Chapter 75 Blood Flame, Dragon Slayer

Chapter 75: Chapter 75: Blood Flame, Dragon Slayer

Even in the dead of night, Coastal City, a Celestial Essence Super City, remained brightly lit. In the city center, amidst a forest of towering skyscrapers, lay a high-rise room in a luxurious hotel. Feng Yin, who was lying in bed, opened his eyes.

The next moment, a series of messages flashed before his eyes.

[Successfully returned. You have gained "70 Spirituality" from this journey...]

He thought, "I’m back."

Feng Yin sat up silently and looked around the quiet, safe environment, a smile appearing on his face. It was a sturdy room with electricity and running water, and there were no desperate screams echoing outside from time to time. At least on the surface, this city in the civilized zone was incredibly reassuring.

Feng Yin put away his emotional thoughts and opened his Armor panel, ready to check his gains from this trip.

— Sealing Armor —

Liberation Level: 14%

Durability: 14/20 (Recovery Available)

Secret Energy: 10/20 (Recovery Available)

Strength: 20

Mobility: 20

Main Hand Armament: Canfeng Sword

Secondary Hand Armament: Simple Arm Crossbow, Heavy Arm Armor

Engraving: Wolf’s Badge (Level 2), Long-Handled Engraving (Upgradable)

Skills: Stealing Step (Level 3)

Secret Technique: Blood Flame (Upgradable)

Spirituality: 87

Items: Micro-Durability Crystal × 2

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The Liberation Level had reached "14%". The basic Values had also increased accordingly. Counting the buff from the Wolf’s Badge, the Four Dimensions of the Armor had comprehensively reached "20".

Spirituality had also increased significantly all at once.

The most important thing, of course, was obtaining a quite useful new mechanical ability—Blood Flame. Besides that was the unexpected joy of the Engraving, "Long Handle".

Feng Yin immediately expanded the content panels for these two new gains.

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Blood Flame (Level: 1/3)

Secret Technique Description: Summons Blood Flame for enhancement, adding extra Secret Energy damage to the next attack. Contact with blood can produce a high-energy explosion. The power of the Blood Flame is related to the "Secret Energy" consumed.

Secret Energy Cost: "5 - Max Value"

Upgrade Requirements: Spirituality "10"

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Feng Yin’s eyes showed satisfaction; he had finally obtained this Secret Technique.

As an initial Secret Technique that was part of the "three-piece starter set," Blood Flame had a simple and straightforward function—burst damage. With Blood Flame, players would have considerable burst power in the early stages, giving them a huge advantage when facing tricky situations that required pouring out damage.

Taking a gaming perspective as an example, some powerful monsters in their second or even third phase had high damage, fast Speed, many cheap Techniques, and very few damage windows. The margin for error in such phases would be extremely low, and players could rely on Blood Flame to quickly kill such "cheap monsters."

And after the game’s Materialization, such opponents would definitely become even harder to deal with. With the Blood Flame’s enhancement to burst them down in one combo, Feng Yin’s pressure would be greatly reduced.

But that was a matter for later. What Feng Yin needed to do now was to max out the Level of this Secret Technique first. Although the Level 1 Blood Flame wasn’t weak in power, its utilization rate of Secret Energy was too low.

He acted as soon as he thought of it.

[Spirituality: 87 → 57]

[Blood Flame (Level 1 → Level 3)]

He directly consumed thirty Spirituality to max out the Blood Flame. There was nothing to hesitate about.

The three early-stage novice sets—Continuous Fire Engraving, Stealing Step Skill, and Blood Flame Secret Technique—were all very practical good things with extremely low Upgrade Requirements. Their cost-effectiveness was far higher than the rewards that could only be obtained later.

Feng Yin looked at the Blood Flame Secret Technique that had been upgraded to Level 100:

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Blood Flame (Level: 3/3)

Secret Technique Description: Summons Blood Flame for enhancement, adding extra Secret Energy damage to the next three attacks. Contact with blood can produce a high-energy explosion. The power of the Blood Flame is related to the "Secret Energy" consumed.

