points was equivalent to half a batch of Godfall Poison materials.
Still, this seemed to be the only Poké Ball of its kind. There was nothing lower-tier that matched it.
Xiao Xuan did not waste any words and bought it directly.
Very soon, an object identical to the Poké Ball from anime a thousand years ago was delivered into Xiao Xuan’s hands.
Of course, in addition to that Poké Ball, more than twenty other weapons were delivered as well.
Most of them were Element Orbs.
Xiao Xuan glanced through them and saw that every element he needed was present.
For example, the absorption traits for metal, wood, water, fire, earth, frost, wind, light, darkness, and lightning. He already had fire and lightning.
There were also absorption traits for many advanced elements.
However, one special absorption trait caught Xiao Xuan’s attention.
【Bloodthirst! Green】 (Can absorb blood to rapidly restore consumed stamina and rapidly increase one’s strength.)
That was right. It was the Bloodthirst trait!
It had been extracted from a vampiric sword.
That sword could quickly raise its own rank by devouring and absorbing blood.
But once something like that was placed on Xiao Xuan, it became far more powerful.
“If I stack all of these absorption traits together, then even without the system, my strength will still rise quickly!”
“And I can save Eco Points too. Time to upgrade them first!”
Without another word, Xiao Xuan extracted all those absorption traits.
And now that he had more than enough Eco Points, he did not hesitate at all. He directly upgraded every one of them to gold rank!
Boom!
However, the moment all the absorption traits were poured into Xiao Xuan’s body, a mutation occurred!
Whenever an absorption-type trait appeared, it condensed into a large vortex within Xiao Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness!
That vortex could rapidly absorb that corresponding energy from heaven and earth.
Originally, there had only been three or four such vortices.
But as their number continued to grow, those vortices actually began fusing together.
More precisely, it was the elemental vortices that fused.
Those traits rapidly merged into one another, eventually turning into a massive vortex flashing with more than twenty colors.
At the same time, Xiao Xuan felt countless elemental motes from heaven and earth pouring wildly into his body.
Even spatial power did the same!
At that moment, Xiao Xuan discovered that the recovery speed of his spatial power had become ten thousand times faster than before.
It had to be understood that spatial power recovered extremely slowly.
In the future, it was precisely because his spatial power recovered so slowly that he ultimately exhausted himself, was caught by the Evil God and the black fog, and was killed!
And now, the passive absorption speed had become ten thousand times faster.
Of course, although the absorption speed had increased by ten thousand times, there was not that much spatial power drifting in the surrounding space to begin with.
Very quickly, all the surrounding elements were sucked dry by Xiao Xuan.
[Congratulations, all elemental absorption traits have undergone fusion! You have obtained a brand-new trait: 【Element Absorption! Gold】]
【Element Absorption! Gold】 (A fusion trait formed from most elemental absorption traits!
Can accelerate the absorption of all elemental power in heaven and earth!
Absorption speed ×10,000!
As long as it is an elemental power and you possess the corresponding elemental control trait, the absorption speed will increase by 10,000 times!)
Very soon, an explanation of the new trait entered Xiao Xuan’s mind.
The moment he saw that, his eyes lit up.
“So they fused. Does that mean that in the future, if I want to upgrade my absorption-type traits, I’ll only need to upgrade this one Element Absorption trait?”
Xiao Xuan instantly grew excited.
That would let him save a massive amount of Eco Points.
It was undoubtedly a very good thing!
Moreover, Xiao Xuan discovered that his Soul Devouring trait and the Bloodthirst trait he had just obtained had also fused into the vortex.
“So it seems soul power also counts as a type of elemental power!”
“And judging by its rank, it’s not low either. It’s also a high-level element!”
“As for Bloodthirst, it should belong to the so-called blood element, right?”
“These are all elemental powers too, which is a good thing. At the very least, it means I’ll spend fewer Eco Points in the future.”
“And most importantly, for some elements where I can’t find a matching absorption trait, I can still use Element Absorption to increase their absorption speed.”
“For example, Divine Power and Demonic Power.”
“Right, speaking of Divine Power!”
“Should I absorb this Four-Winged Angel Bloodline?”
At that moment, Xiao Xuan looked at the gold-glowing trait and hesitated.
It was a new bloodline, and an extremely powerful one.
If he fused with it, would he still remain himself?
For example, with the Blade Demon Bloodline and the Dark Demon-Devouring Bloodline, he had never expected that fusing those two would produce the Shadow Demon God Bloodline and trigger demonization.
The moment that thought arose, Xiao Xuan naturally became hesitant.
If he changed into something that was no longer himself, then things would become troublesome.
If he could stay lucid for a while, then he could still remove the bloodline from his Trait Slot.
But what if he never regained clarity and was completely demonized instead?
Wouldn’t that be throwing himself away for nothing?
“It looks like I’ll have to test it in the future.”
Very quickly, Xiao Xuan made his decision.
Once he entered the Time Rift, although the Xiao Xuan of that point in time would lose the Scavenger trait, he would still be able to draw stored traits out of the Recycle Bin and use them.
However, after using them, he would no longer be able to strip them back out, nor pick up other people’s traits!
That was precisely why, after demonizing in the future, even when he briefly regained consciousness, he was never able to recover completely.
Thus, after returning from the future this time, Xiao Xuan had directly stripped away his Dark Demon-Devouring Body for the time being.
Even though that Dark Demon-Devouring Body had an extremely high growth ceiling, the present-day him still could not use it.
“I should finish building my prison first.”
No longer dwelling on that issue, Xiao Xuan directly tore both traits out of the Poké Ball and embedded them into his body.
At the same time, he upgraded both traits to gold rank.
