523: A quest for materials to be used to transport the Sky-Patrol Clan! The clan chief is in a panic!

[Buzz!]

[Congratulations! You have triggered a special mission: Shell Material!]

[Shell Material: You have successfully intercepted 10 million Second-Turn Professionals who were illegally hunted by the Xuntian Clan Patriarch's faction within the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect Dungeon.

Although their souls have been extracted and their Skills and Talents plundered, these Survivors are still extremely valuable shells for soul hosts to seize.

Mission Requirement: Transport the shells of these 10 million Second-Turn Professionals to the Mist Survivors Guild and hand them over to Guild Master Qingfeng!]

[Mission Reward: 10 Quadrillion Guild Contribution Points! 1 Class talent awakening scroll!]

[Mission Failure Penalty: Deprivation of 1,000 years of Lifespan]

[Note: This mission carries a certain degree of danger. You may face censure from the Xuntian Clan. Please be careful to avoid risk!]

Su Lie looked at the prompt before him, a flash of light in his eyes: "There's danger?"

He picked up the storage ring in his hand and muttered softly, "Could this thing still have a mark on it?"

"I killed the Xuntian Clan's Exploration Team... If a hidden power is branded onto the killer after their death, allowing the clan to identify the killer through the mark, then this point is completely useless to me, who possesses the 'i am not a resource' achievement!"

"the rules wouldn't give a random warning!"

"In that case!"

"The crisis must be coming from the storage ring!"

Thinking of this,

he immediately transferred all 10 million sleeping Survivors from the newly acquired storage ring into the storage slots provided by his Backpack Talent.

After completing the operation,

Su Lie casually tossed the ring aside.

Only then did he take out a Spirit Cleansing Fruit and start eating.

After eating and drinking his fill,

Su Lie looked at the Purple Heaven Longevity Scripture cultivation technique again: "This technique must be cultivated every day! Each cultivation session grants a boost!"

"I wonder if I can achieve the same results while inside the Dungeon as I can in the Mist Main World!"

Thinking of this,

he decided to give it a try.

Immediately,

Su Lie extracted a wisp of Mysterious Yellow Energy.

This wisp of Mysterious Yellow Energy cost him 1 point of Mysterious Yellow Energy value.

Following this,

after he circulated the Purple Heaven Longevity Scripture,

this wisp of Mysterious Yellow Energy was absorbed by the Purple Heaven Longevity Scripture.

Immediately afterward,

Su Lie felt a sudden heat surge within his body.

His personal panel automatically popped up.

He saw that

all his major attribute values had increased by 10 million points each.

[Life: 61 Trillion 16 Million; Spirit: 61 Trillion 16 Million; Endurance: Infinite; Speed: 10 Trillion 100 Billion 16 Million;]

[Charm: 10 Trillion 100 Billion 16 Million; Luck: 110 Trillion 16 Million; Majesty: 10 Trillion 16 Million; Command: 10 Trillion 16 Million]

[Strength: 12 Trillion 16 Million; Intelligence: 11 Trillion 16 Million]

[Thunder Affinity: 6,000 Trillion 11 Billion points; Thunder Control: 6,100 Trillion 10 Billion points (Thousand-fold boost applied)]

"Hmm? Thunder Affinity and Thunder Control indeed gained 10 million attribute points, but they were boosted by the Thunder Talent's thousand-fold data increase, raising them to 10 billion points."

Su Lie looked at the information on the panel and nodded silently.

He then looked at his Lifespan.

He saw that his Lifespan had become 2,600,501 years.

"The third function of the Purple Heaven Longevity Scripture is to increase Lifespan by 1 year with every cultivation session!"

Su Lie immediately smiled.

Meanwhile, his Sanity value and Purification value had both recovered to 100 points.

"The second function, which boosts Thunder Skills and Talents by 2 times the base data... that's definitely working too!"

