Becoming a Saint by Touching Corpses

Chapter 450: Chapter 448: Talent Fusion

After Lou Yi killed the Lizard Demon, he hurried on to the next city without stopping.

He knew that as he continued to assassinate those Demon Generals with his shadowy assassin methods, the demons would eventually catch on.

By then, they would be alert and defensive, making it difficult to take advantage of them again.

He had to seize the opportunity to reap benefits quickly.

The reason why the Demon Clan’s reaction was so slow.

Firstly, these were all from the Cyan Wolf Ridge’s alien Demon Clan, and their power couldn’t compare to the Corpse-Driving Sect that ruled a nation, so naturally, they didn’t have a detailed intelligence system.

Secondly, there was competition and even hostility between the various alien Demon Clans; they were not allies in the traditional sense.

In the following two cities, there was a Bear Demon and a Centipede Demon, both at the initial stage of Demon General level.

Unfortunately, Lou Yi was not lucky and did not acquire any talents from them, so he moved on to Huo City.

The Demon General causing trouble in Huo City was a Horse Demon, surrounded by natural air currents when it ran, with exceedingly outrageous speed.

Often, before one could react, it would dash over and trample people to death.

To approach this Horse Demon,

Lou Yi deliberately spent a whole day disguising himself as a small colt, with bright and smooth fur, paying great attention to detail.

Once close, he immediately shed his disguise and killed the incredibly fast Horse Demon with a single strike!

Disguising as a colt took Lou Yi the longest since the body size difference between a horse and him was significant.

But shedding the disguise took only an instant; destruction is always easier than construction.

After killing the Horse Demon, Lou Yi acquired the new talent “Stride of the Wind.”

Using this talent, natural winds flowed between his legs and across his body, elevating his speed to another level, reaching 2.8 times the speed of sound!

In the next city, Zhuang City, after Huo City, Lou Yi encountered the biggest challenge.

The monster attacking this city was a Barbaric Bull Demon with astonishing strength and soaring Qi-Blood, almost reaching the mid-stage Demon General level.

Its attacks often involved forcefully breaking the stone pillars of the array base above the city tower, and ordinary magic couldn’t harm it at all.

When Lou Yi ambushed it at night, he didn’t inflict a fatal injury, but instead suffered a crazy counterattack.

Unexpectedly, the Barbaric Bull Demon’s strength was not weaker than his, even slightly superior.

Lou Yi fought it in close combat, both going head-to-head, ending with their bodies smashed to pieces.

All other living and non-living things around suffered too, turning into dust, with even a nearby small hill flattened.

Ultimately, Lou Yi forcibly killed the Barbaric Bull Demon with Armor-Piercing, leaving himself heavily injured.

His arms broke seven or eight times, his body was covered in cracks and bloody holes, and his heart ruptured twice.

But with his surpassing speed of 2.8 times the speed of sound, a body comparable in hardness to a mid-grade Spiritual Artifact, along with strength reaching over 900,000 pounds… plus a potent regeneration talent and a healing Attribute Panel, he barely secured victory.

The rewards were also abundant, acquiring a top-tier talent: Great Strength.

The introduction of Great Strength was similar to Wolf Bone.

Great Strength (Passive): Can enhance a certain amount of Qi-Blood.

Great Strength (Active): Can enhance a certain amount of strength in real time.

After acquiring the Great Strength talent, Lou Yi’s basic strength increased from 520,000 pounds to 660,000 pounds.

Combined with the Wolf Bone talent, a punch could reach 990,000 pounds, and with the Secret Technique Dragon Piercing, could easily exceed 1,000,000 pounds!

Without utilizing the Blood Feeding Spirit Transformation Technique, every punch carried a terrifying force of over 1,000,000 pounds!

If he fought that Barbaric Bull Demon again, Lou Yi was confident he could beat it to death alive within a hundred breaths!

Lou Yi’s battle results were remarkable.

Within ten days, he rushed to seven cities overnight, killing a total of nine Demon Generals, acquiring five new talents, and his strength grew significantly once again.

By the eighth city, he found out that the Demon Clan finally had a reaction.

