Chapter 3: Blade Grandmaster Heart (Absolute Strength Level · Passive): Immune to mental system control, mind system control, nightmare system control, confusion system control, soul system control, and a total of 159 major system control effects (this trait has the highest priority).
Tip: This trait cannot negate physical system controls, such as ice freezing, rock clinging, and other purely physical restraints.
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[Blade Grandmaster Lv.95 (Technique Core Passive)]
Skill Effect: Blade-type weapon damage rank +110, blade-type weapon slashing force judgment rank +10.
Soul Severing Intensity 12 points (when attacking with a blade-type weapon, it will carry the "Soul Severing" trait, each point of Soul Severing Intensity can cause approximately 423 points of soul damage).
Blade Heart: 2/2.
Tip: Each Blade Heart can negate one instant death or execution judgment. This trait has high priority (recovers one Blade Heart every 120 hours until full).
Lv.95 Ultimate Ability: Extreme Blade · White Night (Supreme Level · Active/Passive). Activating this ability increases the next melee slash by 500% (including slash attack power, slashing force, slashing impact, etc. Based on the current 652 strength attribute, this is approximately equivalent to a powerful slash derived from 1350 points of true strength attribute).
Warning: This slash will cause you to take 10% to 30% of your maximum health as true recoil damage.
Warning: Do not use this ability more than once within 5 natural days.
Tip: Due to your current physique being unable to withstand it, this ability is currently in "Active Skill" form. You may choose to convert this ability into "Passive Skill" form.
Warning: The active/passive form conversion is irreversible. You need to consider carefully.
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Su Xiao's Blade Grandmaster Lv.95 ability was named after his most commonly used Reincarnation Paradise imprint. Therefore, he can rename this skill in the skill list, but only once.
Regarding this matter, Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha all gathered around. Amu let out a moo, meaning "What's for dinner tonight?" but after being stared at by Su Xiao for a few seconds, he obediently sat aside. Seeing this, Baha suggested:
"Boss, I propose 'Spiral Thunderbolt Invincible Slash,' what do you think?"
"Pfft~"
Hao Mei almost couldn't hold back her laughter. Molei and Yueshitu had to recall all the saddest things in their lives to keep from laughing out loud.
"Woof."
Bubu Wang spoke, proposing to rename this skill "Transient · Extreme Blade Oblivion Silence."
After Baha's translation, Molei, Yueshitu, and Hao Mei were all dumbfounded. For no other reason, the naming ability of Bai Ye's team members was truly unpredictable. Molei couldn't help but cast her gaze toward Su Xiao. Her subconscious thought was, if this guy's followers had such naming skills, he himself must be even better.
Su Xiao pondered the skill name proposed by Bubu Wang. Hmm, not bad at all. So, he decided to rename this ultimate skill to "Powerful Slash."
Upon learning this final decision, Molei covered her face with one hand, Yueshitu covered her face with both hands, and Hao Mei propped her forehead with one hand. The three of them were completely stunned by the naming process of Bai Ye's team.
"Spiral Thunderbolt Invincible Slash"
"Transient · Extreme Blade Oblivion Silence"
"Powerful Slash"
The gap in naming ability was truly staggering. Ignoring the bewildered feelings of Molei and the others for now, Su Xiao, sitting cross-legged on the plush carpet, continued to close his eyes and perceive the transformed Blade Grandmaster ability.
First, the characteristics of "Powerful Slash." The power of this ability is not just about increasing the attack power of the next melee slash by five times; it's that everything derived from the next slash is increased by five times.
Su Xiao's current true strength attribute is 652 points. If multiplied by five, it would be 652 × 5 = 3260 points. The problem is that true strength attributes are not calculated this way; they increase cumulatively and progressively. For example, 100 points of true strength attribute is much stronger than 80 points of strength attribute.
Therefore, after being empowered by "Powerful Slash," Su Xiao's next slash is equivalent to a powerful slash derived from 1350 points of true strength attribute. This kind of slashing force is already ridiculously extreme. If Su Xiao had this method when dealing with the Beast God, he could single-handedly challenge the Beast God.
That's right, it's that absurd. With such a slash as a foundation after the battle begins, it would be good enough if the Beast God wasn't instantly slain by this slash. Subsequently, it could only be suppressed and killed by Su Xiao's continuous slashes.
A more intuitive description is that if Su Xiao's "Powerful Slash" meets the Beast God's heavy hammer strike, it would definitely shatter that heavy hammer with one slash, then send the Beast God flying several kilometers away. Moreover, after landing, most of the Beast God's body would be shattered.
