36: Chapter 36: 10,000 Magic Points Fusion! An SSS-Rank Ring is Born!
Lin Feng returned to his apartment, closed the door, and let out a long sigh of relief.
He walked to the center of the living room and plopped down on the sofa, feeling as if every bone in his body was about to fall apart.
Although the golden tower soul had brought him 100,000 health and mana, the continuous battles and high-intensity exertion had left him mentally exhausted.
"I'll sleep first and talk later."
Lin Feng collapsed onto the sofa and closed his eyes.
But he couldn't sleep.
His mind was like a movie, flashing through everything that had happened today.
The ambush by the Blood Wolf Group, the nine floors of combat in the Ancient Trial Tower, the test of the heart in the Hidden Trial, the Fusion with the golden tower soul, the death of Blood Wolf...
"My strength is still not enough," Lin Feng muttered to himself.
If he hadn't had the golden tower soul today, even if he could have won, it would have been a pyrrhic victory.
If the Blood Wolf Group had a few more experts, or if the Zhou Family had sent powerful fighters directly...
"I must improve as quickly as possible!"
Lin Feng sat up, a look of determination flashing in his eyes.
He pulled the seventeen heavenly pride imprints out of his Storage Pouch and laid them out on the floor.
The seventeen badges shimmered with various colors under the light: the purple of thunder, the green of life, the gold of diamond, the azure of wind spirit, the blue of frost...
Each one represented a Genius who once shone brightly.
"Fusion."
Lin Feng held his hands together over the seventeen imprints on the floor.
[Fusion Materials detected: heavenly pride imprints ×17]
[Special Material Fusion]
[Minimum cost: 500 × 17 = 85,000 mana]
[Maximum cost: 500,000 × 17 = 8,500,000 mana]
[Warning: heavenly pride imprint Fusion carries extremely high risk, potentially causing Physique conflict and resulting in body explosion]
"Starts at eighty-five thousand... caps at eight and a half million?" Lin Feng's lip twitched.
He currently had 100,000 mana, which was enough for the minimum cost.
But the risk warning was terrifying—body explosion.
"Let's do it!"
Lin Feng gritted his teeth and chose the minimum 85,000 mana.
Buzz—
The seventeen imprints floated up simultaneously, hovering in mid-air.
They began to spin, faster and faster, finally transforming into seventeen streams of light of various colors.
The light streams intertwined, collided, and fused in the air.
In the living room, various elemental energies began to riot.
The crackle of thunder, the roar of fire, the freezing of frost, the howling of wind...
Lin Feng felt as if his body was a battlefield as various elemental energies flooded in frantically.
The Glorious Corona Physique reacted violently, golden light erupting from his body as it attempted to suppress the other elements.
But the other elements were not to be outdone, resisting frantically.
"Ugh..." Lin Feng let out a muffled groan, feeling like his body was being torn apart.
This was the Physique conflict!
His Radiance Sun Crown Physique was of a pure light attribute, while the heavenly pride imprints contained various attributes like thunder, fire, ice, wind, life, and diamond.
These attributes rampaged through his body like a herd of wild horses.
"Fuse... for me!"
Lin Feng clenched his teeth, desperately channeling the power of the golden tower soul.
Golden light erupted from his chest, forming a vortex that began to devour the other elements frantically.
This process lasted for a full ten minutes.
When the last trace of foreign elements was devoured, the seventeen lights finally fused completely.
They turned into a sphere of Chaos-colored light.
The light sphere slowly descended, automatically attaching itself to the back of Lin Feng's left hand.
A sharp pain followed.
Lin Feng looked down to see a complex rune imprint on the back of his hand.
The imprint was woven from seventeen colors, looking like a miniature Universe.
[Fusion Successful]
[Obtained: All-Element Affinity Imprint (SSS-Rank)]
[Effect 1: Aside from light element at 99%, all other element affinities are increased to 1%]
[Effect 2: Element affinities can be continuously improved by absorbing corresponding element essences]
[Effect 3: Success rate +5% and skill effect +20% when learning multi-attribute skills]
[Effect 4: mana can be consumed to temporarily simulate any elemental attribute (lasts 1 minute)]
[Description: A Fusion of seventeen heavenly pride Physique essences, breaking the limitations of a single element and possessing infinite evolution potential]
"All-Element Affinity?!" Lin Feng's eyes widened.
