Chapter 333: Great-Grade Azure Dragon Force, Flawless Proficiency!

After passing through the tunnel filled with Earthfire, he entered the Secret Forging Room.

This place was naturally an excellent spot for secluded cultivation.

Yang Ling took out the Devour Heaven Great Rejuvenation Pill and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Please select the internal technique to enhance."

"Great-Grade Azure Dragon Force."

A scorching warm current surged through his limbs and bones.

Yang Ling focused his mind, sat cross-legged on the spot, and began cultivating the Great-Grade Azure Dragon Force.

His internal technique experience steadily increased at a visible rate.

On the very first day, it grew by over three thousand points of experience!

Three days later, Yang Ling slowly withdrew his technique.

"Congratulations, Great-Grade Azure Dragon Force has been promoted to Flawless Proficiency."

[Great-Grade Azure Dragon Force (First-Rate)]

[Flawless Proficiency: Gain 20 Free Attribute Points, Strength Boost of 120 points.]

[Special Effect: Increase Vital Qi by 500 points.]

[Special Skill: Azure Dragon Force (Consumes Vital Qi as a cost to unleash the killing-oriented Azure Dragon Force, ignores defenses, and deals true damage.)]

"Holy shit, another 500 points of Vital Qi!"

Yang Ling stared at the Status Panel, watching his Vital Qi skyrocket point by point, quickly reaching 11,500 points!

"And this Azure Dragon Force, it can deal true damage?"

Yang Ling focused his mind and directly activated the Azure Dragon Force.

A faint green aura seemed to surge all over his body.

This aura was extremely domineering, radiating an intense killing intent.

At the same time, his Vital Qi began to decline.

The decline wasn't slow; it dropped by 100 points per second!

"With my current Vital Qi level, I can only maintain the Azure Dragon Force for 115 seconds…"

A look of seriousness appeared in Yang Ling's eyes.

The faster the Vital Qi declined, the more powerful this skill was. Instead of being alarmed, he was delighted.

"Right, this massive increase in Vital Qi means all my skills are enhanced."

"The distance for Treading Emptiness has increased, the duration of Vajra Indestructible Body has also extended, and Two-Times Critical Hit can be activated nearly forty times now…"

Yang Ling couldn't help but clench his fist. This period of improvement had caused a Qualitative Transformation in his strength!

"But… I need to find an evenly matched opponent as soon as possible to better master my current power."

Yang Ling thought thoughtfully.

He had already achieved Micro-Management of his power, but right now, his strength was exploding in a surge.

Without a few real battles, it would be difficult for him to fully understand his limits.

"Does the true damage of the Azure Dragon Force ignore the hard-body techniques a martial artist has trained? Or does it only ignore the armor they wear?"

"This also needs to be verified to ensure I won't misjudge when facing a strong enemy later on."

As he thought this, Yang Ling's gaze fell on the Free Attribute Points section.

Free Attribute Points: 20

"I only need to add 6 more points to Agility, and I'll trigger the death tribulation."

Yang Ling sighed with some emotion.

For an ordinary martial artist to break through to Lower Fifth-Rank, they would have to go to great lengths just to get their attributes up to the breakthrough standard.

He now had 20 Free Attribute Points, which was already exceeding the standard required for breaking through to Lower Fifth-Rank.

"Let me first raise Agility to 149."

Yang Ling thought for a moment, was about to act, then suddenly stopped.

"My Strength is already at 150 points, so I've passed the life tribulation. Can I still keep adding to it?"

"If my Strength reaches 156 and my Agility is at 144, making both attributes total 300 points, will that trigger the death tribulation?"

Yang Ling planned to conduct an experiment.

He tried allocating some Free Attribute Points to Strength.

Strength didn't change at all, and the Free Attribute Points didn't decrease either.

"As expected, I can't add to Strength anymore because I haven't broken through to Lower Fifth-Rank yet."

"So to break through to Lower Fifth-Rank, both Strength and Agility need to reach 150 points."