An eagle in his mind foresaw danger, urgently crying out.

Without insisting, Lou Yi silently retreated, temporarily suppressing his urge to raid.

Now that the Demon Clan was on guard, he could wait a while before executing his decapitation plan.

Meanwhile, he discovered a new change in the Attribute Panel.

Due to the dramatic increase in the number of talents,

in the talent section, a new function appeared: Talent Fusion.

When Lou Yi focused on talents with similar functions, such as those enhancing body hardness like Petrification, Red Scale, Golden Armor, Lizard Skin, and speed-enhancing talents like Swift, Leopard Muscle, Sharp, Stride of the Wind…

The Attribute Panel popped up a prompt:

Spending one thousand points of Energy to fuse these talents will refine them, whether to fuse or not?

Seeing this, Lou Yi’s eyes lit up.

Fusing talents would not compromise his power and had a major advantage.

That was the number of key items required would be significantly reduced.

After all, each talent required a key item, and finding each one consumed a lot of his energy.

Talent Fusion also had a prerequisite, which was that the number of similar talents had to be no less than three kinds.

Thus, Lou Yi categorized his talents into several major groups.

One category was for enhancing body hardness, that is, defense capability.

Like the first talent Petrification Talent, the Golden Armor Talent that could form a golden layer on the body’s surface, the freshly acquired Red Scale Talent, and Lizard Skin Talent.

Another category was for enhancing Qi-Blood and physical strength.

At the moment, this category has only two talents, the Wolf Bone Talent and Great Strength Talent, which provide the largest boost to power and cannot be fused yet.

Another category was for enhancing speed.

Such as the Swift Talent that could form spiral muscles at the knees, the Leopard Muscle Talent that fortified tendons, and the newly acquired Sharp Talent and Stride of the Wind Talent.

The last category was for talents with special utility.

Such as the Disguise Talent that could enhance survival ability, the Control Talent that could affect others’ spirits, and the Poison Talent that could corrode everything…

Finally, Lou Yi began to perform Talent Fusion.

Firstly with the body hardness enhancing talents.

After fusing the talents of Petrification, Golden Armor, Red Scale, and Lizard Skin.

A new talent appeared, still called Petrification, and still in a state of Perfection, but its description had undergone some changes.

Petrification (Passive): The strength of the body slowly increases over time.

Petrification (Active One): Can petrify the body’s surface for a short time, and the duration of petrification will increase as the talent improves.

Petrification (Active Two): When using Active One, can choose to use this active skill, making the body emit a chilling aura, reducing nearby enemies’ speed by 30%-60%, but slightly shortening the duration of the Petrification Skill.

Petrification (Active Three): When using Active One, can choose to use this active skill. Before breaking the limit of physical defense, can reflect 70% of all physical damage caused by enemies within five breaths, with this active skill usable only once in a short time.

Lou Yi looked, and felt moved internally.

Originally, the Petrification Talent could cover the whole body, but the smaller the area, the stronger the defense; now, it seemed there was no area limitation anymore?

Additionally, the effects of several active skills have been enhanced to varying degrees.

For instance, the slow effect increased from 20%-50% to 30%-60%.

And the reflection effect improved from 50% damage over three breaths to 70% damage over five breaths.

“Petrification.”

With Lou Yi’s whisper, a layer of faint oil sheen instantly spread over his body’s surface.

It looked no different from before, just as if he was sweating oil more.

Lou Yi took out a black bone spike, driving it to stab his abdomen.

This black bone spike was no ordinary thing, even among low-grade Spiritual Artifacts, it belonged to a relatively good class, not much worse than ordinary mid-grade offensive Spiritual Artifacts.

Back then, it was used by a Yellow Springs Sect elder to stab deeply into his own chest.

However, now?

Only the constant ’zzz’ sound was heard, sparks flying.

The spike kept stabbing at Lou Yi’s body at high speed, only carving out noticeable white marks without causing deeper damage.

“Now the strength of my body really transcends typical defensive mid-grade Spiritual Artifacts…” Lou Yi thought to himself.

Next, he began the fusion of other types of talents.

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