novelslam Chapter 302 - 160: Another Upgrade for Crystalization and Shadow Scale, Mechanism Quest
Chapter 302 - 160: Another Upgrade for Crystalization and Shadow Scale, Mechanism Quest
Lin Ye slowly retracted his longspear, the golden aura burning at its tip gradually dissipating.
This was his current power.
Just a single [Horizontal Slash] infused with Liquid Primordial Gang Sha.
Its destructive power far surpassed any of his previous attacks.
On the battlefield, not a single creature remained standing.
Just then, a series of system notifications finally sounded in his mind.
[Ding! You have killed LV35 Eight-armed Race Elite x1, LV34 Stone Ghost Race Elite x1, LV32 Eight-armed Race x3, and LV31 Stone Ghost Race x6!]
[Taotie Mechanism activated!]
[You have gained a total of 11.4 Strength, 12.9 Agility, 14.6 Stamina, and 2.5 Spirit.]
[Affected by the Cultivation Technique *Tai Xu Two Principles True Understanding*, your experience gain multiplier is set to 180%!]
[Killing higher-level enemies has triggered a bonus experience reward. Experience gain increased by 80%!]
[You have gained a total of 7,729 experience points!]
Lin Ye was startled.
The attribute gains from the Taotie Mechanism were even more substantial than he had anticipated.
Just eleven aliens had raised his three primary attributes by an average of over ten points each.
This meant that, even without relying on the free attribute points from leveling up, his strength could grow continuously just by hunting the Celestial Abyss Race.
This was the truly terrifying aspect of the Taotie Mechanism.
He was just a little disappointed that this haul hadn’t dropped any new skills or traits.
However, the space inside the Nirvana Tower was vast and teeming with aliens, so he wasn’t worried about leaving empty-handed in the end.
What truly gratified him was his efficiency in gaining experience points.
After switching his Cultivation Technique to the *Tai Xu Two Principles True Understanding*, his previously capped experience gain was finally, completely unleashed.
The bonus from his Cultivation Technique, stacked with the reward for killing higher-level enemies—eleven aliens had netted him nearly eight thousand experience points.
This leveling efficiency was simply insane!
Lin Ye didn’t linger. He turned and entered the mountain cave.
He dug out every last one of the Source Crystals glittering alluringly on the cave walls and piled them up in front of him.
He grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation.
A searing, frenzied energy instantly exploded in his mouth and esophagus.
Lin Ye was gradually getting used to the taste of these raw Source Crystals from the Celestial Abyss Rift. He was even... getting a little addicted.
As the torrent of energy from the Source Crystal rushed into his body, Lin Ye clearly felt the new Primordial Gang Sha—generated by the attributes he’d gained from the Taotie Mechanism—begin to be purified and compressed by the influx.
Although he couldn’t feel the date-pit-sized solid Gang Sha at the very core of his Qi Sea growing noticeably larger, this process completely confirmed his theory.
Just as he could use Source Crystals to directly refine his Qi and Blood in the Vein Opening Realm, now that he had entered the Gang Condensation Realm, devouring Source Crystals allowed him to skip the arduous compression and purification process that ordinary Martial Artists had to endure.
It allowed him to directly convert new Primordial Gang Sha into this unprecedented solid form.
Solid, liquid, gaseous.
Although he could freely transform the Gang Sha between its three forms with a thought, he was currently unable to directly mobilize the solid Gang Sha for conventional attacks, as the total amount in his body was still insufficient.
The only Gang Sha he could currently utilize was the liquid Flowing Gang.
That last spear thrust alone had consumed nearly a quarter of his energy.
But Lin Ye believed that as the total amount of Primordial Gang Sha in his body continued to increase, one day he would be able to make using the solid Gang Sha a conventional method of attack.
’When that day comes, how terrifying will the energy from even a casual strike be?’
Lin Ye’s heart filled with anticipation.
As he was lost in thought, he suddenly realized that, apart from refining his Primordial Gang Sha, another portion of the source energy flooding his body was simply vanishing into thin air.
Lin Ye instantly realized what was happening.
That energy was being absorbed by his [Silk Puppet] skill.
He continued to devour the Source Crystals, all while splitting his focus to observe the enhancement progress of [Silk Puppet].
But as he swallowed more and more Source Crystals, Lin Ye’s brow gradually furrowed.
’Something isn’t right.’
’I’m certain the Source Crystal energy I’m swallowing isn’t just dissipating because my Gang Sha is saturated.’
’But the enhancement progress for the [Silk Puppet] skill is increasing far too slowly.’
’It feels like something else is fighting it for a share of the energy.’
’Wait a minute...’
’Something else is fighting for it?’
A thought flashed through the depths of Lin Ye’s mind without warning, causing him to pause mid-swallow.
He had suddenly realized a blind spot he’d never considered before.
’[Crystalization] and [Shadow Scale]—the two temporary skills I’d already enhanced to their limits back in the Vein Opening Realm. Now that I’ve broken through to the Gang Condensation Realm, have their caps been unlocked as well?’
Previously, Lin Ye’s hopes for further enhancing these two skills had rested on "repeated acquisition."
For instance, he had planned to kill more members of the Shadow Scale Race, take their cores, and re-acquire the [Shadow Scale] skill to enhance the one he already had.
’But now, it seems things aren’t at all how I imagined.’
It seemed these powerful temporary skills gained a higher growth potential as his own realm advanced.
At this thought, Lin Ye could no longer restrain himself.
With a thought, he switched the active temporary skill on his personal panel from [Silk Puppet] to [Crystalization].
Then, Lin Ye felt a small portion of his greatly expanded Spiritual Power being instantly drained away.