Don't think that the Beast God can punch Su Xiao from the Exile Land to Twilight City; this is an attack method that appears powerful but is actually inefficient due to poor control of attack force. In contrast, although Su Xiao would only send the Beast God flying several kilometers away, almost all of the slashing force would act on the Beast God's body, with only a very small part used for repulsion.
Furthermore, this is just the initial form of "Powerful Slash." When Su Xiao's physique is strong enough to fully bear this ability, he can convert this ability into a "Passive Skill," which is extremely absurd.
Added to this, Su Xiao has always been developing according to the "normal attack equals ultimate move" system. Once "Powerful Slash" is converted to passive, the "normal attack equals ultimate move" system he has developed will immediately increase in intensity by five times.
Another point is that "Powerful Slash" has nearly unlimited potential. As Su Xiao subsequently improves his true strength attribute, Blade Grandmaster, Blade Technique passive, and other abilities, "Powerful Slash" will become increasingly stronger.
Apart from "Powerful Slash," the other aspects of Blade Grandmaster have also changed significantly. The three abilities of Domain Trait, Control Immunity, and Extreme Blade World have all been separated individually. Among them, Control Immunity was separated because its intensity had reached its limit. As for the "Extreme Blade · World" ability, this separation brings both joy and sorrow for this ability.
In the past, as long as Blade Grandmaster was improved, the intensity of "Extreme Blade World" would also increase, although the improvement was limited. Now that this ability has been separated individually, there are only two ways to improve it: 1. Stack it with Golden Skill Points, 2. Slowly accumulate skill proficiency and improve it in the most conventional way.
Through repeated practical combat experiences, when dueling with the final big boss, Su Xiao feels that "Extreme Blade World" is actually easier to use than Azure Shadow King. Regarding this point, Green Gillian mentioned, "Azure Shadow King" is indeed the ultimate move of the Shadow of Law Destruction, but it also depends on the system.
The Azure Shadow King of the Space-Breaking Shadow and Demon-Devouring Shadow systems is particularly powerful, while the Azure Shadow King of the Soul-Severing Shadow system, hmm, can be considered an ultimate move, at least it's a group large-scale ultra-high damage ability. To be more precise, the Soul-Severing Shadow has the strongest normal attacks among all Shadows of Law Destruction. In contrast, its ultimate move is not as powerful as those of the Space-Breaking Shadow and Demon-Devouring Shadow.
A straightforward introduction to the three systems of the Shadow of Law Destruction is:
Space-Breaking Shadow: High-speed space penetration, continuous slashing school. It has the strongest Dragon Shadow Flash ability and the Demon Blade continuous slashing ability. If the Space-Breaking Shadow starts slashing in a melee, their execution line can reach an absurd maximum health of 100%, commonly known as full-health execution. Of course, this requires multiple consecutive Demon Blade slashes to stack up the execution state.
Demon-Devouring Shadow: Skill school. It has the strongest Devouring Core and Demon Spirit system abilities. The Demon-Devouring Shadow does not have Demon Blades because they devour their respective Blade Demon Spirits in the mid-term, reaching at least 50% devouring. Some Demon-Devouring Shadows, like the old Law Destroyer, can reach 100% devouring of the Demon Spirit.
Although they don't have Demon Blades, all their Demon Spirit system abilities have execution traits, just not as high an execution line. However, the problem is that they have many execution skills. If one skill doesn't execute, the next skill still has a chance. In the words of an old Spellcaster from the Second Era, fighting a Demon-Devouring Shadow is as terrifying as gambling your life with the Grim Reaper.
Soul-Severing Shadow: Has the strongest Demon Blade ability and the exclusive Soul Core ability of the Soul-Severing Shadow. It is the strongest in single combat.
However, the three branch systems of the Shadow of Law Destruction are only rough divisions, not particularly rigid fixed patterns. For example, Su Xiao, although he is a Soul-Severing Shadow, has a very strong Devouring Core. Mawen Hua'erzi, on the other hand, is clearly a Demon-Devouring Shadow but has Demon Blade abilities. Or, the Soul-Severing Shadow Kesser Huna has the strongest Azure Shadow King ability of the current generation.
Su Xiao plans to develop the "Extreme Blade World" ability well. Besides this, other changes in Blade Grandmaster are also significant, such as the Blade Soul Severing aspect.
