Chapter 74: The Final Step

WHOOSH!

As a dazzling white light flashed, a massive amount of information about the technique was instantly imprinted into Ryan’s mind.

In the blink of an eye, he completely mastered the Origin Realm Superior-Grade Combat Skill, Exploding Heavy Elbow.

"Excellent!"

Ryan raised his elbow and carefully sensed the profound principles of the newly mastered technique.

"The Overlord Body Bloodline has finally mastered another explosive technique from the same series. Techniques of this series usually possess astonishing explosive power."

Feeling his strength increase once again, Ryan couldn’t help but smile.

"Now, let’s see what the remaining, weaker spoils of war can produce. Maybe I’ll get lucky and create something good."

With that, he decided to save himself the trouble of processing them individually.

He took out all the low-level Exotic Beast corpses he had collected after killing the Eight-Eyed Poisonous Spider and dumped them all into the Boundless Creation Furnace.

There were five First-Order Exotic Beast corpses in total:

Two Fire Monkeys.

One Madtooth Rabbit.

One Rock Wolf.

One Whirlwind Eagle.

Although there seemed to be quite a few corpses, the Boundless Creation Furnace swallowed them all in the blink of an eye.

Before long, another notification sounded.

<Ding!>

[Disintegration Target: Five Ordinary First-Order Exotic Beast Corpses.]

[Disintegration Creation: Simplifying the complex, randomly generating...]

[Output Probability: Bloodline Essence 33%, Skill Stone 33%, Previously Consumed Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures 33%, Mutated Unknown Type 1%.]

"Give me something good!"

Ryan stared intently at the Boundless Creation Furnace and clenched his fists.

However, this time, the furnace took noticeably longer to complete its creation than usual.

It seemed that the more items were placed inside, or perhaps the higher their quality, the longer the creation process required.

After waiting for quite some time, the Boundless Creation Furnace finally completed its creation.

<Ding!>

[Congratulations, Host!]

[You have obtained the following:]

[Bloodline Essence: D-Grade Ordinary, Bright Yellow Flame × 1, Rapid Tooth Growth × 1, Rock Control × 1, White Whirlwind × 1.]

[Skill Stone: Profound Rank Low Grade, Fireball Spell × 1, Frenzied Bite × 1, Earth Spike × 1.]

[Bright Yellow Flame: Transformation-Type, D-Grade Ordinary Bloodline. Passive Ability: None. Active Ability: Can transform the Origin Energy within the body into bright yellow flames to attack enemies. The flames possess extremely high temperatures, capable of incinerating anything they touch and even melting raw iron.]

[Rapid Tooth Growth: Enhancement-Type, D-Grade Ordinary Bloodline. Passive Ability: Increases the sharpness and hardness of all teeth, allowing them to crush stones and break bones. Active Ability: Can control the length of any two teeth. The upper limit increases with the user’s strength, reaching a maximum length of one foot.]

[Rock Control: Control-Type, D-Grade Ordinary Bloodline. Passive Ability: None. Active Ability: Can control large rocks for long-range attacks.]

[White Whirlwind: Transformation-Type, D-Grade Ordinary Bloodline. Passive Ability: Increases movement speed. Active Ability: Can transform the Origin Energy within the body into a white whirlwind to attack enemies.]

[Fireball Spell: Profound Rank Low-Grade Combat Skill. Suitable for Transformation-Type, fire-attribute Bloodline Fighters. Can instantly cast up to two projectiles. Consumes very little energy and compresses fire power into fist-sized spheres that can be rapidly launched at enemies.]

[Frenzied Bite: Profound Rank Low-Grade Combat Skill. Suitable for Enhancement-Type Bloodline Fighters with tooth-based abilities. Like a ravenous wolf pouncing on its prey, the upper and lower jaws repeatedly open and close while the teeth continuously change length to bite the enemy.]

[Earth Spike: Profound Rank Low-Grade Combat Skill. Suitable for Control-Type, rock-based Bloodline Fighters. Can be instant-cast while consuming very little energy, sending a deadly spike through the ground over a certain distance to attack the enemy.]

WHOOSH!

The Boundless Creation Furnace immediately spewed out the newly created treasures.

They floated in midair like scattered stars, radiating brilliant light throughout the cave.

"Such bad luck..."

Ryan looked at the pile of treasures and smiled bitterly.

"They’re all the lowest-grade items. Not a single good one."

He glanced over them briefly.

"Judging from the quantity, quite a few of the corpses didn’t even produce anything."

Ryan couldn’t be bothered to examine them individually.

With a sweep of his hand, he collected all the floating treasures and placed them into various containers before storing them in his spatial ring.