Su Lie then looked at his Thunder and Imperial Thunder Talents. When he saw the data for the two Talents, he smiled happily.

In the data entry for the Thunder Talent boost, Thunder Affinity had increased to 2,000 times; Thunder Control had increased to 2,000 times.

However, the data for the two attributes Su Lie had awakened, Thunder Affinity and Thunder Control, had not changed.

Evidently,

the values of these two attributes were not constantly in a boosted state.

Instead, only newly added values would be boosted by the Talent.

After figuring this out,

he looked at the Imperial Thunder Talent again.

The boost from this Talent had also doubled.

[When manipulating lightning and using Thunder Skills: Your Thunder Affinity increases by 100,000 times, and your Thunder Control increases by 100,000 times;

Thunder Skills gain a 100% critical hit chance, a 100,000-fold damage boost, a 100,000-fold critical damage boost, a 100,000-fold control effect, a 100,000-fold casting speed, and a 100,000-fold counter damage bonus.]

Furthermore, both Talents had the prompt attached: [Purple Heaven Longevity Scripture Boosted 1 Time].

As for the cultivation technique entry,

Purple Heaven Longevity Scripture had changed to Purple Heaven Longevity Scripture (1 Day).

"Is this what it feels like to grow stronger every day?"

Su Lie felt comfortable to the extreme: "Wait! The boost rule for the Purple Heaven Longevity Scripture is from top to bottom—that is, Function 1 first, then Function 2, and finally Function 3! Function 2 is what boosts Skills!"

"In other words, every time I cultivate the Purple Heaven Longevity Scripture, it first boosts attributes, and only then does it boost Thunder Skills and Talents!"

"If that's the case! Shouldn't I find a Thunder Skill to use?"

He currently only had Thunder Divine Abilities, but no Thunder Skills.

Thinking of this,

he began searching through the countless Skill Awakening scrolls in his storage slots.

Before long,

he found over thirty Thunder Skills.

After learning these Skills one by one,

Su Lie took the Thunder Arrow Technique as the primary Skill and merged all the other Thunder Skills into it.

The reason he chose to do this

was because

he had the All Things as Sword Talent, which allowed him to designate this Skill as a Sword Dao Skill.

This way, the Skill would not only benefit from the Thunder Talent's boost but also the Sword Dao Talent's boost.

[Buzz!]

[Congratulations! You have successfully merged the Thunder Arrow Technique Skill!]

[Zodiac Thunder Arrow Technique: Red God-level Quality; the rules Skill;

Instantly condense 12 Thunder-attribute Zodiac arrows through thought and attack the target locked by your Spirit.

Upon hitting the target, inflict 10,000 times your Spirit attribute value as damage.

Additionally, deal Thunder damage equal to 5,000 times your Spirit attribute value to enemies within a 10-kilometer radius centered on the target.

Skill Attack Range: 10,000 kilometers.

Skill Cost: None;

Skill Cast Time: Instantaneous;

the rules Paralysis: All hit targets will fall into a paralyzed state for 60 minutes;

the rules Ultra-High Voltage: All hit targets will be ignited by the ultra-high voltage current released by the Thunder Arrow Technique, causing the targets to suffer internal injuries equal to an additional 1,000 times your Spirit attribute value in damage, and igniting the target for 30 minutes, during which they suffer burning damage equal to 100 times your current Spirit attribute value per second.

Note: This Skill must be awakened with the Thunder Talent to be activated.]

"I merged over thirty ordinary god-tier quality Skills just to fuse a the rules Skill! The cost is slightly high, but the effect is decent! At least it's a zero-cost Skill!"

Su Lie's eyes lit up after reading it.

He immediately couldn't sit still.

Su Lie walked outside the formation.

He looked up at the dense swarm of Flying Maggot Demon Insects overhead, a cold light flashing in his eyes.

Buzz!

Twelve Thunder Arrows, materialized in the form of the twelve Zodiac signs, instantly flashed into existence in front of the pitch-black ruins.