Now, the Soul Severing Intensity is directly displayed as 12. In this regard, the Soul Severing Intensity of the "Soul Severing Soul Core" is 15, while the Soul Severing Intensity bestowed on Dragon-Slaying Flash by the Soul Gem is 10.
With a total Soul Severing Intensity of 37, calculated based on each point of Soul Severing Intensity generating 423 points of soul damage, one slash would deal 15,651 points of soul damage, after all, there are three layers of Soul Severing effects.
Speaking of which, the Soul Severing trait of Blade Grandmaster is currently the strongest. The reason is that increasing the level of Blade Grandmaster also increases the corresponding Soul Severing Intensity. As for the bonus from the Soul Gem, this is determined by Su Xiao's soul strength. The higher his soul strength, the higher the Soul Severing Intensity derived from the Soul Gem.
The "Soul Severing Soul Core," which currently has the highest Soul Severing Intensity, is actually the most difficult to improve. Su Xiao will only consider improving this aspect after he advances to the Supreme level.
Apart from the Soul Severing trait, the newly appeared "Blade Heart" trait is also a very powerful ability. After this ability appeared, two star glints appeared below the health value in Su Xiao's data, i.e., the health bar. More importantly, "Blade Heart" will improve along with the improvement of Blade Grandmaster.
Currently, it can store two "Blade Hearts," which seems like a lot. However, the problem is that the enemies encountered subsequently will only become stronger, and various types of instant death and execution abilities will definitely be more numerous. It's possible that in one battle, negating two or three instant death judgments might be necessary to become the final victor.
The number of "Blade Hearts" is difficult to increase. Raising Blade Grandmaster to Lv.100 might allow the number of "Blade Hearts" to reach 3/3, which would be quite good.
One thing to note is that "Blade Heart" negates instant death and execution judgments. If Su Xiao is severely injured to the point where his health reaches zero, "Blade Heart" will have no effect whatsoever, and he will still die.
Closing the skill list, Su Xiao checked a series of prompts that appeared after the previous battle ended.
[You have killed the Aberrant Beast God.]
[You have obtained 5000 Sun Coins.]
[You have obtained 18.68% World Source.]
[You have obtained 3 Golden Skill Points.]
[You have obtained Immortal Chest · Aberrant Beast.]
[You have obtained Source Matter Chest (has a chance to be obtained upon killing a powerful enemy).]
[You have obtained Tainted Beast Arm Bone Fragment.]
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[Tainted Beast Arm Bone Fragment]
Origin: Blazing Sun Star · God Exile Land · Aberrant Beast God.
Quality: Divine Bone · Special Item.
Effect: Go to Black Mist Island, place this item in the "Ritual Vessel" to exchange for a "Strange Soul Trait" item.
Tip: The value of this Divine Bone far exceeds other "Tainted Divine Bones."
Introduction: Dudu... Gugu.
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The kill rewards were generous. However, it is not yet known what can be exchanged for the [Tainted Beast Arm Bone Fragment] from Dudu Gugu. It is presumably a very unique soul trait item.
Su Xiao checked his current Sun Coins, totaling 55,060. It was time to start title refining. The first choice for refining was the [Deep Blue Shadow] title. Not to mention anything else, just the trait "When fighting against World-Destroying level existences and Abyss system enemies, deal an additional 20% true damage" alone was worth investing a large amount of resources.
On Blazing Sun Star, all... note that all powerful enemies belong to the Abyss system, just to varying degrees. For example, the Aberrant Beast God was affected by the aberrant Sun Force, and the reason the Sun became aberrant was because it absorbed too much Abyss energy.
Opening the World Store, among the five types of Abyss chests, Su Xiao's expression showed contemplation. Yesterday, he had just crushed a heavily contaminated [Divine Soul], which increased his Law Destruction luck cap. At such a time, of course, he should try to see if his luck had turned.
[Title Chest (★)]
Use Effect: Upon opening, can obtain a one-star to nine-star title (randomly drawn).
Stock Quantity: -- (unlimited exchange quantity).
Exchange Price: 5 Sun Coins.
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[Title Chest (★★★★★)]
Use Effect: Upon opening, can obtain a nine-star title.
Stock Quantity: -- (unlimited exchange quantity).
Exchange Price: 120 Sun Coins.
[Tip: Due to the missing certification of this world's World Store, although the items in the store have no quality issues, the above title chests cannot be traded, transferred, etc. The titles obtained upon opening are all untradeable titles.]