"These aren’t suitable for me. I’ll just sell them later."

He was somewhat disappointed with this batch of creations.

He hadn’t expected five First-Order Exotic Beast corpses to produce nothing particularly valuable.

Everything was ordinary and unremarkable.

"All the corpses have been used up."

Ryan glanced at the spatial ring on his finger.

"There’s only one Mountain Shaking Fist Skill Stone left. Let’s see if I can create something good from it."

With that thought, Ryan took out the remaining Skill Stone and placed it into the Boundless Creation Furnace.

"Mira, use the Advanced Creation function."

This Mountain Shaking Fist Skill Stone was the last treasure he had purchased from Winters Tower.

Aside from the Healing Pills, which he had kept for emergencies, everything else he had purchased had already been used.

"Alright, Host!"

<Ding!>

[Energy Value Insufficient!]

[Please continue to input energy, Host!]

The familiar notification sounded.

Ryan wasn’t surprised.

He immediately began feeding Low-Grade Origin Stones into the Boundless Creation Furnace.

To save time, he threw ten at a time.

Before long, he had fed more than a hundred Low-Grade Origin Stones into the furnace.

Finally...

The Boundless Creation Furnace began emitting a brilliant white light.

<Ding!>

[Energy Value Requirement Met!]

[Advanced Creation: Randomly generating...]

[Output Probability: Combat Skill 99%, Mutated Unknown Type 1%.]

"Give me something good this time!"

Ryan stared intently at the Boundless Creation Furnace and silently prayed.

Soon, the creation process ended.

Another notification immediately sounded.

<Ding!>

[Congratulations, Host!]

[You have obtained the following:]

[Skill Stone: Profound Rank Medium-Grade Combat Skill, Iron Thread Armor-Crushing Fist × 1.]

[Iron Thread Armor-Crushing Fist: Profound Rank Medium-Grade Combat Skill. Suitable for certain Enhancement-Type and Lifeform-Type Bloodline Fighters. Upon activation, it can double the force of a punch. Its linear force application technique allows the user’s power to be concentrated along a single point, making it exceptionally effective at breaking through tough armor and defensive shields. It can additionally increase damage by 30% against protective light shields and external armor barriers.]

WHOOSH!

The Boundless Creation Furnace immediately spewed the Skill Stone into the air.

"Profound Rank Medium Grade, Iron Thread Armor-Crushing Fist?"

Ryan casually caught the Skill Stone and couldn’t help complaining.

"No good stuff again. It’s only a slight improvement."

He shook his head.

"Well, it’s better than nothing."

Perhaps he had used up all his luck earlier.

This Advanced Creation had only increased the original technique by a single grade.

"Oh?"

Ryan suddenly looked at the Skill Stone again.

A trace of surprise appeared in his eyes.

"I didn’t expect this Iron Thread Armor-Crushing Fist to be particularly effective against external armor and defensive shields."

He paused.

"It can directly increase damage by thirty percent against them."

The notification had appeared too quickly.

At first, Ryan’s attention had been focused entirely on the words Profound Rank Medium Grade, so he hadn’t paid much attention to the detailed description.

Now that he examined it carefully, he realized that this technique was actually quite useful.

Although its grade was only Profound Rank Medium Grade and its basic effect merely doubled his punching power, its specialized armor-breaking force application technique could produce miraculous results in certain situations.

With this special effect, its actual combat value was almost comparable to a lower-tier Origin Realm combat skill.

"It seems I was too focused on the skill grade and almost overlooked its special effect."

Ryan smiled.

He immediately injected a trace of Origin Energy into the Skill Stone.

WHOOSH!

A flash of white light passed through the Skill Stone.

A massive amount of information about the technique surged into Ryan’s mind, allowing him to instantly master Iron Thread Armor-Crushing Fist.

"Finally, I’ve mastered a fist technique."

Ryan clenched his fists and carefully sensed the newly acquired combat skill.

"Not bad. Not bad at all."

He was quite satisfied.

He then put away the Boundless Creation Furnace and sat cross-legged on the ground.

With a wave of his hand, he took out the remaining Low-Grade Origin Stones from his spatial ring and piled them neatly in front of him.

There were 4,824 Low-Grade Origin Stones remaining.

Ryan stared at the pile of Origin Stones, and his expression gradually became serious.

"Finally, the last step."

He took a deep breath.

"It’s time to increase the multiplier of the Devouring World Art."

That’s right.

Ryan had decided to spare no expense.

He would use all 4,824 remaining Low-Grade Origin Stones to increase the multiplier of the Devouring World Art.

He would keep upgrading the multiplier until he reached its current limit.

Until his Overlord Body could no longer withstand the terrifying power.