Chapter 1516 - 39: Awakening of the Blade

Chapter 1516: Chapter 39: Awakening of the Blade

Upon seeing these gains and prompts, Su Xiao let out a long sigh of relief, reclining in the tree hollow, he worked his facial muscles, having been smiling so much these past few days that his face felt a bit stiff.

Looking at the current gains, even if Su Xiao did nothing else after this, his venture into the Bleach World would still be worth it, with a whopping 86.5% of the World Source, which was obtained by killing countless mid to low-level Soul Reapers.

Killing these ordinary Soul Reapers sometimes only yielded 0.02 or even less World Source, and some didn’t yield any World Source at all, yet Su Xiao still managed to accumulate 86.5% World Source.

After acting for so many days, today’s reward was finally in hand, putting Su Xiao in a good mood. As for Aizen, he wouldn’t interfere with Su Xiao’s plans at all.

No matter how you look at it, Su Xiao was weakening the forces of the Jingling Court side, and Aizen wouldn’t stop Su Xiao just because ’it doesn’t fit the plan’. On the contrary, he’s quite happy with the current situation.

The number of treasure chests Su Xiao checked isn’t all of the gains; Bubu Wang and Bennie are still searching for treasure chests all over the place. Although the drop rate of treasure chests when using large-scale weapons to kill is low, Su Xiao’s Luck Attribute is high, with a total of 6 points.

Compared to the gains, there bad news from the side of Death Omen, a violator who had once killed two Hunters, was not as simple as it seemed. This guy was a violator among violators.

Other violators would at most profit through illegal means and do some immoral things, but Death Omen was clearly not comparable to those slacking ones, and this guy, if pushed, might even destroy the Derivative World.

When Su Xiao confronted Death Omen, the latter once used a move called ’World Interruption’. After using that move, Death Omen opened a withering space in Soul Society with the nature of both a barrier and a spatial attribute, and fought Su Xiao there.

Until that space completely collapsed, none of the other Soul Reapers, including Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, found Su Xiao.

Su Xiao’s plan was nearing its end, currently he only needed to complete the main task and eliminate Death Omen, primarily the latter, then the main task comes second. He has a main task immunity right after all, as insurance.

Beneath the tree hollow where Su Xiao was, Ying hid in the shadows, while A Mu sat under the tree, munching on the tree, grabbing a handful of green vegetables when thirsty, apparently A Mu was hungry again.

Crunch...

The large tree where Su Xiao was began to tilt, and he hurriedly leapt out of the tree hollow, the ’innocent’ A Mu biting a piece of the tree trunk.

"Not me."

A Mu had a wood piece in its mouth, with both hands behind its back.

"How long have you been hungry?"

Su Xiao knew A Mu had been wandering the present world all along and would never rob food without his orders, even though it was very hungry.

A Mu had been hungry for eleven days. It looked at its ten fingers, contemplating for a long while, then looked at its toes.

"Eleven."

Upon hearing A Mu say eleven, Su Xiao was a bit surprised. A Mu had actually learned to do addition and subtraction above ten.

"Who taught you?"

"Bennie."

It was Bennie. It’s unclear why that greedy cat taught A Mu addition and subtraction.

Su Xiao took out a large amount of food from the storage space, waiting for Bubu Wang and Bennie to meet him. Treasure chests can be stored in the storage space, but unverified zanpakutōs cannot; these are not ordinary items but unverified items of a particular grade.

About an hour later, a black shadow darted out of the bushes, it was Bennie in Forest Leopard form.

Bennie had three zanpakutōs in its mouth, with more strapped to its body, at least a hundred in total.

After leaving the zanpakutōs, Bennie transformed into its cat shape and ran quickly out of the forest, off to hunt for treasure, as there were plenty of things in the Spiritual Pulse Zone.

Su Xiao drew out the Dragon Slash from his waist, a black ghostly glow emanating, enveloping the zanpakutōs on the ground. He sensed that after their owners died, the quality of the zanpakutōs were gradually diminishing, it won’t be long before they become Shallow Strikes, so they need to be devoured by Dragon Slash quickly.

Half an hour after Bennie appeared, Bubu Wang also entered the forest, seemingly leaving footprints with each step because it had too many zanpakutōs on its back. Bennie dared not carry too many zanpakutōs, whereas Bubu Wang didn’t have such concerns; the cat and dog simply divided work, one focused on picking treasure chests, the other focused on zanpakutōs.

While Su Xiao was helping A Mu cook a whole roast lamb, Bubu Wang appeared out of nowhere.