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1 five-star title chest can buy 24 one-star title chests. That is to say, as long as 1 nine-star title is obtained from 24 one-star title chests, it's not a loss. Getting 2 is a small profit, 3 is a big profit, and 4 is a huge profit.
Regardless, he had just increased his luck cap. Su Xiao successfully exchanged 120 Sun Coins for 24 [Title Chests (★)]. This scene immediately caught the attention of the Apocalypse Sisters. Molei and the other two stopped studying the ores and came over to watch the chest opening. Clearly, one of the main hobbies of the Apocalypse Sisters was opening various chests.
Choosing between random titles and attribute-less titles, Su Xiao chose the latter. He obtained titles for synthesis, and the title energy within attribute-less titles was purer.
[You have opened 24 Title Chests (★).]
[You have obtained 24 Attribute-less Titles (★).]
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24 one-star titles appeared in front of Su Xiao, causing Yueshitu and Hao Mei's expressions to twist. They quickly turned their heads away.
"Hahaha~, you were planning to get 1 nine-star title and not lose, 2 for a small profit, 3 for a big profit, hahaha..."
Molei laughed especially happily. Yueshitu and Hao Mei beside her quietly distanced themselves. A moment later, Molei was eating cream puffs, but she was hanging upside down, with a plaster cast on her left calf. According to the law of smile conservation, the smiles successfully transferred to the faces of Yueshitu and Hao Mei.
Su Xiao glanced at his own 94 points of luck attribute. This luck attribute, which was about to break 100, seemed to have a single-digit effect. When he met the Goddess of Fortune later, he would have to discuss this issue with her. He opened the title store again.
[You have paid 54,840 Sun Coins.]
[You have obtained 457 Title Chests (★★★★).]
[You have opened 457 Title Chests (★★★★).]
[You have obtained 457 Attribute-less Titles (★★★★★★★★).]
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Su Xiao opened the two title wheels certified by Reincarnation Paradise and the Void Tree and began title synthesis. When the blazing refining wheel calmed down, he had a total of 101 "Limit Refine · 1st" titles.
Opening the title list, he set the "Limit Refine · 1st" [Deep Blue Shadow] in the main title slot of the refining wheel. Then, he filled the surrounding slots with 5 "Limit Refine · 1st" attribute-less sub-titles.
Logically, the main title [Limit Refine · 1st] impacting [Limit Refine · 2nd] only had an 80% success rate. But that was when using ordinary nine-star titles as sub-titles. Su Xiao chose the method of making up for insufficient luck with strength.
He filled all 5 sub-title slots on the refining wheel with "Limit Refine · 1st" attribute-less titles, which naturally increased the original 80% success rate to 100%.
Title refining began. Su Xiao pushed away the refining wheel certified by Reincarnation Paradise, pulled closer the other refining wheel certified by the Void Tree, and began synthesizing the remaining 96 "Limit Refine · 1st" attribute-less titles, using 5 titles per refine, towards "Limit Refine · 2nd."
When the refining of [Deep Blue Shadow] ended, Su Xiao had 19 "Limit Refine · 2nd" attribute-less titles in hand.
[Tip: The Deep Blue Shadow title has successfully undergone Limit Refine · 2nd.]
Su Xiao pulled closer the refining wheel certified by Reincarnation Paradise. He did not remove the [Deep Blue Shadow] from the main title slot. He inserted 5 "Limit Refine · 2nd" attribute-less sub-titles into the five surrounding slots and continued the refining.
Currently, the title resources on hand were only enough to upgrade [Deep Blue Shadow] to "Limit Refine · 3rd." It seemed close to the strongest title "Limit Refine · 5th," but that was not the case. Excluding the attribute-less titles currently in hand, he would need to obtain another 3393 nine-star titles, which meant 407,160 Sun Coins.
The title refining wheel grew hotter. Three hours later, the refining of [Deep Blue Shadow] was completed, and a prompt appeared.
[Deep Blue Shadow has undergone a transformative upgrade.]
[You have obtained the title: Abyssal Shadow.]
Accident
Today, while coding in the afternoon, because I can't sit for long periods, I got up to move around. During a casual chat with my dad, I suddenly noticed he had a bit of a slurred speech. Despite his reluctance, I dragged him to the hospital. An emergency MRI was done, and the result was what I feared most: my dad had another stroke. He's in the hospital now, and the doctor said he needs to be hospitalized for at least a week. I need to take at least a week off. I will try to resume updates as soon as possible. Please understand, dear readers.
"Reincarnation Paradise" Accident