"If a martial artist is biased toward one attribute, then when they need to break through to Lower Fifth-Rank, they'll have to separately raise the other attribute…"

Yang Ling felt somewhat fortunate. Every time he leveled up, he got Free Attribute Points, which he could allocate to whichever attribute he wanted.

So now, both his Strength and Agility attributes could reach a balanced level in time.

If it were another player at this stage, they would have to specifically raise the other attribute, unless they had been developing both attributes evenly from the start.

"That's almost impossible. Players who just entered the Divine Realm don't have the luxury of balanced development. To survive, they have to focus on improving just one attribute first."

"Strength is the easiest attribute to improve, followed by Agility, with Spirit being the hardest."

"Assuming I didn't have the advantage of Free Attribute Points, then while mining, I would have had to focus on a martial art technique or martial technique primarily oriented toward Agility to achieve balanced dual-attribute development."

Thinking of this, Yang Ling casually added 5 points to Agility.

His base Agility attribute went from 144 to 149, leaving 15 Free Attribute Points.

These would have to wait until he broke through to Lower Fifth-Rank, when he could use them all at once.

……

Deep within the Blazing Gold Mine.

Yang Ling looked around and finally found Zhou Zheng, who was instructing players on mining.

When those players saw Yang Ling, they quickly stopped what they were doing and greeted him warmly.

Yang Ling signaled for them to continue mining and pulled Zhou Zheng aside.

"Master Zhou, do you have time recently? Help me temper some throwing daggers."

Yang Ling lowered his voice.

Zhou Zheng's expression shifted. "Lord Yang, how many?"

"Not many. With your skills, you'll finish quickly."

"Come on, let's talk details in my forge."

A short while later, Yang Ling turned and left.

Zhou Zheng stood in front of the forging furnace, staring at the pile of Centenary Refined Vermilion Gold Throwing Daggers and the full 250 catties of Blazing Gold in front of him. His thoughts stuttered for a moment.

"Nearly five thousand Centenary Refined Vermilion Gold Throwing Daggers…"

"That aside, how does he still have two hundred and fifty catties of Blazing Gold?"

"Did he mine all this during this time? No, no matter how fast he is at mining, he couldn't have dug up two hundred and fifty catties of Blazing Gold in this period!"

"Quenched-Gold Armor-Piercing Throwing Dagger, Quenched-Gold Armor-Piercing Throwing Dagger…"

A flicker of shock suddenly passed through Zhou Zheng's eyes.

Throwing daggers weren't considered restricted items in Zhao State, but crossbows were.

The main reason was that the power of throwing daggers was generally far inferior to crossbow bolts.

Even the Centenary Refined Vermilion Gold Throwing Dagger depended on who was using it. In the hands of a Ninth-Rank martial artist, its power was far worse than a Seventh-Rank hand crossbow.

"But the Quenched-Gold Armor-Piercing Throwing Dagger… its power is much fiercer than ordinary crossbow bolts. Even a Ninth-Rank martial artist wielding it could easily pierce through some armors…"

"These throwing daggers couldn't have been bought by Lord Yang, and this Blazing Gold definitely didn't come from his hands."

"Is it… the Fourth Prince?"

Thinking of this, Zhou Zheng's burly body trembled. He felt he had guessed the truth!

His hands, which had been steady for decades, now involuntarily began to tremble slightly.

"Steady hands, hold still!"

Zhou Zheng barked at his hands in a low voice, and they finally returned to calm.

He muttered to himself:

"This old man is already on this pirate ship; there's no way off now… Then let me use my skills to reinforce this ship a little more…"

With an expressionless face, he began Metal-Tempering the throwing daggers.

At this moment, his mood was calmer than ever before, his eyes focused, as if he wasn't Metal-Tempering throwing daggers but forging a Divine Armament!

He treated each throwing dagger with the utmost seriousness, striving to make no mistakes and not waste even a single bit of Blazing Gold!