And after this round of upgrades, his Eco Points were nearly bottomed out.
Boom!!!!
In an instant, a terrifying aura erupted deep within Xiao Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness. As that aura burst forth,
an entirely new space appeared within it.
This space was much smaller than his storage space from before.
However, unlike the storage space, which contained nothing at all, this one gradually began evolving into a continent.
Grasslands even began to grow across it in patches!
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[You have spent 20 billion Eco Points and obtained the traits 【Small World! Gold】 and 【Divine Beast Evolution! Gold】]
【Small World! Gold】 (Can contain living beings up to the Tenth Heaven of the Supreme Realm, with talent not exceeding gold rank! Capacity: 1,000 lifeforms)
【Divine Beast Evolution! Gold】 (Can increase the growth speed of designated contracted lifeforms by 1,000 times!)
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Looking at the description of those two traits, Xiao Xuan’s eyes flickered.
Originally, he had intended to use this living-being storage space to imprison talented geniuses, then torture them until they rapidly dropped large quantities of traits.
He had never expected to gain a completely new talent like Divine Beast Evolution!
“This talent sounds pretty good. If I combine it with Small World, then wouldn’t I be able to become an extremely powerful Beast Tamer?”
“And the kind who can carry a thousand super-powerful beast pets at all times!?”
At that thought, Xiao Xuan’s eyes lit up.
This Divine Beast Evolution required designated contracted lifeforms!
Which meant he needed Beast Tamer-type traits.
“Beast Tamer, huh? I remember Imperial Capital University has a Beast Tamer Department, right? But snatching one directly here would be a bit too brazen, wouldn’t it?”
“Then again, I’m already planning to kill even Ouyang Xun, so why should I care?”
The moment Xiao Xuan thought of that, he smiled. Then he directly activated Teleportation and disappeared from the spot!
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Imperial Capital University!
On the training plaza of the Beast Tamer Department, a group of newly admitted students listened attentively as an old man standing atop a flaming dragon lectured them.
That dragon was enormous, and the aura radiating from it was enough to shake even ordinary Martial Thearchs to the core!
That old man was none other than Huaxia’s strongest Beast Tamer—Murong Xuantian.
He possessed the gold trait 【Dragon Tamer】.
“All of you are the top Beast Tamers of Huaxia!”
“Beast Tamer is the strongest profession in this world, but it is also the most difficult one!”
“It is powerful because, with the same rank and the same talent, a human’s strength is usually inferior to that of a Ferocious Beast.”
“But because Ferocious Beasts grow extremely slowly, it is also the most difficult profession!”
“Still, you need not lose heart. As long as they are properly nurtured and fed some heavenly treasures, Ferocious Beasts can still grow quite quickly!”
“Our Imperial Capital University has prepared a batch of Ferocious Beasts with extremely good talent for all of you!”
“These Ferocious Beasts all possess silver talent and can accompany you to the very end.”
Murong Xuantian looked at the students before him, then pointed toward the Ferocious Beast cubs in the iron cages below.
All of these cubs had silver talent.
However, some only possessed a single silver trait, and it might even be a support-type one.
Others had four or five silver traits, some of which could even stack.
Of course, no one could directly inspect what specific talents a Ferocious Beast had. Their talents could only be discovered once they entered combat.
But since beast cubs had not yet fully developed their talents, it all came down to luck.
“Whoever I call, come up one by one! First—Luo Qingya!”
At the old man’s shout, a stunningly beautiful young girl stepped out from the crowd.
The moment the male students around her saw Luo Qingya, every one of them felt their eyes light up.
It was the first time they had ever seen such a beautiful girl.
“Student Luo, you are the future of our Beast Tamer Department!”
“As the second prodigy in nearly the past thousand years of our human race to possess a gold Beast Tamer trait, we have very high hopes for you.”
“This is a Ferocious Beast I personally selected for you.”
“It has a greater chance of developing top-tier talent. Would you like to choose it?”
Looking at Luo Qingya, Murong Xuantian smiled broadly as he pointed toward an earth drake sleeping in the corner.
Although it was only an earth drake, it belonged to the strongest branch of the earth drake clan.
Its mother had been a powerful tenth-tier Ferocious Beast that possessed four silver traits.
This young earth drake would, at the very least, possess two or more silver traits of its own.
The moment Murong Xuantian said that, all the students present felt their eyes light up, and they stared at the earth drake with fiery longing.
However, among the crowd, another young woman’s eyes filled with endless hatred.
“Why should Luo Qingya receive treatment like this? First place should have been mine. Why did she have to appear?”
“And you, old bastard Murong—am I not your own granddaughter?”
“Then why isn’t the best Ferocious Beast being given to me?”
This girl was named Murong Wanting.
She was Murong Xuantian’s granddaughter.
From childhood, she had awakened powerful beast-taming talents, and as a favored daughter of heaven, she had originally been the undisputed number one genius of the Beast Tamer Department.
Yet who could have expected Luo Qingya to appear halfway through?
Naturally, that filled her with furious resentment.
“Thank you very much, Teacher Murong!”
Luo Qingya also thanked Murong Xuantian sincerely.
Then she walked up to that earth drake.
The earth drake slowly opened its eyes. The moment it saw Luo Qingya, it tilted its head, then, without the slightest hesitation, directly lay down on the ground in a submissive posture.
That only made the surrounding people even more envious and bitter!
“Damn it, being beautiful is enough to make a Ferocious Beast throw itself at you?”
“Wuwuwu, why can’t I get this kind of treatment? That’s a Ferocious Beast with silver talent, and it surrendered after one glance?”
“With a face like yours, that’s probably never going to happen in this lifetime.”