This caused the surrounding Flying Maggot Demon Insects to immediately lock their gaze onto Su Lie.

However,

Su Lie was within the coverage of the ruins' formation barrier and would not attract attacks from the Flying Maggot Demon Insects.

He looked at the twelve Zodiac arrows before him—each about the length of an arm and the thickness of a regular arrow, composed of electric arcs—his eyes filled with curiosity.

The arrowheads of the arrows were shaped like the twelve Zodiac signs.

The twelve Zodiac signs—rat, ox, tiger, pig, dog, chicken, and so on—were also woven from lightning, appearing incredibly lifelike.

While hovering,

the Dog arrow barked furiously at the surrounding Flying Maggot Demon Insects.

The Chicken arrow spread its wings and fanned out several thin streaks of lightning.

The Dragon arrow lazily observed its surroundings, its eyes darting around.

The Tiger arrow, meanwhile, adopted the posture of a fierce tiger pouncing on prey.

They displayed twelve different forms, each unique.

Su Lie observed for a moment before raising his eyes to look at the black cloud formed by the Flying Maggot Demon Insects overhead.

In an instant, the twelve arrows reached the cloud layer.

Under the boost of the Imperial Thunder Talent, these twelve arrows

gained a 100% critical hit chance, 600 Quadrillion damage value, 6,000 Quintillion critical damage, and 6 Septillion counter damage.

At the same time, they also received the boost from the Sword Dao Talent.

This caused the arrows' damage to increase again, turning it into 600 Quintillion points.

The arrows also gained a 10,000-fold attack speed, a 10,000-fold effect enhancement, and 10,000-fold penetration.

This allowed the two rules of the Zodiac Thunder Arrow Technique to also receive a boost.

Among them, the rules Paralysis could cause the target to fall into a paralyzed state for 10,000 hours.

the rules Ultra-High Voltage could cause the target to suffer internal injuries equal to an additional 10 million times Su Lie's current Spirit attribute value in damage, which is 6 Quintillion points of internal injury damage.

And it would ignite the target for 300,000 minutes, causing the target to suffer burning damage equal to 1 million times Su Lie's current attribute value per second, which is 6,000 Quadrillion points of damage.

Such damage was completely overkill in the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect Dungeon.

It was enough to instantly kill the Flying Maggot Demon Insects!

Therefore,

after the arrows flew into the cloud layer, a swath of purple lightning instantly erupted.

The lightning instantly cleared the black cloud formed by the Flying Maggot Demon Insects.

The massive thunderbolts covered a distance of 10 kilometers.

It could be seen clearly even from a great distance.

In a flash,

the light before Su Lie's eyes dimmed.

The surrounding Flying Maggot Demon Insects waited for over an hour before finally filling the empty area, turning the world pitch black once more.

Su Lie had long since returned to the building protected by the formation.

He first looked at his storage slots.

This time, he had harvested a total of 100,000 god-tier basic resource treasure chests, as well as 100,000 Level 9 monster crystals.

"No wonder I couldn't Identify the Demon Insect's panel; it turns out they are Demon Insects above Level 90!"

Su Lie's eyelid twitched.

He looked at the Experience Orb.

He had gained a total of 200,000 experience points from this killing spree.

"Although it doesn't have the sheer power of the dragon flame shotgun, the might of this sky-filling lightning is truly magnificent!"

Su Lie couldn't help but comment.

At the same time,

inside a secret room in the Xuntian Tower.

Lei Carp couldn't help but frown slightly. He asked Reap again, "Are you sure? Were you the only one in the monitoring room at the time?"

"Yes, Father! I even activated the monitoring room's formation!"

Reap said solemnly, "After all the members left, I also made them sign the Mist Confidentiality Contract!"

"As of now, only you and I know that Su Lie has the ability to disappear from the map's surveillance! Only we know that after Su Lie encountered our Xuntian Clan's Exploration Squad, the squad was completely wiped out inside a ruin protected by a defensive formation!"