The Radiance Sun Crown Physique gave him a natural light element affinity of over 99%, which was an advantage but also a limitation.
He could only learn light-attribute skills and found it difficult to master skills of other attributes.
But now, his affinity for all elements was 1%!
Although not high, it meant he could now learn skills of other attributes!
Furthermore, he could continuously improve them by absorbing element essences!
"Is this... the feeling of breaking limitations?"
Lin Feng closed his eyes and sensed through the Eye of the Elements.
In the air, red fire elements, blue water elements, brown earth elements, azure wind elements, purple thunder elements...
Previously, these elements had ignored him, but now they felt much friendlier.
While not as easy to command as the light element, he could at least sense them now.
"Too powerful..." Lin Feng's hands were shaking with excitement.
In an instant, his potential had been infinitely magnified!
He was no longer limited to the light attribute but could develop in all systems!
"If I can also learn the old man's Essence Blood Tempering Method..." Lin Feng's eyes flashed with anticipation.
He forced himself to calm down.
The Fusion had consumed 85,000 mana, leaving him with 15,000 points.
However, the golden tower soul came with a mana recovery speed bonus, and combined with the 10% recovery bonus from the holy light wing cloak, he estimated he would be back to full in a few hours.
"Continue!"
Lin Feng pulled out all the purple equipment and enchantment Materials he had obtained in the Dungeon.
Eight pieces of purple equipment: shadow thorn, silverwing longbow, guardians greatshield (already fused into war soul greatshield), flame amulet, Frost Cloak, Thunder Staff, Venom Fang Dagger, and Angel's Feather (already fused into holy light wing cloak).
However, the war soul greatshield and holy light wing cloak were equipment he was currently using and couldn't be touched.
So six remained: shadow thorn, silverwing longbow, flame amulet, Frost Cloak, Thunder Staff, and Venom Fang Dagger.
There were also seven A-Rank enchantment Materials: generals battle soul (used), silverwing enchantment essence, earth enchantment essence, Lava Core, Frost Core, Lightning Essence, and Venom Essence.
Plus two S-Rank Materials: frost essence and Holy Light Essence.
"Let's try a hodgepodge Fusion!"
Lin Feng piled all these items together and activated his Talent.
[Fusion Materials detected: Purple equipment ×6, A-Rank Materials ×6, S-Rank Materials ×2]
[Warning: Fusion of multi-type and multi-attribute items carries extremely high risk, failure rate 8%]
[Minimum cost: 10,000 mana]
[Maximum cost: 1,000,000 mana]
"Starts at ten thousand... caps at ten million?" Lin Feng sucked in a breath of cold air.
But he currently had 100,000 mana, which was just enough for the minimum cost.
As for the 8% failure rate...
"I have the golden tower soul with me, my luck shouldn't be too bad, right?" Lin Feng comforted himself.
"Fusion!"
Buzz—
All the items floated up simultaneously, spinning frantically in the air.
Lights of various colors intertwined like a knocked-over paint palette.
The red of fire, the blue of frost, the purple of lightning, the green of venom, the gold of Holy Light, the silver of ice...
The light grew brighter and more dazzling.
The temperature in the living room fluctuated, one moment like a furnace, the next like an ice cellar.
Lin Feng watched the Fusion process nervously.
He could feel that this Fusion was much more difficult than the previous one.
Materials of various attributes repelled and conflicted with each other like a group of mortal enemies fighting.
"Merge... for me!"
Lin Feng gritted his teeth and poured in all his remaining mana.
At the same time, the power of the golden tower soul was mobilized, and golden light joined the fray, beginning to forcibly harmonize the various attributes.
Ten minutes.
Twenty minutes.
Half an hour.
Just as Lin Feng was about to give out, all the light suddenly retracted.
An item slowly descended.
It was a ring.
A pure white band set with a rainbow gemstone.
Inside the gemstone, it seemed as if stars were spinning and elements were flowing.
The ring landed in Lin Feng's palm, feeling warm to the touch.
