65: Chapter 64 Crazy Upgrade!
Lin Mo quickened his pace.
The White Calamity swarmed frantically like moths to a flame, its density a hundred times greater than before.
With every breath, he inhaled thousands of tiny organisms.
They burrowed into his nasal passages, ear canals, and pores.
The experience numbers on his retina were no longer "jumping"; they were pouring down like a waterfall.
The corners of Lin Mo's mouth began to curl upward.
He walked even faster.
Outside the school gates, the density of the white mist had reached a point where he couldn't see his own hand in front of his face.
Unconscious students lay scattered all over the ground, their faces as pale as paper.
Lin Mo strode over them, walking deeper and further.
Until everything around him was white.
An endless expanse of white.
The phantom of Lin Yao above his head was already a weeping mess, desperately pounding on the back of Lin Mo's head.
"Are you crazy?! Go back!! Please, I beg you, go back!!"
"If you die, I'll die too, waaaaah..."
"Be quiet."
Lin Mo patted the top of his head.
"The White Calamity has no effect on me. Just stay calm."
"If you keep being noisy, I'll throw you out!"
Hearing Lin Mo's threat, Lin Yao finally stopped with some whimpering.
Lin Mo suddenly grinned.
The smile spread from the corners of his mouth to his eyes—the kind of irrepressible smile one has upon discovering a treasure.
The phantom of Lin Yao above his head suddenly saw Lin Mo smile, and her body went numb.
"What... what are you smiling at?"
Lin Mo didn't answer.
He was thinking about something.
Contact between the White Calamity and his skin triggered the Magic Armor's Block, granting talent experience each time.
This meant it was essentially performing a "damage check" on him.
Since it was a damage check—
What about Life Spring?
The condition for this passive skill to gain experience was to perform an attack.
Every time it triggered, it would gain skill experience.
This heaven-defying effect was only useful for Lin Mo.
Because Lin Mo possessed system divine power, he received a minimum experience guarantee for every trigger.
Others might be bitten to death without gaining even a few points of experience.
"In that case..."
Lin Mo took a deep breath, raised his hand, and looked at the Platinum Longsword.
He thought of the two new skills he had learned after reaching Level 90.
[Double Jump (Level 1): Allows for an additional jump in mid-air. (Each level increases jump speed by 2%)]
[Cost: 10 Mana]
[Cooldown: None]
[Whirlwind Slash (Level 1): Rotate the weapon at high speed to deal continuous strikes to enemies.]
[Damage Multiplier: Each hit deals physical damage equal to 80% of Attack Power. Each level adds 5% to the damage multiplier.]
[Cost: 100 Mana]
[Cooldown: 5 seconds]
Whirlwind Slash was an area-of-effect skill.
With himself as the center, the blade swept through everything in the vicinity.
If he used Whirlwind Slash in this sea of White Calamity...
How much experience could he gain in one go?
Lin Mo did not hesitate.
He gripped the Platinum Longsword tightly and pushed off the ground with sudden force.
Whirlwind Slash!
The blade sliced through the air, trailing a visible silver arc of light.
Lin Mo started spinning around like Garen!
The blade cut into the white mist.
Like a high-speed spinning top!
Millions of White Calamity organisms contacted his body and weapon simultaneously the moment the blade swept past, triggering a massive number of damage checks.
The numbers on his retina were no longer a waterfall.
They were a flood.
[Whirlwind Slash skill experience +1,000,000]
[Whirlwind Slash skill experience +1,000,000]
[Whirlwind Slash skill experience +1,000,000]
[Whirlwind Slash leveled up! Current Level: 47...]
[Whirlwind Slash leveled up! Current Level: 98...]
[Whirlwind Slash leveled up! Current Level: 100...]
The moment it broke through Level 100, a golden notification popped up in the center of his retina.
[Whirlwind Slash reached Level 100, gaining its first advancement effect—]
[Storm Derivation: Using Whirlwind Slash generates a large-scale Blade Storm. The greater the power, the larger the storm. Damage is 50% of the original damage.]
Lin Mo spun faster and faster.
The Platinum Longsword pulled a dense silver light curtain through the white mist, grinding the White Calamity within a ten-meter radius into dust with the sword wind.
But more White Calamity organisms swarmed frantically to fill the void.
They knew no fear or pain, only instinctively pouncing on everything living.
For Lin Mo, this was an inexhaustible experience mine.
The level of Whirlwind Slash soared at a rate of several hundred levels per second.
Level 320.
Level 650.
The sword in Lin Mo's hand hadn't stopped yet.
The Blade Storm arrived.
With him at the center, a silver-white cyclone over fifty meters in diameter rose from the ground. The gale expanded outward from him, moving so fast the air itself shrieked.
The White Calamity was swept up by the storm, billions of tiny organisms pulled into the cyclone like cotton lint, where they were ground into powder by the high-speed rotating sword qi.
But every White Calamity organism ground to death contributed a portion of Whirlwind Slash experience and a portion of Life Spring experience to Lin Mo.
Level 789.
Level 999.
Whirlwind Slash broke through Level 1000 within ten seconds, and a second golden notification popped up.
[Whirlwind Slash reached Level 1000, gaining its second advancement effect—]
[Blade Domain: Using Whirlwind Slash generates a Blade Domain. All hostile targets within the domain take continuous damage.]
Buzz—
A low-pitched vibration exploded from beneath Lin Mo's feet.
The silver-white storm no longer required him to swing his sword to maintain it.
It operated autonomously, centered on Lin Mo, and expanded rapidly.
One hundred meters.
Three hundred meters.
Five hundred meters!
A giant Blade Domain with a diameter of over one kilometer took shape.
The overwhelming White Calamity was pulled into the wind wall of the domain, turning into dust within.
Level 2000 Whirlwind Slash!
Level 3000 Whirlwind Slash!
Level 4000 Whirlwind Slash!
The white sea of mist that originally shrouded the entire campus was being devoured, torn apart, and cleared by the storm at a visible rate.
Lin Yao's phantom hung above Lin Mo's head, her entire being stunned.
She watched the growing storm vortex beneath her, saw countless wisps of white mist being pulled in and then annihilated.
She opened her mouth several times, but not a single word came out.
Meanwhile, Lin Mo was focused on another set of data.
Life Spring.
Under the dual enhancement of the White Calamity sea and the storm domain, the experience for this passive skill surged like water-injected pork.
Because its trigger condition was too simple—it triggered as long as an attack was performed.
[Life Spring leveled up! Current Level: 4200...]
[Life Spring leveled up! Current Level: 6750...]
[Life Spring leveled up! Current Level: 18,901...]
Level 18,901 Life Spring!!!
All stats +18,901.
Max HP +1,890,100.
It was simply terrifyingly powerful!!!
Lin Mo glanced down at his status panel, the corner of his mouth curving into an arc.
The storm was still expanding.
The White Calamity receded like a tide, revealing the unconscious students lying scattered across the school gate plaza.
Without the continuous erosion of the White Calamity, their complexions were slowly recovering.
Lin Mo sheathed the Platinum Longsword, and the Blade Domain moved along with him.
Just then—Lin Mo suddenly felt a wave of weakness wash over him.
He realized that his Mana had been drained completely dry by the Blade Domain!
Good grief!
A consumption of 10,000 Mana per second!