He spoke earnestly.

Lei Carp couldn't help but gasp: "Hiss! This kid definitely possesses a Talent that grants immunity to the rules, or perhaps a formation-penetrating item! This is extraordinary! Truly extraordinary! He has such strength at only Second Turn; if his level gets higher..."

"Father! Will he be noticed by those Undying old fogeys? At that time, even the Mist Guild won't be able to stop those old guys from snatching the fruit, right?"

Reap raised a question.

Lei Carp nodded: "In the long run, a genius with such destiny will definitely spiral out of control, possibly even triggering conflicts between two or multiple major powers!"

"When facing those old guys, Qingfeng absolutely does not have the power to stop those greedy eternal existences!"

"Therefore, we need to slightly adjust our plan regarding Su Lie!"

"However, right now he is not particularly dazzling compared to the heirs specially cultivated by other clans, so we don't need to worry too much!"

"But regarding the killing of the Exploration Team, you must give the Patriarch a reasonable excuse! If you can't come up with one, you'll have to answer truthfully! But you must state that the incident happened in the peripheral area of the ruins!"

As he said this,

Reap hurriedly said, "Father! Assassins from Takama-ga-hara have appeared here. Should we pin this incident on them?"

"We can! Takama-ga-hara recently killed the Patriarch's sixth son! I imagine the Patriarch won't be suspicious when he hears this news!"

Lei Carp's eyes lit up. He immediately added, "This cover-up... is well done! Excellent! Excellent! You must hint at this matter to Su Lie slowly after he comes out!"

"Yes, sir!"

Reap was instantly overjoyed.

Before long,

Buzz!

Thunder War, the Patriarch of the Xuntian Clan, entered the map monitoring room. He solemnly asked Reap, who was standing there alone, "Manager Lei! Are Lei Tianmu and the others dead?"

"Yes, Patriarch! This is what happened!"

Reap hurriedly recounted the excuse he had prepared earlier.

Thunder War listened and nodded silently: "Takama-ga-hara? I didn't expect their assassins to dare to Disguise themselves and enter the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect Dungeon. Do they really think we are easy to bully?"

"Do you think we should launch an offensive against Takama-ga-hara?"

Reap struck while the iron was hot.

Thunder War shook his head: "No! That's not important! Lei Tianmu had a storage item in his possession that contained 10 million..."

He immediately listed the resources that Lei Tianmu had held.

Reap's expression changed drastically. He looked at Thunder War fearfully and said, "Patriarch! If the Mist Guild finds out about this, all our business connections with them will be unilaterally severed, and we will suffer huge losses!"

"If Qingfeng seeks revenge, I'm afraid we won't be able to resist the power of the Mist Guild!"

This made Reap unable to stop himself from cursing inwardly.

He couldn't help but mutter to himself: "Holy crap! Don't you know your own limits?"

You just had to provoke the Mist Guild in this way!

If you had captured 20 million veteran Second-Turn Professionals, Qingfeng definitely wouldn't say anything to you.

But this time, you suddenly went and captured 10 million newly promoted Second-Turn Professionals!

And they are the top seedlings among the newcomers!

Did you flush the Joint Convention of Major Powers down the toilet?

No one could tolerate this kind of loss!

My dear Patriarch!

Did a donkey kick your brain?

Why do you only do such garbage work?

That the clan hasn't perished under your leadership must truly be due to ancestral blessings!

Reap's thoughts were extremely active, and his mood was unusually low.

"That is why! I came here to personally take charge of the overall situation! I demand that, at all costs, you forcibly inspect the storage equipment of every Trial Taker who comes out of the Dungeon alive!"

Thunder War looked at Reap with a solemn expression, a sharp killing intent in his eyes: "If anyone is found with these resources in their storage equipment, kill them without mercy!"