Secret Energy Cost: "5 - Max Value"

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Coming from playing the game, Feng Yin understood the content of this upgrade very well. Simply put, it increased the number of times Blood Flame could be used without its power diminishing. The Secret Energy usage efficiency at Level 3 was three times that of Level 1.

As for the power of each Blood Flame strike, it depended on how much Secret Energy Feng Yin chose to consume, starting from five points, with the upper limit being the Secret Energy cap of his Armor.

After upgrading Blood Flame to Level 100, Feng Yin felt a bit restless—he wanted to try out the effects of this Secret Technique. However, after looking around the room, he still gave up on this idea.

Based on Feng Yin’s understanding on Earth, as a lodging space with unique functions, no matter how expensive and high-end a hotel room was, there was a possibility of being secretly recorded by cameras. And the commotion of using Blood Flame... If it was captured on film, it was highly likely to lead to his direct exposure.

He currently hadn’t seen anyone using Extraordinary Energy appear in this world. What if he was the only one... Then the result of exposure would likely be him being forced to eat a stable government meal—officially taking a post at the "Abnormal Human Research Center."

His duty would be—being researched by others. He probably wouldn’t die, but his freedom would definitely be gone.

Feng Yin put away his thoughts and turned his gaze to another important gain.

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Long-Handled Engraving (Level: 1/5)

Main Hand Armament Engraving: After being equipped to the Main Hand Armament, the Main Hand Armament can freely switch between the "Canfeng Sword" and "Dragon Slayer Spear" forms, and unlock related Traits according to the Engraving Level.

Trait 1: Thrust Enhancement—Using "Thrust-type attacks" grants a Strength correction of "Engraving Level × 1" points.

Upgrade Requirements: Spirituality "30"

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Feng Yin’s eyes lit up slightly as he read it.

That’s right, equipping this Long-Handled Engraving on the main weapon would give his Canfeng Sword the ability to transform into the long-handled weapon, the "Dragon Slayer Spear". At the same time, it would also unlock Traits capable of providing an Enhancement to the weapon’s corresponding performance based on the Engraving Level. And this very first Trait could increase his power when using Thrust Techniques.

Feng Yin glanced at his remaining Spirituality again. After upgrading the Blood Flame, he still had over fifty points left. He was still far from the "500" points needed to upgrade the Wolf’s Badge.

Saving them was impossible. The first ten levels didn’t provide much Spirituality, and he couldn’t possibly go without using Spirituality for several levels just to upgrade this Badge. On the contrary, after passing the first ten "tutorial levels," the subsequent official levels would yield more and more Spirituality. That would be the right time to save up Spirituality to upgrade crucial cores.

Therefore, Feng Yin directly consumed Spirituality to upgrade this Long-Handled Engraving by one level.

[Spirituality: 57 → 27]

[Long-Handled Engraving (Level 1 → Level 2)]

After the upgrade, he saw that this Engraving had unlocked a new Trait:

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Trait 2: Counterattack Enhancement—Executing a "Counterattack" shortly after the opponent’s attack grants a Strength correction of "Engraving Level × 1" points.

Upgrade Requirements: Spirituality "300"

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Done!

Having completely used up all the resources he could digest, Feng Yin felt a burst of satisfaction. He immediately chose to equip this newly acquired Engraving.

[Equip the "Long Handle" Engraving? The current capacity for Main Hand Armament-type Engravings is "1". Cannot be swapped after entering a level. Yes/No]

[Yes]

[Engraving equipped. Main Hand Armament has gained a new switchable form, "Dragon Slayer Spear", and unlocked related Traits.]

As the message prompt faded away, Feng Yin took a deep breath, suppressing the terrible idea of immediately manifesting his Armor to look at the weapon’s new form.

There was plenty of time; he would look at it later!

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