Chapter 71: A Bloody History
Inside the exclusive room.
Su Xiao was checking his skill list; the Supreme Blade ability had been upgraded.
Skill Five
Supreme Blade: X+ (Active Skill).
Skill Effect 1: Can use this skill to bind an initial weapon (Bound: Dragon-Slaying Flash).
Tip: After binding the initial weapon, two blank additional skill slots will be obtained (1/2 used).
Tip: Once the initial weapon is bound, it cannot be changed. If the initial weapon is damaged, it can be repaired using the Supreme Blade skill. (Repair cost is determined by the current quality of the initial weapon.)
Skill Effect 2: Can sacrifice melee weapons. Upon successful sacrifice, a certain amount of Blade Value will be obtained based on the quality of the sacrificed weapon. When the Blade Value reaches 100%, the quality of the initial weapon will be upgraded.
Tip: The sacrificed weapon must be of the same quality as the initial weapon (i.e., Light Gold quality).
Tip: The sacrificed weapon must be a melee weapon with a certain cutting power. The category of the sacrificed melee weapon must not differ too greatly from the initial weapon. (Weapons such as swords, long daggers, long knives, short knives, etc., can be sacrificed. Sacrificing long knife-type weapons will grant additional Blade Value; other types of weapons will grant slightly less Blade Value.)
Skill Description: Don't be fooled by appearances; in the future, you will be grateful for forging this weapon.
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The hidden mission reward, 'Designate any skill level +1', did not disappoint Su Xiao.
Although the Supreme Blade skill seemed complex, it only resulted in two changes: first, the number of attachable skills increased by one; second, the range of weapons that could be devoured expanded. Now, Dragon-Slaying Flash could use Light Gold melee weapons that met the requirements to increase its Blade Value.
Although the range had expanded, it still couldn't sacrifice weapons too different from Dragon-Slaying Flash, such as war hammers or spears.
The expansion of the sacrificeable weapon range was undoubtedly good news. Finding blade-type weapons of the same quality was too difficult. Previously, to upgrade Dragon-Slaying Flash to Gold quality, at least 4 to 6 Light Gold blade-type weapons were needed, which was a life-or-death situation.
The situation had clearly improved. Supreme Blade could now sacrifice weapons similar in type to Dragon-Slaying Flash, such as swords and long daggers with blades.
Of course, axe-type weapons were not allowed. Although they had blades, they were too different from blade-type weapons.
Although the cost was still high, the difficulty of acquisition had significantly decreased. Su Xiao had experienced the feeling of having money but being unable to buy blade-type weapons more than once.
Overall, using same-rank melee weapons to upgrade Dragon-Slaying Flash was much cheaper than buying a blade-type weapon with similar attributes.
If Dragon-Slaying Flash could be upgraded to Gold quality, a Gold weapon with similar attributes would be so expensive that Su Xiao would question his life. Moreover, a characteristic of sacrificed weapons was that their attack power far exceeded weapons of the same rank. Currently, the Light Gold quality Dragon-Slaying Flash had attack power comparable to the Gold short knife, Slaughter. That was a full rank difference. If other contractors knew this, they would definitely try to kill him and take the treasure.
Su Xiao took out Dragon-Slaying Flash and checked its attributes. As expected, a new attribute had appeared.
Supreme Blade Effect 3: (No skill attached).
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Originally, Dragon-Slaying Flash had two 'Supreme Blade Effects'. The first could not be changed; as Dragon-Slaying Flash's quality increased, its sharpness would continuously improve.
The second allowed the skill of the devoured weapon to be seized and replaced. Currently, the skill on it was Ten Thousand Blades Sect (Passive), which increased sharpness. After severing an enemy's limb, the enemy could not regenerate it using conventional means.
As for Supreme Blade Effect 3, this ability was very interesting. Unlike 'Supreme Blade Effect 2', it did not seize a skill from the devoured weapon but formed a skill based on Su Xiao's combat style.
To be precise, no skill would appear on Supreme Blade Effect 3 for now. When Dragon-Slashing Flash next upgraded its quality, a skill would appear on Supreme Blade Effect 3, and this skill would be formed based on Su Xiao's combat style.
Not only that, but every time Dragon-Slashing Flash was upgraded, Supreme Blade Effect 3 would change. What specific attribute it would become was unclear even to Su Xiao. What could be confirmed was that the higher the quality of Dragon-Slashing Flash, the stronger this skill effect would be, and the more suitable it would be for Su Xiao.
Overall, although this upgrade to Supreme Blade did not immediately strengthen Dragon-Slashing Flash, it increased its growth speed and potential while reducing the resources consumed for its growth.
Closing the skill list, Su Xiao checked the number of Soul Crystals.
[Soul Crystal (Medium) x4]
[Soul Crystal (Large) x1]
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Currently, Su Xiao's demand for Soul Crystals (Medium) was not high, but he would not sell them. Soul Crystals had too many uses; they might be needed at any time.
As for Soul Crystals (Large), these were used to upgrade the Lv.30 Blade Master skill, requiring one per level.
With a Soul Crystal (Large), Su Xiao should immediately upgrade Blade Master. The awkward part was that he didn't have enough Paradise Coins.
Each level of Blade Master required 100,000 Paradise Coins + one Soul Crystal (Large). Currently, his Reincarnation Mark only contained 46,430 Paradise Coins.
The Saint Cup World had yielded quite a few attribute points and equipment, but not many Paradise Coins.
Su Xiao walked out of the exclusive room and headed straight for the Trade Market. He had two items to sell: [Minotaur Lord Arm Guard (Purple)] and [Mastery of All Skills (Light Gold)].
The Minotaur Lord Arm Guard was easy to sell. If he hadn't obtained the King's Supreme Bracer, Su Xiao wouldn't be selling this item for now.
Equipment Effect: Minotaur Lord's Wrath (Active). After activating this skill, Strength +15 for 10 seconds.
Tip: Minotaur Lord's Wrath (Active) has a cooldown of 10 natural days.
Tip: Activating Minotaur Lord's Wrath (Active) consumes 30% of health.
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Temporary +15 points to the Strength attribute. What a powerful and dazzling ability. If Su Xiao used this equipment now, his Strength attribute would instantly jump from 72 points to 80 points. This wasn't a miscalculation. Under normal circumstances, after using Minotaur Lord's Wrath (Active), his Strength attribute should reach 87 points. For some reason, the Strength attribute was stuck at 80 points and couldn't break through. This seemed to be a bottleneck that Su Xiao couldn't overcome yet.
Even if it only reached 80 points, that was still exceptionally powerful. However, that wasn't the reality.
Activating Minotaur Lord's Wrath (Active) consumed 30% of health. This wasn't current health, but 30% of the maximum health! In other words, if health was below 30%, activating this would cause instant death, making it a killing effect, a suicide artifact.
Su Xiao had used Minotaur Lord's Wrath (Active) many times. The principle was to convert blood into strength. There were side effects: burning a large amount of blood would cause short-term weakness after the strength bonus ended. After a battle, he would feel very drained and needed time to recover. Moreover, the skill's cooldown was extremely long; some derivative worlds didn't even have a stay time of ten days.
Talking about it brought tears to his eyes. Su Xiao had almost died because of this equipment once. After that painful lesson, he rarely used this ability.
Although there were many side effects, this unscrupulous equipment only stated that it consumed 30% of health, without mentioning the side effects of burning blood.
Because of this, this item was a divine artifact for fooling rookies. Some first-rank and second-rank contractors didn't know about the 80-point threshold, making them even easier to fool.