[Fusion Successful (Miracle Probability triggered)]
[Obtained: wanxiang ring (Pseudo-Gold)]
[Quality: SSS-Rank]
[Effect 1: Storage space 100 cubic meters (can hold living things)]
[Effect 2: mana recovery speed +50%]
[Effect 3: All-Element Affinity +2%]
[Effect 4: Obtain passive skill 'Elemental Shield' (automatically generates an all-element shield that can absorb 1,000 damage)]
[Effect 5: Obtain active skill 'Elemental Simulation' (can simulate any elemental attribute attack, lasts 3 seconds)]
[Effect 6: Obtain active skill 'Void Walk' (short-distance spatial movement, 1-minute cooldown)]
[Effect 7: Obtain active skill 'Myriad Manifestation Summon' (randomly summons an Elemental Spirit to assist in battle, lasts 5 minutes)]
[Rank Requirement: None]
[Bound: Lin Feng (cannot be dropped, cannot be traded)]
[Description: A miraculous Fusion product, containing the power of creation and destruction]
"Another SSS-Rank?!" Lin Feng's voice cracked.
And these effects—
100 cubic meters of storage space? And it can hold living things?
mana recovery speed plus 50%? Added to the holy light wing cloak's 100%, that's 600%!
All-Element Affinity plus another 2%? His light element affinity was now 90%, other element affinities were 10%, and with this 20% it would be 30%!
Elemental Shield, Elemental Simulation, Void Walk, Myriad Manifestation Summon...
"This... this is too broken..." Lin Feng's hands were shaking.
He tremblingly put on the ring.
Buzz—
The ring automatically adjusted its size, fitting his finger perfectly.
Instantly, he felt a vast power surge into his body.
His mana recovery speed skyrocketed!
mana that originally took several hours to refill would now likely take only a dozen minutes!
Moreover, his perception of the elements became clearer.
Every element in the air felt like a friend, ready to be called upon at any time.
"Is this... the power of SSS-Rank equipment?" Lin Feng muttered to himself.
He looked at his left hand; on the back was the All-Element Affinity Imprint, and on his finger was the wanxiang ring.
"As long as I have enough mana, I could practically create a world..."
At this moment, Lin Feng truly felt the terror of his Talent.
Fusion was not just 1+1=2.
It could create miracles!
After the excitement passed, Lin Feng calmed down.
"There are still many problems now."
He counted them on his fingers.
First, Wang Hao.
That guy was at the academy and was likely growing rapidly now. With his narrow-minded personality, he would come looking for trouble sooner or later.
Second, the Zhou Family.
The Zhou Family certainly wouldn't let Blood Wolf's death slide. Although Zhao Tianhai said he would mediate, it was unknown how long he could stall.
Third, the old man's apprenticeship requirement.
Enter the Rank 1 Secret Realm [Desert Golden Sea] and return alive. His Rank was high enough now, but how to get there? How to enter? He had no clue.
Fourth, the shop.
It was closed down and needed to be reopened. Pan Jingjing and the others were still waiting for news.
Fifth, Chen Lin.
His girlfriend hadn't been in touch for several days, and he was a bit worried.
Lin Feng pulled out his phone and sent a message to Chen Lin.
[Lin Feng: Are you there? How have you been lately?]
He waited for a few minutes, but there was no reply.
"Maybe she's participating in an academy mission," Lin Feng comforted himself.
He put away his phone and looked out the window.
The sky was already brightening.
A new day had begun.
"I'll go talk to the old man first."
Lin Feng stood up and stretched his muscles.
He changed into clean clothes and equipped the wanxiang ring, war soul greatshield, and holy light wing cloak.
His appearance was now somewhat strange—a white cloak, a greatshield in his left hand, nothing in his right hand, but a colored imprint on the back of his hand and a rainbow ring on his finger.
"Whatever, I don't care."
Lin Feng pushed open the door and stepped out.
He was going to find that mysterious White-haired Old Man.
To ask clearly how exactly one enters the [Desert Golden Sea] Secret Realm.
And... the Essence Blood Tempering Method.
The youth walked down the early morning street, the sunlight spilling over him and casting a long shadow.
The imprint on the back of his hand glowed faintly, as if foretelling the beginning of something.