Chapter 444 - 180: News of Building the Defense Tower, and Entering a Secret Path of His Own

Shen Fei gazed at the distant sunset, murmuring to himself. A moment ago, he had suggested that everyone enter the Secret Realm quickly. His goal was to hurry up and complete the mandatory quest to get rid of the "debuff" hanging over him.

But he hadn’t expected that this so-called mandatory quest would be so simple. He’d finished it with ease. It was nothing like the extremely "cunning" mandatory quests Shen Fei had completed in his past life. It couldn’t even compare to the mandatory quest that Father Shen and the other four had faced earlier...

Maybe it’s because the update came early, so version 4.5 hasn’t really started to flex its muscles yet... Faced with this situation, Shen Fei could only hazard a guess as to why.

WHOOSH.

All the mandatory quests afflicting him were complete. Moreover, the monster tides, Super NPCs, and whatnot had also come to a temporary halt. Shen Fei finally allowed himself to relax a little.

First came the third game ability inheritance. Immediately after, the full updates for versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 triggered a whole chain reaction. Then, because of a mandatory quest, he had to launch a counter-invasion into the Game World. As soon as he got out, Songhai was besieged by even more powerful Intelligent NPCs and Super Bosses. Add to that the minor monster tides that erupted every three days. One tedious, drawn-out affair after another had kept Shen Fei incredibly busy...

However, for now, most of those things had finally come to a temporary halt. For a little while, he could finally catch a break...

There are still three days until the fourth game ability inheritance... Sitting on the city walls of Yang City, Shen Fei mused to himself as he looked out at the massive "artificial lake" to the north of Yang City.

Two weeks ago, game abilities were inherited once a day, and Shen Fei had felt there were too many things happening. He had been looking forward to the start of the third week, when game abilities would be inherited only once a week. With a whole week between inheritances, he thought he would be able to catch his breath. But to his surprise, starting from the third week, the once-a-week ability inheritances brought even more chaos. Right now, it had only been a little over three days since the third game ability inheritance, but to him, those three days felt like a month...

For the fourth game ability inheritance, which one should I choose? As he thought about the game ability inheritances, his mind naturally drifted to what he should inherit next.

So far, he had already inherited three categories: Defense Towers, Tower Master Equipment, and Tower Master Skills. Next, the categories he could inherit were Gemstones, Pets, Floating Islands, Heroes, and Others—five in total.

If his goal was to maximize his Combat Power, then his next inheritance order should be: his Hero, Sky Control → his Pet, the Black Tortoise → Floating Island → Gemstones → Others.

However, because of his counter-invasion into the Game World, he knew that events unfolding in the various Game Worlds were no less complex than those in the real world. In particular, he knew that Sky Control was currently commanding the Floating Island and leading the Great Xuanwu to invade other Game Worlds. This situation made Shen Fei hesitant to disrupt Sky Control’s campaign in the Game World with a sudden inheritance on his part. More importantly, he was worried that a reckless inheritance choice would weaken Sky Control’s Combat Power, putting him in danger during his campaign. Based on what he saw during his previous incursion into the Game World, as well as reports from other players’ Heroes who had already been inherited into reality, he knew that Heroes who remained in the Game World could encounter danger. A reduction in a Hero’s Combat Power within the Game World was a serious concern that required extreme caution.

So! For my fourth game ability inheritance, if I rule out "Others," the most complex option, does that mean my only choice is to inherit Gemstones??

Not wanting to endanger Sky Control with a rash inheritance, Shen Fei’s final conclusion was that his fourth game ability inheritance in three days would most likely have to be Gemstones.

He had already inherited over six hundred Defense Towers, and each one of them had three empty slots for Gemstones. All of his Gemstones, thanks to the money he’d made from selling his mother’s shares, had already been upgraded to the maximum level: nine. Therefore, once all his Gemstones were inherited, each level-nine Gemstone could increase a single Defense Tower’s power by at least 90%. And of such Gemstones, he had over eighteen hundred...

And once inherited, the Gemstones, besides their most basic Attribute of boosting the Combat Power of Defense Towers, could also be combined in countless numbers to form various Arrays. When all the level-nine Gemstones were brought together, they could even form the so-called Array of Celestial Stars. This would allow something that seemed to have been passed down from the Primordial Chaos to manifest through the Gemstones...

However, if I don’t inherit the Floating Island, I won’t be able to summon all my Defense Towers. Therefore, the Array of Celestial Stars—which requires all Defense Towers to be summoned to bring out all the Gemstones—won’t be so easy to deploy... Shen Fei muttered to himself again as he contemplated what to inherit for the next wave of game abilities.

In the game, the Array of Celestial Stars was like a black hole, capable of annihilating anything. Shen Fei was eager to see if, once this thing was inherited into reality, it could shatter Blue Star, whose Defense Power had now been magnified countless times...

Even if it can’t harm Blue Star in the slightest, I wonder about the other planets in the Solar System!

As he thought about the Star Array he could deploy after inheriting the Gemstones, Shen Fei’s gaze drifted upward, toward the stars in the sky...

On Blue Star, after the game abilities were inherited,