Chapter 74: The Devil Named Su
[You have opened the Legendary Chest: Hunt.]
[You have obtained Divine Miracle (Legendary, Rare Item).]
[You have obtained Soul Crystal (Large) x5.]
[You have obtained Universal World Key (No Rank, Special Item).]
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[Divine Miracle]
Origin: Reincarnation Paradise
Quality: Legendary
Type: Item
Effect: After using this item, you can upgrade any Light Gold or above quality equipment to Legendary rank.
Rating: 530+ (Legendary item ratings range from 400 to 530 points)
Description: The miracle is right before your eyes.
Selling Price: 199,000 Paradise Coins
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[Universal World Key]
Origin: Reincarnation Paradise
Quality: No Rank (Special Item)
Type: Invitation Letter / World Key
Effect: After using this item, you can enter any derivative world of the same rank or any open world.
Rating: 0
Description: When faced with a choice, cherish the opportunity before you.
Selling Price: 100 Paradise Coins
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The Legendary Chest: Hunt did not flash, but the three items it produced were all practical. Soul Crystals need no further explanation. As for [Divine Miracle], its value even surpasses that of a single Legendary equipment. The reason is simple: directly obtaining a Legendary equipment might not suit Su Xiao's needs. However, by upgrading a Light Gold or above quality equipment to Legendary, the options become much more diverse.
The [Universal World Key] is also a good item. It almost allows Su Xiao to freely choose a derivative world. Its specific value depends on Su Xiao's personal abilities.
Although it didn't flash, the harvest was substantial. This type of chest with a suffix is among the top-tier Legendary chests, with value second only to Epic chests.
Su Xiao couldn't yet decide which equipment to upgrade with [Divine Miracle]. Ideally, he would upgrade [Destiny Redemption], but unfortunately, that item is only Purple quality, two ranks below Light Gold.
Apostle's Eye, King's Sovereign, Annihilator (Belt), Kinetic Combat Boots, and Duke of Annihilation +13 — five pieces of equipment in total — could all be upgraded to Legendary using [Divine Miracle]. Among them, Annihilator and Kinetic Combat Boots were the first to be ruled out; they simply weren't worth it.
As for Apostle's Eye, King's Sovereign, and Duke of Annihilation +13, Duke of Annihilation clearly had the most potential for improvement. However, upgrading it might cause its enhancement level to drop, and a Duke of Annihilation without enhancement levels wasn't a particularly strong weapon.
Although King's Sovereign's attached abilities weren't great, it was one of Su Xiao's most commonly used pieces of equipment, worn on his left arm to protect his hand and forearm. Unfortunately, it was a Light Gold set item, and who knew what attributes it would gain after being upgraded to Legendary.
Apostle's Eye was a decent choice. The only issue was that its detection rank wasn't very high. If the upgrade didn't increase its detection rank, it would be a huge loss — a loss so severe it would make him cough up blood.
Detection equipment wasn't about quality but detection rank. As long as the detection rank was high enough, even low-rank detection equipment could fetch a high price. Su Xiao had once seen a Blue quality equipment that, through two gems, raised its detection rank to Fifth Rank. It eventually sold for a staggering 970,000 Paradise Coins, surpassing Gold equipment and rivaling Legendary equipment.
After some deliberation, Su Xiao found that none of his equipment below Legendary rank was truly suitable for upgrading. He could only temporarily store [Divine Miracle].
After opening the chest, Su Xiao began considering selling the equipment and items that didn't suit him for Paradise Coins or trading them.
He handed [Death's Embrace (Legendary Skill Scroll)] and [Incense Temptation (Gold Item)] to Beini, instructing her and Bubu Wang to go to the Trade Market and sell them for Paradise Coins.
With the resources roughly sorted, Su Xiao started enhancing his own abilities. His top priority was, of course, Blade Grandmaster Lv.12.
[Confirm/Deny upgrade of Blade Grandmaster Lv.12. Upgrading this ability requires Soul Crystal (Complete) x1 + 100,000 Paradise Coins.]
As Su Xiao had guessed earlier, after Blade Grandmaster exceeded Lv.10, the upgrade cost increased significantly. So far, he had only obtained one Soul Crystal (Complete). Keeping it in his storage space was pointless, so he chose to use it to upgrade Blade Grandmaster.
Holding the Soul Crystal (Complete) in his hand, a crisp cracking sound rang out as the fist-sized crystal shattered, surging toward Su Xiao.
Light and shadow flickered, and figures appeared in Su Xiao's mind, along with a vast amount of blade technique experience and knowledge.
A buzzing sound echoed in Su Xiao's head, caused by the massive influx of information in a short time. What he received was the accumulated experience of countless blade users who had painstakingly honed their skills.
[Blade Grandmaster has been upgraded to Lv.13.]
Su Xiao checked the changes in Blade Grandmaster.
[Blade Grandmaster: Lv.13 (Passive Skill)]
Skill Effect: Increases blade weapon attack power by 345% (increased by 9%), neural reflex speed +44% (increased by 5%), immune to mental-type control, immune to mind-type seduction, inducement, etc.
Initial Attached Ability: X.
Blade Aura: Lv.60.
Lv.10 Ultimate Ability: Shadow Flash (Active).
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After Blade Grandmaster exceeded Lv.10, each level's increase in blade weapon attack power was substantial, but compared to the 5% increase in neural reflex speed per level, the former was merely cumulative.
After his daily blade technique training, Su Xiao took out a gem — [Soul Severing Shadow Stone: Fragment (Legendary)]. Its attributes were extremely powerful, each one increasing Dragon-Slaying Flash's sharpness by 28 points.
Dragon-Slaying Flash already had 5 Legendary gems embedded, so Su Xiao was well-versed in gem embedding. Spending 40,000 Paradise Coins, he began embedding the Soul Severing Shadow Stone.
The [Soul Severing Shadow Stone: Fragment] in Su Xiao's hand floated up, rapidly shrinking until it was the size of a grain of rice.
White light enveloped the hilt of Dragon-Slaying Flash, and a small groove gradually appeared at the end of the hilt. The greatly reduced [Soul Severing Shadow Stone: Fragment] embedded itself into the groove. The embedding was complete, and Dragon-Slaying Flash's attributes gained an additional embedding effect: Sharpness +29 points.
Unlike the previous Soul Severing Shadow Stone Fragment, this second one increased sharpness by 29 points — that extra 1 point was an unexpected bonus.
After finishing all this, Su Xiao opened the mail within his Reincarnation Mark. As expected, Divine Emperor had sent several emails in a row. The content was as follows:
"A set?! Brother Bai Ye, please sell it to us. Name your price."
"Brother Bai Ye? Busy?"
"Reply quickly when you have a moment. I can barely hold back this little princess of ours."
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From these few words, it was clear that Divine Emperor already sensed the impending blow to his wallet — no, it would be a fatal strike.
As the leader of a large adventure group, Divine Emperor naturally couldn't keep sending emails. Three strikes and you're out; Divine Emperor handled the timing well, expressing his intention to purchase the Ascension Set while doing his best to avoid a fatal blow to his wallet. The few words were filled with complex psychological activity. Unfortunately, his struggle was futile — that fatal strike was inevitable.