With a whoosh, hundreds of zanpakutōs scattered on the ground, Su Xiao threw the whole roast lamb to A Mu and stepped forward with his knife drawn.

A black ghostly glow emerged, with the blade value of Dragon Slash increasing at a perceptible speed.

[40%, 41%, 42%...]

Devouring ordinary Soul Reaper zanpakutōs only gives a small amount of blade value, but these things add up.

After Bubu Wang greeted Su Xiao and took a few bites of the roast lamb in A Mu’s hands, it quickly ran off in the direction of Jingling Court.

After Dragon Slash devoured nearly three hundred zanpakutōs, the blade value finally reached 100%. Strangely, Dragon Slash did not ascend to a higher quality, which puzzled Su Xiao.

The good news is, the enhancement level of Dragon Slash did not drop due to the increase in blade value; there is a certain probability of it lowering the enhancement level while increasing the blade value, but ascending quality will definitely cause the enhancement level to drop.

Su Xiao checked the attributes of Dragon Slash, and in all aspects, its performance reached the top level of Legendary weapons, yet it still hadn’t ascended to a higher quality.

This led Su Xiao to suspect, could the highest quality be Legendary? But after checking Dragon Slash’s attributes, he knew that wasn’t the case.

Dragon Slash +13 (Blade value 100%)

Place of Origin: Shadow of Annihilation Law

Quality: Legendary (Awakening of the Blade...)

Category: Long Knife

Durability: 130/130 (Up by 6 points)

Attack Power: 230~343 (Increased by 25~30 points)

Equipment Requirements: Inheritor of Shadow of Annihilation Law

Supreme Blade Effect 1: Sharpness +51

Supreme Blade Effect 2: Blood Thirsty Praise (Passive), when using Dragon Slash to attack, 35% of the damage dealt will be converted into a healing effect to heal the user (conversion rate increased by 3%).

Supreme Blade Effect 3: Dragon Shadow Flash (Active), while holding Dragon Slash, can break through the space barrier to move a distance of 12 meters, freely choosing between 0 meters to 12 meters.

Enhancement Benefits:

+5 Additional Effect: Armor penetration significantly increased

+8 Additional Effect: Sharpness +5

+10 Additional Effect: Sharpness +8, Penetration significantly increased, reduced penetration resistance.

+12 Additional Effect: Weapon Strength +27, blade wear speed significantly reduced.

+13 Additional Effect: Gem Amplification (amplified gem: Spirit Cat, this is a permanent amplification).

Inlay Effect: 6~8 gems

1. Spirit Cat +13 (Legendary Gem)

2. Soul-Cutting Shadow Stone·Incomplete (Legendary Gem)

3. Mad Knight (Legendary Gem)

4. Elegy (Legendary Gem)

5. Blood Hunter (Legendary Gem)

Rating: 530++ (Legendary gear rating is 400 ~ 530 points)

Introduction: Loss, encounter, battle together, rebirth, growth, legend, awakening.

Price: Not tradable.

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Dragon Slash’s quality shows ’Awakening of the Blade...’, Su Xiao did not receive any related prompt, but he noticed one thing, even after the blade value reached 100%, Dragon Slash can continue to devour zanpakutōs, but won’t increase its comprehensive attributes.

These leftover zanpakutōs were useless to Su Xiao, so he used the Supreme Blade ability to continue devouring.

After Bubu Wang transported zanpakutōs three times, it was exhausted, while Dragon Slash welcomed any amount, devouring as much as it could.

Although devouring ordinary zanpakutōs didn’t increase the attributes, using the Supreme Blade ability to devour zanpakutōs of Momo Hinamori and Ukitake Jūshirō significantly boosted Supreme Blade Effect 2, Blood Thirsty Praise (Passive) ability, increasing the healing conversion rate from 35% to 42%.

After devouring so many zanpakutōs, Su Xiao was surprised to find that Dragon Slash could still continue devouring, and he still hadn’t figured out what this Awakening of the Blade entailed.

Two hours after Su Xiao left Jingling Court, all the treasure chests in the Spiritual Pulse Zone were looted, with most picked by Bubu Wang and Bennie, and a small portion grabbed by the Contractors present.

Even though these Contractors were left bewildered by the Spiritual Pulse, they amazingly found that the seemingly horrifying Spiritual Pulse didn’t pose much threat to humans. Instead, it spawned many treasure chests after killing Soul Reapers, so naturally, they took the chance to claim some treasure chests.

Su Xiao didn’t mind this at all, after all, Jingling Court isn’t his backyard, it was expected that other Contractors would share in some of the loot, and they could help Bubu Wang and Bennie divert the attention of the Soul Reapers.